The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-01
IDENTIFIED HIS MAN.
OFFICER O'HARE PROVES A GOOD
IDENTlFlER.
KNOWS THE MAN WHO SHOT.
In Court He Points to the Prisoner and In
no Uncertain Way Said Sackett
was the Man who Attempted
TO Kill Him.

So said Officer O'Hare on the witness
stand this morning when called upon
to testify in the matter of the state of
Wisconsin VS.. Oliver Fl. P. Sackett,
charged with attempted murder. Then
later be remarked, Il know that man.
l will never forget him as long as !
live.o
These were the sensational climaxes
in the trial this forenoon.
Circuit court reconvened this morn
ing at o'clock, and the Sackett case
was the first one TO come up. Not
much time was taken up in the selec-
ton Of jury this time, since there
seemed to be very few people who
knew anything about the case. Not
withstanding columns had been writ
ten about the affair at the time of it,
the attorneys were fortunate enough to
run onto twelve good men and true
who had not read of 1t first thing. 1t
took little over an hour to select the
men.
Officer O'Hare was the first witness
called. He detailed all the circum
stances connected with his having been
on his rounds at about 2 o'clock a. IN.
the night of July 26, and of going
through Central park and noticing the
two men under rather suspicious Cir
cumstances. He said he went up to
them and began to talk to them when
suddenly they separated one running
north and the other went through the
alleyIbetween Drs. Farrs and Hazelton's
places. He gave chase to the one run
ming north, and the other fellow got
away. But before he went very far he
had fired three shots at O'Hare and the
officer had replied with about four
more. A search was instituted for the
fellow who got away, but he was not
found that night. The one who was
captured was taken to Jail. O'Hare
positively identified the man at the bar
as the one who had shot at him.
James Nicholson said that he was
on Market square at the time, and
when he heard the shots he ran to the
park. He found O'Hare there with
man in custody. O'Hare turned the
custody over to the witness and went
after the other man.
Andrew Stahl said he had seen Sack
EFT in his meat market in the afternoon
of July 25. He bought some sausage
and went out to a buggy containing
another man and drawn by pair OF
bronchos, one being bay and the other
a gray. He took particular note Of the
man and the outfit, and believed Sack
EFT to be the man.
Deputy Sheriff Pfister, of Racine.
swore that he had seen Sackett and
Miller on the road south of Racine.
A young man by the name of john
son said he was sitting on the corner
at Stahps market when he heard firing
near the park. Ran over there after
he heard the police whistle. Saw that
O'Hare had man and assisted Mr..
O'Hare in hunting for the lost man.
Joseph Millager also testified as to
the shots and having gone with the
officer to hunt for the man who had
shot.
At this point the court adjourned for
the noon recess.
At the afternoon session Of the court
Solomon Israel alias Frank Miller, the
alleged accomplice of Sackett's was
placed on the stand. In fact he asked
to be allowed to testify in the case.
He threw" the state, as crooks say.
That is to say he testified opposite to
what the state was led to believe he
would He said he knew nothing about
this affair, and was not here on the
night in question.
When Under Sheriff Harkins went
on the stand he made corker."
He detailed all the circumstances con-
nected with the capture of Sackett.
and then produced letter written by
Sackett to Miller, in which Sackett
attempted to set forth what Miller was
to testify to Among other things he
cautioned him about telling who fur
nished the tools with which to saw out
of jail, and whole story was made up
as to how Miller was to make out that
it was another Sackett, a cousin of the
prisoner undoubtedly fictitious per-
SOM who was the man he (Miller) had
confessed was his companion July rs.
This letter had been pushed by Sack
EFT through a small opening in the floor
of the upper tier of cells in the Jail
building, and was found by Sheriff
Cropey on the person of Miller Sept
ember IA.
Sheriff Cropley testified to having
found the communication and he and
Mr.. Harkins stated that the writing
was very similar to that of Sackett's.
Mary Meyers, Of Chicago, stated that
she was domestic at j. NJ. Sackett's
for about five weeks in the middle OF
the summer. She said she had seen
Miller at the Sackett residence once in
a while, and that the defendant in this
case was often away nights, sometimes
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