The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-03

FIVE times and is able to account for
every one of them, and that at the
time Knorr says WinteIsteen want
ed him to buy vitriol with which to
burn Walters eyes out there were
large carboys of it on the premises
over which Wintersteen had control.
Mr.. Shields closed with a careful
survey Of the success in Winter
stems life and paid tribute to his
character, having spoken one hour
and fifteen minutes.
MRS. l. S. WINTERsTEE n sworn.
Am the wife of defendant. Kate
Davis did some work for us. In
spring of 1896 l told her / had
found some one else to do my wash
ing and work, she went away angry.
Mr.. Wintersteen never said in her
presence anything about blowing
up Waller, no such language used,
it is absolutely false. Something
was said about the Irondale lawsuit
and Mr.. Wintersteen said the other
side were not pushing it, and Kate
Davis said that shows they have the
weak side of the case.
Cross-examined.
This was at the dinner table, my
husband was cool in talking about
the case. Knorr was at Our house
4 or S times in winter Of 1895, never
talked anything about blowing up
Waller in my hearing.
o. B. MELLIcK sworn.
Am a lawyer, know P. G. Miller,
he used the word knife and didn't t
use the word Wintersteen.
Cross-exami-ed. Miller said to
me, what would you think of man
who would say he would serve 90
years in the penitentiary to put a
knife in Levi Waller. l said, who
said so. He said you'll find out
pretty soon. Had a second talk
asked who the person was who said
this, Miller refused to tell me, but
said he heard a prominent man say
he would serve 20 years to put a
bullet through Levi Waller, this
time he said bullet.
EMMA WICKEL sworn.
Live in Reading. Know Sallie
Heming and Cliff Knorr, was there
at their place in summer of 1894
also knew them in winter of 1894.
One day Sallie Cast told me of a
package and said I shouldn't touch
it, she went away little while and
when she came back she said it
was a good thing l didn't touch it,
for if l had put it down hard it
would explode as it was dynamite.
Soon after Sallie came in crying
and said Cliff had struck her be-
cause she showed me the dynamite.
I saw Cliff have a revolver and a
knife. l was living in sin like the
rest of them.
Cross-exanined.
| Was subpenaed by detective
Motifs of Reading. No one had
seen me before about being a wit
ness, kept house myself on Cherry
Street from Dec. to March last, liv-
ed with my sister on Neversink
Street before that, can't say how
long, not a year, before that lived
at Girard eating house from Nov.
'e5 to May 'e6. Am married and
living with my husband. Was
housekeeping in Cherry Street,
keeping a sporting house up to
March. Husband was living with
me, he was sickly and couldn'
work. Sallie Cast carried a revol.
yer in her room, showed it to me
there and down stairs, said no one
was going to beat her out of money
had pistol in her stocking, and hel
stockings were on Ter legs, other
girls saw the pistol, one time she
had it in her pocket when she wen,
over for beer ; saw Knorr with q
pistol in 1894, in Sallie Cast:
room, don't think 1 said he Away:
had revolver. Saw Sallie take &
knife out of Cliffs pocket at Girare
eating house, at 7I6 Cherry Stree
he always kept out of sight. Dom
know Wintersteen. Don't know
what became Of the dynamite. (Mr
Graham asked the witness have
you ever been arrested I? Mr.
| Jacobs objected, and Mr.. Graham
made a speech and the objection
was sustained.
JACOB r. PHILLIPI sworn.
| Live in Reading, treasurer of tn,
Auditorium, own property next t.
that occupied by Sallie Cast anc
lived in it up to Sept. 'e5. Saw
dynamite in Sallie Casts hous,