Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-19

evidence OF LAAC
Tho trial Of William Eaton, for arson
MAS resumed before Judge Hugus' IN
tho criminal Court, yesterday morn
ing. .,;derce was
oornmanced counsel for defense c''lisu
lba ottention Of the Court 70 the COM
ments on the case in yesterday MOI -
- -, 1Dteuigencer. protesting against
- corr Of thing. Mr.. SommerViiie'
- counsel for the State, came lnto 'ne
o =, and he and Col. Arne'' nad
- time Of it for few minutes
~ corrr said the comments were iar
trom proper Counsel for defendant
9,ers indignant at the tone oil the paper
named. g., u,itness
..rod nv the state. He first met H@'On
T,~idsv February Is, at witness place
=, business. having called on witness 10
400 about insurance. Among o'heI
hines Eaton told witness he Woulu
NOT nse natural gas. Witness descrlO-
"a the interior of the store, but ne ui'
NOT 90 M stairs until after the nIe'
witness went down in front OF tne
.,ore about half-pas, ten on the night
Of The fire simply because ] was suSpi-
cious" A. Z. Evans, special hSUI-
arce agent. was with witness.
NJ sonneborne, of the Hub was
rsx, called. and told Of Eaton buying
twenty or twenty-five empty store
boxes.
VI. Rogers was recalled and
Identified samples Of goods taken from
,be building after the fire. He was fol-
lowed by Robert Simpson, one Of the
insurance appraisers. and he by d. u
MORGAN. George J. Mathison, Theodore
Pollar and r. T. Devries. None Of this
evidence contained anything new, and
was mainly a repetition of what was
brought out in the long preliminary
examination before Justice Fitzpatrick.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion the State called ex-Mayor B. F.
Caldwell. who was one Of the insurance
sppraisers to fix the value Of Eaton ;
Dronertv. He said he had been TN
mate worker for fifty years. He testi-
fed that a memorandum Of what was
ascertained by the appraisers was made
and identified a paper shown him as a
conv Of the finding. He identified the
goods found after the fire, on the sec
ond floor of the building. and said a
large proportion of the timers sup
niles had no value whatever; the rest
was valued by a manufacturers list,
less discount 10 the trade and p per
cent off for damage by fire. The orig
inal value was about $3.50. The wit
ness described the way the goods were
scattered over the floors and pronounc-
cd the photographs shown him very
good reproductions of the condition Of
the second floor. after the fire, as wit
ness saw it. Witness was not in the
building. after Eaton leased it and be-
fore the fire; the appraisement was
made a week or ten days after the fire,
at the request Of J. V. L. Rodgers.
Charles Brubaker was next recalled.
He identified Homer Reynolds as the
gentleman to whom he gave the pack
age referred TO in a former examina-
ton. and D. G. Morgan, Jr., did like
wise.
Homer D. Reynolds. clerk Of the
Stamm House. then testified that
Charles Brubaker had handed him a
large envelope, evidently containing an
insurance policy. Later he received a
like envelope from Mr.. Morgan, Jr.,
and this was handed to Mr.. Eaton some
days after the fire, it having remained
in the safe while Eaton was out Of
town. Witness also recalled that ]. V.
L. Rodgers had also left a package,
and it was turned over TO Eaton, as
well as a letter, also from Mr. Rodg-
ers.
On REORGANIZATION witness said
the only envelope he had in his safe
was the one from the Morgan agency;
the others were put in Eaton's key box,
and We're gotten by defendant, some
days later and after the fire.
James Neill. the wholesale grocer
was next called. and said ne had been
in the grocery business over thirty
years. and had sold and handled fly
paper most of that time. He saw the
wreck in the Turner building. after
the fire. and spent half an hour look
ing over the ruins. He described the
goods he saw. and said fly paper con
stituted a large proportion of it. He
identified samples Of fly plates showr
him. and said it was worth nothing
in his opinion; had no commercial
value.
On discrimination witness sale
that particular fly paper was of Nc
value. Witness said he had been il
business for twenty-five years and haC
never seen that kind. 81 think it mus
have been made before my time" Wit