The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-11-16
WAITING FOR
THE VERDICT
The Jury in the McHale Case is Still
Out.
CASE CLOSED THIS AFTERNOON
The Deceased and Accused Were Students
in Woods Business College in Town
and Had an Argument and
Exchange Of Blows over
a Lesson.
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P%oTTsvILLE, Nov. 16.-The ostimportant
case tried here to-day was that of Charles
McHale, Of Shenandoah, charged with invol-
untary mauslaughter in causing the death
of William J. Parftt, Of Lost Creek No. 2.
The counsel for both sides closed their
case at noon and the court adjourned for
recess. At two o'clock Judge Bechtel com
menced to charge the jury and the latter re-
tired for deliberation at 2:45.
The jurors on the case are James r. Gately,
Cressona; z. Philip Krell, Tamaqua; Charles
Bigler, Pottsville; W. II. Kocher, West Penn
township; Thomas jenkins, Mahanoy City;
John X. Houser, Tamaqua; c.. NJ. CARRIER,
Mahanoy City; Daniel Davis, Jr., Pottsyille;
Harry Harper, Ashland; William Mardis,
Pottsville; James Felty, Pinegrove township,
aud Jacob o. Snyder, Brunswick township.
William J. Partitt died at his home at Lost
Creek No. 2 at 2:45 o'clock on the morning Of
March 18th, last, fifteen minutes before at
tanning his majority, and from the effects Of
the blow he received in the face from Charles
McHale, Of town. The blow brought on
violent hemorrhages from the nose, which
eventually led to exhaustion and collapse.
DR.. S. H. Brady, of Lost Creek, made heroic
efforts to save the young mans life, but was
unable to stop the fatal flow.
MeHale, who was but 10 years of age, was
arrested on the evening of March 10th, the
night before the victim died. The accused
was taken to Jail, but Immediately released
under 50, 900 bail.
The evidence in brief at the inquest and
trial was thar Paritt and McHale, both
students in Woods Business College in town,
occasionally exchanged words of anger and
Partitt quarrelled occasionally with fellow
students. That on the way down stairs,
when leaving the college, on March sth
Parftt and McHale had a dispute about a
lesson. When they reached the pavement
they engaged in a fight, during which Nc
Hale was seen to punch Parftt on the chest
and nose. Parfitt came back to McHale.
He was struck twice and then went
to the gutter and picked up a stone.
McHale flew out East Oak staeet and Pariitt
threw a stone after him. Parftt then took a
seat on a porch and wiped his bleeding nose.
He soon after went home.
DR.. w. n. Stein testified hat at the post
norton examination he fOund a slight frac-
ture of the nose. The deceased, he said,
was known as a bleeder. 1t was known that
after having a tooth pulled several years age
the deceased was obliged to hold his thumb
over the cavity for hours to stop the bleed.
ing.
DIR. S. II. Brady, of Lost Creek, testified
that he had known the deceased for 10 or Il
years and had frequently tire ted him. The
deceased was known from birth to bleed
from the slightest cause. The cause of the
bleeding, the doctor testified, was a rupture
of the muscus membrane, but the peculiar
constitution Of the deceased was the most al
fault. The deceased was known as a bleedel
and almost bled to death when he lost his
first teeth. Parftt made no statement t
the doctor as to how he sustained his injury