The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-10
WlNTERSTEEN TRIAL.
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itv. to pay them anything over and
above the $1,000, if at any time the
stock would sell for more than that.
I thought perhaps by buying all the
stock l would then be able to stop the
litigation. No sir, never intimated
that I would like to hit Mrs. Knorr in
the head with an ak, no l never wrote
Knorr letter in Oct. 'os, asking him
to meet me at Espy, there is nothing
IN it, I was never with him in Espy,
never had a talk with him in regard
to killing his mother, 1 did not meet
him in Oct. 'os, at 7I6 Cherry Street,
Reading, I never called Waller a son.
ofa-b-- in his presence, or said
Waller was harming him as much as
he was me, never knew that he was
stopping at Rupert, did not pay his
hotel bill at that place from Feb'y.
'os up to the explosion, l may have
given him $40 or $50, no sir he never
came up from Rupert to meet me, l
never gave him $40 with which to
buv revolver, he never spoke about
\ revolver to me, l certainly could
not have told him to leave Rupert be-
cause never knew he was stopping
there. | never knew that he had given
his mother anything like powder or
poison. No l never told him that
the equity suit would have to be stop
ped. Yes sir, l did say that to MIR.
Wingert at his Office in Reading, that
| would buy the property which he
had bought at Sheriffs sale, that l
would do this as favor to Cliff AS to
offering Cliff $4,000 to blow Waller
ND. it is an absolute falsehood ! never
told him where Armstrong; quarry
was. never met him on the Light
Street road no sir, never slept with
a woman by the name of Belle Bru-
baker at Reading. / never told him
that would like to see Waller and
his family blown to hell. never show
ed him paper while in Reading con
tanning an account of the explosion,
no. I never told him that l was sus-
pected for the blowing up ofthe Waller
house the first I knew of the explo-
sion was when / met w. B. Jury on
the corner of Third and Market streets
in Bloomsburg the morning of the
explosion, yes sir, that was the first
knew of it. Yes sir, when in Reading
some time after the explosion think
I did tell Knorr that Waller had hlreo
watchman to guard his house, thu
was well known fact, everybody II
Bloomsbury knew that he had hlre'
watchman. Now as to the letter
which were addressed to Miss Mann
Wilson, they were in answer to letter
from Knorr requesting me to sem
him money. (These letters were pull
lished in last weeks report.) He tol
me to address them to Miss Nam
Wilson, that is why I did SO. l di
not stay at 7I6 Cherry ST. every tim
went to Reading, the only night
slept at TIC Cherry St. Reading wa
on the 18th Of July, 1895.
In answer to all the other alleg
tions made by Knorr and Salie Gas
witness denies them all and solemn
swears that they are all absolute
false.
Court adjourned until Tuesda
morning at 900 O'Clock.
TUESDAY MORNING.
Court opened at 9:3o. Examin
ton of Wintersteen resumed. I
June IS, 1895, the receiver OF t
Bloomsbury Iron Co., sold a lot
railroad cars previously used
hauling lime. I became the pt
chaser of them, and hired two III
to break them up so that l cou
sell the iron in them to bre
up the cars it was necessary to Il
dynamite, so l went to c. P. Ar
strong and purchased the dynami
have receipted bill showing VIII
paid c. P. Armstrong for the
plosive. August 27, 1895, four
us left Reading for a trip over
Never Sink Railroad. | never tt
Cliff Knorr that l would like
put barrel Of gun powder agai
Walters house.
Cross-eXamine.
l slept at 7I6 Cherry Sire
Reading, July IS, 1895 l
Jennie Hutchins on August
1895 that is when we took
trip over the gravity road i'll ]
2S, 90, took another trip over
gravity road, on this trip TT
were also four of us after com
back from the trip we went
restaurant in Reading it was
badly 1890 O'Clock when we
back the two women who v
with us I think were sober
had been drinking some but
enough to make them intoxica
After leaving the restaurant l