Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-09
THE DEFENSE OPENS.

The First Testimony Taken at Six Minute S
OF Three-The Alibi Evidence.
Emma Yoke was the first witness
called. She is employed at Stone &
| Thomas. She remembered the I'd day
Of November, 1895. Wylie Bowers
| came to the store that day. between
| nine and eleven o'clock, for the purpose
! OF getting goods for dresses for the
| parade that night. He was standing in
the aisle on the upper side of the store
when the floor walker called to witness
to come and wait On him. He spoke
about some goods Mrs Miller had
spoken of in the morning. He got
about forty yards of goods. Witness
sold them. He was in the store just
about long enough to have the goods
measured and wrapped up. 1t was be-
fore eleven o'clock, because witness got
dinner at that hour. 1t was likely early
in the morning, of the day of the Moth
er Hubbard parade.
| The cross-eXamination was by Mr.
| Meyers. Witness fixed the time of the
| visit again as between and II a. m,
on the day Of the Mother Hubbard
parade-the night before the election,
! last year-'96.
Q.-Are you positive it was on the
I'd day of November that Wylie Bow
ers came in? At must have been if
he came in to get the goods to turn out
that night.
Q.-By what do you fix that date
A.-That morning l left for the store,
and on the way | was stopped by Mrs.
| Miller, who asked about colored
scrlms. | am often stopped, and | told
! her l would bring some samples. and
she said that would be too late, as the
boys wanted to turn out right away
In the parade, and she would send over
and get the goods
| Odd she say
WHO SHE WOULD SEND?
A.-No.
Q.-What time did you get to the
store? Al think about ten minutes
after eight. | generally get there five
minutes OF eight, but when | am stop
ped on the street by customers l am
late.
Witness fixed the day as Monday be-
cause she had looked over the papers,
and ascertained the day OF the parade
She knew it was not the Saturday be-
fore because she was very busy on
Saturdays and would have sent the
! samples to Mrs. Miller Witness relat-
| ed long conversation with Mrs. Mill
err about the transaction of the goods
Witness had not thought Of Wylie
! Bowers having been in the store until
Mrs. Miller had asked for a bill for
, the goods. In fact, witness had con-
graduated herself that she knew moth
ing about the case, aud did not want
to know anything of it. Witness never
saw Wylie Bowers in the store before
| Witness first thought that Wylie Bow
ers was in the store on November 2,
when Mrs. Miller called for a bill and
receipt for the goods Wylie Bowers
had purchased. She told Mrs. Miller
she did not remember the date, but
that it was the day of the Mother Hub
bard parade Witness had always told
| her friends the same tale she was tell
| ing on the stand.
| Q.-Isn't it only recently that you
| have been telling
WYLIE BOWERS FRIENDS
| that you did not know the date he
was in the store? objection; wran-
| gle.) Question repuu Odd you
! tell anybody that you did not know
| the date when Wylie Bowers was in
the store? Al told several parties
| that | did not know the date except
! that it was on the day of the parade.
CHere the audience made a great
| deal of confusion and the room was
cleared of all parties standing in the
aisles) 'cN
The question was again put and the
/ witness made the same answer, al
though warned by the Court that the
answer was not responsive. Witness
protested she could make no other an
tswer. Mr.. Sommerviile said he sup
posed the question would have TO go
unanswered. The defense objected
and there was a general discussion be-
tween counsel to little purpose. Then
the question as to whether or not she
| had told anybody she was not positive
of the date Wylie Bowers was in the
store. was again put, and witness final
ly said she had told several parties In
reply to a question as to what was the
! date of the election, witness said: Il
| think it was on the Sd or I'd, wasn't
| it," Mr.. Myers-Oh, l am asking you.
In reply to other questions, witness
said it must have been shortly be-
fore the parade. because he had so
| short time to get ready in. She
| was sure it was not on Saturday.
Here the jury was given recess.
MRS. MARY MILLER
was next called. The examination was
| by Mr.. Dryden Witness had lived in
Fulton all her life. She knew Miss
| Yoke, who lived out the road little
| farther. She passed witness house 60
| ing to and from the store. Witness
| knew Wylie Bowers, ever since he was
a little boy. She knew Henry kiel, re-
| membered the day he was killed, and
/ fixed the day by the fact she had made
some dresses that day for the boys for
the Mother Hubbard parade. 1t was
| the day before the election. The cleo
| ton was on Tuesday, and the parade on
Monday, and she made the dresses Mon
| day. She saw Miss Yoke that morn
| ing in Fulton, and also Bowers about a
! quarter before eight that morning. He
was standing on the street while she
was speaking to Miss Yoke. He was
| in front of NJ. STEMS. father of the wit
| ness. About quarter after eight wit