The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-25

ing ~Ads Pate that he did not recognize
amy one. Pate will be put on to further i'm
peach Kelly later.
There was much evident elation among
tie defendants attorneys and many spec
tators at the turn things We're taking. The
attorney general succeeded in showing
after prolonged objections from the other
side, that Kelly h0d been advised, If not
threatened" not TO tell any one that he
recognized any of the mob before his testi-
Inony at the inquest and the alleged con
versation with Pate.
Billy Kenyon was there right after the
lynching" said Kelly. and he asked me
Ii I knew any of them. l told him no. lie
said if | did I better not say anything
Kenyon Is a brother-in-law of Sheriff
6usching and was one of the deputy
sheriffs in the Jail that night and delivered
the keys to the mob.
Charles II. Wilson, q lawyer. of YER
sailIes, was the first witness to-day when
the hearing was resumed at 10 o'clock. VIII
son was closely questioned about a trip he
took to Osgood with Colonel Skeen the
afternoon before the lynching. This was
the time when the oonspirators sent 10 Os-
good to prevent any one going on the bond
Of Lyle Levi and William Jenkins. so they
could be left in jail and no longer delay the
lynching Lawyer Wilson said he was at
OsgOod most of the afternoon. 1t was
about 8 o'clock when he and Skeen got
back He did not talk TO Wagner, but saw
one he thought was Wagner Oh the side
walk near Skeel After returning he sat
near the Hasmer Hotel, at Versailles, q
half hour. He saw nothing more of Skeen,
and denied going to the hotel to meet Hez
Hughes and Constable Steinmetz. In front
of the Balser House he Postmaster
Harper. John CasidiCk and two or three
others. IT was perhaps IL o'clock when he
got home. He observed nothing unusual in
the way OF skyrockets, signals or anything
of that kind He was awakened about ]
o'clock by noise that sounded like ham
mering in the Jail. Vernon Dickerson, a
boarder. said It was shooting. He looked at
his watch. 1t was !: % O'Clock. n sound OF
hammering continued, he said but claimed
he lay down again until aroused 10y cry
of Hello from two men in a Buggy. who
called him to the door.
After talking he went back to bed until
about $3.50 O'Clock when he was aroused by
some one calling for MIR. Kenyon, the
father-in-law of Sheriff Busching. who lived
on the opposite corner It was Robert Bas-
sett's voice, he thought. lie did not know
whether he was calling for Sheriff Busch
ing or Kenyon. He was occupied with
dressing and could not say whether Busch
ing or Kenyon came out.
Was the hammering you heard at the
Jail the first knowledge you had of the
iynching?'
Il did not then know it was lynching. -
Had you any previous knowledge of a
coming ynching?'
No sir"
He emyhatioally denied seeing Hez
Hughes at the clerks office with Skeen be-
fore going L. Osgood. and said that he and
Skeen did not go to Osgood to stop Wagner
from going on Lyle Lewis bond He then
denied that he was responsible for the pris-
oners being lodged i'm Jail so they might be
lynched. lie never made any effort he
said, to ascertain from Hez Hughes the
names of any who had taken part i'm the
lynching. lie was not held up or ordered
off the streets that night.