Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-03

More than dozen witnesses were
examined for the State, in the murder
trial yesterday.
The evidence at the morning ses-
sion, during which eight new witnesses
were on the stand, was not particularly
important, but at the afternoon session
the testimony OF Andrew Robinson,
colored, and Martin Kemp was OF the
first Importance to the State, as
reading of the summary presented be-
low will show. During the afternoon
session the Court room was cleared OF
spectators, because those present
would not heed the admonitions OF the
Court to refrain from demonstrations.
The first witness of the morning was
Edward Dailer, who is employed at
Humans. He heard shot and went
out; he also heard voice exclalm:
"Give it to him; kill the little -.
ME went to a rear window and saw a
! man lying on the creek bank; he then
went out in front and saw Charles
Mclaughlin lying on the sidewalk, with
a crowd about him. He did not see de-
PENDANTS.
On ross-examination witness main
tanned that he heard the expression at
tributed to defendants while he was
still inside the store; he did not know
what killed the man on the sidewalk.
Mrs. Levinia Scroggins saw the
shooting. One of the men who f1red at
Mclaughlin was on the sidewalk and
the other in the street; she saw both
men fire. the one in the street shooting
several times; witness was on the
porch of the Shorts residence, across
the creek, and saw man run across
the bridge; witness went over to the
scene, and saw Mclaughlin lying on
the sidewalk.
On cross-examination, witness said
she szw nothing until the first shot
was fired; witness was spending the
afternoon at Shorts; deceased did
nothing; he faced north, and sank
down, when a man came across the
pavement and raised him up; she saw
no one close to Mclaughlin. Craig
and Frank Mclaughlin were called in,
but witness could not identify Craig
as the man who ran across the bridge;
she said Frank Mclaughlin was not
standing close to Charles when the
first shot was fired, or she would have
seen him. Witness said she went
across the creek because she thought
it was another man who had been
shot-Oliver Ruckman. Witness saw
but one man cross the bridge.
H. H. Alexander was next called.
Ale was in the door of Otto Weisger-
ber's saloon, just north of South street,
when he heard the shots. He turned
south and saw man in the street
shooting, and saw another man fall.
Defendants walked up to South street;
Devinney had pistol and put it in
his pocket, but by the Hearne Taber-
nacle he took it out and did something
with it. The men went to Baers, and
then up Sixteenth street. On Six
teenth street Devinney gave the pistol
to Johnson. Johnson had on straw
hat and light suit, and Devinney a
dark suit and a dicer hat.
Mr.. Boyce conducted the cross-ex-
ify the man he saw in the street, as he
lost him in the crowd, and didn't no.
tice either of defendants until he and
Mr.. Caldwell started to follow them.
James Hannah was recalled to state
that horse and wagon were standing
by the west curb, on Market street.
William Strong, of Moundsville, was
in Mehen's saloon, at Market and
South streets, at the time of the shoot
ing. He went out on hearing shots,
and saw man in the street, shooting.
Witness did not know either of de-
PENDANTS, and did not know which did
the shooting; he saw two men go down
South street; one of the men did some
thing with a revolver, by the church;
he saw one of the men throw some
thing away, and picked up two empty
cartridge shells, which he threw over
the stone bridge.
On cross-examination witness said he
had no particular object in picking up
the shells; a dozen men followed the
two men down South street; he picked
up the two shells after the affair was
all over.
Louis G. Nixon was examined by
Prosecuting Attorney Meyers. Wit
ness was in Healy's saloon at the time
of the shooting; he knew both Johnson
and Devinney, and saw them go up
Market street, just above Sixteenth,
between two and three o'clock, on the
day of the shooting; witness was right
opposite the postoftice. Before he saw
them he was standing on the corner of
Market and Sixteenth streets. He
went into the Bowery saloon to look
for a man and then came out and
started up Market street, when Edward
Powell called to him. He also met a
man named Kupski, and he and Powell
and Kupski went in Healy's saloon at
Sixteenth and Market streets. While
in there there they heard the report
of a revolver and the witness ran out
of the saloon and walked down to Mar
ket and South streets, where he saw
Johnson and Devinney going down