The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-31
WAS WALSH
DRUNK !?
Connolly Testified to 80
Years Acquaintance But
Did Not See Him
For 81 Years.
NOT A JUDGE OF JAGS
Mrs. Gilligan Does Not Know
But Thinks the Jury Does
Men Saw Him
Stagger.
NOT A JUDGE OF JAGs

ton OF Mrs. Mary Gllllgan, TO nave Henry
j. Walsh adjudged an habitual ~drunkard,
sat to hear the testimony of a few more
witnesses in the District Court yesterday
afternoon.
The first witness called was Mrs. Gill;
gan. She said she had known Mr.. Walsh
for thirty-four years and that for the last
ten or twelve years of that time he had
been almost continually drunk. Since the
Washes came to live in Hoboken, she
said, he had never been sober with the
exception of during a period of five
months in the winter of 1896, and on
another occasion when he kept off for five
weeks.
She admitted on cross-examination that
she had never seen him drink whiskey
or have it in the house except on one
occasion when they were celebrating the
anniversary of his wedding, and said that
she had frequently taken a share of the
beer sent for by Mr.. or Mrs. Walsh. She
had never seen Walsh stagger, she said,
but knew that he was drunk just the
same, and although not a judge of jags
herself, never having been drunk, she
felt the jury would be able to decide.
DR.. F. B. Grew testified to having at
ended to Walsh on three or four oc-
- -. L.
60
Asked if Walsh had told him at the
time he had been bitten by a dog, and
as4
When Robert F.. Connolly was called,
a very heavy faced gentleman, with a
large plug of tobacco in his cheek and a
very iiiu -
~ se'eieu sNS
the WITNESS ena
NV e ~
WASH asneu
- w
ons
Anu via was nis -,
-ne so1. 49,
wen sS~ 49,,
aieiu IN a n ~ 49, - 49,
- - - ~ .oh .ha
1.ro,thar ae,,a IN : drunk dr,,nk or
was itA s.on
see.nns 49, =, no ~
~ no.
$50 na,onon. r,np .b,siva To
. Haaan,s .-;th : uaiab+v
80, {. r..,, M;n.
a,an,t NAV odded
+be vi+nass He might have been abusive
L "leae. SO h,,t - he was I'd
nass A. or
80 eub +r,ns ha had +aken in
oononanv with walsh whose sobriety on
tSa.a oo.as;ors be modestlv stated was
49, = o.rae,,1 grara tho witness had
1-on+ oxar bim ne sold walsh had been
+oId nv . bartender in Kennedv's saloon
- Eo,rt.antb stree+ while IN his COM
800 +ha+ ba u,as q .sbig far"
When SIZED 10 axnlain what that was
10 saia ION a law. a come on. a mug
80 aan,t 1.now how ~ hold his money"
~ tast;ead furtbar as r. walsh,s wild
oond,,o+ when in his own house. and IL
Illustrated +he tale in such a theatrical
manner that he was asked to sit down
and answer the questions put to him in a
nroner oanner
on cross examination it developed that
N his long acquaintance with Walsh there
was a period of about q years when he
had never seen him.
Counselor Cannon asked him if he had
ever seen Walsh drinking whisky.
1--WE seen him take beer, and I'm sure
he never drank water" said Connolly.
but I said whiskey,' said Mr.. can
non. .
well, he very seldom drank whlskey,
the witness.
Mr.. cannon maze d speech On Inc ope'i
ing OF the oelence.
we WIN prove' ~ saiu, 'na. 80
IS a .cohspiaey : uep.ise ..as
controi u tne oisposl.o -,
II mas lahen I'm ~ 80 Sraon
ate. an 10 ~ af
peiiee.y ne 80 is 80 ~ tbe nressnt
" In shau +ho+ tbis wom.n
IN ssh has raaoi,od a,rarv cent ne
- h;s 1ong 1ifa If toi, and now
80 r,ora ;s oomino IN she kicks rho
tnaoas and ref,,ses to allow him the little
raIava+ions . gentleman in his position is
onti+led ~,
In snaaking of the witnesses for the
aon-,,ainan+ he referred to them as the
uorst III Of "mixed a1e-ers,' that he had
a,ar saen
rbis so aro,,sed the indignation of one
~ fama,a u,itnassas that she rose
= -~..- -.
from ner seat IN the cour. iooii anu wene
to the door, but, after standing there
go e., ,,inu+as che returned to her
ioi q is" - ~, = 49, 80 ~ ~
seat and stayed I'LL tne ciose y 'ne pr
ceedings.
Councilman George Steil testified to
bnau,,na wa1sb &C . sober canable man.