Evening journal., 1900-08-28
DIR. PYLE ENTERS
PLEA OF GUILTY
Will be Sentenced To-day
for ASSaultiDg His Sis
ter-in.IaW
MAJ ESCAPE IMPRISONMENT
Miss Florence ieatman Tells Her
Story, Which is SubSiantiated
bv Four Witnesses
MiI ESCAPE IMPRISONMENT
snoeIaI Io me EvenIng lonrnaI.

Special TO the Evening Journal
West Chester Aug, 2S.-In tile
Court CT Quarter Sessions yes
terday Dr. Joseph p. Pyle.
Of Wilmington who had been in
dicted for assault and battery, aggra-
waited assault and assault with intent to
kill upon Miss Florence Yeatman, OF
Kennett township. Chester county, Pa,
pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
DR.. Pyle was represented by Thomas
wv. Pierce and COrnwell. Gheen K
ICornwell. of the West Chester bar, ana
\ Peter L. Cooper, OF the Wilmington
bar. the case being conducted in court
/ by the West Chester counsel of DR..
Pyle.
Thomas w. Baldwin represented the
/ commonwealth in the prosecution Of
the case Francis NJ. Walker, OF the
/ Wilmington bar Of counsel for Miss
! Yeatman, also was present
Testimony was heard by Judge
/ Hemphill, who sat in court room No. 2
to inform the court in regard to the Of
fense.
Myra Huisey was called by Thomas
w. Baldwin. who represented the COM
monwealth. Her testimony was sub
stgntially this: On the evening Of
January l6 last she and Annie Eaton.
attended a company az one of the
neighbors. They returned home be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock and found DR..
and Mrs. Pyle in the sitting room. Az
ter exchanging a few words with the
doctor they passed into the kitchen
and she went on upstairs Shortly af-
Iterwards she heard cries from the site
ting room and rushed down stairs. fol-
lowed by Miss Eaton who had delayed
q few minutes In the kitchen and then
followed her upstairs. She found Flor
lence Yeatman. the prosecutrix. upon
the floor and DR. Pyle with his knees
on her body striking her in the face
with his fists. She saw the handle OF
a knife in the doctors hand and she
took hold Of It, drew It through his
hand and threw 1t in a nearby window
among some papers. That Mrs. Pyle
was screaming and all three of the
women took hold of DR.. Pyle and at
tempted to drag him away from Miss
Heatman. That she got partly on her
feet, when he knocked her down again
and beat her with his fists.
That this proceeding was repeated
the testimony being that she was
knocked down four times Finally he
arose to his feet and Miss Yeatman lay
on the floor for some little time, some
one exclaiming that she was dead. The
doctor replied that she was not Miss
Yeatman then started upstairs. having
told witness to go for the hired man.
who came Immediately, hastened by
the cries of Mrs. Pyle, wife Of the doc
tor. which he heard from the house.
When the witness went into the
room the man having preceded her, DR.. !
Pyle asked her If she had brought the
man. She said no, he brought him
self. That he advanced toward her
with his fist uplifted and she retreated
toward the stairway and stood a few
steps from the bottom
Upon cross-examination of Myra
Huisey, Thomas W. Price, who, with
lCornwell, Gheen & COrnwell. and Peter
J.. Cooper, who represented the de-
fendant, produced a large knife with
double edge and a large bone handle. !
and guards, and asked Miss Hulsey iii
that was the knife that she took out of
DR.. Pyle's hand She declined to iden-
tify that knife as the one. Cross-ex-
animation failed to shake the testi- !
mony of the witness in any material !
point.
ANNIE EATON'S TESTIMONY.
The next witness called was Annie
Eaton. who corroborated the testimony /
.of Myra Hulsey in many particulars. !
She did not testify to having seen any /
knife in the doctors hand, but that af- |
ter the assault was over, and Myra |
Hulsey had gone for the hired man, she |
was left alone in the sitting room with
DR.. Pyle and that he took the lamp and |
set it on the floor, turned up the rug
and seemed to be hunting for some |
thing. She asked him what he was
looking for, and he replied his paper
knife. She said not to mind, that II !
she found it she would bring IL to him. |
He replied that he wanted It tonight. |
That after some interval of time he /
said he had found it, turned his back /
to her and went through what she
thought to be the motions Of putting
something in his pocket. She repeated /
the testimony which had been given by /
the other witnesses in which the doc 1
tor had told the hired man that he was
not wanted there and could go home, /
ITO which the man paid no attention, ex- /
cept to exclaim "Sol" and remain. 1
That after the doctor had found his /
knife he asked her IL he could get some /
water, and she took him to the /
kitchen. where he washed his hands /
and face. He asked for a glass She I
thought he wished a drink, and brought [
him a tumbler, but found that he /