Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-15
elm Grove about o'clock. March ]

Mr.. Howard then took up the cross
examination.
What is your name?"
Frank Riley"
That's your true manner"
That's my name"
why didn't you give your right
name to the police when you were ar
rested?"
1T was none of their business"
After a number of questions along
the same line, Mr.. Howard asked:
When did you learn the charge
against you?"
.The next day. from the papers"
knowing why you were arrested,
why didn't you give your right name?"
i have respectable people"
who are they?"
Il refuse to answer"
Where do they live?"
I'm Toledo, Ohio; Bradford, Pa, and
New York City"
why did you want to keep secret
from your folks that you were falsely
accused of murder?''
so as not to disgrace them"
Didn't you let any OF them know"
Il let my brother know and he sent
me some funds"
why didn't lie bring his friends and
neighbors here to prove what kind of
a man you are?"
Il don't know"
In the succeeding questions Friday
was drawn out on places he had set
tied in in his rowing about the coun-
try. Also what name he was known
by in them. Nothing of Importance
was brought out except he had lived
with his mother for some time in
| Bradford, Pa. in 1876.
How old are you?"
"FoIty-six last Wednesday,"
Mr.. Howard at this point stopped to
| confer with Mr.. Meyers and during the
interval Friday was crying.
What did you come back to Wheel
ing for?" resumed Mr.. Howard.
Had no other place to go to-
What did you intend doing?'
Nothing
When did you first meet MONEY!"
In Canton, Ohio, last December, in
| saloon. l saw him in there and
| asked him to have drink. l was only
with him about two hours. l went
from there to Cleveland. Although
was talking to him / didn't learn his
name"
when did you next meet him."
Il next met him here, on Market
street"
Friday then recounted the meet
ings of himself and Mooney in this
city up until the final meeting on the
evening of March list, in Dukes Reil-
ly's saloon.
After Friday told of accompanying
Mooney north on Main street from
Sixteenth to a street on which the
market house is, Mr. Howard asked:
Did you go up Main street as far as
Locke's shoe store?'
81 don't know where that is" was
the reply.
After questioning him closely as to
his meetings with Mooney, Mr.. How
ard asked: after knowing Mooney
all the time, you never found out what
he wasp
mo, SIR
Nobody down at Dukes" told
your"
mo, sir"
You say you didn't kill James
Hervey?"
Il didn't"
"You say you weren't in the house
with John Mooney when he was kill
ed?"
Il do"
Would you tell the truth if you had
killed him and were on trial for your
life?"
Il would"
"On March list, at 7:15 in evening
you had an engagement to meet
Mooney in the wine room at "Dukes?"
Eyes, sir"
For what purpose?"
Have you no better explanation
than that"
NO, Sir"
What were you doing beyond
Fette's?'
To this and following questions Fri
day explained he had an engagement
with . Cleveland man, named Frank
Stewart, who didn't say what he want
ed to see defendant for Mooney came
to Reillys and defendant asked him
to show him the way to Fette's.
Mooney accompanied him. They left
Reillys at about sis and got to Fette's
about a quarter to ten. At the door
defendant wanted to find closet and
went up on the road Mooney followed
him up. When the two men came
back down the road, the police step
ped out and arrested them.
Mr.. Howard asked: Didn't you
know there was a closet in Fettes?"
"No. sir" bna
Don't you know it was a custom
to have them in such places?''
Il didn't know there was one in
there"
Have you any explanation of the
fact that you consumed one hour and
forty-five minutes going from Reilly's
to Fette's.'
None. Except Mooney has bad
feet. They're all broke
After some questioning of minor i'm
portance the witness was dismissed.
Colonel Arnett then inquired if Con-
stable John Anderson was present
Mr.. Anderson came forward and took
the stand.
MIR. Anderson" said Colonel Arnett,
ION the stand a few days ago you
testified that these defendants were
at Elm Grove on March 1st.'
Yes, SIR"
When you returned home from
identifying these two men in Jail after
they were arrested you told Westake.
Fitzpatrick and Andrew Steele that