The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-09

closed YOUR Ofiire. on 4 trip that was not
exactly q hunting trip, did you mott"
even. Il might be called hunting"
said the witness. with smile.
eWho was with you on the ;rlp?'
ANNA sandrock."
Witness said he met her at scIo. They
then went to Massilion. Further ques-
tIonIng along the line Of the towns Wis
tied was ruled out by the court
said ne Drew Gun.
The court also ruled against ques-
lions as to whether the witness drew
revolver on the sandrock girls father.
Mr.. Howard then said he offered to
show that at about the time Indicated.
DR. Hiss6m drew gun on Anna sand
rock. Oscar sandrock. Mrs. Hubbard.
]. r. Hissom. Mrs. j. r. Hissom, his
brother. Written Hissom. and struck
and beat a young lady who called Al
his fathers house. All these things
were known to his father at the time Of
arrest which things. Mr.. Howard
claimed were indicative of insanity. Mr..
Howard excepted to the objection as to
the assault on Oscar sandrock, and he
next offered to show Instances of I'm
moral conduct OF the witness with
young women in his Office. The witness
used his revolver in forcing one girl to
accompany him across the Terminal
bridge, also in forcing her relative, a
man named Beck. to go away. A few
days lnter the witness went to Ohio
with the girl and was with her Mt Mas
sillon. Canton and Flushing. He left
her at Flushing and returned to Wheel
ing. In Wheeling, he called on Theo-
dore Fink and others. and asked them
to note that he was In Wheeling at the
time. which he wanted as evidence to
prove an allbL Then he went back to
Flushing, Joined the girl, and both went
to Cleveland, whittier he was followed
by the girls mother. He was arrested
by two Cleveland officers and put in
Jail. The girl came to Wheeling with
her mother, and the witness returned
to Wheeling after his release, all of
which was known to the doctors faith
err
AT the conclusion Of Mr.. Towards
statement, Mr.. Hubbard objected to
questioning the witness on 1t, and the
court declined to rule on its admIssa-
biIity as a whole just then.
Then Mr.. Howard tried questioning
the witness about another girl, and Mr..
Hubbard objected on the grounds that
the witness could not be cross-examln-
ed on events that were not indicated in
the declaration or examinatIon-ln-chIef,
but this view was not sustained by the
court. Mr.. Hubbard excepted. The
lady mentioned was Laura Hillman. a
relative of Anna sandrock. and the
witness denied striking her.
Witness denied having a revolver or
pointing the same at George Beck and
threatening to kill him; denied threat
erlng to shoot oscar sandrock, Little
progress was made in examining the
witness on the incidents pertaining to
the sandrock case and the doctors al
legged boastIngs about 1t in the Hissom
family circle. owing to the objections
which were sustained.
The doctor was next shown letters he
wrote to his father from Germany, in
which he said his health was not i'm
proving and that he feared tuberculosis
Of the brain. The witness LEFT Ger
many after the receipt Of letter from
his mother. This was in the summer
and fall of 1898 A letter he wrote at
woodland to his mother. caused the
witness and others to smile. 1t refer
red principally to the condition of the
pigs at the farm; the doctor was afraid
one pig might get peritonltis. but he
thought he could pull 1t through" a
letter from Germany to his mother con-
tained some unprIntable illusions, 1t
was written on the occasion Of his
twenty-sixth birthday. and was signed
Your contrary son. Sam"
The reading of the letters occupied
the time until adjournment at p. M.
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