The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-29

thing 70 eat. She gave two OF then,
something. but Stevens walked away
from the house and waited for the
others some distance from the house.
Ed Monaghan testlGed that Stevens
and Taylor were Mt his place on Fri
day before the murder, but he was not
certain as to Divine. He said they
bought beer and went into the back
room to drink 1t. He said the Bellalre
paper Pittsburgh paper and Wheeling
paper were all upon The table in the
back room and they could have taken
any OF them. He said Stevens vas
back there the following Tuesday and
seeing an account jof The murder in a
paper III the back room, had remarked,
That was a cowardly trick, whoever
did it, e j
se5; Detective Mccoy. & ,.s.
Detective Mccoy was put upon the
stand, but he only kept up the chain as
to the ytwlne, paper. and lamp. which he
had carried from Squire Reinhart's to
GAINESVILLE for the preliminary hear
Ing. K II
Sheriff Foreman also. testified to hav-
Ing received these things and had the
Identical Irvine, etc, In court. 5l
Marshal Asa Blowers, of GAINESVILLE,
testified that he had worked ut Rogers
lumber yard for eleven years; that lath
was brought from three places, vlr-
GINA, Wisconsin and Michigan and that
the peculiar knot in question came only
from the Michigan lumber regions, was
machine tied and could not be made by
hand I, ,5
Mrs. Marks, one OF the women In the
house where the murder occurred, was
the next witness. The other woman
will not be able to testify. Mrs. Marka
told as well as she could her experience
that night. She was fairly we'll suits
fed as TO the men, but could not posi-
lively Identify them She was reason-
ably sure they had been to the house
before for something to eat. In fact,
So:;ned pretty positive on this point.
Her other statements helped the chain
of evidence considerably.
a Strong Case.
Prosecutor Armstrong and Judge
briggs in a wonderful metholical way
have linked their chain OF circumstan-
tial evidence until there is little doubt
In the minds of those who have heard
the evidence through that case has
been made against the culprits. Even
IL q witness or two can be !mpeached
1t would not remove a. link in what
seems closely connecting circumstanc es.
But the intricacies Of law are some
times past the ordinary ken and the de-
Tense have not yet presented their side
Of the case. Major Petty and A. H.
Mitchell have in one or two Instances
discredited witnesses by leading ques-
tons on cross examination, but the
counsel for the state allowed that to
take Its way until 1t began to take time
with irrelevant questions before they
interposed any objections. Major Pet
ty and AR. Mitchell are both alert and
seem to recognize that the case of the
state is stronger than they anticipated.
But the long period since the law Of "a
life for n life" was applied in Belmont
county gives rise to the belief that less
than first degree will be the verdict, II
the casa Of the. stnta Ia s,,9ta ined b,y 41,o
verdict; and yet IL Leonard Stevens
and Barney Divine are the men who did
the fatal work at the Warrtck home,
under the law it is murder in the first
degree. II they were not there they
could not be guilty, and the evidence to
sustain the claim that they were not
there is all to be submitted yet. The
case is likely to take up most Of next
week The state has practically finish
ed their case.