Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-17


o.-What did you meanf Ar
meant simply that ! would Try to do
all / could.
Q.-And get his share for him! a.
II would try to.
Q.-What did you mean by this part
Of the letter: Let me know what ar
rangement you have nader" Al
meant the hunting trim.
I Q-With whom? A-With the Doc
tor.
Q--The Doctor had talked to you
about going hunting, and you wanted
TO know what arrangements he had
made? A.-Yes.
Q.-ls there anything else you re-
member about that's that all you re-
member? A.-That is what / meant.
Q.-Isn't it a fact that the Doctor
had not talked to you about hunting
at all? A.-No.
Q--How long was it after he left the
asylum after you wrote him? Al
don't knoW-but ! had seen him.
Odd your brother write to you
about going hunting? A-No.
/. Q.-When did you talk to him about
hunting? Al saw him up In town.
Q.-Where did you see him? Al
saw him in town.
Q.-How long before this letter wa
written? Al don't know.
| Q.-Was it a couple of days before?
Al don't remember.
Glow long after his release was It
you talked to him about going hunt
lngg Al don't know; but when /
talked to him / saw him In town.
Q.-You saw him in town? Ayes.
n ne said he was coming down.
u you see him at the depot
in Wheeling? Al don't remember:
1t may have been at the depot.
Q.-Do you remember where he was
going to? Al do not.
Q.-You don't? A.-Ne.
Q.-How did you come to see him,
Al don't remember that. but / know
l saw him.
Q.-Isn't it a fact that you came To
Town n met him on the veru day he
came to Wheeling from the ASYLUM
Al don't know that.
Odd you see him that day? A.
saw him at Maser's on the Island
in the evening.
| Q.-That was the time you made the
arrangement? A.-No; he said moth
ing about hunting.
Q.-When was 1.-THE next day? A.
i don't remember.
Q.-Do % remember anything at
all! Al remember he talked about
going hunting. and he asked me to
get a gun from his father and we
would go squirrel hunting.
Q.-Don't you know when that wasp
In reply the witness said he didn't
know when they made the
ments, or who was present, but he
liz remember seeing the Doctor at
Maser's, in. the evening.
Q.-Was no your talk to him at
Maser'S the same as the note given IN
him? A.-No.
Q.-Then there was another note?
Ayes.
(Which was that? A.-The one
telling him to go to the Stamm Hotel
and board.
Q.-That vas the one you took over
to Maser's? A.-Yes.
GLOW did you know the Doctor
was in Wheeling? Al saw by the
papers he had come home.
Q.-Had been released from the asy-
lum-was that the time? Was that
the time you saw III the papers he
was coming home? Al saw It.
Q.-How? Al heard it on the
streets-everybody knew it over there.
Q.-And your father knew it? A.
Yes.
Q.-And the same evening o came
10 wheeling TO deliver the note? A.
Yes.
Odd you see DR.. Hissom on the
tram passing through Woodland on
your way to Wheeling? A.-No, but
| heard people say ne was there.
Q.-And after you heard that you
came to Wheeling? Ayes.
Q.-Did you tell YOU father he pass
ed through Woodland? Ale knew
it.
Odd you tell him? Al don't
know whether / told it or not. People
told me on the train.
Q.-It was generally known he had
passed through? Al suppose so.
Letter shown.) Odd you write
that? Ayes.
The letter was dated May 81, 1899.
Woodland, W. Va, Dear Brother" and
went on to say: 1T is raining and |
thought / would write o TO come
down and take a hunt. . Come
down, and I'll see you about the trou-
bic. Be sure to come" 1t was signed
"Witten."
Q.-You say now you never visited
him down there? A.-Not at the ISL
and.
Q.-Where to? A.-Sutor's is where
he had been staying.
Q.-You wrote from Woodland? A.
Yes, but l knew he would go to
Sutor's; l knew he would go down
there.
Odd you invite him to Sutor'sg
Al didn't invite him to the Island.
Q.-Where were you when you wrote
him? AT Woodland.
Q.-Right across from the Island?
Ayes.
Q.-And when you said you
couldn't do anything" you meant
you couldn't do anything on the ISL
and? Ayes.
Q.-You didn't invite him to Sutor's?
A.-Not to Sutor's. l expected him to
go to Sutor's, where he had been
boarding. He went there to stay o
after he came home.
Q.-At the time this note was writ
ten your fathers family were on the
island? Al guess they were.