Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-07

There were a number of enlivening
incidents during the progress of the
trial of the Hissom damage suit in the
Circuit Court yesterday. The parents
of the sandrock girl were placed On the
stand, and the father became very ex-
cited during his examination, denounc-
irg the plaintiff as "scoundrel," and
declaring his willingness to blow out
the doctors brains with a shotgun.
When court adjourned, Mrs. Hubbard,
sister of the plaintiff, was on the stand,
and the hearing of her testimony will
be continued this morning.
Ex-Police Officer Charles Bickerton
was the frat witness. He thought DR..
Hissom's manner of dress and his &C
tions were changed after his return
from Germany. He saw a woman go
into the doctors Office with him one
might. Witness had been asked to keep
an eye on the place.
w. H. Frank testified that he went
to jail with samples at the request OF
the elder Hissom to measure DR.. His
son for a suit of clothes. DR.. Hissom
asked him to wait until he could COM
municate with mis- attorney. Witness
heard no more of the matter.
James A. FiIan was put on the stand,
but his testimony was ruled out.
Mrs. Sandrock was the first import
ant witness during the morning SEES
sion. She said the plaintiff had treated
her for catarrh. She recalled the occa-
sion when her daughter was out all
night. She said the girl received a note
asking her to meet DR.. Hissom at the
depot, and witness told j. R. Hissom
about it. Witness asked a policeman
at one o'clock in the morning to help
her find her daughter. She aid not see
the girl until she was brought home
by her father at five o'clock in the
morning. She saw DR.. Hissom at her
gate the same morning.
The witness said she heard DR.. His
som say that he would pop" his father
over if he did not yield the money he
demanded. HE blamed my daughters
disgrace on me, and offered to marry
her. but l said he could not marry her
> if he was a chunk of gold, studded
with diamonds. He drew pistol on
my husband and ordered him out Of the
house. He acted like crazy man. |
never did think he was sane. He al
ways got excited and walked the floor
when he talked about his father"
Mrs. SSandrock says she took her
daughter to Scio, thinking the change
would do her good. DR.. Hissom sent
the girl a note and she left the witness.
Witness then described her efforts by
wire to locate the two; her visit to st.
Clairsville to see if they had been
married; her trips to several Ohio
towns, finally reaching Cleveland, where
she had the doctor arrested.
On oss-examination the witness re-
iterated her opinion as to the doctors
insanity. DR.. Hissom did not have her
permission to see her daughter. She
had never asked the police 20 keep him
away. She contradicted her daughter
In the evidence of the latter that she
was trying to negotiate a loan of $4,000
through DR.. Hissom. She permitted
her daughter to go buggy riding with
the DOCTOR only after the doctor had
threatened to shoot her if she withheld
her consent.
Mr.. Sandrock, father Of the girl, next
took the stand He told in detail his
search for his daughter when she was
out all night. He watched the doctors
office, and said the two came out at
five O'Clock in the morning. Witness
said: "You sooundrel. what have you
DONE" and DR.. Hissom pulled reyol-
yer on him AMI followed him back to