Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-08
TIE ARGUMENTS BEGUN
IN THE CRAABLEII CASE.
HON. JOHN Nj. COOK OPENED THE
PLEADING FOR THE STATE
LAST EVENING.
THE EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL
OCCUPIED Yesterdays SESSIONS
OF COURT, hut BROUGHT
OUT NOTHING.

special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE, o., Nov. 1.-The
crowd in attendance on the Cramblett
murder trial this morning was some
what the smallest Of any day during
the trial, being typical post-election
gathering.
The State put on Charles Eberle, of
Dillonvale, who told of seeing Jeff
Rainbow in Dillonvale about p. m.
on the evening of the murder George
King testified to about the same occur
renee.
David Gottschall said Rainbow, who
had the reputation of being a hunter.
wore felt boots at the Gosnell home
the night Of the murder Elva Gosnell
did not remember about the boots.
Cora Gosnell said Rainbow wore felt
boots. She denied hearing the prose-
cutor saying: We've knocked hi
out of the Rainbow theory" I
Sheriff Porter testified to examining
the Gosnell garden for tracks after
the murder, and they showed a narrow
toed shoe. The defense objected. say
ing it should have been taken in the
examination in chief, but Judge Hol-
lingsworth held it to be proper rebuff
tai evidence.
He Talked with John Cramblett
on the Monday after the murder, and
Cramblett said there had been no other
guns but a rifle at his house for year.
The State showed by this witness that
there was a window in the bed room
OF the accused and a shed kitchen I'M
der it. In answer to the defense he
said he asked John Cramblett about
shot guns, not muskets. Substantial
ly all he saw plain of the shoe track
was the ball of the foot.
Nelson Carter told of riding a larger
horse than Rainbovcs up the strip OF
ground near Gosnell's on the Monday
after the preliminary.
Lewis Cashier testified he was at
John Cramblett's on the day his son
was arrested and to his saying the
musket was at ST Cramblett's for a
month or more.
James Cashier testified to the same.
A fierce squabble ensued over attempt
to put words in the last witness
mouth. The witness got "balled" up
as to what Cramblett really said.
David Sutherland testified to ST
Cramblett admitting he had the mus
ket, having brought it from his faith
er's four weeks before the murder,
covered up in load of apples to keep
his wife from seeing it, and ne intend
ed to use it to shoot chicken thieves.
He kept it in the barn on his wifes
account. The Squire asked 81 why
his wife was afraid of gun in the
barn and not of one in the room and
ST did not
Make Mitch OF an Answer.
The musket was not loaded when he
got it 81 told him of the barn and
other places being broken open and
the musket's theft.
The defense brought out that the
squire went there because an affidavit
was before him for a search warrant
Jim Noble went with him He did not
remember of any of the crowd with
him trying to awe ST by telling him
ne was talking to Uncle Sam DR..
Hensley never claimed J be a 'detec-
tive"
James Cheffey testified to John
JrdmDleCt saying DeIOre the murder
that he had an old army musket load
ed to kill with slugs and somebody
had better watch out"
The defense made a strong objection
on showing up the loading Of the gun,
as they had not inquired about it. The
judge sustained the objection, and
ruled out the answer. The State got
its matter in the record. Jacob Brown
and James Mcintyre were witnesses to
the same as Cheffey. and the rule was
the same.
Ernest Finley, Esq, testified that he
was a member of the grand jury that
indicted Cramblett. John Cramblett
stated before the grand jury that he
had not heard of the musket after 81
took it. He said John Cramblett de-
MED telling anybody where the mus
ket was to be found or if found to hide
or destroy it. Much else of
John CrambIett's Testimony
covering about what he testified to at
this trial was gone over
Dr.. Barkhurst testified that the track