Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-03

into the river, at Fish creek island.
Hubbard, saying they had the trouble
between themselves" He never kicked
the lace curtains out on the porch. On
February IL, 1899. he talked to his
father about the death of the child,
and then said he would have to have
his papers. There was no revolver
about it that l know of. l. did not
pull revolver. but threatened him,
all right. / told him / would have
him arrested, and would have done
it but he got the drop on me-"
Q.-You mean he had you arrested ?
Ayes.
Q.-When you came home from Ger
many what, if anything, did you say
about-the DIRTY Dutch?" Q.-Noth-
ing; hadn't much room to talk about
them, for am pretty well mixed up
myself.
Odd you give your father glass
of wine when he came home from
Piedmont glass of wine with poi
son or medicine in it? Al did not,
because I was not in Wheeling. ! was
at Fish creek island when he came
home from Piedmont.
Witness said he never gave his faith
er wine with any mixture in it.
Asked as to whether or not he recol-
lected Rev. Stephens, the witness said
he did, but he never talked to him
about a bond. HE came to Jail and
got down on his knees and told me that
some one had died whom he loved
well, and said my father loved me the
same way. said it didn't look much
like it. He asked me if the trouble
could be settled, and l, said yes, if my
father would withdraw the charge it
would settle it, He then asked me
where my money was, and l said it
was where neither he nor father could
get at it.
In answer to other questions witness
said he had never dreamed that Prov
idence had commissioned him to kill
his father, either while in Europe or
on board ship on his return. He had
never owned revolver since he came
from Germany, and he never owned
or carried two revolvers. He was ask
ed if he did not have a permit to carry
a revolver, and produced such a pa
per, dated June 5, 1897 and signed by
Mayor J. R. Butts. The witness said
tlSlC was oOIuC NllLlH6 Ou Lie UdCh
Of the paper, which had nothing to do
with its contents. The paper was
shown to counsel for defense, and the
writing on the reverse, which was in
pencil. was the subject of some study.
1t was as follows:
'1sk2d Ch192y 81 he c45ld silly 166
S3ght"
This was translated to mean:
asked Charley If he could stay all
night" 1t will be remembered that
what alleged to be cipher figured
in the evidence in the early stages of
the trial.
The witness was then Intercepted
as to the amount of funds he had re-
ceived from his father during his cdu-
cation. He thought the largest amount
in any one year was $415, and that the
amount was very much less than the
$4,000 his father said he had spent on
his son, but did not give a definite
amount
Mr.. Howard conducted the re-cross
examination, but had not made much
progress when Court adjourned. Coun-
sci, however, asked large number of
questions regarding the miniature en-
CINE made by plaintiff when he was in
Germany, and the witness explained
that 1t was to be an improvement on
apparatus in general use by specialists
treating throat and nose diseases.
Usually such machines were operated
by a hand air pump, which kept up
the pressure, but his improvement con-
templated the use of a water motor,
which would do away with the cost of
an extra man. The engine and it's in
tended purpose was explained at con-
siderable detail, in response to a long
series of questions by Mr.. Howard
Soon after this matter was dropped
Court adjourned.