Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-30
THE Day DEVOTED TO
HORSE TRACK TALK IN
THE CRAABLETT CASE.
CRAMBLETT.s HORSE WAS MINUS A
SHOE FROM HIS LEFT FRONT
FOOT.
MAY PROVE AN IMPORTANT
LINK IN THE EVIDENCE.
TRACKS OF AHoRsE. LACKING ONE
SHOE, FOUND ABOUT COS
NELE'S HOUSE.
GUN WITH WELDED HAMMER.
CRAMBLETT'S BEHAVIOR AT Cos.
sNELL's. THE NIGHT OF THE
MURDER DESCRIBED.
Special to the Register.


| STEUBENVILLE O., October CO.
The examination of witnesses is pro-
ceeding tediously, there being very few
sensational periods. The attendance OF
ladies is growing larger daily. Where
witnesses do not recollect matters as
plainly as at the preliminary hearing,
the record is pulled on them, to their
consolidation some cases. 1t has
been day of horse track" testimony.
Probably hundred ladies stood up
this afternoon and they were severe
In their criticism of the arrangement
of the court room, few chairs being
provided. They are of the opinion
more gallantry should be shown.
David Gotschall was on again this
morning. 1t was his son William that
married Gosnell's Oldest daughter that
caused the racket" that was talked OF
by Cora Gosnell to Cramblett in object
ing to marrying.
There had been considerable spar
ring between the attorneys and at
| tempting TO go over the same questions
again and again. so Judge Hollings-
worth got in word of caution that he
did not want to enforce the rule but
| there had been too much disposition
on the part of attorneys
To Get in the Last Word.
and there was too much zig-zag and
drawing out in examination of wit
nesses.
| Mrs. David Gatschall said when
/ MON n Lot To hi
| said: "0h, Ounce, why did not you
come down tonight and this would not
| have happened?" He did not reply
| then, but later, in answer TO the same,
he said: Il did not get home in time"
| Cora asked about his sore hand and
his sisters sick children. She related
| of Cora asking those who came early
| to go for Cramblett. Mrs. Gotschall
| said the men were afraid to go out
| that night unless two or three were
| together but Ounce, when she asked
| him, said he was not afraid to go out
! alone. She said she was not watching
and listening to what Cramblett and
| the girls said. as she never expected
! to have to tell it.
j. II. Andrews exhibited camera
views he took of the Gosnell home
and premises. The photographs were
| excluded by the Judge, because they
raised questions which approached the
| danger line of doubt.
| Ella Grimm covered much the same
! ground as Mrs. Gotschall. At supper
| the next evening she said Some one
| must have had an awful spite against
| Gosnell to have killed him" and Cram
blett said: ut takes all kinds of people
a make a world She did not hear
| JEFF Rainbow calling to the women
| from the road: Keep quiet; yelling
| will not make it any better" She saw
nothing in Cramblett's conduct 10 ex-
| cute suspicion.
! Crambett is a member Of the NJ. r.
| church, and members OF that church
| take great interest in the outcome of
| the trial and attend in large numbers.
Each day seated inside the railing can
be seen the wife of Presiding Elder o.
| w Holmes
| Ex-Coroner John Fisher told OF Wis
| iting the Gosnel home the morning
after the murder. and of what evidences
Of the murder he found. He told OF
securing four OF the bullets that passed
| through Gosnell's body and OF having
| them weighed and compared with
! perfect bullet found at Cramblett's,
| the perfect one being but few grains
I heavier He told Of the tracks OF the
| assassin In the garden conrsing toward
| the sitting room window. then to the
| middle Of the garden. then 10 the kltch-
en- window, where the shot was fred.
! He told Of tinalng tracks Of a horse
| that was hitched along the fence above
the Gosnell home He compared them
/ with tracks made by Cramblett's horse
Aud Found No Difference
He produced penhoder found In the
| garden, along the line OF the foot
| prints. He found no firearms at tia
/ Cramblett home, but he saw a bottle
| OF shot on the mantel. He told OF the
| tracks showing one shoe missing and
| Of Cramblett's horse being shy OF a
shoe.
/ Erskine. for the defense, drew out OF
| the witness that the assassin in stand
! ing TO shoot. stood with his left foot
/ forward, showing that he shot right
/ handed. Where the horse stood by the
| fence be could not get an impression OF
| the horse prints. because the ground
was beaten down.
He told Of nnding piece Of felt be-
| tween the garden fence and kitchen
window. and il smelt OF burnt powder.
| The hind feet tracks he admitted were
| the only ones he could get a distinct
| impression Of.
Sheriff Porter told OF exam
ming horses tracks along the
bank near where the horse
was tied, and they showed the
left front foot unshod and a piece was
| broken out Of the inside Of this hoof,
and this compared with the feet OF
| Cramblett's horse which he examined.
| While az GosnelI's, he asked Cramblett
| II he had any objection TO the examin-
alton OF the Cramblett premises, ana
Cramblett said he had not, as far as he
| was concerned but the home was his
fathers and he could not speak for
him. While riding TO Cramblett's, Por-
ter. noticing that Cramblett's horse
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