Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-02
SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE
70 Be SPRUNG BY Defense.
YESTERDAY DEVOTED TO TEsTI
MONY CONCERNING CROSSFIRE
SHOOTING
AND FLoCKS OF HORSE TRACKS
ANOTHER MOVE MADE IN THE d.
RECTION OF JEFF RAIN
BOW.

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE, O., Nov. 1.-The
defense got in a strong inning to-day,
showing by more witnesses that Cram
blett shot crossfre. They also put on
a number of horseback witnesses.
The defense got after JEFF Rainbow
again to-day. They put on brother
of Quincy Cramblett, and the State
put him through long and searching
examination about guns.
The defense has still some very SEN
sational testimony which will be
sprung when the proper time comes.
Sherman Fulton was the first wit
ness. He told of Cramblett always
shooting right-hand foremost, or cross
fired.
Errett Dallas told of Cramblett
shooting with the butt of the gun to
his left shoulder Wallace Degarmon
said "Cramblett shoots cross-hred.
Charles Irwin, marshal Of Martins
Ferry, told of being at Gosnelis on
the Monday after the murder, and ex-
lamining up the run road for horse
tracks. He saw where a horse had
was soft. and he could not tell from
examination whether the horse was
shod or not After the horse struck
the road he could not follow the
tracks. He examined the tracks
closely, getting down on his knees
and tearing the sod away to examine
| R. A. Eindemuth, of Martins Ferry,
said he also made an examination for
horse tracks. He found both cow and
horse tracks on the strip of ground
near where the horse was hitched. One
| front foot was unshod. The cow
tracks were going up the run. Where
the horse crossed the run the front
feet showed one foot bare and the
other shod.
| j. C. Hoge was at Gosnell's on Tues
/ day after the murder He made an
examination up the run and saw horse
| tracks and COW tracks near where a
horse appeared to have been tied. The
horse tracks showed one shoe OF.
4 Where the horse stood he could not
! tell abou the condition of the feet be-
cause the ground was patted down.
During This Examination,
as during several others, the State
grew excited, and at times both at
! torneys would yell dramatically at
Hoge, but this was stopped by the
Judge, who said, "One at time"
| On cross examination by Attorney
Lewis, Mr.. Hoge said he thought the
tracks on the side of the bank were
the same as the one hitched In the
fence corner, but was not sure. lie
saw where a COW crossed the run going
up about thirty feet above where the
! horse was hitched. Hoge denied TAX
| ing any active part in the case; simply
| taking the interest of any good citi-
zen. Attorney Lewis yelled out: Are
you not the man whom woman got
| s., 500 from in this court" but the
Judge sat down on the query, saying
| he would not permit such examina-
tons.
| William Wilkinson examined the
! horse tracks the day after the MUIR
| der. The front tracks showed plain;
| the rear not so much so. Both front
| feet were shod. The State pulled the
Witness testimony at the former trial
on him as to distances. The tracks
showed four shoes, he said.
Warren King testified to going TO
| GosnelTs the day after the murder and
| to examining the horse tracks, which
| showed four shoes. He did not talk
plain and the judge said: Take your
hand down from your face and talk
| so the farthest juror can hear you.
! His testimony at the former trial was
pulled on the witness at several points.
Chas. King told of being at Cos
| nells the day after the murder and
| the tracks Of the front feet showed
| one shod and one bare foot
/ ID. stanton McMasters
| told of seeing a horse track measured
| on the Sunday after the murder. He
| cut stick TO a measurement made by
/ the coroner Of horse track, and the
| stick was given to VIM. Cheney.
VIM Cheffey told Of measuring the
! horse tracks with a stick given him
by either the coroner or Slant McMas-
| ters The tracks indicated that the
| horse had one shoe on. the right front
| foot, and three off. He followed the
| tracks up and into Rainbow's gate. He
| examined a horse in Rainbows field
| aAd found its feet correspondent to the
! tracks. He was shown by the Bark
| hurst family the hat DR.. Barkhurst
| wore at the time he was shot. He was
/ not allowed TO proceed further until
| the hat was identified.
| Cross-examined by Attorney Lewis,
/, He saw Cramblett riding a horse TO
| Long Run the Sunday after the muir
| der and the left front foot was unshod.
| Cramblett said he lost it the night be-
| fore. He was related to Cramblett.
| The record of his testimony at the for
! mer trial was pulled on him in several
| instances. At the former trial he said
it was the left front foot that was
, shod He said he was confused and
| got mixed in statements at former
/ trials.
1 BY this time the horseback testi-
nony was wonderfully mixed The de-
Tense evidently was trying to show that
1.-THE way Cramblett's horse got to the
fierce side of the run where tracks
were found was in going
After Refractory Cow
lesrly the morning after the murder.
in driving them from Gosneil's to the
field.
This afternoon large 'vootbaH'
lchrysanthemums decorated the judges
bench William Cheffey was on the
island again, and the State played at
length on his divergence in testimony
from what he told at the preliminary
hearing. the grand jury and the former
trial
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