The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-19


of Trinity Mission, Arlington, and was
| chaplain to Bishop Thomas A. Starkey OF
the Newark Protestant Episcopal Diocese
and secretary of the Newark Convention
of that see. He had lived for many years
in Arlington and knew the Barkers inti-
| mately.
do you remember Sunday, February
| 8, last?' asked the Prosecutor.
81 do.''
Did you start to go anywhere that
day?"
II did,
What time did you leave the house?"
Sat five minutes before O'Clock in the
morning by my watch / was going to
the sos train at the station
WAS it about the hour you usually left
the house on Sunday to go to the early
morning service in your church,"
4 usually started for the church on
Sunday mornings at from quarter to
five minutes to 81
(which way did you start from the
house?''
Il started down Beech street in gem
orally southerly direction. I was on the
east side, going toward Midland avenue
What happened after you crossed Mid
land avenue?"
81 do not know that I did cross Mid
land avenue
did something happen to interrupt
your progress?'
Il felt a sharp singing sensation in
my right eye and heard a loud noise.
do not recall what next happened"
Were you looking ahead of you as
you walked?'
L fancy had my head down and paid
no attention to anything in the street I
had travelling bag with my vestments
in it. I cannot tell in which hand I
carried the bag. saw no one. 1 was told
that had been assaulted.
DO you know who assaulted you?''
'I do not
did you speak to any one?"
Il did not speak to any one"
Did you threaten any one or strike
any one?''
Il did not sir. 1 afterward learned 1
had been injured in the head and the
hand.''
Here, at Mr.. Erwin's request, Mr.. Keller
took off his spectacles to show the jury
the place in the head where he was
wounded, explaining as he did so that he
would have to close his eyes, as the light
was so strong. He stood up and with his
finger pointed out the place between the
eye and the ear on the right side of the
Lead where the bullet had entered. Then
he sat down with his spectacles still off
and his eyes still closed.
you were injured in the hand also
were you not?'
81 was, sir.'s
Kindly show the jury where on the
hand you were injured
At this Mr.. Keller held up his wan,
trembling hand with the three fingers
How long was it after you felt the
sting and heard the loud noise before you
heard you had been assaulted?s'
oh, / couldn't tell you that, sir. I
cannot remember the sequence of events
I found myself in a room in the upper
part of my house prepared for. bed Some
think Mr.. Sands was there. I cannot re-
call anybody else"
'Was the doctor there?''
81 have no means of telling who was
there of my own knowledge"
Ibid you know when somebody was
brought into the room for you to recog-
nize?"
"No. I do not know when anybody was
brought in. l have a memory OF some
body walking across the room. I had
wnat the doctors call lucid intervals.
There was Some conversation. do noi
remember it. do not know that under
stood it. My physician was there and
there was the sound of somebody walking
across the floor. I was asked if saw
anybody l said I did not; that I was
blinded"
Ibid you hear anybody ask you if you
knew him?
81 heard a voice. 1t was mans voice.
1t was loud and rough. I had an idea
whose voice it might be; but it sounded
unusual to me-
.sDid you say whose voice it was or
whose voice you had an. idea tnat it
| was?'
ST do not know. 1 said I did not know .
why did you say that?'
"I thought was about to de- he said,
| impressively, 'and did not want to fas-
ten a crime upon somebody 1 could not
see and identify beyond any doubt.
was confined to the house for sixty-six
days"
When it came to Lawyer Marshall Van
Wrinkle to cross examine on behalf of
Barker, the first question was:-
''Why did you walk with your head
! DOWN."
81 fancy had my head down." he said
81 habitually walked that way. I had
been corrected for it,
WHO corrected your
Military men," (Mr. Keller was fol
| some time chaplain of the First New Jer-
sey Regiment of National Guard)
| MAY it not have been that owing tc
your way of walking there was somebody
! on the sidewalk you did not see?''
81 do not know. I did not see anybody. >
In response to questions Mr.. Keller said
he had known of Mr.. Barker for ten years
and often heard his voice.
why did you not identify the person
! by the voice you had an idea you knew
my reasons were twofold. 1t was a
loud rough voice that was unusual; il
seemed unfamiliar. Then / did not wish
to connect anybody with a crime unless
could be morally certain I was right
How did you know that somebody had
assaulted your
From the blood in my throat which al.
most choked me; from my blindness and
my affected hearing / knew something
dreadful had happened to me-"
Did you hear your name spoken in the
room?''