Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-11
TESTIMONY ALL IN
Examination of Him Finished After
 Press Hour Yesterday.

cases now before Judge Thayer and a jury in the criminal side of the su- perior, special term. became known. And then it flashed upon the spec tators that the defense is to be an al- 1bi. which, in the opinion of lawyers, Is the hardest kind of defense to prove. Winnegar was put on the stand to build up the foundation for this alibi, and in the opinion of almost everyone present he was a most ex- cellent witness. During the few hours he was on the stand he never even stumbled in his evidence. He admitted once that he was wrong in one statement, but the admission proved to be merely a confusion of his ideas of court proceedings. That was regarding his sitting between his wife and Mrs Mitchell, as the defense claimB or as the other side claims, between his wife and her father MT Allen. He insisted he had been sit ting in the rear of the room near the dock when he was pointed out by Constable Carmody MT Williams could not understand this because since the trial began he understood that all the accused sat behind their counsel up in front. Then Winnegar must have been in two places at one time; beside his counsel and in the rear next the dock. Winnegar, under examination, strengthened this out, saying that on Tuesday of last week. not as he had supposed, when the trial was on, but while the jurors were being questioned, he sat in the rear between his wife and her faendt Mrs Mitchell. This was the only point in which he corrected His evil dence
 Att press hour yesterday Winnegar was on the stand. He remembered the night of March 8; 1t was the night Policeman Mendelssohn was shot. He did not remember doing anything that day but attending the meeting of the stHdkers in the afternoon. The meet ing lasted till about 6:3O. It was pay day and that was one reason he re- membered the day. He called at the office of the Waterbury Ice corporation after the meeting to get a team to go to Naugatuck and got home about 10 o'clock. There he saw his wife, Mrs Mitchell Mrs Avery and her two sis Eers. He could not say if he saw Clifford Vandennark f1hRt day, Brear- ton or Mcclure, and he did not remem- Der hearing Willis vamdemark ever called 'tBiI" Witness aways called him ssWalI"
 He was then questioned as to his con- duct and actions on certain days, Feb ruary 2S, February 24, for instance, and he could not recall any thing par tfcNlar on those days.
 Since his arrest he had a conversa- tion with Dennis as to his whereabouts on February 26 Dennis told him the date of lnis visit to. his, Denn1s's, house. Witness first asked his wife about it; then Dennis, but Dennis could not tell until he had asked his wife. He also Bpolre o Clifford Vandemark about it in the police staHdon the day of their arrest. He knew it was some time about February 26.
 He denied that Dennis showed him "a memorandum of his viSit or that he said he could prove his whereabouts on that night. While he would not say that February 26 was the only night that he was in the company of Vandemark since the strike, he was certain that since that time he has not been in the company of any of the oth- CT accused.
 He did not wear watch chain that might, but 1he ddd wear his watch. He never failed to get shaved three times a week, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday. since he began to shave Hs has no particular hour for getting shaved on those days, and while he had mo recollection ofbefng shaved on Feb ruary 24 he would swear that he was shaved that day Mir Williams con- tfnued to question him about llts shay ing and Mir OEeill objected on the ground that witness had gone over tbds matter before and MT Williams was wasting valuable time.
 Hesuming witness saAd he was shaved on the afternoon of February 24, after dinner, because that is .his custom That was the only way he could remember he was shaved. He never owned a revolver. He first saw Merma at the city court tTdal and knew Constable Carmody sincedhe served the antunction granted the troaley conn pany. Here MT Williams carried the examination to the testimony regard- ang witness having been pointed out by Constable Carmody. WEtness sadd he GdW NH OdIuuONAy WI1SRCl LO NASA AA0 and Aorrdssette and point toward him. He was reminded tlrat if he had been sitting near his counsel since the case opened he could not have been sitting in the rear of the room. To this he saidthatthe sat in the rear the first day of the case while the jurors were in terrogated, and-that Merna and Morris sette with MT Carmody entered the room and stood by tine door for a while, then they crossed over to the other side and stood near tfle dock, and 1t was then Mr Carmpdy pointed him out to Merna and Morrissette.
 WGtness was now in MT O,Neil1's hands and he said he did not know when Dennis moved from his Pearl street address. and that ,the occasion he mentioned was the onay one on which he helped him pack furniture. He was asked where he was when ar rested on the bench warrant. To this MT Williams objected. MT O'Neill claimed it to show that the man who knew witness best was selected to