Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 May 1901 — Page 3

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MEN'S, YOUTHS' and CHILDREN'S

4S ..Clothing, Hats and Furnishings..

#A\ While we always sell enormous quantities of spring and summer clothing during this sale we also sell a large number of Winter yiV Overcoats, owing to the tremendous reduction we make in them. %f The warm weather of last winter left upon our hands a large quantity of the best grades of Overcoats, which we will proceed to close out during this sale at nearly half their regular value. Anyone needing an overcoat for next winter cannot afford to miss this sale.

The Best

Overcoats

made nf Meltons,

Ml\ Beavers, Kerseys, 't* Coverts and AstriW1V cans, elegantly C|V madeand trimmed and fully guaranteed. Sold all last winter at 518 and 120-

Beautiful Overcoats made from the most dependable j"A" Ui| cloths, finely lined and trimmed, sold all last winter ll I Mf at $12.00, now wv CIV /a All the Overcoats which were leaders last winter in (t» /\/v /A\ material, style and durability, and sold for $8.00 and Xl IIII klif AV $10.00, now fr

Don't miss seeing the beautiful Spring and Summer Line we are offering during this sale.

We Want Your Trade.

Warner & Peck

One Price Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers.

The Grocery Bill

Is usually the largest item of expense to be considered by the wage earner. You can reduce it a great deal by buying your groceries at my store. Read a few sample prices: Early June peas, per can 8 .05 Stringless Beans, per can 06 Pumpkin, per can .06 Kidney Beans, per can 05 Blueberries, per can 05 Coru, per can 05 Beets, per can .05 2 Tbs. rolled oats 06 Rice, per ft 05 Prunes, per 1b 05 Cornstarch, per lb 06 17 lbs. granulated sugar 1.00 18 lbs. Rldgewood A sugar 1.00

One line of Shirt Waists, just to start them $ .25 latest styles 50

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A nice line of Shirt Waists, latest styles, two styles of collar 1.98 A fine line of white Shirt Waists, latest style, 50c. 98c, $1.49, $1.98, $2.49 and 2.98

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Elegant Grade

Beaver, Meltons, Covetts

in blue, brown,black and Oxford, perfect fitting. Sold last winter at $14 and $16—

Now $10

lbs. Extra sugar lbs. Yellow sugar lbs. White Rose flour

lbs. Northern Diamond flour..

lbs. John's Best flour

lbs. O. K. flour

Geo. W. Scaggs' Cash Grocery.

Bell Phone 45, Home 26. Ill South Washington Street

Shirt Waists

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three box plaits

1,49

1.00 1.00 .48 .95 .60 1.00 .26 .60 1.00 .26 .50 1.00

Other goods proportionately low."

XANDX

Our buyer has been away for seveial days in the leading houses of the east and has bought the Finest Lihe of Shirt Waists and Silk Skirts ever seen in Craw/ a

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JUST FOR YOUR BENEFIT*

We have the Finest Line of Lace Curtains and Window Shades in the city and we are selling them cheaper than you can buy elsewhere. Hundreds of pairs have been sold at our great Special Sale. Come and see us before you buy as we will save you money.

THE GOLDEN RULE

CALLED FOR TRIAL.

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ZACK WILLIAMS

continued. Also said he had shot Parrish, and witness saw Parrish lying in yard. Said one glass was shot out of window. Was shown screen which he said he had made. It had two holes in it. Parrish was lying with his feet at cellar door unconscious, but came to and started to crawl away. Said gun had one empty shell in it when he picked it up. Found one empty shell next morning in kitchen near window. Locked up house and left it. Saw hasp on back door was broken. Was no blood in kitchen but curtain was powder burned.

Cross ex.—Same lock is in use now, but hasp has been replaced. Douglas told him that the men had come to get him and that he had got them. Told Williams he had shot Doyle before witness had seen Doyle.

MARSHAL BROTHERS.

First saw Douglas with Policeman Doyle on his way to the jail as he went up to Douglas' house. Sent Doyle to his brother's house and Parrish to hospital at jail. Examined Douglas' home and saw holes in scueen, window pane and window curtains. Did not examine kitchen door as it was open. Saw Williams lock back and front doors. Went back to house about seven o'clock. Found part of brick in kitchen under table and parts of broken hasp. Saw no scars on back door except small dent on inside of the jamb that could have been made only when door was open. Repeated story told him by Douglas, that they had broken the door in and that he had shot Parrish while he was in the house, and Doyle, whom ho thought was Shular, as he was passing the window.

Cross ex.—Said Douglas told him the door had been broken in and witness said he told him he did not believe him, but went to house afterward and found the door had been broken in as Douglas said.

Re-direct—Was in kitchen with Mr. Williams when he supposed he locked the back door.

MRS. SYLVESTER FAULKNER Was going to Zack Williams' the day of the shooting. Saw Doyle coming over the bridge. He kept saying he was shot and fell but she saw no blood. Met Douglas and asked him if he had shot Doyle. Douglas said Doyle was "fixed" and that there was another man in his backyard that was "fixed," and later saw Parrish.

Cross ex.—Douglas said the men had come to get him and he had got them, Re- direct—Douglas did not seem ex cited.

GEORGE BARCLAY,

Husband of Nancy Barclay, corroborated his wife's evidence as to hearing two shots and seeing smoke. In about a minute saw Doyle running over bridge. Thought Doyle had come around east side of the house.

THE CRAWFORDSVTLLE WEEKLY JOURNAL

JOE M'BROOM.

Talked with Chas. Doyle Jan. 3 when he took his dying statement, at home of Elza Doyle. Doyle talked with difficulty and said he could never get well. Witness told him to be careful about what he said about the shooting.

Defense took witness at this point and after asking him some questions, asked time to look up some authorities. The

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court was adjourned then until Wednesday morning. WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The usual choice collection of loafers and broken down derelicts was on hand Wednesday when court convened ready to swallow any fat morsel falling from the lips of the witnesses.

JOE M'BROOM

again took the stand and the question of the admission of Doyle's dying declaration was taken up, the defense objecting to it on the ground that Doyle merely apprehended death and did not think he was dying. The court admitted the statement, however, the defense taking an exception. Mr. MoBroom then narrated Doyle's statement. Doyle told him that on the afternoon of the shooting Parrish had asked him to go to the east end with him where he "had a woman." Doyle said after arriving at Douglas' home they knocked at several doors, but did net attempt to force an entrance. The first intimation he had of any one being at home was when he heard a shot and saw Parrish fall. He then started to run in a southeasterly direction and when twelve or fourteen feet from the house he was shot. He did not see Douglas at all and had no recollection of going to Conkwright's home.

Cross ex.—Doyle stated that he and Parrish had been drinking before going to Douglas' home.

ELZA DOYLE,

brother of Charles Doyle, is a policeman, and on hearing of the shooting on Deo. 23 started for the scene of the trouble not knowing who had been shot. On approaching William Johnson's home on Wabash avenue witness found his brother Charley lying on the ground. Witness went to him and examined his wound. (The coat the dead man wore was here shown, a hole be ing torn in the back by the shot.). Witness after examining his brother went on to Douglas' house where he found Parrish crawling toward the hill. Par rish was covered with blood and presented a frightful spectacle. Witness took him to a place of safety and then arrested Douglas who stood in the middle of the street. When witness arrested Douglas he covered him with a revolver he had taken from his hip pocket and.'placed in his overcoat pocket. Wi tness asked Douglas if he had done the shooting and he said he had shot Parrish and Bill Shular. He denied knowledge of having shot Charley and said it was accidental. He said he had only fired once and that the shot which he fired at Parrish must have glanced and hit Charley. He asserted that Parrish had knocked in the door and was in the kitchen when shot. Witness undressed Charley at home in the presence of Dr Ensminger and he was unarmed. At the time Charley made his statement to Deputy Prosecutor McBroom he said to the witness that he was dying, He was then very weak, deathly pale, and his voice was hardly above a whisper. Charley told McBroom he was dying and could not get well. The witness then narrated Charley's statement as made to McBroom.

Cross ex.—Witness is not clear as to how many steps Charley said he had taken before being shot. The defense here presented a statement made by Charley Doyle several days before his dying statement. This was not admitted in evidence but the defense managed to get before the jury the fact that a prior statement had been made.

Charley weighed about 180 pounds and was 5 feet 10 inches tall, and 26 years old. Witness changed his revolver from one pocket to the other just as he started to arrest Douglas. Douglas offered no resistance but witness put handcuffs on him. Witness employed counsel to assist in the prosecution. When witness reached home after the shooting, he found his little boy, 2 years and 5 months old, had taken a revolver from the dresser. Witness took it from him and pocketed it.

PRANK PARISH

Was led to the stand by Mr. McBroom and seated with a good deal of trouble, being stone blind. Witness testified that he went to the Douglas home with Doyle After knocking at the front and east door Doyle went to Conkwright's place just east where he inquired for Douglas' home. Then went back to the rear of the Douglas house. Was passing the window when some one called, "Oh, Frank." Witness turned half around and felt a tremendous blow in the face, as though some one had struck him in the mouth with a rock. Instantly after it heard a crash and then fell unconscious. Witness was not in Douglas' house that day, did not kick in a door, or even knock on the back door. Doyle did not either. Witness was some distance from the rear door when shot.

Cross ex.—Just before leaving for Douglas' place witness and Doyle ate lunch in the Klondyke restaurant. Witness had been drinking beer with Doyle, but was not "out of the way drunk." Witness knew what he was doing although tolerbly drunk. Doyle was likewise. Did not see any one as they crossed the bridge. Doyle did not kick on Douglas' front door or east door. Witness stood in Douglas' yard while Doyle went to Conkwright's. Witness had no recollection of having a rock tied up in a handkerchief that afternoon. Witness had started to leave Douglas' place when shot, intend­

ing to go by a foot path which runs from the back door to the bridge. It was as near by that route as by the front way. Witness did not intend to force his way into the Douglas house when he went there, going merely for the purpose of seeing Phronie. Witness had frequently been a visitor at Douglas' place and was arrested there once when drunk for disturbance. At that time witness broke the kitchen stove but was drunk and does not remember all that occurred. Was not nearly so drunk on the Sunday of the shooting. After being arrested at Douglas' home, witness did not, to the best of his remembrance, threaten to kill or whip Joe Douglas. Did not make this threat to Fount Wray, according to his recollection. Witness visitediB Douglas' home the day after he was arrested because of the trouble there, but Douglas was gone. Witness before) this aocident was a horseshoer and weighed 190 pounds. Witness lived in Richmond before coming here and was arrested there twice for assault and battery, for drunkenness, for rioting, for carrying concealed weapons, and for robbery. Witness did not remember having boasted to Fount Wray of his police court record in Richmond. After the first fight at Douglas' place witnoss went to Elwood and] returned in October and had trouble with Douglas at his home on Hallowe'en. Witness was very drunk and Charley Britton, Ben Zachary, Rose Thurmany, Vera Timmons, Bill Walters and the Douglases were there. Witness had a very poor recollection of what occurred but remembered being hit in the nose with a stone. It was shown to the jury however, by questions that Parrish had made a rough house at Douglas' place, had chased Douglas£about the house, and was finally knocked down and thrown out. Witness never told

Ben Zachary that he-intended to shoot both him and Douglas. Don't remember visiting Douglas' house Nov. 1. Don't remember seeing Harvey Thompson in Steve Allen's saloon^ the night before the shooting,ior of saying to him that he intended to got even with Douglas. Don't remember telling the same thing to another blacksmith week before. Don't know Jake Hendricks, J. E. Murray or Virgil Scott and don't remember telling them that he intended to get even with Douglas After Hallowe'en .witness passed the Douglas place onej Sunday with Fred Ritter but did not brandish a revolver in crossing the bridge. Witness had not seen Douglas from £the2-Hallowe'en to the time of the shooting. Did not go there to see Douglas.

Don't remember telling Arthur Til ney at the jail the night «after the shooting that they iwent ito Douglas place for trouble and found it. Did not remark that they got no more than they deserved. Witness never ha^ any trouble with Douglas except at Douglas' home. Witness is 33 years of age and was born in Wayne -county.

Re direct—Witness never struck Joe Douglas at any time. After the fuss with Douglas in April witness visited frequently at Douglas' house and was very friendly with him.EJoe would let him in at any hour of the Gnight and Phronie would entertain]] him. Vera Timmons was also an] "entertainer." Never had any cross words»with Douglas except on the occasions of-lthe two fights. Went there the day of the shooting on the invitation of Phronie, extended a few days before. Witness was first taken to the] Douglas home by Jack Woods. Witness after his introduction frequently called iat Douglas' home and Joe would very obligingly go away. Witness boarded there for two months.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Frank Parrish—He and Mrs. Douglas went to Indianapolis together, Douglas being at the cab when they left. They stayed there several days. Douglas was on good terms with ^witness at this time. Was intimate with Mrs. Douglas before he went there to board. Rosa Hollingsworth stayed at Douglas' and was Jack Woods' girl. Joe generally went up town and left the four together. Mrs. Douglas visited witness in Richmond. Dick Garvey and Bill Shular brought some beer up one afternoon while witness was there, and Douglas came in but went down town soon afterward. Ben Zachary, Charley Britton, Andrew Walter, Rosa Hollingsworth and Vera Timmons frequently visited the Douglas home. Also a man named Sternen.

GEORGE BARCLAY

recalled. Was at Douglas' house shortly after the shooting and through the house several times. Saw John Brothers and Zack Williams in the house and stayed there after they left and tried to get in the back door but could not push it open.

Cross ex.—Pushed just a little and turned knob. It was daylight yet when he left.

JACK O'NEAL.

Douglas' gun was presented and identified as the weapon that Douglas shot Doyle with. There was considerable dodging as the gun was handed around for examination. Found a rock wrapped in a handkerchief when he searched Parrish's pockets at the jail.

ZACK WILLIAMS

was recalled and identified the gun. Elza Doyle identified the gun and stated he had tested shooting qualities

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of gun since the shooting of his brother and had preserved the targets shot at. Had. used No. 6 shot and made test about ten days ago at W. T. Whittington's suggestion. His brother and Austin Bruner were with him at the time. Defense objected to introduction of targets and court sustained the objection. Chas. Doyle's coat was shown him and he stated that the hole was made in it by a gun about eighteen or twenty feet distant. Defense objected to questions about this point on tho grounds that witness had not shown himself to be an expert. Overruled. Felt wads would probably carry from twenty to thirty feet according to charge of powder.

Cross ex.—Depends upon amount of powder and shot used and how loaded, but did not know how shells were loaded that Douglas shot.

Re-direct—Did not know whether or not Douglas had shells in his pocket when arrested as he did not search him. Thought Douglas must have shot his brother at a distance of 20 or 25 feet.

HARRY G. EVANS.

Lives in Crawfordsville. Was in Douglas' house shortly after shooting. Identified gun. Opened it on afternoon of shooting and took an empty shell out of the right barrel. Saw no other shells about there. No shell in left barrel.

Cross ex.—Found gun in southwest corner of sitting rocm sitting in the corner. _____

At Low Figures.

The commissioners lart Tuesday let the contracts for the advertised bridges, getting all of them at very low figures. The contracts were awarded as follows:

Bellfontaine bridge company—The 150 foot span at the old Hills factory for $2,175.

The Indiana bridge company—The 110 foot span over Raccoon for $1,475. The Canton bridge company—The two 80 foot spans at the Stout and Dice fords for $869 each.

The Attica bridge company—The two 50 foot spans at the Nate Turnipseed and the Rattlesnake fords for $807 each.

The Anderson bridge company—The two 40 foot spans at the big1 slough for $535 each.

Several bridge companies that had bids in did not get anything, and their agents declare that every bridge constructed will be at a loss to tho contractor.

Dedicatory Service.

The following is the programme of the dedication service of the Baptist church at Brown's Valley, Sunday, May 12, 1901: 9:-l5 a. m.— Organ voluntary.

Song by congregation. Invocation. Song. Welcome address. Scripture reading. Prayer. Song. Sermon Rev. Ogle, Indianapolis Song. Offering. Song. Adjournment tor dinner.

2:00 p. m,—Opening service. Sermon. Brief history of church.

Adjournment.

7:30 p. m.—Evening servioe. Sermon Rev. Oglo Everybody cordially invited. Dinner served on the-grounds.

D. P. LISTON, Pastor.

More Legal Fight.

Indianapolis Journal: Wesley Grantham yesterdayebrought suit against the Central trust company ot New York and the American surety company for damages on an injunction bond. The suit is the outgrowth of one of the numerous cases in which the Chicago & Southeastern railway has been involved. Several farmers along the road brought suit for injunction to prevent the road from crossing their farms, and the [Central trust company and the American surety company went on the injunction (bond. The suit is to recover court and attorneys' fees.

SUNDAY I excursion to Indianapolis May 12th, via. the Big Four.

The iood Ones are Going Oat. The noted five-year-old Maude Allen, by Que Allen, bred and owned by Newt Van Cleave, near Brown's Valley, was sold to Capt. Dawson, of Frankfort, last week.

GEO. C. HICKCOCK, Curtiss, Wis., says: "Foley's Kidney cure has been tested and found to be all you claim for it. I have given it to my father and it is the only thing that ever helped him."

ANOTHER of the popular Sunday excursions via. the popular route next Sunday. Special train leaves Crawfordsville at 9:10 a. m., returning leaves Indianapolis at 7:30 p. m. Only 75 cents round trip. W. J. FLOOD, Agent.

How'i ThU?

We offer one hundred dollars reward for anv case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.

P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.

We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, aud believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST &TBTJAX,

Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.O.

WALDINO, KINNAN & MABVTN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 76o per bottle. Sold by all druggists.

Hall's Family Pills are the best. Chicago Excursion. On Sunday May 12 the Monon will run an excursion to Chicago and return rate of $1.00 for the round trip. Special excursion .train will leave Crawfordsville at 7 a. in. Returning will leave Chicago Sunday night, May 12 at 11:30 p. m. C. H. WASSON, Agt.