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mtTHE THREATJ9ttagoo\his,od;an:ial * ted long.ALLEGEDMADETO HAVE BEEN BY CIUMB-LETTbid fonnd iticWof i« • btaodeW* to U» from of OosneU’e ablrt wbm to wmexhibiting it to the grand jury. the otner bullets be had gotten at Uoinell • noosa. He also produced a piece of broken glass which he had fonnd embedded in the kitchen wall opposite the window through which the snot is said to have been tired. The Coroner esid the flattened ballets had been weighed at Ridgley’s drug store. and theymiConsnit c your orde hoaeeia th quality of iWill Be Attacked By torneys 'For lliefense.IkeDe-AthieonneajonianIOU-oryim-3ns.IcoPAUTS OF THE OLO AllMY MUSKET INTRODUCED IIY THE PROSECUTION.Wit Desses Testify to Various Stories Told to Them Hy the Defendant.instateandcel-om-Mc-andinc.wo-tablinglist.ihedews-coesidwillian-lakejum-o be 8.withCon-The preeence in the Court room of a number of witnesses from Bolnunt county, summoned by the defer.se in the Cramblett trial has given xise to erabie spacnlatioo.From residents of Belmont- county comes the information ihat these witnesses are here to impeach whatever testimony Maggie Beat may *,ive regarding a threat uttered ly Quincy UrauibleltIt ia learned that Maggto Uiet’d real name is Maggie B-yant, and that she was an inmate or the Belmont County Children's Home at Otaey. also that she had been placed in teveral families, but had bseu repeatedly returned to the homo, and that her reputation for truth and veracity is not of the best. Sapor intended Branson and Matron Keys, of the homo, are among the witnesses eum-cD'.ned.It ia also reported that -Maggie was living with a family at Botbcsda and was turned out by them and ihat then Mr. Beat took the girl into his homo. There are many rather sensational de-taila in the reports which may or may not be brought out by the defeneo. The proeecution has noi yet finished the examination of its witne'Ses.weighed 47,42^. 4*^ ana 39tf »«»• respectively. AJoatuioing the uoroDer told of finding the powder emoke on the window saab, and the piece of felt which smelled of powder outtide the window. Uo then described the tracks or foot prints in the garden and said hey appeared to have been made by a boot or eboe with a round mo. The Coroner also said he found a pen holder near the fence on the line of foot prints, lie produced the pen holder, but said the end of the stock and the point had 6iuce been broken. Tne point, he said, bad been broken off by catching in the lining of his coat. Ho had then put the holder in the cabhdrawer at his butcher shop, but bis si'is had taken it out and broken it trying to fasten a door. He wao willing however to swear that the penholder in ho hand was tbo same one he had foenn in the garden and the Prosecutor offered it in endence. The defense objected, saying it was mutilated and had been kicking about the witnessed shop. The court refased to admit it as evidence. Thu Coroner told of viewing the tractswhere the horse is said to have been'PA Good Br Standard ! California California Californiafor.....2s\. Fancy pound.. Cal. Extra Seeded Ra Layer Rail Fancy Eve Fancy Evt Premium I Van Camp2 lb. Toma3 lb. Toma Cal. Poact Cal. Slicelt;por can. Cream oi Red Salmt Ginger Sn Square Oy Lunch ant Blueing, 1 Large LeiATUWe Leaipven co atwho ago. oper-h re-litiony re-; herrnmgpears.One 3m an,a the is In-it desub-ruotlyWEDNKSHAT AFTERNOON Mr. Cook announced that ho intended to inquire of Cora Gosoell. concerning another matter, and asked if the defense wanted her to retire from tho conrl room. She was allowed to remain David Gutshali was recalled, and on cross examination repeated what ha had said on hia direct ev aminatior.Mrs. Nan'.y Gntaball, was next called, she told the same story as her husband David Gutshali, and said her attention was first attracted to the screams by the barking of their dog When they reaohed the they saw Jeff Rainbow's to the fenc by the bam. said sheSPECFOIcommenci5 AliGosnell house horse bitched Tho witness aaw Cramblett at the Goenell7cwill) willnoved build-court ck of lar to years, ertise-offer-1 reji-ime of Sixth gad 70 ropsy.Mrs.JohnJ®rgu5troudmem-Boyer Dr. A. ueday noe ofhouse the night of the murdor and that although others askod questions he did not. bhe heard Cora say twice, oh Quince, if you had been hero thin wonld not have happened. Mrs. Gutshali aleo etated that the men and' women at the Goanell house that night were afraid to go out to get coal and water. Qumcy was Hied if he was afraid and ho said no and went oat after coal. etc.On cross examination witnoss said Jeff Rainbow also went out aad summoned the neighbors.Ella Grimm, who went with Mr. and Mrs. Gutshali to the Go9oel! home, told the same story they did and said that ou Sunday evening sho was at the Goanell hoase for enpper and said to Qulucoy. Somebody must nave had an awfal spite against Mr. Gosnell to shoot him. Cramblett replied, “It's like the oid saying—it tako9 ail kinds of people to make a world. On cross-examination the witness oaid Uramblettt arrived at the Gcenell honso between one and two o’clock on the night of tho murder, that Cora first met him at the door. The scene in the kitchen was a sorrowful one, and awed those present. The witness also etated that Qaincey was a kind of a backward boy.J. II. Andrews, a representative of the Hkrvld Star, was next call'd and identified a number of ph^tr graphs of the Gosoell promises, which be bud takenJohn Fisher, ox Coroner, was called and produced the olothing worn by James Gosnoll when he was murdered.hitched. Uo said be measured the hoof prmts on a lead pencil and then measured the hcof prints of Crambiett's horse with the same pencil. The Prosecntor asked if the measurements were the name but the dofonso objected and the court asked if the witness had the pencil. The Coroner replied that ho had lost it. He told of visiting the Cramblett house v/hen Sheriff Porter searched it for Are arms and said he saw a bottle of shot sitting on tho mantle of a room on the first floor. On cross examination tho witness said that at 8 o'clock on the morning after the murder, when he arrived at the scene, there were at least 20 horses hitched in front of the Goenell houso but cone of them near where he afterwards saw the hoof prints. He alao illustrated ths position of tho foot priDts opposite the window through which the shot was fired.bheriff Harry Porter, the nert witnoss, examined the map of Perrio ran and pointed out the 6trip of sodded ground along tho road where ho had discovert d that a horse had been hitched in a fence corner. He atao showed a here he had traced the tracks until they crossed the run. He was certain that tho tracks showed the horse had only three shoes, the left front foot was unshod and had a peculiar broak in the inside of the hoof, ar-d also one cork on the right bind shoe was much more worn than the other cork. The tracked leading up the run were much farther apart and deeper thau those loading down tho run. Shortly after examining tho traaka on Mon day the Shonff said he went to tho Goe nell house to call Cramb.ott out. Ho j found him eitling at the head of the i corpee, crying. WheD he came out the Powde Sheriff aBbed him if he had any objection to hi6 soarchiog his father's honse.He threw his arras upon my shoulder and began to cry. Then he said he did not own the house; that anything he had we could search, but he could not give permission to search hia father's honse. In answer to questions Sheriff* Porter said he then searched Jell Rainbow’s house and as he came out on the road Qumeey came along riding a dark iron gray horse. The party then went to I’ramb-lett's and ou the road tho Sheriff said he noticed that the shoe was off the left front foot of Crambiett's horse. He had examined the horp6'a hoofa before that, in Gosoell’s stable, and saw that there was a piece broken out or tho inside of the left front noof and that the outside cork oo the right hind shoe was ranch more worn thas the inside cork. I see your horse haa a shoe off said the Sheriff aud Cramblett repliod that be tad lost it yesterday going to Lone Run. At Crambiett's home tho Sheriff said he found a revolver on tho mantle In Qutncey'e bed room and in a room down stairs John Cramblett, the father of the aefoudaut, showed him a nfle, and told him those were the only tire arms that had beau there for a year.Quiocey also said that, there were no other gnns about the place. The Sberifl then prodnced nine exhibits Those marked Q. II Jc S. were a guard over a gun trigger, a piece of sheet iron with eiubt copper tacks in it and a guard plate. These he ssid he had found Jan-16.at 10 p m.. hidden in a woods on PinoyTho Big; bargains yon want for their I lolly—Fane 1 Oc eac Toot for 25c Han and Sa IIoll Shoe I Fair Lar‘ eaclMedSha’ Larj extra £Lad ed slig Gollt;half d Ola.' TooCECcor1oiFork, near Sutherland’s mill, aboutj miles north-west of the Cramblett rei-As the blood stained garments were hold j idence. The sheet iron was under np before the juty, Mrs. Gosnell and her i pmcanf hark ou a fallen tree and the two daughters broke down, sobbed and (guard a^d plate were under the tree wept. Tho ex-Coroner also produced - ‘four bullets, oua of which he said ho i Continued on .th page.}
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Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 05, 1900
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