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OGDENSBT7EG. AUGUST 11, 189S.Thk Park Nine defeated the Hospital Nine at the Fair Ground yesterday afternoon by a scoreof 31 to 8.Thb-Empire State with an excursion .party of over eight hundred persona, with the order known ou fmm Vflmflhnw fink and Wad.DS, BBOWH'S INQUEST.THB JURY RBTUKN3 Att OPENVERDICT,THE IlY QUEST LASTS ALL DAY,A Large imonnt of Teilimtnr Taken at tke Parnihouu of BIr. Webster.Dr. S. E. Brown, coroner; Attorneys George R, Mai by and N. M. Glaflin and Miss May I. Moreland, stenographer, weDt to South Hammond, yesterday forenoon, to finish the inquest on the body of John Sweeney. The proceedings took place in the farmhouse of Mr. Webster, brother of Justice Webster, near the scene of the tragedy, and lasted nearly all day.Frank Daly, the first witness sworn, lived in Albany county, and oame to South Hammond March 18th. The day that Ssreeney was killed he saw him about 5 a. m. in the_blackamith shop, and again at 11 o’clock, but bad no talk with him, and again at 6 o’clock. He was then dead.- He did not ihink he had been drinking at any of the times he saw him. He saw Mrs. Nicoletti in quarry after the shooting. Mr, Sawtell asked her if there had been any trouble and she said; A little.” He never beard that Sweeney was a quarrelsome map, and never saw him drank, but heard of some trouble he had had with an Italian, He ordered an Italian to do some work, and, after he went away, the Italian tried to break a wheelbarrow, and Sweeney “chuckled” him. He had heard of Mrs. Nicoletti in connection-.with the Talcville riots. The erosj-examinatroa brought ont nothing new,James Clyde was sworn and said that he Sever heard that Sweeney was quarrelsome. The remainder of his testimony was practically the. same as be gave before Justice Webster which wa's published‘in this paper Thursday. He had heard that intoxicating liquor oould be procured at Nicoietti’a and that the Italians at Niooletti’s treated visitors to beer. He had heard that Sweeney obtained liquor at ‘the depot. He algo heard that Mrs. Nicoletti had' trouble in Gouver-neur and the polio© were after her, but bad been unable to get her.Dr. J. B Brooker,..of Hammond, swore to making an examination of the body of the deceased and described the wound.Sylvester Nicoletti, husband of the woman tinder arrest, swore that he saw Sweeney at blS* house once, the day he was killed, but never saw him there before. Some man came to him and told him that his wife wanted him; that Sweeney was making trouble for her. He went to the house and Sweeney was lying on theJLoor asleep. Ho told his wife io look after her business; that she. had too much work to do. She said to take him away 5 that she'was afraid. He told her to watcb* her store to see that no one came in and took anything. He tried to get Sweeney out, but he was too heavy. He then went back to the quarry. His little boy oame and told him that that drunken man bad touched his mother. O'Brian came to him and told him that his wife wanted him right away at the shanty. When he got to the Bbanty be saw Mrs. Sebermerhorn. She said: “Your wife has a right to kill Sweeney because he was making trouble for her.” She also told him that his wife had got scared and was going to the justiceJoseph O’Brian swore that Sweeny had a quarrel with an Italian, the same as was sworn to by Clyde. He returned to the ahaoty with Nicoletti after the shooting, - He had had beer at Nico-ielti’s shanty but did not pay for it He heard _Bweeney say that ho had had beer there and eaw him drink half a bottle of beer there one nigbt. He also saw another man get beer there. He had heard Mrs. Nicoletti spoken of as having been connected with some riot. He had seen Sv/eeney a little the worse from liquor twice, both times when he had come back from Ogdensburg Sweeney weighed 185 and was S3 years of age.Mrs Sohermerhorn’s testimony was taken and was exactly the same as given before Justice Webster.Angeles Nicoletti denied a rumor about Mrs. Nicoletti ordering him out of. 'the house with a pistol and that be said ebe carried a pistol all the time.Jasper Day swore that he had heard the men complain of Sweeney. Some men had left on account of Sweeney, he was so quarrelsome, He had had beer at Niceletti’s and had been there with Sweeney. He had aleo taken beer away from there. Sweeney took a drink of whiskey given him by Robert Olink, a hotel keeper at •Redwood, at the blacksmith shop, in forenoon-Nicoletti sent four bottles ol beer on one occasion to the blacksmith shop. He heard, that Sweeney got whiskey that same day at the depot from Barney Arnold, who had a quart. He heard also that Sweeney was lying on a brush heap paralysed.Exra Ferguson swore that he and Sweeney drank almost a pint of whiskey that forenoon. He thought that any able-bodied man ought' to be able to drink a half pint of whiskey, at any time, without hurting him any, and he only wished he had been at the depot, where they had the quart. He had drunk beer at Nieoletti’B.Therms Cummings swore that he bad beard Mrs. Nicoletti threaten to stick a batcher knife into her husband, one day, for Interfering with her, when she was going to punish her child.The jury, which consisted of W. B. Wilson* Romayne Kloek, 8. 8. Wright, George, Gibson, A. H. Rogers, James Miller, A. Niohol, S. H, Lionel!,' E. 0. Whittaker and G. 9. Phillips, brought la an open verdiot, which in substance was that John Sweeney came to bis deajh by a bnliet wound in the head shot by a revolver in the hands of Anna Nicoletti.At the arraignment of Anna Nicoletti before Justice Haok at 9 o’clock Wednesday night, the case was adjourned until 2:80 o’clock the following afternoon, with the understanding that the attorneys could telegraph andagain adjourn if they oould not be present. This was done, and the case adjourned until 10 o’clock, this morning, when it was again adjourned until noon.
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Ogdensburg Journal
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Fri, Aug 11, 1893
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