Gambar halaman
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]

Cross-examined. Mine was an old dwelling altered into a bar room-the lower portion; Hanlon was in from quarter after seven to a quarter after eight o'clock; knew the time because I ran out of beer at nine o'clock; Hanlon had five or six drinks during that time; he had on his working clothes; did not see him again after leaving my house that evening; he was in the habit of visiting my house, but not daily; I think he was there when the report came around, the day the child was found; do not remember Alderman Fields being in my house that Sunday evening; don't remember Mr. Strawhouer being in there; did not remain in the bar room all the evening after Hanlon went out.

Kate Hanlon. Am going on eighteen years of age; am a sister of John Hanlon; my father and mother are alive; in September, 1868, they resided 2055 North Fifth street; my father, mother, brother John and his wife, my sister, and a smaller brother, and myself lived in the

house; Mrs. Steinmyer is my sister who lived in the house; on the first floor there is a barber shop fronting on Fifth street; back of it there was a small kitchen; there was nothing back of it; outside was the yard; up stairs there was a front room facing on Fifth street; then there was a back room in the second story; in the third story there was a front room on Fifth street, then there was a back room, and that was all; there were two rooms in the third story; there is a cellar to the house; it had a gravel floor; the entrance to it was from the back kitchen; the front room was used for a barber shop; my brother John carried on the business; he was married at the time; he occupied the back second story room; he occupied it for a sleeping apartment; his wife also occupied the same room; Mrs. Steinmyer, my sister, occupied the front second story room; the front third story my father and mother and little brother occupied; the other room I slept in; the back room in the third story; remember the Sunday evening on which this little child was lost; I think there were thirteen in the house that Sunday evening leaving my brother out; Ellen Quinn, Kate Quinn, Johnny Quinn, Barney Quinn, Annie Quinn, Owen Hanlon, John Hanlon, my father; Bridget Hanlon, my mother; Annie Hanlon, John's wife; Mrs. Steinmyer, Steinmyer, Jennie Steinmyer and myself; there were two babies, Jennie Steinmyer and Johnny Quinn; they were both babies; during that afternoon and evening Mrs. Quinn, Ellen Quinn, Kate Quinn, Barney Quinn, and Johnny Quinn came there; they

on

were there that night; my sister, Mrs. Kelley, and her boy came there to visit; her first name is Mary; she did not remain there all night; was sitting on my steps the early part of the evening; the steps of my house; my brother, John Hanlon, passed me and went over into Fischer's lager beer saloon; that is on the corner of Fifth and Diamond; it was kept by the witness last upon the stand; can't say how he was dressed; he had no coat or hat on; he returned that evening; saw him return; saw him standing by his bar window from where I was sitting; saw him come across from Fischer's; he passed me on the steps and I went into his shop; that is all I saw of him; when he passed me going into his shop he had no coat or hat on; don't remember the color of his pantaloons; it was a good while after dark; the next I saw of him was the next morning at the breakfast table; he breakfasted with me; his wife, my mother, and my little brother, Mrs. Quinn, and Ellen Quinn breakfasted with him.

My brother John passed me while I was sitting on the step, into the house; he passed me going out in the early part of the evening; he passed me going in, can't say what time; coming from Fischer's when he passed me; he had no coat on; when he came to the breakfast table next morning he was in his shirt sleeves, he had on light pants; his shirt was not soiled or bloody; think I saw him that evening; when I went to bed I do not remember seeing John; next saw him on Tuesday morning; I saw him when I was going up to see Mary Mohrman,

when she was found; my father Iwas in the house on Sunday afternoon, lying down on the settee; retired at nearly eleven o'clock on Sunday night; was out in the yard on Monday morning; was in the water closet; saw no blood there; I saw none in the yard; could not say what time I went into the yard on Monday morning; it was before breakfast; the cellar was not used for anything but a little bit of kindling wood; after John went in Mrs. Kelley and her little boy and my mother and Mary Quinn passed out while I was sitting on the steps; it was about eleven o'clock or a little before when I went to bed that night; can't remember where I slept; there were so many in the house; did not hear any noise in the house from the time I went to bed until I got up.

Cross-eramined. My mother, Mrs. Kelley, and the little boy went out first; Mrs. Quinn did not go with them; I can't say where they went; they went up to Diamond street; my mother was gone ten minutes; when she came back, she came back alone; Mrs. Kelley and the boy did not come back; Mary Quinn did not go out with them; she went out after my mother returned; I could not say how soon after; my mother went out about threequarters of an hour after my brother went into the house; Mary Quinn did not return; was sitting on the steps when my brother went into the house; there was nobody in the barber shop when I went to bed; when I got up the next morning the barber shop was open; could not say what time we had breakfast that morning-the usual time;

that was from six to half past
six; my mother generally opened
the barber shop and swept it
out, and then called John if any-
body came in; after my mother
passed me, John Hanlon's wife
was the second one; she went in;
did not see any blood marks up-
on my brother's clothing; saw
my brother John on
evening in the barber shop; it
Monday
was before supper time; I did

323

[blocks in formation]

November 8.

The excitement was as manifest as before, and the Court found it necessary to call upon the Mayor for a detail of policemen to keep the entrance open.

Mary Quinn. Am eighteen years old, past; recollect night that Mary Mohrman was the missed; was at Hanlon's that evening; got there between six and seven in the evening; stayed by the door till dusk, and then went into the barber shop; picked up a weekly paper and sat and read it; after I sat there some time, John and wife and his mother passed John's through; his wife asked for a lamp, and I heard them go upstairs; I heard the footsteps; a good while after that I went into the yard; did not see John Hanlon that night after he passed me coming in. Cross-examined. cousin to John Hanlon; was not Am first

upstairs that evening;

her boy, and John's mother went out; remember these occurrences because I made an engagement to go out with my cousin, Kate Hanlon; before I went home I heard the child was lost; there were bells in the street that even

ing; have not heard them on any other Sunday night; there was great excitement, that is the way ber on that evening I was to go I remember, because I rememto a young lady's house; that is the reason I remember so particularly; when I heard that John was suspected of it they asked me if I remembered that evening and I said I did; I had no talk with John of it; it was a long time after John had been arrested; they asked me what I no one knew about it, and I told them what I told you; told his mother, and when the lawyers asked me told them; saw no other persons that evening except John, his wife, his mother, and Kate; I think when I went through the kitchen I saw his father lying on the settee; did not speak to his father.

the

was in the barber shop with me; John's wife did not come in until she came in with him and his mother; she went out to kitchen; was reading the ChimNey Corner; was in the yard; was in the water closet; can't tell the time of the evening I was out there; when I got in the barber shop again Mrs. Kelley,

Mary Kelley. John Kelley is

my husband; have been married seven years; live at 2059 Germantown avenue; my husband is a liquor dealer; I have a family; one boy living; am John Hanlon's sister; he was a barafter he came from the army in 1866 or 1867; set up business in Fifth, below Diamond; he lived there in September, 1868; my father, mother, two sisters, two brothers, and John's wife composed the household; the second story front room was used as a sitting-room, there was no bed in it; there were two rooms in that story; the back room was used as a bed-room; my brother John and his wife used it to sleep in; there were two rooms in the third story; they were used for sleeping-rooms; the yard was paved; there was a goat-house in it; there were two gates each side, a kitchen-door, two windows, a cellar-window, and a water-closet; one window from the end of the barber-shop and one from the kitchen; the window from the barber-shop was over the cellar-window; the other was pretty near it; was at John's house on the night of September eighth, 1868; went from my own house; it was after people went to church; took my little boy to my mother's; my sister and my cousin were sitting on the step, my sister Kate and Ellen Quinn; asked them where my mother was; she was just coming out in the barber-shop; had some ice cream, and went up stairs with my mother; went up to John's room, that is the back room of the second story; he was in bed and his wife was getting undressed; I called my sister out of the other room (Mrs. Stein

Stein

myer); she came from the second-story front; my mother went down stairs for saucers for the ice cream; my little boy went alongside of the bed and my brother John lifted him up; then we all eat some of the ice cream; my mother, my sister Lizzie (Mrs. Steinmyer), John, his wife, and myself; sat a few minutes; then I went down stairs and went home; lived about three doors below Diamond Street, just around the corner from Fifth Street. I first spoke of this affair after John was accused of it; when I seen it in the papers.

was

Bridget Hanlon. Live in Jersey, my husband is alive; we are living at Millville; am the mother of John, the prisoner; he is twenty-two years of age; married, could not say how old his wife is, sixteen, I think; in September, 1868, was living at Fifth and Diamond; my husband was living there; he was a laborer at that time; John and Lizzie and Kate and Owen were in the family living with me in this house in September, 1868; remember the Sunday evening on which Mary Mohrman missed; at that time Mr. Hanlon, me. Lizzie, Kate, Owen, John, his wife, Mr. Steinmyer, Jennie Steinmyer, Kate Quinn, Johnny Quinn, Barney Quinn, and Annie Quinn were there; John's wife was there; Mrs. Quinn is my sister; John was at dinner; he went out near night; he returned again to the house; when he returned, I saw him at the corner of Fifth and Diamond; John came across from Fischer's until Fifth Street; came down and went up the front steps, and I came after him; he went back in the kitchen;

his wife asked me for a lamp; I got the lamp, handed it to his wife; he and his wife went up stairs in the back second story; when Mrs. Kelley came with the ice cream; John and his wife, Mrs. Kelley, Mrs. Steinmyer, and me ate the ice cream; went down for saucers and spoons; we then came down stairs; Mrs. Kelley asked me to go to the corner with her; went with her to the corner of Fifth and Diamond; we stood there a few minutes, and she went home; I stood there a few minutes, and I came down home to my house; my husband this afternoon was lying on the settee in the kitchen; he had a sprained knee; he was on the settee pretty near a week with a sprained knee; there was little kindling-wood in the cellar; it was nice and clean; a little gravel; a nice floor; it was not bricked; there were no bricks at all; when John went out of the house he was dressed-in his shirt sleeves; his pants were a kind of a light, with a stripe down them; when he returned saw him in the house; he was in his shirt sleeves; when I saw him on Fifth street he was in his shirt sleeves; he had no coat on; he had no hat on; when we got back to the house, he had the same shirt on; that night myself, my husband, Mrs. Steinmyer, John and his wife, Kate, Owen, Mrs. Quinn, Ellen Quinn, Barney Quinn,

and John

morning in bed, about half-past five or six; used to clean up the shop and sweep it in the morning; would put the kettle on, and then open the shutters of the shop, and then go and waken John; wakened him that morning; he got up; he was dressed the same as he was the night before; he eat breakfast with me that morning; he was dressed the same as he was the night before-in his shirt sleeves; we have breakfast about half-past six generally; was out in the yard this Monday morning; was in the water-closet this Monday morning; was in the cellar this Monday morning; there was no blood or traces of it in the cellar, in the yard, or in the privy; did John's washing; Tuesdays were my wash days; I washed shirts; washed the following Tuesday, the Tuesday succeeding this Monday; always washed on Tuesday; his washing was never given out; washed the shirt that he had on the Sunday night and Monday; believe he wore it on Monday; washed it the next Tuesday, that is, the Tuesday following the next Monday; saw no blood marks on his shirt; there were none on it; he had no blood on his pantaloons or any of his clothes; he wore the same pants on Monday that he had on Sunday; there was no blood on them; there were none of his clothes missing; Mrs. Conathy's house was in the same lot; there was a fence between the yards; the two water-closets were together; a lath and plaster wall

Quinn slept in the house; all these Quinns came there on Sunday afternoon; saw John next separated the two water-closets.

The court, after an adjournment at one o'clock, opened at half past two, when the trial was proceeded with. As

« SebelumnyaLanjutkan »