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THE SHEEDY CASE.

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the door shut, and I told her. I said, "Mrs. Sheedy, I have got to give this up; I can't do it." I said, "the man no longer than Friday offered to fit me up a nice barber shop, and I can't do it; I have come to tell you; if you want to shoot me, just do it." She said "I have a God d---d good notion to shoot you, and tell the people you're trying to rob me," and I said "If you want to shoot me, shoot me, but don't tell people around here that I was trying to rob you." She said, "I have got a good gun and it shoots twice, and shoots a big ball and I've got a God d---d good notion to shoot you," and I thought she was going to shoot me.

Where was you; in the house?

I stepped out of the door then. My feet were on the porch.

Was the door open?

Yes, because I thought she was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I she was was going to kill me. She told me to leave that cane. Well, I don't know just where I set the cane down, but I set it up against the wall somewhere and she said, "Now, hold up your hand. If you hold up your hand and swear that you will never tell nothing that I have told you or no secrets, no matter what happens, I will let you go; but if you ever do, I will have you killed--before you get on the witness stand. Your blood money will never do you any good." and it done me so much good that I just dropped on my knees and held up both hands and I said I will never tell anything. That is the reason I was afraid to tell last night. And she said to me, "Now you take a walk; don't you never speak to me any more; you go out the back gate," and I went out the back gate and went to Fourteenth street to the barber shop to get my overcoat, but the man was not there and I turned right around and came right on down Fourteenth street to P street and then came right down P street home to supper; and I didn't find my wife there.

What time did you eat supper?

I was to eat supper at 6 o'clock, but I didn't eat because my wife was not there, and I waited a while for her, and it was about 6 o'clock when I got home or after 6, and I waited around there for her and she didn't come, and I said, "I am not going to eat supper now; it is about 7 o'clock and I will go up to George's and get my wife," because I knew she was up there and when I started away it was about five minutes to seven as near as I can remember; I started out and went over to this drug store out there and got myself a half pint of whisky and during my walk from there to where George lives I drank this; it was a half pint of whisky I mean; I drank this half pint of whisky I mean. I drank this half pint of whisky and just about the time I was opening the door there to go into the house--just in the act of going in--I heard the report of his revolver.

Into Bott's house?

Yes sir, I was going into Bott's house, and I just stopped a second and I heard the next one, and then I turned and went into George's and I hadn't any more than started in than I met this man, this man I had been hunting that had my overcoat, and he said, "Hello, I've been looking for you." He said, "I want my overcoat." I said, "That is what I wanted. Is my wife here yet? And he said, "Yes, Where is that shooting?" I said, "I don't know." He said, "I just started out to see."

You suspected, of course, but I didn't know, because I was not expecting to hear any shooting; we changed overcoats and just stepped back inside the door and I stepped in and he spoke up and said to my wife, "Monday is here and wants you to go home," and she got up and I went down O street home.

What time wast this?

Right after this it was not more than five minutes time I was there.

It was after the shooting when you when you started home?

Yes, I started from there home.

Who is the other man you speak of?

He runs a barber shop out on Fourteenth street.

Where did you go that night?

I stayed home until about half-past nine.

You reached home about what time?

It generally takes me about half an hour to go from there home.

Where did you go when you left home?

I came back to town--right straight up O street--right straight up O street on the south side to Mr. ----------, do you know where this drug store is opposite the post office? I went up that stairway and I took off my overcoat and laid down there and went to sleep.

When did you leave there to go home?

About half past 12, I guess, and I went over to Lindsay's and got a drink and had a little lunch, and this man that tends the tables in there when I saterted out he told me about this accident about somebody trying to kill Sheedy. Mrs. Sheedy said to me that if she had him on the bed she would finish him; that she would get somebody to do enough to keep him in bed and she would finish him; that is all she wanted. That she had some stuff there that Dr. Fuller had left there, and he told her when he left it. "If you give him a little overdose it will kill him," and she said she could give him a little overdose or chloroform him.

Who did Dr. Fuller refer to giving it to?

To Sheedy, I guess, and she said that if she couldn't do it with that she could do it with chloroform. She said she did chloroform him. She said she did chloroform him once in order to rob him; this was about the time they were having this fight with the gamblers. She said he drew out $5,000 order to buy up the council, and she said she chloroformed him to rob him, but all she got was a one dollar bill and a two dollar bill, and that was all she got.

You started to tell about changing overcoats with this fellow--did he kill him?

No, sir.

Then you killed him?

No, sir.

Who did?

I don't know, I changed overcoats with Mr. Stepney.

How did you come into possession of his overcoat.

We were out having a time, like we always have been since we've been here, and sometimes I wore his overcoat and sometime he wore mine, and this time we happened to change and I went home with his and he went home with mine.

Did you ever have any talk with Mrs. Sheedy about this matter after the shooting six weeks ago.

She said she supposed it was done for robbery, and she asked me if I heard of it and I said yes, and she asked me what I thought about it.

Did you have a gun at that time?

No, sir, not then I didn't.

You had no gun then?

No, sir.

When did you have a gun for the last time in your possession?

Monday.

Which Monday?

Last Monday.

When did you get that gun?

Oh, I got that gun a little before Christmas.

Where did you get it?

I bought it with a fellow.

When was the shooting?

I couldn't tell you what day it was.

If you and Mrs. Sheedy had had this talk before he was shot at, and then this followed and he was shot at, you naturally would suppose she was carrying this out by some means, wouldn't you?

Of course I had my ideas about it, but I didn't dare say.

You and she would talk this matter over and would speak of it, but you wouldn't speak of it as robbery, when you and she had planned it all over, would you? Now, what was your talk?

The talk we had? I will tell you. It was just like this. She kind of laughed and asked me what I thought about it, and I told her I thought it was done for robbery, and she said, "Of course, he thinks so," and then she laughed.

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