Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 July 1859 — Page 1

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NEW SERIES--VOL:'Iir'TfO. 2.

••'•K&quirc McDonald

•avm_ .inno. tiiuoif

Tlir AITTT lU'RHCR Tltfl I abonifshavinir&Tno nit 'Ftold Winnie

JVlUN I bUiVieni blnbul UuUnI

(nEPORTBD ExrRESSLY FOP. THE REVIEW.]

-FOUJUTI DAY.

est

Huffman near the 20th of September.

Jaws Manners,

Montgomery count}-, about I miles from defendant. I. ha fendant. over 20 years—have

r,f

Tca

FRIDAY, July 22.

eveimigwo got done weighing hogs Winnie Huffman there in the evening—am ^7'*"

...^Court opened at 8. CIOCK. Y' Indoga -know defendant knew him four'-^—1.

re-cal!ftd. My Log*

veara

6aw

Jloratio's hoitse ^she moved in the

certain of it don thiuk die was i'^' to ivafavette, tlience t/j Danville and Beck-[

Ih^frnian^woi -'cd^'it Mfred "hvnn or at J"

same farm all the time was the prisoner was at the house' of Esquire I hotel and found Owen rbading a Mclonald. two or three days after the'per. I said to liiui, how do you dealli of Mrs. Owen don't biow the time Owen, glad to see you, have been lookin

was there aftcra while lie said, the squire has been telling ine some hard things, and

wanted to know if I had heard ot it, said 1 had, and thought th

friendly part in tellin could soon have a chance Owen said, if 1 should let her and poison should he found would be the consequence to me .said tic proaei would be in a pretty bad fix appeared Tore he was terror struck and sweat con •iibout (he same as usual went to Uw-il's sidcraMy: he was so excited he could'nt house wish Owen, on the way he said, use his voice at all this occurred about

suppose site was taken up and puison tound the time spo^o to the ofhccis. he maO'*

with h'tn and h-- rcidi-d think

»•". ^-i'

1 ll

«w»

in her, she might have she ini'jht have been oi: else, for we often bear the papers now-a-day?: will hard with vou:

ii.n hiui .i.ni, (in !. ,. .. ,• u- ,wi«..^ r.,,,I-.

liied s-''tn(? ouc

of s".e'n tilings in said, as before, it said it" she was

oine

examined she might, be touiid to hav /r, her death by *hi bhr.v on her head yes, ia!d he wax (iressing the wound and told hi.j wife.ho tho't the b--uo could be got oat he took bis penknife and too': it on:, oc sa:u was about as large a h:s thnmo nail. he said be would see flair.es Ow».-n aoout having her tak'-n r.|'. ('won expressed lus assent, .and I riiought ibis was t.he be way to clear him eii ot ihe s-i-q.-i'.'ion. 1. don'! tliinl: I iold M- Ib.-ialii of any uxeitenient at .hadoga or •ai scene such rumor.. O .v.eu

:ent. Ha hc ad 17 e'a.i-

lie \vn many

been* !ivnever

leg with Kixziah 1 .iw him mi.ureat ilis.t lie ever did so: thtiiiglit lie.was a man i-oH«!(loral'!c sea! in everything he.uni.«k. Have ktiown Iwiii about 2'.' years •.urn 'el veais old: wao. at (hyen.a the day uu dav .bciore the lu.iirs were weiglu'vl.

ifc—don*

Mv '.nafwet to all his questions were, "it vi u! bard with ye.n.

T«i .'! r. 11 r.i:':ou v—1 Ic i,io.an nf great physical

iliing ii.e ti ics to do ho Uot pretty mt.eh the-same on po. .in'.' 'o.'.

th Q. (cailed.—

fiive in Montgeimry County between and A a mile from defendants and heard of dcccascu's death between--1 and o'clock. 'lothiiu done when 1. got there wi:n tue ,co»p.-1 assi&jd in laying Mrs. Own o-ii -•'•tier r.evk wa^*"crooked' a little she v.a i-tilV we could not straighten her hand: •wa^ raining that morning, was cold and chiily 1 staid from Saturday morning until thev'.-tarfe.l to the grave with the remain v, S nn dav: Mrs. 11 uflnian was there v. nan

there tin- tlirco brother.-- arm one. o: iiicir wives, Mrs. Huffman and children A' '.•myself staid over night I saw a vial Sa:-••'.-i.rd.iv in a small hole in the w«ather,.\r li ig in the side of the cook rrt»n«, saw be i\ct'--ndeut do nothing with. tbe„\_iai. r.dly Ow. uwas there.

C'nM-K.mtninvd.—The.

vials'aronnd my own bouse: 1 did'nt think there was anything remarkable about the vial don't know the length: it it bad not been for what happened afterwards 1 -would not thot' of it again did'nt know the deceased, never was in the house before.

Mr..

PoHi/ Owens

called. Alfred Owen

ed to sec her

noil re

put it away cd together more era about ly when he was very much and find thing

...... o.?. .:•:

trouble until'dffor

were weighed the 1st of November, ie op

went there between 7 and 8 clock was .'j'|,

ast

1 lift UVVR!* iflLIll'IjIt 1 ltl.tlj '^ho Siticl fcho^orild sb«^*e defendantthat I j^l w^r^XLojntq^a, JJoona couutj-,Ind. Ijent of the Prosecatiiig

much -f a persons grief unless they shed once si tide.. tear.-*.

I & a

un% started from' -Jadoga

an ,crc 8

new

(layg

r:i. :f

peso he abi.ii'.t- oj where th and that remark -d, slip.-would have markt' further,-

rt'gar.iec. as :rs, and everywith a will is

it.c- i.'ii roll-..

that dry to this was ail the r,"is.ei he id bo.Jg

vial, looked a

£0.d deal like an ordinary liniaraeut vial. "tiiouufi not quite, so lar^e have bad sue'ii

i« mv husband- am sister-in-law of deceas- most of the tune: was not a witness at the ed- live mile from defendant: knew jxsf

deceased ever since she was a baby have known defeudaut 2J vears just heard of

when aud my husband were talking in

mortem:

death of deceased about half after 0 o'clock medicin: of Dr. Mullen: 1 asked bun if he

Pox told us of it went over immediately: had bought strychnine. I knew nothing were toid to go over soon if wc expect-

is after 7 o'clock ral poison that

the yard defendant came to us don't know Indiana,|

what he wanted was not at the -rave dc-

ceascii was laul out in a poor shroud Mrs.'

ceased was hid out in a poor shfoud Mrs.'

ii0nH

table.

IX THR could wfi*h tho dishes I paid but little'nt-j Q—State whether you fire acquainted [defendant, by his coimgeli^feteag^pMjBd

MflHtTPniUTOV pmptHT nnifDT tcntion to -Oi**n:'tbe vial Mn^'me-no-! witlj or penalty Icno^r Jonatlian H. 0wen that. tU'e^-walve^notices tifflBto

0*«m

-was"isaspeeted:

iffiS'Heiendatit:^ iibrmal

have been' married' to Alfred' Owfln.2S-j 'A—P aw riot ac»jnhinte(l with 'him—I jonly matters of substanpe^incbisgj?. the

rs known Kifcziah from her cradle I havei.evcr seen the rariii bnt twice in "my .cpnipctcncy and pertincripy^f tlie^znatter .. pftf7 .Sidney shed no tears Iklon't think life—at the tirne*1fe cim'(? to my hottsc'ftnd sworn-to in 3aidde£0^tibn«»^«^y II. W. nmm

Q—State

there was unsatisfactory w-^ut and got. a went through. I (witness) answered him not

.«-«wr,-calle'd. I live requisition from the Governor aud gave it at midnight.. He said he regretted that he

to .Sheriff Schooler on the 20th of Decern-I did not get in in time for it.

tut or to iShcrjlt benoolcr on the 20th ot Decern- did not get in in tune lor it. He wanted

ve known de- her at Detroit, detective officers gave us to know if that train connected with thcj

lived on t!.o information of defendent, that he was in Michigan "Road. I (witness) did uot know,

friendly wiUi Canada we crossed the river, went to a He then asked if I could get hi'm some-} hi

day—went to see Meponald. Owen for you a good while he made an effort to something to'eat if it was nothing, hut a

•s:.e ak to mo commenced fremLlin

man.

V,'o.

look him to a

-1-

room

her and 1 was as innocent as that tree, no ciiort except to speak. My occupation the night and stayed till three ho went ,.

I a I a a a a

i. ~-e her t-ikcn tin til we had "-ot O wen-was a man I had tuoudi a £rood ileal A lie did not.

•'lie lalkuj a great deal: think it. was at .".'•/.'hic-an C:i" I'-" asked me about his family how ids vvif" iO.ked at the post-mortem k'.vami uitkn 'he askiiu me from tviiat I had icarued if thought the Tv. as to whether

:t A.nt

S'IC had been poisoned con!-.! establish-! ed. I. told him I couid'nt tell told him 'likewise, that I ha 1 heard some .-statements made bv defendant in regard .o the matter that from these statements to bis being the same man.

was aetiug constable: dou't

whether- br riot' you "Trould

won I'd-now.

Q—State

whether you saw him and had

December, 1858, towards a conversation with him at Thorntown or

j, arrived there, made inquiry if elsewhere last fall or 'winter.

at the pen most of the time was not in }-nnv anything about Owen at Os- A—I did, in Thorntown, at my hoifs e*., good health—was at the hoiise twico the }nir"n

learned that defendent had, Q—When? "SP

-was there, some W £\. I been there: saw his horse I knew him —I think ifc was on-or about the -mom-' hi

wa« a dark brown horse with star in his itig of the 1st of December, 1858, Thurs-1

f-tar

Took the train about midnight- went dav morning I think.

Q-—State

hotel and then returned home. A few was a town: he told me he wanted to leave

•. •*!. .i

fr ilr l!u«b'nul near 'the'1st with .lames and Horatio Owen to Michigan said Mr. ^'ice or some other man I (wit-|

11 «l-"" City could'nt get much information there inesa) do not remember who, would come

eccmber, !«..)(. then went to .loliet and thence returned for him if he was not back in 3 days—then yj ,(i[

Yo Mr. GREGORY.—Saw Win. Harris at homo got home Saturday morning I got asked how soon the first train was going

the defendant's house the 1.7th of Novem-'such information from a Mr. Junes that North. I (witness) told him 3 o'clock A. jcuflfet] walked about the bar room don't b«T, 1S58. Owen rented the room tu Mrs. led me to go and see Vice, but the visit |M: Ifc asked how long since the last train

..ftei wards I started again in pursuit: his horse with me three or four days, and feared he "had a weapon examined J»im he

new.spa-.j thing to eat. I (witness) told him the wo-

do .dr. men folks were all asleep, could not

2et him his supper he said he wanted'

icold bite. I asked him where 'lie lived,

turned to the officers and said lie was the He said seven miles west of North Salem,

1 1

.and did he leave.

what could thev do with me I said it would in Lado a was hote.i keeper and constable. North on the 3 o'clock train. I I7 „,/.,w_TKrtn^.t if wasVn"o hai-'

Schooler saw him three quarters ot an hour Q—State whether he came back, it so ,r

.^ W«I™

that time ••.-!—Keejiing hotel. (—Have vou seen the sn id if .-o when, and where'.'

I supposed she jiad died of poison .he .1—I know him to be rhe s.

•'hen aske'l me who I thought had given his '.si'.-1 the poison 1 told him I could '.lot te'.l tl.a' he then wantr-d to know what he had lullo to gel clear of the charge, provided pt.iioii was .i'ou:id in the stomach 1 said-•'•.^tvj' S he C-»'i!d. pi'uve she had p»:sui!C 1 her'S'-'.f said ha- did not know whether he could or not 1 asked h'.ui ll lo- had oyer bought any poison said lie bad sent to'Ladoga by some M|£, and ]:ad bought a d'iiries'' worth .ofiarge-Slie. soiue^iine dnrin:he spii :g ijeill'.ilt it to kill !ie could virove

'•••immer bciore .«a:J r.:ts with 1 a Iv liini if h'i'J u^e.l it for tlia! p'lrhe and hi.- wife had fixed up a If of it, and had placed it were ii, the hnMl of staying. h-oi taken !ho other half and bin), thai perh:. is sonic day tor it and In. it he had'lit. se«

I lie asked

daring th

:i wa" friendly and calm he commenced .conversation ho seemed to wan: to ow bow his familv aud uei-ihlors were

•lulU

rfiss-i'. re'n?/c-'.

1 wa- acting oonsta-

think Dr. Mullen testified before the coro-1 -to me he did no.t look

I did not ask him if he bought rat'

more about strychnine than it was a gene-

would kill almost anything'

Deposition of Columbus IV. Osburti.

u,,, au

,Mn

Huffman said it was luck to put any per- In the Montgomery Circuit- Court, March

put any pcraidhehadnot

Cross-Examined.—This

occurred Sun-J

0wen

*Murde

shaved, ou one occasion Mrs. Huffman said The deposition of Columbus W. Oeburn, artle Clerk's Officeln said I will shave you after the balance had taken by consent,' to be'read in evidence AVitheas mv hand "and "s taken supper defendant remained at the cm the trial of the above entitled cause on

man since?

O- what are vour impress'ions

icn.

Did yon have any ennversalion with in the jail? ff so state it. A—1 di I. I asked him if be knew hie he said he did not. 1 asked him if he did ii"t remember of comim: to my house about the 1st of last December, in Tbonitown he said he remembered of coming to some man's house. I asked him bow long he slaved be did not know. I asked hi in if thai Mrs. Owen did. lie did not leave a black horse at my house.

and said Mr. Vice or somebody else .would call iVr him: he said he told somebody that. I asked him if lie did not remember ihat 1 ^ot him his.-uppei: lie remembered that somebody got. him hrs supner at the hotel

HI the fas" side of the Kail Road. I remarked t' him that 1:0 was more ilosnv

tli( rc- tiian he was when at my house 'no Saul lie. it from was, that be was sick when there. 1 asked if that him why his horse stayed so long at my

I hou^e he said he supposed that they did not know where to come after him. I askiiiattcr ed him if he did not tell them where he

season: lie said it- was: that was all tha was sniil, th'!)!-:, in regard to th might- have been about strvi-hninc ill this conversation: 1 know himself where he was going. I asktliiuk instead of a«kinirhim whether he had od him if he didn't tell ine he lived in I'utbouirht a.nv more noison. asked him if at nam county. 1 asked him if he did not .••••• t'.uic be bad '..-ought any strychnine of tell me. he wa- a Douglas Democrat, and Dr. Miller: said ho had nor, our conversa- that, his name was Moore: to all of which

lie answered no, and said if ho told me hi.-n.-ime was Moore lie was worse confused weiuhin^ :hau i:

.^Io'.'re h- ...... thought be w—-•

^-Kvfutvm..—Owstinn

l.-Ie'at the time the arrest was made: llo- 'j: '/j^j |in the east room where Eliza A. Huffman ratio "wen emploved me make the ar-

\™ux()n

a a

,y where else,

li.st: I navo inr.ae no eftorts to employ, ,, ,.1,'.,,.,,., ,,r into the cook r.»om there Mrs. Humnati coiiusoi to prosecute Owe.n there was a rc-) waial of ^2Ufi offered and extent of my compensation depended partly oa success got to Detroit 10th December found Owen in Canada 20th my hand 1'uav have-trembled when 1 arrested him my voice may have quivered, he offered no resistance: he signed a certificate that he would go voluntarily, given to Tuilie vV Camp: made no effort f. escape on the way home we. were a! Michigan City 12 or lo hours he kent in the bar-room

ny ncre else,

not knowing there was a charjre. of this -kind resting against him. would vou ... de endant were standing side by slue I workuir pay tl. mui her hand on l.is snou.der sheg^ot

him at Thorntown'.' .~

any one before yon went to the jail to se him, as to hi .1—1 did (J—When you first saw him at the ]atl, did you recognize him without having some One to point him out to you? .1—There was no one at the jail no One

faamc

the part of the State. th

Columbus

day morning about 2 o'clock when thib talk testifies as follows, to-wit:

Osbiirn

""n. r-during the tabug of the .rom

13ti

clothes on her Owen said be had not! A. D. 18D9, ibetwecn' the ^o'urs of 1 and S o'clock, P. jhere' last March don't know csacilv when {.not. nofico the body

5E a pa

being duly sworn JOHN

O&pAbove:dcp08jU6qg«iW>lftwHywiljiif

or. ieehuicalrequiremeuts^ijaBng

BrnscciiZiftg% Mtofy&n/

3* AVILLSON it J\I

Wm-. H. Softodlcr' Sk^iJ^^Stisdt^ Am sheriff of Montgomery 'JGoifflfCrfS-'was present at Detroit ?'when" Sj^lsdiSSfSswris brought over saw him i&ifcpoticgi5 Soffit brouffht him to this couritv^wir hant] cuffed

it: went dnv mnrnimr think. -«. When first saw him at Detroifc be show'e'd

what he said.-

hrcther-in-lawjieeps .-1 In the first place he asked me if that, frequently he trembled- soifle, Httng his

Detroit at the'-"GarrisonHouse

Micbican City was ntnrded 'bv

no particular excitement ?he 'Called

ieaf

own

was not

William

cs roYu

He wanted

of doat

Jor

Putnam count v. asked him his name. throw dirt'.iiito

:he did at the house looked solemn his

'|head was down.

J:'.dcn. Bails

called

drix county, Indiana, north we

1 0

5 0 1

personal appearand-

a re a a

1 8 0 0

nr house iu Iborutown, for a short.

years

os. E. McDonald, attended, and pres

laid at Owens .Mrs. Huff-

mc the nigiit I man was there she and I were talking burial I notir toi'ofher she showed me that her hand 'ant and Mrs. was contracted saw Mr. Harris there on the morning of the 17th and the morning of the 1 rith and slept in the same room

Crass Examwd—Talked

wanted me to take goo.

I mm .i uim t... im... .... |was i^oing with me to drive hog.- saw something said was iruinir he said lie did not. he didn'r i, ,thin^ improper in her conduct I went

Pf back at it I'd./.a told me

j.io biiut. the dour, ana Isi.uti 1 picked up

cl ai lhou

1 was in tu U,e firo'

dicial Circuit in said Staie, and the "defend-) Iowa am 25 vears,old have lived in my got there I saw no one there bu^

rarfv-'.

frequently he trembled-soWe, hung his

1,,'a. hands in ifiis bbio*rn-f-'J

confined before wc'started lo-the

cars lnac no

effort to escjipe we '"got to

mf!

the morning from that

^NTJJ ^'started he was' not hand-

now

Whether ho is an excitable-man or

Hewlett,

irce ni

defendant's at 4hc ^me

tljrce niiIcs fr0

Jiverl ono mile from defendant

thirteen years knew defendantfordSearl

vears:' first heard of'tko-^eath

0 Mr3 0wen abottt

was nn n)V r0

we vc 0*olOC"k

Morris's house went there on^yisit,

gross .... .. Owen's family passing along Mrs. Owen hat time in the dn\ did he come,

was

ftro

Owen and Mrs'. ITulTmaii was

together salting cattle this was.in.&ptem-

He came at half past 1 clock I"n9 think it was before Mr'sV'Owen

iv 1

the head.

I common tor 3!r. Owen to be walking along

.- with Mrs. Huffman before his wire it 'as-

iwav in iuy absence. ^wen v/as limping along a light smart dis-.|

O—What business were voirehgrfged in

n5!l

to ^kvine how often I Lavtv liecn"fr^vfecu-

•Attorney# far&Dcfcridami,

vcal-s thcr^fiftecn beer

four or years past s'tcadily in '"•North'

eu bf^we^e^crlfrs more.intimafel^Tor^le last four'y^afo^'wf lived1near together' in 5fm-tlrj||lcm in TR57 she was then living with her.husband I have known her husband as long as I have known '*^dsr..^""I

saw defendent in the la.ttdr^ part'o'f'August or'first of ^e^teniter,

defendant's at -the time went drnvn to sec4um *I werit, aWthe backdoor and wcnfc intd&thtr roorii Mr

ly thirteen years first" hS o.^o.?4aUi. Mnian-were the otfaeEA roomj a they

Jayjiglit Saturday

ad to Ladoga wcnt^t^^lo-

fondant's house Sunday went thereabout

was not opened at the graved iant

he" crave appeared atat .1hc' 4MWS%

SawfaeliWyatt

Don't know at what The last 1 saw of

I wont to bed.

defendant that night he was mending his son's boots know where prisoner .-dept that night I did not sec anything out of tiie way between Owen and .Mrs. Huffman lb it-night 1 left, next morning about. clock got up about -1 o'clock and went over and took breakfast with Mrs. .Morris I went to Jeffersonvilie and got back Thursday week.

A have in tho Crawfordsville jail, villo. Iu the fall of li558 was buying defendants wife about daylight on the day I the -word it was on Saturday morning: about th" fth of April, 1 So'd. jhogs in Hendrix and Montgomery counties of her death I went to defendant's house I«taid at defendant's most-of the time unthose I bought in this county I weighed.at after breakfast remained there an hour or til after the burial eat supper there after defendant's was 17th day of November, more, and was requested to go to town mid the funeral, she was buried on Sunday we same man by about 1 o'clock was at McKeives in the get'the shroud and have the coffin made were at.' Esquire McDonald's on the fob

stature, countenance, teeth and conversa- morning staid at defendant's over night I was at the bouse when she was put in lowing Wednesday the

O—Did vnii have nnv conversa!ion with her for twenty vears: has been married :in the cofiin was closed in about 1 min

..her for twenty years: has j.twenty years Huffman

been married to work for

with Mrs.

lrf—Did defendant's: left about 9 o'clock 'while I was there 1 went to the house on

you co clown to Crawfordsvillc to sot it, ,.

know Mrs. Winnie Huffman, have known the coffin helped some about putting her nation tmk ])lace llio nextday 1..was there,

utcs after she wa-: put in I drove the eor *e to the grave vard saw defendant at the nothing between defendlirii'man at the grave the colli:i w:is not opened. Tile day she wa buried was a cold rainy day at dinner there were a goorl m-inyor her friends but thev all went off in a burn* as soon as thev ate tl.ere were then left only Mrs. Huff man and family, and defendant's family, with a few others after the friends of deceased had eaten the dishes were wa-hed and a new meal prepared, at which were defendant's family, and Mrs. Huffman and her family 1 no'ieed a difference between the two me,-Is the one thev had is better than what we ate a! dinner Mis. Huff .man sat where deceased had always sat, [and defendant sat where be always did 1 noticed her aski:!:'him if bis coffee and

Huffman in the evening, ^he said she are of her boy suited htm: lie said they were very good: a suspicion then arose in my mind they talked one at the table, but so low that I could not understand: ilo-y seemed fvvcrv loving and kind to each other after li

to sleep before defendant went to bed ,,,.

i/.liaui Harris

j.the mornint of tlieloth: it wa* cold wa

W ii 1

J.-l miirbt have passed the man who-' ent back into• ti.e room wnere.Euza and 1 out recouni/.insr him.

(,) —Di 1 vou have anv conversation with:

I O

called. Live in Mont- rjefendan' had eaten he dcawed up to the

go cry county live or a mile Irom de- fjre and sat there a few minutes got up and ten.Ian' lived there about 1 and a A years went to the south door, looked around and was at Owen's hou.-e when thev were thought beckoned to me I went to him

to assist in »1 riv in» nogs, noes started

I IVH to i^o to In lianapo- thinking he had something to sav he only told me the creek was higher than i- was the v-.-ir before be turned ind followed

Mrs. Huffman into the other room when I started'home he came to the door an I asked me if 1 and mv wife couid'nt come over and stay all ni"ht with him. M-W**::?.-?

Cross Kxamnetl.

"V,

1 1

been talking I c.o,e the door almost

and set the chair down hiiza got up and thev don't believe a word be savs: tells big went into the room where Mrs. Owen was about what be has done away «tF in weaving I stood in the door of the co"k other places, have beard John Miller, room 1 stood there a while, and soon Willis Clark, John Owen and a great many heard a murmuring in the room wdierc I the young people hesides, say that they

,] Mrs. Huffman "an 1 Ow.m and in a

,Ved so loud I could hear

"I soon beiran to bear something that was

(—During last November and Deccm-. .. ... matter, said he "will von marrv me prober was it not common for persons to stop ...

vided

fw^n^ft'SrEfti Rtnari* aif(0QtW5nl"ff ihe It. was ncarly.^t^-^vgc^jidented "f the two 1 doo^r Sjar that I migtrrtooK ^IiSii .I!wAii£ ed to '^?n't thjnk it is aiiyB?dyVba3jnel|. II

Winnie Iiuffman'fclev-

1857, at'Mrs. Ilhff:

maris slic introduced'me to defenJ.-fii^-

Mr! iinffman'liad gone for a loa'Fof stone Wm: Harris

it was Saturday evening I stai'd at "the

house an hour and ^cut' lioiricj the house was a two story' buildiiig after^ I went

home I saw defendant and ?frl!" I'litffinau pnssing"up and down stairs two or "three times there was no saih in'tlicf'

window

Mr.-Huffman was si ck-i tiSeptembe r,%l 85

called. i-Reside.d ..

Huffman--was Jiri.v Defendants and r3.

went .up stair's iu a few,minuter:?kl^ w.en.{ up.stairs toiind wherevi|pouId4get a drink for MT„'iruffilian.•: When Bgot up stairs vl

was at the"'.fouad5M1».•J^c^ff^rfilyjng•:4)n'! h^.rbe'd ,•• inS

ah:bour. 1 asked Mrs. awhere I could get sdmetilrinkifor.AVilliam: she said- she would come.do,kn-direclly they wire con-fused-whenileame up tliey.came down sorinj aftec*to£ether- defendant went out.to fchftistftble'-aufd got his horse and started off* Mr. Hiiffmfrn-jwas:. then very-low. I: was

Opt in JNorlhiSiilem when Mr. Huffman and hisj vfi.felparted ^1' moved away to Boone county in'September.

Cross-Exumined —WwyQ lived in North

Cpu.nly,,

toid.me that lie, waygoing,

"vh'-'gra%e as ^ubpenaed in this case.

ant,

defendant-was sitting ori-tbe&ide rof the bed^they had b'cen-up there: about- hall* Huffman .went into staidhour oivso, aud

Worked for"defendSn"

near'2 vears quit about two years ago I boarded most of the time at bis bouse never saw him mis rent his wife. Mrs. Huffman was waiting on the table, pouring out the coffee and attending on tiie table. I am acquainted with William Harris. He has not borne a goo 1 rut me in the neighborhood for morals. The neighbors sav

don't believe his yarns.

said said'be. "Winnie this is a .serious il 8 o'clock to-morrow moruin

wi put her out of the wav and

iC! 1

get vou a divorce? she said "Sidney I

ant by Jos were pre: of the from Iowa have been around North Salem fendant's brother, came toon after we got tweive men t.i_crc acting as a

"that it was taken-on this Wednes- some was here in March at Court. I was there, but I don't know how long, nor a

It being five o'clock Courtacljonr:

FII'TH DAY*-*

^av of April, A. P. 1S59,: in North Salem once since Court was held hvhether any one eamo with him. I did seci the body bef'rer* 'rs «n

grounu at the (..oroiie, inquest, was exauiined before the Coroner's jnry live 200

r-.^¥

sent neighborhood since my return ily when we got there. O If

tToIiri

h,iu\v jA ilit iijo, ail*-I

•y good

1 :is-'a

what he hn3 done.

Ju/tu's W: Oircn-

a par: kleHtltondant

mistreat jus wifcTl am no"t niuc/ijif^iiaiiff-

e! with Win. Harris'. I hav

him. niore than ^a year when I*nfirst vjcm .ibra.vion of_the "Loiiv.^thi? upon close inthere' he was ..living'ih .^owii^.ifeypviy't. be a fracture there stand very fair in the iklgji'bttr^o'djJ.I wasfiorpnrfiori ot the K'tie. not a particl

county: nni acquainted

rCJroSs-Exa/nined.—li

.called Reside imMont- |er ondc called on Esquire ..Melton a Id: 1 'omm.need with the upper bowels, traced

a t-' «r-'s- l||gomery county, Cbtrkltownship have liv- got- to defendants about nine o'clock of the t'leiu through by proeess' xinderstoinl by -Beside in Ileud-' ed there 5 or

nears live^-of a mile from day of the death Alfred Owen's son call- farmers as, ridding tbe bowcls we went

of Dun- defendant's I first learned-of the deatb of! ed after ine it- -was .8 o'clock when 1 got through IrOin the beginning of .tin bowels

post mmtcm

...

ift& hiiii^.itt the-'prist'mortem -I^irieau' that found it Tit'n fiealthy- Conditionwv then ex

-kind'of a boaster about

(Jailed My father'^

name is Alfred Owen he is-a~ brother of the1 dcfceased I live iii 'south east corner

of-

:5loftteomer!y:

with'defendant? and with deeoased, very intimately 'have known-Mrs: Huffman ai-l we cut throiiglkthc. subajj'.uje.of the jirain mt"srt?evctiisineo I can -recollect: -X went to S

-ttefetfdSpCVOn'ce I-tliink-iri June'of lin8 I «'.• could Warn, were perfectly healthy, therefore.Ifti persoussthero vbut alot'end- 'and nnii.iral l,-jvish t.i state here that in all

then Iisaw him retnfn -he was dressed on-! n-'re tendency^iowi'rds decajptr.uler the lytin hisfnighfc clothes, i-.-ls

£,

was tolerablycar*

exami-

it was in the afternoon that wo were at Squire MeDouaid's was present at tiie interview between •James 31. Owen and defendant we went from Squire McDonald's to defendant's bouse we ft ind defendant at. home si tii)» bv the fire we sa .wn by the fire with him my brother got up and went to the door, aud came back, stood aronnd a little while ami went fo the door again, and said Sidney ine out I want to talk with you defendant '.vent out. with him and went along with them my '-rother told him ho supposed he was acquainted with tiie talk in tiie le-ighborhuod ..concerning the way and maimer iu which his wile died defendant said 1i had heard in-tliim? about it, and wanted to know what it was: my brother told him tiia: it wa believed by tho neighbors that she had been poisoned, and the talk was that she would be taken up and examined, and he thought it would be be.U for him, (defendant) io no himself or get some one to attend to it folium: his reply was 'hat lie could not defendant then wanted to know who was going to do it. mybrother odd iiim lie -iiiild'nt teii him then, lie then said his wife hud been complaining about two weeks with a bowel complaint he spoke C-f her weaung and getting supper tiie day beforeshe died, at iiiirbt in- spore of in going to bed ami getting up after she bad goL to bed and coming back and lying di-wn wifii her face next to him he said lie waS so sleepy Iu e.'idd'nt .-.tay awake any longer thai was ihe iast he knew '.bout her nntd he was.. awakened by her rcreains: we star Led to our horses .tu defer lam came, aiorg with us: he toid my brother tii.it in cuu lit b'-ar to hvr taken i:.v brother ton! him that she wus

his

wile and his sister, it

she was taken up and cut into pieces an inch square it would'nt hurt her that b" wo :ld be done he jusi.. «tcpped up to my brother and laid his band oil his arm and sai l, see here, some body e:so might have i.._io -im poison 1 iier, i.r she might have taken poi- taking suj son herself my b. other told him that might supper, I

be, but that it was not likely niy brother tiien asked him if there as any poison

about the house that she Couidget he aid that he did not know whether tiion- was or not said be had nought MOME arsenic in the spring to kill rats with, and did nt

know whether it was all Ur^d or not, but thought that it wa.-

Cross-'.ram//ud.

23.

SATVUDAY,

Court opened at 8 o'clock.

Icorac A. Morris

eallc-d. I was on the

.u ,o-- ,..,

Defendant did not say

!anvtbing about bis innocence, but sairi if ishe was taker, up and poison found in ber. 'i"or he.w was be to Heir himself I v.-as not told

,. to confine mv testimony to certain points..

Dr. 7'1:os.

varda from defendant have lived tliere 4 conii'j" am a physici

Tf Fry •".."died. 1 live fit's

jvsi mhr'.hn

I Wuso

defendant bodv was laid OD

been

but tue fair.- out ol the -rave about VI e!f, an-

)hr. Owen,.dc-•arsdaU and oue! v,- re th.-re ti^re w'.re

after we got twelve men there acting as a mrv, we rrn

oxar.inannn: had neve

en am in at ion tire being tsk»n:

nnioij

t!io occipital am.

s. wnTk°-'-j removed aroj4Bj«il i'rftm bBnSs/oftthe rum the

*Mr head .. :eu:ovc irain by*-sav/?*r^ in^fafciretlfir div,'a«iind tiic bones and exaiii'.ned J.h(?^s!3e cf the wburid fnuud no injur^.of

tIic'"linf9 'n

the inside

on the ouf sidc'Of' t!ie feic just under tiic

wonndr whore 'lhe temporal buuc termi^•m?d' nt,first to be a slight

amiriedffaraclindid lrtembrane, that Trad a 1/6 in a heilth}^ condition we examined next tiie piamater which covers the brain we'cdnld only remove portions of it as it was ver-v tender: wo. separated the hemisphers of the brain'and looked into the ventricles J'onnd^nothing unusual there

several directions, the substance as far

defend- cases 1 hav&beretoloro exitiiiined of per-

ant'ai cliildren, from Susan down I staid sons so long'dead, there wao settling of the atltfiiigh't when l^went to bed slept in blood in thy mcinbraiies.of the brain, which the srfriitiiToom with defendant and his wife mak-s it difficult to determine whether it is afterlfihaH been iu bed 2 hours or so, de-' the result of ^iseast or death we e-xamined tendanfcgoKup and went ih^tho room31 rs. '-he- brain anaor thb wound and on the eorponding o^posita -side found a little

wound than und6r^th'e corrcspodiug oppo-

sit

.e,^de \tJ^e'dillpruMce was very slight

ly wheir owen (i:4o^ibed aid ®ot sleep «t!ie che^fc^pen'liy removing a large mubh that 'nighMthis.-wa.s between the-first section of the ribs including the brenstarid (middle "of June I --don't know, t-bat boric we'removed tliejlrtngs and trachea,

there«wa.si.any oue but Mrs vHailiiiau in separated the lobes of the lungs cut thel.roomthat she^-went into: the' children through them in various directions aud slept in the room we slept- HIthere were jlound them pcrlcctly healthy in every part,

three beds in the'room li slept in,.besides id°n't know that -1 ever looked into lungs the truiidle bed I never heard nnv stories which the cells were so perfect and so

Salem in nil .14 or-.. J5/yt-H^rs. My deposi-!concerning Mrsv Ilufiriian, exccjit somcjfew ot them obstructed we took out tlio

tion was. takeik- hcife in jCrawfoidsvijltj in reports- to 'which I paid no attention: heart, found it healthy externally cut the McColbtugh casc ih,e times- spoken of don't know that-Mrs: 11 uffuian .slept iu that I open both ventricles and auricles found \yere the only, times: I-ey.er s.iW defendant room, but-she went iritov it at night and

at Mjn. Iluffinan's.ij.I was tjien in bis' coin:. !cairie out of it in-the morning there wae !lining mcmbraui'' ot the chest nat-

pany about half" an hour, i- nevtr saw was.-Ji fire insthe ^om slept in. lural we. examined the diaphragm, found John Owen to know him. One- of the

UnraLicOiccn-.—Am

Owen's, the one that lives..in,Hendricks |cd: 1 .reside- in Hendricks County '6 miles m^n by a crucial'incision, we looked upon to have from defendants haved.nown dcfendautfor ^Ji(\extenia: art oUtho stoiuacb and found forty-yfars we arc .cousins I and my broth-' iw0bhjiy.3o4'£r, could judge wo then

•:o

'l empty arid natural the pleura, the

brother of deccas- no disease upon it we opened tho abdo-

to the rectum, including the 'large and. small bowel.- the cavity of the body and the bowels themselves were very much distended with ti'as we examined the liver in

l!s

"'ts. and founn it a healthy organ

the secretion: had a natural appearance, tho spleen had.-mure mark.i of eonjestion than any other organ we supposed that might be produced by _gravitatio:. there were no mark. of inliarnation on the peritoneum: th- kidneys both externally and internally were healthy: the bladder w«3 h-'ulthv and natural we examined the cavity and found it -Mppo':e I to be the mcnild discover no liseanc oi generation we examspinal column embracing dnrrr:! vertebrae, found bieh are the same as and the modillary mat.ditii.n a,- the membranes brain, there is i.o merthe ?ri'mbraiios or mat-"

uteris, cut full .if 1 sf.rual fluid about the. in-d a part ,t par e.-.rvicn! anc til.' membranes th..so of the -bran ier :n *h-. .-• one c: and mutter oi tie i.id appearance in ie ot 'th' ?pne, ,' in rinv^easc -. the

^n'-'wbich' I coubl swear result convulsions

or I'sob: inP.afnatory eonditiotis soi eitimes exi.-t after the .person has died of i.r-tan iid swiin.iiines. «I»ey 'io not", tin.- v. some tunes, exisl after the person has been poisoned with .,'ryehnia, and soim time they do n'f: th'" moridd ajqtearanees diff'-r on .d'.ff'--ren!.' case.

'here was tbii

dra\. in /f i' on- sid'* of th" bead spok'en of bv th-'- witthere wa- still the rigid and ra'lmr"Hawed condition nf the linger.-, arid feet all tiie cxaininati'iii we could ascertain'no ad-rq-uatc cau-e of th*'-1 llciiii., after e^niplet.uig the examination «.f,, the. be'.lv Ve tied the upjer and lower or--ifteos life iiomjeb: removed it and jda-.v o'"i it in a glass jar, the. intents still rc

first smiiu

mainiiir in the st nia'.ii t:ed the upiic-r euu

about a yard

l.a.f h'.'iy'.V aj'piied anotb-i fit j-] it iu tiie jar. my '.-uuiavUiate possession^ ••••.•j:er. «.f my overcoat, and rie'! it to *h bouse of Mr jury sat- no one had hold

tie

ie way ea C-aid*, where tl of the jat. nor AOIIMOIL

lid it pass out of mv posput the stomach in, that i, !jv "ud iibout my i"),: ate fiiiuier

tni eX.iiU.ni..: I. -i. :l about 1'J took som uo-xt Diotriaiig. Mai.f.-rs. t- sfimony at fi.f. r^qnos-i of ill he

lout iJ o'clock

a iajicd about five hours— o'clock until sundown. I tiling f.o er'.', ab,out 2 o'elocx r's 'eiico of •Janit.3'

V, hue 1 was writing the hor.se of Willi:- Clark, at he orfirier, I was sitting

corner of tiie room, bad the jar on sugar .cheii under mv eoutr.. Tl.--t'oroner a.s]:^u^ne. to IvJdiigi take it out of tin siaelitd badiy, wbieii J. refused to .civ, aud I then net the jar down m-tween ^nrv .vi jourin.

rued 1

my t! iar"5n?ft 'be ad'^-ininsr room. t'«k off thtf| {«p. and ii'r.d- untied one ot the ligatur trom eitic. -'.'be Ktoniaeh or bowel to let tho .-ape. V\ iien too Can escaped a small of the contents escaped upon thfg- ... I fi".i it ur, again. got rOincS and .vi.liiped the jar in them, and :e jar in mv co'crec-at side p-eket the iar from Dr. Wilson. The jar' night to one bio ice of the

cic!l l£ed IliVr(

Wcllt

ja!? MhBntr

-0

ih:.

1,^3^ aoiiu

thl

1^,

time at Mr. oners'. I my horse aud end!,

.•Janner.-r r. was dark an roads bad, f-st m'u-ainc 1 staid in a room