Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-11

I witness considerable time as rigger;
! that prisoner began to work for witness in
September 1799, and continuedto work for
s. him till the spring OF 1904 that during
]. that period he. saw him constantly; that It
7 appeared from witnesses: books that Park :
! er received money from witness for work,
which he had performed Oh the following
days, viz. on the 9th ,,of October. and on
the Gil, and 18th December, 1900; on the
9Th, 10th and 2sth February, and 18th OF
March, 1901; that Parker lived from NAY.
1909 til. some time in April, 1901, in a
house in this city belonging to captain PEI
lor;, chat during that period, and since,
/ witness had been well acquainted with the
prisoner.
Isaac Ryckman testified, thathe was an
inhabHant of this city; that he was well ac-
.quainted with Joseph Parker the prisoner
I! at the bar, and had known him a number
:.of years that witness and Parker were
q ointly engaged in the latter cpd OF the year.
4 800, IN loading vessel for captain 1'red-
wei, of this place; that eybegan to work
on the 10th day OF Decembcr, 1900, and
were employed the greatest part of the
month of January, 1901, in the loading of
/ thevessel; that during thar time the wit
/ ness and Parker worked together daily;
| that witness well recollected they worked
,ogether an the 25lh day of December,
lIsoe;rh remembered it, because he ne
yer work.. lon a Christmas day before or
since he knew that it was in the year
1900, because he knew that Parker Lived
| that year in house belonging to captain
| Rlor, and he remembered their borrowing
ascrew for the purpose of packing cotton
ipthe hold Of the vessel they were at work
TAI, from Mrs. Mitchill, who lived next
door to Parker; that witness was one Of
the city watch, and that Parker was also at
| that time upon the watch; and witness had
i served with him from that time to the pre-
isn't day upon the watch, and never recol-
lleted missing him any time during that
l1eriod from the city.
I Aspnwall Cornwall testified, that he
lived in Rutger-street, and had lived there
a number OF years; that he kept grocery
store; that he knew Parker, the prisoner at
the bar, in 1900, and 1901 that Parker
then lived In captain Pelor's house; thashe 4
only lived one year III capt. Pelor's house,
and that Parke: while he lived there traded
with witness; that witness recollected once
missing Parker fer aweek, and on enquir-
ing, found he had been at Staten Island at
work on board one Of the United States
frgates, that excepting that time, he ne
ver knew him to be absent from his family,
5ut saw him constantly.
Elizabeth Mitchell testified, that she
knew Parker, the prisoner at the bar well
that in the year 1900, and 1901, Parker
lived in q house adjoining TO ohe;in which
the witness lived; that the house Parker
lived in, be onged TO capt. Pelor; that wit
ness was in habits OF intimacy with Parker's
family, aud visited them constantly; that
Parker being one of the city watch she-us-
ed to hear him rap with his stick at the
door to awaken his family, upon his return
from the watch in the morning; that she /
also remembered perfectly well Par'.er's
Borrowing ascrew from her on Christmas
day in 1900, she offered hins some spirits
to drink, but he preferred a glass Of wine,
which she got for him, the circumstance Of
her lending the screw to him, She was the
more positive of, from recollecting, also
that it was broken BY Parker in using it;
that Parkernever lived more than one year
in capt. Pelor's house, ard from that time
to the present day, witness had been on the
same terms of intimacy with Parker's fami~
~, she therefore considered lit as almost
impossible that Parker could have been ab-
sent from town any time without herknow-
ing it, and she never knew himto be adj !
sent more than one week while he lived at
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