Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-09-17

bent Locust where saw srpearsnceso d q horse
being hitched. lam certain ahorse WAS httoh
ed al the sak tree on the eastern side ct tns
Tevis road.
&argsrss Crsfab -svesringen and wife ar
rived AZ ray house on Sunday evening bstween
sunset and dark, remained all oight and 'ook
breakfast in the msrnIng live about ! a mie
this side Cresap,evn. LEI, my house atet
breakfast. understood Fan tnem they were
going to Mrs Robert Cressp's. | invited toem
TO return and stay with me Of tiondsy night
Mrs. S. hesitated. but Mrs.. observed VI they
didn't return, they would stay At u CresAps
She wasbroughl back about1 ? O'Clock a esTpse
s said the horse fell with her 10 the road and
killed her near HiIleary's fence, !uat as 'he
horse fell drove came in yieV; SAID TIE morse
did not freighten, but stunt leo ana fei,
thought he tFod on and rolled pYer heTs tue
BODY must be very much bruis'a Naked ne
for o servant 10 send for her shoes and ouer
things left IN the road where the horse tell !
told bin 70 send enc of mB servants The shoes
came back, black praBslie shoes, don't recoteet
whether they had ribands to lace round the
aacle. Corpse left my house | orr O'Clock on
Tuesday. (Cross exam.) Swearing en- and wife
were apparently 10 3 good Lumogr. Mrs. )
said it was an unexpected visit, saii her time
was short before she expected To return TO
Hsgerslown; that Mr.. s. had Requested her to
come I'D and she did not ike to tefOse.
Henry Wineog.-iuquest held on Tuesday
we ex@m,ned the horses legs: more cuts on the
right leg than he other, appeared to be cut
With o sharp ins rumeni, q drop of blood slong
the right leg as il a man would run uls finger
dswn: don't think e tall could have bust the
horse: both knees appeared to be cuttbout an
inch and half clctted dry blood OF y, cut
smooth, hair cut also, no confusion about th-
skin Of The horsefs knee, no marks OF violence
on hin nose, put my finger on the blsod, The
| cash not straight but cut smosth. ! ~ssa' Gre
| sspss place, had rented tse farm. 10 he alter
| noon OF Monday, Etlcs cane 20 the ho'tpe and
,ola ne Mrs. Swsaringen was dead \, my
| daughter ard wife went mp TO see about it. ]
| went us TO Mrs. Cresap's: swearinges met me
| and shsok hands. then asked about the &C
| cident, he said accidents wculd happen among
! all people, or the best Of people, IL cant re-
| member which, then he said, Come! take a
| little sugar add whisky with me. Itben asked
! bow il happened: he told me he horse threw
! and fsii on her and must have bruised her a
good deaf. 4 asked where II occurted: said
| right where the run crosses tie road beyond
| The wooden bridge. asked VI she was,killed
| on The spot, he said she Vas. went homes
| came back in the evea,Dg, said would - up
| with the CORPSE. S, said she fell on her side
| litIt Na0e1 Mf'tD FhNNtS " TbfSC "NND n
came hack ~ the evening I and S. sat by sur.
selves in thu room, tuc. I'm wrong, z men in
the room 6ru0k,) / looked at the corpse, disao.
| vered a large cut en- the right side OF her heal,
which I had not seen before, above the ear.
asked how she received this cut he told ma
ste must have got it the second, or did get 10
the ID fall. I asked, why did she fall twicef
sat she did: says |, why then she was not dead
| the first fa,l he said not. | asked him il she
spoke, he said she made a motion 10 speak 10
wards the child, but he could not understand
her. lasted fine pat her on the horse himself,
said he did. I asked if he could not get any
help, there was o house no far OFT, said he
could not, there was no body a1cut. 4 asked
where were the dr0vers' he sid they were
I walking or running in this woods sitter the cat
tie. asked II sny body was present Shen she
| diedi he said not any body but himself, that
size died very easy. but bled a good deal at
the mouth. Sometime sfter in the night, he
and DsuieI Bruce took the drunken men 10 oc'i,
(they were } org steps from us,) then I de
not &c Swearirgen till 5 or : O'Clock ~ the
morning. After our conversation ! was Iu the
| room aionc- MIR. s. came IN the room, went TO
the corpse and pulled the sheet of her faee,
looked AZ her ,shenturDcdro round to ne. Win.
COW, sa,s he. she has got her eyes open, ought
she not to have them shu | said Just az you
think about thss: he then took his thumb or
finger and pressed them dow pretty bard
He turns around and inti'es me 10 take more
sug.r aud whisky, Tiers wss no mare whisky
there, he went to Mrs. Cressp and ordered
| more she had put the bottle away, I sa'd she
| need not get any, If | wanted any ! could let
her know. / sat up ell light. ! reckon II was
kindness to me that he asked me to drink: |
did not ace hin drink any. He showed no
kind of concern shout the death Of his wife. I
was tenant under him and Cephas CressP.
Lcob FechHs,-On the l4th, the Sunday FOL
lowing the death, l went TO the ground; icing
unacquainted, went to my bFotherln-lswi he
went with us After viewiJ g the stony place,
we viewed the Western Tevis road. and the
path his side the stony place; saw a horse had
been hi,ched at a hickory s2YIing by ihe stamp
ing, saw where the bark had been gnared off
the tree. Proceeded up The t%avine, goa off to
| the left and saw the track of a horse having
slipped: proceeded up through the %laurels, and
plainly saw the track of the horse slip soon after
we left the Tevis road, the slip Of the horse g
or 8 steps from the Western Tevis rosd, snd
discovered seversI tracks OF The horse from the
w. Tevis road to the slip; advanced up the hill
through the laurels and put my finger in the
horse track and into the heel Of the shoe also,
and thought the horse was emily shsd before;
wo passed on and kept the track until We got
up 10 where there was Il log, and Immediately
above the log discovered an impression upon
the leaves like n nest, "a If persons had been
lying there, the leaves hatteRed down as much
a. might be expected from persons lyIng down.
We advsnceds OF 10 yards, kept the horse
track, followed 1t up; came TO a ssplng where
We discovered plainly a horse had been hitohed.
don't re~Csilect the kind of sapling: Iascertained