Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-12-22

puohc stage, and prevented going; that
they lived unpeasantly together that the
prisoner was cross, aud that his wife had
expressed great dread Of him, and had once
safd She was afraid of his killing her or
knocking her down that she had said he
had once used personal violence to her by
pushing her against a door, but ON the 9th
er hand had stated to her pastor, whose adj
vice she took as to her proper course under
her unhappy relations with her husband !;
that she had met with no personal III usage
from him, but was in fear of him that on
one occasion he had pushed her out ofdoors
and threw her clothes after her, and that
she had afterwards returned to him; that
he had expressed his doubts of her fidelity
to him, and shown himself violently ieai-
Gus of her and complained of her NEGLECT
Of her household duties and her unwilling
ness to wOrk-that his wife was about
eighteen years old aud he past fifty; that
the night of the twenty-second of March
the last day she had been seen in the neph
borhood, was very stormy, and that snow
fell and had drilled much and was in many
places very deep-that his wire's sister.
Catharne Hlnkle, had called on the prison.
or on the day Of his flight and questioned
him about her sister, and that he looked
confused and reluctant to speak on the sub
Ject, but told her, as he had Though with
variations as to the place where the money
was taken by her) mentioned to others,
that she had left him aud taken fifty dollars
from him away with her; that Catharine
Hinkle then determined to have a search
made at the prisoners for her sister, and TO
have the matter investigated; that she mem
toned this determination on the Sunday on
the night Of which the prisoner had fled that
the prisoner, on the afternoon of that day,
was at a neighbours (the elder Mr. Gittin-
ger's) with several persons. when little
girl came into room then adjoining that
where the prisoner was, and stated that
Catharine Hinkle meant to go about her
sisters case to Squire Bushy; that the
door being open between the rooms, the
prisoner could have heard this statement of
the little girl, which was made in loud
voice, and that the prisoner soon after left the
room; that this was early in the afternoon
but that toward dusk he was. at thu .young-
or Gittlnger's that the day afterwards
some young men, when cunning, passed
through the orchards of the prisoner at a gull
ley in 1t, and found hole aud footprint
near it, where something seemed to have,
been dug and filled up; that this being men,
toned TO Poist, he and the young men went
TO the place and found that stick, pressed
into the covered place, bounded as from
elastic that the earth was re-
moved and a bag with headless and limb
less trunk of human frame was found that
the bag was marked Adam Horne, and was
proved 10 have been sold to him with coffee
some months before, the seller marking his
name on it; that going to the prisoners
they found his house vacant, the back door
open, aud his goods and furniture all aban-
doned = found his working clothes and
shoes thrown under the counter Of his store,
(he was tailor aud also kept store) mark
ed with mud corresponding to that of the
soil where the body was found, and wash
basin with water, into which mud of the
same kind seemed TO have beer washed =
that the soil Of the guley Gas ii was the nm
der earth made bare by washing Of the
grounds) was different from the soil around
II that examining the room above the
kitchen, bag with legs aud arms aud hands
was found, which were also marked with
the peculiar mud referred to, and which be-
ing put to the trunk correspondent with il
that the great toe of the deceased was par
ficularly long, and that such was the toe on
the foot found in the bag aud one witness
said that some years ago the deceased had
Ielon on her thumb which had made her
carry it contracted and stiff, but at time
before il was well and he had not seen her
since, but that the thumb on the dead hand |
was in the same position; that on the steps
leading to the room where the bag was, |
here were, near the top, stains, which one
ofthe witnesses supposed were of fruit, but
which the others were confident we're of
blood; that in the middle of the room was
4 large stain apparently marking out a hu-
nan frame, which was such as brine would
cave, and that at one time a white incrusta-
ion was seen which was believed to be salt |
)ut that no test had been made of what the |
tain was; that under a pile Of plaster in
corner Of the room few stains were found
which were confidently pronounced by most
If the witnesses TO be from blood, and also
,ne on the washboard, whichthe witness be-
ieved was painted washboard; one or
wo of the witnesses believed that the stains
Inder the plaster and on the washboatd
night have been from fruit; that the body
ound was correct with the limbs, was OF
he size of the deceased, but one of the wit
lesses (who was, however, very positive as
o the identity of the great toe) said that the
seemed iairer than the deceas-1
DIS that the bag with the limbs was imme-.
lately at the entrance of the room, aud
eemed to have been thrown in carelessly
nd in hurry.
The physicians Or. Dunbar aud DR..
loberts) testified that they were requested
N Nav IN eyamine the body and fnund II in