Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-06-26

die, had pistol III ms manu-; nave
seen this man (S,ephen Hodges) three
times; once on the night Of the murder
standing a, Leisi's bed; the second time
was when he was brought to our house,
and now is the third time. lam conf
dent i, is the same man.
Cross Eramined. The light went
out shortly after | awoke, when lawoke
l saw the man standing near l.elsl's
bed; the light was near the middle OF
the room and shone upon his face SO
tina, | saw him; there were six persons
in the room sitting together when they
were brought to our house and when
saw him the second time. They all
had omit thrown over them; | recognlz-
ed this larger one (S,ephen Hodses)
then. and | am pretty certain now this
is the same man saw standing al Let
sis bed on the night my father was
killed. describes the situation OF the
beds and the person standing near H.
The candle was rather behind the lt'le
one who stood at our bed; ] did not say
mex, morning that should not know Ell
Their of them if saw them again; then
said thought should know the one that
stood hv Leisi's bed. if | saw him
aran; know him by his long hair. by
his black eve, BY The looks of his face
and his height; had good view OF
him AS he stood by the bed with club;
the light shone on his face, which was
not BACKED all over.
DR. Holmes.--About dav break !
went to the house of Le's'; iound ola
man Miller lying out Of doors. he tcas
deal: probed the wound in the breast;
could not touch the bottom OF wound
with probe; think the wound would
have zone through the body of any or
dnary person. Miller was man of
deem chest; found wound on his fore
head and on probing it, found that skull
grated on probe, from which ! Judge
Tia, it was slightly fractured. think
the death was caused by the stab in the
breast. | think he bed considerably;
there was much blood on the ground,
on the door cheeks. and on the walls OF
house. observed the gun, it was
shattered and the stock held on by
wire; there was cut on the ram rod,
as if received from knife in striking
and Tending off. The wounds on Lei
81, two on lef. portion of the temporal
hone. like letter V;',hinks one was
nearly or quite through the skull; the
other was slight one; there was con-
fusion on the forehead as if by blow;
there were two severe cuts, one on each
shoulder blade. they were about five
| inches long and into The bone. There
| was another cut low down on the back
/ of the neck; that was not deep cut; he
was also wounded in the chest by ball
! from a gun. | probed the wound and
found it went round and not through;
| cut ont the bullet from near the shoul.
der blade. There was the appearance
ON Miller of having been struck across
the back twice, as if with stick.
should Judge from the shape and ap.
pearance of the wounds on LeisTs
back, that they were made by large
heavy knife. Canno, say whether the
ball was shot by smoolhe bore or a
rifle barrel pistol; rather think 1t was
no, a smoothe bore, from the ball being
slightly ragged-a small piece of bone
was taken from it afterwards. The
wounds on the forehead OF Lelsl APP
reared to be made by s,abs with point
of sharp knife, knife something like |
of an inch broad.-I am practiclng
physician in West Point.
Jas l.. Eslis. (Sheritl' of Lee Coun
ivy was awakened about milnigh
a, nv Office in West Point. Col. Pat
,erson and myself got lost and got IL
Leisi's about day ligh':-the Others
were there; saw the old man Mile
dead. living a, the door, and where thu
blood had run from him. The faml,
was in such state of grief that coul,
no, get any thing satisfactory from then
descriptive of the men who had don
il. sent the other persons home +
Yves. Poin, with directions TO arous
every BODY. | found others lookin
for foot tracks; we saw 3 foot track
leading from the house; after follow
ed them abou. mile. found only
foo, tracks and bare foot horse track
followed these tracks to Montrose, on
was a peculiar track; after ! followe
them some time, found no difficult,
| could tell whether il was in run {
in walk by the boot making the tn
impression when in run, that II III
not make when he was walking, OWN
to the toe of the boot being turned al
Think it was ten or eleven miles iro
; MilIer's to Mon,rose: it was hall MI
: from Miiler's when first found the'
! tracks, there were 3 tracks al first, al
: several hundred yards beyond; fres
3 horse track bare foot; about five or s.
miles from Mller's | observed as
r where the persons making the racl
+; had stopped and washed themselves
the branch; this was IN retired plac
2 no houses near and in very deep he
! low: l-6rs. found these tracks beyor
| the creek from the house OF Miller; ii
road from the upper crossing OF Il
e creek at the Mill. near Leisl's, was
, the direction of Montrose; thinks it fo
r or five miles from Leisi's to whel
g they left the main road aud took a b,
e path to Monlrose; noticed this tra'
e .,,Ja h,, III hont narticularlv think i,