American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-23

'OlCu WIN lOaFCS uIu sOuucu ONeT.
BY Mr.. Tagatt-Never knew it to catch fire
from the inside; the fire was made with char
coal; was at Stemmer's run, where FLYNN lv-
ed, about five or six weeks before the affair;
Flynn said in iocose manner that he had
worked for Quigley, that he had money, and
that he did not think it would be any harm to
knock him down and take it away witness
drew on sheet of paper, plat of the cabin,
which was round, the hunks leading right and
left, from either side of the door. Witness ex-
planned the plat to the iury,] The body was
found lying out Of the bunk.
By MIR. Proston-Flynn made The statement
about the money to witness, previous to a quar-
lei he had with Quigley; this conversation took
place near Mr.. Towards gate, Flynn laughing
and Joking; witness was arrested charged with
the murder, some three or four weeks after it
occurred; was charged with using the same Ian
guage which he attributed to Flynn; never
made the statement until the evening of his ar
rest; had had quarrel some time previous with
Flynn; was III Jail on the charge some two or
three weeks; on the morning after the murder,
helped TO put out the fire at the pits, Flynn and
man named Mccormick, assisting; Quigloy's
body was covered with scinders until they were
shoveed off; his arms and legs were burned off;
witness assisted in taking him OUT his head lay
towards the back of the cabin; has seen the
straw scattered about within two or three inch
es of the fire in the cabin; the remains of the
body were lifted out on three shoves; the body
lay covered in bed Of hot cinders.
Leonard Frost, sworn-Resded at DR.. Jones
at the time of the murder; explained to the
jury the plat of the cabin and position in which
the body was found There were sufficient
traces of the body left, to determine that they
were those of human being; heard gun 90
off between and IL O'Clock on the Saturday
night, in the direction of the cabin.
By Mr.. Preston-Could easily tell the head
of the remains; the space between the hunks
was three or four feet, the fire between; saw no
tracks about the cabin in the snow; Flynn said
to him that he had brought loaf Of bread
down to Qugley, and saw the stump on which
he had laid it on discovering the cabin burned,
and saw the tracks to the stump, which were
the only tracks about the cabin.
Mr. Lockart recalled by the State.-Belorc
they went to bed in the cabin, the straw was
carefully swept up under the hunks; never saw
Flynn have more than one dollar at time.
Pamela Kissel, sworn The witness was a
little girl about twelve years of age. Lived
at FlyHn's at the time the cabin was burnt;
Flynn was home on the Saturday evening be-
fore the fire about dusk; he went away again
and said he was going to the cabin to ask
Quiglcy to take his watch, as he wished to stay
at home with his wife, who was sick; he took
loaf of bread away with him; saw Flynn a.
gain at daylight on Sunday morning, when
Mrs. Flynn got up at daylight TO get his
breakfast for him; said he was going to take
Qugley his bread; that on the previous night
he had met him coming from the store with
some sugar, &c., and that his hands were so
full he could not carry it, SO he brought it
home; that when he went to the cabin in the
morning, Flynn said, he found it burnt down,
and was very much frightened; Flynn came to
Baltimore few days after the fire, and bought
his wife and child some clothes, and himself a
new SUIT said he had $40 when he went to
Baltimore; Flynn once after Quigley's death
came home eight" and told his wife to bar
the door, as people might come and think he
had killed him; when he came from Baltimore
he went up to Deer Creek and stayed about a
week; when he came home said he had been in
Pennsylvania to see his father, who was sick.
! Cross examined by Mr.. Preston.-lIad liv-
ed with Flynn some three or four months his
family consisted Of himself, wife, two children
and the Witness dutch family occupied one
part of the house; witness first told these facts
/ W 4'Ai blOtiiSh vi NV W
ceased.
BY the State.-Told his wife before Quigley
was killed that he had no money, and nothing
coming to him at the store; saw him with u
silver pencil after Qugley's death, which he
told his wife he had got from child at Deer
Creek; refused to give it to his wife. A pen
Gil was produced but she could not say it was
the same.
James Todd, sworn.-Resides at Robert
Towards, Slemmers run, and is storekeeper
there; was there on the 29th of last November;
the store is about mile and quarter from the
cabin; Quigley and Flynn were employed by
Mr. Howard at that time; they took nearly all
their pay out in goods from the store; Quigley
was not at the store on the Saturday evening
before the fire; Flynn had received but three or
four dollars in money for his labor; kept his
account about square.
By Mr.. Preston.-Was at the cabin on the
morning after the fire; there is another store a.
bout quarter Of a mile off, at the Rail Road
Depot.
Mrs. Elicit, swom.-Saw Flynn at her house
about two weeks before Christmas; she lives
near Dublin, Hartford county, Md; had known
him for a long time.
John Elicit, .sworn.-Flynn came to his
house about two weeks before Christmas; had
known him six or eight years; he appeared
restless and discontinued; he had $50 bill with
him; never knew him to have more than IS or
Sc before; witness tried TO change the note for
Flynn at a store, but they would not take it,
that it was a counterfeit: the note was old look
ing; returned the note to Flynn. A note was
sh own him, which he said looked like the one
he tried TO change for Flynn, but could not
positively identity it.
James Quigley, sworn-ls brother of the
deceased; had seen two $50 notes in his bro
theirs possession which he said were not good;
saw him paste plaster on $50 bill of the
Mechanics bank of Baltimore, which had been
torn; twas shown note which he believed to
be the one his brother owned.) His brother
had the two bills for more than two years; the