The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1849-08-07
KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY OHIO TUESDAY AUGUST ls4e

hand and then advanced one foot for
ward and struck Samuel Hamilton al
\ up-handed lick in the side with great
IDEAL of foice with the knifa-the blade
S inches long. saw the blood follow
the knife almost as thick as my thumt
IN agush. Hamilton put his right hand
over the wound and murmured some
Thing, lconld not hear it distinctly, ane
turned round to the right as though he
were looking for something, and in about
Two or three steps 10 the right he pickec
up crooked stick, and 10 STOPPING down
he changed his right hand from the
wound and put his left hand on The
wound, in the act Of doing SO quantity
of blood fell again, ! could not tell how
much--it came tremendously. After he
picked up the stick, he, continued rum
ling east perhaps twenty feet, il might be
10, and fell forward on his face. He be-
came weaker and weaker, till he FELL
He was laying with his hands before him
gasping and trying to catch his breath.
then gave my attention TO Busick, as
knew that Hamilton was dead or DYING
l suppose then George Busick was 90
or 80 feet ahead of me, going sideways
and backing of. then said 10 those
near me, "Why don't you catch him
The id rascal has killed Hamilton. y
The whole Of this took place in "a min.
utes. ran a considerable distance aE
ter George Busick, and found that he
could out-fun me, and then came back
and went into Mr.. Hamiltons house
whero they had carried The body of Sa-
muel Hamlton-I stood there few
moments-l1amilton made an effort TO
gap but II was slight effort to catch for
breath, this was all the motion | saw.
A dispute arose which course George
Busck had taken; some one said j,
would be best to stop Arthur; saw Ar
thur down towards The creek below the
meadow; they spoke and said he had 90,
away once before, and he was arrested;
he had tried TO get away before, and
they had watched him and brought him
back-this was 10 or fifteen minutes ac
ter the killing of Hamlion; | saw moth.
ing Of Arthur at the time but he acted
as though he was trying to get away 10
aid somebody; | cannot say what Ger.
tainly. George Busick, when he left The
tavern'went directly right in front of the
tavern and picked upa club; Hamilton,
in going passed me. He walked up east
on the porch; Busick walked also, cas-.
on the outside Of the porch; Hamilton
stopped at the end of The porch, and
George Busick kept up even with him
till they met. Brice Viers and John
Viers were in the street at the time he
made towards Hamilton and made noise
enough to have been noticcd-Hamilton
did not follow Busick in the street. he
went on the porch and Busick followed
him; when Busick stabbed Hamilton
Brice Viers hit him (Basick) with stones
on the back of the head, this was almost
directly after it was said that Busick had
stabbed Hamilton. This took place in
Pendleton, Riley township, Putnam Co.,
Ohio.
Cross Eramined This took place
between 4 and 7 o'clock, or between S
and 6. In relation 10 the beling scrape
AFTER had gone to bed a person came
to my house (Chase, believe,) and
asked me TO lend them some beIls--be
said they had coon freed. DR.. Day |
came, and there was company; gave |
hem the bells, and came back and pu,
IN my clothes and went 10 see what was
going on. didn't Know what was meant.
Hamilton went down, but neither said
Of done anything. Rice, Hooper and
myself saw him standing at his door in
MS drawers and said, "Hamilton, put on
1our drawers!" We went aftei Kohley
o his tavern, to see if he was there. We
'sked bis daughter to 60 10 his room and
zee If he was there. She went and
ound he was abssnt. Hamilton then
vent down with us, but never laughed Or
ung bell. We went to the house of|,
ieorge Busick and Rice, j myself wen,
Q the window and asked kohley to come
ut If he was there, and lei the inss
top. The ringing Of bells, shooting Of
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