The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1849-08-07

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with a club, and as soon as Ii
could he changed the knife from tn,
(; left hand and placed II in his right, a
least ! think SO, he put the knife int,
Hamilton's left side, and he wheeled
around and strtick lick or i've at m,
and left for The woods. was within fiv,
! or six fee; of Hamilton and Busick a
the time. ! saw Hamilton coming over
and said il George misused Hamilton
bad he would get whipped--Hamiol
: would not be abused--then said toys
this IS company concern, this belling
and no one shall Se hurt in il alone.
slept to walk towards Busick, and hearc
Vail say that he had knife; ! iurnee
round to pick up stone, saw the blade
OF The knife drawn back, about the same
time, and threw the stone at George; h.
had then stuck Hamilton with the club
aud before | struck him with stone, OF
about the same time, he stabbed Hamil
ton; he came at me then, | jumped back
and grabbed mp another stone and threw
il at him; he came at me again, and | pick
ed up SHINE club we had to play wick
ct ball with; after had got the club, he
left with all his might; and after him.
followed him perhaps $50 or Two hun.
dred yards; he ran into the woods and
came back Hamilton was carried in
when ] got back, he was lying on The
floor dead apparently. heard them
talking in the bar-room, could not tell
what they were saying, ] was sitting in
the window; after George came out Of
the door, Arthur followed George right
along out into the street and stood right
alongside of George when he commit
ted the murder; they were eight or ten
feet apart. / was behind George, and
Arthur was by his side; | did not notice
any more of Arthur until after | came
back from the woods-he (Arthur) was
on Kohley's porch when l came BACK
| then started in another direction to
head George, and was gone half an hour
or three quarters; when came back
there was company Of us went to the
widow Busick's house, (Ar;hur's moth
er's.) We went down for the purpose of
getting their arms from them-l did
see Arthur about the house, and looked
Ior him; Isaw him lying out on the fence
on his elbow.
By Juror.-WIIen you said "come
on boys" did you speak III tone that
they could hear you?
| spoke tolerably loud.
Cross Examined.-H Hamilton had no
weapon in his hand-Busick was moi
looking at witness but at Hamilton. AT
the be ling the boys went round the
house to see if they could see Kohley,
and water was thrown upon them when
they replied that the girl was --
on them. Some Of the boys went to
the window and looked through--Rice
and Vail looked through the window,
but does moi think they tried to raise the
window--was not there all the tme--re-
collect hearing something said about its
being We house--Gcorge Busick
was living there with his family--he was
then absent attending Kohley's horse
was regularly keeping the horse, and
was absent at night, | went TO the door,
and saw his wife; George has a little
boy 4 years old, and do no, know the
ages of the others but they are younger
than the boy. There was flute and
cowbells in the crowd; knew Hamilton
was man of high spirit, and therefore
felt that he would no, lei George atuse
him. There was no one cursng George
or Kohley at the time. When g Gorge
was in the bar.room talkin about the !
belling,l was present, and said 10 George,
g pshaw! was in that belling, and
kill any body"
Re Eramined.--The pavement is some
five or six feet wide before the tavern--
did not see any man armed hut George
---heafd no others bantering 10 fight but
George.
WILLIAM GREEN, Sworn.--I should
think il was about three o'clock in the !
afternoon, when Arthur Busick came TO
me to procure horse 10 ide two and a
half miles 10 Lookabill's to procure dried
apples; told him he could have her, the
horse; told him The mare had been rude
considerable, and if he wanted her, 10
Use her weil-he took the mare and
started as supposed 10 the place he
'puke Of; the mare was in Rankin's pas