Litchfield enquirer., 1850-09-12
Counsel for the State.
Prisoners Counsel.

J. 70. EOSTEh'
 ESquires,
 CHAs. CHAPMAN,
 R. HITcHCocK, Prlsoner'S Oo""Sei
 M. T. GRANGER,
 Esquires.
 Prayer by Rev. Mir. Stone.
 The Court decided to try the prisoners to' peIher. Some time was spent Tn empanellns 1he iury, seventeen of whom were excused o challenged by the prisoners.
 The crowd had become so great, that tht Court adjourned 10 the congregational chuich
 States Attorney introduced map of tho premises. = @s..neesl E..s5ia sworn. Live about 60 rods G..,n, the residence of the late BarnIce Whlte. The last lime saw him alive was aoout 1T ,,,cIock on the evening of tie 3otil or 9lst oL March last. Was at school meeting anu F3oe nome with him-helped him unharness ms borse Next morning went with neighooF ~ Wh;,s,s house-found him lying dead upon %;s hed There was a cut across he let eye, and two or three across the neck. The head anneared to be considerably bruised. A chest in The kitchen looked as if it had been split onen with a sledge. There were two pieces of hemlock club n the bed room, ana ahotn- or club in the kitchen. Saw marks ot cluo on inc bed room wall. White kept the Farm' ingtop River Turnpike Gae, and lived atone.
 Gross -Erdmined,-Can't tell how long he had lived alone. He sometimes had h'rrd help but not regularly, His wife was divorced rom atm in 1slo. Mrs Balcomb, Ms Thompson and others, had lived win and done work TOT him. Mrs Thompson lived there !ast-'ninK she left two or thee days before ms death.- The broken club would exceed an inch in dl- ometer-should think the marks on the walls xvere made by clubs. The skull should think was not fraciured. White generally kept his whiskey-haye seen him get it from the par hi. The lid of the chest was split in two or three pieces-he kept the toll money Tn the chest. e. . Cross Examination-Live about SO rods from Whites house. Saw two barrel gun standing in the kitchen, it usually hung on the ceiling. White lived alone. Has not had any female help since year ago, to my knowledge. He cooked his own food.
 Dy. Samuel Parsons, called.
 Live in New Boston. Berkshire Co.,, Massachusetts, and six miles from Whites. Knew him-saw his body on Sunday the 3lst of March about noon, saw il again on Tuesday, the 2d of April, saw confused wound over the left eye, through the skin of the eye brow to the bone, bruiss left side of the head over the ear: also bruises on the hands. Saw no other marks on the body. Made the examination on Tuesday night. near sunset, with Dr. Pease of Cole brook !: examined the wound over the left eve, (the only place where the skin was bfoken,) one half inch in length down to the bone-eGges ragged: next dissected the skin of the bruise under the ear, and exam ined the parts. Found blood under the skin. and between the muscles, length 3 or 4 inches-breadth 3. Important blood vessels not ruptured wound above the ear and anterior to 1t, was two inches or more in length, and 2 in width exlernally-skin not broken. Removed the scalp from the whole head--lound between the scalp and the bone, blood on the left side of the head, about the bruised parts; took off the upper part of ths skull bone, found between the bone and the membrane covering the brain extravesatee bIood-also between mem> branes-also between membranes and brain itself. injury was occasi0ned by blow or blows. and was likely occasioned by a bil> let of wood, such us would cause death im- mediately, judging from the amount of blood extravesated within the skull--it was in quantity, should think, about half 2 pint-wound over the left eye slight-that On the side of the neck was heavy bruise hut not fatal-seemed 10 have been made bv more than one blow think it would no have caused death immediately-bruise or shoulder and lett arm-no dissection, fin gers bruised also. All the injuries seemed 10 have been caused by a club or billet O wooL-the one over the eye. by sone blum instrument. (Here witness was sS29wn ths billet of woody Thought the injuries might have been occasioned by it, perhaps all. .
 Cross Examination.-Did not see Ma nasse,h to talk with him, nor Balcomb, un' til after examination.
 BeniGnsin Balcomb called.
 kr. Chapman objected to the introduce ton of, ,Balcomb as a witness. He thougiS it .solemn mnckcry for him. a principal, 10 raise his blood >siained hand, and invoke Divine vengeance, if he should testify falsely against his accomplices." He cited l case where ahe Court had refused to per init a prisoner under like circumstances, tc testify, and claimed it was a question en- tirely discretionary with the Court.
 The States Attorney argued the point a some length.
 The Court overruled the objection, an' Balcomb was sworn, and testified as fol laws: went down to Rugy Moore's saw mill Saturday evening, March 3Oth, to play chequers. About 10 o'clock, Menassett clmes into the mill and called me out Went up to the~road and found Calhoun sit.ing there. Asked him what was up He said he was going to crack old Bar nice,p asked him where Cobb was Said he had no. got back from New York l told him had rather not go, and said would get found out. He said there wal { nodangef. He said dared not go. sai, Ihad. Menasseth pulled out bottle, an' asked us tosaGink.
 I asked Calhoun how he intended t crack him '? Said, hit h nm. on the heat
 stun him rob the house and clear. w
 walked down three quarters of mill
 There the Indian put his ancle out ot join
 pulled oR his boot. and put il back agas
 Went on round the corner, up hill ha
 of a mile. He nut his ancle ont of loil