The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-05-16
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Inc hepuDllc OF this morning contains the val
edlctory address of Messrs. Butt and Sargeant-
Mr. Bult says the change is in consequence of taer
quarrel with the Cabinet
| The lntellgencer says-e'We now, therefore,
state on authority of the President, that he lends no
countenance to any attempt, from whatever quar- or
1t comes, to disturb unsettle his administration -
As 1t is, all statements and inference to the contrary
are utterly without foundation"
The lntelligencer says, seml-oficially, that the
Cabinet will remain unchanged for the present
John II. Bartlett, of New York, formerly of Prov
| idence, has been appointed U. S. Commissioner to
run the boundary lin between the United States and
Mexico.
The PARKER MURDER. The examination of
the Wentworths resumed at South Berwick
Tuesday afternoon. Reuben Maybury of Saco testi-
fed to seeing Mr. Parker in that place the day be-
fore he was murdered. He was pointed out to him
at the cars by Henry T. Wentworth, who said he
| (Parker) had shown him considerable amount of
money, about $2500, and was to let him know
about purchase he contemplated in Saco. Witness
stated further, that after the murder, H. L. Went
worth read 10 him one of the handbills offering
reward for the discovery of the murderer of Parker
that ne did not take any particular notice during
the reading TO see whether Wentworth was agtated
Reuben Morgan Of Manchester testified to finding
pair of green moeskin pants, all bloody, hanging
up IN passage way, in his house, among some 9TH
er clothes. Thought they must have been put there
during the highland that the blood could not have
been on them long.
| John II. Brown, recalled, testified that he had
such pair of pantaloons, and thought he left them
with other old clothes at Asa Wentworth's house in
Manchester, but could not say positively where he
left them. This witness corrected an error in his
previous testimony that ii was in l847 and
not l846, that he attended the muster at Chester.
lie further testified that he met Asa Wentworth at
oaco last summer, and in speaking of the murder,
1 he told Asa he thought they would soon be after
Horace. Asa asked if Horace's name had ever
been mentioned in connection with it, Upon being
told that it had, he wished witness, if he should
hear of any thing of that kind to write to him. or
come and let him know it.
i Witness was closely questioned in regard to the
muster affair, and Horace Wentworth's request tha,
ne should pass some of the g Parker money! We
quote from this part of the evidence =
L went to Concord muster out of curiosity-tc
, amuse myself. Horace said nothing about making
discount the bill, but said he would do what wa,
right with me if got it changed. had no reason
to suppose twas counterfeit My conversation witt
Asa IN Saco, occurred one evening after thew haf
pretty much all gone to bed. i think | introduced
: the conversation in relation to Horace. do no
: know why Horace Wentworth preferred getting m,
TO pass the 800 bill at the muster did not thinl
particularly as to what he meant when he said tina
1t was "as good money ever Parker had.''
u suppose there would have been some difficult,
d In passing the Parker money, because it was com
e mon report that they were marked with ssP'' o.
l. the back,-but | did not once think whether tn
. money Horace offered me at the must was stParke
money! or not
4 At the examination on Tuesday, Parker Vile
testified that of the Wenworths tried to get hir
to carry one thousand dollar bill to Boston for tn
purpose oil having it changed after the murder bu
that he was afraid to do So
lie also overheard during the previous trial of III
j. Wentworths at Saco, conversation between Henri
n and his father-in-law (McQueston), in which h
J. heard the former say that the Manchester peopl
would try to prove that he was at Manchester, b.
That they couldn't if they tried--that he had got
talked into the people there lat Saco), and coul
: bring twenty TO swear that he was in Saco.
- Ann Maria Annis testified to having seen a ma
l. whom she took to be Henry T. Wentworth, in Man
n chester on the night the murder was committed =
:, The same night she attended a ball at Asa Went
worth's house in Manchester and states that fror
). nine TO twelve O'clock Asa was not to be found al
IF though she made diligent inquiry after him. as 81
.r wished TO leave for home. While she was down
the shed, lnqurng for Asa, she heard an out-cry a
OF some one in distress, which came from the drec
ton of the place where Parker was murdered
N The counsel for the government then stated tina
their evidence was all in with the exception of d
ID rect testimony going to prove that Mr. Parker had
k large pocket-book containing sums of money. fake
from his side coat pocket at the time of the mure,
and that IN every pocket were marks of bloody fin
gers, except in one, and in that pocket was foun
: wallet containing papers and, $l635 in money
: winch testimony he desired the privilege of intro
: ducing at aiature stage Of the proceedings.
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