New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-08

Coroner, Did not go back - Iuokes> sffer had
been ~ Bostcl.-ss
Ous.,,sp tr ne . s'rl-r iffarpsv-iiDw long after
Won sCGc1 fuckers hor-e was t utl YOU GOT len
A.-Abouf fifteen minutes might have ocea
longer and during th,i tune made al the search
thought rece s>ary
Nr Brir pointed ont to ne jury. on a map II The
CITY. The loc,llte, % The tragedy.
Mr. Nlrnt I. Treser, sworn am the wife %
Mr. Tucke. live al the corner Of New and WASH
iugt0n SIS keep public house Margaret Garraiy
lived AZ nv house was living mere IN August sue
was employed a. waiter N the dihlns-room wa
at home IL - evening amer o'clock htd been ont
an hour and half left Margaret az home when
went away. she was not st home when returned
did not see her again that night retired 10 eed
about 10 O'Clock It was Monday night Margaret
told me that afternoon she had been Out, ma heaIC
That Drum vas married. and sud that u she met nlin
that evening she would stab him. Mr. Bruin here
handed Mrs Tucker the carving knife before men
toned THIS : my knife saw Il Eext morning
carter TIE murder, about o'clock II IS one OF me
knives used N my dining room. ard was Kept IN the
drawer Jonas Williams little cOlored boy who
lives with ne. showed Il 20 ne N tie drawer, where
y was usually kept.
Odd YOU observe blood on the knife
Al thought 1t blood don't know n the
knife bad been used On Monday Il was Is bright as
II Is now Nh Tucker took and wrapt l. IN a piece
OF paper srd put away II was JOnes's business TO
clean and take care OF the knives I'D not notice the
knife previously have known Margaret Clarity ave
months she had ocen living with me that time
she was very nice glrl, industrious and good IA
tured.
Odd you know o: her being visited by Mr..
Drum
A-Knew person called 70 see her dld lot
know him
Q-Wha, was las obcc; IN coming io0Jec,ed TO
AMI ruled OUT
Q-Wore these visits freQuentr
A.-lWlce. and sometimes three times a week
that WAS during The whole time she was living with
me she received hn IN the dining room.
Q.-Was Size alone with him
A-Yos she had seen HIM there Of a SUNDAY
afternoon. md IN the evening.
Odd She go out with hun evenings
A.->he did do rot Know that any other person
visited her | heard ms name was Drum.
Q-Was Margaret intending TO leave YOU
A.-Ies, when Lermonth WAS out It was not from
any dissatisfaction
Q-What WAS the cause lOblected TO- and
Odd YOU know Of her hxIng garments about
that time
chased clothes her month up On the lth of Au-
gust She was - OF % years of age.
Q.-Nas She on lhe eve Of being marnei
A-NoS, to Mr.. Drum did not hear OF Drums &C
tual marriage until Margaret told me OF 1t on Mon
day was pleased with Margaret. as Of one IN my
employ. and would have been glad TO have her mar
NED d!duO; know heretofore she came 20 live with
me she Is lrish girl Drum was an lrshman
think Margaret had 10 tducauon-had had no al.
vantggos she had no moiher-no one as protector
Q.-Nhen Margaret SAID she would stab Drum,
did you belyo she intended to DO 50
Al did not It was said under great eXcle-
ment heard Of the marriage OF Drum about seven
O'Clock IN the evcnlug-the time that Margaret
made the threat Margaret had FIRST got the lnteili-
genCc that afternoon she came m about hye L. NJ.
she appeared very much distressed, ard had been 50
for two or three weeks previously had been very
spirited had lot spoken 10 me before ths afternoon
upon the subject OF her grief she had no appette 10
eat and the grl told me she did not sleep noticed
her often IN tears her counionance was constentlE
expressive OF great gIlei, and low sprtedneSS she
was often found by the girls crying IN Rer room.
Odd she speak 10 You OF her affairs with Dram
a. though she expected difficulty to arise from It
A-NOthng. only that she was to have been mar.
RED to Drum. bu; Il was broken or that she would
not have HIM think she told me that Drum had told
her he was married al the time otthls conversation
she was very low-spuled.
Q-What clothing dad she make up
"A thin muslin dress and some lower garments.
This was three or four weeks before Drum WAS XII
led She lid not tell me she was going to be whore
Drum was that night, or that She knew where he
was.
Q-Nas Margaret a high tempered girl
Al never saw anything ike It. she dld not IT.
tend TO her usual occupations but neglected her
work at times. She has a brother living IN New
York, and father and sister IN Newark The sister
Is now living with me she Younger than Margd-
ret her brother Is married, and are poor laborIng
people. Margaret had no homes except where She
! lived out
Jonas Williams. sworn-Wness Is a sprightiy col
ored lad. Am about Is read live with Mrs.
! Tucker lived with her five or SIX years found
a knife on The morning after the murder, IN the
drawer with the rest OF the knives, where kept
y
Nargare. Lad stabbed Drum with II. and told me to
find II found il and carried It 70 Mrs. Tucker tins
Is the same knife It looked streake1 II looks the
same now as then found the knife between and ;
IN the morning, before breakfast II was common TO
have late suppers there cleaned the knives always
after dinner, also after supper there we're no other
sOIleG knives the next morning
Mr. Brun. recalled received the knife from the
hand of Mr.. Tucker about noon on Tuesday, August
9Th took Il home, gave n 70 ms wife ana directed
that no one should handle use II there IS no per-
q
Bridget FQrsey, sworn Am single woman 1--we
with Mrs. Tucker have lived with her eight OF nine
Years lived there IN August last Margaret Car
raty and Elizabeth HarklnS slept IN same room
With me was al home and slept at Mrs. fuckers
on the night Of August lh retired about 10 O'Clock,
or little past Elizabeth went to bed with me
had been al home all The evening when went 10
bed MargaJet was not at home think It was after :.
| saw her last that night Margaret came home
sometime after was IN bed ieit door open Tor
her, the bedroom and also the dining room door
was not asleep when she came home did not hear
her until she came into the room heard her open
the door had small light burning IN the room tor
her was expecting her she had no hgn' ! sad,
l. that Mary ~ she SAID " Is =" she SAID, " nave
killed Drum shall | go away or go 10 bed F" told
her didn't know whot She should do | cOald'nt say
much she uudressed and lay down the light was
not put OFT she lay but moment and then got up
again She thon dressed herself and took few
pieces OF her clothes and tied them up IN an apron
or handkerchief, and SAID she would 90 10 Brooklyn
didn't say to whose house she would go, she went
the light heard Mr. Tucker come to the house
Margaret had been gone but ten or fifteen minutes
was not asleep when Margaret went away She sad
he didn't care II she drowned herself.
sserammsd-Iiad been acquainted with Mar
garet ever since she came TO this country she has
lyed in different places coulpni tell her age only
saw Drum once after Margaret came there she
came on Tuesday and he Saturday sometimes
twice or three times week. never saw her have
any male company bat HIM he used to take her out
with hun when Margaret said she had killed Drum,
.nas rpn a. "a
looked Wild almost like fire | very much
frightened. and she trembling with ag tatlon
She I'D not say where Il done did not ask
told Mr. Tucker what she had told me Margaret
had lived with Mr. Watkins over the river, and at
Mr Cox's she TOOK her dresses and a shawl, and
what else cannot say when she came IN she en-
tirely undressed herself as usual when she got Up
she did not change her dress.
CROSSE rafatnsd-She asked me should she go away