New-York daily tribune., 1851-09-29

ne says tnat he has no knowaed2c tnal tnS 1ustfs
we're ever returned. except nom the fact th@t AZ
sometime aiters srf. when he had OCCASION 20 use
them. be found them N Their place.
4 Cowc6n testified that before being admitted 10
Phe.pSs house ~ Lake he looked through window
by he SIDE Of the door ana saw Lake writing az a bu
Yrau and beng informed by NJ Meicaf tsai there
was no window oy the SIDE of .Ae door, he came
upon the stand and. re'er.rnC the impression left
upon MS mind that here was window, corrected
the error You have seen the house. and have seen
hat Il mas a window on the east Sile easily ap-
preached from the gate A. the north front, which
contains the ccor. The mistake was natural one,
and in recard 10 y matter OF ~ importance what
ever. venture TO say that there Is not one ~ you
who can tell me how many windows there are m the
SIDE Of thus room, behind you, ara describe their 10
cation
iii Here Is another third defense established
with scual certainty which y alike ndeftndsn nt and
equally conclusive. VIZ PAeps arf LdSs tras6h4ssfy
xsDoSsfed Earv's RE match which they pre-
tend WAS delivered % them on tue llta oi Apru, ~
Fitch and Corwin. You vii see al once thai y ihis
position Is true. then, may be eQuaiyue ana pro-
baby i true that they aaduen'lv deposited n1ays
house the matgh found there. II their teS'imsy IN
false regart 10 the circumstance under winch ine
match was found a. either place, then the ~ncie
fabric OF their evidence and OF the entire cause. ias
to the ground recall your attention. bnehy TO the
narrative given by Phelps and Lake concerning the
manner III which thev obtained The match at hichi-
gan Centre Apnl H. You viii remember thai on
the sth and 9Th OF April. Phelps and LAKE had ex-
hblieG the match al GAYS house TO Clark and NaA
Amman. Lake saws that II was determined then Al
Detroit, on consultation with Clark 20 go 10 elchi-
gan Genre and get match there On the tenth they
arrived al Phepss house On the ith they aent early
m the morning together to Grass Lake. They pro-
ceeded thence bv way OF Eager tady house. Ihey
went a.shori disiaRce westward then norfhwaId 10
Michigan Centre ~ the straight middle road, which
they struck far east Of Besmans corners. and they
pursued this road directly 10 Michigan Centre that
tkey stopped no where on the way but az Eager Ca
dy's house that they did not separate that they tid
not go through the village Of Lsonl and thar they
did not carry with them this match nor any box,
bundle, or baggage OF any Kind whatever thai they
had nothing On their wagon but some loose straw
that they found Fllley at home. told him they had
come prepared 10 60 to Miles, thar nigh, tha, Filley
replied. ne glad OF it, tha they would be ready
for them Phelps asked II The BOYS were there, ana
on Filleys answering they were not, Phelps replied
that H. would To Lconi snt give them notice and
they might come down II they pleased tha. Phelps
returned on the north road to Leoni and proceeded
thence To Grass Lake that Lake beng Ill, after tax
ing some refreshments, lsid down, slept an hour,
arose. found Filley IN the oarroom that Fihey and
himself fixed pen-Stock that tllley went 10 the
barn and brought thence this Niles matcs under his
coat, with box In the other hand and sent the chit
drsn out Of the haT-rOOm Lake examined the match.
tina, he, Filiey then put the match IN the box raised
II up. deposited IN the storerCo and put the sey
IN his own'pocket that TWO young sportsnnen came IN
from jackson that Filev sold one OF them hsh, at
sunset that Flley said he must take some persons,
who were hanging about there, fishing that Lake
attended HIM to the pond that he left him there
TithOut recsUsng the ksv from lam, returned To The
house and there fould Phelps, with Myers, Corwn,
Fitch, Hudson and Faulkner and, after free drink
ing and many consultations, that Fitch called Cor
win to hx them OIL and Corwln took the key nom his
pocket opened the door OF the storeroom, took out
that same box carried It out Of the house, put II into
Phelps's and Lakes wagon, and told him II was right
side up with are and that Phelps and Lake departed
IN one wagon and Myers and Norwin returned "a
Ieoni IN another
Gentlemen, Phelps hadnever seen eager Cady nor
his horse. lie made no serious effort TO buy horse
He had no use for another horse Could hs VISIT to
eager Cady, on that occasion so far out OF way,
have had any other purpose but tomlSead observers
concerning the route OF his Journey 10 Michigan
Centre. IL turns out, dare not say provdea,ially
to have been the Of disclosing their depraved
designs On that morning James Peeler and Clarence
II. kellogg were drawing timDer up the road leading
from eager Cady's TO Grass Lake. Ihey met rheip.
and Lake, knowing only Phelps. Peeler accos,ed
Phelps, who courteously returned the salulatIon-
Both Peeler and Kellogg saw an obong bundle
foot long SIX inches deep and sax inches vide, TIED
up in red handkerchief. lying on the bottom oi the
wagon. peeler asked Kellogg what he thought was
in that bundle. Kellogg replied that N the Stranger
was musician, It might be "a box of musical insuu-
ments but he believed II contained bogus money, ot
a contrIvanCe 10 make II wlth-s remark most natu-
raj when you consider that Phelps notorlousiy pur-
sued the profession either of a villain, or what ~
called a steol-pgcon, one who pretendst 10 pursue
career of crime for the purpose OF betraymg others
Israel Il. Brown, sexton OF the church at Grass
Lake, PeeleT and Kellogg arrive AZ That village,
between 10 and II O'Clock, with load OF timber, and
Identifies the day by religious services IN the church
drove up at his door They stopped and conyefsed
on proposition for the purchase of q horse Cady
saw something IN Phelps's wagon about foot long,
SIX inches wide, SIX inches deep, and ned up IN red
hand kerchief James ). Seacord, who lives NJ Le-
onl, had been that morning sent by ms employer,
Dlmmck. down The Napoleon road TO search Tor
beate and wedges, which had been LEFT IN the woods,
a mile and quarter from Leoni, on road which
Phelps and Lake deny that hey Travelled, and AT a
point quarter OF mile south OF the place where
they alleged they crossed the road On coming out
Of the woods, Seacord saw two men pass NJ one
horse wagon al distance o three rods, between the
lands of Beaman on the east and NILS on the west.
There nearly under sassairas tree one OF the ltn
allghted, took from the wagon bundle OF oDiong
shape. about a foot long, &c. and tied up IN a red
handkerchief put thunder his got over the fence
into Mills lot and went of northwestery across the
fields. The otheTproceeded OF his way IN The wagon
Seacord walked up TO the dIstlery and thence To
LeonI, there saw the wagon, vim the same ron
gray horse fastened II tuykendalls tavern lie lden-
ifes the day by lawsuit between ffeeland and
Taylor Benjamin Dmmick conoborates seacord,
by saying he sent hun on some day ia the same week
after town meeting 10 search FOR the bedtie wedges
at the place indicated.
DAVID Beman testifes that on Friday after town
meeting-that ls 10 say, April H. In the morning
he was at work splitting rails the Oi his farm,
out Of sight OF the road lie sent hs son to knoll,
towards the road, to see whether cattle were not on
the wheat6ed. His son having stayed, As be thought,
unreasonaby long, Belnan came over 10 the hnoll'
and aHIylng there, at distance OF some foty fods,
he saw two men, who were unknown TO hlm, come
up IN one horse wagon. They stopped near a sas-
sairas tree. One got out, took a bundle, or some
thing else that Was red out Of the wagon, got over
the fence and went across ESQ Ahllss fed, so as 10
approach dagonally the middle road e Ding 10 hHh-
Igan Genre passing Penhelds sawmIll. Tne other
man drove III the buggy across the middle road
towards LeOni He saw Jesse COZer come down
that middle road with load Of rails and pass me
man IN the wagon the way towards Leoni. lie
identIhes the day by the pa ment Of dollar which
he owed t. neighbor and paved on that day, charg-
ma IN a. A remember n illlffIdtf
man and kept no accounts.
Emmett Beman, the soR, explains the cause Of his
delay IN going To the wheatheid, and says that hs
arrived on the hill overlooking the road and there
raw two strangers come up IA one-horse wagon
that one Of them slighted took a bundle n red
handkerchief placed It under his arm, climbed over
the fence INTO 5IlIs's field, and went westward The
other man, with the wagon and the iron-gray horse
pfoceeded north, towards LeOni, across the middle
road and the witness saw COZler with ms load Of
LII Ind he nr hor.a Aannn nags hun Its