The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-13

Boss and King Boss went over and put his hand
in his own cat pocket Day raised his Left hand
towards bis pocket. when the witness let go Of
Day. Day asked whsther the witness had seen his
wife, TO which the witness replied. eyes, you've
care a -.S When he was told that she would
die, he said, /" Oh, my God" Twenty or thirty
mon and boys were following the prisoner. Day
put up feigned cry Hs behavior at the watch
house was iolerably good. The witness did not
think that Day was intoxicated at the time; and
Never heard him make any threats before the deed.
He wanted Mr.. Boss to carry him before Mayor
Lenox, but Boss said that Or. Lenox was not a
John Medley said that he was on Pennsylyana
| avenue on Saturday night, between seven and
eight O'Clock, and met Day, who asked him whe-
Their he had any powder Day put his hand IN his
pocket. but did not show the witness pistol.
Never heard him threaten his wife, or say why he
| wanted to load the pistol. He had seen him with
a pistol some time ago, but il had no cock on it.
| Mr.. Stafford was recalled, and said that the de-
ceased left no child; it ia dead.
MFR. Fridley was recalled, and testified that his
father was not at home when the firing took place.
John W. Wood, the stepfather of Day, never
heard him threaten to kill his wife or take his own.
Never saw Day beat her. Day and his wife had
lived in the house of the witness for three months
but during this time he (Wood) was not at home.
Day was at his house, where he lived, on Monday,
at six o'clock in the evening He had been drink.
ing. Ate his dinner there, but was not in liquor at
that time. Day remained ten or fifteen minutes at
| supper. Witness was sitting in the porch when
Day came out. Day did not speak to him. He
two or three days. There was nothing unusual in
Days appearance; he appeared to be in hurry.
DR.. WilIiGm b. Butt was at the house OF MIR.
FridIey ten minutes after the affair happened. he
found the lady lying on sofa, on her back; her
| legs were drawn up. Her pulse was feeble, and
| abe was sensible Among other words, she said,
"Let me die" She did not say that she suffered
pain. There was constant tossing about. She
holr ffarf ba A.,rtnr wa MT frfn he
house. Since her death he bad examined the body
| One of the wounds was four inches below the nip
| pie of the left breast The ball entered between
the eighth and ninth rib, fracturing the eighth rib
about the middle of it, then traverscd the whole of
the left lung. and lodged in the top OF the breast
bone, below the neck, and just under the skin
There was much bleeding internally. The doctor
thought that this wound proved mortal. The other
wound was in the left arm. The ball entered the
back Of the arm pit, and came out just above the
elbow, cutting the flesh below the elbow in its pas
| sage downward.
Dr.. Robert X. Stone merely confirmed the testi-
mony OF DR., Butt. When he arrived at the house
| he found that gentleman with Mrs. Day. Stimu-
lants had been commenced The patient was lying
tcrnal bleeding. Mrs. Day died in fifteen or twenty
minutes after he CDR. Stone) reached there. They
had made the examination which had just been de-
scribed He Or. Stone) took the ball from the
breast. II seemed that it had not force enough to
get out. The skin was cracked. The ball had
| been given to Coroner Woodward. That wound
caused internal hemorrhage; the other, in the
| arm, was merely superficial. The whole cavity in
which the left lung il situated was filed with blood,
| which had partly coagulated. The only words he
recollected her making use of were, "For God
sake, let me dic," and ~ can't get over it; for
Gods sake let me die"
the late residence of the deceased to accommodate
the family, and the remainder at the watchhousc.
In the mean time, Drs. Butt and Stone made post
| mortem examination of the body.
Tho ,,,r~ offe hriof cpu lint ooI IN
the following. verdict, namely; That the said Cath
arine v. Day was standing at her fathers door on
the evening Of the Twelfth of May 1851 about eight
O'Clock, ia company with her brother, her sister
Mary, her cousin, and Catharine b. Kreamer,
when John Day, her husband, came up to the
party, and after some few words had passed be-
I tween them, (the deceased and her husband,) he,
Day, said "l'll shoot you, and then, pulling ps-
the house, pursned by Day, when, entering tho
kitchen door, she was shot by the said Day dis.
charging two bullets from six barrel pistol; and
the jury believe, from the evidence, that the said
Catherine ". Day came to her death by being
maliciously and wifully shot by her said husband,
John Day.
/ examined by Justice Goddard to-day.
The PuBLrc GRoUNDs-MusIc.-W learn that
the gates of the Presidcnt's grounds hereafter
to be opened at six o'clock a. M, and to remain
open until a half hour after sunset, and that the
music ia to be admitted at the usual time SO il
will be seen that there is no wish to exclude our
citizens from the pleasure Of walking throug these
beautiful and highly cultivated grounds.
The Marine Band is to perform until further
ders 1t the grounds adjoining the Presidents house
every Saturday afternoon, and at the Capito
grounds every Wednesday afternoon.
| The SABBATH SCHOOL UNION held their monthly
meeting last night in the street Presbyterian
Church, and the exercises were Of an interesting
character.
THE CmcuIr CouRT adjourned yesterday until
to morrow.
MARRIED,
In Trinity church, in this city, on Tuesday, 18th
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