The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-20

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uinich, Anseletti. wAs shown ysns1 This msy
hsve been Mrs. WINSTON hair. She had false hair.
have mot got any. The window thsf was open ~
. catch TO IL This window and the front door
were examined, but mo- marks Of violence ware
found thereon. This window vas up and the blinds
hoisted. The back doors were fastened. haye
the only key to the dining room. THE reporter
win give now the chief points Of James testimony,
a. there l. great deal Of verlsge in H. Jane was
here shewn the bloody chenise.l Do not know
whether Anna had her monthly sickness the other
dav or not She has heap Of dirty rags in the gar
ret. IJsne was here shown the large sized hatchetI
There are two or three hatchets in my room or
have been. Use them in splitting iightwood They
belong to husband. Do not think that this large one
is my husbands 1t may be however. l used
Ratchet that think little larger, on yester.
aay. to chop up some meat for my family.
Invent to market yesterday Sunday morning,
though not in the habit of going generally, and
bought piece of beef part of the srloin, to make
into SOUP. cut the bone and the meat with
Ratchet like this, and threw the hatcbet handle
down into a water bucket, think. Did nor wash
the Ratchet. Put some of the soup on the TABLETOP
Johns dinner.
The jury was here adjourned to meet at the City
Hall at IL o'clock Search was made for larger
Ratchet but none was found. A torn dress was
found in James room, with stains of blood on the
sleeves and breast
EXAMINATION RESUMED AT THE CRY HALL -
There was no Ratchet that could see where left
the one with which cut meat yesterday. This
may be the Ratchet Jane was here shown the
striped dress with blood on it, This is the dress
first had on this morning when ! went into Mr..
w room pulled down the cover then to see
what occasioned the breathing; then lifted the
child up from the middle of the bed and put it in the
cradle before opened the window iand saw the
blood did not call my husband, because did
not see him. Mr. and Mrs Winston had not gone to
bed when went out to my room last night.
cooked the meat for dinner. My husband did not
eat any dinner. When he came home set some
thing cut for my husband, and he eat some bacon
and cabbage but do not recolect of his eating any
of the soup had prepared do not think that my
daughter eat any of the meat or the coup. TWAS a
tough portion of the sirloin. heard such breath.
ing that pulled down the cover /; l saw the child
and took ii out and put it in the cradle. took this
b,oodied dress off before l went down to Jail =
put my hand under Mr. Winston to raise him up
as he was laying with his head off the bed.
TSome spots were shown the jury on the upper
part of the right sleeve of the dress Knight have
got those spots by lifting up the cover think in
jerking the cover off their faces jerked off some
of the blood that made the spots. do not recoect
who was in the room at the time when l lifted up
Mr. WIS head. l was told to do 80. Several per.
sons had come into the house had taken the child
out before threw the blind open and saw the
blood. Mr. Winston generally hangs nis watch up
by the fireplace. get money sometimes from my
husband Mr. Winston had chickens for dinner
Sunday. Mrs w. knows tina, do CO Oh dinner up
WIS chamber was, but do not know who it was.
did not know that ORGY (Mrs Browns woman)
was there this morning.
I'VE call attention to the fact that James testimony
is directly contradicted in many points afterwards
by several Witnesses
Nelly Scott deposed-I belong to Lavinia Pankny
sister to Mrs. Winston. Mr.. Winston came to the
kitchen door last night and says to me, Nelly, /
want you to let me have breakfast soon tomorrow
as expect to go to the North. told him
would let him have it. He asked me to take good
care of some chickens while he was gone gave me
directions about them. got up at daybreak this
morning and worked over my light bread. Gave
my husband some orders to bring water, cut wood
and make FIRE. Invent then into the laundry and
got bucket of bran and carried to the dining room
and get on hogshead. Picked up soms watermelon
rinds and was about to go down to feed and milk
the COW At this time Jane Williams came to the
dining room door, raised both hands, and said she
believed that Mr.. and Mrs Winston and child were
dead in the bed then dropped the bucket of bran
and ran over to Mrs Blairs. Jane told me that she
had shaken Mr.. and Mrs. Winston before she took
the child out of the bed / asked them there lat
Mrs. B'a) to ONE over and what was the mat.
ter, as Jane had told me she believed Mr.. and Mrs
Winston and the child were dead gave the alarm
generally to the neighbors.
Cross examined-Jane did not appear to be
much affected by the death of Mr. and Mrs Win
went to DR. Deans Anna seemed to be very mad
because OF receiving whipping from Mr. Winston.
did not hear her make any threats. Anna was in
the kitchen Friday night. and slept in her room in
the house on Friday night.
The large hatchet was here shown to her.
That Is John Wiliams' Ratchet have seen il in
his room frequently He slept over the kitchen.
did not see any beef in Jane Williams room yes,er
day. She had bacon, cabbage and apple damplinps
for dinner She cooked her dinner In the kitchen and
NOT IN her room, as she usually does She did not 90
% market Sunday morning, because she had to attend
to her child. Her husband went to market yes,er.
day-he always goes. saw him come from market
with his marketing. Jane certainly did not 20 to
market. Mr. Winston went to market Saturday.
Jane would not leave the house before or 6
o'clock, as she has to attend the child Could not
have went to markedly or O'Clock. Jane was
up and in the house when l got up. got up at
dsybreak. Mrs Winston generally rings the bell
for Jane early In the morning. No bell runs this
this morning. When wsnt to pick up the water.
melon rinds Isaw the Key in the dining room door.