New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-31

1 the oineFehb witnesses previously examined in
| reference 10 circumstances with which he was
Ieonnected. The whole statement Of the how
| bore the impress Of truth upon its face il was
consistent throughout. During the time he wae
delivering his evidence, the father moved TO the 4
/ western end of the dock, so as to Qet a better
view of his son than he had Of the other Wit
nesses The conduct of the father was noe
marked by any unusual emotions.
Arthur testified that he was born in Philadel- 4
phia, was eighteen years old; has three young
sisters in the Asylum in Washington that the Z
/ dirk knife found under the body Of one Of the
| murdered women, was given to him by boy in ,
Washington, named James Goodman; that two
weeks previous to the murder he missed the
knife; that his father, before the Thursday the
murder was committed, had IS in money which
he said he got from Mrs Harrington, and 90 he
| obtained from Thos. Ford. His father, some
tlme previous, hesaid, told him woman named
Juiia conner was sbout to loan him $500 the
real name OF which woman, the witness on&
Tuesday before the murder ascertained, vas
| Mrs. Shaw
The witness next testified ID the fact of hin
visiting, with his fathef, the house Of Mr.. Fs-
gan, where they remained from to 10 o'clock
at night. The witness while there interfered
with his father to prevent him committing crims
10 obtain money. The father said he would
she'd blood for It, and the witness threatened 70
| call the watch, when he desisted.
The visit to the house Of Carroll, on the night
previous to the murder, was next mnutely de-
tailed. Spring told his son he was eoing there
to rob them, and the witness s16ges he ac-
companied him for the purpose Of preventing
the outrage and protecting the inmates When
his father first proposed to 60 to the house =
rob, the witness refused to go, but the prisoner
finally promised he would only ask Mrs Shaw
to loan him money, when he consented to accou-
pany him While at the house, the prisoner
hinted to the witness that he would " fix them"
Il Ttn 1uft act1 L. L =
thing like that he would leave Liquor was
then brought in, and while all hands were
drinking, Carroll and his brother, who had been
out, knocked at the door, were let in, and being
drunk, commenced fghting With Mrs Carroll,
which ended in fight Between Carroll a11
spring, during which the latter pulled some
thing out OF his pocket, which the witness picked
up and found to be piece of leaden pipe wrap-j
ped up in paper, not 50 large as the piece shown
the witness before the grand jury.
They soon after left the house, and on their
way to McGuire's the prisoner requested the.
witness not to throw the leaden pipe away, for
that he would $ FIX them for that ystn-that he
would hit one Of them in the head and end them.'
whereupon the witness threw the pipe away, a.
he said he would carry no weapon with which
his father could commit murder. In conse-
quenee of this remark, his father did not speak
to him until the next day On Wednesday his;
father returned to CAROLS for his hat, but the
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10 o'clock at night came home, and told witness
he had been down at Carroll's, and he found out
that Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll were going to ball
the next night; he said Mr.. Lynch was in New
York, and there would be no onesin the heNse
but them two women; he said he wolld fix th{m
LOT he didn't say anything abou5 = further
= until Thursday morning; he saidshe Has going
= down there that night, and wanted witness "a
! 20 there with him; said he would not go he
! asked him five or six times, and he got anRry.
, and did not speak to witness until supper = E0
was not out of witness sight that day The W..
ness next testified that previous to leaving ON
| the errand for Mrs. McGuire, he went up stairs
land finding his father in his room with his coat
oil, aud tying a handkerchief on his head, tod
HIM where he was going. He replied svery
we'll" Witness returned about 10 o'clock, and
/, feeling certain his father was in bed, remained
in the bar-room reading the Police Gazette,
until the baker attached to the house asked him
, tc go and see if there was any salt in the house,
and here we give the testimony as reported
Il went and got him some salt; while lookina
. for it heard a noise at the back door. wen1
and opened the door and saw my father outside,
m said thought you were in bed; did think hi
"a | was in bed down to that moment in one hand
v he had his shoes and in the other he had three
,e twenty dollar gold pieces and one dollar gold
y piece; he put the gold into my hand; easn
the baker the salt; at that time l had The -
i in my hand under the candlestick; the ~ -
!. was wet; came back he took the candle ho1n
4 me and told me to bring some water up1tairs
| got pan Of water and took it up stairs; be
had his coat off; there was Light in the room
he asked me for the money and gave it to him
| he then told me to go down stairs, and if they
r asked if he was in bed to say yes when wenj
|, up with the pan observed the condition of hia
shirt; the breast of it was full of blood he had
on three shirts that night, an undershirt and
| two linen ones; l asked him what crime he had
committed, and he said he had killed them two
r led d-d BIS; he was then washing the
shirts; staid down stairs about quarter Of an
/ hour; Itold Mcclure if he was waiting for a.
ther he was up stairs; some one came in and
e drank, and went up stairs father was then
washing his shirts; looked at his coat to see Il
n there was blood on it; washed it off; / meant
to conceal his crime as far as could
v Il asked him what two women he had killed,
. | and he said Mrs. Carroll and Mrs Shaw; said
Q do you mean Mrs. Carroll; he said no, mean
Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Shaw; he left the Shirt
4 on the table to dry; they are the same shirts
tilted the shirts;) the windows were shut down;
v he said it was no harm to kill them, for thej
/ were common women, any how"
The witness then detailed the particulars a
i the manner in which the women were murdered
as narrated to him by his father on the night d
+ the tragedy. These particulars have already
been published in the SUM- 1t appears thai
!: Mrs. Lynch, on coming down stairs TO the res.
= cue of her sister, exclaimed /" Mr. Spring,
: you save my life, I'll give you all the money
;. I've got when he struck her violent blow :
n The purchase Of the shirts and stockings witt
a the ten dollar gold piece, and the payment Of 4
i five dollar gold piece to Mrs Mcclure for boz
e were testified to by the witness, who Also ide1{
v fed the shirts, the piece of pipe was likewid
:: identified by him belonging to McGuire1
d cellar. The point of the dirk was shown and
also identified. The prisoner returned home 4
+ little before after II o'clock, and was awake
1 nearly all night The witness further testified
t "After breakfast, on Friday morning, l went
: down to where the murder was committed
S father told me to go down there; he told me ia
a go down and see what the excitement was;
I | went down; there was a crowd there; mingled
y with the crowd and heard them talk wsI
II | there when the Coroner came in; went back
: my father was sitting in the bar-room NE
| McGuires brother, John, was with him; l gul
# an opportunity of speaking to my father; to1
e him he was sorrowful man he ssid why i
told him there were three or four innocent per
G sons arrested for it; he then said, "Oh, am al
n right" have not spoken to him since.
The court here adjourned, but it has beer
| seen by our telegraphic dispatches that the ex