The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-20
The AtrOcious Murder OF Catharine Q uigloy,
MT Jamaica, Long Island.


EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES IN THE CASE.
Before Justice Snedker.
SECOND DAY.
Al the appointed hour the court opened, and large
number OF persons present Tho prisoners looked
about usual The evidence of Mr. Denton
tnued, as follows
TESTIMONY.
On the Sunday evening in question: my house there
WAS, independent OF my family Miss Emily Roberts
Mrs Ruggles, Mr. jeremiah Spader Mr.. Marsh, and Mr.
my house all night, and Mr. Spader and Mr. Marsh LETT
my house At little after six ok, in horse and
wagon; it just getting dusk when they left cannot
tell what time Mr. Roe left my house; did not him
he remained at my house when retired to bed about
so'cock have recollection of being outside the
house during that evening Mr. Spader left my house TO
return TO Brooklyn: l don't know of my own know
ledge whether my men were about the pre- nises
girls dress in the pond l coming from my
house to the bars the east side of the pond was
coming do yn The hill by the barn could see over the
bushes going to Jamaica; there but very little
of the dress oatng should not have paid attention
to it. had not known that this girl had been missing
discover IL a human body before called any
went enough to it on the raft did not notice the
position Of the body although might if had noticed;
my impression is that the body lying east and west
but which way the head laid cannot tell recollect
that she must have been lying her back as both
her hands held up over her breast her hands, think
partly closed they might have been clinched
tight, but my impression is they were only closed
/ did not anything in her hand; the dress which
! saw floating, could not be from the road, in
consequence Of the bushes; didn't think it could be
from part of the road; did not any injury
about her person except her face made examinations
did not recognise her when she taken from the pond
went Immediately to the village to inform her friends;
directly after the body AIKEN from the water the blood
began How from the wounds in the face did not OBJ
any other wounds the blood did flow very freely
the remained stiff theont Of the body and not
resting it, she bad stuff gloves on noticed the blood
to rcke down the face from the wounds did not
inc if blood existed the back part OF her head
think the legs of the deceased partly drawn up but
went be positive did notice any particular disar-
rangement Of her dress think it below the knee;
could her stockings but have no recollection OF seeing
abovestbe knees.
ing the Blackstump road my house is about halt
mile north of Mr.. John Denton's Monday afternoon,
the 10th instant Mr. Denton called to was going
by the road the pond he said that he had found
gnl in h pond and wanted me to help to get her OUT
the north side Of the when arrived at the pond
Mr. Denten stood the bank with the end of rope in
his hand Michael Mccoy the prisoner, was in the pond
raft did not the body until Michael began to
shove the raft when the raft away helped to
pull the body to the shore with the rope, end Of
which had been made fast to the arm of the body;
the pulling of the body did not appear turn it around
the hands and were raised up the body, not
touching it, she her back when dragged ashore
her hands about half closed her face very
much cut and the flesh somewhat eaten away her face
appeared cut pretty much all over did not observe any
blood the face when it first from the water;
when the body the bank laying its back, blood
flowed from the wounds in her face down the sides of her
cheek but not so freely as to drop off, did not examine
the back Of her head: don't recolect if blood flowed
from all the wounds; did not remain there much
fifteen minutes; Mr.. Denton asked Michael if her face
was bruised and Michael rsplied eyes, very much /"
l think the legs of the deceased were bent up
little, and her knees drawn up; when | left
Mr. Dentons, the body lying in the barn; the de-
cape the body not recognized while there;
the rope attached to the left arm, and the body
came to the shore head first assisted in taking the
procure sheet to place over the body
Cross examnation-McCoy also assisted in taking the
body to the barn. have known Mccoy since lie has been
with Mr. Denton. about and a half | heard
anything against his character / did not notice any
blood the clothing Of deceased her dress was below
her knees don't think there any mud her Dress
do think there any mud her feet shoes;
she straw onnet she dark stockings; there
mud on them
Dr. George H. Nissan sworn, says-I reside in the vii
age Of jamaica made post norton examination of the
body of Catharine Quigey first the body on Thurs
day morning the 18th of October at the prison in Jama
made the examination in connection with Dr. John
d. Shelton the bonnet the head of deceased and
the strings tied; the marks of injury principally
upon the face may say all in the face that is the
head they were irregular lacerated wounds; some of
them were trifing like scratches; don't think there
any incised wounds of them were lacerated
Wounds extending to the bone the face seemed to be
nearly covered with wounds the severest wounds
upper part Of the left side Of tie upper lip the jaw
the left SIDE laid bare; there loss Of sub
stance to leave the bone denuded; the upper
angle of the left eye was separated from the
bone outwards, and the eveball deeply tinged with
red showing the inner portion of the eye ball infusion
Of blood produced evidently by violent blow it
sation such an appearance could not have been
produced after death for if it had BEEN the infusion
would have been general it vital action Of the sy
tenn the acerated wounds appeared to have been nict
ed either from front Literally from above downwardy
My impression is that the deep acerated wound had beeu
made by heavy, blunt instrument should think aragged
stone would have produced the wounds examined the
head and did not find any Commissions wounds any
the bonnet, and blood the hair, the left side
OF the head; 1t was not much nor was there
much in the bonnet. My impression is that
the of blood in the of the bonnet
coagulated which the opinion that the wounds
inflicted while she lay her back; there not
much blood quantity in the bonnet, but there
in connection with DR.. Shelton, made particular
animation of the body the jaw OF the deceased firmly
partly prorude through the divisions Of the teeth think
OF the wounds could have been produced by the fist
been inflicted at once there enough to produce in
sensbilty and my impression while thus nsensibe
she might have been thrown into the water and there
pershed the face OF the deceased did not present those
symptoms which have of persons strangled ex-
amned the neck but did observe anything which in
dicated she had been stranged If the deceased had died
BY drowning think the inspection Of the lungs would
have indicated that fact did cot exam inc the lungs
observed upon the surface Of the skin of deceased kind of
goose flesh appearance, if the chill Of the water had
caused it, the injuries on the deceased, in my opinion
could not have been produced accidentally bu were done
by other persons.
Gross exa minaon the appearance Of her hands
and gloves thoud think that If she had been in the
hands of person she have been struck nsenbe
before the attempt at vioation if not she must have
been the hands of two persons; the decorations her
body could have been done before nsensibiy did not
see any evidence that had held by the hands,
from all the facts and circumstances am Of opinion that
she nsensibe when the liberation her body was
perpetrated
a recess was taken for one hour.
AFTER RECESS.
Dir. John d. Shelton sworn, says made an external
examination Of the body Of Catharine Quglcy the
body the Monday evening after the body was
found, and subsequently in connection with DR. Nissan
the general appearance Of the boy seemed to indicate
that she had died in convusve struggles the arms we're
bent at the elbows and raised above the chest and
stiened in that position; the knees also drawn up
and stifened in that position the teeth firmly
closed the tongue protruded and bitten between the
teeth the chest rather well expanded dstendcd
by attempt to breathe the lungs appe ired to be in
ated my opinion is that the chest forced out BY
attempt at respiration the abdomen rounded as
though the daphram had been depressed my impression
from all the facts, is that the deceased alive
when she placed in the water, and there
nothing to indicate whether she Was sensi-
BILE insensibe the pupils Of the eyes appeared
dilaed approaching nsensibility CONFUSION Of dying
would produce dlation strong convulsive struggle
would produce it. the only way that for the
wounds the face is possible that while the body
immersed in the water stick might have pushed a,
the body and in that way the wounds inflicted before
death that is the theory have at the present time but