Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-04-24

- eacis Judd w it'll w oedruff and At.
wood was at Cothren's house to examine
clothes it.sWas agreed jury was to meet
there, but only these were present we
counted % spots Of blood On one lego
pants, and s or more On the other some
on the arm of coat.
DR.. G.. H AfHoed recalled Examined
pants ON Friday, and counted 23SGsistinet
spots of blood ON the right leg. not SO many
on the other-looked to me as though
blood had sheen spatfefed on. Saw the
blood on coat and overcoat: spot on
shoulder looked Like a dropef blood. The
color of blood at that time was bright
changed very much before the Justice court
was held SAY a very distinct. spot of
blood On the inner lining Of coat 20 ket
near the bottom. and also two others net
50 distinct. Thought that. the wounds
could not hare been made without getting
blood on pants and under side OF sleeve !:
the blood was spatteroG on in small drops.
and the spots on the clothes compared
well with those in the shed.
DR.. Shore testified substantially the
same was present at several distinct tests
the eye, water, glass. and ammonia tests
all proved the spots to be blood.
DR.. Fish of Waterbury, q chemist, made
the tests, and corroborated the other test
mony about the blood.
Uolter Cuytis---Am clerk in the Wood
bury bank Foo:e came in on the third of
March end paid note of $50, and c1-
changed s92 OF other money for cur bills
taking fifteen IS bills and the rest in small
er bill. they were smooth, and had ius:
come from n. Y; couldn't identify the
bills. Bradley had a note coming due the
next Wednesday it had been left for
collection and was not discounted Brad
Iey's father paid it the morning of his arrest
Um. II. Coer--Beiong in Waterbury,
vas at Merifcn Tuesday, the day after the
murder met Bradley at the hotel, he fol-
lowed me out and we went into store.
where he learned l was going to New
York he wanted to know if had anv
money! wished to exchange for Woodbury.
bills E; told him had not, as those bills
were not par in New York he assured me
they were, and said he wanted to keep
them in circulation. l exchanged sal.
giving him thirteen 3's on Waterbury bank
and two ones and receiving eight SIS and
and one Of the Woodbury. bills. The
notes looked Ike old bills, but were per
fectly smooth, like those had taken from
bank. When getting them from his pocket
book he turned partly around and | did
not see it he enquired for the Home Bank,
saying he wanted to get some more of that
kind Of money, and started in that dircc
ton.
&. H. Downs-- Received 50. so of Brad
ley the morning of his arrest bills on Wa
tcrbury bank.
Hen'y &. }oungs, called by defence re-
side in Meriden and am cashier of Home
Bank. Never saw Bradley before, and
no one changed Woodbury. money that
day except two or three dollars.
.john I. Git.'erW as at work at Foot.
the day of murder; went to Waterbury
Wednesday morning met Bradley, he
said there had been good deal Of a time
at Woodbury.; he asked if they had had
jury, and who were ON it; asked if they
had witnesses, and if they had had his wo-
man over also what they had his woman
over for.
E. W Itwoo,1-.Saw tracks back of
church; going down to the corner of it and
then returning. BY standing at corner of
church one can see a distance down street.
and at corner of sheds can see up street.
Samuel 4. Peck Owns horsc-shod where
body was found Bradley had leased INV
shed about q month before the murder.
Bradley used common nail hammer in
mending harness. Saw Bradley and Net
Teton 90 ont Of Post Office together the
night CT the murder about twenty-five or
thirty minutes past 8; Bradley had been
i'll oilce probably ten minutes before leay.
ing.
DR.. Fai,chiN - Discovered traces of
blood in Foot's left pocket seemed TO
have been rubbed on. Examined Brad
ley's clothes, and called spots blood.
DR.. WtLd testified to like examination
and conclusion.
II. S. IMyer--Kecp City Hotel, in
Waterbury Bradley came there Tuesday
night, March 4th said Foot had paid q
note Of seventy dollars and exchanged
ninety. Weltou asked him how he knew :;
he said because he did, and finally said
| they say SO ever there
W. Merrill of Waterbury, was in the
street there with Col. Welton Bradley
came up and said he had just heard that
Foot was murdered and, was very much
surprised !; never was so set back in his
life. Think this was before 1 p. VI.
Richard Helton---I knew Bradley. saw
him at Waterbury at five minute. past 4
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