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

st0ns pssss5Iy made BY ! hammer I
could not have been made by an edge tool.
The Testimony Of Ihs. Webb and Fairehild
vas similar 70 that q DE- atwood ~
The e.ainination d vitnessss for The defence
eoinlnencedoa Friday morning
Fyrie9ies Helasss Believed he saw Bssdley
pass me by MI, Cogswelrs Charles Cczer
was with me was in highway-Bradleyi
| was with horse and sleigh L am not positive
| it-sas Bradley. say Leslie Smith about a |
| minute before I went to Root L Peck's store
| It vas twenty five inmates to s when met him |
Cross e,aminsd--I have seen his hose, and
| know none like him. When I heard Bradley
was arrested I told my folks of this. Twas
geing up street, and 80 was Bradley.
Lsslse p !Sms3-I live up in Sero.oRraze
| North Of Cosswelrs. I left home about twenty
| five minutes past in the evening got to Or.
Faischisd's, and talked few minates-Charles
Cozer va. with me. went down horseback
pretty fast, met Bradley jast below the water
| ing trough. Ee was going North, trotting.
[ have no doubt it was Edward Bradley A
| team went round Roots store just before met
| Bradley. / met Bradley on a fast trot.
| 4
Fairchild's talked few minutes. Met Brad
| ley about against post. He said Halo,
Coze T. and said Halo v should Judge
it was about halfpast P. NJ. could tell
Leslie Smith went down street on horseback
Bradley passed not far from me !; I could touch
his sleigh. Fred and were there together
| r. Fr.,maa-Met Bradley just South of the
watering trough after he got by, / heard him
! bal &c I hay oe+a hoo Il
him before, whoa Ben p 1t was from to
! ley's horse he is fast trotter, when he says
Whoa, Ben p it makes him go faster
Ella s. Pet and L. Thompson testified to
some unimportant facts.
Geores p. ANen, Postmaster at Woodbury..
called He came from his house to Post office
about ten minutes past 8 P NJ saw Bradley
smoking on the stoop as | went in; do not
know as / had ever seen him smoke there be-
fore. In ten or fifteen minutes lie beckoned
for Nettleton, and he went out 1t did not
vary three minutes from hafpas 8 when
went out. saw no one on my passage way,
and heard no noise that attracted my attention
| Crssseramination The view from stoop
across the street TO the sheds is unobstructed
from the stoop we can STE nearly to Foot's
!
| i down to Candee's house could see better
sitting Oh the stairs than standing on stoop.
| III. 4. -Nsttletca went to see the body saw
a stone four or five feet from body, which he
examined aud compared with the wounds in
Foot'S head At Aliens suggestion, he laid
the stone down again saw On it no bloody
finger marks.
Dand S. Norris said that Thomas Gazier
| II hat 10 E.l
yesterday. On "Wednesday morning after the
murder, when going from Woodbury., | met
Bradley near Benjamin Shcrmans negro house
As met him he said Halo what the de-
Wis been going on in Woodbury.? ~ said,
pretty hard affair, asked him if his horse
was not hitched under the shed that night &c
| Dantd aud .Sheidon SKINNER were at Mr..
Hurd's west side, until o'clock on the even
! ing OF the murder stopped there or four rods
from the shed and talked for few minutes
heard no noise saw no horse hitchcd at Aliens.
! III. W. Stoddard, George Phillips and Prem
.iss Mallory We're examined in regard to Brad
! ley's horse
Ihi"sas s. Bradley testified in regard to the
russell reins used by prisoner. There is no ap-
pearahce of blood on them, and no appearance
of their having been washed The prisoner
carried to Waterbury 30 sides Of russell leather
and 30 sides Of bay leather as samples
| Alefandsr Gordoa-I am tanner. / do
not find any blood stains on those lines Brad
| ley is a tanner. ] have very frequently got
blood on my clothes in getting hides from a
Wagon might get blood on my pants by TAX
ing of hides.
| israel IL. Wood,sard-Tanner of Plymouth
Hollow, stated that blood stains on russell leath-
er were difficult to erase If the reins had been
bloody, the blood could be SEEN We get dirt
and some times blood on US from handling hides.
Stephen Smi.h-Iiave worked for Phineas
Bradley for IT years The prisoner had the
care OF fresh hides-trimmed and saited them.
cut OF the horns, &c. This is bloody work
Could not say he did any bloody work before
this; had one or two hides week Have known
| Bradley to have the nose bleed three times in
two weeks. Had the nose bleed on the Mon
day of the murder ; had it twice the proceeding
week usually wears coat but not an over
coat about the tannery in winter | could not
swear q hide was delivered in ten DAYS before
the murder
.Stepaea F. Galvn-I am Butcher by pro-
I esson. In the fall of the year 60 around the
town to butcher hogs and cattle. In the fore
part OF January, / was called by Mr. Phineas
bradley to butcher his hog After Mr.. Brad
ley hog was butchered takes my knife and
hook, and go over to Mr. Edward e. Brad
leys, took his hog in the corner of the pen, and
stuck the knife in his throat, then took the
hook and put it in his chops the place for q
hook. aud then slippernoosed rope around the