True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-15

resteu the murderer nelped 10 take MI
to jail, and then went back to the hous
and found Campbell was dead.
!, Sarah Williams SUorn-Reside at III
! house of Ann Wilcox Jones' on Fourt
Street Road; William Campbell cam
there about five O'Clock this evening; h
raped ut the door and asked me to le
him in; l first refused. and he said h
had something TO tell me then | let hin
in; ne asked me where Jim was; sai
up stairs, and he went up, and | heard
pistol fred off, was in the room below
James Jones came down and went out
he did not speak any; Mr.. Campbell
was in the habit of coming there wal
there once before this day /; 1 did not Sc,
a pistol with Jones heard nothing sale
between Campbell and Jones it was no
more than five or six minutes after The
shot was fired, that Jones came dowr
stairs Samuel Lynch came down stair;
after Jones, and said that Campbell was
drunk Lynch was up stairs before Camp,
bell came to the house one day las
week James Jones fired a pistol at some.
one in the yard don't know who it was
fred at.
Ann Bingham - sworn - I live next
door 10 Ann Wilcox (Jones) in the house
of Ellen Campbell of Union Alley, back
of Penna. Avenue went down street
between four and five o'clock; knew no.
thing of it; about ten minutes after seven
O'Clock came home; saw crowd around
the door; went in and saw Ellen Camp
bell ; asked her what was The matter, and
she told me that Bill Campbell was shot
said Jones had shot him saw Campbell
at the house in the forenoon in the eve.
ming | saw him at the corner of Chatham
street and Fourth Street road could mol
say whether he was drunk or sober
have seen Campbell at the house often,
and he appeared TO be on good terms with
Jones.
Ellen Campbell-sworn--Am the wife
Of the deceased we don't live together
have not for nearly three years; knew
nothing of this matter until Mr.. Major
came, when l went in and saw him
don't know Of any difficulty between
Campbell and Jones Campbell left my
house between four and five O'Clock ;
think he was in liquor; saw Jones after
he committed the deed saw him going
out of the alley; he appeared TO walk
straight; | spoke to him, asked him what
was the matter he made no answer
when | opened the door; saw Samuel
Lynch lie motioned for me to shut the
door. and said some person was shot !;
saw Lynch come out of the house before
| saw Jones; Lynch was the first | saw
coming out of the house when he came
out l went up stairs in my own house
hols!ed the window, and saw Jones come
out OF his house he came to nv door
and turned round and went down an al.
ley. .....
Samuel Lynch, sworn-Was coming
past the house Of James Jones /; | heard
his wife was sick; went up stairs in the
house OF James Jones was up stairs a
few minutes, when ] heard some one
come up stairs; then heard the report of
a pistol; turned round and saw a man
lying down at the head of the stairs had
not been in the house more than twenty
minutes; cid not see any pistol; saw
Jones walk to the door don't know the
persons who were in the room there
was no other men in the room except
Jim Jones and myself; 1 have been at
the house often ; got acquainted with him
on the river don't know who fired the
pistol ; saw the man fall Jones was stan.
ing at the door when | came down;
started down as soon as | saw The man
fall; ; did not take time 10 look a! the man
that was shot.
DR.. Pollock, sworn-Examined the
wound OF the deceased the ball entered
the flesh upon the right side of the tenn
pie, little above and behind the out
er angle of the eye; then entered the
thinner part of the temporal bone, about
an inch and half behind and above the
outer angle of the eye the opening in
the bone was irregular and nearly three.
quarters of an inch in diameter from
the entrance of the ball the bone was crack.
ed about four and half inches back the
ball after entering the bone penetrated the
right hemisphere of the brain its entire
length after its entrance into The brain,
it penetrated the Meningcel artery, there
by causing great flow of blood; the
ball was found under the membrane Of
the brain (the ball was here shown to the
jury, and from its appearance would run
about l40 or l45 TO the pound) saw the
man before he died was a little after six
O'Clock when arrived at the house was
satisfied when | saw the deceased, that
he would die; examined the body and
could find no other wound sufficient to
cause death; the wound on the head was
sufficient to cause death.
After the above examination, the Jury
returned verdict that VIM. Campbell the
deceased, came 10 his death by pistol
bullet, fired at him by James Jones.
FURTHER TESTIMONY IN RELATION TO
THE MURDER OF CAMPBELL.-Eramin.
alton Of the other Witnesses.-EIlen
Doak and Harriet &row, two women
who were in the house of James Jones, at
the time he committed the murder, were
arrested yesterday, and were taken before
Alderman Major, and examined on oath
as to what they knew with regard to
this tragic affair. From the evidence of
Harriet Strow, it appears that Jones
committed the murder without even ut
tering word or syllable as a reason for
so doing. Below we give the result in
full.