Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1857-09-24
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neither had my coat on; was in my room
some ten minutes, when ! heard stiied cry
of murder, and noise as of two or three
persons running along the hall above went
out into the hall; the first thing Isaw was
Mr. Donnelly; saw him lin the hall on second
floor, ten or fifteen feet from my room door,
coming toward me, running; hewent out on
the back piazza, on the second floor; | spoke
to him, and told him to stop; he did not stop
until he got out on the piazza; went out
after him; he appeared very much excited ];
| spoke to him, and asked what was the mat
ter; | repeated the question number of
times before got any answer; Judge fifteen
or twenty times he was walking back and
forth across the end of the piazza toward the
kitchen be might have come up half way of
the piazza, opposite the hall door; stood on
the piazza opposite the door between the
steps; he appeared like mailman, perfectly
crazy he was out there some ten or fifteen
minutes; his first answer was, he's dead !;
he's dead y | asked him who was dead be
said he did not know; then proceeded up
stairs to see who was hurt left Donnelly
on the piazza; found blood in the hall on the
third floor of the back building wentup the
back stairs; there are stairs going up back
and front; saw blood first somewhere in the
vicinity of room No. AS; think between Nos.
| SO and As; these rooms are both on the same
side think about FIVE feet from No. As, there
was one large blotch of blood; appeared as
| if the young man had fallen there there was
space of three or four feet between that
and the next blood; then traced blood to
where it commenced, at No. "a | there found
Moses lying on his face; ] passed No. SO to
get into No. 81 found M. there; he was
bleeding profusely; he was lying on his back;
he lived about one hour and half; was in
and out of the room during that time num-
Der of times; was in the room number of
minutes; Moses never rose from that bed
saw where the blood came from; it came from
the neck; conversed with him during this
time; he told me how he had been hurt, and
who by; then left Mr.. Moses and went over
to Mr.. Thompsons my neighbor; remained
with Moses at that time not over five minutes;
/ was at Thompson about fifteen minutes
went over to get assistance; | saw Donnelly
when came back | saw him at the top of
the front stairs of the house that leads from
/ the yard up to the office the main entrance to
the hotel; he was just taking the last step on
the stairs as saw him, and stepped up on the
| floor Of the hall; he appeared rather excited,
being white; his appearance was different
from what it was in the morning, when he
came down and opened the safe l SAID, " Mr..
Donnelly, can't you do something for the dy-
ing man p his first reply was Eyes" after
ward he said "no;" nothing else was said !;
Donnelly had on white pants and a gray coat
when met him; he had the same suit on
when he first came down to the office; [ saw
different clothes on him afterward about
half an hour after saw him standing at the
front door; he then had dark coat and a
dark brown pair Of pants-thick clothing; the
clothes he had on in the morning were thin /;
| the weather was warm assistance came from
other houses Coroner Connery was intro
duced he was staying at Thompson's; sent
my porter to Schenck's, at the same time |
sent to Thompson's; went up stairs with
Coroner Cor merry found gentleman in the
room by the name of Justice Banta my por-
ter had gone to Schenck's s, and when ! came
1 back l found Barton there; he was doing
something to assist the dying man, but could
not see what; Donnelly had told me previous
that he was physician; | also saw letters
directed 10 him as DR.. Donnelly; there was
Ia great quantity of blood in room "a, and the
corner of the two halls; it appeared as tho
it had spirited from the mans neck as he went
along the track of blood on the floor of the
hall led into Mr.. Donnely' s room; | noticed
this some half an hour after the discovery of
the deed cannot say whether the tracks were
with bare feet or not; when I found Moses
on the bed he had nothing but his shirt on ;
there was blood on the floor of room So near
the foot of the bed it was on the door COM
municating between rooms "a So; in room
"a there was quite quantity of blood on
| the floor; there was also great deal in room
SO, but only in one spot and that near the
foot of the bed there was great quantity
on the door, and quite quantity on the
door casing there was blood on both the
beds; the bed in room 81 had most on some
one had slept in the led in room So; found
about S91 in the bed of room sc, between
/ the two mattresses; the bed is composed of
hair mattresses and straw mattresses; the
money was in handkerchief in three diff
ferent parcels; $61 in in gold and bills, $25
of it in bills, one of them $50 bill, the rest
small bills; whether all ST. bills or not can't
say the balance was in gold one of the
other parcels was small roll of bills con-
! tanning. | think, $1S; the other parcel was
silver, principally small change, about $11;
there were others with me when | found it !:
the reason why we looked for it was, Moses
told us where to look for it; he said $6l was
his and the remainder was Mr.. Lent's; he
said the money was under his bed between
the mattresses, wrapped up in bundle ;
the money was taken to the foot of the bed,
where Moses was lying, and there counted /;
he told me he wanted his SCI sent to his
mother in Philadelphia he said her name
was Mrs Concklin do not recolect what he
said her first name was he said she lived in
1 Locust street, but he had forgotten the mum.
Der; Igaye. Of this money. $50 and one 500
bill to Mr.. Botelle, Spanish gentleman F;
:, Donnelly toldme the Spanish gentlemanhad
deposited 500 with him for safe keeping; he
told me this day or two before the murder;
Mr.. Botele gave his children into Moses s
charge while myself and wife were standing
in the entry; he said he was going to New
York, and would be back on Friday or Sat-
urday; Donnelly knew when he was coming
back; Moses was told he was going to die !;
the safe was locked after the murder; no.
/ ticed it about half an hour after; it was open
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