Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-02-19
i A MURDER CASE IN DETROIT.

TIE Murdered Nan IfSt0HiSheS EcergJ0tiu
b4 his Ippeufa'tce IN Co"rt.-Outrages and
violence are the order of the day everywhere
Just nuw. and Detroit, matter of couFSc,
mast have its share. The good people Of that
city were greatly excited last week in consc-
quence of murder most foul, which was al
legged to have been committed near a place
cailed Brownstown, and which the papers
dignitied by tho title, in flaming letters, The
Brownstqwn Murder Case"
The facts in this singular case, as near rs
we can gather them, these: Some days
sincc, q pedlar named Samuel kiter, aged
nineteen, entered the house Of Il man named
Bickly whose family consists of three ladies
and little son. The pedlar was missed by
his Friends. lie was traced to Bickly's house.
Heshad never been seen to leave that house
afterwards.
The three ladies in Bickly's family, Mrs.
Mary Bickly, Miss Norah Bickly and Mrs
Mary Shecman, were rr-sted on the charge
of murder, and lodged in jail at Detroit. Old
Bickly and his son were not taken because
they were too umwel to be removed The
examination Of the parties commenced on
Friday
The murdered mans brother tcstifie that
he had visited the prisoners house and made
search Saw fresh blood on the floor and
wall found bones and piece Of cloth in a
barrel of ashes; he thought the cloth belonged
to his brothers vest; Saw blsed on the barn
and on the snow.
"A neighbour named Mrs Hannah Clark.
had talked with the accused relative to the
bloDd told them murders were always found
out; on one particular night the witness smell
led the burning of woolIrn very strongly. and
also the burning Of fresh meat; she thought
the neighhors were Cooking meat for the bee
The old lady told her. since the blood had
been found, that man had stopped there
oyer night, and came over to her house to get
IA SHILLING to give him change.
A man named Peabody saw blood and
Aasmelt something burning"
Captain Alvord saw blood; dug into it with
a <knife. and found human hairs, some of
them six or seven inches long, Of dark
brown color; found another spot about forty
.0r kfty rods off, in the road; dug into that
and found some more hairs; . dozen or fifteen
i'm all. Went back to the house. saw the
blood before described, and some more on 4
-four barrel; saw u pieca of bed ticking about
az large as the tep Of the table, (about u by
80 inches with several spots Of blood upon
ii two or three inches in diameter; it was tax
en- out of the bed
The Free Press says that the counsel were
about summing up the case on Saturday,
when little Dutchman (the pedlar,l who
had Stood with his hands in his pockets a
quiet spectator of the scene stepped forth and
protested against any such liberties being
taken with his affairs, declaring that he had
neither been slaughtered nor burnt up, and
60 10 being dissolved into the small show of
sheep bones and horse hair which the table
before him afforded. he felt indignant at the
idea. The Free Press says:
Of course we shall not attempt to describe
the delight Of the spectators, the censterna-
ton Of the learned counsel, or the amaze
ment Of the Judge at the summary winding
up the beautiful case which had been made
ont; but we will confidently assert that the
scene was rich