New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-17

cord rot aDswer sny questions a. to any csc'sSs'oo'
because confession was too sacred
Wi'nese-I will not srswer whether he made Con-
fession or not. He further testified:
District Attorney-I want you to tel NE whf be
cor fessed.
Winess-I Go not want to answer toe question;
say thai mar who makes confession has simply con-
fesssdi | do not want TO speak OF tie xiter.
District Attorpey-I want you to cay whether Kelly
u see a confs ssicr.
Q. Whist was Kellvs condition. A. II va very
low Tar a. could judge l thought be was insen
sble.
Q. Dir Coye, you understand that | do not want
you to answer any questions which you may c!edcsiy
be obliged not to divuIge, but il proper for me TO
krow whether Kelly msde confession to you or not;
one witness hss sworn tsst be old make confession.
A. object 10 that question; Am willing 10 answer
every question it is proper for me to answer.
Witness further testfed-kelly did not tell any
thing about his participation in this riot do not rec
olect that he named any other person engaged in It;
did be tel IN what manner be received his 10
lures; am Only answering OF things which happened
out Of the confessional object TO answering anything
be msy have sad at confessional The question being
further urged witness replied object to the question
because consider an answer 10 1t aravelstcn Of the
confessional which We hold be sacred and nyolsbe
BY Mayor Van Reipen-I think il your duty TO dis-
close anything Kelly may have said TO you relative to
this riot and to throw all the light on this investigation
you can.
Wnness-I have given al the light can.
Msyor-If he made confession it Is the easiest way
TO get the right OF this MISTER tor you TO answer the
question.
Wnness-Its question carnot answer, and shall
not; | said in the beginning that mr. Kelly was in
sensible; he said things understood but whether he
understood them do not know; they were incoherent.
Mary Henry teetfed-I am married woman, and
live in of the shanties; my husbands name Is
Thomss Henry / saw the riot at O'Clock; l recog-
nize among the prisoners engaged in the riot Pat
rick Coleman. Patsey Powell, Dennis Farley, John
Corbitt, Jsnes Barnett and Thomas Mccarthy; |
recognize Corbet as the man who said that my shanty
should be burned first was not burned but it was
brob en- in vth stones; three babies were injured by
the missiles one of them named Co eman struck
me; be of the parry with Kelly at
the time he was knocked down; the cry was to
murder Kelly; John Sullivan, james Farley. aud
Thomas Mccarthy were at the killing OF Kelly
| saw man with knife In his hand, and said
They are going to kill Kelly, when they knocked
n down, and kicked me; the man who had the
knife was tall man, and wore red shirt; be wore
cap and overalls; the Coleman now here with red
shirt on wore hickory shirt that day; did not stop
to see more of the riot as was afraid Of my lie;
know three more of the rioters by sight; do not know
who set fire to the shsntles
Ellen Corbt testified lived in the shsnties; on Sat,
urdsy was washing at INV door and saw one OF the
Connaush t men strike at Barrett boy boarding with
asked me if was going to stay there and be killed
be and picked up the children and started; met
Mauly and my husband, who took the children, and L
went back to Get clothes as left my house the
second time lot Of Connaught men came out of
Reypolds's and said, "Shoot the Corkonians; see
her with the pack" do not know their names; l
know some OF them boarded in Reynolds shanty.
johanna Barnet testified live In one of the shan.
ties: about > O'Clock about ~ men come out OF
Hanlsns shsDty; Thomas Costello one Of the prison
ers is the man who "klt and murdered" my husband;
he struck him with the handle Of an pick; they
used bottles wood stones and everything they could
get bold of.
Cspt John Riley testified that man named Cole.
man, who is not yet arrested, was rngleader and
fred pistol into one of the shAnties.
Ellen Sullivan testifed-Recognized Michael Doan,
Pat Donney James McDermott and John Moran AZ
engaged in the riot her shanty was burned, and she
those prisoners the ones engaged In set
ting fire to it, and throwing her goods into the hames
MIS- Bennett, upon oath, recognized Thomas Cos
telo as the man that struck her husband with the
handle of pick by which he was beaten 80 that his
life i, in jeopardy.
Mrs. Ann Reynolds testified that her boarders were
home and didn't 90 out after dinner and that Thomas
Costello was sick and 10 bed and did not rise until
O'clock and after that did not 60 out of the house.
The examination adjourned until 10 O'Clock this
morning. The prisoners then reconducted to
jail by the special police, the military acting as an
escort.
The Washington Volunteers were relieved last even
ing by the Hudson County Artillery, Capt. Hexsmer,
of HobokeD, to act guard to the jail.