The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-05-13
lcan gold, in twenty dollar gold pieces ex.
cept one SO piece, md fifteen dollars III smell

cept one $40 piece, md ditesn dollars IN smell
bills. A".
Some conversation ensued, and Norcross
said tha, he was going home, 10 stop by the
way for two or three weeks with his friend in
Philadelphia a, the same time poisting to The
prisoner as bis freud. EioId him again that
he had better take stifahl on Nev York; |
told him the draft could be essbed IS easily
ID PhiladeIphia as 10 Nsw yosig The prs
oner spoke again and said that he wouldn't
do il II he was in bis place. then remarked
to Norcross that .n.hs'd certainly lose his mon.
ey, If he didn't his life" Norcross remarked
that shed risk it,n 10 which I responded,
s'lhat shrewder men than him bad Jared as
bad as that" McKim had heavy wtiskers
at ,,..s time I.-,tourd asvs6sp him now
If | had not seen him for Ten years.
THE FRIEND OF THE DEAD!
Benjamin Poland, sworn-My residence is
in West Cambridge, Mass, aud my place of
bust mess in Boston. knew Norcross, Jr; /
have known him for eight or ten years al
Eas, Lexington and West Cambridge, Mass; |
saw him last alive in Wes Cambridge, i think
in May, 1856. From there be went 10 Dun
Ieith, Illinois; I am aware Of money having
been remitted to him one time, one of his
sisters (school ieachers) remilied $500; an
other $500, and he received 5000 from an
other source. The next time saw him was
at Altoona, corpse, on the 25th January
last; came TO that place for the purpose of
taking the corpse to lis friends; | received
the body from George Kramer. (The wit.
ness swofe that the clothing in the trunk of
Norcross was the same as that given TO him
by Kramer, as having bssnFdpon the body Of
the deceased } The trunk itself I received
in Philadelphia.
Cross examined.-I know that the money
was Gent, because saw prepared; think
il was in 1855. SSAc 81.
"'e THE FATHER. '1
John Norcross, Esq, (the father of the de-
ceased,) sworn.-I had son that went 10
The West, his name being Samuel Townsend
Norcross, and last saw him alive on the l2h
of May, 1855; next beheld him on The 2sth
of January, 1857; he was dead; the corpse
was in the heaee house al East Lexington,
Mass, having been brought from the West
by Mr., Poland; when he left home for the
West he had money. but he did not tell me
how much, and do not know; never knew
of my con having fits, 'or being insane, or
violent; [panis and trunk shown wi,ness;1
the pants we're made IN my house by his
mother, and the trunk | bought for him in
Boston, and bad q brass plate put upon il /;
his health when he left us was n OF very good.
During the examination of this witness the
utmost silence prevailed, and the crowded
audience manifested universal feeling Of
sympa,hy.l
James Trees, swom.-My business is that
Of inspector of the passenger cars al Altoona;
the express train from Pi,lsburg TO Philadel-
pha reached Altoona on the 10th of January
between three and four o'clock; was on
hand and saw Two passengers get off the
train; noticed that one was small man
and the other was a large man. The first
started towards the water tank, having got
off on the side of the cars opposite 10 the Lo-
gan House, not the usual side for passengers
10 get off at the last | seen of them was
about one hundred yards from the hind end
OF the passenger cars going up the railroad;
they went west, past the sugar house and Ex-
change. The taller Of the two men should
think was little over six feet, and the small.
Ter little over five feet.
The witness was subjected 10 severe cross.
examination but without shaking his tesli.
mony.
John E. WarpIe, sworn--I reside in Blair
county, about - o CLOCK, on the 18th of Jan.
uary, was on the old Clearield road, about a
mile north of Bells mills, about half mile
from the railroad, driving along the road with
a team and sled; there was man standing
beside the road, and that man was the pris-
oner at the bar, although be had whiskers on
then; when | drove up beside him, he asked
me if he might ride on the sled, and told
him he should; he then asked ne If
was going far up that road, and | told him
about half mile; then asked him il he was
travelling and he said he was, he laid be was
going to Harrisburg, and from there 10 Mary
land and to some place else; ! asked him il
his people lived there, and he said some Of
them did; he asked me if that was the way
10 Harrisburg, and said he had come 70 All.
toona on the cars, and was almost out Of
money, OF tstrapped," and had inquired oI
an lIishman at Altoona, how much it would
take to goto Harrisburg by railroad, and hs
had told him $40; befors that he said that be
had lain sick at Minnesota, in the western
country, and thought he would rather walk
and see the country, to Harrisburg, than go by
railroad; he then wanted to hire me to take
him 10 Harrisburg, saying that as ! had 6
pair of good horses, should hitch ihem up
and take him in sleigh, and he would pay
me whatever he agreed on in advance; OBJ
jecled 10 that, and he then inquired The bss
and nearest road to Harrisburg; told him
the direction past Fesioria and Tifton, and ht
wanted TO know whether ei,her Of these wert
public places; be asked me If | knew where
he could get a good riding horse in the coun
try, as he would like to have one; the roat
that drove him on was not leading towards
| uary;ahpvo h,t IN Clearfisid, on the Alteghe