Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-08

ASSASSINATION Of Hutton on n ChurGe OF |
TrensSn-Committai By the United States |
COmmissIoner.
The examination of Mr.. Hutton, charged |
with treason, took place before United States
Commissioned Holiday, yesterday, and re
suited in the committal OF the prisoner for
trial before the United States Circuit Court
The circumstances connected with the case
are somewhat peculiar, and calculated to give
O strong suspicion Of malice on the part OF
the prosecuting witnesses, who were the
prisoners wife's sister and her husband. Mr..
II. was employed as early az 1854 as o bag
gsge-master on the Central Ohio Railroad,
and was universally esteemed by the officers
and agents OF the company. In 1886 he re-
ceived some severe injuries on the head by
the train running off the track, which brought
on brain fever prostrating him for several
months. From this he never fully recovered,
either physically or mentally, and he was
unable TO resume his old position; but the
officers Of the road gave him employment as
bill-poster and lost freight agent, at which
he managed to obtain respectable income.
As his territory was in the West and South,
! he has, for several years past, carried a num-
ber of pistols with him, which were furnished
by Mr.. Brown, of Columbus, Superintendent
of the road, which he sold on commission.
He alleges, however, that he sold none
since the war commenced, and the clerk OF
| DTOWn lebblutu huhb uS uhh AOb
any since that period; and, also, that he
had heard Hutton say he would not engage
in selling arms 10 the rebels.
The first witness called is Mr.. Blush, Mr..
Huttons brother in-law, who was married
on the fifteenth of August last. On direct
examination he disclosed but little, and
indeed his testimony was Intended as
merely Introductory to that of his wife.
He knew that Hutton had been in Tennessee
| tbRaa tiunao 1atalv hut anulA mt
that he took any pistols. His business called
him there before the war, and he, likewise,
had relations in the State; but he did not
know il his last trips were, or were not,
made in behalf of the railroad.
The cross. examination was conducted by
Judge Johnston, who inquired, minutely,
concerning the relations between the witness
and prisoner, both past and present, and
succeeded in eliciting the fact that they had
formerly been friends, and that Blush had
frequently visited Hutton's house and had
become acquainted with and engaged tc
marry, the sister of Mrs. H., q divorced
widow; and that no objection was made BY
either the prisoner or his wife, and the day
for the marriage was arranged. But few
days before that Blush proposed that the twt
, should leave for Cincinnati and be married
there. To this Hutton entered a decided
M ,rntest, and even went so far as to say the
II such thing were attempted he WoulC
take the Soman to her father. They must
he said, be arried before leaving Columbus
or not at all. This altercation took place
early in August, and on the llth the woman
left Hutton's house, and on the 18th wa
married to Blush. A few days after that
Blush went to Hutton's house, where
quarrel and personal collision occurred, al
though we believe neither received any
serious injury.
The witness said he knew of the prisoner
visits to Tennessee before the difficulty, but
had never taken the matter into considera
tion-to use his own language, he "didn'
think any thing about them"
: Mrs. Blush gave her testimony in a very
general and indefinite form. She saw Hutton
tain pistols, in his carpet sack, in June last
and start away, saying he was going to Ten
! nessee. She did not know how many he had
or how far he took them. She had, on one
other occasion, seen some pistols in the cup
board, and on the day she lett she saw somt
in his valise.
Thearresting officer found two small singl,
barrel pistols on his person when he wa
: taken into custody. On asking the prisone
what he was doing with them, he replied
that he always carried arms on a journey
, that he had formerly been trading in them
but had not done so since the war com
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large numDer OI WlIueSseS, lnCluuluR L
W. Strader, B. s. Gray, Freight Agent G
: the Central Ohio Railroad, G. H. Wright an
:. Abel Crandall, of Columbus, testified to tn
good character of Hutton, and that he was
t member, in good stsnding, of the Congrega
!, tional Church.
Mr. Wheeler, the deputy Marshal at Co
It lumbus, testified that he searched Hutton
!, house, and found nothing which would indi
cate that he had been engaged in any illegs
traffic.
Mr.. Strader testified that the Railroad
" were unusually active in advertising in tn
4 South, after the stoppage of through tickets
a as it was more necessary to make their line
known; and that he had travelled throug
Tennessee and had heard of Hutton, VIII
4 had preceded him, and saw evidences of b
u u having been diligently employed at h
. duties.
g After hearing the testimony, the Con
81 missioner concluded to commit the prisont
Il for trial, and he was accordingly sent to Jai