Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-16
! THE BoLDRRo MURDER.
ICoNrIHuBD.

sispnan would have innstsd, but the
Judge silsnced him, and King resumed
1--WE came to no agreement about the suit;
but my suspicious were much excited by Jag
gers bshavior, and employed an ofScer TO
watch him, who soon brought me werd that he
had overheard Jaeger make certain arrange
nents with q companion, and upon given
night was Intending TO dig up certain silver 10
sell i, and 70 leave the country, for the req.
son that he believed he should lose the suit
against him. A certain other cireumstanos,
which will msntion Immediately, caused me
10 believe that knew where this silver would
be dug, and BY lying In wait at the place so
oorsinglyl secured him With il In bis posses
sion.' - a. -sN
"I now proceed, continued King, 80 mar
rate the sirsumstancss Of which was an eye
witness, which will explain the references
which I have twice made thus far to eircum-
stapess which caused me to recognise the pri-
soner.,-ce sEe ~.
'sAs he said this, the witness, who had
hitherto been addressing himself to the Judge,
turned himself so as to look directly toward
the prisoner; and his voice changed, and he
spoke with deliberate solemnity and tone
Of pity and sorrow which showed that he felt
himself TO be breathing away the life of a man.
/ unconsciously turned In like manner from
the speaker to the prisoner, and 20, think,
did every person in the courtroom.
"'on the Both Of June, said King, I'm the
year Iot-, OeIWcon tno QOQrs OF DALI past tOur
and i've, John jaeger
"King stopped a moment, struck by the
fearful sudden look toward him Of the prison
or; and the pale, sickened terror Of his faoe,
as his jaw dropped and he stared at the wit
ness, appalled, at this quiet fixing almost Of
the very moment of his crime, did not, I
think, leave either juryman or spectator q
shadow of do1bt that the murderer was be-
fore him: and q smothered soand that was al
most grsan arose from all Of US. The gray
haired Judge, his kindly voice trembling " ith
emotion, said
"'Mr King, the Court Ia net In doubt of
your sense Of your responsibility; yet 1. thinks
1t its duty to admonish you that you are now
TO say what may dispose of the present and
the future of human SOUL
"I am not sure that those words should have
been said: yet so profoundly awake were We
all 10 the unconscious silent confession,
might almost call IL, Of the criminal. as If Ii
had made the very air of the quiet old court
room suddenly heavy with revelations Of guilt
and death, that no senfe Of irpropriety oc-
cIrred to U.s. and King, merely bowling silent
~, but turning again to the prisoner, proceed.
ed; AID Jaeger. at the bar, still gssed with
that horrible fesr upon his face. as IL within
the sphere of fatal magnetism.
"'9etween the hours Of half-psst four and
FIVE, John Jaeger came from the bsck door Of
mr- Boidero's house, went a dozen steps into
tie back yard, turned about, and shook his
light Sand at the house with O peculiar and
cha-sc:s-istic gesture Of angry passion. After
Tnor 81: or two lie deliberately took two
sacks E:Or repository under the shed, and
entered tho house with them. He shortly
came ont again, having upon his shoulder the
BODY e Mr.. boidero in one Of the sacks, and
this Ee carried through the yard, through the
wscds between the house and the pond, and
placed 10 In Mr.. Boldero's skiH, which he
made fast to tree. Then he returned, and In
like manner disposed Of the body Of Mrs. Boil.
dero. Then bs cast OF the boat, took one Of
the GERS, and, standing up, saulled out into
the pond to point about Q third Of the way
across, whore he sank the bodies, and then re-
turned. As hs stood up In the boat to return,
excited passion. He made the boat fast at
the tree, returned to the house, entered 1t,
shortly came out with the silver in his hand,
proceeded 70 a corner Of the vood-yard dug
deep hole close to and under one Of the
posts, and there concealed the silver, smooth.
iDg the ground over, and leaving it covered
with rubbish, as il was before. And then he
passed round the house, and went away down
the road
"tMr. Bsldero had two prominent front
teeth, fellows, and with a gold filling on the
inside Of each, corresponding with that in the
other He had once fractured his collar
bone, and, having been unskillfully set, the
portions had grown togsther so as to leave
large projection at the point of juncture. And
his right middle finger
Hastily breaking the string from parcel,
King took from II human skull, q radius and
ulna with the bones of the hand attached, and
eollar-bone, and held them up. Then hand
ing them from the yitne,s:box to the foreman
Of the juEy, he continued:
"Thsae are the bones Of Mr. Boldero. ]
yarovArad hetn unuaaIf frorn 6uin shauo popd
still in the strong linen sacks, which were of
English make, such as he always used. The
rest OF his remains, and those OF his wife, are
decently hurled
This strange and sudden display Of the
mortal remains Of bis relative and victim had
an effect upon the coarse, materialized mind
OF the murderer which, perhaps, no cirsum.
stantiality ef parole testimony ceuld have
produced: He stared upon the worn and
Heshless bones for q moment, still with the
same horrible, white, terror stricken face. All
at once he caught for BREATH and groaned
aloud; and then, dropping his head upon the
rail before him, he cried out, Lord have
mercy upon men And 50 he remained, bent
down, trembling, and silent, until the ad-
iouInment Of the court. EEa# E'E
when the jurymsn had each inspected the
relics Of mortality which King had given
them, ne handed them up to the Judge, aad
continued: n
III was the gesture which had twice
seen Jaggar make use Of on the morning Of
the murder which caused me to recognise him
as the criminal. When ! saw him at New
London hs fsW into a passion, and at our
parting made use of the same. This, In con-
nection with the general strsngeRess Of bis
manner, caused me 70 have him watched, and
my taking him with the silver completed my
conviction.' -
eel shall now describe the means by which
became an eyewitness Of the fscts have
mentioned At the time Of the murder had
been frequent visitor at the house Of Mr..
Bolderc, whore my present wife was living.
A day or tso before that time had received
orders 10 join the steamer with which I hsvs
lately returned, and had lsft Miss 9sldsn, Who
was also ON the point Of leaving home fpr .
visit Of some length 70 some friends at the
eastward Being uncertain whether she
was yet gone, and being too much employed
In completing some computations and draw
inSs conneoted with the United States Coast
Survey to 90 to the house again, was that
morning watching u, to see her again, know
ing her departure woald ts ct aysry early
hour - -. = -
Cons Of the main points In the trisngula.
don Of the coast Of Con eotieut yss uf,on the