Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-22

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The examination Of Captain Fred
Strccter, resulted in his Icing bound
over for trial on the charge Of murder.
Ho appeared entirely composed at tho
examination. There was immense ex.
citement in Medina during the examina.
tion, and the Court House was densely
packed, so much 80 that the iioor gave
way. o. .faE
Strccter is a native of Chatham, Me.
dina county, where he has mother and
other relatives living. He is quite n
young man, being only twenty and three
Of four years Of age. About a year ago
he went to Cleveland and obtained au
thority from the military committee TO
recruit for one Of the regiments that
were being raised there. He opened a
recruiting Office in Medina, but was un-
successful in obtaining recruits. He af-
terwards attempted to recruit in Medina
for the lc3rd O. V. [, but failed in
that Last winter or spring he married
q daughter Of Joseph Wetmore, we'll
known and respectable citizen of Mcdi.
ma. His wife was hardly IS years Of age
when they were married. 1t is charged
that Strectcr has wife and two children
living in New York State, end had
when he married Miss Wetmore. He
lived with his father in-law and had no
business whatever. Strceter's wife was
quite intimate with tho Coy family,
which brought Streeter there frequently.
In fact he and his wife took tea at Cows
a couple of days before the murder. The
day before the murder Streeter borrowed
ten dollars Of his father.in-l law in Mcdi-
ma, and taking a satchel went, as he
claims, to Cleveland returning to Medi.
ma the day following the murder He
went to Chatham, paid the ten dollars
borrowed money and also paid about
fifty dollars which he owed in small
debts to various persons He exhibited
considerable money and claimed that he
had won it gambling in Cleveland. Re-
naming in Medina a short time he took
his wife and went away. Suspicion
pointing towards him as the murderer,
he was tracked by the officers and arres-
ted at Kenosha, Wisconsin, as noted. =
He told very conflicting stories in at
tempting to account for his whereabouts
during the "a hours he was absent from
Medina, during which the Coys were so
brutally murdered He said at first he
rode to Cleveland in lumber WAGON,
arriving at three clock in the afternoon
The Prosecuting Attorney reminded him
that three O'Clock was rather early for a
teamster to reach Cleveland from Medi-
ma, and then Streeter said he rode with a
man in buggy. He could not tell who
he rode with. lie said he stopped at no
hotel but got his meals at a restaurant.
He couldn't tell where lie gambled or
who he gambled with. His whole story
was both improbable and contradictory
About sixty dollars were found upon his
person, and among the money were two
twenty dollar bills, greenbacks. that had
blood on the edges. When Mr.. Coy
got his money from the bank it was put
in sealed envelope. The envelope was
in the pocket OF a vest, which was beneath
his pillow at the time he was killed.
The murderer after doing his bloody
work. obtained the envelope, tore it open
at the longer edge and extracting the
money dropped the envelope in the bed
room. There is the mark of a bloody
thumb on the centre of the envelope and
marks Of bloody fingers on the edge,
made evidently by the murderer in tax
ing out the bills. On the twenty dollar
bills referred to as having been found
with Streetor, arc bloody marks, which
upon trial were found to fit exactly with
the torn oIgo of the money envelope.