The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-12-17

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Cou'rH. VS.. JAMES j. KAYLoR-
H,rder.-Two bills Of indictment were
laid before the Grand Inquest OF this
eouuty, last week, one charging James >.
Kavlor. Steward of the Cambria county
Poor House, with the murder Of Samuel
Gregory, pauper, and the other charg-
;Oo him with the murder of Zachariah
Morris, also pauper. The first of these
U,s returned ga true bill - the other was
ignored.
The case wherein bill had been found
vas brought to trial on Friday evening.
Great difficulty was experienced in secu-
ring jury, and the panel was exhausted
When only four or five had been accepted
ard sworn in. BY calling on spectators,
however, the requisite number was ulti-
mately obtained, and the case proceeded.
The trial attracted considerable atten-
ton. and the COURTROOM was thronged
during its continuance. We did not
take notes of the evidence, but will en-
deavor to give from memory the principal
points elected.
Michael Devlin, the prosecutor, was
called and sworn. He testified that, in
1861, he was an inmate of the Cambria
county Poor House. In October, Of that
year, he saw Kaylor, the defendant, strike
Gregory over the head with an iron po-
ker, knocking him down, breaking his
jaw witness thought, and raising large
brdise immediately under his eye. He
never spoke, ate, or left his bed after he
received the blow, aud died in the course
Of two or three days. Gregory was in
ane, ard was confined in cell, chained
to the floor, at the time OF the alleged oc-
currence. Devlin told defendant that N
inquest ought to be held on the murdered
nan; whereupon defendant locked him
(Devliu) up in cell, feeding him on
bread and water, for week, and threaten
ing to continue the punishment unless he
retracted the charge that Gregory had
been murdered. Witness refused to do
SO, and ultimately succeeded in making
his escape from the institution, to which
be has never since returned as pauper.
Jacob 0akline, Thomas Rees and Thos.
Meter, paupers, all testified to seeing the
truise on Gregory's face before he died,
aud to the fact that he was unable to eat
or speak after receiving the blow which
Produced it. The all agreed in saying
that be died in two or three days after
the alleged violence had been offered
deceased
D. Il. Roberts, Esq, testified that the
FNSecutor in the present case made in
ermation before him about two years ago
charging Kaylor with the murder of
5egory, but no action of account was
aken in the premises.
John o. O'Harro, farmer for the Poor
House, testified that he arranged matters
III the funeral of Gregory after the death |
lAe latter. He saw the face Of de- |
ceased, and was positive there was no
'false whatever thereon He further
10fe said that deceased did not die until
~' expiration Of two weeks after the date
,lea 1t was alleged by Devlin and others
vat Aayior had struck him.
t"o young women domestics employed
q Tue Poor House in 1861 corroborated
eslimony Of the preceding witness.
~. ~. VI them stated that Gregory was
,''s'' to epilepsy, and that during the
weeks when he could neither speak
cat, he "went On in one fit after
-. aef Until he died." he dying in fit.
'iicnaei M'Guire, Poor House Director
mug 1861, testified that Devlin, the
'''cutor, boarded with him several
,iS after the occurrence of the alleged
h. 4'' lie (Devlin) told witness that
so'S had been killed, but averred
\, was an inmate of the Poor House
i, a'u 9leade who had killed him. He
~ ,4sf made the threat that he would be
;. Sea On defendant for some alleged