Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-15
LOCAL AFFAIRS,

TnE TUELL MURDER CAsE.-The court ad.
journed yesterday about i.30 y. M, having been
occupied the entire day In hearing the testimony
which was taken in this case. DR.. Began, George
Ballard, William Clendenin and Tim Gallagher
were the witnesses examined after our report
closed.
Dr. Began knew the prisoners wife sinee 1857;
made post mortem examination Of her body and
found various wounds OF various stages Of dis
weeks olai one wound was pcculiar-it was about
an inch and quarter long, and resulted from a
descending blows It might have been done by the
hammer, but certainly not by the axe.
George Ballard knew TuelI, but not the deoessrd;
saw him on the evening Of Thursday; be lust come
from his days work; he said good evening" to
Tuell-"Good evening, COrnelusj what 10 the IN at
ter with youn and received the reply that he was
In troublei that his wife dead, he seemed TO be
pettins or crying and lOoksd as II he had taken u
couple OF glAsses Of flQuorj he said in anBwer to
9uestion, thSt she had died from the effects OF
liquor.
He handed itness a ten dollar bill which he hHiI
In his hand, and, upon being asked, stated thai It
would pay, he thought, for job which he wanted
to he done In the morning, VIZ to take his wife
to Glenwood. witness took the ten dollars when
offered the second time and expected to return It
tomorrow. Tuell said that the reason he did not
bury her that day was because his time was taken
up in getting priest and ground in the cemetery.
He said " We will take the coffin Gown Tonight
and take her out early; Iwould not have It known
for 500 thst buried her there.n
He was gone about half an hour, and took the
colin TO his house about 730, p. m; It was not
very dark witness and prisoner took the coffin in
lnb hllty anu hlTuck nBnli carried the cOttin up
stairs, and put the body In; they then drove away
with the body, and put It into stable; slept there
that nighti In this morning took drink, and at 0.
80 started; the body had been In bed; there was a
sheet over II, and II was In very state
VIM, Clendennin, Superintendent of GlenwOod
ce%stCPy asked tS he came At o'clock
Tim Gallagher, gravo.digIer, asked him why hs
came so early to bury the bodyi he said he had
come early as he was pooTi he took of his coat and
helped; he said she was a widOw-that her hus.
band had been dead three years, and that he was
the first cousin.
I his morning the little son OF the prlsoner, who
is about ten years of age, was about 10 be put
the Atald, when the counsel for the defence hOped
thNtit would not be allowed, on account of the
painful position In which the son would be pisc ed
IN teBtliying against father. II. would be re-
pIoaeh, said Mr. Bradley upon the witness for a
life time.
Mr.. Fcndall, for the prosecution, replied that II
was very painful to ALL TO the boy TO the prisoner
TO the counsel for the prosecution as we'll rs fOf
the defence, to tho jury TO the court but still II
was necessary and must be done, painful as It was
His Honor (Judge Fisher ordered the boy to be
produced In the court, and questioned him to rs.
certain his ability to testify TO Gee II he knew the
sOlemnity of an oath, and hLding that the boy was
intelligent and knew the GOnBeq uences of peIjurg,
stated that 1t became his duty to allow the test.
mony to be taken. 1t was very painful, and he
wished and had hoped that the 10y would upon
being questioned prove incompetent.
The boy shed tears aud the prisoner loudly la.
mented-CYcry one In the court room hearing him
cry. The prisoner seemed to be agitatCd with the
most terrible emotions.
The court, upon inteTFOgating the child, learned
that he went To 81. Aloysius, that Father Wlgot
was his pflest-that he was taught by him and by
were good went 10 heaven, that those who were had
wont to the "bad plseei' that he loved his Maker
that bad boys are put into the fires that 1t was
live on Third street, butnow at the Orphans Asy.
lum, where the Sisters take care Of hlmj that he
was ten years OF age and his little sister five OF
six years, who 10 also at the Asylum.
His name iB James Tuell. He teBtllCd 40 fol
lows Before my mother was married her name