The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-07-14

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came at noon 10th October, 1864, on
tho noon train.
Mr.. Thomas, No. "a, came n week
before with Mr. Young. saw the
man who rode the mare Fanny 10th
October. He was at the American n
week or so before and stayed over
night; | gave him No. "a and he had
fire in his room; stove in "A which
runs into No. 76
should not forget his countenance
and as he was sick or pretended to be,
/ waited on him considerably; he was
the first one | saw on horseback com
ing from the north part of the town;
the only one / saw at that time.
never saw the prisoner before this
spring. / did not see him about the
American Hotel 10Th October, 1864
during the raid was mostly on the
common, saw the man on Fields bay
mare before and during the raid; he
rode ON an army saddle; the one now
present looks like it.
Cross-erdmiRed by .H. De,cey.--
Fields mare was found in Canada.
First time the sick man came was with
Young; occupied No. "a which had a
fire; had his supper carried to his
room Mr.. Cyrus Butler, Mr.. Boards
ley's son-in-law, rode the mare in the
morning as have been told. Young
was on black horse that day. u.
Clark horses were of chestnut color
Leslie Steer.-I am clerk at the st.
Adams House, and was so the 10Th of
October, 1864. On the day of the
raid, there were seven raiders at the
st. Adams House, one came the night
before, and the rest came the next day
before.
Cross-eraminea by M, Delcey Il
could not recognize all of them if i
should see them.
Aium H. Nason--I was in St Al
bans, October ~, 1864; was at A. S.
Hydes store during the raid; stood
twelve to fifteen feet from where Net
Teton and Fairchild stood; while
standing there man rode up on a
horse and asked Nettleton for his hat
He demanded it two or three times,
and Nettleton refused to give it; the
man had no hat on; my impression is
that he was bareheaded; have seen
Payne since this trial began and once
during the examination before the jus
/ tee; do not recognize him rs the man
Cross-erdmined by Mr.. De,cey--At
the time it was matter of thought
with me that one man came up close
to Nettleton; one said, give him that
hat you id scoundrel or I'll blow
you through; he stood in the center O
the travelled highway; the others hat
hats on. The first time any one askeC
me or talked about my remembrance
or recollection of the raid, was two ol
three weeks since, hardly think coulc
recognize the man; did not notice the
horses the men rode; my attention
was called to the store, and / was
thinking of closing it. | recognized
some of the horses, but not the Field
mare; could not describe the complex
ion of the man who demanded the hat
Re-eramined By Mr. Bailey-Mi
Hyde was gone to New York at thi.
time, and my son and | were in the
store at the time of the raid.
George b, Payne. i am about thir
ty-two years old; was born the 18th o
August, 1888; am native of Unior
county, Kentucky. On the 10Th o
October, 1864, was i'll Montreal, Cana
da. A portion of the time | was il
Windsor, Canada; left there in Febru
airy, when rebellion broke out in
New Orleans. About the LIST of Janua
ny, 1868, / came to Canada; took the
oath of allegiance in December, 1862
at Nashville; was then at Windsor, of
and on, and at Henderson, Kentucky
In 1864 / went to South America; left
Windsor in February, 1864, and wen,
to New York and sailed about the 20tl
of February, for Cuba; stayed at Ha-
wanna two or three weeks; my wife
was with me and Hezekiah Payne. He
and | went from st. Thomas to South
America and returned to New York
went to San atoga and got there in Ju.
ly; stayed there until last July, when
i rented n furnished house at No 4
Balmoral Place, st Catherine Street
Montreal. When | went to house
keeping, he went to board with mo and
stayed until about tho Sth of Noyem-
Der; Hezekiah went to Montreal few
days before / did; on the 19thof Octo-
Der last, l was in Montreal; Hezekiah
was there also; first heard of the
raid between five and six clock in the
evening of October 10, 1864; did not
pay much attention to it. My brother
and Thomas Young, my brother-in-
law, were with me. We were in front
of st. Lawrence Hall; one of us bought
a paper; saw it in the fitness newspa-
per; got this copy yesterday from the
Witness office; it was an evening paper;
Hezekiah stayed at my house that
night; not long after reading the tele-
( graphic account of the raid, we went
up to supper; bartered with Mr.. Ry-
land, City Registrar, to lease the house
| was living in; was in Montreal, and
during the whole month of October,
was not out of the city; Hezekiah was
at breakfast at my house the next
morning, and after breakfast, | went
down alone and afterwards saw Heze-
kiah and Thomas Young at st. Law
renee Hall; saw him that day and ev-
o,.y lo,, Jur,n,v tha month of Dsfnha,.