The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-07-14
NJ. lLBANS RAIDERS.
Franklin County Court,
special Tcrm--June, 1865.
TRIAL OF HEzEKIAa PAYNE
Charged with the Murder OF Elinus }
Morrison. -i st. Adams, October 10, 1854.
TRIAL OF HEzEKIAH PAYNE
IcoscLuDED. !
TESTIMONY FOR THE RESPOND
EMF

TESIl NOM FOh LIE kIsOHOND-
EMF.
The following dispositions Of Ade-
.ado Turner, Bridget Kaheler, and Eli
iah b Thompson, taken in May. 1865,
with notice before the Hon John j.
Potter, Z. s. Consul General for Brit
sh North America, residing in Mon
|treal. appointed commissioner, were
used on the part Of the prisoner. The
lengthy denominations by Mr.
Dewey, States attorney, are omitted,
as they do not seem to vary the testi-
mony in chief
A}3qide TUrper-I am seventeen
Years Of age; have resided in Montreal
stnco years; during the month of DC
tober last resided with my mother
Z unl went to Sterling Paynos on the
Rtmrd OF October last, as nurse. ! knew
4 Hezekiah Payne, brother of Sterling
PAYNE; first heard of the st. Adams
Brad when / heard Hezekiah Pavne
Fread about il in the paper, about ten
Sor eleven o'clock in the forenoon; did
faot know what month or what dav of
Btho month it was. He was reading to
AAIrs Sterling Payne. The St. Adams
fgaid took place the night before. Hez-
4ekiah Payne was at Sterling PAYNE 5
Nho evening before playing cards, do
DO know where he staid that night:
hnk be was at Sterling Payne's about
#fWo hours That evening. but cant ten
Hhe exact time. Mr. and Mrs. S,erl-
gng Payne Hezekiah Payne. William
" ockett' and Mortimer LocLett were
alresant that evening at Sterling
81 @nes Sterling Payne was keeping
boase at 81 ~ Elm Street in this city.
ghs Sterling had a young child: it
~ Us about one month old when | went
fhete and SIX months old when left.
IN kuew Hezekiah' Payne before that
81 ght as had seen him frequently at
" house Sterling Payne broke MP
leepng house on the 18th Of March
r. Alter George Payne broke mp
asekeepng IN the fall, Hezekiah
sme to Starling's to board. When
laali HIM reading in the paper to
Payne about the st. Adams raid,
had not come there to board; re-
!. lbor that he stopped all night one
4 8At at Sterling Paynes before he
l @e to board. / recognize the pho
"Phs exhibited to me, rs that OF
hezehiah Payne.
HI Snaga Kaheler.-I am twenty-five
R fAiS oil age; have resided in Montreal
eve years last summer; in August,
p'einoer, and October last, 1864, |
= residing with George Payne in st.
U'ellhe Street in the city of Montre-
a =" lAe capacity of housemaid. !
-" ilezeklah Payne; he was at Geo.
ne > boarding there during all the
ET " .lat lived there. George Payne
oeeh keeping house but a few
Is when first went there to live,
4 nm u was about the last of October
q "eorge broke up Housekeeping,
1l'ea on table all the time that
y IN the family Hezekiah was
~ absent day from home while !
lere; If he was absent from one
IT. ne was always there at the next
nlSht while | was there, he was
Sue but was in Mt his tea that
~ | heard nothing of the st. Al
'aia until about the middle of the
'er' when ! first heard of it. ! wa.
.e.A8 IN st Lawrence, Main Street
'iHS city; learned it from hearing
olo'her read in the newspapers al
9un' OF the arrest of Hezekial
me- Nc heard about it next when
ut bailey, counsel for Hezekiah
'hlnk was in March last. Mr.
IJY was the first one who spoke I,
@oouI the matter; he wanted me t,
~ ." Adams as a witness, but IN,
Dois ana not want me to 90; Heze
d e the brother of George Payne
:, u > ID. Payne, of Montreal.
o aym d. Ihoppson.-My age il
~'S1slS years; was born in tn,
81 s,' VI tennessee; was in the militia
In '''lce OF the confederases iron
Il 70 1868; arrived in Montreal tn,
part OF September, or the frs
nt Va october, 1863. | was Firs
'Inaht at the taking Of Port HUI
ave lave been in Montreal since
yo I'i'eu here; most of the time
NJ "oen DONG nothing; recently
Ca . o' clerk IN the Office of Fole
M. "ln acquainted with Hezekial
N. d. nave known him for about
sBe ~ on N1t remember that / saw Nh
h vi, the day of the st. Alban
h "1' am confident that / sa,
brnino " zee. eight and nine in th
na' after the raid; met him o
~ wallnt near the Toronto RAM
Nea with him into st. Lawrenc