Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-11
THE BEDFORD MURDER
TRIAL OF DIR. JOHN ". HUGHES.
The MurdererOfM Hi Parsons
Important Testimony of DR.. Wray.
THIRD DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

morning. When William kfuln was recalled
for cross examination, as follows:
The night that Parsons came for my wife
to 20 and stay with Tamzen while he went
to Bedford, was a pretty dark night. 1.-THE
previous witness said the night was not too
dark to see a man forty feet distant in a car
riage.] | could not recognize DR.. Hughes
by sight, and theonly reason l have for say
ing it was he, was that the woman Tam
zen) called him DIR. Hughes" Witness
stated in his direct examination that when
his wife and son went over TO Parsons house
on the night mentioned, he had got up and
laid down by his own yard gate, Hughes
icing in his carriage in the road in front of
Parsons house, opposite l knew Tamzen's
voice well enough to recognize 1t anywhere.
Hughes addressed her as Miss Parsons"
Heard him say Miss Parsons, you can't
swear that / was here tonight" She said,
=" it's a pity l can't swear TO DR.. Hughes
You have been here enough, and If | can't
swear TO it, father an Have heard that
my wife went out and searched Hughes
-hnCgy. but don't know about it from
sight. The ouvv-ee4AHLAtxeen Hughes and
Tanzen was whatI call a tender and per-
suasive conversation, though he called her
once or twice a fool. The be~er-drinking |
mentioned yesterday, was in a grocery op-
posite the Plank Road House, not in that
house. While there, the party discussed the
road to Eight and Twelve Nile Laeks-and
Rocky Rirar and hnW they might 60 from
Bedford TO these places. 1t was remarked
then that Hughes face was very red, and
Russell (the major rubbed -four on it.
Direct examination resumed ! do not
think the beer drank at the grocery
was very intoxicating l was as sober when
drank the last glass as | was at first.
DR.. Ben. F. Wrav called: Live in Auburn,
Geauga Co. and formerly in Warrensville.
Know DIR. Hughes; saw him at Warrens-
vile two or three weeks before Tamzen Par
sons death. saw him just previous to his
trial, and prior to that in Warrensville. when
he told me that he had been to Chagrin
Falls to make a surgical operation. Had
been to Parsons house the night before, he
said, This was the night when he had pre-
viOusly said be was at Chagrin Falls. He
came to my Office, two and a half miles
South of the Plank Road House, at five
O'Clock A. NJ. came into my room told me
to get up Immediately | said ! would see
him below in a short time l went down to
the bar-rOom expecting TO meet the Doctor
there but did not. and asked the landlady
if she had seen him, then | went into the
private parlor found DR.. II. asleep on the
sofa / went out and left him there,
while | went to visit my patients out
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noon upon returning 1 found the Doctor
still sleeping. left him and went TO make
q call in the village and aiterward went 10
dinner without seeing him again. After
ward he got up and wanted to know how
long he had been sleeping; we went to the
bar room together he called for some beer
"a pint, | think-and we drank a glass
apiece. After that he spoke of his dinner,
and told him 10 80 in at once, if he wanted
any, which he did. Then he had some more
beer. The DR. started toward the door and
motioned me to follow him we went out
into the road and he asked me if | had heard
ANYTHING of Miss Parsons. almost whisper
ing it TO me; l said | had heard her spoken
of, but not recently. He then asked if l
knew where Joe Haines was, and said l had
seen him at Bedford-that he was still there
in business. DIR. H. then asked me if Mrs.
P. was in his (Haines0 family, and when l
had heard of her, and where she was told
him l did not know her whereabouts. DR..
II. hesitated some, and then said she Miss
Parsons) was calling herself Mrs, Hughes,
and sa d it was a disgrace TO him /;
asked ms if / had a revolver or pistol; /
told him had neither one; | then said
Doc. what do you want it for - and he re-
piled, after hesitation, that if Miss Parsons
persisted in calling herself Mrs. Hughes,
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would also de likewise by Joseph Haines.
He told me to go and hitch up my horse, that
be would like TO nave me take him a few
miles. I told the Doctor the horse was
lame. because / did not wish to go away.
He urged me, but / refused, and he ordered
his own horse to be brought; he wanted me
to go and ride with him; / refused, but
finally went. He said, at the time of his
arrest, Il think at Pittsburgh,) he had given
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wished to get them in his possession again /;
that he was going to her father't house, but
started the other way, North, owing to the
horse refusing to go South he said soon,
there's a man coming I wish to see, and
stopped, and said TO the man that he
tHughesl wanted the sword he had left with
him the nam some time before; his name
was Kewish, and he offered to give Hughes
the sword if he would go 10 his house, which
we did, and Hughes got the sword, which
was put in the bottom of the carriage.
Hughes then asked Kewish to go and get
some beer, and said they would be friends;
Hughes said the injury he tKewish) had
done his wife, he rsv r would forgive him
for, Hughes said he need have no fears of
him * for his Goo had married him. We
then went to the hotel. Soon saw Mr.. Fish
and another man drive up, and took the
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the Plank Road House, Hughes remaining
in the bar-room. Fish and the other man
soon came pack with both carriages, and
Hughes wanted to know why they had taken
his horse; Fish said they were sent for it
and had a right to take it. Fish after
war took Hughes toward the Plank Road
House, where he said he wanted to stop.
Hughes at this time first said he had been at
Chagrin Falls making an amputation, and,
got $500 for it. Next saw Hughes at the same
house some time afterward. He told me he
had been arrested for an assault upon Par
5 ms, and asked me what time it was that
he came 10 see me that morning, and what
conversation took place between US. He
said on that morning he had come directly
from Parsons house that he had had a lit
tie difficulty with the old gentleman that
he refused to leave his premises, and also TO
drive of, after getting into his carriage; that
Miss Parsons came out and talked with hin
some time while he was in the carriage. He
said that Parsons went over the way and
got some one from the house opposite. He
then said that his examination on charge of
assault would take place the next day, and
wanted me to come and attend it.
The court took a recess until two o'clock
P. H..