Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-16
THE BEDFORD MURDER
TRIAL OF DIR. JOHN ". HUGHES.
The MurdererO Of Parsons
Business Engagements Be
o9 fore Going to Bedford.
Hughes Ancestors Subject t 4n-
z sanity.


The Court met at nine O'Clock yesterday
morning. The day was consumed in taking
the testimony for the defense:
TESTIMONY OF MISS MARSHALL.
Mss Lizzie Marshall called: Have
known DR., Hughes since July A. 1855.
Hughes used 70 leave notices on his slate at
his Office when ne went out. Was at his
Office on the Tuesday before his arrest, first
at seven or eight o'clock, and again between
ten and eleven. l ven to gethim to attend
Mrs. Owens baby. He was not there. Mrs.
Kate Owens has furnished Hughes his
meals since he was arrested, and / have
been to the Jail with them several times.
OSCAR R~ussELL's TESTIMONY.
Oscar Russell called: l have known
Hughes about two years. Was with Hughes
the day ofthe murder. l had been with him
all the night before. Met him at the st.
Nicholas Saloon, Bank street, about eight or
nine o'clock that evening. He was
there when l went in. We drank
there, don't know what, for 1 was drunk.
/ don'tk know that Hughes was drunk. We
stayed there five or ten minutes. WITNESS
detailed visits of himself and Hughes to
several drinking places, and their drinking.]
Think the Doctor proposed to go home, but
am not sure. He didn't go, because l pro-
posed to go riding to Rocky river. / went
to Cars carriage, and Hughes asked him
what he would charge to take US riding all
night, and come back in the morning. ]
saw a pistol lying in Hughes trunk, in his
a nice shooter you have" Hughes said,
Eyes, | guessIl1 put it in my pocket"
He also took a flask and had it filled down
stairs. l proposed going to Rocky River,
and Hughes did not object. When
the driver said he could not find some
woman he had been looking for to go with
us. DR.. II. said he could find some in the
country, and we started. At Newburgh
Hughes engaged rooms at the Cataract
House, and said we would be back and stay
there all night. I was asleep on the way to
Newburgh, and also by going from New
burgh to Bedford. At Bedford we were to
be called at sever in the morning. Hughes
said we had better get home and attend to
business. In the morning we drank whis-
ky several times, both before and after
breakfast. We started for home, and l
asked Hughes where the women were he
was going to see, and he said he would
show them to me on the road home. At
the grocery opposite the Plank Road House,
and l drank ale about twenty-five
WITNESS c~orroborated generally the
account of witnesses for the prosecution in
to putting lou on Hughes face be-
cause it was red, and to the proposition to
20 to Rocky River by way of Independence
hat Hughes might stop there and collect
Iome money. At Krum's house Hughes
proposed to me to go to Parsons house, in
,roduce myself as Major Hanson, tell them
he was out there, and they would send IN
or him, which / refused to do. While
,oing back to Bedford from Krum's, Lwas
was sitting in the bar-room ofthe
House, Hughes having gone out,
When the driver, Carr, came in and told mt
here was a muss. l ran out and saw
coming around the corner, keeping
III off him with a revolver in his hand. He
anne to me just at the carriage, and told
ne to get in, and 1 got in. He got in and
the revolver at the driver, and told
lin to drive on, saying, Drive, or III
boot /" l got out then, and got on with the
Inever toldany man to let Hughes
lone or I'd blow his brains out hadn't
.nything to blow anybody's brains out with.
When Hughes came up to me at the car
iage, his face was red as fire, his eyes just
S if popping out, and he was nightly ex-
tied. l told the driver to drive, or we
both be shot, and qe drove as fast as
le knew how. Don't remember of giving
any money after the shooting.
boarded with me from July IA, 1865,
i'll the time of this shooting. Isaw Hughes
.runk once before this affair his face was
cry red, and he talked a great deal.
At this pointthe Court adjourned till two
clock P. NJ.