The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-02-10

weeks. lie returned on Monday evening
early in April last. think it was on tn,
4Ih that the prisoner came with him or
occasion. know the prisoner, he ia.
frequently stopped at my house. Pris.
oner had bis supper at my house. He
went up town 10 he west end, and came
back before We went 10 bed. | think II
WAS Marin Derrick who showed him up
TO bed. He was there 10 my house next
morning before any train hat come up
from the east. saw him. There was
no other occasion but this one, on which
Derrick and prisoner came together to
my house. Ii was then Derrick returned
to woodstock. after having been some
weeks in Toronto, taking care Of broth.
er who was sick. Derrick stopped ct m
house then some weeks, until some time
in May, when he went to Detreit to look
ior a situation. Derrick then did not
come down to Hamilton that know Of
TO Mr.. O'Reilly-Derrck did not
come to Hamilton after that know Of
1 was al the station when the evening
accommodation train from the west arrived
at Woodstock. remember that il was
on a Monday that Derrick returned from
Toronto. That / remember. Can't say
The day Of :he week be went away. He
was away two or three weeks. I say
again that l remember that it was on
Monday. 1t is no interest 10 me 10 seH a
lie about it. Am not able 10 swear il was
on the 2sth Of March. l reccollec, the
circumstance OF the robbery OF Mckay.
Derrick had been home over a week when
that took place.
Don't keep hotel register. Can't tell
jus! how many days i, was when McEl.
roy left Cant tell nybody else thai,
came in my house on Monday about
that time. Don't think prisoner had
much Of beard on when be came to nv
place. 1t was no. long at all events. He
had goggles on. When at nv house in
the winter he had q moustache. Ii was
between 8 and 9 when saw him the ne 1t
morning. did not see hisa 90 to bed
Know that he and Derrick went together
aud that Derrick went to shew him 10
bed. / have known the express traio to
stop at Woodstock going east though
that is not 90 the table. Prisoner left
Woodstock on the 10th Of April, Just the
day before the robbery at McKay's.-
That was on The l7:h. Between the
lime when he came with Derrick aud the
time last mentioned, be had been awsy a
few days and back again. Ills eyes we're
sore and he wore glasses.
TO Mr. q Reillv - navor - Sho
Q: in the gaol here or since he lef. Wood.
stock on the 18th Of April last.
don't recollect of saying to McGIopap
that could not state whether it was The
4th or the llth on which Derrick and priso.
ner came together to my house. l don't
mind anything about saying that con,d
not tell tho date. Don't recollcct that
did. Won't say that didn't.
Thomas Dawson "a colored man. sworn
10 Mr.. Mckelcan. ! am q barber, and
live in Woodstock. Prisoner came to my
shop ten or fifteen minutes before nine o..
clock. and staid till ten or twenty minutes
after nine. He said. "Dawson, I'm ID
hard up" went out and got Eve dollars
from a neigbbor. gave it to him, and one
more. ! was going to charge i. to him, bu,
didn't just then, my boy naSiug The ink
away with bin. Next morning, gave
prisoner six dollars more, and entered the
whole @l2 on my book. 1t was Monday
night. am sure of the date, because NV
young man and looked at the almanac
Prisoners eyes were red and inflamed
(W;tness produced bis book.) His beard
was then an inch and a quarter loup-it
was half grown. When short it shows pray
hairs. He wanted it colored-tba, is. the
under pa-t of the beard. My apprentices
name is Henry Hawkins. His whiskers
had been growing about two months. He
told me he would be back on Wednesday
from Ingersoll, and pay me this money. but
he never did 80. He looked as if he had
been on spree. His coat was all sIobber.
ed, as if ne had been vomiting. He said be
felt I'D hard" He said bis ewes we're
very sore. l saw that bis eyes we're in.
famed. He wiped them frequently.
On cross examination, Mr.. O'ReilIy tried
witness at reading the entries in his own
book, and also tried him at writing with pen
and ink on the spot The result was not 6
all satisfactory, and amounted mainly to a
demonstration that ~toess bad bis own way
of writing. which nobody else could read
The audience were kept in constant litter
during this part OF the examination.
Henry Hawkins (colored man, sworn.-
To MIR, Mckelcan. live in Woodstock.
Am in the employment of last witness. On
the evening OF the 4th OF April last he came
into our shop and had bis bead rubbed up.
He said be was hard up; and seemed to be
ION tight" He had bis boots bIacken ed
then. Dawson asked me the day of the
month, and told him it was Monday, the
4th OF April. McElroy came in the next
morning. Was shaved, had his boots black.
ed again, and his whiskers dyed His beard
was abou, an inch and a quarter long. There
was some gray hair 10 bis whiskers. re-
member Dawson lending him some more
money on the next morning, Tuesday.
cannot read. Cannot read writing. can
read print very little. McElroy had on
goggles. Heard him tell Dawson his eyos
we're sore.