The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-31
FOURTH EDITION
the CHESTNUT HILL TRAGEDY.
INVESTIGATION BY THE CORONER.
HOW THE MURDERED MAN SPENT
HIS LAST SABBATH.

This morning, at about eleven o'clock, Coroner
Tay lor resumed the INVESTIGATION into the death
OF Oliver Allison, at Chestnut Hill, on Sunday
evening.
large and excited crowd had gathered about
the station House where the prisoners were
confined, manllesting great interest in all tn.
proceedings The Jury that was empanelled
yeste dag consists nj the following gentlemen,
all respectable wellknown esidents OF Chesnut
Hill John Stallman, William Goodwin, Alex.
ander Hare, George Fisher, Christian Donat,
and Reuten Sands.
The first witness sworn was Jacob Herself the
companion oi Allison on Sunday afternoon and
evening. He resides at No. S5l Ontario street;
has known Allison for six years past; at half-past
l o'clock on Sunday afternoon he had started
ilom Casselberry's stable, in company with
Allison.
Their first halt was at place denominated
the Punch BOWL Here they took drink,
deceased restricting himself 10 lemonade. At
the abbey" they AGAIN alighte1, and each drank
a "whisky cocktail
AT Valley Green they resorted to lemonade
again, but on reaching a tavern near the Ches-
nut Hill Railroad depot they partook of iced
Claret. They subsequently drove to another
hotel in the neighborhoOd, where they took
three drinks, and then sat down to supper and
two bottles of wine.
On resumne their Journey, Allison driving,
as he had been doing all the afternoon, witness
told MIN he thought it was time t. turn about
and go home. But Allison insisted on going
some distance further, to place at which he
wished to stop.
They proceeded onWards accordingly and
stopped at the place designated, but witness did
not remember whether they took drink here
or noe. They then proceeded up the Wssahickon
turT pike, Hersch mean while demonstrating with
Allison because the latter would not turn the
horse homewardS.
When they came to the toll gate neither wit
ness nor deceased we're affected by the liquor
they had drank. The latter was still perfectly
sensible, sitting upright in the carriage, and
driving without difficulty. Thus far they had
met With tpOublp from "A they naSSpd
| through the gate witness spoke to Allison about
| paying the toll, when the latter responded,
'NeVer mind" at the same time giving the horse
They had proceeded about three hundred
| yards, when witness turned around and saw
| that crowd was following them. He informed
Allison OF this fact, saying, also, ''lll get out
| and pay the toll; there Is no use III making a
| fuss about such a triHe." Witness then stepped
from the carriage, and starteu back towards the
| toll-gate.
| He was not certain as to whether Allison
! ahghteo at the same time or not but thinks
that he left deceased sitting in the Carriage; on
| looking back he also thought that he saw some
| persons holding the horse; when witness had
| walked about half way to the gate he met seve-
raj persons going in the opposite direction; wit
| ness inquired OF one whether ne was the toll
| gate keeper: the man replied 'No;' and then
| witness remarked, II came back to pay the
| toll"
Witness stood talking with these men couple
| of minutes. One OF them he afterwards recog-
nized as the prisoner Thomas Fagan. While
| talking with them he heard sound OF sCuffling,
and the exclamation, " He is bleeding to death;
| run tor DOCTOR"
Witness then hurried back to the carriage
| with the prisoner Pagan. When he reached the
| spot where Allison had fallen, he lifted him up,
| and attempted to wash the blood from his face.
! Deceased gave one shudder only, and was dead.
| Mr.. Hersch was still upon the stand wnen our
| reporter left the place where the inquest was
| being held. Some halfa-dozen witnesses in all
! were present for examination. Detective Levy
is still earnestly at work in his effort to ferret
out the whereabouts Of Teeven, the supposed
! criminal
1t is the intention of the authorities to offer a
reward for his capture 1t is extremely doubt
tul il he can elude the two-fold vigilance OF the
| police and OF private citizens stimulated by the
| hope of gain.
| When the witness Hersch was shown the
| daguerreotypC OF Teeven, he did not recognize
him as one of the party with whom he stood
conversing at the time OF the murder. But this
| fact is directly against the suspected person.
| DR., Shapleigh gives the folio wing as the result
OF the Dost-mortem examination OF the body of
the deceased, which he made yesterday after
noon:-
There was a wound on the left side of the
neck two inches and halt long, commencing
behind the ear, just under the mastold process,
! downwards, forwards, towards the angle of the
| Jaws. The depth of the wound was three inches
and a half. Direction OF wound, for wards,
| slightly downwards and inwards. 1t was made
by pointed instrument, with one edge at least
| sharp. The point of the instrument was not
slender, like dirk, but more like that of what
is called clasp knife. The sterno.clido-m astoid-
eus muscle, the iugular vein, the external carotid
artery, and parotId gland were divided. The
instrument penetrated the root of the tongue on
the left side half an inch. This showed the
shape of the point of the instrument used. This
wound was triangular, half an inch long. The
instrument was first thrAst iRwards, then pushed
| downwards. The edge of the wound presented
an appearance as if made BY knife not very
sharp. Death resulted from hemorrhage.