Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-29
OLMSTEAD FALLS MURDER.
Examination Of the Prisoners
Concluded.
CALVIN AND MILLER HELD,
AND SENT TO JAIL LAST NIGHT.
Burial of Mrs. COIVin's Remains.

Burial Of Mrs. COIVin'S Remains.
No Signs of Mcconnell, Dead or Alive.
The heavy storm which prevailed yester-
day morning did not wall to keep 0lmstSad
Falls people indoors at home. The bar
room of the hotel was packed by q crowd
of men who stood up patiently through all
the hours of the examination, gszed with
all the eyes they had, and hungrily deVour-
ed up every syllable of testimony. The in
vestigation was commenced at nine O'Clock,
before Justice o. W. Kendall, and, with an
hour of intermission, continued till three
O'Clock in the afternoon, when the case was
submitted by the counsel for the defence,
without argument, to the court. We ap-
pend a digest of the evidence AIKEN.
MCCONNELL NOT FOUND.
1t is proper to state now that the sus-
picion that Mcconnell was lurking in a
shanty occupied by an Irishman named
| MGOdIlNs u6dI OO4uADld EIdbAOug VI Jul
where in tina settlement, is probably idle.
A man thought he had traced tracks to that
house, but the footsteps did not go in. He
went to the door and raped, but the in
mates would not let him in for some time.
He mistrusted that some one was concealed
in the honse. At length he gained admis-
sion into the one room Of the cabin, asked
for a drink Of water, but saw nothing out
of the way. The shanty was visited yes
terday By Samuel Furnal, Lieutenant of
Police in this city, and Mr.. BloOmer IN
derhill, of Olmsted Falls. They learned
that no one was at home on the previous
day, except an old woman and a small
girl, who, being timid, kept the house lock-
the shadow of Mcconnell had been seen
in the settlement, and no trace of him
could be found.
ALEXANDER N'coNNELL-coLvN's STORY.
We find that the people at the Falls and
in the neighborhood nave a very general
desire to see Mcconnell! He is the pet
there of conversation, and will oil and
slush the wheels of Ladies Sewing Societies
for a long time and prove of heavy lubri-
eating quality" Colvin told US yesterday
thai Mcconnell was a thick set man, five
feet Eve or six inches high, having light
gray eyes, dark sandy whiskers and brown
hair, and is Eabout forty years old. He
came TO Colvin's house four weeks ago last
Tuasdav p;rbt Ha bad haaD auDIovad f,r
three weeks previous in the stables of the
Kinsman Street Railway Company, in this
city. Mcconnell told Colvin that he owned
a farm near Ottawa, Canada West, on which
lived his wife and two children, but that
he was obliged to flee the country Because
in a recent melee he had struck a man in the
head with a billet of wood, fracturing his
skull. 1t happened in this wise Neon
nells brother-in-law snapped horses with
a man, and got awfully cheated. Nee.
agreed to go with the victim, some night,
to the stable of the 8illain, and exchange
horses. The man hearing them, got up and
came to the rescue of his property, where
upon the blow was inflicted. According to
Colvin, Nee. Dragged much of his fighting
qualities.
Colvin claims, of course, that Mcconnell
did the deed in order to'get possession of the
money which he knew the woman had in a
trunk. She had at least $50 in a large
Portmonae which she kept in trunk in the
south room. Perhaps she had more. Colvin
had given her 5000 bounty money in April
last when he enlisted in Co. E, I9Sth O. v.
L he came back in May, when he gave
her 5000 more, leaving $3.50 for himself.
Mcconnell knew she had money, for on
Friday afternoon, as Colvin was going for a
quarter of beef he asked Rosa for a dollar
or two. Nc. was there when she went in
and got the ~portmonae, which she opened
in his presence, exposing a roll of bills.
That night Colvin sat down by the table
to count his money after his purchases. Nc.
was there. Rosa said to him, you'd better
give me a dollar now, as I gave you one
this morning" He replied, "you don't
need it, you have enough in the trunk" Sc
asked her how much she had. She said
that she would't tell"
Such is Colvin's account of Mes. motive
and his theory of the affair. He claims that
Mcconnell stole his new black over coat, a
pair of gray wool pants, a French tweed
vest, a black satin vest, a pair of quarry
boots with nailed soles, and a pair of fine
boots, and a silver watch, p face, cylin-
Ter escapement, with a silver chain, at the
md of which were three keys, one of them
Colvin told this plausible story in a cool,
fact way, his eye turned full and
teady upon his questioner. He appeared
o better advantage yesterday, betraying far
ess concern and fear than on the first day
# the examination. But he is "fuII of his
rides a hobby, must tell every
'Ody of the affair, and for very leakiness
Eill probably hurt his case. Miller, on tho
hand, says nothing, und eudeavors to !
eep Colvin still. 5
THE BODY BURIED. g
Justice Kendall gave the remains of Mrs. q
into the hands of the Trustees of the
ownship, yesterday afternoon; who burr d +
iem in Berea, by the side Of a little girl, S
laughter by a former marriare,) whom the s
murdered mother laid there about a year
90.
An inventory of the personal property Of !
will soon be made. The shanty S
lould be burned. Always ? rough place, t
reached Its historic climax in furnishing $
self a theatre for the tragic death of Mrs. q
olvin. 1t has been the abode of free fight t
s, prostitutes and murdorcrs. Let it burn,
THE EXAMINATION CONTINUED.
Luther Barnun called: Know the pris- h
lers. Was a juror in the case. Found the n
hid under a pile of wood, between log u
Id the pile. The pile had evidently not Y
zen merely tipped over, but piled up de- o.
Should think the BODY might a
I've been placed there without a light at d
ght. Found a pool of blood on the east n
ie of the house about midway o. the III
-anty twenty feet southeast Of house CT
ind also a dress soaked with blood, re- "
gnized by neighbors as that of Mrs. Col IL
n. 1t was covered with snow. Looked ="
if it had been used as a mop to sop up Ia
e blood. No snow, l think, under it. All 10
there was no snow on the ground
very little, when it fell there. Snow was
altered through the sticks of wood over n
e corpse, as if it had ratified down in he
ndling the wosd. 1t began misting or tw
ming about Ills Saturday evening. About alb
it was showing quite hard, and the tn
lund was white. Snow was soft and
.lting. Snow on the ground like that Co
the dress was found would probably On