, 1866-07-20

razor, the one in the carpet-bag: then L
washed myself and put his clothes on
then l eat something, bread and butter.
I saw the big butcher knife on the
mantel-piece many a time before, but [
did not notice it that time, and did not
put it there; then I eat something dread
and butter), and went up stairs again ;
looked all over again, and did not find
anything; L took all L could in'my car
pet-bag down stairs Miss Dolan's car
pet-bag, and packed it up, and made it
ready to go away with l.; [ staid in the
evening until 6 or 81 o'clock it was
not very dark then about sunset; [ did
not see anybody coming through the
yard [ had the doors locked, and the
window, too, in the yard l had nothing
in the house to defend myself In case
anybody came.
| left there about 81 [ went down
Jones' lane to Point House Road [ car
ried the carpet-bag through the meadow ;
did not go by Mr.. Wiles', but across the
meadow !; l left the door open in the
barn for the cattle to go in and get some
hay but [ fed the chickens and cattle
all of them before l left.
Question-By Chief Franklin-What
did you think they would do for water?
Probst.-I thought they had water
enough there outside ; | went up the
Point House road one dog followed me,
the little yellow dog; | drove him away
for a time, but he followed me non of
the dogs followed me before around the
barn I went in Third street car then
the dog did not follow me; | went up
Third to Callohill street; [ got down
and walked from Callowhill along TO
New Market stveet,and then to Leck-
feldts [ took my carpet back there and
gave it TO him to save for me, and an
umbrella am certain | did leave it there.
/ an sure that was Saturday night it
was not so that | was there on Sunday
noon l treated him and another fellow
there, one a Dutchman, a big man ; do
not know his name, they called him the
beer brewer, it was not Heinrich Baer /;
then l went to Front street, about seven
O'Clock, and stayed there about half an
hour; then [ go over to Germantown road,
to Stropes' !; [ told him | had a pistol to
sell, and told him | worked in Camden,
over there in a saw mill /; l promised to
bring the pistol back on Saturday, at
half-past ten or eleven o'clock j; | went
over there to Leckfeldt's; | staid there
the whole night with that woman and
then next morning | went to Chris.
Moore's; then to Leckfeldt's eat my din
ner there, and drunk lager beer, [ stayed
there then in the evening, and then went
home with that other big woman l was
there about fifteen or twenty minutes;
then I went back to Leckfeldt's, [ gave
her the So note. | offered TO give her
the watch in exchange for it, when she
came over there for other money. l did
not want to give her other money, but l
offered her the watch, the silver one, she
would not take that watch, she told me
she would take a revolverifIhad one, told
her I had none. I staid at Leckfeldt's Sun
day night, Monday night, Tuesday night,
and Wednesday night, then | slept down
on the wharf, on Brown street wharf,
there are plenty of boats there, I slept
in one of them, then [ got out in the
morning, about six O'Clock, and sold the
watch on Thursday morning to Mr..
Algeier, he gave me 81, then ] went back
to Leckfeldt's and paid him $3 and about
sixty cents, then I had about forty cents