Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-24

EapOffe ssasl TO avoid Lynch
1Dg-The CcrOncr's Inquest
Testimony OGNIiss EudOlph.
the only surviving witness
OEthe Deed.
VALPARAISO, Ind, JAN 10.
Page was taken out of Jail yesterday to
avoid the mob Of excited Germans. who
were gathering, Miss Ludolph is Ger
mani, and conveyed TO Laporte On the
road he denied all knowledge of the affair
but at one point, evidently forgetting him
self, he suddenly asked if there was not a
Valparaiso sleighing party out on the Ho-
bart road on the night of the murder Ii
Will be remembered that he was met by n
sleighlOad of eXcursionists on that night
two miles from the scene. He stated TO
his counsel, however, that he could prove
an ahGi for every moment OF the time clap
sing between his leaving here and arriving
in Chicago.
The Germans are gathering again to-
night, and declare their intention of going
to Laporte and lynching the prisoner
CORONER'S INQUEST.
VALPARAISO, Ind, Jan. 10.
G. W. PIERcE's TESTIMONY.
G. w. Pierce being duly sworn, testifics
as follows: | was on the ground when the
bodies of the deceased were found, and
the house was about two-thirds consumed.
| think | was the third person who arrived.
| saw Miss Hickey Ludolph there leaning
up against the gate, covered with blood,
and almost entirely naked. Saw nothing
IF the bodies of the deceased who lie be-
fore me until the morning of the 18th of
January, 1867. Then saw them in the con
dition stated 10y Mr.. Skinner. The house
that was burning was that OF the residence
of Mr. Long
TESTIMONY OF FREDERICK rUpoLPH.
Frederick Lud0.ph being duly sworn mp
on oath, says: Consider myself in a critical
position, and think | understand the sol
emnity of my impending dissolution.
Know of the death OF Mrs. Rachael Long
and Emeline G. Page. Invent to the house
OF Benjamin Long on the evening of the
18th, to spend the night. After we had re-
tired, and about p. M, some one knocked
at the door. Mrs. Long got up. Mrs
Page asked three times who was there.
The answer from the outside was Page"
Airs. Page said, what do Won want" lie
answered that he wanted to see EN-. :"
She answered. I'VE do not wish for visitors
at this time of night The door was lock
ed on the inside. The person from the
outside knocked down the door and imme-
diaiely shot Mrs. Long, who confronted
him. She (Gr.. Long Immediately fell
down ut,er.ng a nom, then scream ard
was afterwards quiet. Mrs. L; sc who
was sleeping with me IN the south wcs; bed
room, jumped on. of bed and said, Page,
my dear husband. don't do so any more.
He then took hold OF her arm and shot her
in the head or breast. | coUll not see
which. She did not utter a word. but zen
upon the floor. lie had then fired two
shots, one at Mrs. Long and one at Mrs
Page. | still lay in bed, and covered my
sell up, bat he saw NE. Then he shot into
the bed where lay, bat think he did not
hit M. then begged OF hi,n to let ne 90.
but he seized hold OF me and pulled ne
oat OF the bed Oh to the floor, and common
ced firing, shooting me in the head, then in
the right arm twice; and once in the knee,
but do not know how he gol that there,
as thought he only shot three times. /
was then lying upon the floor. He then
look the kerosene lamp and threw it down
on the floor. at the same time reaching 10
the match safe, taking a match, struck it.
lighting the oil on the floor. The fire at
once Game against me, and again begged
OF him not 10 burn me-tO co most any
thing, but not burn me alive. | told him
If he would just let me 20 | would never
say anything about it. He replied h
could not believe that, at the same time
taking chain and striking me upon thc
head. then groaned, and hc slrGck NE
twice more. H. then stopped down, ANA
placed his ear to my noS.rils TO hear whch
c. was breathing. | held my breath and
he then went OF. The chcmise Sleeve OF
my right arm by this time had burned oil
| knew nothing more until stood by the
gate. know who tie man WAS that shot
us. Ii was Page. do not know his first
name, but know it was the husband OF
Emily &. Page. have known him more
than year. There was dim light burn
ing in the room in which slept, the lamp
having been turned down. Ii vert out
when he took it up TO breal, it. | could
not see his features when he came in PLAIN
ly, but when he lit the oil on the floor il
blaZed up making bright light, and then
could see him plainly. / am sure il was
Page, the husband of Emily {. Page, and
cannot be mistaken. would have known
him by his voice if | had not seen his face.
There was no one with him that | saw.
when he left the house. He went out OF
The same door he came in at. The house
took fire in the southwest bedroom. NJ
that time the body OF Mrs. Long, | sup
pose, lay IN the front room, and that OF
Mrs. Pagc4n front OF the bedroom door,
in the front room. | did not see Mrs.
Long after size was killed, but saw the
body of Mrs. Page after She fell. The
shots fired BY Page at me, were from PTS
tol, and were IN rapid succession.
yEeaIcr.
In accordance with evidence submitted
the jury find tina. The deceased came 10
their death by violence at the hands of
Chauncey F. Page, and that the death was
occasioned 10y shots from pistol which
the said Page caus ID 10 be discharged at
the bodies OF the deceased, leloniously and
with premeditated malice.
Signed-A. n. STAIR, James Eeliy, VIM.
Parkhurst, ID. V. X. Skinner, Joseph Ne
Elsee, VIM. Brooks--Jurors.
Attest. III. Lcatherman. Coroner.
millinery.