Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-12-18

might be coon 8; the dog was barking
around there that day he was asked if
any dead cattle or anything had been
drawn there he said mo; helsaid.he
burned the heap, and drew there and
burned some big, rough wood, not fit to
draw to. town; | think he said two or
three loads !; I can say he looked scared
when accused when we went to the
house, we ate dinner, and started to go
back; in the road was the skull Of COW :;
he said to me, GU had better take that
over and see what the doctor can make
of it,; he said, better pick up all the
oId bones we can find, and take them.
: down to see what the doctor can make of
them; | said, "'Hhey have found bones,
buttons, and nails";;1 he said there was
nothing about the bones, butit was very
queer about his nails; he appeared lit
tie troubled about the nails,-more than,
anything else saw during the day; after
Mr.. Giles came, [ picked two teeth and
! two shirt from the pfle,-the
teeth from the hole, and The buttons
about foot toward what We called the
feet; [ should not judge the mole to be
over six or seven inches deep; saw the
skull bones and jaw bones taken out of
the hole I thought the hole would hold
hardly a peck it looked as though dug
with a handspike the roots looked as
though they were broker off; I should
Judge that [ picked up the nails about
five feet from the hole :; the nails were in
a sort of heap but within a few inches
were scattering ones there was one
place on the east side from which Joe
told me that be. took a brush heap and
threw it on to this one before he went to
dinner; lie sud he drew the rough wood
to make the brush burn that then he
went to the house and put up his team,
and then came back to see 1t afre; he
said it burned first rate | thought I saw
thee places where wood had been remov-
ed the brush-pile moved was not arge !;
/ noticed log from a foot to fifteen
inches in diameter, from which three
lengths Of four-foot wood had been sawed;
the dust looked pretty fresh; [ noticed
one stick with red dish spots, where some
thing had struck it and run down 3; one,
| should think, a quarter inch wide by
half to an inch long; they were on the
end of the log, where it was sawed off !;
the spots were. pale red previously | had
had conversation with Joe, after bis ia
Their came from. the war. about pistol;
the conversation was. near my place; [
spoke about his team; he SAID his father
had let them run away, and he should not
let him drive, them any more; | asked
him about swapping the pistol; be said,
( Father pitched on to mother; | inter
f,fered, and he. turned upon me, and [
snapped the pistol; he said, if it had
I gone off 1T would !. have killed him; on
the day the bones were found, he inquir-
ed if. | knew any one who wanted to buy
reaper ); Mrs Sehnepf said that her
husband got up that morning, and was
out of tobacco, and she went and got
him piece. which he had given her, as
he frequently did, to keep until he. want
edit 4; j oe said he went off without coat
G,oss-erapaned Iy Juage. Orton-I
did not see Frank Meyer al. the search J;
there is quite a large pile of cord wood
in the'road near Schnepf's; Orson Whit
more was with me when we were going
! from he house at the time we saw the
BEATS head Joe spoke three or four
times about the nails, and said it was very
Orson Whttmore. recoIed-I was with
Joseph from about 8 in f. the morning I'M
til / or 20 clock, until after we were to
4 dinacria and went back 10 the field there
was a critters skull in the road | did
not hear Joe mention cord-Wood, [ did,
notisee Frank Meyer .eaTE.usrz 81
/ Re-euanslnedsdy IMr. 1IFeymoudt--Ques
tion--Did you have your attention called
the next day to the matter 2 -... ..s-,:...a
| Answer-No. -s-s s= -. RI. es.<....rr
Mr. Weymouth-You did not see me
about it. !ea2 ssmaH SIS IL s1aa3 81 a-aEs
81 Witness-NosH E-s.s,..se.s. z..-.r3
I MIR. Williams-That accounts for his
testimony. a9'aaa aEfta7esaaa i1, vs..fJz
John Moon, JJa. s1co,n for the state
The first Sunday latter Schnipf was mis-
singh, wentto search; went with Joe; this
was In the afternoon; Ismet Joe aud the
rest on O'Connor's hill ) Joe said we
would search around and see if we could
find him inathe woods 3 he said he thought
he had gone to Germany he said, when
he went away he. went toward a white
oak tree on O'Connor's land; we went
across the big marsh, to Blair's; he said.
if we did not find him at Blair's saloon
he did not know where we would we
Inquired for him ); he told Blair, if he
heard of his father, to. send him word
al and he would be very thankful; he said
at Blair''s that bis father might
have taken a notion and gone to Ger
many; he said he thought his father did
not look exactly as usual; [ think he