Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-14
TRIAL OF CAPT. PTTTMAN.
DOings of an Alleged Horse Thief
Evidence before Commissioner Stone
Findings of the Court.

DOtngs of an Alleged II Or6e Thief
Evidence before Commissioner Stone
Findings of the Court.
The Police Court met in adjourned sss-
sion on yesterday at , o'clock, for the pur-
pose Of trying Capt, Pittman, whose arrest
and incarceration on the charge of being
common horse thief, ia completely with
Hess, We have already mentioned.
Mr.. Scott sworn: Said that he lived in
Lawrence county; that Pittman and Hess
came to his honse. They represented that
they wanted his daughter to go with them
to town that her husband would be par
doned the next Monday, her husband
Green being convicted on a felonious
charge his daughter went 70 town in a
Jersey wagon; the said horse and wagon
it was understood had been left in Column
bia. where they were since sold Pittman
and Hess talked considerably about horses
in Columbia Hess said he could not sign
hia name-made his Y marx, representing
himself az Robert Jones; the two men were
introduced to his house by Mrs. Carter
witness went to town and took his daughter
home; his daughter took a horse and had
il hitehed to Jersey wagon, in which she
and Hess drove off from Lawrenceburg
toward Columbia, the daughter saying that
che would go as far az Columbia,
and perhaps to Nashville, she being
anxions about her husband. Witness
was opposed to his daughter going.
| Afterward saw the horse and wagon in Cos
lumbia, where they had been sold Had
never seen Pittman before.
Mrs. Green sworn Was the daughter Of
Mr. Scott, the last witness; had seen
| Pittman and Hess before; had heard
them on the fourth or fifth Of this month
| talking about some horses heard them say
they had some horses somewhere, which
they would have TO take off and sell az soon
"a possible; there was one sorrel horse
] which they said did not come right, they
having got him on the road to Nashville
| that DAY, the 9Th inst. this conversation
| was 10 Nashville, and the horse was in the
city the parties talked about the horses as
though they we're partners and equally in
terested in their transactions; they spoke
Of the sorrel horse US though it must be
disposed Of and talked of leaving, fearing
they would be put under arrest; Mr.. Far
ris came and got the horse Hess and Pitt
man and the woman said that they had
seen BrognloY and had seen her husband,
and that they could get pardon for him
they had trumped up parcel Of lies, which
on coming TO Nashville she found TO be
such; Pittman said he would get her hus-
band released if she would give him fifty
dollars, which she declined; tried to get
up petition in Lawreneeburg, and then
came with Hess to Columbia and Nashville
Question, Where did yop PIT mp A.
AT Mrs. Browns.
O. Didd Hess pat up at the same house I?
A. He did.
"Were YOU 10 a room together when
Hess was arrestedY' "Thafs none of your
business
aWere You and him alone p ave we're;
Farris came 10 the room short time before
the arrest was made
The defense introduced rebattiug iesti-
mony, trying to establish the good charsc-
| ter industrious habits, ETC., of PittmaB.
Mrs. Carter testified that she was a school
teacher near Lawrenceburg that Mrs.
Green had solicited Piuman, Hess and
witness TO interest themselves for the re-
lease of her husband; that Mrs Green had
employed Pittman and Hess, in witness
presence, to 20 to LawTencebaFg to get up
a petition, etc, and assist in procuring the
release of her husband. Witness, with
Hess and Pittman, had gone to Mr.. Scott 5
on this business had thought Hess a gen,
tleman until recently; passed house with
Pittman on horseback, where there was a
drove Of horses Pittman bought one.
Mrs. Green knows she horse that Is IN
dispute to be the same horse that Pittman
bought. Mrs. Green promised to send
Piuman and Hess to Lawrenceburg.
Considerable conflicting testimony vas
adduced, when, after argument, the case
was submitted The decision was reserved,
and will be given this morning by Commits
siOner Stone.