North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

of such goods for sale. / knew An
drew Thompson by sight, and knew of
his trading ut our store. / said at the
time, of its being extraordinary in
selling them at that time, but it is not
altogether likely that would recollect
the man l sold to at the time. / can't
tell if sold them to a man that /
knew, or to stranger. I do not pre-
tend to identify them as part of the
set sold. These pieces belong to an
ordinary oak bow. / have known of
such things as persons using bows in
the winter in moving.
DAVID DRUMMoND, SWORN:
I live in McGregor, Iowa, and am q
joiner and carpenter; work at the car
penter trade. The witness is here
shown board and says, he believes it
has been sawed off since it was made
into lumber. nsE oEE
...s CHARLES ]. HYDE, SWORN:
/ live in Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis.
[ keep n public house. kept public
house in the fore part of Dec. last, and
recollect of a man coming to my house
with span of horses, sleigh, a woman
and children. 1t was in the front of
Dec; don't recollect the date. The
team was grey, hitched to pair of
hobs the sled was covered. They all
came in to dinner; they were there
probably IL or 2 hours; it was after
dinner time; they came from the
north to my place, and went south. 1
saw in thesled one large trunk, and per-
haps more-I did not take notice. The
girl was very sick. 1 think the girl
was about IA; one boy 8 or 10, and the
other about 12-nice little boys. The
witness is here shown a likeness and
says "that they are the boys, and that
is the woman, and that is the girl
The girl was very sick, and urged
them to stay all night. He said he
was "hard up" and could not stay; he
would have to 60 on and stop at a pri-
waite house; had no means and was in
q hurry. TWAS about 2 o'clock when
they came, and about when they
left. The reason why am positive it
was the forepart Oft month, because
one of my girls left few days after
they We're there; my girl came back a
few days ago and was speaking about
it and went and looked on my book
and found it was the 18th or 18th of
Dec. The man would weigh from 100
to 200 pounds, heavy set, had OH pair
of carpet slippers; / think had on
gray overcoat and fur cap, blueish UNI
der coat or sack. 1 could pick him out
of a crowd of a 1000 men. l never
saw him before or since until came
into this room. The witness here
points to A. Thompson and says "that
man, chewing his cud." / just came
into the room and spoke to nobody
about Thompson, no one pointed him
out to me. The road he was going
would take him to Potosi and Platt-
vile; he inquired for Plattville; by
turning off the road he was going,
could get ontoa road going to Cassville.
The weather was very cold to be out
with slippers on. The reason why 1
said l could pick him out of crowd
of 1000 persons was, thought if he
was the father of that girl he would go
In and see her, but he acted very cool
about it, nor said word about her
he was out on the porch walking
around /; the little boys followed after
the team when they started.
Cross Eram.- is our near
est river town it is 20 miles directly
west. My place is 80 miles from Pr.
du Chen; it is called % miles to go to
Cassville; he would have to take the
road in Lancaster, or 2 blocks beyond
my place or gone through the Hurri-
cane which is a very rough road. He
came into the hall, when / asked him
to stop all night, they were all present..
none present when he spoke Of going
to ILL.,: he was in the bar room. Fen
nimore is IL miles from my place; it
is on the direct road from Pr. du Chen
to Madison il is 10 or II miles from
fhn DIN CJ,inp 10 hxy h,,
way of Fennimore; is the same dis
lance from Pr. du Chen as from Lam
caster. / don't know what road he
came into town on. Bridgeport is "a
miles from Lancaster.
TIMOTHY NJ. HOPKINS.
! live in McGregor, Iowa. I, with
Judge Murdoch drove into Cassvillo
about 6 or O'Clock at night, on the
10Th of June, and a man by name of
Dickson came out and said they found
the other boy and had just puried him
about ! mile below town; l got team
and went and brought him up; while
we were talking, man by name of
Samuel Clegg said he knew where
there had been fire built, and lots of
buttons there to be found a board and
some other things, and he said he
could find the place, and we went
down or Z Of us and found the place
by the light oftwo lanterns; we found
a board about 10 feet long, and this is
the board. 1 brought it up myself,
and also found or pieces of bows
burnt at one end salso found buttons,
buckles, thimble, different kind of
buttons, and have them here in court.
There had been a fire there. There
were ashes there. Found some keys
and buttons and a breast pin and other
things. The keys | found in the
ashes (were here shown the court UNI
lock the trunks. One is spring lock
key, and the other is not. The trunks
that the keys lock and unlock, we
brought over from the slough or lake,
some call it French lake; they are the
same as said to be found in sasd slough
or lake. The place where the fire was
is about II Or miles from Cassville !;
the place is surrounded by small
groves and large trees and under brush
quite thick in some places. The
place Of fire was between 10 and 25
rods from the Cassyille and Potosi
road.
CALVIN BRANDENBURG. .
| live in Cassville, Grant Co., Wis.
One week ago last Monday l found the
body Of a boy on the Jacko Slough,
on the bank about feet, and left him
there, about so yards below the old
Jaco House. The water had fallen at
least 3 feet since the boy was deposited
there
This is north Of the south line of
Clayton County. Jaco Slough is q
steam boat channel; they have run in
it some this spring, RATS also. The
body was about / Of mile from the
head Of the Slough. The boy had on
red flannel shirt, dark colored clothes
a worn wampus coat, boots and socks f;
hands were both off at wrist; they had
rottad off. f}esh all off haad and face