The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-26
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
THE SMITH TRAGEDY.
OoYoner,s Investigation Into the CIR
cumstances Of the Mystery.

street and Girard avenue District Attornsy 11sly
sheppard and his assistant, assistant ,asiimony ms was
George Megarge testified reside 81 nssdsy MS SSS
evening, with my wife and nd JOIN omiraSS SsnS AVENUE
was sx s16 Ia sotced ss5Sss that
iieht in Girard Hail. Mrs Jones ana ana III aII oS ns
S,nss Ses Sa%e That light IN ns
Hail. we Thought It better to go up anq Iones
SpsnsS %ss saS sSe door the little "Sss7 1sS
room; as we ,vinn open ana his
smas@ tSnIs scattered around the floor; Immediately
inside the door there was "a poa5o 99Snne and We
naS bsaser get Jones and and dntrT peteT
Es% for ar ghs gasto6 ths gsS brought
candle. and we walked through tne anse5r9o 9rs
into me Large %rs ons Who
TheIe he lies In sa h aPpaoecne3 Wbiea ana
STveafu %SS ai over the body ard tucked under il
ihe outside @ SoVerang @ SS ~ Sos
on q chest or box In the northwest corner OF
the aF @ tSe SedsI tnk m he was
living on q portion of the counterpane; l did
not notice whether or not tnere were plinds IN on
his head being over the end OF the chest,
on the end towards sixth street; his face was
turned towards me, outwards from the wall;
his hands were lying down upon the chest,
with the left hand extending further out than
tween the hands; did not notice whether his
hands were opened or closed, y was the back OF
the left hand which first saw thrust from under
the coverlid; the hands were foot or 8 inches
apart, and tied by cord around each wrist:
on the right side Of his head, just behind the
temples the hair on that portion of. the head
gagged by a handkerchief, or something which
looked like one; replaced the counterpane
Ues9 coua NOT az @ nd s oo
and returned to the building; when
an soeS Se me.ns nsra %as o sSt bs held sshnS m sne @
at ~ o'clock that evening and this fact made
as wonder that the place was not not nt up when when
crowd of persons in the room; the officer
remained in charge Of the room while l, With
and reported the matter at the detective office;
we went up again with the detectives but they
would not let us enter the room again; have
known Smith about six months; never knew
him to have an enemy; am not familiar with
Mrs Charity Jones testined-I reside at No.
$50 Lawrence street; Joseph Smith 6osrded
at about quarter TO IL o'clock; he was In his
usual cheerful mood; he left the house again
me how sni soon tea s.S would be ready, said at
O'Clock, II he wished; ne mad engaged
Gas 70 n In ne e1eSng GO @
another meeting; he said he had liberty cap
to make which must be finished "a oy aRursday sda
things and keep them to hire; at six O'Clock,
when found he did not come to tea @ felt Sy Wor-
thinking he might have taken one OF the fits to
he Re haa sS m
seven to go to the hall; when I came to the
@ s M DT Was ne
knowing that Smith lived with me; SAID did
o sose wSo nns and @Sse
stairs, without o light; opened the door OF his
dS not sex hss e In
confused state; the window Is large one, with
minsS mH IN Stepping towards Smiths bed to see
II he was there, stepped into the hole where q
would go to the drug store for light George
Hamilton came from the store and lit the gas
ae ias cand
the door between the bedroom was closed, but
walked dhG In
chest laid in the left hand Of the door upon
entering; IL belonged to the knights OF Pythias;
guilt; could see nothing OF him but his left
hand; Msgarge pulled d the cover from on his head
body I saw handkerchief or cloth over his
mouth and thin red silk scarf around his
% Was drawn % tightly around his neck; it v,.. was
thin and looked like 2 ridge Of blood; the
light in the room; have since seen the hand
kerchief which was over his mouth; one corner
Su' anS ooaa not say Il was nos
his hands were tied at the wrists. but not very
saa ss a ana
face turned outward from the wall; the carpet
ripped up from the floor. and board taken up;
a large leather trunk was standing open; the
tray was taken out of IL, and the clothes taken
from il and scattered about the room; one chair
In the small room was upset; the trunk stood
near the door which opened into the hall; his
OyercOat laid o settee In the entry, outside
the small room. looking as II 1t had been
the window next to the chest On which he lay
were closed; nobody called to see Smith at my
house during the day; he usually came &c
his breakfast about seven o'clock. to his
dinner about twelve, and to his supper about g.
he was temperate; ne was just, but careful oj
his money: he told me that when he received
some money which he had lent TO a friend he
intended to invest 1t with some more he had;
do not know who the friend was, or If he b ad
any security for the loan; he expected 1t to be
paid him by the 1st of April; three or four
In box at the hall, but that 1t was not there al
that time; he never told me in what part OF the
hall he had kept the money; told him knew
friend who would like to get O fe W hundred
1oiiars. ior which ne would pay good Interest;
have let him have IL; he said he was making
more money this winter than ne had ever done
before; ne paid me $3.50 per week, and gene
the Washington Oiree No 10. which meets al
Seventh and Girard avenue; on Wednes-
day he said that there was about twenty
dollars In his hands belonging to the Society;
ne had dreamed he was being murdered in the
hall; ! said perhaps he would be some time;
"As like as not may he answered.; he gene.
rally carried pistol when out at night during
overcoat pocket. (The pistol which was found
near the body was here shown to wi ness, who
stated that II was not the one Smith used to
yplecauon carried IN entering rhs pistol sns hal
after daik, when 1t was lit up; he never spoke
OF having heen attacked or fired at cannot
say that ever heard of his having beer
attacked In any way before yesterday, when
heard n pP1QnhOr n " mi