The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-12-30

DeRorr e. for tho ANN Of $2b, retain
'og the $500 already paid and cancel:
ling tho mortgage; after that day, mover
NV De- Forrest again !; nor Carhart IN
Ill be- vas brought back under arrest,
on June 18th; arrested Trainor on the
other sido Of river in government
camp. / ;:...,-. a., .......
H. g. Fillmore, .vorn-7Saw, 2priso-
ner aud deceased standing at bar Of
Minnesota House about noon of June
18Th, 1869. i
Nary Bsrye.. .'oorn-1dentifed
deceaesd ; lived At Seeley's in June
hst o. June 18th, about one O'Clock
,. N, deeeased md DEF came 70
house on foot; I: few moment, after:
wards Carhart and Trainor came in a
buggy, when. DeForrest and aeceased
started svayy tow,rds town about ff.
teen minutes afterwards Ttsiaoif: and
Carhart followed them 10 d buggy. 81
Aart;in ca..er' "a and A. c.. Potter
.,eor~-- Testified 70 seeing Carhart and
D,Fosrsst 90 in afternoon train, June
10TH, from Clear Lake to Minneapolis.
James, Bradtord, .eors-Sund.y,
June 18th. 1869, VS. drilling rainy
day; had been fishing up at Arnold's
Mill !; Tsuvoorde, myself; Van Meter
and his two little boys came home from
Arnold's Mill to St. Cloud, in Ten.
voords's wagon; q, We were coming
across Lowry 's'feld heard a pistol shot
ahead Of ~ 10 the brush !; in minute
and a-half Afterwards came upon =
buggy shading 10 the road near the
forks Of the road facing towards town !;
C,rhart vas aitstss IN the buggy Trai-
nor and DsFosrest were standing on
the right hand side Of the road, in the
edge Of the brush, nearly opposite the
buggy; Carhart drove the buggy out
Of the way to let Us pass, and NO drove
on between the buggy and the men
standing in the brush the men were
standing where the COW path comes ont
into the road, about 2l0 feet from where
the body was found; went back after
wards and measured the distance and
found it $40 PAGES from the place
where heard the shot to The place
where I saw. the buggy and men stand
ing BY the road. -. -. 49,, :. i, -,
John ". Zeaeoorde, ssoorn,-Evidence
same a. Rradford's. I went back after.
wards and drove over the same ground
with the same horse and wagon; drove
as near 1t same speed as I could, aud
timed myself.;:it took by the watch
Just little less than a minute and q
half to drive from the place where ]
heard the pistol shot to whore I saw the
buggy and The men standing by the
road. Tenvoorde tcsti6es that it Va.
about three o'clock P. N. that he saw
buggy. .,
John Rogers, sporn-Saw prisone,
on the 18th June, 1869, at my livery
stable; was asking for Trainor; said
Trainorr' had beat hi.u and he wanted
to End him; said he was afraid Traino,
would shoot him if he went to hunt him,
but that if he found Tjainor he would
serve him Is ho had served auothc,
man where he came from. 60. ."
| Caa.. D. Kerr, .vorn- Saw prisone,
and another man get on cars going t.
ST. Paul, afternoon train, At Clear Lake
station, on June 10th, 1869.
James G.. Donald.on, .vora Saw
prisoner first July 30th, 1869, on raft
just below Quincy, Illinois !; arrested
him; prisoueo frat spoke and said
nn.What is all this for2 It is for the St.
Cloud murder. I had nothing to do with
that" j.: After I loft The raft With pris
oner be told me that he did. not CON-
NIT the murder, but that .DeForrest
did,: that :he : (prisoasr) and Tra,no'
went up to SeeleJ's on Sunday: June
l3tb, in buggy, and found DeForres'
and the soldier there: that they al
drank together, aud then he told. d
FoErert, he had better 60 back. to, tht
saloon, that there might, be customer.
there; DeForrest and the soldier then
left together % foot ): = little while at:
towards prisoner and, Traipor left in
the buggy, and when they: got to tho
forks Of the road they cav DeForrest,
standing BY the road DEF. told them
be had shot the soldier; that the sol.
dier had; tried to 60 through him (DeF. }
and he (DeF.) had gone through tho
colder; they then told Def. that they
did not believe it; Def. then said,
sG,t ont aud ! will show you" one Of
them got out, aud saw some blood in
the path and covered It up With his
fovt; vent ways into the brush, but
did not see the body; went back next
morning With Def. but did, not find
body; prisoner then told how he. left
St. Cloud With DeF., going on =, foot
and by >haad.osr to the frst station
toward St. Paul, before getting on the
cars, and related h,s subsequent travels
in reaching tn, place whero hs2, was n
rested; saw Carhart's, and Del srrest's
names registered at Prescott, Wis, on
May goth, and June Goth, 1869.
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