The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-29

mule and sed, and cut small load of hoop poles,
and carted them to road In the mountain and that
his SAID Jacob wished to 90 to his uncle George
Wyble, residing about two miles distant, to spend
New Years, leaving his home about halfpast one In
the afternoon taxing a small hat .Iet with him,
which told him to take tO5G homas Steele to grind
and that he the deponent has not seen said hachet
since aud That he did not again see his son Jacob
until after twelve O'clock tndt same night, when he
saw him 10 bed with his said uncle George Wyblc
at his George Wy o,e's) resistance.
Amer leaving said hoop poles at said road, he the
deponcnt, In company with his said son Anthony.
went direct TO their house, and, after putting his
mule In the barn, he went Immediately to the store
OF George Townsend, at Pompton Iron Works,
where he purchased piece of meat Henry Morgan
and two persons, strangers to him,were at the store
ut the time Henry Morgan being the clerk from
whom lie purchased the meat. And that, ms he was
leaving the store, George Townsend came in the
store through a rear door. At the time Of deponent
leaving his said home FOR said store as Aforesaid he
lcft his siid family all at home, except his Jacob
IL thea being 3 O'Clock ard ls minutes In the alter.
noon. Aud that he arrived at his home from said
store about duck the same afternoon, aud when
about o quarter Of mile distant from his home he
heard his said woman esng to his children she
continued tocall until ne arrived at his house, when
be saw her coming from The Of the house, stll
calling the children and veeping: And hen he said
10 her, "What ~ the mattcrt" shs. shen replied
that the hile boys had gone back Of tsc house Tor
hickory nuts, and had Ueen gone an hour or more,
and tnat she had been calling for halfhour, and
could get no answer lie then told her TO light lis
lamp, which size Immediately did, and he started in
the woods where lie supposed the children had
gone, expecting TO no them, leaving his said woman
and the two small children In the house lie then
walked about mile in the WOOD, not finding them
where he expected, and calling them during all that
time.
lie continued the search Continually calling them)
until about halfpast seven o'clock p NJ when he
returned home, not having found any traces Of his
said children, Ills said woman then standing on n
rock in the road quarter OF mile from his mouse.
lc dcponent, and said woman then returned TO their
home toccthcr and that he then LEFT said woman
a. his louse and went TO the house OF Barney
Rmhtsmith, about three quarters of mile distant
children. Mrs. Rhinesmith then told dcponent that
she thought she heard the cries Of children toward
the river shortly after dark. The dcponrnt then, in
| company with Jacob Brown and Daniel Rhine mitn
took antoi ns and Neht down to the river where
Mrs. Ehntsm.th had heard said cries, md followed
the stream below the Geuonents house without hear
Ing am III m OF his sad children.
They then returned to the house OF James Vree
| land and bought Two candles, and returned home
again and ODtantd another lantern. And that he
then returned toward the house OF Rbinesmitn
| alone, Gad luuted through the fields where MIR
Rhincsmi'h had thought size heard tue crying. And
tat he then heard some one cal, and found 1t was
! jacob Brown aud William Coifnx who came to him
with hight. The three then continued the search,
ana SON o served t"O more lights, Mhicn were car
ricd by Cilher. D"Bow aud DAVIS Willis. The. con-
meadow Of Dinie' Nurl' na, near 'hc river. This
| 'toui quarter OF ndlc iroh his said hOusr. Aud
| tlat I've deponcnt aIl Gilbert De Bow aud David
| Willis tu. ltit slid Blown and tolHN hunULs
| through the meadow, when depuncnt dc Bow and
| Will, returned to the house and inquired whether
| anyuiin- ild sen heard OF the children. Iii, -aid
woman -.G -As nad not, but had been standing out
| al To, LINE listening.
The ,lice ,hcn "a l,f, tie house, and crossed
| the mountain t.s."atd, and continued the sesrcA
| until tYcy arrived At the house OF Thomas : e,lc
d,-tih; atcgi mile and thrcc quarters, VIII. thcy
tsu ma4. lugu rs. hut found no tidln-s ui -al ch-
gith' RIO" ti''t t,,l c1huhuei Hi 20 le tol-c"'
'cponeuts sa.d brother, George Wyble, about three
Qutlt.t, OF mile di-,a.', aul found hs said bro
| iher aud Ni", Two sons. and depoleuts sou Jacob
| IN bed II cn ing shortly alter IL o'clock mid.
night; hs sad e other George ard HI son Thco lorc
| aud ucvunruts ron JACOB, theh LETT with dcpo-
| nent and party toward depOnents house throug gh
another valley, calling 10 his said children, aud
| tinung the siatcl until lh"y reached tile house OF
deponent, which about I O'Clock the same morn
ing the deponcnt's said woman then beng IN their
sand house, II then RAINING hard.
They al then took something to cat, and remained
in the uoase urtii dNhsht, when he. depOnent sent
hs said sau Jacob, ana his broIher's son Theodore
| Ont IN the ri.iu road 20 alarm the neighborsN nm
request them to assist IN finding their lost chillreU
| and SAID DAVID Wills Immediately started out AMI
renewed The search 10 the direction that Mrs. Rhine
-mith had heard tue cries o. the c!idren ls aiorc
-ald. Ani that durug all that day the search was
continued through the mountains, b. forty dity
| OF his uclhhors And that sand search aas been
| persons no to thr present time, without fin ling
trace uf sad Children or either Of them. AMI thpt
| since -ai afternoon OF SAID tint day Of January,
$50 RON tae time Of icNng ms home to 90 to tRc
-turr o. -.t4 .Wu=.uu, ~ above stated no TO the
present Nmt be Las not seen his sIii children An
| tlat ic doe lot know where they now arc. And
mat lie has no' gwen any person whatever any
| authority To- 'a"e -ad chidrcn, or either OF them
from hs home. And the dcponent iurth, r on hi.
! 'Atn -N,tu nat netn'r h- sand woma,, nor ms ,Aid
| son, Jacob have had any d.mcul'y Whatever 10.
gCther since residing At their present place Of abode
| nor with the dcponcnt
III. sl.J son jacob. and his said woman alway.
seemed u be very KIND 20 the saii three boys of dc.
| poncn, and that since the disappearance Of sad
e,Ildtru "A. Aforesaid his son jacob hn- assi.cI linn
~ the search .or his SAID children At all times c1ceut
| wntn ICqu stcl by deponcnt to attend to Lis work
And AZ nis aid woman has not been IN the woods
scarcLin: TOR said cdildren since the ght o! their
1'D'' JOSEPH Y wYBLE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me tins 2sth day
| OF January leIO i. SAsDFORD, Judge
| JAcou wYBLks STATEMENT
| STATE Of Nstc Jersey. county ~ Phssdtc 49, Be
| fore me- one OF the Judges of the Court OF Common
Pleas, IN and ior said county OF pas-ae personally,
| appeared Jacob Nybe, and being by me duly sworn
his oath, saith that he resides WITH his lither in
the tow Ash'p OF Pompton Passlic County: and that
hc II vars OF age ana that they have resided at
| having lived previously in Ramupo Bergen County,
| In Abraham Garrison's house where they resided
| nov live In and that on tho LIST day Of January,
1870, his fathers 'amily consisted OF six chil-
| drcn, viz deDonont, Anthony, Warren, John, Ahcl.
| and Josephine, ana woman with whom Opponents
| father lives, who Is the mother of all the ch ldrcn
above named, except depOnent; and thnt during the
week previous to lat Of January, 1870 and between
| CHRISTMAS and New Years, ne depoBeutl EN- .
ploycd cutting hoop poles, with his father, for
| Abraham Van liouton, IN the mountain back OF Mr..
| Ehinesmit's house; and that during the week
previous to Christmas day deponeut and his father
| were engaged for Sir. Van nouton, drawing out
| hoop pOies, with his fathers mule, to MIR. Van
| lloutpns, part Of which time his father con
| during SAID week previous to Christmas his father
had cod pit burning about l5J yards distant from
| tins dNcIlng mouse, which burned down before
Christmas, the last load having been taken away by
| Silas Mathews the day previous to New York.
On the first diy Oi January the last day spoken Of
| lie took tlOS5 to David kanOuse for his deponent's
| father, sand Kanouse residing At POmpion, near
| Post n Speers bark mill, leaving nome about eight
| O'Clock In the morning, and returned s1vu, eleven
| O'Clock the same morning; and that on his return
| from KanOus 3, he sent TO tho mOunuin where his
mther was drawing out hoops and saw his bi others
| Anthony, Warren, aud John, IN company with their
father, and that he, deponent, asked his father the
privilege Of going TO his Uncle George Wybles about
two miles and half distant His father then SAID
there Is n small load of hoop poles he wanted him
to cut, aud that they would first take their diuner
and after cutting the hoop poles he could go there
| Deponent In company with his father aud brother
Anthony after having taken their dinner aiore-
said, went again to the mountain and cut a small
load Of poles carted them out TO the top OF the hill
and amer unloading, he asked his father the time OF
| day. lie SAID II must be between one and two
o'clock, He, the deponent then said he guessed he
| would go on (meanlng to his Uncle George's). lie
| Immediately left his father and his said brother
Anthony for his Uncle Georges saying to his father,
will take this hGtchet-whch he held IN lls hand
TO Thomas Stceles and grind II, and leave II there
until he returned home on the following Monday,
| the time he expected to return.
He then took the hatchet with him 10 Thomas
Steeles, he let It, and from there went direct
10 his said uncles, where he arrived about o'clock