The New York herald., 1870-08-09
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General Frank r. Biair's ITestimony.
General Frank r. Blair sworn and examined
2 Where do you resldef A. In st. LOUIS.
OF Julyf A. ! was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel where
| was boarding.
anything that specially attracted Your attention to
no, ~, opposite your A. About half-past five. or q
little before got up FOR the purpose OF closing the
blinds OF my room, which let the light come In very
strongly, and which IN fact had awakened me, and
IN doing 80 approached the window and looked
across the street and saw in the house No. II gen.
| teman
SITTING IN HIS NIGHT CLOTHES
| at the third story window, and noticed that TIT
front door OF the house was open; 1t stood at about
an angie OF Iortyhve degrees OF course this did not
xr,est my aentlSn particularly; again retired and
gentlemen standing at the door Of No. IL, both
calling for help; one Of them had stains Of blood
upon his garments and on his reet saw the police
ierwards; saw one OF these men pick up an iron
instrument near the door and show It to the police.
had been. as / judged, detached in opening the
| doors II turns out, however. to be the Instrument
called dog; ! supposed at the time there haa been
sQYle attempt to enter the house.
| a Juror-Who was the young man you saw at the
aS Sas story saS wnSsGT not n% since
ever pointlng to Mr.. Frederick NaiGan, M '"' ''0"
| A Juror-Was thero light burning on the second
moor at this timer A. l did not notice.
Coroner-Whch floor do you occupy In the Fifth
Avenue Hotels A. The third noor No. 73; 1t Is very
nearly the same height with the third moor Of Mr..
Natnans house; did not see the whole length OF
the gentleman Ii saw at the window; could not OF
course; there might have been some blood on the
lower part Of his person; when saw him at the
door his
~ STOCKINGS WERE BLOODY;
the lower part Of his shirt and the breast also
there was blood; am confident tnat blood was on
the breast; did not notice any newsboy In the
at that time, / am sure: saw no blood on Mr.
Washington Nathan when saw him that morning,
recognize him at present; Ishould have seen blood
on MS garments as readily as those OF Mr.. Frede
rick Nathan II there had been any; think Mr..
Washington Nathan was In his bare feet when saw
Mansam Again.
OIlcer Mangam recalled-The "dog'' lay inside
the outside door, ana my attention was caed to 1t
by one OF the Nathan sons, who handed IL to me;
laid 1t down on the carpet up stars the corpse.
BY Mr. Feld-I did not notice any carpet on the
hall thing between the door and the bottom OF the
stairs; have heard General B!airs statement that
the door was open at halfpast 1--we O'Clock; still
adhere to my statement, Notwithstanding, that the
no W % "a osf nsas ops SP's Ssaf a
no. Na k9W how ~ h9 time whether me h?ge was ocen
were at work; II there had been piece OF paper on
| the stoOp that morning should have noticed IL;
never took any particular notice whether there are
n Twenty-third street TO the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
| Dr. Pcclklan's Testimony.
| Walton II. Peckham sworn.
Q. Where do you residel A. Corner Of Fifth ave-
| nue. and Twenty-thifd street; my house extends
| down about eighty feet which leaves about twenty
| feet between me and Mr.. Nathan's; slept on the
nrst chamber hoor, the same as that which Mr. Ma
Q. During the morning OF the Goth were you attract
ed by any peculiar noise In the adjoining house2 A.
On the Thursday night Of the murder my wife called
out to nae that somebody was in the house: any dis
turbance affects her very much and she alarmed
by the thunder and lightning; the wlndows--two
| windows In the rear and one IN the bathroom
were , at this ,,t time open; nothing disturbed US
| SOMEBODY IN THE HoUsE;'
that it was not In our house. and that 1t was in Mr.
| Nathans house, or perhaps In the house on the
Otner side but that confident 1t was not in
ours; this first sound will say was load and dis
| tinct one, and we thought It was the shutting
rather violently Of chamber door, and It did not
sound unlike 1t, yet not precisely the came; while
distinctly and at short Intervals should say Of
| quarter OF u minute, or perhaps longer,
THREE DISTINCT SOUNDS,
| but much lighter than the other and of a somewhat
different character; do not know how TO describe
to Was @ but SSe Was d coo @ SNOW Wa
and the other; three OF those sounds heard and
Sof a S Il Il o N our sS
she desired me to get up; declined; she, however,
got up and went into tue bathroom the door leading
and looked at the door leading into my
1t was ali rght there was nothing TO be seen; she
was Little disturbed; nothing further said TIL
morning, and at about seven we rose; she was
nearer the window than was: she looked out and
said, 'There trouble at Mr.. Nathans house,
It occurred to me tnat the thunder had been pretty
severe and said That Mr. Nathans house might
| have been struck by lightning; went down stairs
and some OF the girls said Mr. Nathan had been
murdered.
The District Attorney-where IL the sleeping
| chamber OF yourself and wife - A. It is the rear
chamber, overlooking the passageway between my
l un1 Mr. Not ana
@. understand that your sleeping chamber-the
one you occupied tnat nights the northwest cor
ner or the house. A. IL Is the westerly OF the
house; 1t has window looking out on Twenty third
| street.
@. There are windows on the east side OF Mr..
Nathan's house; did you observe II they open
| A. They were never open; they are last: they are
| iron and they come pretty close to my house. and
| Mr. Nathan and arranged that they should be kept
closed.
O. Referring to this first sound that you heard, do
you say that you heard that sound distinctlyf A.
| Distinctly SIR heard 1t as well rs my vile.
Q; Have you any idea as TO what time this was :
haf-past; but you win understand did not look at
| my watch or the clock; we had good sound sleep
| after twelve O'Clock before we woke.
| z. Are you accustomed to wake In the night ?
! A. Yes, sir; both OF us; we are light seepers.
o. This arst sound tnat you have spoken or might
souno like that, sir; 1t had sharp sound; when
went into the house the next morning saw few
| persons, though did not notice who they
here thar these stairs are IKE %ns they sTs
the rear OF Inc hai ana quite dark they are very
| respect you cannot hear any person going up or
| down; we cannot hear our servants II they take
their shoes on; the stairs 40 not creak at ALL when
| went In the house and saw the body ! looked at
once to see II could discover anything that would
| account for
| rr THE FIRST SOUND;
| the door OF the small room was thrown open to
the right 30 my idea of this door being slammed
| against the bedstead did not amount to any.
| thing; looked into the small room,
| the centre table was In It's place, and
| there was chair that was thrown over; have
been told since that that chair was broken; II that
chair struck by that instrument that may have
caused the first sound; but the other sounds were of
different character aud when Isaw the body with
those ngIy wounds on the head, saw the explana-
ton Of the further sounds MIR. NatIan's hand was
| very much swollen aud his eyes swelled up; the
! body was nearly all lying IN the main chamber;