The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-03-30

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inson.
John Ebersole testified to having met
Robinson once at Mrs Lunsford's, and to
his knowledge that Robinson visited there.
On Saturday noon, A NJ. Hackett. q
detective, arrived in Mansfield and imme-
dlately commenced working up the case.
On Sunday he, in company with the Cor
oner, read Mrs Lunsford's correspondence
found IN her trunk, and discovered Rob
lnson's letters, which have already been
published, and which show some degree of
jealousy IN his disposition. He also at
tended the funeral, and saw Robinson
there Tor the first time He had examined
the teeth marks on Mrs. Lunsford's arm,
and watched Robinson closely, getting as
good view Of the mouth as possible He
thought the teeth looked as If they might
have made the marks. The next day he
VISITED Robinson again and made a closer
examination. He was still further salts
fed that Robinson's teeth made the marks.
dis evidence was given accordingly, and
Robinson was thereupon put under arrest.
John c. Beiber swore that Robinson
was in his saloon the night of the murder.
Came in a little after 9 o'clock and staid
till little after IL.
Mrs. Sarah Robinson, wife of the pris-
oner, testified as to the habits of Mr.. Rob
inson in coming home nights. She swore
positively that he came home shortly after
II o'clock on the fatal night, and went
Immediately to bed, where he remained all
night. She did not sleep sonnd on ac-
count of a restless babe. She did not rec
ogniZe the handwriting of the letters as
her husbands. Had seldom seen his
handwriting. Never heard of Mrs. Luns-
ford till after the murder.
Jennie Robinson came home from a
party at II o'clock the night of the mur-
der. Her father was not at home when
she arrived. She went to bed. Did not
see or hear her father that night. Did not
hear the clock or bell strike after she went
to bed. Her father made a fire and called
her IN the morning. His clothes and
boots were in the room, and he had gone
back to bed. They did not appear stiff
or heavy with water, or as if they had
been washed. Her father was in the bed
room when she called him to breakfast.
She was acquainted with her fathers
handwriting. The letters were in his
handwriting. There had been very little
said in the family about the murder, or
the funeral of the murdered woman
Mr.. Philip Harris and Abram Newsom
(colored) who were in the next room to
the murder, testified to the facts substan-
TALLY as stated by Charity Harris.
Drs. B. F. Whitney and VIM. Lough-
ridge made the post a1orten examination.
DR.. Whitney was of opinion Robinson's
teeth could not have made the marks on
the arm.
The body had been buried on Sunday,
but the matter Of the teeth marks assum-
ing such importance, the Coroner ordered
1t exhumed. DIR. Bristor, dentist, took
cast Of Roblnson's mouth, and in company
with Drs. klngand Loughridge, compared
the cast with the marks. They agreed in
their opinion that the marks were made
by the mouth from which the casts were
taken. Afterward other casts were taken
by Drs. LeCamp and Taft, dentists, with
the same result. Many non
professionals were also struck with the
similarity of the teeth marks with the ir-
of the cast
THE BLOODY WITNESS.
Your assumption in an editorial of Mon
day, that the fact of no blood being found
on Mr.. Robinson's clothing was as strong
circuEstantial evidence in his favor as the
teeth marks were against him, would be
correct IN ordinary cases. But in this case
everything Is extraordinary. The body
lay, when discovered, diagonally across the
bed, the feet toward the front and the head
toward the back of the bed. The head
and shoulders had been thrust down, the
Stats giving way, to within few inches of
the floor, and the head was pressed be-
meath the bed rail The face and throat
were partially turned toward the wall.
and all the blood spirited and flowed in
that direction. There was not a particle
Of blood on the bed and clothing below
the pillow. No blood on her body-not
even on her bosom. So the position of
the murderer was entirely free from blood,
and there Is no evidence from the marks
that blood was on any part of his person
excepting his right hand Sec the follow
ing evidence on this point:
"a. NJ. Hackett, recalled-There were
no marks of blood on the walls inside the
house at all. The nearest blood to the
bed found was on the table standing at
the foot of the stairway. The next was
on the window to the west of the house.
On the meeting-bar of the lower sash
there Is the print of thumb, bloody.
The indications are that it was the thumb
of the right hand. On the right hand of
the window there is a mark of blood, as
though 1t was from the right hand of the
murderer. On the outside window-sill
there are blood-marks apparently made by
the right hand. The outside window-sill
projects one inch and a quarter, and one
inch below the sill, on the weatherboard-
ing, there is a spatter of blood. Then
down, about six inches, there are more
spatters of blood. The squirting of the
blood would indicate that it went to the
east, as the head of the body lay. From
the appearance of the blood on the bed, it
would seem to have spurted in a contrary
direction from which the person was who
did the deed, and was not likely to have
got blood on his clothes"
OTHER PFRsoSs MENTIONED.
At first suspicion was strongly directed
toward John Ebersole, the intended hus-
band of the woman, and an officer was
dispatched after him.
Hs had no trouble in showing that he
was in Shelby all OF the fatal night.
David Evans. of Lima, was also sus-
pected. He had been reported as desiring
to marry Mrs. Lunsford, and also that he
and his mother had possession of her lit
tie girl. 1t was ascertaIned that Evans
lay sick during the night of the murder.
Mr. Abram Newsom, the colored indi-
vidual with the wonderful appetite for
sleep-the man who slept through all the
noise and screams, separated only by a
thin lath and plaster partition, honey
combed with holes, has been sent for to
clear up the mysteries, if any exist aside
from physical ones, why Morpheus should
so completely possess him during that
night in particular He lives in Fayette
county, Illinois.
Hugh J. Wiley, of Cincinnati, became
mixed up in the matter in this wise -
John Ebersole was in the murdered wo-
mans house, Sunday morning, after the
murder, a young man came there and told
him of a man who had stopped at the Pa