The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-04
-.,,r CIRCULATION or THE DISPATCH
.,crR THAN THE CONFINED CIR
,r,o< or ALL THE OTHER DAIRY
.,n>r,rEH> or THE CITY.
,,o,, Murders arc Committed Comics
INV ,,,, of charles Earle.

,ro coroner and Jury. 3ucE',t" "Cstt sPtavh
~ n,c murder Of Mrs. Madciainc >ati,nser,
u'hn Il Will hC rrmcmhcrcd, was 'onad
VIZ" Va. "a in her he'd If her residence. No.
,,',,,,,mriation street, at G o'clock OH
~, ,T,y moyuin, The accused, who was
;;a',,,r, in hy The Superintendent Of Police
Irni. Edccworih, is nearly, ii not
AK! .';,, tx feet high..and was dressed in a
,ttnu Jumper aud gray trowsers,
r'", hlacS stripe. lie has large
E w., rather wcathcr-heaten, dark
L. and ewes, and a thin mouStache, and is
,.,.,r>>r,l of an open and rather prcpoS.
Sn>sin, couuicnauce, lie seemed much
s,n,arrasScd. and spoke with apparent
Ir,i,3tinn. II did not seem That he testlfted
,nlrr CONFUSION, hut It vas evident the
INK before him was moi pleasant one. lie
described in detail previous conversations
,,,h = man named John Garycy, VINO
,,,"nnrd The robbery oil Mrs. SallinScr and
i,rdur.G Earle 10 participate in the deed.
He then described their meeting Of the
nirNt referred 10 and The prcpara; ions
,mT,jr for the commission OF the act. He
aid =.
an The riaht-hand side Of It'll, between
lqrrl and Administration. | asked him
what nc MAS going 10 do there. He Gar
yr,N said. Never mind: surveyed this
before: follow me- We walked back to
thn end of the lot. He climbed over the
fence and tried the picket right next to me,
and il would not come loose. He told me
fhrn 10 -r; over and try it on the other
side. where the little cabbage garden is.
Ur took the chiseI then and took out one oil
,hr ,n,Iinr>. 1t came off very easy. He
,g5 m, to take hold Of the next picket,
mad he inserted the chiScl and pulled the
other onc ont. We walked inside, then
through the cabbage garden. There was Il
IrlI., rate there. | never had opened is be-
fore, and We were some time before we got
il open. lie had his shoes of ut this time.
When ] came out ut the other end OF the
yard nv dog was barking, and the little
do was barking. ltold hun we had better
,,cl OUT. lie said. NO, 10y Cd, as we
cam, in We must end the business
He asked III" which way the bed lay. say
jn,. .llI 90 Tor her. / told him the bed
was in the far side of the room. He went
TO the room where the door was open. lie
asked me # the other door was open. /
told him | could not tell. He said, in 81
low tone. Follow me in. anyhow We
went into the room. / following him. There
was 10 noise whatever, only the barking Of
the llttl, dog. lie whispered 10 Inc 10 light
lie candle.
nru there Was stir in the bed. lie
dark whether he took hold OF the mattress
or mot. She made Il little noise III the bed,
Il sort Of choking noi-e He stayed by
The bed, and lit the candle. The candle
wa. got about two weeks ago on Tchoupi-
touis> street, We opened the armoir then,
and there was nothing TO see in that. Gar
ycv remained 10y the bed. l pulled out 4
chest that Was under the bed, and looked
into il, hut did not lind anything. We
came away from the bedroom. lie said
SHl,, had tainted. or something that she
WIS white.
He then first noticed 4 box on the right
hand side Is YOU 50 i'll, behind The door.
took the candle and locked mt the box,
seeing it was locked. LII looking in the
drawer If the armoir, GaIYey found Il key.
! told him il WAS there. L thought 1t was
door Key. and he Was going 10 try ii with Il
chi>Cl.
He went out and rot it. and unlocked the
chest. l.pulcd out Some clothing and
turned the things over, but could NV! ilnd
anything. Ga,Vcy opened The little I'll th;t
WAS there at the end OF the chest. | held
the lid. lie pulled il open, and took II book
out Of it and handed ii 10 me. some money
druppca out OF it. / examined the book,
and took ali the greenbackS there was III 1t
and rolled il up. put il in my coat-pockct.
He said BY God. there's more money
than this here; they've got il stuck some
where He raised another little lid in
the same Till. und he raised the lower
one, and drew out something like L
Mtyh. took Il hold Of it and emptied it
into tic trunk. 1t had some kind of cakes
in il. He reached down and pulled out
another, and it had 4 pocket book i'll it.
He said, then, that's all there's Il cou-
rEc Il thousand there sure; let's co. We
lett then, going out the same way We came
in, only going out 9Th street, through the
church yard gate. As far as l can recoi-
let, We Went down Constance street to
Felicity road. Between Felicity road and
II. Mary street We met police officer.
Glrvey stopped and spoke to him. We
turned down Constance street again. On
Laurel, between It. Mary and Felicity
road, we met the policeman. We must
have gone down Laurel street, WHEN we
went down Constance street u CaliODe,
near St. Mary'S Market. We bad coffee in
the market; and from there we went on
down Tchoupitoulas street. On the way
going down he threw that ctisel he had
over the fence. That was between Grod
and LAFAYETTE, on the lctt-haud side rs YOU
20 down. From there we went down TO
the French Market there was q coffee
house open there, and we had drinks, aud
"a, and played cuchre.
He asked the bar-keeper if he had any
other room besides the coilee-house. The
bar-kcepcr told him yes. lie gave us q
candle, and showed lis TO the rear. Garvey
had the candle. | went inside the water
closet. and he held the candle, and we di-
ridcd The money. When we came out we
had the sack and pocket-book still. lie
told NE TO 90 throw that in the river. We
both went out to the river, and threw it
in. We came back to the coflee-house, and
had another drink. lie said then he'd be
going up. Told him to go that I'd stay be-
hind. ! stayed there until nearly daylight,
and then took "a cab on st. Charles street,
and went to the corner OF Soraparu and
Tchoupitoulas streets, and took q drink at
Gicrs's. i went up the lcVee, and put the
money in a pile of slaves, between Ith ana
S:h streets / couldn't 'tcll how much
money there was. We had about eighty
dollars in gold, and three hundred and odd
dollars i'll paper.
There were some to divide, after having
three punches Of one hundred dollars each.
There were TWO dollars in silver. Garvey
had the chisel (pointed out by The cOroncf)
III Sailngcr's house, and l saw the END OF
revolver i'll his pocket. i did not know
Mrs. Salllnger was dead until alter L was
arrested. ] didn't 90 near the bed. Garycy
laid across the bed. On Monday morning
came home and changed my clothes, and
told my wife would so to the leyee and see
If that salt was in. Garvey came over while
was changing my clothes, sand asked me
il was going to work. ! told him yes,
wait a minute until Iput on my working
clothes. AS soon as l got through, we
went down TO Krauss's and had a drink.
Mrs Krauss waited on us. Then we went
down on the levee. Garvey did not tell me
where he put his money. When he went
into his house to get the chisel l asked if
his wife would not see him lie said. oh,