Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-26
THE ZIG. NOBLE NAN FROM TROY.

| Rockwell speak to Halplne, VINO salo =
guess l am gomez Rockwell asked Hal
pine 'how it was;;' big man wiping blood
off Halpine's face, stopped down; didn't
hear what was said haven't seen big man
since; never saw him before the train
had then left for Boston; big man came
over with Halpine; appeared to be 60 years
old was big, noble-looking man, with
grey hair; don't know who he was; said
he came from Troy; saw Bunham talk
| ing with big man."
THE PISTOL.
Morris Helm testified that he was in the
pawn shop of Mr.. Davis on the afternoon
of the 9th of January, (the day of the rob-
berry, when Filkins came in, bought a
revolver, saying he was going West that
night, and went off to get cartridges for
it. In little while he returned with the
pistol and asked to have the money re-
funded, as he could not find cartridges to
fit it. The boy who sold him the revolt
yer declined to take it back, when Filkins
turned to witness and said: "Mr. Helm
knows me, I am gentleman and want
my money back" and it was returned to
him. This was about o'clock.
Robert A: Scott, clerk in SCOTS gun
shop, was the next witness. He testified
as follows:
remember selling pistol on the after
noon of January 9th; a man came in
whom I did not know; he said he wanted
a revolver; I asked him what kind, and
he pointed in the case and said, "Let me
see that ONE; handed out the one he
pointed to; he looked at it a moment, and
asked me the price; I told him $12; the
pistol was the old model of Smith 81 Wes-
son revolvers, which are not made now
| the man looked at it a moment, and asked
| if that was the lowest price, and I told
him it was he asked me if I would give
him cartridges with it; I told him that
was not usual; he asked me if I would
give him enough to go around, or words
to that effect; | told him | would load it
for him, and he said very we'll, or all
right; after loaded it he wanted to get
some more cartridges, and | had to give
him a whole box; he wished to know
how many was in box, and L told him
one hundred; he laid the money out
while was loading the pistol; there was
| $12 so in the money he laid out; / told
him the cartridges were worth sixty cents
a box; he paid no attention to it for a
moment or SO, and I told him again the
price of the cartridges; the man then
| said, What l saw that he was in a
great hurry and told him that was near
enough; he walked out of the store very
rapidly l did not hear any more of him /;
that was the only pistol of that model
that [ had seen in the store in some days
I had placed the pistol in the case and
| put the tag on it; noticed bruises on the
side of the barrel; did not know what
caused them I did not notice the bruises
on it when sold the pistol; l took it out
just as it laid in the case [pistol handed
nim by District Attorney l think the
marks l saw on the pistol were a little
more deeper than those on this pistol, and
u little more of them; this pistol is the
same style as the one l sold to the man
the pistol produced is numbered 19051,
patented April 18th, 1855, and July 5,
| 1869, and Dec. IS, 1868.
@. Can you state who that man was
to whom you sold this pistol ? A. 1 did
not know the man, had never seen him
| before.
@. Have you seen him since? A. 1
| think | have.
@. Where and when A In my esti-
nation the prisoner here [pointing to Fill
kins) is the person to whom 1 sold that
pistol saw him yesterday morning ;
| heard him speak few words yesterday ;
his voice corresponds with that of the per-
son to whom I showed the pistol
The witness was subjected to long
| o+e,s- on e...iAation, but nothing material
was elected
David W. Ward testified l am employ
ed at W. J. & r. ii. SCOTS workshop !;
pistol handed him by District Attorney
| do not recognize this pistol; the one
banded to me in the shop had the letter
"Bo on it ; Qooks at pistol again now
recogize it as the pistol that was put into
my hands on Monday morning after the
shooting of Halpine; l saw the pistol be-
| fore that time it was about the Gath of
| last December it came into the shop for
| repairs and cleaning; on cleaning it l be-
came angry because it did not get bright
quick enough put it in the wise without
putting leather on the sides to protect it /;
I invariably scrape the frame work SO as
to brighten up after repairing the marks
of the wise are on one side of the barrel
after finishing it 1 returned the pistol to
the store I had cleaned no other pistol
in four or five weeks before that took
notice to that pistol being in the case
saw no other pistol of the same make in
the case.
Cross.examined-The reason first said
could not identify the pistol when it was
handed to me, was because l did not see
the letter "B" on it; could not identify
it as the pistol shown me on Monday
morning unless l saw the letter "B" on it;
don't repair many pistols at this season of
the year; the reason think this is the
pistol 1 repaired, is because the inside of
the frame work is scraped | have repaired
about one hundred pistols of that pattern;
| remember the spots or indentstlons
made on the pistol by the wise don
know the number of spots; might be a
dozen both jaws of the wise are not alike;
one jaw is sharper than the other; can't
tell which jaw is the sharpest; | havn't
used the vice since I fixed that pistol; l
can't say how the pistol was placed in the
wise at the time l was cleaning 1t the
pistol was handed to me on Monday by a
detective, l think; l heard r. A. Scott
say that he sold a Smith 81 Wesson pistol,
old model; this was on the Saturday after
the express robbery; have never heard
him describe the man; I never put pis-
toll in a naked wise before; l can identify
the barrel as the one l cleaned.
At the conclusion of the examination
of this witness further hearing was adj
iourned until 10 o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN FILKINs AND WIFE |
About 3 o'clock Friday Mrs. Filkins
met her husband in Capt Hagadorn's
room, at the Second precinct station house.
The interview was very affecting one,
and continued half an hour.
MIR. HALPINE's CONDITION.
Mr.. Halpine was not so well Friday