The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-15

nh Ia the person married. 1n6y udSc
Since lived together as husband and wife; Saw
the woman TO whom l married him In March
last him st Pas hs 6oase last fs E we had
versation about his wife who was still living
alfys hs sd%tfeH 6nt 6sd faousht sse was dead.
Court adjourned at 6 o'clock ----
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
FORENOON SESSION.
Testimony of Rev. P. NJ. GARvET resumed
At the time / last conversed with him he ac-
knowledged he had been to Philadelphia to see
his wife. My correspondence applied to letters
received and wrote but one. performed my
plain duty by telling him that TINS ass
/ believe they did. Bridget Connell was pres
Cross s-Egdnired.~This conversation was in
my room they both said they were members ,3
| came on other business. told them if they
did not separate th9y would not receive the
| TO Philadelphia. When I showed him the letter
he protested that the woman Annie E. Moore
| got up on him. The first letter / received was
| an inquiry to whether the Moore's lived in
| of the marriage certificate referred to- The
letters purported to be from Annie E. Moore.
! DR.. S. N. S,ran recaued.-The cord around the
| womans neck was about the middle of il my
| opinion is that death WAS caused 10y stranguIa-
| Cross -Eramtned.-First saw the body at office
| of Squire Strayer, in Johnstown, on the I'd of
| IDr. J. Litz was also called to testify as an
| expert, TO evidences of stranguation.1
| l.. H'tssin0er TecalIed.-I saw the Harrisburg
| Accommodation pass east on the lst OF March
last; did not see any one get or that train at
| J. c. Rtgte strOrn.-I have known the prisoner
! for about four years. In November last he
came to my house and asked me to take Father
Garvey to his house at Mineral Point to see his
Eife, ne. VINO mo vas sick: When we got there Mr..
sation he said to me that letter had come to
living and that he would have to leave the S n
man he was living with. About eight days af-
| he WAS going away-Le couldn't stay any long
er; that he had gone to Philadelphia md going
came to the door and told him he couldn't see
the woman be asked for.Mrs. Moore.
saw him on the Sd of last March. He was shaved
clean and trimmed
bad not seen him at church for several years
and asked if anythns S"d BEEN Fep1d TO on MIN IN
| regard to that murder. He said a man had been
| seen who had come out of the fre-c clay bank
with the back of his coat muddied.
Sarah c. ScDTid0e Tecdtled.-I made mistake
In my statement about the day of the month !;
it was the 2Sth or 18th of February meant.
| ID. +. RdmseU slCoTI--l know the prisoner. I
| OF January; last saw him on the train at Nc
Gal vey's station, east Of Altoona; got of there
raw that coat on Michael Moore 8 back got it
in the house OF James HaRan the night he was
Prospect Hi. where his farniiysis now living"
the Bridget Connell family.
| Cross Erdmincd.-I believe this to be the same
coat because 1t looks like the one. Hagan's
| house is the Foot of Plane No. 3,
In chief.-( Boots shown) / took those boots
! OF of Mr.. MOore's feet at the Jail in Ebensburg
and tb them TO tae R bfe5 oGI M
| day evening, March Sd, at JAS Hagan house.
| This house is IL or IA miles east of Mineral
Point took the prisoner to Johnstown aud
before the coroner.
| at No. and boarding at Hagan's. Didn't ask
me what he was arrested for until about three
me and told him. He then said, lis that SO !?
Well. I'm not guilty I'm not ashamed of any
lBoots and coat offered in evidence. Object
ed to. Articles admitted in evidence. Tray of
! trunk identified 10y Mrs Carr and also admit
ted in evidence
| Commonwealth rests
| OPENING OF CASE FOR THE PRISONER
At 9H o'clock. John p. Linton, Esq. opened
! the case for the accused. He briefly adverted
adduced by the Commonwealth and proposed
| to show that in some particulars at least the
had no preliminary hearing: he was incarcer-
| ated in Jail and had no opportunity of bunting
on him. He stands here alone. without friends
to assist him. without money to aid him, and is
and answer the charge preferred against him. him
The prisoners counsel hoped however, TO break
the connecting links in the chain of evidence
| thrown around him by the Commonwealth and
that such a reasonable doubt of his completely
in this crime would be raised in the min DIS Of
the jury as to work his acQuittaI.
TESTIMONY FOR THE DBFENsK-
town; L am dentist by profession. (Teeth
| shown.l 1 saw those teeth before-go them
tied up in q handkerchief. ARTICLES shown and
| recognized) These were left with me about 80
Cross, ,Erdmtned.- recognize the teeth be-
in the lower set 1 returned them in preciseiy
the same condition they were received by me.
boot and shoe deaer TSe 10 sTs
of a stogy boot is No. s. a No. boot will mea-
| sure about 10 inches; a No. o, IL inches, and a
cat this tuncture, Court adjourned until 2
| o'clock, to give prisoners counsel an opportu-
nifty to prepare their evidence and defense1
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court convened at the usual hour, when tes-
tImony for the defense was resumed.
maker. and reside in E6ensburg laboring
surfing from IL TO 12 inches.
CrUss- -Eramined.-A wet boot in drying would
shrink up some, but would expand if it got wet
In chtef.-An ordinary No. inside would
| es it would be about 1IH inches. A 81 or s in
side measure would be on the outside 9 inches
! ing, would be 1oH inches in longth.
er's foot; it measures 81 in length. This would
make his foot 10 inches long.
| er pair of boots would make No. SIS. They
would be los and would measure from lis! to
| In chief.-I measured the boots produced here:
their length 10 inches is 114 inches.
| George Geddes dfsrmed.-I am postmaster at
Johnstown since July. 1870: TPrieoners coun-
sci proposed to prove by this witness that a let
from Bellefeld, Ohio, directed to Mich1 Moore
| The Court refused to allow this testimony TO
| go in evidenced
! 1.-THE prisoners counsel next offered the tes-
timony elected before the coroner's inouest
at the finding of the body, in evidence, and re-
ferred particularly to that portion in which the
body found was supposed to be that of a woman
| named Mrs: Ambrose. The testimony of E W
| Eisenbise Mr.. Luther Martin, Mrs. Nancy Mar
| tin, and A Rey noids found in the evidence
| given at the inquest, was the portion to which
| the prisoners counsel more especially referred
| Testimony before inquest excluded by Courti
| prisoners counsel next offer in evidence the
| finding of the coroner's jury. dated March 5th
1872, and the warrant for the arrest of the pris,
| oner, dated the Sd day of March last The And
| ing OF the jury is offered for the purpose of
| showing the impossibility of identifying the
| body at that time, aud the warrant is offered
| for the purpose of showing that the prisoner at
the bar was restrained of his liberty and is now
| on his trial without due process of law For
mer proposition admitted, but the latter decid
ed DRY 6y the Court to be an improper oner.l