Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-20

Senteo ana proven on The trial by Col.
Sullivan. The cravat was of peculiar
color, being spangled with dots and little
vines, which bis wife, though not having
heard it was found nor seen it since her
husbands disappearance, described with
accuracy on the trial as having washed and
iroued it. --.
7HE SOCKS.
The part of the socks which were of yarn
and of an open work rarely if ever seen and
which were knit by Miss SalIie Douglas a
neighbor was produced and after her de-
scription to the jury, was found to CORES
pond precisely.
...rt-rfrr. '.a THE COAT
was peculiar, as being of much longer skirt
than those of modern pattern and which he
had worn for many years. rE
49,. . r-..a..r "a HIS HAT ..
was unlike that of almost any other hat,
being tind of skull cap with a narrow
stiff brim with wire around the rim.
HIS TWO sUIRTs r.
were both plaid and lis pants brownish red
mixed with steel colored thread; his draw
ers were of Canton flannel. On the trial
bis wife stating she had made the drawers,
shirts and pantaloons, produced scraps of
the cloth from which each were made.
These being compared in the presence of
the Jury suited with the utmost precision.
r.HG THE BOOT
found was of proper size, heing a No. Z.
These were all identified beyond a doubt
and in a manner not TO be accounted for
save on the ground of being true. -T
s.a.F THE HUMAN HAIR -aE
found being brown and slightly mixed cor
lad nth hat %
the identity of the few remains found was
proved to be those of Mr.. Nicholas, who had
been missing two months and half.
A HoRRID FATE
must have been his. Hogs inhabited the
thicket and are supposed to have destroyed
the body. What a horrible reality is tbs,
and how near to the threat that he would
be placed where the dogs couldn't bite him.
Though the swine Toasted on the corpse
of murdered man, yet it was a dog that
traced the discovery of the remains and
bore the human skull to the presence of his
master. About the twenty-6rst of NOvem-
Der, the time of his supposed death,
DROPS OF BLOOD
were found on the pike near that spot or
thicket, and an offensive smell was detected
by the nearest neighbor; bnL none of these
things excited EHaa.-
INVESTIGATION,
since it was currently reported that Nicho-
las had fed the country. The reports
were finally traceable to the defendants.
THAT MONDAY MORNING,
when Nicholas was last seen passing by Mr..
Nunley's house before day, going on the
pike towards Springfield, about three-quar-
tiers of an hour thereafter, Mrs. Nunley
stated in court, she saw Poole coming in
the same direction driving a One-hOrse
wagon, the horse being in tot. 1t was
found that Mahaffy, on that same Monday
morning, was In Springfield before day buy
ing liquor at a grocery. A little after sun
up he was seen six miles from town at
FRANK MANEER's STORE,
coming from the direction of Springfield
and going toward home. He is afterward,
between 9 and 10 o'clock, shown to have
been twelve miles from Springfield, loading
cars on the Edgefeld and Kentucky rail
road, near
RIDGE TOP.
Mahaffy proved by member of bis fam
lily that he was at home at sun-up and
stayed there the night before. By negro
he proved that he was
AT HIS HOUSE
about half an hour by sun-up, TO get him
to assist him in loading the cars with wood,
and it is not disputed by the State but that
between and l O'Clock that day he was
loading the cars with wood. The defense
claimed that Mahafy was not at Springfield
on the Monday of the alleged murder, but
was there the following Friday, when the
trial between him and Nicholas before the
20 TO a off Tnhaxy in.
sist that the
WITNESSES WERE MISTAKEN
as to date, and it is likewise mistake as 10
his being at Meneer's store half an hour by
sun up. Meneer, however, had sold him
some articles, which he entered on his books;
he personally recollects that Mahaffy stop
ped there, and the incident connected with
it. .
A DAUGHTERS EVID ENCE.
Poole proved by his daughter and
son that he was at his home
that night and remained there till
Monday morning and left for town in the
one horse wagon belonging to Dick Love.
His daughter stated that her father went to
Loves and borrowed the wagon that morn
ing, half an hour by sun. His son stated
that the wagon had been at his fathers
house since Saturday night, and that his
father did not go to borrow it that morning.
Both son and daughter proved that
JOHN BURCHETT --
came that morning to- return some Dor
roWed meal and sat in the house by the
fire conversing with their father before
breakfast. Burchett states that he was
there that identical morning to take tho
borrowed meal home; that he saw several
members of the family, but not Pool him
self, neither did he go into the house.
THE ATTEMPTED ALLIE!
set up By both defendants was regarded as
"fxed up" for the occasion By the State,
though relied on by the defense. While
the defense insisted that
THE REMAINS FOUND
were not those of Nicholas but of some
other man, the counsel for the State con-
tending that the time and the distance and
the movements of the parties as they were
seen all pointed to the defendants as
THE GUILTY PARTIES.
Moreover that there was a complete
identification of the remains found as
those Of Nicholas and that the enmity ex-
isting between the parties and its recent
irritation by the suits before the magistrates
together with the
OPEN AND AVowED THREATS
to kill him in case he obtained judgment |
against them-which he did gain-and the |
to create the belief in the public !
mind and of his family, that Nicholas |
through fear of being
PROSECUTED FOR PERJURY
had fed the country, all unerringly indi-
Gated them as being the guilty parties. !
are the points made most objective |
in this great trial, which after long and able !
arguments by most of the members of the !
local bar of Springfield, was closed in be- |
half of the defendants by Hon. JnO. F. |
House of GAINESVILLE, and for the State by |
Gen. William Bate of this city.
THE JURY.
after being charged in an able and impair