Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-19

] iilNrn Old not ask me ID 70 saw VI Re-
! Spruance there lac did not ask me for til.
| error list but did ask the Court for It
had the book on Thursday hunting out
srrors and when / went TO dinner gave
il to Mr.. Woodward from wkom | again
sot il when came back +; kept II two OF
hfec hours that afternoon came home In
the evening train while looking at the
'rror lii found 80 TO 81 errors which |
wrote on a sheet of fools cap wncn
inishcd think / gave the book to the
'l.rk of the Peace know Mr.. Layton
Who keeps store in Orange street, whilO
lis .ribullng bills he told where some Of
The people lived, some Of them found the
e,t | could not find.
VIM. II. Ellingsworth, sworn and testi-
lied as follows That he lives at 2O2 W.
lOth street tax rec ipl handed to him by
counsel was his said tax bill was left at
lis house two or three days before date of
payment that he met Mr.. Given on the
irett ami paid him the lax. (This evil
lence was offered to show Blacks erro-
ncous statements as to the time he saw
Given there.)
VIM. Given, sworn and testilied:-Was
the only son of defendant and aged 10
since left Taylor ~ Jackson's school at
Christmas holidays J have been helping
my father when collecting taxes went
out to Tenth and Orange about the 10Th
f February, and left IN Fat Filings
worth's house with lady | know Black
by sight and have no recollection of him
-peaking to father or | on that accession
no other boy ever went out collecting with
father ut no place did Black ask father
about his tax while ] was with him, nor
lid he ever ask me either.
Ia f.tff Lille stff lta ho1tapa Of hath
hard work to find coloicd people; know
Myers by sight. he has hut one eye went
to hunt him with father at Eighth and
ratnall, and found out he was not there
from Il lady in the house. This was, think,
IN February. Wills IN was the man father
asked to show him where the Myers lived
in same month went to 5i3 Poplar street,
to hunt Black, and was told he did not
live there.
Cross examined have known Black
about year by sight ! used to see him
about Eighth street market, sometimes
with ash cart, and sometimes with Il fur
niture car.
Henry Wilson sWorn.-I have lived here
forty years Mr.. Given asked me, ! think
about the 18th OF March, where the
Myers lived, and showed him; Joseph
rented the house they were n moving
family.
WIN. Brown sworn. Testified that he
~, ~ a., ol' c.',
March to July, 1871. He was disappointed
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AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court opened at , o'clock.
Defence continued the examination of
Witnesses
Mark NJ. Cleaver sworn Testified that
H.. lived in New Cds.le and saw Edmund
Provost in New Castle IN Mrrch ri
(Ohiection beipe made nv the prosocution
n aaestlons now asked Mr.. Clcaycr By de-
frnce. and Inc Court sustaining those
injections. the defence dismissed Mr..
Cle.verO
David NJ. Price sworn-TestiGed at he
v.as a ,nernI,prnt the levy Court in March
iS79 saw Edmnnd Provost there ON the
ssh or 2Qth of that month don't think
l,.,N8s sober; his behavior was not orderly
bpt tha contrary; never rave Giyona book
nj of nv desk. there was a book lut IN
.rv de-k. hut / don't know who I,lt il
D,arr. the hook looked like an error list;
| n was put there on the evening of the 9sih
IF March and | locked il ~ all night with
nv hooks and pave II next mornmg to
.ome man who asked tor il; Given never
ave me ans book To pat in my desk
] testified