Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-03-27

Pdtticulass Of ne Come for Witch
ths Ne,s York Murderer sSas Hung.

From Review OF the Case In Gov. DfXs Letter 10
Rev. Dr. Tyne.l
Foster, and Putnam, his victim met
in railroad car in the City Of New
York. The latter had two ladies in /
his charge, and in consequence of GER
tain annoyances by the former, remon-
strated with him on his conduct. 1t
does not appear that Putnam offered
him any provOcaHoil. Foster, who |
had been on the front platform, enter
ed the car and sat down by Putnam,
asking him several times how far he |
was going, and when the latter DECLINE |
ed to answer and turned away, obvi-
ously desiring to avoid . controversy,
Foster said, MWell, I'm going as lar
as You 60, and before you leave this car
i will give you hell"
" He then returned to the front plat
form, and asked the driver if he had
q ar-hook, saying he would "learn him
(mea1ing Putnam) his business when
he got OF the car, he would learn him
to keep his place" When the car
stopped, Foster seized the car-hook,
telling the driver, who tried to stop
him, to Ego to hell,s walked the whole
length of the car on, the outside, at
tackled Putnam, who had just got out,
and struck him two blows on the head
one Of which was fatal Y .sa /
They were together after the frst
conversation between them, while the
Car was passing from the vicinity OF
Twenty ninth street to Forty-sixth
street, not far from three.fourths of a
mile, embracing too long q period Of
time to ascribe the criminal act 10 the
sudden impulse Of passion, or TO ex.
clude the Presumption OF premeditated
design. The fatal blow was CIV.
en- with al iron rod, which was proved
by the result to be- : deadly weapon.
It is more than two feet in length, and
having at one end o double coil of iron
from an inch and 8 quarter to an inch
and a half in circumference, and is ca-
pable In the hands Of man of ordina-
nv strength, without any extraOrdina-
~ effort, Of fracturing the skull at ev-
cry blow. Foster had been conductor
on one Of these street cars, he must
have known the capacity for injury OF
the weapon he deliberately chose, and
the Jury might rightly presume that he
intended to do what he took the most
efectual means within his reach to
accomplish. *. !,
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