Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-11-23
(From our Late Editions of Saturday.
THE TAYLOR -MAGKEY TRIAL.

S.sf NEW CASTLE, Nov. 2l.
Court opened at 10.
Judges wootten Houston, and Wales on the
bench.
TAYLOR was brought in the dock looking very
cheerful, and afser calling the jury, the case OF
State us. Joseph Taylor proceeded IA follows:
Charles Il. Wright, sworn: Lived at St
Georges, July 2s; not personally acquainted
with Taylor, but have seen him l saw him at
st. Georges last summer saw HIM sAere with
another man did not see him come, it
was in the afternoon, Tss'lor was talking
with me about sQpo matters, then start
ed to go and wantSd the man that was with
HIM TO 60 Taylor picked him up and put him in
the carriage, Taylor unhitched the horse and the
man got out Taylor put him in again; Taylor
had on steel colored clothes, they had falling
top buggy and bay mare, the horses head was
not headed towards Odessa, Taylor took the
reins, the carriage waa turned and drove towards
Odessa, the carriage top was down; didn't know
whether there were curtains or not; have never
seen Mackey since that day, saw Taylor the next
Thursday, coming from the direction Of Odessa
no one was with him, he had different rig; he
had an old buggy and light bay mare. l saw
Taylor first about or years ago, Taylor had
on about the same clothes when he returned
that Thursday.
Gross Examined Saw Taylor at st. Georges
or 10 years ago. He represented himself to be
in the lightning rod business on July rs when
met him and had a conversation with him, there
were not many people around, Harry Clark and
l were talking there in the porch, when Taylor
put him in the carriage he made some remark
and got out, Taylor put him in again aud got in
himself ON the off side, thought they were
| friends, when l saw him on Thursday was stand
| ing on the Hotel porch he spoke to me- The horse
| and wagon were different from what he had
| Tuesday. made no particular examination Of
| the horse Think he stayed about hours. IL
was near sundown when he left first, he came
| back and asked Mr.. Riggs to let some one drive
| him st. Georges, Mr.. Riggs furnised him Isabel
| la jackson and he would not accept him then
he got back in the wagon andstarted to go.
| the case.
Charles Floyd was called and requested to
| retire from the Court room for few minutes.
Henry j. Rowe, sworn Live in Crawford Co.,
State of Ohio l am the Sheriff of thai
County since January last l arrested the prison.
| er Aug. H. last at Bucyrus l got letter OIL
Saturday evening on Monday next l arrested
him near the hat and shoe factory between II
and p NJ. l took him to jail arrested him oI
the receipt of letter charging him with murder
(the letter was here produced.) When arrested
him he had light pants and dark coat. He wal
in our Jail for a week, Sheriff Armstrong anC
James Hamill were with me, Sheriff Arm
strong produced requistion from
from the Governor of Delaware Taylo
had ON the coat described in the lette
and l took it from him, it matched with piec
of goods enclosed in the letter. / told him h
had the mans coat on, and he said it might b
| the same goods went up town and met Nc
| Bride cousin Of his and Was asked If l notice.
| any letters in the back of the coat. went bac
, and noticed. "R NJ where the name had bee
stitched in aud thread picked out (the Goa
was here produced). The coat has not been II
my possession since Hamill had charge o
, it. After finding the letters in tn
coat l went in and ASKED Taylor what h
NJ meant he said to the best Of m
knowledge, Rogers and Butchers manufac
ture; that was all that said, this was the sam
, day arrested him. did not know the name 0
the murdered man at that tune; mad a conyerss
ton couple of days after; I had got paper stat
ing Mackeys murder, and Taylor told me tha
he and Mackey were riding along and had bee
on big drunk and coming to bridge and &c
: ing across Mackey driving and licking th
/ horse they had been driving hard all the rount
when they crossed the bridge, Mackey pulle
the horse to one side; Taylor took til
9 reins, stopped the horse and got off to hold I'll
horse and Strengthened him and told Mackey I
get of and lift the hind part OF the wago
= around. Mackey got of and instead Of dom
i this sat down on the wing of the bridge. Ia,
p lor said he then heard splash in the water an
went back but could not see him. The hors
started and he, (raylor) went and caught Il
: horse and tied him to a tree; went back to loo
for him but could not hud him. Alackey wi
- out Of sight be then got in and drove of.
e (liowe) then told him you had better have raise
1 an alarm aud got the man out. He (laylOr) sa
q he knew he did wrong in not doing so. That
all.
(For continuation Of yesterdays proceeding
see Fourth Pdge.l