The Morning herald., 1875-09-16

-. 'fl1.iitJ fFOANAA SAAN As
might .hays been -less; don't -think I Was
there any longer; can't fix that time IN
March; saw at the Police Department Gen.
Duryea; on the second visit went In alone;
my family removed to New York some-
where near the middle Of April; Twas
doing nothing then, but ! didn't 60 with
my family back to New York, because my
wife end children were going to stop at my
sisters until she could get o place to
move In, and there was no accom-
family there were other places in New
York where 1 could have got accommoda-
tions; ! stayed about week after my wife
Mosher and Douglass were there when I
left my sisters they were away about 9
week, but / didn't stay that week on pur-
pose to- see them when they returned +; !
stayed at my sisters; shipped our goods the
day after my wife left; don't know Richards
or Richardson by any other name than
Tom" on June 18th ! was selling the
moth powder around New York, or Brook
lyn, Williamsburg, Harlem, the suburbs Of
New York; went with my brother to Al
bany to sell moth powder: that think was
in June; the fare was twenty-five cents each
way; that was the only time / sold moth
powder on the Hudson river sold 1t in New
Jersey City, at Newark and Jersey City, and
nowhere else at any time; can't say what
my sales were in the third week in June,
they were very low some days they would
amount to $3, and then again not 81; in two
or three days when first started
out in the beginning of Jnne, they
amounted to s6 a day; left here
ou June 25, in the 11.40 train, think, for
West Philadelphia; got into the cars at Mar.
ket street and some other street that don't
know the name of; we came in the cars from
Girard avenue to Market; think it was Sixth
street that we got into the cars; am not cer-
tain that it was Sixth street; my sister, Mo-
sher and Douglass came down with me; left
Girard avenue somewhere about half past 10
O'Clock and went to my sisters; it was With
in an hour after supper. went to the stable
with MOsher to look at the horse and wagon
before supper, between and 6 O'Clock,
judge; returned to the house in less than half
an hour, judge; we walked there; stopped
long enough to feed and water the horse and
walk back; l took the box that sold from
and the starch box up to Girard avenue: did
with any packages of moth powder in it;
went to Gilbert's that night because didn't
want to stop at my sisters when they were
all gone; went also at the invitation of my
sister and Mosher; saw up there Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert and some strangers; while was there
Gilbert did not sit outside with us; Mosher,
Douglas and myself sat outside; Gilbere and
the women were inside; Mosher, Douglass
and l were outside, and Gilbert passed us
cigars out the window; we went there in the
cars; Michael Driscol lived in Governeur st.;
not to my knowledge did he ever live at No.
29S Henry street; l have brought ice cream
home from picncs, couldn't say when or
from which one; know on July 9th slept
late in the morning, and remember in the af-
ternoon taking my wife in Il e front room;
locked her up in that room merely for joke;
she was looking out of the front window;
and locked the door; l don't know what
time that was or how long kept her there,
don't know whether went out or stopped
in the house that evening; l think my wife
is twenty eight years old; when living in
Brooklyn, lived in Nineteenth street, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets: it>was then
five miles from Williamsburg, and bordered
on to Broo'lyn; l never saw the letter I
mailed to Mr.. Mosher; mailed it in New
York; got no reply; don't recollect what
were the threats Bill Mosher made after re-
turning from Madame Morrow's on the 18th
of August; he said he didn't know what he
could he looking after him there for; Ican't
recollect what was said; he concluded to
write letter and get pen and paper of the
barkeeper; he appeared to bs very excited
all the time; wrote it; don't recollect that
it was dated at any place; l wrote to GIL
that Bill had "nO time or money to spare to
come on there" meaning New York; Bill
o. 1ss,.rh hnosA IA, x,yhn
made TO objection to lending myself to this
any wrong; had previously written to Bill
to meet CHI; changed sides, and aided Bill
in these dcceptiOns because he said Gil was
putting up a job on him; took this letter
to Gil's wife, and told her that had 4 few
days previous sent letter to Bill or Gil, and
had the ans yer to It, and read it to her;1
knew che and Bill were not good friends,
that she and Gil had had him arrested on
the Red Bank affair; knew that fact wheK
wrote the letter to Bill to fix the meeting
for them; sent the letter at Gil's request;
The letter wrote was that Gil had said that
here had been some men to his house in-
named BendigO; / am not certain, but
;hink Gil's letter requested him to come
'ver to New York, and the reply was that
ne had no money or time to spare to come
IN there.
There was at this interview some out-of-
he-way questions such as anybody would
lsk; Stromberge's saloon in Mott street is
bout o or 10 blocks further down town than
Allen and Houston streets; Gil MOsher's
lOuse was blocks south and then directly
ast Of Allen and Houston; told him I
WOULD meet them at Stromberg's after GO
ng to Mrs. Gil Mosher's, had NO reason for
aging would meet them there only that
vas acquainted there; told Bill MOsher oil
hat recollected Gil's wife saying, I told
lin that she proposed should make .