The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-07-22

track exactly, In my Judgment; let the
boot In but once only; tracks were
going to and from where the remains
were found: near where the first piece
of remains was found there was O track
made by tolerably new boot; gath
cred pieces of the body and buried
them near tree in sight of the camp
door; Rover did not pretend to know
before or after the arrest anything of
the whereabouts of Sharp; said he last
saw Sharp on the morning after his ar
rival from the spring; no date men,
toned; found O watch at the camp; de-
PENDANT said it was Sharp's; the camp
was hut covered with dirt; found
the watch near the ridge-pole; the
watch was concealed; left the camp the
day defendant was arrested about P.
NJ; he said he would make his state
ment when be got to Winnemucca; /
was there at the Coroner's inquest;
conld not say how the body was cut;
could not say whether the edges of the
cuts looked ragged; could not say
whether the head and trunk matched;
l examined the head; thought it was
crushed; that was my impression; /
have in my possession the clothing that
1 found.
The witness brought into Court the
clothes found upon the fragmentary
remains at the time of their discovery.
They were in an ordinary sack. There
were two ragged shirts-one white and
the other blue. The white one was
literally covered with blood. A small
piece of pair of drawers, rough
tweed coat, in rags, ragged pair of
pants and an old pair of overalls. The
pants and other portions of the cloth
ing, with the exception of the shirt be-
fore referred to, were cut and slashed at
the knees and thighs, the cuts corre-
spending with the cuts on the body of
Sharp, but there was no blood upon
any of them. This would seem to in.
dictate that the body was not cut up
until sometime after death had result
ed, and this fact is of noteworthy sig
nificance. A diagram Of the camp and
vicinity was shown to the witness, who
pointed out upon it the places where
the several parts of Sharp's body were
found.
Cross Examined by Mfr. Bonnifeld !:
Could not state positively that the foot
fit in the track all round; could not
have made more careful examination
of the track without taking off the
boot; 1 saw where wood had been
taken from the canyon; l saw no other
tracks than those made by one pair of
boots; the head was not wrapped up;
the body was in barley sack-a new
sack; Rover, think, stated at the
spring that he last saw Sharp on the
morning after his arrival from the
river; defendant wanted to be taken
away; McWorthy struck him on the head
with a vel-handle; Rover walked
TO the spring and rode horse from
there to the river; he complained of
being tired; we stopped twice on his
account; McWorthy remarked that he
gave him good shaking-up going
down the hill; at Osborn's Rover COM
planned of being cold in the night; /
gave him all the blankets had; I
heard McWorthy say that Rover took
rope and went to get the horse, but
could not find him; he said that he
saw him in certain canyon, and
pointed it out: he thought he might
find the body in that canyon; McWor-
thy told me the particulars several
times; he told me frequently that de-
PENDANT was great liar.
Redirect: When saw track in the
mine it was the same as that meas
ured; I did not follow tracks to where
I found the coat; saw it shortly after
l left the camp.
At this juncture the question of hold
ing night session was discussed. and
left to the option of the jury. eleven of
whom voted In favor of it and one
against it. A change had come over
them since the evening previous, when
they unanimously opposed night ses-
sion.
Wiuiam Spencer s,oorn Am not ac-
quainted with defendant; first saw him
at spring near the sulphur mine last
April; found Rover at a spring called
Dryer Spring, about three and half
miles from camp; Nash, Knapp and l
arrived at the spring together; heard
defendant say to McWorthy that he
had not seen Sharp; that he had some
thing else to do than looking for Sharp;
went from the spring to camp; arrived