The Morning herald., 1875-09-16
CHARLIE ROSS.
THE TRIAL OF WESTERvELT. |

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| THE TRIAL OF wEsTERvELE IT
ExAMINATION OF THE PRISONER CON-
TINUED-THE WEB TIGHTENING AROUND
H1M-MRs. wEsTERvELT AGAIN ON THE
sTAND--THE PROCEEDINGS OF YEsTER-
DAY IN FULL. -.s.. ..t .Fl
The trial of William H. Westervelt was
resumed this morning, and the examina-
tion of the prisoner continued as follows !:
I had several interviews with Detective
King since the death of Mosher and Doug
lass +; I recollect having conversation with
him at Girard and Bowery but couldn't
say it was in January; 1t was about that
time asked him how he made out up at
Fort Jefferson he told me he could get no
information there /; had told him previous
ly about party that lived at Fort Jefferson
he asked me why / never spoke to him
about the case before /; l told him / never
spoke to any officers about 1t except Super
intendent Walling; he said if he had had
the case he would have got the men he
said, "Do you know what III dones l
would of hired room opposite your house
and I'd took my mate with me and wait
for them )" told him if that had been
lone in the first place they would have got
them he did't say that he would have
watched me to get them didn't say if he
had watched them he would have got
Gus"
@. Is there anything you desire to state
to the Court that you have not stated in the
case?
Objected to as indefinite but withdrawn.
A. There is nothing that know of.
| @. William, under the solemn obligation
which you have already taken, can you now
furnish or could you at at any time have fur
nished any clue to the facts connected with
the abduction or place of abode of the child,
Charles Brewster Ross A. No, sir.
CROSS EXAMINED.
After the 26th of June saw Mosher and
Douglass in New York nine times; can't
mention them in their order; saw them
twice in my house; four times in Strom-
berg's saloon and twice at Mrs. Morris
saw them at the latter's place the Saturday
preceding their death and in the early part
of November saw them first at my house
on August IA and the next time was short
after my sister came there l think about
four days; T think she came on the 10th;
couldn't mention the dates / saw them in
Stromberg's; saw them there in thu middle
of August until the early part Of October,
during that time; to the best of my knowl-
edge the first one was on the 14th of Au-
gust, the next one some four or five days
after my sister came couldn't say how
long it was after that the next time ; the
fourth one was some time about the Goth of
September, and the fifth one l think was in
the frstD weak of October ; might be
wrong in them, but that is my belief.
My third visit was about September, and
it is my impression that it was in the morn
ing; didn't say any paper was picked up;
Mosher said he was going for paper; didn't
say what it was; he said here is one got in
Trenton; didn't say when he got it in Tren-
ton; didn't say what took him there; was
at Stromberg's that morning, because was
in the habit Of resorting there; for the want
of better place l suppose; first began
going to Stromberg's saloon shortly after
removing from Philadelphia, in April or the
first part of May; first went there to meet
HARTMANN; had no stated time for remain
ing in the saloon on these visits; lsOmetimes
remained there two or three hours, doing
nothing in particular; had conversations
with Hartmann and whoever would be there
that was acquainted with; the Mott street
saloon was about a mile from my home in
Henry street; the fourth visit 1 can't fix
with more certainty than about September
tn ha fhofd dow yAith MOehnr
and Douglass not more than quarter of an
hour suppose; that visit was in the morn
ing, I Judge somewhere between 3 and 9
O'Clock; can give no reason for judging it
was that hour; don't think it was later;
the three of us left together, and took the
cars for Rhinebeck; reached there the same
day; it is, judge, about sixty miles from
New York to Rhinebeck; reached in its
neighborhood at noon; we returned to New
York on the following night; didn't get in
New York the following night; don't know
what time the boat reached New York; we
left Poughkeepsie the evening after reach
ing Rhinebeck; 1t is my belief that It was
about month after my sister came to my
house; have no other way of fixing 1t except |
that when we were coming down in the !
boat, I heard some of the parties talking |
about fair, and when went up with Sil-
lick and Titus l asked when the fair was
there and was told that 1t was on the 22d;
don't know that wassa fact that there was
fair there, only from what I was told; be-
tween January,1, 1874, and my arrival hack
in April, Twas In New York twice, be-
lieve, the first visit there WIS about the 1st
of February; went there to get money that
was due me by the Police Department, for
services for three days in the month of Jan
uary; 1t was about the 10th; thought l
could get something there could SELF here;
l had both those objects in my mind; had
hnoks in my mind to sell nothing else. had