The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-18
THE DROP
Il What ID Decreed for John VIM.
Daniel.
"Well, by God! Nobody Can Stand
it Better Than Cant"
SECOND DAY.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

VEINS field a team, north Of Cedar creek. IN
morning, before it was light The tea
was going north II WIS about FUN up win.
] reached Cedar creek camping ground.
had rained that night and l noticed Il
wagon track run from where it had cAmp<
the night before.
1T WAS FRESH WAGON TRACK.
! could not. in going toward SedaIia, aft
going south %: Cedar creek, see any wsgo
track. so / concluded tina. the wagon tn,
made the track gong north on that Frida
morning WAS the same ~ the one that ha
camped at Cedar creek. What sttrac,e
my attention was that the wagon went int
the camp from the north and in the morn
ing il Went from the south. l could nc
s-e why they should go no further tha
Cedar creek from The north and then tur
around. / SAW only one man in the WACO
on Friday morning. The wagon sheet wa
dropped in front about two bows and on
man was on the seat when met it,
CROSS EXAMINED.
| saw these men and team Is, Is or l.
miles from Sedalia at one O'Clock D. m
Thursday.
DR.. w. j. Smith, sworn-I reside i'm War
rensburg and am q physician.
Witness shown the wagon sheet
The spots are blood There is one apo
on the sheet that Is paint. 1 examined tn,
sheet this morning.
CROSS EXAMINED.
tried to m. IKE a chemical ANALYSIS this
morning, but i did not get enough OF il q
make the test.
Jno. l.. Lacey, srorn.-I live in Saline
county. seven miles little west of south OF
Marshall. was in Pettis county on the
the 22d dav Of February, 1877. left home
that day between daylight and sun up.
then lived three miles southwest of Mar
shall. travelled on the Sedalia and Mar
shall road and crossed Black Water at the
iron bridge. When about four miles from the
bridge near The Petiis county line,
met two gentlemen in a two horse wagon
about nine O'Clock and was going north.
This was about Is or Is miles from Sedalix.
/ know where BelIwood's place is. I: was
not far from there that met the wagon.
The wagon had
RED RUNNING GEAR.
The red was green with some stripes. The
team-one: was a light sorrei and the
other dark bay Ur brown. The sorreI, on
the near side, was a mare. l can't tell
what the other was.
The man who was driving asked me il
could tell him the road to Mr.. Hurts.
told him could not, but il they were
in Marshall could toll them the road.
Maa;-Are you acquainted with SyIves-
ter Haliand?
LACY am.
M-Do you know man named Miller?
Ii do.
II was the man on the off side and the
one driving that was talking TO me.
He asked me il [ knew Jim Miller. II
aaid yes" and told him they were all we'll.
He said when l went back home TO tell Jim
Miller that 1 had seen that one-eyed
brother of his-Jes Miller.
/ think he had only one eve.
He told me 10 tell Jim that he had not
heard from him in some time, and for him
to write to him.
The other man then asked me If / knew |
, man named Bogard?
] said did knew ihree of them.
Nranger. DO You krOw West Bogardy
Lacy.-Yes.
S.-He married a niece of mine.
lie married Miss Short.
S-Yes.
LIS your name Short?
s. No, my name is Daniel.
Jaekson.-Do you see the man here that
vou had the conversation with?
Lacy.-I do.
J.-Where is he?
L.-(Pointing to the prisoner) There
he is.
His hair was tolerahly long and I think
MS beard was all over his face, where beard
laually grows. He had on a shawl or
blanket. l talked to them perhaps fifteen
minutes.
They asked me about getting some cattle
o Craze. then went ahead.
i stopped Mt house just south of Muddy
ridge and made some inquiries about an
,ther place.
went back a short distance to see man
hat was chopping.
After seeing him, l went back to the Sc
Ia ia road and travelled east, and met the
anne wagon that had seen in the morn
ng. going south.
rode mp and said:
Lacy.-Well We are ali together again.
!N,unger-Yes.
L.--What Luck?
S-Mr. Hurt did not wish to let his
took out to Craze.
They did not say which Hurt they had
cen to see.
There were two men ia the wagon then,
nd the defendant was one of them |:
rode four or FIVE miles with them.
bout an hour Sometimes they trotted
nd sometimes they walked the team.
Lacy do VOL ever trade horses?
One Eyed Wan-SOmetimes.
L-HOw will you trade the near one for
line? II
O. E. M-She's worth one hundred dol
ln, and anyone who gets her for any less
nar 500 will steal her.
They then talked about hurrying back
, their camping place. understood from :
1em that they had camped at Cedar creek
he night before and was going to camp
here again that night.
& liked with the one eyed man about
he horse trade. IL
left chem At point where the road
armed south. left the road they were &
raveling on. went east, they kept toward
edalia. When left them it was perhaps
mile to Cedar.
l stayed all night at Kicks, and he told ,
he II was seven miles to Sedalia. 1t was O
ct far from shutdown that I left the men /
, the wagon going toward Sedalia. III
RECOGNIZES THE NAN DANIEL. =
saw defendant in Jail in Sedalia, and !
e Is the same as wac with the one-eyed | 9
IAN who called himself Jes. Miller. c
recognized the s0rrel mare in q livery
liable here and picked her out from among I
Their horses. That is the sorrel mare that !
r.s in the team / saw on the 22d day OF I
february on the Sedalia and Marshall road
riven by one-eyed Miller.
CRnSs EXAMINED.
reside In Saline County. I formerly Z
eaided in this county. formerly resided @
D Pettis county near the line of Henry
ounty. near Windsor.
had been to Arkansas. / returned to I
aline comfy and worked for an uncle of 9
line in . livery stable.
am q single man. I told Jim Miller
hat hie brother had told me 10 tell him.
The next week We heard of his brothers ;
cath. f,
passed through Carthage and Neosho !
n Arkansas in 1863. / have made two