The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-09
EIGHTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

u EIGHTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
, On Tuesday morning Court opened at half
: asi eight O'Clock.
: Elijah Charles sworn.-Am defendapt's
= brother, my family was DO soned, saw de
: iendsDt 1T my residence at M on Tues
day evening, the 9Th OF June. fast saw
: drfendant sitting on fenc- in yard, his bu>1
:, ness was TO sell a farm purchased from Mil
q Ton Charles, he purchased arm for witness.
Z but had the deed made in his own name
farm WA bought some three months before
!, the above date, defendant remained at viii
y nesse's hou.e until so 10 NJ, talked abuut
&c buggy shafts. defsndent went in milk house
alone, he ate suppel, and was about the
D. house and in the house; counted notes, hao
4 about $500 in notes at house. did not make
AZ trade there were mortgages on the-Milton
le Charles farm for about $1,000. Mr.. Dixon. OF
II Mansfield, had mortgage for So 0O0. that was
o. the reason we did not trade, mortgages were
Ig not all recorded, Milton Charles had his
n mortgage recorded, defendant had traded
Is his house and lot on the farm and
1t boys in planning mill. gave them a mortgage
:; on 400 acres in Hardin county, witness WIS
IS worth e6 acres of the 800. worth go per acre,
Z had farm of 80 acres valued at $50 per acre
q mad 300 IN money and notes. and other
o persona properly valued by assessor al $50
10 500, but would not take that for 1t On
c the 9th day OF June made arrangements to
go 10 mill next day, 10 Reams' mill at Ada
got hour out OF -four chest at Reams' mill on
! the 7th, other were there getting flour went
from there TO Isaac 3 Charles and remained
, till middle of the afternoon. the wagon stood
north OF defendants house, defenda at and
, witness Went n, nth from house witness wenl
10 see John McElroy who was sick stayed
about Is minutes, and then went to defend
ants house, defendant oon came in, had 10
? pass the wagon 10 get home, witness was g
miller before he was married, tied the sack
himself, afterwards found the sack loose,
when witness left, defendant was about 5
rods fIom the wagon. had no other brF ad in
the house when the new bread was bak ed,
had no other fioui, the flour from which the
= | bread was Dar ed was taken from The mon h
the sack, wife did not eat dinner, sh. la d
down o. the bed, but got up when We we've
Thomas 10 Ada, Thomas ale half a slice o.
bread. when about two miles ON home
witness vomited, felt sick al stomach could
not set sti in bnggy, returned home after |
Mr. Stumm informed me that The family |
were sick, had gnawing sensation al stom |
ach had b -adache and felt sick al over, fe 1 |
weak, calves OF legs sore. ached all over hsd /
calen bread, butter, lettuce with strong viii |
,-gar N H. and mann coffee, eat first of tina,
| br. ad. used the same kitchen utensils we Lad /
| been using. health OF sef and family had /
| ''een good, had no poison about farm OF /
/ house. had Bo other property than hat me n
| tIoned. had d conversation with brother al
| Ada bout his reno, al n ON The admIpistra-
| torship, would NOS Atay on his bail .ond any
| longer, reasoL was his extravaganza in trad |
| Ing no es belonging 10 estate defendant hao
| traded notes of Mr. Linn to amount of IS U(1
| 'ad convers ttion efore thai about II the
| notes, hat defendant had done with note,
on which witness was bail, had collected
about VI $40 on noies for which he had not
| accounted, defendant was making use o. oth-
er things belonging TO The estate, the piece of
Dread taken away by DR.. Sturgeon was from
he same was eaten by the family CAV.
some of The bread 10 two turkeys thew got
SICK and died. witness and brother Mick were
there on Tuesday evening defendant wa
thele a 70. and denied signing note which
witness produced. and sodenied delivering
to j. IL Williams, the payee, he denied
that a.-y note OF that kind Oh 10 that person
existed
Gross examined June 8 &c, got home p.
l.
iendant was friendly to family and to me
got ut notes ard connted Them, talked of
selling my farm and buying MI ton Charles
iaTm, Was to take 4 o acres in Harden TO
agreed TO lei him have my farm al $50 pei
acre, and turn in these notes was no deed at
that time, had been blank Iced made out
previous to this, and witness and wife hau
signed ii, deed was mol ali made out. VIII d
witness got home defendant was there and
stay ed for supper. wife churned soon after o.
b. FIRE wit"ess came home defendant and
witness loos ed over notes alter supper, and
Sent INTO milk mouse together to exam in. a
air OF shafts then went 20 barn TO look at
buggy ad buggy a good spelI-theu wet
bach 10 milk house 10 look at shafts, look ed
at shafts and churn, stayed In milk house a
little while, il was nea reVeniIg. Anna may
haye wall ed pa>t the door. would have had
70 pass the door to empty dis water. We
Doth came OUT together, don't know whether
yt ast crock had anything in ii, defendant
and witness We're together while wife and
daugh er went to milk. Mr.. Parks came q ,
oorrow harness al sulky, was on wood Pile
ped and talked few minutes. We remained a
on wood pie talking till or 10 O'CLOCK Iha i
evening. Witness LEFT Bluffton at 2 or O'clk
mad lO miles TO drive, went pretty good speed I
nome, this was on Tuesday June 9Th 1876 I
defendant stay ed laie because il had raiped 6
and We had business that Kept us late. de- )
Iendant wanted Anna TO go 70 his house TO
attend commencement exercises of Ada |
scnooi, witness went to mill on Wednesday,
along. am sure she did not go along lama $
nad tesiih h.d that she was along on Wedues- d
"a aasy, and that all the family had stopped at
oeienoants as usual,l defendants second
wife and witness's family were on good
srrms, grove TO mill. got -four, tied the bag
L nrnnssiI nm was TWO bushel bag got some bran
lenoants house on Ma u rect, Main street A
runs North and south. defendant lived on | {,
-, nast s Mae north of rsilroad track and m, ee N
~ !. nur III docks frnIn II, near the Shool tase II
nao lived in the house a month or more |
ITO, prove North past defendants house, turned W
EAST ana drove about $50 feet. team was some o
% rect from sick mans house TMcE:lroyss1 | L
IN. t ..Ieo SICK man house from Main street Al
ss eas Ge eh9ant at corner, two lots East from 81
slc6 man mouse. Defendant wonld have turI |
"a Z 81 10 go to Witnesses team saw tne n
ooctor coming and waited till he came mn | "
9ni ment M 1In MN 10 see John McElIoy rI- 81
SA ~ man: MAS close TO sick mans house );
When delendant stopped, do not know why VI
ne o,s SSlopped; wagon was in p ain view and W
On leVel ground diQ not see defendant agai, | h
until left sick mans house defenSant | f
went into sick mans house lust as / left | fl
witness ana defendant saw Nj. Jas. Low cl
sent word by him OF what we had taIk edofl
writing did not talk oftrade on " ednesday s.
i.iii aiien.o up 10 wago drove up street ana got
wlfe, ana drove home. did not notice thai m
bag had been tamprred with while in Ada. II
Fold wife to get sack ready to take TO hous. il
as storm was coming up, wondered how
sack came loose carried il into spring-house ol
bag was lied with fax string fastened 10
bag Some OF the bread WAS put in swil harreI o.
hest and chest busted out Do not knew Il
what become of the balance of dry yessi p'
beard several speak about IT. Don't know D'
That Time the Hour was put in the ohesI a
ave Mr. Dodge Soc worth of this flour. as 1e
,wed MIN thai amount, gave him the flour ol
IN Thursday, he lives miles north of wit II
l.'ss Atdinner had lettuce with very strong At
'inegar OF my own manufacture, and about CT
year old family at done dinner when wit Gu
cached there before the doctor arrived bid Fl
lot have tea, Tad Coffee fed child WARM | oe
Vater sweeiened. found family all sick. Wi. "a
less did not vomit. Ou' threw up some mu | n
Us Doctor did not say what was the matter al
e Came before 0efeDdant.saiG il was poison
eiore he left-ihought it wa> arsf nic-tooB "
Ioihing t. aoalyze but the bread did not 81
re yeast crock after being poisoned, wa Va
oi present coroner's quest on Mrs. Ell Va
IA Charles eat ail OF cid bread Wednesday or
Venlng ana Tor breakfast Thursday. fed new VI
read TO 2 turkeys on Thursday afte moon; Iel
ir- Parks was present when they were f lo
81 them sna handful, they were found 9u
sad on sunday, in fence corner iu the th
arm yard, no cholera in ueighborhood he de
endsnt Went after medicine on Thursday an
~ are SUI nc saw nlIn give m QlclnS 10 a-'
u the sick. did not take any mys. IT, a an
OF vomit muc after LIST day. Thos Charles ne
10 not eat full meal and did NOT iaE. IN
ledlclne- took some whiskey occasionally WI
onn 'harles was there that evening defend | th'
nt Uaited on the sick that night. Defend nit
MS VIE went home with the doctor once.
Ieard somethtn said about wanting de / Nj
;ndsnt to leave on Friday about noon told | ha
he that II defendant did not leave wouId | ter
ana b m told defendant they wanted him 10 On
ave, tnls WAS In the afternoon. Defendap, | yel
ad no way OF going when first told to leave | De
card them say hat his wife ca q after him | ws
nd took him away do not K ow vhaI tim su,
e did not want 10 leave after dark when h Ch
sd heard of these threats, wanted 10 IL, | of
AZ light. ID fendant asked witness wha | n.
ley wanted him To leave for, and told him z
ley suspiCioned him of giving poison TO tn. | wi
ck. Took defend INT to west en1 of house | COZ
I'd told him Hagan and Others wanted 6In
leave. alked the matter over next dan | Tin
atG day. Brother John came up while w. wa
-ss was talki g with defeLdan' oh FRIDAY ed.
ternoon. Defendant gave medicine afier yes
. was told not TO, be eft on Friday evening loo
at came back on Saturday Gave sick some sOI
ippery elm W ,ter. He weI home with Nj hid
N Charles. Saturday evening. which was the COT
st witness saw OF him. Defendant bought the
iiton Charles farm for $l4, COO and CAV" NOR me
we for $4,000 as security for the payment OF pos
,e balance due and the estates notes. which the
ere 5000. Was bail on his administration ing
md tor $4,000. Defendant gaveDobbs' notes sec
part pay for Milton Charles farm and the abb
otes called for $500 or $1,000 Defendant lefi moi
ODDS notes with Hedge of Manafield to be Or
Diiected and obtained 500 on them Dixoo bu
ever dld have these notes in hand NJ. bai
,eeRen na-i the notes all tn time. Sold No
lalnlng mill To Mr.. nixon who had clsime cor
sa.nst ne'enasnf, witness ana broi her went Hs