The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-30


opinion one may form as 10 the guilt
or innocence OF the prisoner on trial,
Bent Jones, there can be but admiration for
the heroic devotion of his wife. She seems
never to grow weary or disheartened. AT
every term of court she is present In the
court room, and by her knowledge of the
evidence of each witness is enabled to be of
the utmost importance to the attorneys for
her husband. She marshals the witnesses
and prompts the attorneys. She is modest
and unassuming, but vigilant and watchful;
and il Bent Jones is acquitted of this charge,
he can give his faithful wife the everlasting
praise for having managed details, without
which his attorneys of the first ability
though they are would have been in great
measure powerless.
The attorneys for the defense announced
day before yesterday that they would GER
tainly close their evidence by 2 o'clock yes
terday, but they found themselves very
badly mistaken.
After 1 sent off my report of yesterday,
the defense continued their testimony by
placing upon the stand
HENRY OLDHAM
who stated that he was grand juror at the
term of the Orange county court at which
the indictment against this prisoner was re-
turned, but was not present when it was
found, and did not vote for it. As soon as
Judge Robinson, who seemed surprised at
this new departure, realized what the wit
ness was saying, he stopped him and de-
handed to know the object of this character
of evidence, and was informed by McNutt
that they wished to show that the indict-
ment had been procured in an unseemly
manner by parties who had been pursuing
his client, or something to that
effect. Judge Robinson said it
was so manifestly improper he should
stop it at once; that if it were proper to at
ratw hat
record evidence could not be proven in that
way. But at the earnest request of Judge
Wilson and States Attorney Miers. who
had examined the witnesses before that
grand jury the witness was permitted TO
proceed, when it found, after Shalt
hours pumping, that he was about as igno-
rant OF what took place at that sitting of the
grand jury as Crazy Horse would De suppos-
ed to be.
was then called, and corroborated Boone as
to what took place in BurtoH's drug store,
but could not say it was the I'd OF March, as
testified by Boone.
THOMAS ENocHs
was the next witness, and said he remem-
bered when Moody was shot; that he saw
Bent Jones in Mitchell that night, standing
near silversmiths shop, talking to Simp
Tolliver and another man, about 8 o'clock;
that he did not remember seeing any of the
other defendants; that he had no time piece
but thought il was about 8 o'clock; that he
had talked to Bent Jones twice about his tes-
| timony, and had talked to Nose Clinton
| about it a short time before he came on the
stand.
WILLIAM BUCHANAN
was examined next, and said he now lived
| in Indianapolis; that he remembered the
night Thomas Moody was shot. and was then
working for his uncle, Mr. Richerson, at his
hotel in Mitchell; that he went to a pump
about 10 feet from Abe Jones's saloon door,
and saw Bent Jones coming out of the sa-
loon.
MISS LYDIE GILES
came next, and said that Bent Jones was her
uncle; that she was Is years of age; that she
| lived in Mitchell in March, 1875, at Bent
Joness, as one Of the family, and had lived
| there three or four months at the time of the
shooting of Moody; that she is now living
with her mother at Salem; that she ate sup
per at Bent Jones's about 7 o'clock that
| night, did up her work, and went to her
mothers and staid all night; that Bent
Jones, his wife, Lizzie Tolliver and herself
| took supper together; that Bent went straight
from supper to his office; that on her way
to her mothers she met Tom Tolliyel
near The post Office and talked to him few
| minutes; that she thought she saw Lee
Jones in Alveys store while she was talking
to Tom Tolliver; that Tom was standing still
when she met him, and she left him stand.
ing there; that no one ever gave her paper
| with her testimony written on il.
On her cross-examination she was shown q
paper which was found during the hearing
Of the habeas corpus case, containing copy
OF her testimony and which was shown tc
Bent Jones when he was put upon the stand
then, and which he acknowledged to having
written and handed to his wife to give Il
Miss Giles, but she said she never saw ii be
fore; did not know the handwriting, anc
only knew there was such paper by hearing
it had been found.
M. A. BURTON
nart and said he rau lived In