Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-25
A HORRIBLE CRIME
Confessed to by a Canadian Servant
WOman-Particulars of a DiabOI-
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an Important witness.
New York World. ]

New York World.
DORCHESTER, n B., July 1.-THE NJ
Carthy mystery case, particulars of which
have already appeared in the World, came
on for trial at the court of assize to day. DIR.
Tuck leads for the crown and Mr.. A. L. Pal
mer, q. c., for the accused. The trial will
last at least three weeks. The defense prom
/ lses some extraordinary developments. u
earthly, having gold watch and twelve hum
dred dollars In his pockets, disappeared at
Shediac on the twelfth of October. He was
an hotel keeper at Moncton, and his wife
| came out from there and made inquiries after
| him, offering a reward of five hundred dol
| lars. In November Annie Parker, seventeen
| years old, servant at the Osborne house, She
! dlac, swore she heard unknown parties kill
! ing d man In the bar-room on the night of the
| twelfth. Later she swore Mccarthy came
into the hotel that night drunk and flourish
ing his money; that Mrs. Osborne called her
husband John, her son Henry, her daughter
| Eliza and the witness into the Spirit-r nm,
and proposed that they should murder NJ
Carthy, to which they agreed, Parker being
sworn on bible not to SPLIT that on return
| ing to the bar-room Mrs. Osborne drugged
him, Henry knocked him on the head with q
| club Eliza robbed him OF all he had, and
Henry and the witness lifted him into wa
gon, drove to the bank Of the Scadouc river,
| tied stone about his neck and dumped him
in. On this evidence the four Osbornes were
| arrested. Vigorous search was made for NJ >
Carthy's body, but it was not found until
May; IT was lying In the river near the spot
where Parker and Henry Osborne threw it in.
Parker said Henry took meerschaum pipe
| from III 'CArthy, and that the murdered man s
| overcoat was kept by Mr.. Osborne, who had
| it cut down and altered for his own wearing.
On the discovery of the body, however, the
| overco9t was found on it and the meerschaum
| pipe was IN the pockets, together with a re-
l md mo 1Oil
| upset Parker's story for a time, until on an
| analysis OF the clothes experts declared that
| the overcoat had not been In the water as
| long time as deceased's other clothes, and
| the theory was accepted that the BODY had
| been raised some time between October and
| May and clad In the overcoat, the pipe and
the money being replaced to destroy the girl s
| evidence. Parker adhered to her story, nor
| could cross-examination of three days shake
| her in the least. She admitted that she had
/ been on intimate terms with gang of None
| ton roughs known as the Pourpoise gang.
| The defense have witness, James Horn,
of Charlottetown, ?. L. l., who will meet
| Parker's testimony with the following: He
was at Shediac on the twelfth of October. In
| the evening he heard that NJ 'Carthy was IN
| the town, and went out to look for him, as
| NJ 'Carthy, who often visited the island,
owed him twenty-five dollars on horse
trade. At midaight he saw Mccarthy very
| drunk, StanulDR opposite the OsUOIDe HOuse
| In conversation with another man. Witness
loafed about drinking, but not to excess, until
two O'Clock In the morning, when he returned
to the Osborne house. He met M 'Carthy
reehng along the street in the direction of
| the Scadouc river, in company of Annie Par
ker and four of the Pourpoise gang. He
spoke to Mccarthy, who was speechlessly
drunk, whereupon the girl told him she was
| going to spend the night with M 'Chrthy at a
house of ill-fame. Horn tried to get NJ Car
| thy away, but the gang drove him off. The
girl or one of the gang, witness forgets
which, then gave NJ 'Csrtby drink out of a
bottle, and. supporting him on each side, she
and her four male companions hustled N Car
thy along the road. and witness went to his
hote. On the way he stopped at the Osborne
house to relate what he had seen, but it was
locked up and in darkness. This witness,
| whose evidence shifts the crime from the Os-
bornes on to their accuser, will be corrobo-
rated by others who saw the Pourpose gang
returning from the Scadouc three hours atter
Horn parted from them. The Osbornes have
all along declared that Parker did not sleep
| il their house on the night of the twelfth,
| telling them shortly before midnight that she
| was going off to danes with the Pour poises,
and did not intend returning until nearly
| daylight. How the two hundred dollars and
| the meerschaum pipe came 20 be found In
the murdered mans pockets, and whether the