The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-09


vine. made the statement because | heard
the crowd outside and because Murtha said I'd
better Did not ask "lf told the truth will II
| be strung up?' Murtha said n statement
would quiet the mob MuuhU told me TO say
! | staye ed on the railroad and watched, did not
! STAY there was at home.
| T. WHO told you To tell about the scream
| and Scuiilc five minutes after Walsh went up
! the ruvneE
| T. stated H. Don't think | stated any
! thing about Walsh coming back,
| y Who told you to tell about asking, |
Wont The girl he squealng on u.s."
t. Don't know that stated it,
! q. OR that Walsh struck her.
T. Don't remember.
/ = That You went back To The rayinc and
1 found her bleeding and muttering?
t. Don't know. Don't know that stated it,
a. Or that you put her in a pool and put
stones ON her;
T. Murhu told me To put that in
o. Or that She was still alive:
l.-Don't know that stated that Don't
think did.--Rcddlck wrote down the state
mcnt; didn't say to Reddicl nor to Gray nor
to Forrstal that it was voluntary and that
might a. well make it then as year from then.
Fonistal did not tell me my rights, he tried
to urge me ON TO make the first statement about
Walsh's klling the glrl. On the examination
by Forristal he did not tell me not to make a
statement affecting myself that know of ; was
not sitting on the edge of the table; nor IN a.
chair near him: was in the window about two
yards from him. Murtha, Reyes father, sisters
and others were there. Murtha was in the
window with me, inside the rail. Did notpay
any attention To FOrrisa till he spoke To me.
! He spoke tome when was telling about Walsh
when father broke IN. Murha hit me with
his elbow and he and Forristal urged me to go
on. Murlha told me 10 confess when he took
me out of the cell
To BW.-Fathcr told me to own up like Il
man, and sad it was not true what | had
said about Walsh that Murtha told me to tell
it, ON Sunday 18th May when Walsh stopped
| to do lis job was only Il little ways ahead of
| him The bluff by the railroad is stcep-vcry
steep in places. Was witness last winter for
tie lilSt time in La Sale.
On the motion of Duncan, counsellor Walsh,
the Court instructed the jury that this test,
mony must be considered without reference
to what was said concerning Walsh.
Al. KEDDICK.
He said: Went TO the Jail after statement
Murtha went in first; was IN 10 or ID minutes
before he lc; me in; think he SAID he'd 90 IN
first,and see the prisoner. Think Murtha had
Russell in the antc.room.
sraiyiHcd.-Wen voluntarily for the
statement; Murlha did not ask me to go
Think | went between 10 ana 1 O'Clock. Don't
know why he went in first He seemed ANXIOUS
to let me in. Talked first with Russell; then
with Walsh. Saw nothing in the conduct of
Murtha to indicate the statements were not
voluntary.
u. GRAY
said he went into the Jail with Murtha and
that Murtha wa, in the Jail or & minutes be
fore he went in.
Grass, u,g,iacd.--I Described the plan of the
|iail Murtha told Russell he had better tell
what hekncw about it, stood by hadno talked
with Russell | went out ofCuriosity Think |
met Murtha and he said coun go with him
don't know why he let me in. He told me |
could wait till he went to see the prisoners and
| then saw them. Knew Walsh while lac was
! tending bar
JAMES WALSH,
/ One of the defendants, then took the stand and
was intcrrogatcd by his counsel, James Duncan
of La Sale He said:
Was 81 on 2,th April last; lived in La Sale
since 1863; parents dead; have one sister mar
rcd and one single. Worked at the Zinc Works |
till mother died and then in the yard for three
months of 1913. In the next winter | worked |
| for coalmincr; and in spring tended bar,
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| Then went to ltussclI's and stayed till got
lob. working formy board. Stayed till NQv.
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nearly an n"uI: nen "c"' up |" ,t T9 ;
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S,aycd 'heIe VINO uIi saw CIV i ! h.iS
sen coming "iil nc''S 1'N''lcl 81 9o,''I n",,'
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