New-York tribune., 1879-10-14
rHE MOATcAAIR Tragedy.

JOSEPH \. BIAIRS TRIAL CONTINUED.
TESTIMONY on ornTLA DYER AND MR. BiAIRs
BnoInrR-IHr FORMER ADMITS MAT SHE OF
IrKrp TO LEAVE TnE COUNTRY FOR FIVE HUN-
prIp Do1IArs.
The courtroom was packed when the trial
of J. o>epl a. Hur sumcd yesterday morning III
Tho Couu Of oyer and Tormin"r al Newark There was
au uuU~ua } large attendance of ladies wEo showed
c.,plnt,r,st i the ocee'iines Mr.. Bair was called
T. rh. -tand upon the opening Of the Court and con-
Guided the story Of the shooting. In reply TO Judge
Ii'-worth. OF Tire 1cf nee, ne said
Il did pot call Arm-trong.a bloody villain or drunk
nrd nr any vie name or say wou'd not pay him. Mrs
Jair did not sav shoot the id rascoll she never
u.e- such pxnr.ssioYs did 20 her, wait Mary
Will settle bov ? The door up stairs was usually
locked dd not shoot John on the stars and dd not
fnoof .fn when he down. d.d not say 4" him
That will quici you down when shot him. When |
went m told my wife that had 10 do tif nad not
lie would have shot me- aud here i- the pi>o' took
from him. did not say TO Opheia. the servant when
man says he can shoot shoot nrst' did not 20
back to Johns for the revolver. but took 1t from
Ii. hand at the time ~ the shooting
Prosecutor Aboei then began TIE cros--e Examination.
The witue-, sud n answer TO question. that once
vhe living at silver Lake Cottage. be- went out with his
gun i'm the evening and fired In the air TO irghten
oil chicken fhcyc-. Tie ccnied shooting al the visitors,
and had not heard that the persons hc saw wei re-
.u,cf,he man n tned william, and ms Blair also
III, shooting and told low DE- seized Armstrong and
ett.ft.d to keep HIM from going INTO the room. When
Aun.trons dragged him into the room, neither one
stiuck upou when De lett the house. after
getting The pistol be put IN hl, ip pocket When he
came from shooting hc had the bright pistol m his
reht hand and the his left. In reply 10 a
one.iiou Of ihc Prosecutor. asking he did not at
i inquest that he had Armstrong boy the hand when he
sl,t fir the witness answered nO. and added that lac
made his statement at the inquest under great Sgta-
tou A. the request Of ihe MI Blair showed
how he held the pistol when he fired by holding II close
10 biz body the night hip Hcrcmsrkcd that he wa~
nearer 10 Armstrong thcu than when he fired second
,.ur. ne Thought he lost his hold before shooting
NJ. K.hecca Draper WAS lied. and testified that
Vneu Mr.. Blair returned from the barn before the
shooting she came across tho lawn aud told her 10 60
into m house and take the children; that JOAN was
gong TO shoot.
o,tela DYER the serysnt-grl. called nv the de-
tnCe In answer 10 Judge Ellsworth she said she did
not know "a man named Henry Kane, dud dd MOI s'y 10
Inn that john ug and cross NOi dld she say on
tle dav after the shooting, that John brought ue
trou, ON himself She never declared that ner test-
,,, ,,a,la hang Mr. Blair. and that for 500 She
,,,,id 90 out OF the country. Sne admitted tnst She
had called 40 Hal Blair, store ih IiooA}h WIN Ae'
father fII4I Bar brother OF dricnddnII hri
,fDer Took her thcre simply telling hcr ual he wanted
Ia nave a talk about the case The talk was D''"''n
,rf.,bcr herself Hal Blair aud friend Of Mr. Bairs
If.rf4tacr SAID she wou,c 20 out "f the country i"i
eo, The witness went 10 Brooklyn knowing that her
,,., was c,.n T. make this prop sal But she had
tnd him that she would moi 20 away Al ihH '"iA sh'
.i .- thought her testimony wonii De- Damaging Dl'
80 lid not flnkH would be-. She told her la'"f enc
49,, t Vi.b 10 have anything 10 DO with the ii"nsac-
,io, ana did not say would 10 mans clothes u
,, ., 80, n II would be- rad. She told her iatber
T. would GET into trouble and her sister SAID "fter""Id
,b.t what father was doing was an a"iul thlhg 9he
mol teil slr Blair that che was watched Dy de'oc