The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-05-22
SARAH y WOODWARD.
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J. j. Orr, being sworn, deposes as follows
am aseu -. i was on the railroad track
yesterday about IL O'Clock, ON my way to
Esstcn. The cars met me and | stepped off
10 let it pass and on my getting back again.
| saw behind me two ladies following. Imet
Mrs. Woodward alone in the city. / left for
home about ~ 2oclOck, and my wife came to
the field where had gone To work and told
me Mrs. COStellGe had been found dead i'm he
creek. 1t was then about O'Clock. / went
TO my neigh Dor, Mr.. Connolly, and I'VE pro
ceeded IN the direction OF the locality and
met some men, who said, in reply to a cues
ton about the matter, that this was the club
used by the murderer, and that they found
IL alongside tbs railroad track a few feet
only distant. / examined IL closely and saw
some black hair and some blood on the butt
end OF IL, about nine or ten feet from the end.
The stick now produced is the same. These
men showed me where they thought the
murder was committed, and 1, on examin-
ing the place, found the sack now .produced.
IL was 2OO yards think from where the vio-
lence took place, IL was empty. / found
some tracks leading in the direction of where
the violence was committed. ! measured
one IL wSs about ll}& inches long. The
place where she was assaulted and where the
| Imprint of her head is in the boggy, moist
surface, is about 40 feet from the river; IL il
there very muddy, and the water about %
feet deep, and the murderer must have pull.
ed her up stream about % yards to where ne
left her under, and where the body was found
in the branches or trunk of "A decayei tree.
We found fresh tracks indicating mud and
water, similar to the tracks b fore alluded
1
J. j. ORR.
Mr. Sarah Boz Ie, being sworn, says as fo!-
lows:
/ know the deceased. I was informed last
| evening between three and four O'Clock of
her body being found In the creek. | went
down the railroad track in the direction and
| found this stick or pole now produced lying
on the north side OF the Kansas Central
track. Being suspicious of foul play, took
this stick from of the gTOund-it b-lng near
me-and found on II some blood and nair
and - 81 ttrN raIL inn on
the bank of the creek, l discovered where
she was hauled to II, and on looking around
me saw her shawl and near where it lay
were marks Of violence, by the ground being
distuI bed and the print of her head in the
| soil, and a pool Of blood right where her
'O''' SARAH X BOYLE.
T. Z. Lee, VI. T., being sworn, deposes as
follows. / was called, professionally, 10 See
the deceased yesterday about five o'clock.
She was then dead, and on examination of
the body found two deep lacerated wounds,
one was a little To the right OF the occipstaI
head, a little on the left side. These wounds
seems TO me to be inflicted by some biunt
instrument, but they were not sufiicit mt to
cause death The imprint OF "A thuIDb b on the
neck. showing that such a great force or
pressure. would have alone caused death
The great object and purpose OF the murder
was to keep forever siIen, the atroclou5
e'''-'e t. B LEE.
| An ipQuIst'on holden at Easfon in Leaven-
worth county, in the -tate Of Kansas, on the
| 18th day of May A. ID. 1873, before me, John
| G. Lynch, coroner of said county, on the body
| of Hannah Castelloe, there lying desd, by
the Jurors, whose names are hereto sub.
scribed: The said Jurors, upon their oatns
do say, that a willfui and atrcctous murder
has been committed on said Hannah Gas
telloe, by some person or persons, unknown
| to said jury.
In test mony whereof, the said jurors have
hereunto set their hands, the uay and year
aforesaid
The sad Jurors further say, another crime
| of an equa ly deep hue, had been committed
on her person previous TO her death
r. N. NCCLTRE,
II W. HAEPEs,
SIS HCLET,
l.. WOODWARD,
ROBERT FEyURLY,
]. a. LoCGHMILLER.
Attest: JOHN c LYNCH.
LATER
Sheriff Lowe and a special deputy, accom-
panied by Constables Simth and Cole, brought
| the two men who are mentioned above as
having been arrested, Samuel Miller and
Elijah Miller, to the city last night at twelve
o'clock and lodged them In jail. eamuel
Miller Is 81 years Of aGe. and his son. 01jnhs