Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-01
oroaa-examined br Mr. Watrous.

o. Did you take notes of what MT. Hay den said at the inquestP A. No, sir, except in my mind. o. And you have kept it warm there ever since?
 A. Yes, sir.
 o. Did you not hear MT. Hayden testify at South Madison that he went to the wood lot soon after 2 o'clock? A. Idon't recollect that did. Q. Did not MT. Hayden say at the inquest that he went to the wood lot fright after din Ter ?"
 A. don't think he did. He said shortly | after dinner, or about o'clock. Redirect Did you ever, during the six or seven years you speak of pile up the wood preparatory to carting it out? A. No, sir.
 John B. Wright was next called and in re- | ply to Mir. Harrison said: live in Clinton. | Have been at Rockland. Have walked from | Hayden's house to the wood lot. It took he | seven and quarter minutes to walk there. Think walked at the rate of about four miles an hour. | MT. Harrison. Did you walk from Mr. | Hayden's house up to where the body was found? | A. did. It took me fifteen minutes to go over the ground. Witness continued. then went across by ! the ribbon" path to the lower road, then up to Nehemiah Burr's barn, then to Hayden's corn field, then to the white rock in the pota- | to patch in thirteen minutes. I walked from Stannard's house to the spring in three and a half minutes. Don't think walked as fast | up to where the body was foundss as the walk | ing was not as good. A recess was ordered at this point. After recess the cross examination of John B. Wright was begun ] Mr. Watrous. Where were you on the day of this homicide? l A. think I was at Clinton, but cannot | tell certainly.
 Q. What you have testified to you have learned since the tragedy, haven't your A. Yes, sir. | o. When did you first commence to put yourself in preparation for this case ! A. On the 18th of September, 1879. Q. Have you been employed by the State \ in searching for evidence in this case A. I have not. O. Do you know the distance from Hay | den's house to the wood lot? | A. No, sir. Q. Did anybody pioneer you when you went to the wood lot, to keep the brush out | of the way? | A. Fillmore Scranton went to show me the way.
 Q. How many miles can you walk in an hour?
 l A. don't know. Never timed myself. 1 o. Is not four miles an hour pretty good walking? | A. presume so. l O. And it would have to be pretty good road and not through briars and brambles? | A. It would have to be fair road. l Q. Do you know of your own knowledge whether you were in the wood lot or not? A. I only know from what was told me. l o. Did anybody go with you beside MT | Scranton
 A. Yes, sir. MT. Champion went with us. Witness continued. I did not set down the | time when I started nor when I returned I | set down the time it took me to go over the l T hov J0t "a m made the entry of time. think FFent by Burr's barn on my return. think walked about the same gait that would if was go- | ing on business. 0. Where did you next have trial of speed?
 | A. don't understand your question went up again on the 18th of October and car | ried MT. Champion up. | o. Was there anybody there on the day you took the first walk beside yourself and l MT. Crampton2
 A. I think Judge Harrison was in the neighborhood and also Mir. Butler. The witness was here taken over the ground of his different walks by MT. Watrous, giving the time it took him to pass from one point to another. His testimony did not differ ma 1 terially from that given on the direct o. Have you not said, MT. Wright, that Hayden was guilty and ought to be hung, and i that you would like to see him hung? A No, sir. have not said so to any one.
 Q. Did you not say to a lady in this court room that Hayden ought to be hung without trial?
 A. No, sir.
 Q. Don't you remember of that lady say ing to you, My dear sir, everybody don't think you do ?"
 A. I don't remember anything of the kind If there had been anything of the kind said think would have remembered it.
 o. Have you not put on smile of con l tempt and derision when some of the wit nesses for the defense havo been testifying?
 A. No, sir. I may have smiled, but not in contempt of anything that was said. | Joseph W. Gibbs was next called. He said he lived in Rockland and WAS @ minister in the Methodist church there. He went to Rockland in April, 1878. Am minister over the church that MT. Hayden was pastor of for short time. I knew MT. Hayden in Rockland. When he lived there, lived in | what is known as the parsonage. have been in MT. Hayden's barn frequently before Sep tember, 1878. Prior to that time I pre- sume I was there every week.
 o. MT. Gibbs, will you tell us about the openings in that barn, and how you went in to the barn
 A. On the northwest side there was a place where the boards were off, leaving a space about three feet wide. used to go in and out of there often. My impression is that when took the COW into the barn, took her through the big door. I never have mo-
 
 spoken of. I visited that barn after Septem- Der 8, 1878. I should say it was after the first week of the homicide. I did not see any boards across this opening at that or any other time.
 o. Do you know about MT. Hayden's COW, was she a large or small COW?
 A. She was 8 smellish COW, should think about years old.
 Q. Do you recollect about the girder?
 A. Yes, sir. should judge it was about G-aA k1,-1. f-zk l. | floor.
 Q. You have given us the size of this space Now what do you think about getting the COW through there?
 A. I think the COW might have got through there, although never took her through there myself called on Mrs Hayden with my wife on my return home the Saturday after the murder. I think met Mrs. Talcott Davis in the kitchen. We then passed into tho sit ting room, where Mrs. Ellsworth Scranton and Mrs. Hayden were sitting.
 Q. Ii there was any conversation with you and Mrs. Hayden about the time MT. Hayden went to the wood lot, state what it was A. inquired of Mrs. Hayden what time he started. She said I don't know exactly what time he did leave. It might have been quar- ter past one, or half past one, or quarter to two. She finally said she thought it was half past one. think my wife and Mrs. Soran- ton were present when she said this. o. That is all, MT. Gibbs.
 Cross-examination by MT. Jones.
 Mir. Jones-When did you first move to ] Rockland?
 A. In April, 1878.
 MT. Jones. When did you first ever visit | Rockland?
 A. think in 1874. I first preached there in 1874. Ipreached there two years before MT. Hayden went there. He took my place.
 MT. Jones. There was no feeling on your part because MT. Hayden was appointed to that church in your place, was there? Witness No, sir.
 MT. Jones. How long did you remain in Rockland after MT. Hayden came there?
 A. think about two days.
 Witness continued. When MT. Hayden went to South Madison, returned to Rock land. think I was away about two weeks before the homicide. don't think Mr. Hay den was at home when I went on my visit. My object in calling on Mrs. Hayden after my return was to make friendly call. re- mained there for an hour or an hour and a half. When left the house Mrs. Hayden's brother left with me. He came after got there. l was introduced to him on his ar rival. don't think we stayed over twenty l vv,iv uhacn nFka