The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-09-01

i highest tone measured it measU--
"a nine inches and taYce-quarters
tae other enc Was half as high J
had alittlcc0nvcrsation withthe old
man as TO how he found her; be
aid that when he found her that
her face and check was lying ON g
stone and he reached down under
toward the f,cs to tcclwhetheE there
was l.te there when h found
there was uut hc pulled out 4 ,hici-
stone saw directly that she was
wounded very bad the hair was ali
in slush of blood; it looked near
I Is like rs If beef had been slaugh-
tered on the floor; [ didn't look
under the floor; there was
little blood on the stones when
| talked to Hoffman [ was ex-
cited and pretty hard upon him
| said You are the man upon
which this VIII rest as long rs your
skin covers you;" ne didn't seem to
like il, got half cross, wanted tomur-
mur or talk against his wife; then /
fell on him again; / said You
must not try TO make that woman
bad your neighbors know her as
as well as YOU do" then he answer
ed, ~shc carried things out of my
house; :; then | answered, she car
ried more in your house more than
out"
CrOSS-sramjnsd.-Shc was stout
enough to look at would not saw
she IS stronger than Mr. Hoffman
l never heard him say that she had
threatened to take his life; he never
mentioned 20 meanvthing about her
carrying poison.
Henry Yodcr, ailirmcd.-I was al
7 Harrison HUmbert'S : ON the dav Mrs.
Hoffman was killed; old man IIof-
man came there about l O'Clock; lac
stayed until about 3 o'clock after
hearing the report of the death went
up to the old mans house. as we
passed Philips, he was sitting in
Philips house; he didn't get up
and 90 along the old man reached
his house about about 10 minutes
after | got there when | got there
he said, "cut her down :" | said we
daYenot I told him the woman was
murdered, she hadn't hung herself;
/ / could see that by the blood in the
cellar: there was too much blood
there tor that he did not say any
thing at that time just walked
away; ne did not seem To- take his
wiie's death very hard.
Cross eramiaed.-If | found my
wife in that condition l would rot
feel like feeding my chickens in front
ofthc cellar door, as Hoffman did;
Nose Yoder Is relative of Iioh-
mans; it was about the time of day
the chickens ought 10 have been fed
I Catherine Yoder. recalled. - The
old man told me his wife had been
to Charley Zcrfoss's on the Saturday
/ before she was killed torrent a house
or had rented 4 house; the house
was three miles this side of Shanks-
vile; the two stones found in the
cellar had been there before the wo-
man was killed.
Cornelius Cover, affirmed saw
WOltgang Hoffman on the morning
Of the 9th of last June, at his home
between eight and nine in the morn
ing: he seemed to be Il little mad
then he said that Elizabeth was the
fault Of his getting sick / went
home in q quarter of an hour.
Pierce Fisher, afiirmed.-Ilad e.
conversation with defendant since
ne was in jail it was on the 10Th Of
August; | said, these are strange
things that happened = he said,
YES, but it wasn't me y then he
said there was somebody else walk
ING around there when he went to
Philips; then | said, i don't care
# YOU tell me who was walking
around there then he said it was
Dave Cover.
David Cover. aflirmcd.-Straight
through it is not more than a quar-
ter mile from my house to Hoffmans;
he told me he and his wife quarreled
sometimes hc told me he borrowed
some money from her and She went
and entered the note on the docket
he said that didn't please him well
he asked me what | thought about
it | said it was not very nice trick
in her; last winter one day he told
me, me and my wife had a fall out
this morning" and then said, ''if my
first wife had talked to me rs she
did this morning | would have
knocked her over, or over Q pile
ON the morning she was killed she
was over at our house; we have our
watches pretty fast she left our
house about Il or 20 minutes before
10 that morning she commenced To
cry when she left stayed there -
or % minutes and then started to-
wards the Somerset Il Cambria rail
road, and came as far as kOontz's
and struck over to Wheremy boarding
place was, in the opposite direction
from HoGman's house / got 10 the
boarding house between II and L
O'Clock; / ate my dinner at Charley
Miller's this Is , or 6 miles from my
house; | was not at Hollman's house
that morning; the first person / met
on the road was John Uhl and his
boy. the next was John Meyers and
his wife, the next two We're Samuel
Bittner and Abram Sivits. who were
sitting on the porch at Covers that
is about four miles from town the
next | met was William Queer; next
[ remember meeting Mary Bcari and
Hester Cover.
Gross eramiasa.-Shc never IHen-
toned anv money to me in her life;
could nos tell how much money
she had at that time / don't know
how much money she had after she
was dead Il know how much found
| found SSl.21 in her trunk got
into the trunk by opening it, pulling
the nails out of the lock; l asked
Hoffman for the KEY and he said
Rebecca Sivits had it Mr. Hoffman
gave me $3.50; I asked him for it
gave him 80 cents back, and q dol
lar | oave him in prison. and the