The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-12-21
RSDAY, DECEMB,E4aLss !21, 1882.

William Schellenger, Jesse j. Williams Robert Rob-
erts, Benjamin Callaghan Valentine Gettles William
Brunton, Wilson C.. Hale, James Fl. Harshbarger,
| Pleasant West.
30h of last September my father, Samuel HULL in
the morning, at the bank, half mile from nv
fathers residence The bank is perhaps five hum
dred yards from the road. (Witness described the
locality and surroundings of the bank at length
i There was bench scraped down within some two
feet of the 1t about seven feet to the ore,
and the two feet thick. Father was
4 raising ore. Vincent Nash was with him. Next saw
j him four O'Clock, when 1 noticed him coming
towards the house, and notified by niece that
something was the matter, and went to meet him.
Saw his head and face terribly cut and bruised. He
had strange look, and considered him insensble.
He did not go to bed for some two hours Went to my
brothers, and back in about hour and half.
He was sti sitting up. He never, until he died,
seemed to be able to talk sensiby In his pocket book
check for $50 the Iron Bank and vecents in
coppers In another pocket 1924 in siver and an
old knife. Father was using at the ore bank, two
shovels, two picks, sedge, wedge, and some other
TOOLS Saw pool of blood in the bank, after the
occurrence. 1t had raned that day. and there were
lots of tracks at tho bank. One track, going West
from the bank would lead to the woods at distance
of about yards. Tracks to six feet apart
Father had a hat on when he came home 1t was an
old wool hat, and had mud on the outside, and blood
and hair the inside. There hole in the hat
Did not notice any disarrangement of his clothing
only they were somewhat muddy. Father was five
feet nine and half inches high and nearly 81 years
of age.
The cross examination very short, and did not
amount to any thing
DIR. b. F. Kitchen. Am a physician and surgeon.
Was called about the 3oth of September to Samuel
l.. Hull Got there about o'clock at night. Objec-
ton was made to showing the of the death of
Hull until it was shown that defendant was connect
ed with it. Objection overruled. DR.. Kitchen went
on to describe the wounds On the back part of the
head was a outraged, some two and half inches
long, and to the skull bone. Bruises extended along
the right side of the head and to the right eye which
was swollen, and there discooraon of the right
side of the face Cut back of head could have been
made by either a blunt o. sharp instrument. The
other bruises must have been made by blunt instru
ment. The wounds on the head could have been
made by the sledge hammer, exhibited in Court but
doubt it, Might readily have been made by the show
ell exhibited in Court Hull never became able to
converse intelligenty, and from the frst
and died of shock and hemorrhage.
Was at the ore bank and blood there. Saw
tracks about the bank Three sets of tracks there
They might have been made by the same party, but
think not.
DIR. c. X. Crumit. am physician and surgeon.
was at Huls the day before his death. He
wholly insensibe, and made voluntary move
ments The side of his face and neck very much
swollen and discolored. lacerated wound the
back of the head Suppose the wound in the back of
the head had been made by rather blunt instru
ment-such as the piece of iron exhibited.
Think the cause of death was the breaking of small
blood vessel inside of the SKULL which caused a
preston on the brain. The breaking of the vessel
was caused by blow the outside of the head. A
blow with the sledge hammer exhibited in Court
would not likely break the skull If hit the side eff
the head where the head had room to give way.
Dr. j. B. johnson. Substantially same as the testi
mony of the other surgeons.
William H. Hull. Am a of Samuel L. Hull.
Live mile and quarter from where he lived. Saw
him that evening. CWitness here became much af-
fected, and wept) Father never in full possess
sion of his faculties after he hurt. He not
capable at any time of reasoning answering ques-
| tIon with any certainty. The ore bank about
thfee-quarters of a mile from my fathers house.
(Witness described the ore bank.) The dump or
where he threw the dirt back of him. some five
hgh and from the top of the ground to where he
was at work was some seven eight feet down. Saw
tracks there, and followed them some distance. Am
acquainted with John W. Jackson. Did not see him
about that time. knew him since he boy. He
| had worked for my father some six months He
worked for me-we worked together. He had worked
| at the bank.
vina Hull. Samuel Hull was my father. He left the
house in the morning home to dinner then left
about one O'Clock. Was at the bank. John jack
| son was there that day-ate dinner there, about
| twelve. jackson and a boy named Nash left after
! dinner for the ore bank. They went in a wagon.
Father came home in the afternoon-saw he hurt.
Never saw Jackson since until this morning.
Miss Burris. Samuel Hull my grandfather. I
Inere. JACKSON ate dinner there. Tne boy IN
cent Nash passed our house with load of about
two O'Clock, coming to jackson.
Vincent Nash. was working for Samuel Hull at
| the time he was hurt-lived with him. He and
worked together in the forenoon-we stripping
| ore. When we went to dinner John Jackson was
! there. He went to the bank in the wagon with me
| and Mr.. Hull Mat. Mcdaniel at the bank,
and started to town with load of ore. Then Mr..
Hull and Jackson and 1 loaded the wagon with ore,
and started to town with it-left Hull and Jackson
fhn har,I hal
the wagon. Came to town with the ore-was detained
on account of rain. Worked with the shovel in
Court. that forenoon, saw the sedge hammer in the
bank that forenoon.
John Montgomery. Saw Mr.. Hull working in the
ore bank about two O'Clock on that day. Jackson
standing on the bank East of where Mr. Hull at
work. He was not doing any thing.
Sherman Scurlock. Was at Hull's on the evening
| he was hurt Was at the bank with Nash on Sum-
| day morning. Saw the sledge there. Saw the piece
of iron here in Court Found it in the bank-took
| 1t and gave it to Armpstead Scurlock.
John Conrad. Went to the ore bank on the Monday
before Hull's death. Owens and two other men were
there Had pair of shoes with us, which fitted. OBJ
lection made and sustained land witness stood aside
and w. B. Cherington called and sworn. Am Sheriff
ofJackson county. On Monday before Hulrs death 1
got the shoes that Jackson on and gave them to
Owens 1 had arrested Jackson that morning the
streets OF jackson. asked him for the shoes that
afternoon aud explained to him the purpose which
l wanted them and he gave them to me.
| WIN. f. owens Am Marshal of the town of jack
son. Was at the ore bank on Sunday morning Only
two tracks there-Huls. which led towards his home.
and another leading through cornheld towards the
| woods. The person had been running, as appeared
from the long steps and the slipping of the feet the
soft ground Was there en- Monday. Went from the
Jail. Got pair Of shses from the Sheriff.
Here John T. Moore, of counsel for defendant, oh
jected to having the shoes described Objection
| overruled. Witness continued. Took the shoes and
compared them with the tracks that ran from the
bank, and they fitted exactly, Saw him at the Jail.
Had talk with him.
Frank Freeman. Witness had been confined in
jail and was brought out. Live between Jackson and
Coalton. Jackson came to my house some ten days
before the trouble at Huls. Me and my wife and my
sster and Jackson staid at my house Sunday night.
jackson slept under the bed Jared Martin and
Thomas Grifiths there. When jackson came
there on Saturday night he gave my sister sixteen
dollars. He then got it back and gave 1t to buy
lot could not get the lot for the money and gave
1t back to him. He hid 1t under the house. and said
he had tapped old man Hull and took his money, and
that was what the boys were after him for. Wanted
me to hide it. and refused, for If 1t found about
my house it would get me into trouble. laid it on
the sewing machine. He said he had struck Hull first
with piece of iron then with sledge, then twice
with his fist. Then took his pocketbook out of his
pocket and took the money then put the pocketbook
back into his pocket then struck him with the SHOW
ell, and then ran. He said this at the ore bank
Cross examined. Jackson claimed to be a cousin OF
my wife. Kept company with my sister-took walks
with her. He was sitting my sisters lap when he
gave her the money. 1t after night on Saturday
night. John Conrad was there on Sunday, and Jack
son went under the bed, and remained there unit
next morning. Did not inquire why he went under
the he'd. Did not tell any about it, hardly
believed It, Laid the money on the sewing machine
and told him did not want have any thing to de
with it. then went to my work in the coal bank.
Margaret Freeman. About two weeks before hi
preliminary trial he to our house, peddling
Came to house about dark Saturday night, an'
at gave SIG, and said he had something to tel
me. He said he had been to Mr. Huls, ate his Dime
e there then went to the bank with him, strucl