Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-03-20

them ON again the next day; no wore a
dark pair at his work, which he kept
mp stairs; the next day after the muir
der Mr.. Holcomb went TO town aud came
back shaved and changed his clothes
before he went to the Crouch place,
which was between IL and II o'clock.
Jud, Foy, Bolles and Holcomb taken
about Is minutes: Holcomb came
back into the house, but said
nothing, and soon went to town;
short time previous to the muir
der Mr.. Holcomb was absent from
home for a week and another time three
or four days; the last time he said he
had been to his brothers up north; he
said nothing about pistol; saw Jud put
pistol in his pocket when he went to
work; saw no other pistol except the
one Jud had; cannot describe it; Jud
went to Louisville in October, and was
gone less than week; Foy was there
JAIL the time Twas there; neither Jud
nor Holcomb went to the Crouch place
while L was there; Mrs. Holcomb and
Edith went there once or twice; heard
no noise in the night; l woke up some
time along in the night and heard the
wind blowing. When Mr.. Holcomb
came back from the Crouch place it
was about three o'clock; he had nothing
in his hand that saw: he passed right
through TO his wife's room; Jud and
FoY did not stay at Holcomb's at all
after the murder; when Jud went to
Louisville he;took revolver with him.
l saw him put it in his pocket;' ] never
saw it afterward.
The last witness of the afternoon was
Ella Shannon, who worked at Hol
combs house for one week, going there
a week after. the bodies of the murdered
people were found. She began work
on Sunday and on the next day did
the family washing. In room lately
occupied by Jud Crouch and Foy she
found white shirt with blood on the
bosom and cuffs and pair of pants
smeared with blood. She found them
behind wooden chest, opposite the bed.
She did not take them to the wash. and
some days afterward Jud end Foy
came in and got some clothing from
their old room and brought it to be
washed, but the bloody garments were
not in the bundle. When cross-ex-
amined by Mr.. Frazer. witness said:
l did not take the clothes down to
wash because 1 knew Mrs. Holcomb
was i'll and did not like to let her know
ofmy discovery; apother reason, was
| frightened; | staid till the next Satur-
day; when Foy AID Jud came and got
the clothes, they took two bundles with
them; Jud said to Foy: "By God, Jim,
l guess we'd better go UP and get those
clOthes;" on Saturday before | went
away, l found the clothes were gone.
The pants were saturated at
the knees, and the shirt sleeves were
smeared above the wrist-band; did not
know that the shirt was Jud Crouch's.
but saw him wear the pants Sunday be-
fore the murder, when he was at our
house; know the boots were his. be.
cause one of them was built up on the
heel and sole; Jud carried the boots
brought down the clothes.
Examination to be continued Tues
day morning.
BoLLEs TESTIFIEs.
When court assembled on the fourth
day of the Crouch examination George
Hammond was the first witness sworn,
and testified TO conversation with Jud
in which the latter said he was not on
speaking terms with his father and that
the trouble was in regard to the proper
" matters.
Miss Kittie De Mosh said that Jud
told her that the reason why he and his
father did not speak. was because his
father had invited the rest of the family
to dinner and left him out.
George Bollcs, the colored boy who
was living at the Crouch homestead at
the time of the murders, was then
placed on the stand. He said ne never
saw Jud at the house but once and I'M
derstood that he drove down to see
Capt. Byron Crouch. Neither did ne
ever sec Dan Holcomb there; saw Mrs.
Holcomb there once or twice; know
nothing about the relations between
the members of the family. The wit
ness then proceeded to narrate the
events of the night of the murder. He
thought it was the noise of pounding
below that woke him up; heard five
blows after / was awake; think there
was half minutes difference between
the sound of the blows, and the cries OF
"Oh," "Oh," came IN between.
The witness then described his
fright az the strange noises be-
low and his crawling into the chest and
shutting the lid down on him as much
as he could, where he remained the
balance of the night. He also described
his getting up in the morning and find
ing the four people murdered. He
was frightened, and without waiting
for anything else started Of for Mr..
Whites, the nearest neighbor. i first
saw Jud at Holcom BIS about an hour
after that he was with his man told
him that the people down there all had
their Threats cut Jud said. What is
that you said ?" neither Jud nor Hol-
comb displayed any sign of grief, except
that Holcomb said 'Oh, Lord -
Policy came to Crouch's the day before
the murder in the forenoon and
another man In the afternoon
whom did not know. Don't know
where Mr.. Crouch kept his money and
papers; all l heard Mr.. Policy and Mr..
Crouch talk about money was at the
barn, when Policy offered him 1925 for
a couple of cows; Mr.. Crouch sad he
did not feel like selling anything then.
Upon his ross.examination, Bolles re-
peated his description of the events of
the fateful night without varying from
his previous testimony. Will Clements
said he could tell whether they were
chloroformed or not as soon as he got
into the house, and when he got there
he said he thought they had been chic
reformed; did not hear anyone tell
Julia Reese she was chloroformed,
and she knew she was.