Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-02-14


turned the body partly over and found
that the back Of the hcnd was split open
by some sharp instrument; found Mrs
Williams lying In the bed room, hei
head In pool of blood, near sack oi
clover seed; her feet were tow
ards the southwest and towards the bed
the head was split down through the
center about half way across and 10 the
ear; another wound of the SAME nature
reached to the other side, while still
another fourth of an inch back and
entering at the same place had split the
head to the neck.
Here the witness explained To the
jury the diagram, showing the position
of the bodies when found.
In the horse stable found Il lantern;
OH the inside of the stable near the
door; there was not much blood spat.
tered in the bed room; didn't notice the
walls; Iarrived between and 6 O'Clock;
remained until about s o'clock; selected
three men to take charge of the prem
ises with orders to allow no one to enter
the house until / returned; | returned
the next day at 10 O'Clock; in the barn
found blood splashed on the wall and
OH the floor where Williams lay; the
lantern was not burning; the oil was all
burned; / found everything In the house
in its proper place; l found one drawer
in the secretary broken open; 1t looked
as though it had been pried open as the
bolt was in locked position; / pulled
out the drawers and examined the con-
tents; this was on the first evening |
was there; think all the bureau
drawers were locked; DR.. Bloom
field was there with me; / looked
all through Mr.. Williams clothes
and also Mrs. Williams clothes for
jewellery or other valuables; found
nothing; saw new suit of clothes on
the floor; there was another suit OF
clothes that looked as though they were
every day clothes; / searched the pock-
cts; Williams had on Overalls, shirt,
vest and boots; searched him but
found nothing; found the lamps in the
house; oil pretty near burned out; did not
find any of the lamps that would burn;
the kitchen indicated that the family
had Just eaten and the plates, two in
number, were on the table; one sack
of seed stood right at Mrs. Williams
head; the Others were standing in the
west part of the room.
Cross-examination: Couldn't say
from memory how many windows were
in the bedroom; it was getting dark
when I first arrived there; could not
get distinct view of the body without
q light; the head of Mrs. Williams lay
two or three feet from the unoccupied
bed; the new clothes / found on the
floor, folded up, near the kitchen door
ut the end of the bureau, in the sitting
room; / looked in all the pockets of
both Williams and his wife's clothing;
only found one suit Of ladies clothing;
found pocket knife lying on the floor
under Mrs. Williams hand, open; the
knife was three inches long; there were
three wounds in the head; looked as
though she had been struck from the
side; all cuts were in the back of the
head and down; made careful eX-
of the drawers on Thursday
evening and again on Friday morning.
GEORGE A. ANDREWS.
Reside in Huron county; work by the
year for Mr.. Mclean; knew both of
murdered people; live l2O rods from
their house; was on McLean's place on
the oath, burning logs; on the 18th was
in Fulton county, on McLean's place;
went to Williams's house at $3.50; as
arrived there heard the child cry; Mr.
Crew and myself went to the
house, saw Mrs. Williams lying OH the
floor, her feet near the bed, dead; there
were two beds in the room, one lay in
the southwest corner of the room, the
other in the northeast corner; could't
say what clothing she had on; it was
pretty dark as the curtains were drawn
down; was in the house probably a
saw some sacks in the room;
went to Seth Jaqua's house and told
him that she was dead; Mrs. Williams
had lived there about four or five
saw Williams lying in the barn
with his head in the south; his throat
was cut and his right hand was bloody,
the most blood saw ran outside of the
barn under the south door; the usual
way of entering the barn was through
The south stable door; saw Williams IL
week or ten days previous the last time;
The woodpile was between the barn and
house, about, about rod from the
house; the COW of George Williams did
run OH the road during the day.
Cross-eXamination; l got there on the
25th about 1880; MIR. Andrews, Mr..
Crew and son of Mr.. Andrews We're
here; we made no search; we carried
The body into the house about 5 o'clock;
assisted; there were about 100 people
here; then went home; / arrived on
he 2Gth about s Il. M; there was large
number of people there, the doors were
.losed and 1 could not get Ill, there
we're people running in and out all the
lime; think saw Mr.. Williams cow on
Oh the public road; think |
'aw her every day before that could
lot say positively that saw her every
lay.
Redirect: I got there Friday morn
ng about s O'clock; did not see any one
going in and out.
DIR. SHOEMAKER.
Am q regular graduated physician
md surgeon; have been in the profess
ion since 1857; was a while in the
lrmy; assisted in the inquest Oh the
bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Will
Jams, on Thursday and Friday of Octo-
,er last. [Objection was made to wit
less describing in detail the condition
n which he found the bodies. The
contended that when
rhine was committed, any other crime
with it might be shown as
,art of the ofiense for which an accused
night be indicted. The court sustain
d the prosecution and ruled that the
condition of the bodies of the murdered
PARTIES might be stated, omitting the
letails of the same. Witness then
tated that the first blow struck on the
leck of Williams would not necessarily
lave killed him; he would, however,
lave soon bled to death; the second
,low on the neck would have killed
i'm instantly The hloWs must have