Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-04-03
DAMAGING EVIDENCE.
Crouch and Holcomb Still in the Oruicble.
Witnesses for Both Sides.

10 western OakOldi HuNc ucdru VI lne
letter stated to have been found by
Galen Z. Brown; employ from 30 to 40
men, but do not recollect any man
in my employ by the name OF Mathews;
know nothing about such letter as re-
ferred 10 by Mr.. Brown; / came TO Jack
son the 50th of August and went direct
ly out to my people; left for Texas again
September 3.
Cross-examined-ln answer to the
question how much he was indebted TO
his father at the time of of his death,
he refused to answer the question. In
answer to the question where he was at
the time the murder was committed,
he said he was either at San Antonio or
on the way there from his ranch. He
had never got track of the kilograms
giving HIM the information; never saw
any kilograms from Jackson ANNOUNCE
ing the murder; learned of the murder
on Saturday through the papers and
left for Chicago on the next Sunday
morning. Witness here narrated
the various stages in his journey into
Nebraska and Dakota. My
business in coming to Jackson was in
connection with settling up my brother
Daytons estate; during the month of
October, prior to my fathers death, /
left San Antonio and went to New
Mexico about the 9Th and went from
there to my ranch in Texas; was not in
Chicago during that month; whoever
says was in Chicago November 20 is
an unmitigated liar. When / was here
in September my father executed some
paperssto me in regard to my brothers
estate. l decline TO give particulars of
business transactions in the family;
look upon these matters as purely bust.
ness transactions and not public prop
erty; Lave sent my father $4,000 at
one time ard $4,000 at another
from the estate; refuse to state
what Dayton's estate was worth;
looked after my fathers papers after the
murder and found nothing missing ex-
cept his land papers; have not examin-
ell the registers Office to see about his
! papers; went TO the bank to see whether
there were any papers there, but there
were none; there was never any parti-
ton made of the property between the
heirs; can place no valuation upon my
fathers estate; don't think it will ex-
coed 100000; have no idea of the
amount of notes, mortgages etc. l
was opposed TO my sister Eunice mar
rying Mr.. White. Before the marriage
correspondent with her considerably;
after that stopped writing except on
business. | purchased of her an inter-
est in our brothers estate. In answer
to the question what he had done with
the evidences of the share of EunIce
White & in Dayton's estate, he said
the estate remained just as it
was when turned over to him by
power of attorney given last May, to
which Eunice White was a party; have
never made any remiUtances to Eunice;
supposed my remittances TO nay father
included her amount also, and TO be
distributed among the heirs rs my
father thought proper; have employed
and paid the detectives since the muir
der; also Mr.. Ballard; made no effort
in the direction of providing for the
| present defense until i arrived back
here few days ago; / have been told
by hundreds of people that | was liable
to be arrested for the murder of my
people, but it caused me no fear; have
no knowledge of what money was in
the house; have advised both him and
my sister thousand times not TO keep
any money in the house, but she told
me he had become careless in regard TO
this for the last two or three years. When
! was home in September my father
wanted me to come home in November
when he proposed to &c. all the chill
| dren together and make distribution
OF his property; have heard him say a
thousand times he should never make
a will. Knew James Foy only casually
as met him when l was at home. The
opinion that formed of the manner of
the murders was that they were COM
mitted by people old in crime, and all
the direct instructions | have ever given
was for them to search for such. and
to probe every clue to the bottom;
think Jud enJertains the theory. that
she murders were committed by three
people-two at least, and that is the
extent of his theory my father
has often scolded me severely; no
trouble between my father or Day
ton has ever occurred in which
revolveIs were displayed; never re-
quested my father to indorse paper;
|
Zant of the amount of my Indebtedness
to my father; father has told me thou
sand times that his property would be
equally divided among his children;
his anxiety has been that ] should be-
come insolvent, and that while he
should pay all my debts, he was afraid
that he should be placed in position
in which he could not provide for little
Jud as he would like.
| With some little additional corrobera.
tive testimony in some minor points, the
defense announced their case closed.
The prosecution began tho introduce
ton of rebutting testimony at the open
ing of the court in the afternoon.
Detective Harris and Sheriff Win.
ney testified that Foy told them that he
was south three or four years ago; went
down the Mississippi river; he gave the
name of a number of places he was at
cannot name the year or season OF the
year.
Mr.. Carrier testified that when he
saw Foy on the train going to Union
City he was counting money; had roll
of bills as large as my fist; did not tell
about the money because | was told IL
was not necessary; Mr.. Harris told
me to tell how tho shooting
was done, but he did not want to know
about the money; first told Prosecuting
Attorney Hewlett about the money day
before yesterday on the street; told
my brother in Three Rivers about
what l saw Foy have and what |
heard him say about the murders; ut
that time it did not seem that Foy had