Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
ON THE RACK.
Examination of joseph Aliens for tn,
Murder Of the Crouch Family.

Examination OF joseph Aliens Tor the
Murder Of the Crouch Family.
The examination of Joseph Allen,
charged with the murder of Jacob ID.
Crouch, commenced on the 1st inst.
Henry Hague wac the first witness, and
TESTIFIED to overhearing conversation
on March %, when one man said, 'If
Harrington had staid away it would
have been all right" and the other
answered, "Yes, and if he amt careful
it will be brought around where he
was on the 21st of November. He
thought the prisoner, Allen, was one
of the men. He pointed them out TO
Detective Gum afterwards, and said
they were the fellows he was watching
A. j. Reeves was the next witness.
He went TO Mason March "a and caused
Henry Holcomb TO be shackled and put
| in jail with Harrington. He saw Allen
in Jackson at the examination of Crouch
and Holcomb; saw him afterwards in
company with Henry Holcomb; he
asked that Allen be searched on going
in and coming out of Mason Jail as he
m ght have papers; he also got +. n.
Holden of Charlotte TO go into the Jail
shackled-paid him for it. Holden was
seen in Charlotte with Harrington on
the morning OF November ~. where he
talked of the Crouch murder. Holden
identified him. This was before Henry
Holcomb had been there.
James ID. Price testified to seeing de-
PENDANT at the Crouch Holcomb ex-
animation and TO q conversation had
! afterward with his companion.
r. J. Austin testified to seeing de-
PENDANT in the courtroom and detailed
how he Swallowed him; saw him and
others, but did not think they said any
thing material to this case. They
avoided talking about the Crouch
tragedy.
Mrs. Thomas McKernan, wife of tie
sheriff of lngham county, testified to
seeing Allen at the jail in Mason March
%; another man was with him; they
knocked at the door and asked to go
into the Jail, but py husband was not
ct home and told them they could not
come in; they then went away; they
did not ask to see any particular person;
saw a man afterwards hanging around
the jail that looked like Allen; another
man was with him who resembled Henry
Holcomb; Allen came 10 the Jail and
asked to see The sheriff. but he was not
at home; he came third time and went
down in the jail with the sheriff, my
husbands; he called his companion
Jones"
Sheriff McKernan sworn-Saw Allen
going past the jail with another and
smaller man on the 22d Of March; saw
him again in company with Mr.. Hol-
comb; one of them gave me a letter
from a msn in Jackson, asking me to
let them into the jail. cannot tell now
who the letter was from; they talked
with Harrington; Allen asked me which
one Harrington was, and pointed him
out to him; Allen walked ito him and
said he had met him in Ciucinnati; that
they were friends of his and they were
going to get him out he said he prefer
red to stay where he vas; saw no pa
pers in the possession of either of the
parties; Harrington received the visitors
as though he did not know them at all,
and he said after they left that
he did not know them; saw
NO signs of recognition between
the parties, except that Allen touched
his hat; l waited to hear what passed
between them and did hear all that
was said; saw Allen at the jail some
time after that; he rang the bell and
said he wanted TO see me privately;
asked me if Harrington talked in his
sleep; told him | did not know; he
said he would like some one TO sleep
with him and listen to what he said, as
he knew something about a murder in
Chillicothe, o.; he acted excited, and 1
saw him turn pale.
Mrs. Wocehester of Owosso testified
that Allen boarded with her for about
week in March; he came back in
April and paid her up and she saw that
he had about $40 in money and cam
vass bag full of tools of some kind. de
said he was going home to Canada;
that he didn't have to work, and
when he did for few days it was
paid for detective work and after he
had hunted out the murderer he was
now after he was going over to Ireland
to lind man named Cunningham who
was heir &c woman who was killed by
her lover last fall in New Orleans.
All the testimony thus far goes to
establish the main. points of Aliens
published statement, and shows what
money and papers he had he secured
from Henry aolcomb. Thus far the
testimony has amounted to little, but
what there is of it tends to fix the i'm
preston on the minds OF all except
those interested in the defense of Hol-
comb and Jud Crouch that Joseph Allen
knows no more about the murder than
the prosecuting attorney himself.
Henry's Story-The Recovered PAPERS in
Court.
Inaonh A Hon unc roos,x,,ad Mau Ind I'm