The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03


the poet norton, as being the body
of Harvey Keith. DIR. J. Andrews
assisted at the post norton and gave
it as his opinion that the deceased
did not come to his death by drown
ing, but said that appearances indi-
Gated death from strangulation. AL
exander DePuy, prisoner in the
Jail, said that he had carried notes
between the two Bankers, and had
had conversations with them in ref
erence to the murder. The witness
testified:
"The first conversation l had
with VIM. X. Barker was when he
wrote note to Marshall G. Barker,
in which conversation he stated that
Marshall G.. Barker, was at his house
on Tuesday night, and he went with
Marshall G.. Barker to his house.
VIM. X. Barker stayed at the gate
while Marshall G. Barker went to
the door and pulled off his boots and
went into the house, struck match,
but did not light lamp; he heard a
noise and then he rushed into the
house and saw Marshall G.. Barker
jerking the pants off from Harvey
Keith, then he run his hands into his
pocket while Harvey Keith was get
ting out of the window. Marshall
G. Barker pulled him back, jerked
him onto the floor and commenced
to choke him. Harvey Keith kicked
Barker off, when VIM. X. Barker
grabbed him by the legs while Mar
shall G.. Barker jumped onto his
stomach and choked him till he died."
AT another conversation the wit
ness testified that VIM. X. Barker
told him that he, VIM. X. and Mar
shall g., the two, went to Marshall
G's. house on the evening of the MUIR
der and that while going there they
talked about getting $50 of Keith
even if they had to kill him. Wit
ness at one time asked VIM. X. if il
was not made up plan to get $50
dollars of Keith, and he replied that
it was for all he knew. The witness
testified to several other converse
tons he had had with the respondent
relative to the murder, but the FORE
going is the substance of the most
important ones.
The people rested their case with
the testimony of the witness DePuy,
and the respondent produced as a
witness in his defense, his wife, Eliza
M. Barker. The last time witness
ever saw Harvey Keith, dead or alive,
was at the Disciple church in Bloom
ingdale, on the evening of July 2Sth.
She testified that her husband was at
home when she returned from church (;
that he asked her if Harvey Keith
came home with her and she told
him that she came alone, and that
shortly thereafter they both went to
bed and she went to sleep, and did
not know what her husband did after
that. She did not hear him get up
and leave the house at any time DUR
ing the night. In the morning, after
breakfast her husband told her that
Harvey had been to his brothers
house, and had left there without
any clothes; that his brother said he
didn't want Harvey at his house any
more, and that he-her husband
did not want her to GO up to his
brothers house that day; that Mar
shall was going to Keith's to see if
Harvey was there. On cross exami-
nation witness said she had CONVEX
sation with the Barker brothers, on
the Thursday before the Saturday
that Keith's body was found, in
which VIM. X. said he would as soon
look in the lake down there, for the
body, as anywhere. Marshall said
Harvey was going west as fast as
steam could carry him. Witness
testified that she went to bed about
ten o'clock on the night of July 2Sth,
and did not wake until about two
o'clock. Her husband has been in
the habit of getting up when she
was asleep and did not know It.
Marshall was at their house between
five and six o'clock to see her hus-
band, who went out and they talked
together and went away together.
Witness saw Keith and Lii Barker
exchange rings on the afternoon OF
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