The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-27

TO Keith's and met the boy Lynn in
the yard milking and asked him If
Harvey was at home. He said he
| guessed he was at the house to bed;
/ could 60 and see. went to the
house and met Mr.. Keith. l asked
him if Harvey was at home. Mr..
Keith said "No, he went away last
night and hasn't got home yet" l
said / would like to see him. He
said Harvey would be at home to
help him thresh. l then left and
went back to VIM. Barker's. When
got there / seen his wife coming
up from down the road from towards
the creek. She said when she was
coming home from meeting last
night she like to run against the
heels of team of horses that were
standing beside the road and it just
| lightened in time to avoid running
against them. asked her where
Bill was. She said, SIN the house
just getting up" and she wanted to
know if / wouldn't come in. l said,
mo, l was in hurry to get home
and wanted to see Bill" She said he
would be out in just a minute. Bill
came out and we went down the road
towards the creek. / said, "We will
go over in that old house and see if
Harvey is there" I'VE talked about
going over there SO that we could
say that we had gone over there to
see if we could find him or hunting
for him, so that we could swear to
hunting there for him when called
on to do so, and so as to make Lyde
think we had actually gone there to
look for him. We then came out
of the old house and went down on
the bridge and told Bill ''You are
is innocent as lamb, and if any
thing comes up will take the whole
blunt and suffer the whole thing my
self rather than you suffer any," He
said, "Of course Marsh, / don't blame
you at all for what you did after the
way Harvey had acted. But if the
children had stayed at my house and
your woman come back there and
stayed at my house and stayed all
night this never would have hap.
pened." Then his boy came and
called him to breakfast and he went
to the house and l went home. Ny
breakfast was very near ready. Then
| eat my breakfast; then | thought |
would GO back over to Keith's again
to see il he was to home, and my
wife said, "You had better stay at
home and mind your business; you
Will let everybody know of it." I
said to her. Void. alp your mouth
shut and not say anything abSpt 1t to
anybody about his being here last
night and nobody will know any
thing about it, and / will
not say anything about it." l then
went over to Keith's again about z
a. M, and found they had begun to
thresh. | met Mr.. Keith and asked
him if Harvey had got home. He
said, ''No." | said i would like to
see him; SAYS he, "what for?" /
said, it don't make any difference
what for" He said, ''It does too, l
want to know, and / will find out; is
Harvey owing your" / said, 81
should think he was" Mr.. Keith
said, ''How much is he owing you?"
| said, 81 don't know as it makes any
difference. Mr.. Keith said, sit does
make difference; is it $50?" | said,
IL wouldn't settle with him for $50"
Then my brother came up, (who was
there helping to thresh) and said,
'you had better tell him about your
having Harvey's clothes" | then
said, 81 will" and then went down
to the engine where Keith had
gone, and said, "Mr. Keith, see here,
| will show you now, l guess you
wont see him here to help thresh, for
| guess he has skipped; Il said this
to throw them off their guard, so as
not to hunt for him, and think he
had got clothes and skipped the
country, as he had intended to do.)
L said, 'Do you know this account
book and watch?" (which had in
my pocket from the night before
when / searched his clothes" My in
tention was to make Keith and
others think that had not murdered
him, or | would not have gone there
in the way / did; but that he had
been caught in his shirt tail by some
body else and had been castrated,
and that he had gone out of NORTH
cation and drowned himself, or that
someone else had castrated him and
put him in the lake. Mr.. Keith said,
EYES," he knew the watch and book.
Then his boy said he could nave told
the watch if he had seen it anywhere.
Then Mr.. Keith said, 81 see you are
trying to blackmail me-" | said, 81
am not, and furthermore have over
at my house pair of pants, a vest,
hat, coat and shoes, and / can
prove | amt trying to blackmail."
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