Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-08

about his and Judd's riding up to
Richard Crouch's TO scare her.
Judd Crouch was next sworn and
told how he and Foy got up, and with
nothing on but their shirts drove a cat
down stairs and put it out of doors.
This was about $50 the night of the
murder. He was awakened along in
the night by the storm and awoke Foy,
and In few minutes they went to sleep
again. He picked up two shells at the
Crouch house, but did not know what
caliber they were until some one told
him, aud in fact did not know what
caliber meant or much about pistols.
He has an old pistol about Holcomb's
that he called his, and thought it was
32. He went from the Crouch house
about noon to change his clothes, as
the old suit he had was not presenta-
BILE. He never knew of any bloody
clothes being behind the chest. He
had short talk on general topics with
Harrison Snow in October, 1888, but
denied making any of the statements
about the different members of the
family and the iil-feeling among them
that Snow swore Judd made. There
was DO ill-feeling in the family
though the friendship of himself
and Byron to Henry White
was not as strong as between some
brothers-in-law. Judd and his sister
were always on the best Of terms. He
could not remember just what he did
at the Crouch house the day after the
murder, but was around the place
"promiscuously." He did not know
that Policy was at the house till told so
by Geo. Hutchins. He had no suspi-
cion as to who did the murder.
On cross-examination Mr.. Gibson
wanted to go into his buying cartridges
and shooting with pistols, etc., to show
that he must have known something
about the size of shells. The defense
objected to the shooting part as not
proper examination. The oourt held
the question for the present. The ex-
animation was fast, Judd answering
very promptly. Frequently his replies
on cross-examination were: II cannot
undertake to say" and 81 cannot say
definitely"
Wednesday morning December 81
the people recalled Judd to the stand
for further cross-examination. He
denied he ever told a dressmaker in
Jackson that he did have trouble with
"the old man."
Mr.. Brown saw Mr.. and Mrs. White
at Holcombs tie Sunday before the
tragedy.
Capt. Crouch never heard his father
say Eunice and Dayton were the only
children he cared for. Witness didn't
like his brother-in-law, White. Witness
had power of attorney over Dayton
Crouch's Texas estate, having been ap.
pointed by the heirs. Dayton's estate
was valued al $4,000. Half of the
estate, under the Texas law, would go
to Jacob Crouch; :he rest would be
equally divided between sisters and
brothers.
Daniel s. Holcomb sworn: Am 81
years old; am farmer and own 500
acres. Bought revolver in Lansing
Oct. 2; took it tC Williams and lost it
in tie woods.
DIR. Williams was here called and
stated that Holcomb asked him the day
after the tragedy II Eunice's eyes
couldn't BIO photographed to show the
murderer.
Dan continued: 1 don't know what
calibre the revolver was. Shot it up
there where Baker aud Williams found
the shells. Never saw the witness
Frank Mason till on the stand here.
Was never in New Orleans. Never
owned a SO revolver till after the trag.
edy. Never shot or knew of any shoot
ing in The woods near the house in the
! night. Was up to investigate noise
at o'clock that night. Mrs. Holcomb
heard the news of the murder from
Nettie Snyder. came to the city at
Hulchins' solicitation, ard supposed
the victims had their throats cut and
didn't want my wife to go there.
supposed they all had their throats
cut and told DIR. Gibson here that
thought il this was so and one knife
had done II there might be clew
My wife tainted at the
Crouch house after took her there. My
wife died Jan. 2. said to Crawford,
the damned ''rabble" had killed her;
not "rebel." as he stated. The families
had been friendly for the past IL years,
except me and Henry White. I never
heard of Harrington till the examina.
ton. Never knew of scheme to put
papers on Harrington. Judd was five
days old when he came to my house.
I didn't owe Crouch dollar at the
time of the tragedy. A telegram was
sent to Byron Nov. %.
At o'clock the cross examination of
Dan Holcomb began. 81 stopped off
at lansing" said he, Ito buy nv
brother shotgun. The first place 1
went into l bought pistol. [ heard
here l could get guns cheaper ut Lam
sing than here. The pistol had case.
This threw away in the street. The
man had no good guns, hence / bought
a pistol. i can't say where first ex-
hibited it, nor to whom. Can't say
how the girl Mabel got the pistol
10 shoot at stump. Didn't tell
William that 1 had bought
him revolver, before or after lost it.
Never shot the pistol only 1T those two
places where shells were found. II l
didn't shoot all the shells there, l don't
know what became of them"
"Mr. Holcomb, don't you know IL
you used up all those shellsp"
Holcomb: l didn't suppose / was
here to answer questions for fun.
Court: Answer the question.
have said l didn't know anything
about it. l asked Bolles why he didn't
jump out of the window and give the
alarm. Bolles said he was scared. Judd
first told me of the murder. 1t was a
wet morning, but took off the new
rubber boots and put on pair of leath-