The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-28
JIM HoRNER ACQUITTED.
The Case Of John S. Everhart Taken
Up And Being Tried.

week, Rev. Henry Rhodes was on the wit
ness stand, aud his testimony was given
The evidence for the prosecution was most.
ly ofa corroborative nature, and we pass
it to give portion of the testimony for the
defense, as reported i'm the Derrick.
James Horner, the defendant was the
first witness called, who related his pro-
ceedings of the morning, as already told
by him to several of tho witnesses, up to
the hour when Dan went home to dinner
1 think ii was five minutes of IL when we
quit; | went into my shanty to start my
firei Dan came along to the porch, and
said guess l will go home TO dinner: I
said yes, you will get better grub there, I
have not got my supply of groceries vet;
he went away; while my dinner was cook =
| ing went to the barn, fed my horse, came
back and eat my dinner; then took my
oil can and started; was not certain wheth-
er shut the barn door; went up and shut
it, then went to the road, looked up and
down the road, saw Bony Host with his
team at the cross-road talking to man; l
walked down as far as Dan Everharts; he
was chopping block; he said. wait and l
will go along; Dan went past the window
and said to his wife. guess I will go and
see about those shoes. Horner detailed
their wax to Lickingville of meeting
Jake Fletcher and talking to him before
they got to Lickingville. Jake Fletcher is
now in Washington Territory.
HoRNER RELATED EVERY ACT
and word of his while in Lickingville,
that he went from Alexander's store to
kinchs; went TO Kinch's barn and when
he came back saw Bony Host driving past
on his return to Alexanders; he knocked
out the helve of an ak; Sawyers he took
he took of his coat, previous to this time
he had taken of his rubber coat; Alexan-
der aud Dan Everhart and me then went
coon hunting; when we turned off the
road we met Frank Mealy and his brother
Oliver; then Elliott and me went back to
Lickingville and Dan started home; when
we got back to Sigwort's 1 saw Bony going
back; asked him to wait till l got my
groceries; he did and / rode back with
him; got off at my shanty, locked the
door, watered my horse, gave him some
hay, went to Bucks; otter supper we went
to Fryburg to singing; we ran against the
Sandrock girls; Bent wanted to go with
them; went to the hotel; after talking
Bent and me went to the barroom; got a
drink; Bent says maybe the girls will
want drink; got pint bottle; 1 went
out for the horses; run against Dan Ever
hart; he asked me if there were any
strange people in the house; 1 said they
were strange to me; gave him drink
out of the bottle.
He said he was cold; he told me Mrs.
Gillian was killed and his stepmother;
L went on to Sandrocks; Bent with Lena,
1 went with Mary; we stayed there until
2o'clock, then started home; we stopped
at John Everhart's little after o'clock;
Mrs. Whitmore took us into the room and
showed us the bodies; we went on to
Bucks; never bought an inch nor foot
nor an acre of land of Dan Everliart, nor
they never gave me any; 1 don't own a
foot an acre nor an inch of land. Dan
Everhart wore the same clothes in Lick
ingville that he had ON that morning; 1
never said he changed them; remem Der
conversation with T.. f. Ritchey Wednes-
day evening; it was chuck dark when he
and Breene came to my shanty; Bill SAM
| ford was there; never told Ritchey 1
could clear myself; had no other CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Ritchey; Rev. Rhodes is
my mothers brother; 1 was never at his
house in September, 1886; 1 never was
there over night in my life; was there in
the spring, took dinner there, crossed the
creek 10
there for Hilliard; neighbored with Dan
before and after this tragedy. The first
heard of this killing was at 10 o'clock in
Fryburg that night; did not believe it
then; never knew anything about the
killing before or after the tragedy; l did
not tell Mr.. Ritchey that Dan had changed
his clothes; never told Shaw or any one
else that Dan had changed his clothes; Dan
did not go in the house at all before we
started to Lickingville that afternoon; it
was Is minutes to l o'clock when started
to Dams; it requires four or five minutes
to walk to Dams from my shanty.
DAN EvERHART's TESTIMONY
was in all essential points a repetition of
Horuer's. While at his fathers house in
the evening of the homicide, some one
said they had seen suspicious men going
| toward Fryburg; John Sigworth and me
started to trace them; when we got to
Fryburg we went into Deets' Hotel; came
out again; heard some one hitching a
horse and talking; knew it was Horner's
voice; went up to him and asked him if
there were any strange men around; told
him the old lady and my stepmother were
killed; told him to keep it quiet so we
| could catch the men. ! weut on 20 Jim
town; while at TacomyeIs, a party from
Lickingville came there searching Cor the
men; Mr.. Dawn and myself went back TO
my fathers; there was quite a crowd
there; l don't know Mrs. Anderson; I
never said at Mrs. Whitehill's or any
place, or to any person, if Jemima did not
sign the deed to my place would cut her
Cd d-n throat; I was not at fathers
barn the morning of the homicide; Joe
Brewster nor no one saw me whet large
knife or any other kind; 1 did not whet
anyi l know nothing about how these
women or either of them came to their
death.