The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-12-05

conclusive evidence to hang them.
ACCOUNTING FOR STICK.
Helwig Luchart testified: was at the
Everharts Tuesday evening after the muir
der; left stick on the porch in the cor
ner; It was heavy stick and rough; don't
know what kind of stick it was; used
1t as a staff to walk with.
FRIDAY MORNING.
Ann Barnett sworn; Saw man with
black mustache; 1 am well acquainted
with Dan Everhart; 1 didn't know the
man in the window. have said the man
was not Dan Everhart; had conversa-
ton with Mr.. Weidner; he said he knew
that knew it was Dan, and said If didn't
say it was him he would put me in Jail. l
SAID would stay in Jail go years before 1
would swear that.
Cross-examined: I could not see who it
was. did not see him plain enough to
tell who it was.
THE KNIFE.
The defense wished the Court Steno-
room, she being i'll, for the purpose of re-
ceiving her evidence TO the fact that the
missing butcher knife had been in her pos
session; that she had taken 1t to Edinboro
with her. The Commonwealth admit this
fact.
A. w. Kinch recalled: l did not tell
Haslett that found the stick Wednesday,
and that the prosecution offered me $50
for il.
BIG MONEY FOR STICK.
s. II. Haslett testified: Kinch told me
the Commonwealth wanted the cane or
stick he found at Evethart's and they of
fered $50 for the cane, that they had the
stump to fit it. Kinch said l offered them
800 for the stump.
JOHN EvERHART AGAIN.
John Everhart recalled: My daughter
Mary told me on Wednesday that she had
taken the missing knife to Edinboro with
| her.
time that Mary had taken the knife to
| Edinboro, but 1 forgot it the day of the
homicide.
Christ Nahle testified: l was at Ever
harts the morning ''of the homicide; they
we're sitting at breakfast; Mr.. and Mrs.
Everhart and myself we're having fun;
they were joking me.
Abe Hepler testified: Kinch told me he
found a stick the day. before the funeral;
that he put it in the old house, that after
ward he (Kinch) took it to the coon hunt
and could not find a stump to fit the cane
and he threw it away and picked up one
laying there. Kinch also said that he
wished would get him on to work up
the case for the Ever harts; that there was
no money on the Commonwealth side,
and he was tired of working for nothing
and that Everharts were not guilty.
Michael Moran testified: Fulmer was al
my store before the homicide; he said he
had been at Everhart's and got part of his
clothes, and John Everhart said if his wife
had the clothes. washed in time he would
bring them to my store on his way to
Fryburg, the next Monday.
S. II. Rayen, Ralph Alt, Jacob Miller
and S. II. Reyner were called, had ques-
toned joe Brewster after the homicide
All he ever answered was that when he
came home he found grandmother lying
with her throat cut
Mrs. Rayen and Mrs. Whitmore fount
plenty of sugar and coffee in the house.
Rev. c. II. Frampton testified: am
Methodist Episcopal miuister; 1 knew
John Everhart and his wife; was ther'
quite frequently; 1 was at his house fo
three or four weeks in the winter of lSs
and 1885, when was holding protracteC
meetings; I never saw any quarrels be
tween John Everhart and his wife.
The same deeds offered in evidence a
were offered in the Horner trial, Offered
to prove negative motive showing the It'll,
of one-thrd of l26 acres of land farmed by
Dan Everhart, was in Dan Everhart prio
to the homicide.
Counsel for defense offer in evidence
judgment, May term, 1868, against Johl
S. Everhart. The same judgment assigned
to Dan Everhart in 1869. This, on subjcc
of motive, to show that Dan could by
sci. ia. to revive and continue judgment
could have obtained writ of execution
against his father and obtained deed t,
the remaining two-thirds, despite the re
fusal of Jemima to sign deed for it.
DafenSe rests