Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-06-05

asartfr % ral-ssiav aaars q i fnnai an
th8av Eesy aHoat 3 ocisek Aningay
Nieely told nse n.st0 lsa suyll.iug knes
4sosit tso o. thees DAYS as'er vhen sax
tiai e. Iis ses1s- hs ~ n6t send ss- ne {
so.4 hiHi uss slg joe o. wednesday
ttsce % egEr days after 'he arrest kasN
Islas serena toid iial ti.at saW 17e Nice-
= 81 ThuFszzg E, a3s reeolect tzising 70
soa5 ShsaIs hage kaeNn Joe Sicely ever
SINCE he 9ss boy Vas nat arrested far
sssssirs sF iae res ss cauaroaaise'i
81 rayIas Il -. - the mo1sy lroal Jos
giesy l-aF J9e Sicsiy % Tnursizy. but
I'D sSt =ay sngsh.ng ta A5m els1l- tie n-ar-
.isr a : hai no. Asari q iiz- i.e tine
Fs-,iir,ct- Isaruel af she murder on
THURSDAY about s s-slo,s la iils attsruoou
zesr. og T, from Aathony Nieeiys it va
seserzi d5ys after the sgress ~hssi Cd Mr
Siceiy sssd me not 10 ,ell anything ebout iE
rs it zls ao5aly busincss-
rga-DAy Ag7Ensoos sEssI0S.
John Kooniz-I1ye IN WestmoFeland
county, not one-f,arih ola nile from Jo-
seph SiceIy, vas home 9Th February las;
ali day have kHorn J0zeph Nicely for
l. years saw a man that Jay ,ha; took
FOR Joseph Nieely; couldn't say what
tine Of day * was Judge IL was about
the nidIle Of the afternoon he was go
ing towards home Ire way TX that It
was the 27lh II vas Wednesday, cur
payer meeting evening at the Zion
church I was at experimenting
know ChafIcs Vzneer-
Cross sxamined-IIayo lived near the
Niceiy's : or 5 years am 3 carpenter
by trade: Hye between Marks and Joe
Nicely's, ccuidE tell whether saw Joe
OF. 10Th, 30th, Or 18th don't know that
there was prayer-meeting on the I3,h or
2o.h I vas in my gard when saw him
took Il to be Joe Nicely II was 4 short
oae-fcurth Of mile to his home don't
rec5llect Of having any conversation With
Joseph Deeds the Jay the Niee.y's we're
arrested wasn't at TIE consultation at
old man N:cely's house two weeks from
yes.erisv-
Or. John Ascom-Llve in Ligouier
am q dentist know Charles Vaneer on
sunday before the boys we're arrested we
were standing on the corner st the Ligo-
nier House; he said he saw a compile per-
sons "a. Up the mountain; he said one
favored Hoffman said to him. vas the
other doe Hoontz he sliJ, since I come
to think Of il, he Iooked more ike John
Koou;z he had a swinging walk
David A. Geeting and asked
10 retire for the present.
Lorenzo Niccly-I live in Ligonier
township, WestmoreIand county am a
son of Joseph Nicely aa II years oh ;
vas a; school on 27sh Of February last
came home between and 5o'clock saw
NY father bali hoar or more aftes
CAME be was in tle barn feeling the
cattle; Wa shelling corn FOR the chick
ems wen; up to the house aHd be came
up and sa;d he vas going TO grandpa's
this was o'ci5ck or after be went to
grsndpa's 7 vent to pTayer-mee;ing at
Zion church; think I stopped at
the house Of John Ko0ntz saw
him at prayer meesiag; 1t was twenty
minutes past nine when I got home
father vas in bed / talked to him; the
light vas Burning and he told me 10
blow it out know it was Wednesday
7 because sc have prayer meeting every
Wednesday night know it was the 27th
of February because it vas the week be-
( fore father was arrested saw father next
morning: aie breakfast w.th him; sup
! pose it vas betseen Gani : o'clock have
seen fi;her wear brown hat nat shown
his hat was about the color Of this one
the wire wasn't ont Of his; and l don't
think that piece pointing 10 piece oui
Of rimj was out Of bis.
Cross-examiued Was Is in April; ]
len my books in the house an ! went out
to the barn had jIst g5tthefe = couple
ofminu;es when L.tfer came in /; he fed
seven or eight head or cattle , ne came to
the hoase ! c3aiIa't tell b5y long he
was in the barn; it was or little after
shen he cune IN the h11se; he didn't
eat y hen We diI he saii he Wis -,ing
to grandflthers; Didn't - in to ask
father aboat M staying with Ferry
heard of the murder Friday at school
father Was arrested on Monday; nobody
told ne that fataer had gone over tc
graudPap'a fer supper.
Harriet Nicely am the wife Of 10
seph Nicely one Of the defendants; wa;
at home "a the 25th Of February last
Mr.. Gilbert Ross brought Us Iosd O
coal that day my husband helped him
put the coal away he vas at home iii
between and 1 O'Clock; when he
left esaid he was goingto Aaron Marks
he Was gone tso hours and a-halE may
be three hours; it was after ) O'Clock
when be came home ne went 10 the
barn and did the feeding when he cam,
into the house he sail he vas going over
to his fathers; it was after O'Clock
when be started for his father's it wa,
about SO'ciock when he came back; ",