The Newtown bee., 1889-03-29
AARON SANFORD

There was about IS inches of hard earth between the wall and the edge of the oats. 1 DAVID E. SMITH
 Had been called to Newtown as gun ! expert, at the time of the murder. If the muzzle of the gun rested on the wall, the powder would not blacken the rail; if held somewhat back, it would. An ounce of No. shot contains S2 shot and an ounce and a half or two ounces would be 1 fair load. At distance of g feet, the shot would be spread over diameter of about three feet.
 JOE RIEsPoNT
 Said that the shoes he wore when work ing near the oatfield had huge hob nails | in the sole.
 JAMES S. TYLER
 Had never seen Rudolph with any gun save that which had been in his posses sion. He had never been in Rudolph's bedroom until called in by Mrs Stoeffel, Friday morning.
 MRS RUDOLPH STOEFFEL
 Said that she had been married 10 years. 1 Her house has two bedrooms and a kitch- en. Monday evening, passing by the side of the oatfield, she helped Joe fix the fence. After explaining distances and routes, she continued: At 3 30a m, Thursday, Rudolph arose, got bag of hay and hunted up his, horses, to take the charcoal to Bridgeport. Thursday evening, she went from Good Ridge to the charcoal and back across lots, but could not remember her exact route. Ru- dolph got home about II p m, ''pretty we'll drunk" She helped him take care of the horses and put them in the lot next to the oatfield. After examining fences, they returned to the house, pass ing along the edge of the oats. Friday morning, she heard Joe about 40 and soon arose, leaving Rudolph asleep. Af- ter being awakened by the children, Ru- dolph said he was sick and sent for Ty- Ter. Rudolph could not have left the house before Tyler came, for she would have seen him. About 30, he arose, but soon returned to bed. Rudolph be- came intoxicated nearly every time he went to Bridgeport. From nearly emp | ty bottle which Rudolph brought home, she had treated Tyler and Joe. She was present when Joe was arrested and was asked if the bottles of shot had been in the house all the time; she said that Joe Buzzer left them there, two years ago. Rudolph's gun was at Tyler's. Three or four years ago, he had another gun and | lyapf if i'm m xunnIC hnf cha had seen it for three years.
 l When walking on the edge of the oat- I field, she kept as close as possible to the oats. She did not think that Rudolph or Joe crossed the oatfield, when they went to the charcoal. Rudolph said nothing to her about his quarrel with Peck, but she heard him tell Tyler about it and add that Jennie Lockwood had produced a revolver. Neighbors said that Peck had burned their charcoal pit, but they were slow to believe it. Rudolph had used a gun to shoot woodchucks, but she was sure that there was no gun in the hired mans room in the Fall of 1887. When Rudolph fired at woodchucks, he used shot left by Joe Buzzer and powder that he had kept for years ill a paper. She denied saying that the gun bought o1 Michael Turner must have been that with which Peck was shot. Also strenuously denied that she had told Mrs Frank that Rudolph went away with gun, Friday morning. She had told her story to { man who wrote it down, soon after thu | tt1an Iar nI of hxy :, Fessenden.
 Thursday morning, Mrs Stoeffel stated
 that it was , a m, Friday, when sh' arose. Joe Buzzer had left shot whel
 working for Rudolph, some years before
 Rudolph had bought it at Joe's request . A German known as Philip was working
 for Rudolph when the gun was lost il
 the woods, but she did not know wh,
 lost it. When Philip left, after work : ing about two months, she asked Ru t dolph where the gun was and he did no s know. This was either two or thre l years ago, last Fall.
 Il JOE RIEsPONT
 ]. Had not seen gun in the woods, nea
 the coal pit.
 h RUDOLPH sToEFEEL
 ,. Is 39 years old, born in Germany an
 came to Palestine, Newtown, l6 year
 ago. In 1878, he was married and live a in Palestine year or two;. then he r a moved to his home in Bedding. Pee l. was living there and he worked for hin
 They lived over mile apart. There
 path near the stone wall, about ] ,e inches away. Tuesday, he examined u ,a fence, following the path by the wa or Wednesday, he and Joe loaded the cha ,d coal wagon and prepared to start f a Bridgeport in the morning. After tur ., ing the horses into the lot near Peck
 he went back to see that everything w
 right. Returning, he passed through t IT, oat field. Then, fearing shower, tn b. went through the woods to cover up t nd charcoal, in the pits and on the wago
 Joe held the lantern. Rudolph pass
 directly through the slough hole wh I'd carrying blankets to cover the charco
 On the way home, they met Peck, l
 tween Levi Edwardss and Swartz Id, Some conversation ensued and Peck as of ed if Rudolph had seen his calves; E g; dolph said that he had not. Peck h sl- his two-horse team. Thursday mornil He he arose about 30 and got bag of h ed at Lanes, which he gave to Joe to ta 'n- to the wagon, while he went past Pee
 to get his horses. He found his hor
 and calves in the lot and drove them o ter but the calves went west and the hor ag- east; he at last found the horses m TO Hopewell school house. Passing Plat