The Newtown bee., 1889-03-22

SaSIeTu cell aHu tue Ire was dG US TedI
 A paddock, secured by Mir Gay, fastened
 the door and there was no way of getting into the large room. Two thicknesses of
 matched pine boards, with studding be- tween, were all that prevented the pris-
 oner from escaping. There was no way of getting the matches where they were found, until the boards had been broken.
 He saw the matches on the sill, but could
 not say who picked them up.
 | MARTIN F. HoULIHAN
 Had heard Rudolph say, referring to
 Peck, '- him, shooting is too good for him." He was near the barroom of the
 Grand Central hotel and Rudolph was talking to his counsel, MT Northrop.
 JENNIE A. LOCKWOOD
 Identified strip of flannel as the fabled money belt which Peck had worn. She saw it back of the house, the day of the
 murder. Peck had another. of the same kind; she made this herself. She knew that Peck wore the belt, the day before
 his death and saw it after the doctors
 had stripped him.
 I JOHN II. SUMMERS
 Of Hattertown was one of the first to
 arrive. at the scene of the murder, Friday, about 30 a m. He found Peck in the doorway, so natural that he thought he
 was alive. He searched for clues to the
 murderer and discovered the track near the fence; Isaac Patchen was with him and the track was made by neither of them. Later in the day, he saw John B.
 Parmelee measure this track. There
 was distinct heel track and fainter mark of the instep. Mir Summers, who
 is also surveyor, measured the distance to Albert Platt's and to the house of his father, David Summers. He was pres ent when the powder and tobacco were found and was certain that the cork was the same as when produced in court. Attorney Wheeler cross examined him
 with particular care to ascertain if the
 whole footprint was distinctly visible and found that it was not. He could not
 be positive that the bottle of powder
 bore evidences of charcoal. He went over ground already covered by previous
 witnesses, with regard to tracks, etc.
 David Summers lived much nearer Peck
 than did Albert Platt, though Jennie
 Lockwood ran to the latter place to seek
 assistance when she found that her para
 mour had been shot.
 | ISAAC PATCHEN,
 Who accompanied MT Summers to Peck's,
 Friday morning, stated that they were
 the first men on the ground. The track I af9r, the wall, discovered soon after the : neither himself nar naaarrtaal1 ll1er, was made by undertaken, Mir Parmer,~, ,--~~s The = about II or F, was accompaniGEiyed Charles Patchen. Neither powder nor . tobacco had been handled by any one, to his knowledge, before Sheriff Glover ar rived. The heel track was but few inches from the fence.
 CHARLES MORGAN
 Of Hattertown, who accompanied a party to Peck's house, early Friday morning, lives about mile and half |. from Peck. When he arrived, besides ], Parmelee, who carried him up, Isaac l Patchen and John Summers were pres- . ent. He did not see the heel mark at the wall and did not go there at all. He T was present when the powder and tobac- t co were found and also found blood :, stains on the stone steps near the wall, l. as we'll as in the house and on the door. JOHN B. PARMELEE,
 called earlier in the trial, measured the
 had heen called to it. It looked as il
 the p, son making it had been sitting upon t stone, facing the house. He found that the track was } 7-8 } 3-4 5 inches. He also measured the heel o1 ' the boots shown him and found it was l. about one-sixteenth of an inch less.
 Some of the tracks through the slough II were measured in his presence and tht T. boots fitted perfectly. The heel track U was three CT four inches from the wall U Several stones, apparently fallen iron the wall, lay on the ground, near by $ The soil on which the track was fount le is loam washed from the road no gras = is on it.
 MICHAEL SMITH,
 ' Sent to jail from Newtown, charged witt :" grand larceny at Taunton, gave a con - versation with Rudolph. He said that r after exchanging opinions about New . town officers, Rudolph had told hir
 about his attempt to break jail, as al '0 ready detailed. At another time, ' said that, if he had succeeded in escaI 'h ing, a reward of $20,000 would probabl ns have been offered, but that they woul oi never have seen him again. He tol 'n Smith that 40 or 50 buck shot had bee fired at Peck and that his gun was at
 neighbours. He could prove that he wa :, at home at l2 o'clock, Tuesday nigh n' s.But,'' said Smith, sswhat if some or .n should swear that they saw you with - gun that morning?" ssOh I'd swes Y that had been out shooting hen haw so that morning. was the reply. On crol ne examination, Smith said that he ha he written to Sheriff Glover, saying that en wished to see him and had then told hi III about his conversations with Rudolph fe' Glover had seen Smith in jail sever .f times; Tuesday morning was the las he He was brought down by sriff Leo hu ard and was immediately est Bed out lis the court room. Rudolph xH ched Iii iiu keenly, with his head on one side al sfe his wife sat with clasped hands and COT he pressed lips.
 ,ar CHARLES THORPE
 lat Arrived at Peck,s carly and had his
 tention called, almost immediately,
 the heel track at the wall. It was poir Tn ing toward the west, as if the perss Dn. making it was partly facing the hon