The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-27
TIE BLACKBURN TRIAL
ON CHARGE. OF BURGLARY
AND LARCENY.
Story of the Krinn Murder
Detailed i'll Open Court.
Gathering mp the Threads of Great
Crime.
Coniin,led from. 1st pone.


There were four ten dollar bills
i'm the chest up stairs, the one they
broke open, and some other silver
money hut / don't know how much.
saw the money there that after
noon. Mr. Daniel Kreschbaum had
drilled i'm our wheat that day and
finished that evening and l had
gone to the chest to get money to
pay him and took a five dollar bill
out, but he could not change it so
he said it made no difference as he
had more work to do, and | put the
five dollar bill into pocket-book
and put it under the clothes in the
bureau drawer and they didn't get
that. When I was getting the 70
bill noticed the other money.
The men had old linen or coffee
sacks over their coats and red cali
co or red handkprchief5 over their
faces.
The clock struck eleven while
the men were there. One of the
men had something like II corn
cutter with an old cloth wrapped
around it in his hand and he struck
Mr.. Krinn with it. The others had
clubs.
After the men had gone little
while / told Maggie to ring the bell
and get help. She rang the bell
twice and then started for Jacob
Cupp's, to get help"
The cross examination developed
that the men when they came down
stairs told Maggie that they had
got the money out of the chest and
wanted to know where the rest
was.
The clock struck twelve about
half an hour after the men left.
The remainder of the cross eX-
animation developed nothing new.
On re-eXamination she stated
that the thieves got the money and
that it was taken from Mr.. Krinn's
residence in Hooking county, and
State of Ohio.
Miss Maggie Walker the next
witness, is a good looking and in
telligent young lady and testified,
that she now lives in Circleville,
but was living with her grand pa
rents, Mr.. John NJ. and Margaret
Krinn, on their farm near Gibson
vile, Il ocking county, Ohio on the
22nd. of September last.
We had gone to bed at about
ten o'clock and some time between
ten and eleven O'Clock / was wax
ened. I don't know what wakened
me. The first thing saw was that
some men had grandpa down on
the floor and were beating and
kicking him. There were four
men, two of them were large and
two small. After they quit beating
him two of the men went up stairs
and the other two stood by the bed,
one by grand pa and one by grand
ma. They said nothing except to
tell us to keep still.
saw that the largest man had
something like coffee sack over
his coat, which came down to near
his knees, and the heads and faces
heads of all of them were covered
with something like red handker-
chiefs or red calico.
They walked heavy.
1t was the two small men who
went up stairs and almost inn
mediately one of them came down
again and went outside the door
and got an ak, it appeared to me
that he got it just outside the door,
and after he went back up stairs l
heard them cutting the chest open.
At this time grand pa and grand
ma were sitting on their bed and
the other two men stood by them.
/ do not know on which side of the
head grand pa was hurt. After
awhile one of the men came down
stairs and stood by the door and
soon the other came down and
came over to me and asked me
where the money was. L didn't
answer and he took revolver
from his pocket and pointed it at
me and told me to look there and
if / didn't tell / knew what the
consequence would be. / then told
him that all the money was in the
chest, he then went back up stairs
and stayed about ten minutes and
came back.
They then searched through the
two bureaus down stairs. They
tore open everything in the rooms
above and below, and emptied
clover seed out Of barrel that was
up stairs.
Tho oufuida da,rs af the house