Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-09

went down TO the beach Off the railroad
track before he reached Benefits
place. We made no threats to him
nor offered him any inducements to
make any statements. We went with
him to little bunch Of alders near the
Little Squalicum bridge, where he
tried to show us the the tracks where
he went down to the beach The next
day | went to George and told him |
was going TO search his house. He
told me to tell his wife to show me his
trunks and everything in the house.
Neil Blue, the jailer, heard him tell
me this.
Mr.. Piles here interposcd some OBJ
jections that he made the preceding
evening TO the testimony of Hilaire
Crockett. The witness continued:
searched the house and found the
white package George told me ! would
find. The next Monday / went back
and searched again.
"Hold on there" shouted Mr. Piles,
"what day did you go there the first
tlmeY'
Saturday.
The daJ George told you to make the
search?
Yes.
Then did you go back again?
Yes.
Did you have warrant this time?
No.
Where was George Swiloo- then?
/ don't know
81 insist upon my objection" " said
| Mr.. Piles to the court.
The ~ituItion was this, said Major
! Cole in reply, the sheriff had made Il
search with the consent of the defend
ant. He was not satisfied with his
/ first search and returned and searched
again after the defendant had escaped
and was a fugitive.
George Swiloos, - replied Mr. Piles,
| CONSCIOUS Of his innocence on Satur-
day, when he had just come from his
home, told the officer TO 90 and search
! his house. On Monday when he had
not been home for several days, who
| knows but Henry Williams or some
enemy had secreted this evidence
against him i'm this house?'
The court overruled the objection
and allowed the witness to testify and
| he continued:
/ took Hilairc Crockett, Chief Henry
and Big John. We found Mrs. Swi-
loos and "a man there. stayed on the
outside Crockett, Henry and John
went i'm and stayed about twenty min.
utes. then went in.
| visited the scene of the murder
about 10 o'clock on the same day Ia
look for evidence. The witness identi-
/. fled the ring found by Mr.. -i-sOn and
/ the cane and hat. The club was then
handed to him and he testified that he
saw Icttler pick ii out Of the water
where Younkiu was found. II was
dripping wet and right here putting
his finger on an iudcuturc on the
corner was flesh, found some tracks
lat the little bridge, the trail leads down
TO the beach from the end of the
bridge.
George told me that ne left town
about ten minutes past ! p. m HC
said he went down on TO the railroad
track near Judge Blacks house.
On cTOss-cXaminatiOn the witness
, stated that he found no blood on any
of Georges clothes which he found in
the search.
, Hilaire Crockett was then recalled
. to the stand. lie is subpwnaed by the
state and defense and put i'm some tes
timony for the defendant while on TN,
, stand for tn state. ] went up stair
, to search, said he, referring to tn
search of Georges house. / found tina
watch and that chain on top Of TIN
ceiling. The ceiling was Of ceda
I shakes There was no floor up stairs
Redirect.
There was an opening in the ceilinI
= in the corner Of the room. Big JOIN
lifted me up through the opening
- found the watch at the end Of TIA
rafters.
In e-cross-examinatiOn the witncs
stated that the watch was i'm plai
4 sight If the sheriff had gone up ther
he could have seen it..
!. Did anybody 90 up there before MOI
p day, asked Mr.. Piles.
Sheriff DeLorimier went up theT
Il Sunday. He did not find the watcl
If it had been there he could haV
found il.
No. Sheriff DeI.ormier then took tn
stand.
10 On the evening Of January y ! an
EstabroOk and Thomas jefferson a
i rested George at Holtzen's place on I'll
n Iummi reservation. While takin
him 10 Whatcom he told me that he VIZ
at Fairhaven on the day Of the murd
II and missed the train. He askt
told him that il was beyond Bennett
m place. He said that he and Henry le
v the railroad track before they came
ne Benefits, and was 7ery anxious
ie show me the place. The next day
took him out 10 the place. made
thorough search and found an old tra'
id where one person had gone dow
il There had been several rains since I'll
track was made. I then took hi
or down TO where the murder was COZ
mr. mitted, and then back past Bennett
place. When we came TO place wine
hit the embankment was almost perpe
al dcular he stepped behind me and ga
d. me quick push and ! went over q
bluff When got up George was ru
Irt ming down the track. ! shot at h
and gave chase. ! took another 81
nd and climbed up the DanS on the rig
" side Of the track, and ran through B'
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