Evening journal., 1892-06-01

self for extra work That Is the
bloody band showed to me by detective
McYey, on New Years Day after dinner
He came TO our house / saw a button.
was shocked | went to the button
bag and looked for the button. | only
had one of that kind II was gone.
That is the button IL Is of
mother-ofpearl i got il ten or twelve
years ago. | kept it in my button-bag
for odd buttons. | bought them for
little giri--a dozen buttons Eleven
were used on her dress / put the other
one in the bag Noah came to me and
asked me for needle and thread ! gave
it to him. He then asked for a button.
handed him the button bag. He went
out with It and spool Of black thread.
He brought it back in about half an hour
There was plenty of white thread in the
needle to sew ON button. II must have
been after the first Of November 1891
Under Cross-examination.
Cooper-"Where did you buy that but.
tonG" II don't know I think IL was in
Philadelphia. / cannot say that that Is
the button II was one like il. f"
did you buy all the buttons Of this
kindg' II don't know
when did you miss itG' ''Not until
it was shown TO me by the detectives
do you know Julia Hutt OF Maria
JohnsonY' mo
"Do you know that Benson took that
button from the nagg' No, but | know
he got the bag TO get a button.
Bag Kept in the Conservatory.
Miss Eta Beck. dark haired young
woman. dressed IN black clothes and
wearing a black lace hat followed her
mother TO the stand. Under direct ex-
animation she said
1T looks exactly like the button we
had in the bag The button is worn of
some but it looks much like IL. 1t was
the only button Of the kind in the bag
It had been there for about ten years
Cooper" Each time you went TO the bag
did you see itY' "No. I do not suppose SO but
l am positive ! saw IL during 1891.
Mamma and / used the buttons. My
brothers do not often sew buttons on I'M
less there are no women about The bag
was kept in the conservatory The ser
wants went in and out of the room
"Did strangers ever so into the roomg
"Yes, but strangers do not usually 60 "a
the button bag.
Stewart Beck, sworn-''I last saw Noal
Benson on Thanksgiving Day. It was
about 3 o'clock in the evening. searched
for him afterwards, but could not hear
anything about him. About two weeks
before he disappeared | took his clothes
to Annie Hickman TO be washed
Annie Hickman, colored, sworn - =
live out to Mr.. Reynolds. / have seer
those drawers before. Mr.. Beck gave m'
the drawers and two shirts to wash fol
Noah Benson They are the drawers that
the detectives got at my house.
Dat Wuz His Text"
Sarah Fields, an infrm and age'
colored woman, with very bad sight, n'
shoes and very bad cold, was led TO th'
box and identified Daniel Miller. She
then took the stand and said.
"Miller cum tor my house in PoketowI
bout o'clock on de Friday afte
Thanksgivin ! sez, sez |, 'Dan'l, wha
you doin' heah wild muffin on but daf
gauze shirtY He sez sez he, i wuz II
dat mob and got my shirt bloody Sez ]
'Danl, did you cut manr He nevaf
opened his mouf good, bad or different
He cum agin an sez, sez he: 4 cut dl
d-n niggah ter death.
He said he cut de d-n niger C
deathgn
Yes sah dat wuz his text. sez
Dan1 YOU git way from heah. / gul
him a blue an white shirt. He said
Yes. - nigger to ~ he cut hin
to death wouldn't cum heah an lii
on him foah ebberyt'ing in the worl' -
Cooper-"Was there fight in Poke
town on Thanksgiving nightY' De
sed so. wuz sick in bed, / wuz.
''Did not Miller tell you that he cut Oh
man in Wilmington Maybe he die
now-maybe he did, but / doan t'ink h
did. But does know dat he cut mar
Dat wuz his tex Gaughter)
The Jail Confessions.
James II. Dilworth, editor of the Del'
ware City News, told how he and Wi
liam H. Walker had concealed themselve
in a cell at Delaware City jail and hea 7
the prisoners talking among themselves
He said:
Il cannot remember exactly what the
said I heard the woman say when d.
tectiye McVey left the prison that he hope
McVey would drop dead before the ne2
term of court
Mr. Cooper objected, stating that tn
defence was entitled TO the language O
the prisoners and all of the staten ent
The court overruled the objection.
Dilworth-"My published account
, am willing to swear to. heard Johnso
saw more than once, They can't prov
ANYTHING on us. He said he had a shirt
his pocket and wondered why Ella Kin
, had not been arrested He sal
If we can only keep that Hut
womans mouth shut until aft.
) conrt we are all right Hutt tol
I his wife not to worry He said il woul
y take money TO hire a lawyer. Julia tol
4 Jim johnson to be careful about a shir
: He said he had it in his pocket JUN