Bridgeton pioneer., 1893-10-19
WHOLE NO. 24O5

| In" His family was with him. That
night his horse was take n sick and he
went across the field to his brother
Dawes to get his boys to help doctor
his horse
When he was huckleberrying he met
Winch" and "Billy" up there and
they asked him what he was doing
an he said tryin'to get few huckle-
berries.n
He produced an ear of corn which
looked just like all the other samples
on hand.
Mrs. Facemeyer made good wit
ness for her husband, and no doubt
made good impression on the Jury,
She told her story Ia a modest, straight
forward manner. The case consumed
the entire morning session.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
When the jury In the case of Moses
Facemeyer, charged with stealing corn,
had retired. another jury was put In
the box to try the same defendant on
an indictment charging him with
stealing farming implements from
Bloomfield Spencer.
The indictment charged Facemeyar
with stealing four hoes from Mr.. Spen-
Ger, one of which articles were found
by search warrant on the premises of
Facemeyer.
Mr.. Burt again appeared for Face.
meyer.
MIR. Spencer was placed upon the
stand and said that he resided in Gen.
tre Grove and the defendant lived q
mile and half or two miles from his
residence.
The articles were stolen In Julys
some of them on the night of July
10Th, the same night that Evering-
hams corn was stolen. A sweet po-
tato hoe, found by the Constable when
executing the search warrant, was
identified by Mr.. Spencer as his hoe.
Constable Slmpkins identified the
hoe as the one he found on Face
meyers premises, and James Evering-
ingham identified the hoe as the prop
erty of his neighbor, Mr.. Spencer.
The State rested its case and the de.
Tense was begun.
Facemeyer was put on the stand;
his defense was that he bought the
hoe three years ago at the public sale
OF the effects of George Bailey, de-
ceased, near Haleyville, and had
owned and used it ever since He
swore he cut the handle off and put
the wedges in new.
"Wincil' Facemeyer and Mrs. Face
meyer gave corroboratiYe testimony
and the defense closed.
The State then produced DR.. Har.
ker, of Port Norris, in rebuttal of the
evidence that Facemeyer had bought
the hoe at the sale of the Bailey effects.
DIR. Harker was the clerk at that sale
and identified a sale list that was pro.
duced; this sale list did not show that
Facemeyer had bought any kind of a
hoe at this sale.
A short summing up was made by
the lawyers, and after the Judge de.
liYered his usual charge the jury with.
drew.
Just at this juncture the jury which
had been ont on the corn case entered
and rendered verdict of not guilty.
Prosecutor Logue moved the case Of
Cornelius Gould, indicted for forgery.
F. III. Porch, Esq, appeared for
Gould and jury was put In the box.
All the other jurors were discharged
until Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Gould was Indicted for forging and
uttering a check on Bridgeton Ma
tional Bank for S9 Tne check pur-
ported to be signed by MacFarland &
Co., to the order of the same, as was
been detailed In the PIONEER at the
time of the occurrence during the last
County Fair, Sept. 9TH.
Charles Reeve, of Reeve s. Fithian,
was the first witness called and identi-
fl ID the prisoner, He said on the
evening of that day Gould came into
his store and asked him to cash q
check for him. On being shown the
check witness at once suspected the
check was forgery. Mr.. Reeve said
that the check was not endorsed and
he told Gould he could not cash 1t un-
til 1t had been endorsed, and Gould
said he would get 1t endorsed. He
went out and In short time returned
with the cheek endorsed.
To question Mr.. Reeve said that
Gould said that Mr.. MacFarland had
endorsed the check and he saw him do
1t.
Mr., MacFarland was called and re-
lated how he had been apprised of the
forgery and how the subse quent arrest
of Gould had been made.
Mr.. MaoFarlaad said he never knew
the defendant.
With this witness the state rested.