The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-04-08
Third EDITION.


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u1s day, but still the room was crowd
I'D, and some OF the women were IT
9bliged TO occupy seats In the grand l
Chief Justice Lore and Associate
\ Judges drubb and Marvel were on the
oench. when court opened at . o'clock.
Il and the jury were brought In, looking
tired and sleepy and not ut all pleased
With the prospect OF being locked up
4 until so me time next week.
The first witness was Horace Brown,
who testified that he Is q telegraph
4 operator ut Seaford. He placed tho
QaL containing the internal organs of
p 1ha Rosser child In the carriage OF DR..
Z 8alnes, and saw him take 1t away.
n Mira Benjamin Rosser was recalled,
y md testified that she went to John
+ Hossefss house on Sunday, and rs-
n Rafned until Monday. All the family
6 ware sick, and she fed the stock and
4 Intended to 1t. They consisted OF a
4 SOW. horse and the hogs. They
= would not eat or drink. The cow
a He'd. With ess drank some of tho wa
\ II and It m ade her sick. She was sick
~ Cor nearly two days, but was able to
{ 10 about. When she returned on
Monday night she brought with her
" Qne OF Evans chlldren-one she had
] o8ken to raise, about years old. The
ahild drank some Of the water and
was also sick with the same symp-
1oms that witness had.
rs Mrs. Gertrude Smith was called,
put her testimony was uniIn portant
ehe kept house for Evans about one
4 week. In Tacony. The family consist.
"a OF Evans, his daughter Sallie. and
4 the witness. Evans told her oil onel
occasion that 1t was tho fault of hisl
Nifes brothers that they were separat.
ID.
William Lockerman, OF Concord,
Nd. testified that he has known Evans
Y FOR years. Evans and man named
+. Williamson called upon him In June,
1692, while he was justice of the
peace to get him to draw a deed for a
& farm, which he had sold to William
pon. Evans asked the witness TO write
4 ~ his wife. urging her TO 40 and live
NJ with him, which he did, but received
no answer. Witness saw Mrs. Evans
On Monday, August /. 1892, witness
3 Ecceived a postal card from Evans,
asking II lie had written to his wife as
requested. He answered on postal
card on Tuesday that he had. but that
Mrs. Evans had refused to return to
him.
Chas. T. Toy, of Tacony. testified
that he has known Evans for ten years
and had worked with him. He saw him
August 4, 1892, between and 0 o'clock
II unruh wharf, Tacony. A boat runs
From that place to Chestnut street
wharf. one at 8 q. M. and another at
= 30 or S.55 a. IN. He spoke to Evans
thnt dag and saw him again on Satur-
Gay nornlng, Aug. 8. He said: Hello,
B1ll. got back, have your" Evans an.
gwered; Yes, l have been down to SEQ
ny folks"
He noticed that Evans generally
walked with the head bent forward
and the left shoulder stopped lie had
IUtI I'd 4. Il
prai timet. The witness knew he had
, sister living down town.
Detective McVey was recalled, and
festified that he had walked from
Efankford to Tacony in ~ minutes
10 go from Frankrord TO Philadel-
4 pbia by the Pennsylvania railroad
fsauired thirty three minutes. The
detective produced the time table OF
khs Pennsylvania railroad in corrobo-
fattor OF his testimony, hut the de.
fence objected. because IL was not
p1ered by a railroad man, and the
nmo table was ruled out by the court.
Toy WAS recalled and testified that
be had gone on a train from Tacony
10 Philadelphia i'll thirtY-eight min
bies.
Telegraph operator Horace Brown
upon being recalled produced n time
table of the p, w. 4 b. Railroad,
showing the time the trains left phila.
dolphin August ith to be as follows:
~ T.f1 and 1888 a. m. and S.53 D. IN. He
eiso testified TO the time trains left
Etatord and BrldReVille on that day,
George II. Collins testified that he
NV Evacs at his homo near Concord
August 4th, 1892. The witness wife
Hte away at camp meeting, and ht
Was getting ready to go after hol
when Evans knocked at his back door
Ihe witness let him In and gave hiu
Mt Inn tn In afn cod
Exans and left him a short distance
rT From Ills house.
Nathaniel Conowny testified thai
shout 10 o'clock OF the night OF Au
gust 4, he was hailed by man on this
road and that he gave him ride II,
Tar as tho Four Corners, when he go
ont. He however could not identity
Eyans as the man.
Frank Allen testified that he live
shout two miles from John Rosser'
farm. On Thursday night August 4
he was awakened by the barking u
his dogs. The witnoss got up AM
went out on his front step when h
Was hallod by u man who inquired til
road to Cambridge. He directed hin
when the man said:
That Is Bethel Church. ] can go L
Oak Grove that way" Allen said: 81
you want to 60 to Oak Grove. CONF
back by my house; it is as near from
here as The church" The man cam
back. Allen directed him and watch
ID him nearly to the turn OF tho roa
70 Oak Grove. The witness could no
ywear positively that Evans was tn
nan, but he answered the desert ption
This witness was corIoborated b
lhS testimony of hls daughter Mis-
EllZa Allen. who also said that I'll
mans voice resemblsd that OF Evan
Reporter Antrim OF the PHILADELPHIA
Record was called and testified that /
knnted for Evans and found him !
HReony on Saturday, August lS II
Gns accused OF the crime OF poisonln
Tho well and causing The death OF la
pond Rosser, but Evans denied a
knowledge of IL.
boarding house at Tacony, and tn
Evans was one of his boardets
went away on Thursday. Aug. j. al
aid not return until the folluwir
night When no came back tho Wi
ness said: Hello. Bill, we thougl
you were drowned. Have you Deen
nee your best giIi?p Evans said he he
been lighting with his brother IN la
In Delaware. AMI mud boon out all q
nlght before,
On Aug. IL the witness heard Evai
cay no went to Lincoln Park on Au
4. missed the last boat and had to 1T,
there all night. Evans asked the W
0tcS WV AbAAO"lHb llDilAlhN " ENf
that he was home on Thursday nigl
saying 1t would be oil right and no,
For him. but Mari refused.
The day that Evans was arrested I
Witness saw white powder on 1
noor of llls room. that git5tened In
hight but there was not sufficient OF
TO preserve.
john Iruevrlt who roomed W
Evans. also testified that he went a
On August 1. and did not return I
I'll late tlHs next night.
Mrs. John Mari testified that Eva
went away about . o'clock Thursl
mcrnlng August 4. and came back Ii
the neat night with his clothing dill
and disarIunged.
Sac also saw the powder in bis roc
either un Thursday or Friday Inorni
After he returned Evans asked
II GnythiI u happened to swear that
was home on Thursday, but .
would not promise TO do SO
detective McEoy was again recall
and testified thnt he arrested Eva
at the shop where he was wnrki
The prisoner was very much exCit
When lie went for his coat he picI
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