Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14

how he declared that he would not
attend his funeral. The prisoners
method of clubbing calves and cut
ting their throats was described.
The exhibition of the bloody shirt of
the murdered man was an other dra-
matte incident of the day which
closed its work with statement of
the value of the estate of the MUIR
dered man to be about nineteen hun
dred dollars.
Judge Lyons announced that the
trial of Mrs. Carpenter had been con-
tinued to the April term and that all
jurors excepting those now sitting
are discharged
STARTLING REVELATIONS ON SATURDAY.
On Saturday morning the court
room was quickly filled by men
aud women who were Just as eager
as on the first day of the trial
to catch the focal points that fell
from the lips of witnesses. They
listened to the recital of how the
prisoner on the eventful Sunday eve
ming had kept the dead latch of the
shop down, against the entrance of
the colored youth from getting into
the shop for oats to feed the elder
Carpenter's house, Jim had not in
the two months that the boy was en-
ployed there attended the horse.
How he told the boy that he and his
father were going to Donahay's that
evening to pay him some money and
he would feed the horse. How the
dead latch was up so that he could
get into the shop on Monday morn
ing. How the prisoner had asked
whether he had seen the old man
that morning, and later on in the
day when people saw blood outside
ofthe building and talked aboutit, Jim
said they should pay no attention to
that for be had taken a barrel of
feathers out that morning to Dona
bays stable manure pile. How
mention was made by the prisoner
that the shoe of his father that was
found at the creek WAS only a blind
and shat if they would find the old
man with his throat cut, he had cut
it himself. There was an other dr.,
matte scene when the knives were
passed around in the sight of the
jury and audience and Unidentified,
as those in use in the murderpen,
with hatchet that in all probability
had also been used on the head OF
the murdered Carpenter. for it was
in evidence that the hair III one
place on the dead mans head was
cut through as if with a sharp in
strument. How the prisoner said,
when he heard of the murder, eyes
it beats hell" But the revelation
that for a few seconds dazed and
almost took the breath of the ople
was that which declared that the
defendants had been seen in the
yard about 5 o'clock on Monday
morning, and afterwards heard talk
ing in the house where the accused
said to his mother. the old man is
now out of the way and HI go to the
bank and get the money and sell the
eggs in the shop and no one can
prove 1t. That revelation came on
the streets of. the town as if carried
by the air, and people almost forgot
their dinuers in their haste to get to
the Court House for the afternoon
session of court.
Long before the doors We're open
on Saturday afternoon the crowd
was at the doors that were kept
closely guarded to keep down the
the probability of a jam in the cor
ridors and court room. People
seemed to be more Intense in their
interest for the defense had not yet
outlined their line of defense and
showed nothing except to frequently
object to offered evidence.
1t was told by witness how light
had been seen aud voices heard in
the Carpenter house early on Mon
day morning, by a citizen of Tusca-
rora valley when he was on his way
to the railroad, and how Jim or
man of his form was seen at ten
o'clock at night in the alley, at the
shop, on the night the murder was
committed.
Court adjourned at 4 p. m. on Sat
urday to re-convene on Monday at
1870 a. IN.
THE FINISH.
Court reconvened on Monday at
10 q. IN, and after hearing two wit
nesses on points mentioned above,
the Common wealth closed their side
of tie case.
The defense moved an adjourn
ment to 20 minutes to two D. IN
which was promptly granted. The
greatest storm of the yesr was on at
that hour but regardless of the
storm almost q thousand men and
women were present and on the tip
the of expectancy for vigorous de
fense on the part of the lawyers for
toe prisoner. No defense had been |
outlined by the lawyers, and no one
in that large audience could outline
defense.
1t was plainly to be seen that the
lawyers for the defense were at the
end of their tether when they moved |
against John B. BARLEY a witness
for the commonwealth, to cite the
record against him, that in 1880 he
was tried upon criminal indictment
and sent to the penitentiary one year,
every one felt that the defense real
lied that their case was hopeless.
BARLEY was the witness who testi-
fed that he heard Jim and his father
quarrel on the Friday night previous
to the murder, and that on Monday
morning, December IL, when he was
passing the Carpenter place on his
way to work, between 4 and o'clock