The Newtown bee., 1895-02-01
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 THE TRIAL OF MISS HURLEY. .,,.' t.s,-4., ... SATURDAY SESSION OF COURT. 4.

l The adjournment of court in the trial ! of Kate Hurley from last week Tuesday
 night, re opened, last Saturday morning,
 at II o'clock. Settees had been arrang-
 ed for the audience and on Saturday
 afternoon every seat was full down stairs
 and many. were standing at the rear of the hall. There have been many enter- tainments at the hall that would have
 been glad of so large an audience. .@-'
 John Steingart, the German employed
 by MT Lowell, was called to the stand
 and his story was told through an inter-
 preter, Oscar Pitzsehler acting in this
 capacity, and was necessarily slow. He testified that he had lived with .Mr Lovellsix or seven weeks and was there
 on the day of the fire and took dinner
 with John iBresling Mrs Lowell and the | three children. That he got up from the table and went put. through the kitchen to the COW barn and fed the COWS, and
 then started for the house, ,where he was
 to chop wood. That when between the
 barn and stack, he saw smoke which at first he thought came from the chimney, but when he got nearer, saw that it came
 from the woodhouse and ran up and call- ed to Kate and the Misses, "Fire, in the
 woodhouse.'' That he went into the
 kitchen and Kate came from some room
 he did not know where, and he said to
 her fire in the woodhouse, didn't she see it2 She said no, and first looked at him, then out at the woodhouse and could see the smoke then. That Kate said he should throw on water and he asked her for a pail but she stood with folded hands and said she didn't know where it
 was. That he saw pail on the table and took and filled it and threw it on the fire That the Misses came out and ask ed where John was and he said he didn't know, but Kate said he was downAin the lot That he was alone and saw he could do nothing with the fire alone and thought the house might catch fire. '-- That he went into the wellroom and to hall way and Mrs Lowell came from her room to the hall way and took some clothes out of closet and asked him to remove some flour out of the hall way. That he went down to the COW barn for more pails and to the milk house for cans and when he got back there were 20 or 30 people ttere. That he then got shovels from tool house, to throw snow on the
 fire with and worked to put out the lire in the woodhOuse. That he saw John
 Breslin at about this time and John ask ed him how the fire got there and he told him he didnt know. That some, men said fire in house and John and be, and some other men went in to see if the. story was true. That John broke in door to the left in the upper hall and they went into the big room north of his room! That when the door was opened toshis room the smoke came out against them and they went, down. stairs to get water;' which was thrown on the fire.4 That he thought of his clothes in the room but could not get in on account of the smoke and as he came out he saw Kate. That she told him to-eome out as there was too much smoke, but he said he must have his clothes. ;, That he went again and grabbed his trunk and clothes and took them down to the kitchen. That after all was in order, they went down to milk.
 That Emma came down and called to John that the house was all on fire again. That they jumped up and emptied the milk, ran up to the house, and saw it was all litup, outside. That fire was put out and John said to he and Jim togo, down and milk and John. staid in house. That in 10 minutes man came down and aid it was on fire again but he thought it was a joke, until he told him sure. That the fire was in closet. in north room and was, put, out and he, saw burned clothing in closet in small, room and
 holes in the floor. That after this fire
 vas out he and James and George went down to finish milking and John Breslin
 staid at the house. That they had SUD-
 per and after supper threemen came and were looking around, but he didn't know
 what kind of men they were. That they
 went into Kate's room and pretty soon
 John came and called Kate in where
 thCy WCiCs Ahhb AotC SdnO pdCh anu said s'its cooI.'' That he heard them talking to Kate but could not understand thssn. That he and Jim went out to fix the horse stable and when they came back Jim asked him if he had seen what was in Kate's' bed and show ed f1iua the
 burned paper. That pretty soon two
 men, came and took Kate along with
 them. and he saw Kate had her trunk out
 in the kitchen. That he. went to bed at
 about 12 30 in Kate's bed. 44...sa
 It was now time for dinner and court
 adjourned until 80 o'clock when John
 Steingart took the stand again, for the
 cross examination. MT Williams wanted
 to Know how he understood what people
 said on the day of the fire and he said he could understand them some but did not
 Know what they meant. He testified 10
 where he had lived and workedasince he came to this country his last employment being with Christ Heisenburg, a con- tractor at Pallasaide Park. N. J., where he worked for IS months and left last November because of no work. He said that Mir Lowell hired him in New York at 2s Greenwich street for @ g month and asked him could he milk. That he came home with Mr Lowell and had trunk with him and described it's contents I He
 testified that he had no family and was not marfieds- That he took his trunk and clothes from his. room because. he was afraid they would burn. That he|6fst saw MT Lowell when he came home Sun day night and he said to him ssYou have had great time;" to which he said ssYes:'' That he fed 42 or 43 cowS Chat noon with corn stalks. He remembered when he put the four out from the hall way and thnnrht Mira T,ovelI movpd ffsrs