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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. errata to ! pelure, U 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 mix: BLACK RIVER ROAD TRAGEDY. FULL EEPOETS OF THE COROITEIl'S liNQTJEST, AKD THE TRIAL OP JOHK J^, 1MCTJ3VII.OE FOB THE MUBDEB OF SAEAH MARGARET VAIL AND ELLA MAY MUNROE. SAINT JOHN, N. B. : PBINTED BT GEO. W. DAY, 46 CHABLOTrE STRIET. 1869. iW«MP u ,1 r -r (T )fi:.p "If' "i.;^:^ .* Jll 9" till ratol bTt 80Qt rumium a/.ofl mnn yiOAja 3m iuul fill/ 'i-vj' .r I'c .7 ii'/r BE BUCK RIVEftfeOAD eleViM ^^r ttiFbh'ir ^iv, «r Mnoe the Bf ispeek Ttngedr, prbbably no orine foul » nntare m that which is now jast broagfat to liirnt, has Immi commit- New BtnnswJlcii. W« my crime, for there owi be no doubt that a dnadfol le murder waii committed, and that apon a wealt and defencelesa woman, still weAfcer snd Innocent babe, v storf , evolved from rumon which for a wedt had been more or leaa ig aboot in the eomAnni^, is this: 8oine colored girla and yonog men laid to have been nicking berries upon what is icnowii aethe Blueberry IS on the road leading to Willow Orove from Lakm Lomond, on Tuesday, fiber 7ch— the day His Ilo>aI Highness Prince Arthur arrived in St. John— >D« of the ffirls came upon what appeared to be the remains of some ani* '^^hnman being, she did not know -which. Curious to know tiiiat H. rcAlly |ie called to Mr companions, who, upon reachhig the. spot, disocrmreda of a hnman sknil and a few bones, together with sundry portions of rhich indicated the remains to be that of a w tthey, in their utter ignorance of the demuids of humanity and what was t at theif hands, may have thought that it was none of their businase uy Ifiict be knonm th«t th^ had found hunwn remains in a spok where they iHght to be. Ot they may have supposed that faring the winter some rky^tde tnaveller had lost her v^y and died inihe snow, where rim had »wn to rest, and as there was Httle remi^ing~to shew who and wbM she was hardly worth while to make a noise about k. These am, of toarse ires, but odb thing fscert*in, tiie ton or dosek^ievsont who fivsl smr th« b HgtiM to let nb dne know what they had seen. It was. how«vnr, too Id ^ange n sight to thent to permit of that secrecy they had ptedged to (nk« glrfloM aaother, she told her aunt, this woman mfofmed a ; in the nOighborhood, and he with others called apon the trembling and berry-pickets to tend them to the spot. ipct to which tbe fnnf were bmnght was near the Bkok Rivw Bond, a ^i^ Of a mile beyond the Forkn, and half a mile flrom Bnnknr^ The r. tb« t^usli to match exHotly with'the stabs or bntnobea from whici^ tbey had- beea Uk«Q. Thia ve- mdinedf, a eoverintf of aioM wm Been, which most clearly ha4 -been remoKOd from a«pot;oloedt^,i£i»iiwttistill bate, wfbUe lUlvaroaad it wajs covj^red wUb tho natural growth to the depth of six or ^ight inohesi PoHtpg among this niols?} which appedrltd hav&been. tramped down* fQr it. waaireryjBucb matled, tharej^ppnarea the large bdna of a thighs and pieoen of other beaps, together with reiniiantB of a woiaan'a alpaooA 4resa, straw hat ^eavy tweed oloth aac^net b^in 'S6nta^, enbroldevad (open worked)/ skirt (or-dpawea'S^t blue gray mauQP stookihg, biadkiitk ribbotf sash (ealire), and sundry other iKt^ioje^ dif&pulti ^e describe. ^ ■uii-\ii-'-^ ■. j !>:'■ . ■ • tu,-.., t-: -.'liv ■^o^:t •■um-- c. k-j ■ <{■ j-, ,,> fi->r.v' V At tNe cHslaace df &{iBW> yaitls ite/eti remnaints.of a ob^d'e white dress,, wiw it» whke alip, or underskirt inside it and both piaaed at the back, a boot a^d soek in it, red ilama drees* grey oloth aaoque or capc^ (entire) still fastened.^ the neck, and a roHer. bandage of cotton having eewedJ^tpJ^jaiVoand piece Ojf )ead pierbeid with nee^ holes, to act ae a truss* ■■> : j d li.f: ' •■'Ijj' i: From the condition in whioh the remains wens fomnd.it waq evident that tne bodies had been eataa by doge or foxes, as no portion of the flesh was cbserv- able, andtho clothing of both woman atvd ohtld had been torn up by the a^iint^ls kt their endeavors to get at their prey. The bone* of the hands and iteet \fere not fbubd/nor w^re the vertebrata. Of the ohild nothing w?^ discovered bnt the sknll and potrlfonsof its olothiilg, and the shoes or bpotaiof tho woman were also 'missing. ■,' ■'■>■■-,■■: ■ s. In a direct line from the spot .where the bodiea. had*'been deposited Messrs. March and Bunker found on the bankbythe side f>t the road, ;what appeared to be the impristiOta thaa's ioot made ia thcfclay when softened by rain,, or the water whicli aeeumnlatte in a deep hole formed by the rtmoval ,<(^ gravel to re- ^ir tba roads; This hole, in Sprit'g or. ^il, must iiara three or .four ifeet uf waterda it. : Tba boshes gavC'iif- indioatiba, however, of^ the passage ot (rar- sont thvougb them. The bodies had been deposited iu a pnaiiJlC; )|Q).1ow , lying tftbtt^' and south, covecied wlth-moss and brusb.wopd< ai)4 k^pt-in place by heavier sticks.^ More than a dozen of the trees showed iWlijBre {thel brush came ftom. ' Thci moss had not been romoved, for on poking: it UR withi ia stick they I turned dp axed berlin tasseU a picee of child s,t«d dsessii a loi^ piece of black bwidi Bonio portioneteif grey tweed* probably of a thick ekirt, part <^f some whi^ cotton garment, a white bone button, 610. ^o^j Forty or ^fty pf^qes direptly noipth bfthetjp6ttllfey.itome upon the ohtid's skull 'l;^g jjosanopen apace close by a sottili bitsh;.! JH portion of therightaid&' piece, of the skull had be^a bfokenl «fF andUaytwo from it. Qn ^picking; tho skull np«. it s^i^urateH at thel joints, bulb wis in other raspect»firm« ' Updn^tho aide oi' Uie!sk,u^l is an iiujeutaj tiOQ over as inch in ietigth, as though m^dtf with a 'Shai'P inst^uiP^nt upon thel -bon« when soft; and a nooaber of surface puaotures lopk «e ithou^h made witbl the point of atjaok knife. These mat-ks» irtim lh9ir .ciiMi^aclier, oouTd hardly havel ^been knade by the tbcl)h>6£> an animal. A: short .-dtstanee east of 'this they.also| found the top of a woman's merino stocking. , < y -t vnwiuJ w(.\ .jy«i'l(irij to mi'A .?<' o> .i«38 3»«o 3n saw uoiumwtai Inn. ,koic.~ jAMBt C James (« The C testimony! MAR s^orn: I M»T the ll»0, JPfJBC ««iA*l»s H ?«tDoe Vo, di«i4Mi(e I ^ hbad.nr Wm Ahea itov^KrWi haifci^.i al an4/4 ho(p op in a in Powl«r «a I tbw can ajraj), V\ a^ioiit, f,tui belttT. none oC,i kaaw of.; and pf or^ ^iboiit ii i ae-ifwhiift ftBOiuo'Aj mir JJT) I . hr.,. ,»■«■«» «ii, ft -in •If ' M-t. , i 1 •i.'Mj'.i i ; nHm*i>% b'tti'i '♦rli , TojB inquest wu^op^o^d ii^ ^h^ Cifcuit CouttRoom, b«£ctr« Dr. Kakm, )onfl.Qf t|i« C()mnera of tl^ Goviity' of StJ if dbn/ A numb«r of a^edftdkl 'htifii, M¥mbiM of t^spreMand otu^ra w^re nrq^fnt. .Tnf; f«tlowiog goDtlMntn composckl (hit Jury* via.: '" '■'''' • ••'' •' '"' • *• ■ ■< JAHRt CRf WC0IM2. j(7l^OR9E[,S(;:)9Jl1}J^I(t(«j Jamks Grbsiv, V I LiBWiBMrvPuiUN?* Wfluam Oiubb, WMi'K. L&uetEix* 'S-ff "•■ "-'ifl rt; :?: •.11 -Nl ^!|i((jt' {iir • The Court beingopebtd^lhilblloirtn); te»timoiiy Vfaitafead': ' '^' . t"'' ^, •"" 1 ! • . M» Uf1« ,?! . tlKKlil ;<0!(' '^< MARTHA TROMP8(»f,^Color0d)^ rn ij • •' ■ ■• 'J ! (',■(!<■ •■ ! ' 'i • ' _-' B!er,]6lof^, pD the day «l4t»t (Q«tf;«iu»f! H^rd ri^^fgwel), and ]g«tflo« i'p,fr)^r,|r(«r,« with m^^,l.w§a* lilfla !^ hiea d or ekpll. } J(:9oILr||, ^my. 8iatj^4,,^ti(^ ^ sume 4iotanG0 fr*«nJWB^;Ji,^ei^Jal80,fifJ;s^ iu»4ac4»ked at it.,.., Up^ofM^ 7^««gf.t«fPMi i I ov ^ fWiWi ftAtiftlf, and r »,,«*»; ppdrtipn^ flt and «» hoipfp^^lfirt,. ,,,T|^e,, ajipUNe* ;W.^'!eJWit up ina ^>«ineh ^|if^,Jl?i|^Br,lh^^, li^/liflce Powl«r aaid itjwas ,,thtt aVull pf^aiietf^W)^ I then cania aw^y, an^ t,^t» ;ett]L »Uo c((tao away, We ijickwl ,i)erti^,.|^Cier,,j^^'ieft uui4>,it wa<* ilune iQ,go,Uoin9.,' Tni^iiraa wevftvid , ^totittinji , ft|)Out.,.U'.,!(t ,ljpew qq. bwitt^. .\V* «ll,.»f(mt hoiiie t/p|f9ihQr*i^(i none Q£,i^,jHhei;f ,;^fUd *i7)W)c/tH ,»jfBi|» jU1^VM|J^ : ir-iOHW* 1 V..' QUE ST. t'^VJi' ■/■>,• ;^»j night flVfAnefiky). 'i'He'-a^uit' wM partly oover^i uo with bru^h i^f»clmoaa }^ the bru«h ahowiiia |t^e i\, * 1 Mf i^thtog CAitouwk tAoi^W8j»'?dblonfi(id)V aWorn : About surfcakago I mm p{a\dndi f bitrriea*^ Black Bit^r Road, about 1* mlifl ftidm Bunker'a. Mv t«N» afaMrt aii4r Ifrinca Fowler w«re witM m*; My alster' Ma#iba wag % Iheieahaadl'aMcJalkcl^ inr dldeat^iiata^ Mal^i'M/'atid ' aaked'' what that *»■• ^Mob i^ 4iaa*«D«nd ; tba aaid ahe did not know, %tiA tkren ealicd/ on Prinoe Fotvler • h* ««i4 he' thought \X^ wak a ^^ersen^s head ; I eame up ahd looked at it ; there Was n head' afivd two bonas, ^ene olothing of' '« 'wo«h«n<-Mio; aeverat )fttle bunihea-^a ehllA'e shoe ami aoolt, but no other ohild'a bloCh'fng ; tliey were covered with' moM and bark such ait that' shown. ' George Di^ removed some of the nyosatknd hvu^h. Ihekre wers > «ome clothes lying undeK> d»y, W|ven. Wj^iVt, |ipaie,lt#14 rayjiny.i^baf .^nj f^thp^., ^bpjit it^ >ui, ;t^r4, ^ohoQy ' else; it'; was agreed. i^njioMjUa all not to aav a'nyr^ tluj^g ,obo,i4 4t,;, Jby we , I niean George pi^gs, Heucy Bi^ndy, lai^iah Uabels,^ Prince Foiwl^r, Mary Thornpspii, Nlary Corbyn, ^usan Cprbyn. Thay g^ye xyt reiaon /or noj^ ifiahinff tp .lejij auvbodv. Bly.Yj^tf cp,^R»rmqiher did not tell any- b;)4^!, >>nVJ«f»,ipift t^V^?? (flfho, wrt3 alfo ,w(tl|. ;P^) t«>ld, J^ary ^he ,abo»t JtfTlast Si^ucUy, i^,sQ;xpu^.X«fr^.^, di^.not agree not bb t^f;,J,qfWt aaw affyo^e abbj»tlh?rB T^ INQUEST. SUSAN LAMB (Colored), sworn : I live st Loch Lomond. A week kcro UstTuesdsjr I wm on tie Plains, near Black Rivqr Road, picking berriea, in companT with Fan Thontpion, Martha Ann TbompBOtt, Caroline Tbompaon, Margaret Jan* Thompson, George Difes, laaiah Oabela, Prince Fowlar, Mary ^Tbompaon and Henry Brandy. Wblle picking befrieii. Martha Ann Thompson went a s^ort distance from the rest of us, and In a little while l heard her call ua over. Mary Thompson, Henry Brandy, myself aod sister weat.tQ ber. I »s» a woman^B bead and aome bones lying on tJ^t grottn4« wlib saaM brush o» them. I rbuaght it was a woman^s bead boosaae the clothes were there. Henry Brandy toek the brush off and we all looked at it for a little while. I aleo ssw a child's boot with a itockinff in it. We all got frightened and went away from it ; we all thooght it not worth while to say anythinir aboot it. George Diggs said for ua not to bother with it. I told my father the sams niirht (Tussday) ; he told a snan named Kennedy the saoae nigbt; Mrs. Kennedy told my aunt, Marr Corl^n, and she told Mr. Donglas on Sunday. Mr. Douglas than came orer to Mr. Tbomp- 8on*s to see about it. I w«nt with him to the plaee. 1 saw no brooch or locket, nor heard of any. MAROARBT JAub tHOMPSOiv (Colored), sworn : About a Week ago I wia out pick- ing berries on the Plains, near Black River Road, about a quarter of a miltf above Bunker's, in company with my two sisters, Prhite Fowler, George t)iggs. Mary Thompson, Jemima Lane and others. My sister called me to tell her what it was she bad found ; on going to har she asked me what kind of thing that was. I did not know what it wa», until Henry Brandy said it wSs a dead body — a human, he thought. I saw some bones, the head, and some clothes which looked like a woman's. I did not look close, aa there were some eticks over it ; it seemed down in the moss. I and ail the rest went home about four o'clock. I told nobody about it, beosuse I.did not think it worth while. Henry Brandy and Geo. Disga Bjtid we had better not ss^ any thing about it and let the matter itup ; i }teaf d nothing more abput it ttndl Sttnday. WILLIAM DOtrOLAS, sworn : Last Sundsy evening;, 12th Sep- tember, I met Mary Corbyn snd her hns- b^ad. I said * WaII. Mary, whnt'n the ne»a thia m'^rningP* Sh^ replieen cot off from the treea near b/ for the purpose— we found the places where it had been cut. 3y the appearanee of the boot, I shnld think the body had been there topiim hye months. The place where the 'remains were found was abOak forty or fifty yards from tha MNid«-alN»«l TunKMTfinb ■U« iroti tlw Fiagtr bowd. «xot<» miMt (Colored), Bworn t Abo4t » weok ■ffo I wm piekfnf btrrioB on Blotberrr PUint, ntar Wit- low Orove, Bhek Rfror flo»d. M^rthn Ann TftomptoH fonnd • skull and lome bonn of • ptrton. 8one of thogirit c«lle4 out and I went over and looked at tbea. I took a <>t iek and turned th« tkfiH oveis and dif op horn the nose a ehild*a shoe and etnektnff. I taw a Berlin ean> tag and a lioop akirt. I tboogbt ftpm the appearanoB of tM dikhea tb*t tbejr iMre a woman^i, and fMtk the akoe ^nd tto«b« tot that tliey were t ohiht^* On gotny off the Plarta nifeelf and the othere (naminf then) eame to the conelttflott we would lajr nothing abont it. I #u not the irst to eav to the Thottpeob (trie and liM others noK to nenttoo it. Kn DonglM did nel aak oa on Monday moRiinff to |6 ami ahow htm the hody{ he aekM If %e aaw a dead body of a wo man. I ^klnot eay whether I dM or not ; none of those preernt laid whether tbey had or had not, Ni* *m < eame fbr me to go and ahow where it was ; if thev had I ahould have •■'>ne. I never to)d them ip abut up and not aay maything^ Jiont it SAMGBL WILLIAM WKNitT BRANDT (Col'd), aworn : [ waa en the Plaim last Tneiday week, with etherv, piekiag herriee. ([Named eame partiea before mentioned.] Mttl^garet fane Thompson called me to oome to them, f6r tlief had ftinnd a woman. Isaiah GabMa and } etaitHI U aee whit ewe the miatten. Wltett we gel whnre the oihett weiw we fonnd the bone* x)f the Iread «f a wtmian. and sonM othev bon»s> h«sides some women's etwtllM, end « hoop akirt* We eaw seme hahr, bht did not mere it. Qeeif;e INgga poked Wealwi saw a ohUd*a. b^ot with m e^ atap4^ ap «• ii« «*4 swthiv oig, looked like a wesasa'a ptt^oeat, and ^ akeletoa, or hspp -J^dH, and'plaeee of dr*as. QeojETf^ dj--, took • stick wmI *«n*«4 «^ the ehildVboet and seek. W« fOt .rigbtsned ind toU him to let it alone,*^ >Ve then eame awi^, nieked a few ber> riea and went hosM ; thia waa abont feer o'clock in the afternoon. When I weal home I told my father. He eaid we should have gone into tbe flist houee and told it. My tather went the same eveoing» and told a womai by the name of Mrs. Kennedy; she told my Aunt CiorlMrn. I went down to my mint's on the following Fridav, and ebe asked me if I hsd seen adasiibodyew^heVtaiaa. 1 said I had. Shi ssli I iholM hsifs |i«»ifl*»the trst ' 7 mEHSQOBnT' t ^ toM i9tK?Wmiia,j.tt^ t|m«M'tb«'waat «pfi*i Air told««M aad trtd|iIr$iNti#taft."r]|fr; DMitw CUB* ovwr tlii iiadw tirfMaoob to iifar. haafe ThoaipMm^i apd mired-for 6e«i»e Diggt* tatfMliid hiv if beteiiBMVvftid body or Ike RiJnt.tiHd ^M no/^^Attl^hb tlaif, ud iwrii wid nJO''! l.-Aoii't kncir tk'«i>tflMMt to iif)«liild^«tt ^miii 'UOC. sworn Mout it, «z!(M. i.m I^n} Uma l,naw h/« ipovrfelf wis blpftbevv. w^of JaaliBrKiie •taaing Itrc'^iaBt er^ told Samuel Peters or any other p^rMm snob a thingr;, PeteK»,«skad aae.if I bad ae«» fiwf>n$ti co<9i9g tff pFamef ^ Kane^a^ I to^ biio I b!94M^9fd 49#f report, but neyer WW a)9y>woiQi^«o|i|iiig tbeire* ai^d tlj^Xhad^ffMr, ^^,^y iww» b«t ^» k^t |t^i wqip»^ivjto vtto asiMQO'4ral.'/Y0n)lm9iii#lbe(»fii«ind^ Kani} and i«)|cvf vd s^ Pfif|ttgft.pf]rtifiB; "^ - ^^--^ .!-.*■_-:.-_»-:. .u_. .. _„ u:i » IXgM akiddip tikdHgte«tb«(ie llnrlwMent wmrmotmmlk •nythinf abdut 4ii< a W* ndl irith Mr.Do«gln«adidM>vibb»4lb plaaju Uad. ^ IiMiw.»ehfld;fi«afeoi Whm «^ ■aw Ike chiMH boo»ii»ditiaehar»titotifl» m-v I- «' 'MMUSft i¥Mtti r I an^i ykfrtMd Kve" alt'PhH- lajhi. > I %i\e# nbihtng iMdi ibfli Iffilf r wtita fsaftjWlaV «rtrtiti|f; '^/«W)Ut1i«y»ifi^ «go, Mifry XIM, «f 1ad{af«o#M^ ttf^f iNa^ t^ mme «o|Mbi^hM.broH(|^ithfeMUi I du oo^: thukk iMary KaM was friendly towards th» fdmily the way she talaed to ne. lioldiKai* abunt iaand')i*:deniedit. ;tt lui: .>r;. ,/1mj!,! ij ^3pMgiirtiBi !« b« tte ft.npr *, (^i)^ fftmf ;to j^lifiu^ ■'^, tiutfk woOAM),baa!^oaia Ifpspijt^ tQ Jj^ts l^Aooy Wvf er fl)'* m^f^ >»Ut.1w*r what she wanted. „ It wa/itwp x^V^ 9gp. thw, summer. - 1^ hevejf ^^^w, U&fpn bejing bacj(,8inoe.: ,I.,d^'n^a|4rt.tp«se f* 'PW^a m*»^U «*d. »e»j^yVhSfkFil^a»e»,W ..)(^a '^n^ »)« aiyrt^Jing^.a^^t it. , .^^^ ,^ ^^ , ati^dhi : Ttfm a Itibibi^r di^MIM fii'tlie Par- ish'of ^onfand;' Abotnf ii year'ajr^ iMa 'imkith t banned to tfointa Mary Kane's ai^l.wad! patting d^ wn tbs stFeef;. ^S>be ajik^ me i{ i bad^he^jkl^f neifaff I s«Ui •t,\Vhat ;n»Fftf<" ,« {^ replted i.Jaqies {(aoft'is w(f» fln4.c^U4|ep btnlcopAiJ^Vt t^et«vi9e|ia,^ 4^io^ dfove dcHPfi te^^^Tipiiea «^aoi!i1Jiwd9()!l(^ ,T|^n J>df k^ sft9i»pad oM^,:lM)ocka4i*t; tjltftdftea,^ jign^ aetieduf ;j4i»e« Juioe Uvsfl.'tbere. jQM Mr* vFaiKs, c|»»f ,)(»rj^% 4ofi, Mkdi ip^ a^ ijaiir<)iN>«;i^;#ajcl,4)MtFv«pp^.|iot. |be Mr. KjaM.abe-iiAttUid. jtp im-^^i w«a yelling -Mr.. KM^t, vYpOngiKaae then ciine to the-rdonr^ an^ #b« fscogniaed himi bucbe did Dot.kB6W her. 'iben she lP0k a ebiki MUt at tiie coach and saidr " i{ )ou dWc luMMW n% dofL'A you k^ow yo^l* phil4 ^'" ^e dt'nied ka^wjnit either tii' ib^qa.v Sh.ii then vrd<)redtbo coaciiinan to driv^ her bac^ tp U»,t- hatel. ^sry r^aap did not tsU in^^.ps jia^ of lAe BitHn I f '-iina •» fMititer aad Uv^ in Vofto laaidi I #a» odiilng fro* BosUMi inrvl4'« OMith* Cgc^lMt AjR^wlieft a yMMg xfmmmt BfkejJ «« tf I h^, ««fi^,An|aiy..K«wi5», mfyf I Mkfti him «|)iit Jimfaj(^iM|? He J vd, Ji|^if|y,Aiuie. of. Jqaiany^p. , ^If told liina I (bpqtfiu hU v^ vUt »4r]^n|^: niih biR^ !jS»44,,fce. "iTj^MJ ,W(^fot|»W: muQb, and b9 tuld nie if ^,itfOtt}a,Me9 .**>*V( the I&dia<»'tfi laid 'if ^nfttkM'^ro Alo»; A« i MfiM bfrl!iB^«r«'MttMi bfttM-l lAft th«rly. < .Ttm ottft«k'belnff il»ihtn); Hboiit h)nr.' Itbe ili«il\a!i|,'''*Vob kwow your thfMrtn, then$>^ Hei saiH hfe knew notbififlf libbot Riiybfthein.' T(i«tT sbe'DsIted' A |)le(te -vf L 'ir^y'seif. Sb*''al^d tota hie'thWfiaa (6 pky mwt.' x^ah»« bbaW frthuiflj^.;' ;""*',,'*"';';|'' ., T^liMiadajr, 9^ iMK.,m^ ^'olo«kitijl|i *»hi- 8iH)u«n6«or tli*'tvi*i«ii:e''«iiiifiBft W-dmy, tfatnes Kane ^4i plif(;«a 1>i{deV^iH¥i)i4i 'by { or^ec pt the ^tjl^prn^y -ujan^v^, .^rpjn.j iufofoiation reoeiv«d by^h^ .CaroD«r 00 ' Monday eTonin^; h«, ^eoompaftted by tSb | Cbkf of V\}\it«, m. ^CaiVin 'PoWert^ R. ! %: Worden. /ajhd^K^liii^XMfM t^^ place wbora (ho .raoAMa ^ece loundt on Taesday morning, aud from 4«vi9)opmttlita liifade the C<)lraA«r Wd^HKl> Hib ' ah^e#t of Mr. JoH^ Av'Wrmm«, A^hlttct 6f9e.' J^kn. fttid BdnyM6ft«d tlib |tn'vt6 ^eHba- W»dneie#^v i^ « i^' *!.''• :- '^^ " -'-' ^ f1i*OMrttf#aM«tl «t'9«'dbolr, itn4 W enpitl^eA&ii of th« deTel6)plAents' liDAdo y«8t9ijja(f| fipd td^ |ifr»sl of. Jpbo A. AXumtM,!! • great d«6l itf intwaat wM eTtmstfd b9 ib« |>iiMic, «t)d B» Moll ai ihe dobtai i»;^>e d]^8ed the Cobit- Hd^se traa' cTOfgd^i i^^Jl^ ipcptatoja* 1 Shbrt^jr J»p,er 2. VQlt>«kH4obii Ai &Ihwc« aAdaJam^a KtM <#er« broa^t>'ialo Gbuvt, In eaoto • «tjbf Jfiflfbito^tj;;; ' Af^ei* ^(JneWiea (iftb* JrV' j>,j^ <>aoaiRT'.n 'WMlDBlf-, *' -l ' .bifln R
  • bi#. ^ I Wtbitflf foiQQ«ett'^ <7hut}ifr{ *Vh a eUftcfMiaii; «(iil«Kv(^at tk^l'^bffob Ffolr); Xfnrfefr'Sit^et. ''Afydtit ii7«a^i|(6Hbi>fal>.. Mf. JoMt'A. MttHToo isanJo to ih^^Wtbe stj^C abd want*d fco kiw># *haf I *obM ch'a^g* to dr'ira a ladjr td C'^lHtis* fef*or Bahtcrt'i.-Loch'Lnmond. TdHlhot cat^ about gei^>. IW*«fd, " !l^o ttiktH^r wbat' yod cftArge, H dort't omrii^ottt^bf *6.** ! thish td! z6 Mfi %%k\\fi iind *rdiiHr0 fot-h livat'by tW namiftW Mr*. Clark'.' 1 wp«t iftf abd tb^ \vAf aald «he wottld be rgft'dy^b'i^tff. Wi# #k«* 'soott" ifbadf ,, a-id crime ddwn ■«*' ifbt W ibiB tf iac^l- She • rtrbdghV a «kad with ti«^.* "I fbfhk the diHff' «^A4 abOHt a yM)" old.- ' W* tb«n a^aftt^'fcrCiWnV, iix Lnch L*bm«»tiW viek Houae and get Mra, Gltfk'a tffuk and bring it to the Union Hotel. He re- mainedin the ooaeh Aa wo pasted alonji the head of Kmg Street Mr. Munree aaid, •• Fll get am here.^ So he got ont and ther» wm nothing aoreeajd.; i ^tof9 to the Bnina wiok Movao and got Mca. Clark's tiuok nod bromght U up to the UoiuB Hotfl. I took the tmak «p to Mra. Clark'a room. I did not aee her afrain until the next time we went oat« wl^eh was op the foUewtng Saturday. On Saturday Mr. Monroe cama to me affsia en King &rcet. and onid he want- «d roe to go the aame route again Ha told me to be ready aomc time lietwean ten and elaven that morning, and he would meet mo at the Union Hotel. I wst ready and he wse there. I took Mra. Clark and child and Mr. Monroe and started for Collins'^ at Loch Lomund. WTe drove along about the same aa before on the Black River Boad, and near about the same place where we stopped the first time he told ma to stop again. He aaid« ** We via walk from here, aa before.*' He told me to go and Caed my hc/faea f nd fat my dinner, and he wiwld soon he ack. So 1 let them out and went bach to Banker'si fed my horsee and got my dinner. In about an hour Mr. Munrpo cams. He aaid, " The folka are «t homo that the lady wi«hed to aee. 'f hey are going to bring her in in time for the boat ur. Monday morning.'' He paid kba hill fcir my dinner and iiorses at Bunker'isaud also paid me before leaving Bunker's. Hi then got in the ooach and we started for St. John. He told me before wo got into town I might leave him out on Prince William Street, as he bad some husioM* there. I left him on Friuee William S(r«st, and he told me to take Mra. Clark's trunk to the Amerieaa boat on <4oBdajF momiof, Wheg I wwt ^9\,\» •imortcMi fihat^litiiidht'ihoAg'^ •elMd main hail brought the tt^nk; t told l>«m I had not, but would bring ft next thno. I fotind it 'wtnU be out of my wsy to it:o Ibr it, and i sent another msn-«I think ft waa Daniel Hatfield, t liul not lietloe miymimte on the frunk» When I went baek io the American boat I ask^d Mt Manrae if thi tronk hsd come. He safd yes» I asked the mail wke brosffhtilie trunk how mtieh It «rit f»r bringing it down. He aaid Mir. Mttti>* roe had paid him* I Said Mr. Monroe pawl mo befsff . I did not see the tvusk oheekfdi end did«*bk«ow that k wott on bow4 - Meither did I aee Mra. Clnrk \ I ahmild bos* kbo«n hot if 1 hod eeen her* I Mked Muoroo if ehe Iwd eeem in. He said eho had. I never wae out to the plaee on the Blaek ftlirsrKosd before nor eiooo ontU yesterdey, whoil I taw the plaee a«d reeognlsed it srhefe I let Mra« Clark, Mr. Muaroe and ohild out of tho ooach* I asw the place whose t>»e remaioo were, found, end where I let them out of ttie ooaeh was not more than 40 or 60 feet from oppoatte it. Mrs. Clark's hair wss light. She was dreaaed in blaek. The hahrahown looks like ber's, hut I think it wsa a little lighter. I htve never seen Mrs. Clark since. Cannot reeogniKs any of the clothing. MRS. MASr ANN LOSDLtt awom. On Friday night or Saturday morning, October 23rd or 34ih, 1868, be' tween the houra of twelve and two o'clock, the American ateamer arrivedb A cabman came to our door-^Brunawiek House. Prinee William Street •— and wanted to tnow if I could aeeommodAto sotMO Ihdiee. I eaid yee> and be went^ badi to the sooch «»d opeeied the door» and brought in a womnn and child. Shf said her name was Mra. Clark. I asked the coaehmsn if thers were any more. He said no, and closed the door and drove ofE I went up staiiM to t^ ladle*' parlor. Mrs. Clark hsd the baby, and 1 went fof ward to aasist her in taking nff ita clothes* As I went to tske the obiTd it eomipeneed til cry. She said it was on aoeount of i»s father petting it so, mid it did not like to go to strangers. I naked her if aht travelled alonsi. She said no< I aaid to her, Where is your huabaad? She said h« bftd « let of ««A V9 IfOl |fl0r,^th«l n be- two widl tod odAM wtni door» 8hf ftskiid morti (lr«v« parlor. (of- othefl* tenefld ofi*8 tliha if »ht ud t» Mid hf WM M tfoMtMt;«Bd h«W««ldMt^ tbcwthat irtflM; that Im iBi|ir*>V be •iMra t<>*morMi« orinf|rMn0»t hut • K«iitlealsii wonM oall toi^Mrrw Md fct iMr ohaek* for her lugfvf e. I showed Iwr to^ a room and th* waiit to bed. I thM ««iit to injr own room, aod m 1 wm g(tbif( I paasad throogh «^ MMMi»*« room, ind iitao wked me bM i aay |NMtengef* Atrlvod' I an- swered 7«i, abd I want foa to keep a bricrbt look otit in ' the Mortoittff, for aho has got a ohHd, md' Iha#e no idea ot that belof left bete aetiwipe who one bo* fore. On (^mrday moMtog after break* fait, I Went toto the «oo« wboro Mra. C^ark wee ani aehedhet ^ebf ehe dU not waeb tkatbebOk 1 iHMik tW'tho kiiebew and eent ber a jfiieber of wader bf th» giri, and ebe hashed tbe ebikl. Mra^ Clark enqeired eevodl tieiee dermg tbe day if aoybodjr bad eeUed to eayifaw about her cheeU. Bbe wae told wo. At the dinner bwr a boy eaoie up and arid a gentleman waatod to aee ae in tliB ofRee aboBt tbrt woaaB*a latgage. I went down to the oSoe and eaw a geatleouin standing at the table. He eald it waa Mra. C ark he wanted to iffe, I sent a little girl to teh Mrs. Clark that there was a geatleMan in the office who eianud to see her, and I totd the girl not to let on that I bad seen him. In eauo oet of tbo office into tbo hall and thej talked theie ; after a while he weal away, and she oame up etalrs. iNwrfly alter her iuggago came: ft eoMBi»ied of one trualt with a smaller one ittsido. She leok eot of her frank* Ugbt blow dreeeabd bong It on in her room* I bed my eoepieieas r^;ardiog Mrs. Oliirk thai alt was aotriglie. Oa Saturday afkeraboft, my eo«^ said aha aaksd her If she cestW leave thoebiM wHh; us to bo cakca eon of while ebe wewtoni sboppiim. I fofteod, aad ahe did not «w oat. While ibe boardere wore taking their tea, the bell reagr. fht Hltlo girl cane up aad laM a gentleman wanted to see Mrs. Clark. I took the child from Mrs. Clark and she want down to see him. The ehild cried aad tbo motbei eame bsek and took it, aayiog, '^Yoa eroa* little thing." Shortly aflor Ibe man returned and rang the bull again, and wanted to aeo Alra. Clef kw (Dtu went daxm, aad after a few minataa remraed with a lot ot eaedyk George Murray, a bltle boy, who waa at my boaeor 4a«» tbt> aiaa wbo broafhl tbe candy, and Wd We name was Mna* roor Deriag 'the eeeniiqii; ebe was very uneaey, and said she expeeted her hoe- band. She went np to her room abonfi twel^. leatupfortbe Windsor boat* Aboat hslfpast two I saw a bright light in her room, I woke her up and told her to open the door, and a«ked h«^r why she left her lifht burning. She siid she w«>ht to sleep and forgot to pat it out. Tho blind of the window wan ap, and as I wen! to put It di>wn I aaw a nmn on tbe street opposite pass t»ioe. On 5>rnd^ in the afternoon I Aitked bar if she had ever hved in St. John. She said she had, aod hid bearded in Garleton •; that ahe was ttred going ibutid. ae her husband always took her with huni* On Monday mnrtllng a cmebman eirme for her— I tbtttk the Coachman was Wordan. He esme Op and asked fbr Mr*. Clark and chtTd. f asked him where he was going to take her. He snid to Loch Lomond, f asked the eoaehman who sent him fur Mrs. Clark. He-said Mr. John Munroe, and he is now in the ooiieh. I saw John Miinroe in Worden^s cosoh whf n Worden eame fbr Mrs. CIsrk and child. I went into ^ho ladies' parlor and aaid to Mrs. Clark, *^Loo1c here, that man in the eoseh is a married man, and if he is not the father ofthat child I am maeh mistaken ^ I told her ahe ahonid not come l>ack to my howaa again, bhe thea went down to the eoaeh, and in a few minutes came baek an4 naid her hill. She then went down again, got iato the eoaeb and drove awa^i I had a note wriUan and seat to John Mnhroe'a fatbet,and his fMher caoie down to my houae on Monday afteroooa. I toid Itim the cirettosaiaoeea. He said he thoeght it waa a aetvaat girl wh«» had Itved with hia aon. Tbe eoeebman. Wor- den, came haok In tbe afierooon for her trunk. I asked him where be had taken Mrs. Clark. He said to Ijooh Lomoad. I axked Kin> whei*e he had l«ft h«r now. He said at the Amerio»n Lodss. and that he wu to 10 for hor on Thursd'(FiiiEalh« faaiKMbeiflif itoae mi in tba ityU in which iih9 wore it* I refipe- nJsAthe chtMVhftir ai; beiHir 9lf (he.«am« coiQjr as thAtof ibe«l)ii.ab«Mitd 1.3. inohasdfej^; it w«a Ijk,* ^his' novntbown., 1 /ftr lo ace a«y .nMr«,>«ftklft|i, aa ,tbo8« »%Qmo strike «te4(V/f9rMblyr,aii. beJfHnfri^ff tojber:. 1 bmve .^ev!er /i«#A oyt^bci»ffAAf<« Mri»iClark/»irice.-- ^.•.■ ( .,i;*,u(,;9 j,,.:.vi I,live at C9lU7;lle,,^jMk,%er ,^Md. a was at hoajf &Umq t^^,du|:\og ibj^ wj^iple, cJ ja«t ypjw: , (180^). , /, No woraitii a||Ml mild cai^ae to.our bopAe. dvL^rioff the, fa(|,^f , tbftt year.,. J|lo t^Qium by.tke name ,<^f . Clark baa been Ai^puriV'U'^' ^K.ioV'Pf uo,wi>ntMa or cbiiti btji)^ ro^iwsing in Jjur nuigbb9^^»ood.; Tiiere.cyyJJ be.np.pers^Qa' njn, i-'Ur , bpiise ^ifhont ipjjijTiQwipg \t\t ivAfl t,h(j Q^uy^,hou^Kkf«per' !»^. that t\a^!pt Tbpre IP no oiber faiuily by.imi pauie pjF Opi|i«s iivVijg in ,C"lli«>?v)lfe, Kp g«ntie,- qi^U with a WqQuaAt)^',p^i'f> c;^'^<^<^i Pyf hws* last fall; ;^ i^^^ ;^- l^^li^Rm"!! .. tfW(#it; I reoid* in CaTleictvfiani'»:dr^«a- ninker. (Pwn i)eMnragi> Una aiMMWerri) made tn^o (freamns fur Sarah Margaret' Vert'. One wan a blue cubiicg un iaMr«i ? do not reneenRFber whi(^i<-^tb(? iteber.warti «tti (irai-gH liroarii ■ i aiao diAdel a bKie- Ifprey ii?)0«f»eof U^rwyiolbth. f^di wlair abertiy ati>>rim«ftb tlie*(ht heidtate to aay to ; tb«.buttoha «boirn aire not ttiii bettenft-^thvy wwralarireBi Ibavu ni«i;i1 seen Miaa Vail ainea^ ttmado lUa aaoqwio for h«r. I b««(rd th«hi4b it «raa»< the|; tb^^q ,op an § labmideied skirl, libpvfbt iia«vM4l!)P( tbet *<(|D«' pellMrn fr#ii iier^ I biiven|i»t>gi»t<^^ii ftow^' and l^av» fnttuiC> '9h8t->|R«kf; bbforo I tuado the deesMSi or sabque* I< have nem^a her with UMiivweik jon^er drA<«ere. 1 hATi^aeeBl blMrTwe»ri«g»A-:wbite tiaderskirt- —ititas weaked el l^bMltoiii shout « foovbeoieid. Vite iM^t|nftdb:8tt«r>ber ebu' wore • Miifilc;^ttit-lMlkiQk U iiLMh atraWnt I da- dftt'vecA^leetl bon it mt» «riiD«ied«; I-bivenol'b«aid«to3Nibttif front ^tt ailnoe laet t'aU, < «1ie«t> «be >eo Id iMC :)M:oi^t} to Sdr. i'Littkbaiiv >ifi Oar)«toniSbe had broi(r»iiair>-i! 4iiiilk j4iM i shdwil'i*. herb«iir;>dbe/alira9riworeat )»aided<. bet hind when. I-smM ifaeh^ hti«t «i)»per, front > teeth rwste !» Kttkildngw then the i>th«»n» n*d;cm»Ia}«pad ilfer Hw Qthei!« verv Htf' ttei I d« toot want tdeee ti>e bee4. [The : akdll 4vks coveped with iiiif 'hamlkerdrauf except the tenth* and, wng>tlloetQp. Ou Wednesday ;iif(ber«ean nbettbhiimo tbtvt Mr.!(^ltii^nialdidfn«ifc> Wm4>' hM^tO .^-it^ bioston^ianiiJfthe |iiaty«| ibe Iweek. oBkua aaid Mci;Moa«'** lock* Ale 'raeeMBtr Wefdeb^ MaAlb«i«ir^^<«aa»e.; .1 aaw,(bt)if tentsttinntfia JNfore tt^ Qoaoh ea«ie.n Skeiwen^rtendlngkbr tbetMndow* and said iba was t||)aiAtnf fdr Mr» MuBMtIr tocoflfie oad take her pntidriviintf. . There eMB anotbjcr lady with her. ■•. fibonly;efter I r«Ciiftte(i to.-thn room-^Mr^* Ciark had none. .I«alt' SUetltold '■afe' tlMi^'lMcirihoiii^ abaux <$M0) '^pimptiily left lMr> : by iixff . !• tbsri iMrt'ittmA ^od*; - i««i)Md iMr* wfa«t bad bocoiiM a(p'hkriiiofitvi'i'«b« uiidlivr husbAni igiiita ^4! didt not 4dtto«r^ «iiho#^r :Htf«bBnd wtk<*, -'« 8ho «8M iT. he !«iMild^)uid> dirk^Hirbwi MiM-ibst •faaxrbli lik» it| «tt it la«»lki •ilttl«t|l|i:lit'. •rjj 'Tbvchtfl hMl!ii(tefliniMbiif^abon Tatid titfMitt^^Mfliifl -Wis bflMvht tk^ bdoM. i^l^halfAhtMiittlieMmtfebWvr «biMtr wr«Mi 4M Uiltiiii «A tha^ehUd^ iiMUi. ' ' >Mf*.O)BVkt«rfi^^04Qbiid%'bdinli4>4do>a6tii»oiDlleat tho ook)r«aM(i« ^dlr oi^bittnograyModdaga with. ■wUtw tkipi!^tm tfMtiinf^akoi^ is as near » Mlatjoiid <|inifitf ^aa^ oa»b« to'tboae Mrs. iOtatle biOiqybvr to aii^ bdtaa and 'aho«ell»iroa;' T Mifir «a«ie,oe tha tWngte in her «rank< <4Bh« }^ti bbM-tfraasin ii anda parasol : I saw do otherdtMM«i|ii< A man came on Manda]r> mMoiair and atid Mr. < Wordae bMid ii|» f«r Mrs. Olaak'a tvonlt. Ua g^t«bctnnk»J-4bavewe«ajCVa •tf^oii* 4aa||ld«lw'olWnM*inKd'« «attf»ir dStr 'bMrd wtsjpitblian Widaasdatj^up toi^ac- urdaf-i-«fi Aiaa fMtiilto'>M''-' IHtave ^notd^era Mra;><>iaHc ainoec^iit 8a4uvda/ imoahihfr.^abdui 10^^eloeic.^.' tihatwi^aetB *biaick braoohi tNiiiib<)aardry.'- I do^nvt kmoir wbar «B«a fch« sraimitbar ohHd 9 it waiiBboiit tOi'caonthl (4di Ivbauld tfautk. It'asald'aoaapaik^tbul wo«>ld»«ta»dfor a }aMMBeBti:baaidia^-i <«libfr-*4l.< eat ontlfe Aaion ^Fhq' vsbite abirt aba) wore ktfdmt :rin bOBffbfc.'tbaiifraf andrefl onaJaatfa f;«io4 daal* ►v.K'i- ifi'^i --»■#,"»■.•-: ' Ml ', i, 1: .HtBfi •au^ra- 4 vaaidiein.CarlelOQ; am n.ahip- «fi;igh4.; , On, t,he &ib 'Ofi Qotoher, 1308, I was 0f4i«d to ti^B >h^tt|fl| . f^t ] MUft Vi|^ lk> ^knqtvle^ga a, A^^d' I, ia<^ thi^rs, apf] fHVKr.b^r pijih lAfp . other (aoMfJe^. . Af|er^ had < baea. i^re.aooiit twenty miy^tjia, 'Mr* John Q.^Ifittieh^e* vbo h^d pufn AhA#^ kqd froqi^hnr. ci^in» tbere^^d>a da^d was «Xftcnted« Ml<ut it in bar bo- fl^K^i, Sb#,^{)«9, got A, Aqedle and thravd HodpfiFa^.i' «a.v , SIhaaMd th« w#8 gping to>(h4i,ynita4<#tf|)B8. , l^%4 writtaa vl»e .dea4rpirey|UMi|^%^.s^#,4ii«n,paia me for doing 80 and acknowledged it, ,; 1 .l^^ire not seen an];tMog«*i9f ^b/M ""ce. Her Aspe, inAs,:^a|>.alt;^ Margi^i^^, 1 Sh^, 4»ad d^rk . baiftrU M>c^«(l .^Mii^r ,tb«n tbat ^Hhown. s6jie'.i)ad,a«ahikl,{. it, was fiv« or si^ months old I sboqld (hink; i^ haci li(;ht flazeabairnrit, .^14 apRp^aiUing JLl^e sojpv sh^iwii,,..,, ynjiMrtiA no' SAW )1 ietitif sworn, nl waa acJBt ^ profession aUf on the ^tkiFebruarf, 1668.. Iwsat to Miss VaiiV beasa in CiirlaiiMa. i. IVhila J ws tbeve sbtf waa ooaAeed of a^fiaaaieebad. ffiha told OM tho latbai/ waa Mn John iMaatea, that eitftiilaQtu ^TbeohiM bad 1 vbel^ ia eatlad 1MB BKbiliMd harMa. I 14 noBjm^iMr. upon itt utf M tlw nfmriatt fwiMdy I •raered • ttntnitg Mbt c«c ki !«•< to ••V half of it tnto • Hitif iiooiMt and bind it •Hfiinst th« atomteh. I cIiowmI how I wnt4fd it dona, and ImImk I l«ft siio met for tJte BOttiMV for tlio p u f mm . I «k# tho child MM* flHr daft «fti4 Md it>lMNl V tho bMdago on. Ttet «•• tome tiaw in Mureii. i- •»« ICii« VmImi th« tttwc •litrward, h«t I did not qtMition iMr •boat it. .' netar aftv tli* piaea af la*d abotrn. It i» about a yaar tiaaa I law bar. fitr «i«|«r told am dia bad |r«oa to 4h# Btat^ ivhb lir. Viinvaa; aba bad told aaa on ia f>ro«ioaa .oo o aaao w iliatabe liad gone to tiia 8tat<« rHh Mm. Tba bdadng* ptiioo tba «iiild vaa al e a— i o n oitttoa. Min VaU'a bair w»a tjm^ oil ; aha feneraUy «or* it jmuid at tba baab. She UM<\ to paaa my housa avaiy dar or two. The hair nhowa la very murh libe h^ra. I liid not receive an j eoinpanaatton for rny tervlnei. Har teeth Werb v^ good — there U nMbing aboat tba laeth ahown ib&t I paniealariy reooghtse. I freqtiuntly apoie tobar aiaier about bee and three monthi ago ahe told 'n - WfLU«M £4Vt, ^^NMMlhl' I retida in 8t. J««in, bnd keep fba Union Hnlek. 6n ^nfion Straet. On or about tha 3dth Oetobar, 18G8, a lady and ahild ^ma to my bobae in the afker- noa«i mahrtng ffmlioation lor boird. I think it waa on Monday when tUn eame. I did n naaday aha paid m« for Imd board from tba tSma aba tenuatill Tfaaraday momiig, daytaf abe iraiigaiag«ari9 te tha Am iwi OM bbal. BMartM tba tiiia af Ur pay- ing bar baaed and night *> gnnttenwa aaoaa and anouifad far a lady by the name af Mm. Clark. I did not knew who ha waa whan ha aadia in. I toM Mm there waa a woman who want by tba name of Mra. GlaHi: there, hating a abiM with her. Ha aahad ma if ba ooald aen bar; I than abawad h4m ip ta her ra«HM. trapped at her dooi « afqda|^ ' ^baifa waa a feotia- nana who ariibad to aaa bar* fSha aama out in tba tetiray^ l)etwa#n two roama* andinet Mm tbaaa. Xbayatond^dnieoii* iramed for • law miMtaai thi gactlemM iban nnoaa !to Ma aiii bdiad mar what I wattid aMtfe to heap! Iha 4bdy miti^ Mat- •rday» aa aba waa.*lh«o g«bg la tba aonntiy. I toM<«biaii the «taige nod im paid ma. OndUlnfdaT<4he.l«K my bonne batwaan lOtAOd 11 a^aiook in tb-« DWira- ing. in a eoaah dvivan by B. T^ Wbrden. I did n^ ^tbfw any ana eke in tha ooaob. She toob tba cbdd with bar, isttfing her luggnga behind nnlil Monday. Attar tba ganttenum left on Wa^nnaday I aaked bar who ba waa, and abe told me hie name waa MrJ Monroe ; and from that time te tha praaent I never aaw Mr. M n- roa. unlaaa thaiia ha aittiog there, jd ha looka like tba gentlamati who paid oaa tha board bilL i Imva ina doubt but that iabe [poiating him am}. Mra, Ciark'a tmnka were dnvea away from my plaea on Monday maraing by a man whv drove an expnMa wagon, and 1 think il waa yornig Daniel U^itfield, on Uniob Sirem. When Mm. Ckrk left my banaa aSa bad on a blade draaa. and a atraw bai* b«» I aan^t aaf wbatber it Waa ligteor dai^. Har bair wna a daiMab brawny abont the aaaaa aa tHatabowa^ wbtoh latnina ita aoier. I bare not iiaaiid aoftbiag of bar amea abe lalt aay boa^ i did aot bear where tb^ wer« fniag wban tbe|r «ant aw«y% 1 eaaaot laaattaet any partMolara aboat aba dteasea wofOvaolaaa it i« that dm cinld wara a drab tfreaa, bat I do net know whnt it bad ea when tki»y left. l^at ahawn ia Ukm it« bat aaaiewhat die- eolered. Tba Uttla Mroa it wore waa piah, with trimming of a diifaiaM aelar around tha bordar, lihw that nhown. I Dever aaw bar Wear a wMab at any Jewel- af'Of. any Iliad. ':> !>, uMm.u%jaamt o#aniL Iwaa aa«|«aiated wit«M abofwn,] TlMtia the babjr'a draaa } aba pnt tbait urata npon tba babjr wbao aba waa foiag away. I an cura that ia tba baby'a daeaa. I itayad ^itb bar tiU aha Mt. Hat batr WM Ugbt bvawn fbair ab^wa] ; tbat k bar hair to tba baat Of my knowledgai aba wor# It pUltad np in a aort of water- fill. Har dira«ai^ warn anbrbldarad [artiela 'abodrnj ; tbat it aomatbinf li^a tbit wotk. Baby wora a*|pair of kid booU. liiia Vai^ WorakQngatriog with a lump on ^ba biok. She woro a bl^ bcooob->tha brooch wi^i a pin aba wpro ia,ber aaaqna. The child wora no baadi aroavd if a«^. lliM Vatl> draaa bad blaek buttoaa apon it [bMto«» abawol { tboao «M tba vary bnuoaa aba wara npon km garibaldi op tba f^ontt-4ba gatiibaldl «wa blnok, tba tba jaoM «a bar draaa. CB»t>y*a b«at ahoara.] Tba» ia aatuathiog Hka tba boot baby nrota^ Tbe eliild'a atoekings bad a atripa to tha« [abown] ; tbat ia aotaadtbing Itbe tbaai. lia tiat wai wUta with a livtla red braid round it. Tba child. «aa t girl t it irdra no Jaokat. . b«t bad wftmf thing lika a abawl. Miaa Vail had a gaod aat e{ f|N|br IM Wt lipffK ,«b^a abaianoar. . , ,„i' Tba ttiq\km iraa tban ad^oamad till Friday, at t o'clock. tont IlMPiiknovn ^ abildaisTaaiaor affO about ayaar ago. I aaatog baa ovary day. waab vafc fftiDATt Sept. 93f LOtrxsA tus» aworn, I )tia .A« Carlanm. I ^aair Sacab Mai«aMt Vfil-^ Uvad U CMla<. waa a •bo la* Oartoiom in tba babit of I aaw bar aboat a. fora abo' laft Cbrletoik Sba told ma aba waa going to aell bar p*«perty. h«t aba did not know what aba waa going lado. IbadcoaMcooTanMUlon with bar ia bar owA bona* paaviotta totbiain rafar- anea to bar ohildk Sba aailad ma iati» tbn boMae, fold Ma aoaatbiiig aiUd har hi^y«.aMl wa«lidt»ahowll |o aaa. ftka aadraaii«d tbo babf-*l aiaaiaad it aad told bar it W4i fMAtwrad« She aaked what aba ahdOU dd%? H. I tuld bar aha wmM tab* »pteda nTkrad a«d aaw It io«t> tba bandagay whiab abdUl aarva aa a tfnai. TbaNf naa notbiiMg of tb« kind on tt at tbtt t(«M. She told Ike ab« bad » laadao MlHat ^t waaeahi fot« gun. and aaked na 1^ fhii ^outd do. 1 aaid it wonld. ttpld bet aba aootd p«mod it till it #•* ||<»ci<^i»a4. and than i^a oould naako holtfa tbroc^h it witb anafrl, aaw it lo tba bandaga aa4 oofaw Ji w^tb a pieea of oiotb. She told «a aba would fls it, but I did notauy to aaa. £Piaca of lead a||ofia.i That would bo aboat what rt« would prepora fnina wbaa I told har. Sba Mta not vary tallf of a tary light oomplaKioa, Middling aboii. Har hair arae a Very pretty brown, bat#a«a a dark brbwn ^nd a light. She nlwaya wore it in a latge haaty braid behind. She had a beary bmd of hair. It waa if) a fl«t braid, boi in the iiyle of a waterfall. {tUdr ahown.] It ia very dirty lookinfr* but looka Ukaiba hiit^ That ia thi way abga wore tba braid. . X, think it ia bar b»iir. flbo* waa waaurtng aaaurning for bai father* I aaw har by tba A«flam about a weak before ahe Mt Oarle«on, and abe bad e» a Uaek dreea. 1 cannot recollect tba reet ef ber elotbiag, hot I thMk hat aae^ue waa not Week. Her bat arae a diraw baK,trittand with aema kind of light uiatariri, either erape or illu^n. fPoriktn of bkt abown ] Tnia trimming 18 this HkabM^*, hat I cannot identify it. I bkva deem her worked anderakirc many tltbea-^he #arb^ it heraelf [work aboirnlj I do net raoolletA aiwut the pat- tern* I do not raeoMea^bow iba child waa dtaaaad— ( aaw bar in a rad>4reaa in Apni; that waiihe laai tiai tlw 'MotiiM tiM- niBi|0|f >kMi|ot toy blsr pl«tfe/«itfitt« iwdiilil.gMM'it •ii#dhe wMld tMWfudm> .Kftifmttd ttmt^OBilK^^Frtdr Brittainii jHw .flgipr«fMq)an,'%r<>u9bt>t)«r o««r uyih««tt^ liwriinde litrclitifOiirklbii^M Hkiwiir *M faad<«lee i«4i4M»«T«njt«elli; toi»eideo«?*4 llad vary iUgbkkUr ((uiirtiMii»nv«tbii t».i»«rf nii|t» tlMcotevof lk«'■ swortiw >ii b4i^9.d; W^^^ 'ftrjick . ., Jltpl Mrfli« kU(» 8«r(n« rfbftttM^tifh Tl^iMk Mrs. lliportion «i bat stwwrr}' tllair i^'Ctad kind ■:^ sUilw, '(M« kkid>iot Mlustdn, aflAthe .Uitd Df. ribl)a»tt^h» rUtbralD^k^ wh«t «J^^d4n>«hft dhop Uttha tkne^aa*n a Saturday, .^yeoiog ■ <>'.M^8 ▼ a^ ;capif iq A»d a«k«uf bu"t v^ mkklhg, a' tuD^j's turbai^ for bei; ,ba^^. l)Q,t ihe'sud^he could get It cheapi^irac kliS^ri^^ Ad0V^ lifeai*tt< Ii«r dkllea >f k«y ;ottnBirt road^i a^ iitkl»< er feld|»jjrr ,t:ke JaatJtWP^ i s*" ,Ue|cnra«i lAQfS«pt<»mb$r.4a8t yi«ari she Vai;>tAqdJLni|r in thja, Borck, Md li^xcas atandtlttg QUWicle. SpOi|d no areisiB op, ^Dbc a jumper ^pa < brtttpoat. Her h«^r 'trafft^bi'bwB; Ebre.u^mTt^) trear it put bp ItJi a'rtit V I \^^t ndthitBd It pat tib !<» a tfraid t tA^hatf fifkbilrh is a ^ade dkfk^t thimb^fti i!ha¥6 i€iei^tG^nitrffl)^t^ut d^eswB ;> I hav4«seeiilar wear % spotted ' momraliuir fiFoekfmtid hwftf sM#Uer> W %t>ra"«QWi!i» W'tio L«3i^»lbrt^traftk, kfitMKM'tiMtid^Mr wil0thee'Litol>ki40itai4he>iAitfl0Hoaa 6dMc aBiO'thf«arf8» iMi'trf«d[i«tiii>er>wllenitc iK«B.in#r.'Wllkk^qMM #ilar;li«ldk'0' kao«r WtlP^ J^4il»,ilM A9ytbl|l0 {■JkOUtiikt i t Tba Ct) 4PQfkra|M«wlieno«MAr.o} j^.-4t(i4 >«» ^^drrf. 'f resKfe^t^^LocbX^dtlQJndT'lMi arf !nn^«Mp«r: > 'Olftrcrk^ i««^ t^fdre lilt I #«rit out'OKClie |»ialM/witU Mi>.M^refA, 4nMtaitvekri1ii|re« to die mamk wheM tlfo 'murd«0i^ta»«|ippwed^ f 'flfa^)tlM iJky'ffikt Was 1^^ U^ ; neitb«r 1ih*^'tt||)fb<$i' -^6^<1b«r6lf ^aw #Mire them aim IChlttktM Me!*Sf«f 'Bkdlliw£e •eparatOJ 1 kiid# bf W «ttM)'*i^iili}||;'i6e spot e±cepiC«Bioee(tb« rtmiAAs^o^o fi6Udd . ;I) do .not knoMi flf^/sny vNtann "wrvktid «VB|Ungi filitiapotlMftiiMlhOiaiseoveiy was 4paade. i),, IjiaveKdiOiJ kmcvvtod^ei of IBr. i,)Kpr(to6,^||iL ; )lk»mm^4i^m. !»«r9ai«a*(id tijSW JjBfp. 4 vaft^ fiwmr^,|tropi,^»w|y sCfide io*a't*ttfl .to -aw oh'e^ttOThlii*^^ Oftl^tiliM^ ^M ik^sldihj^'&l Qaaco; 7^ sworn. 1 am a ^roj^^ rfssUing laJp^t John, ^n We$ri§!£gyur last, tlie 22nd in^., Mr. John ^n'^^i's^^" drove me out to Mr;'C611i6s'^ bouses oD .the Black River Koad. wherew^'me£aba'an in a wairpn, •«atd iM immbfs^^tmm¥msi\i thew (vas. fnrne* we ar said tl ofth^ Wfl fol ed out He»ai skcrll c 8 or 10 burled, seen t^ by the namevi to sear to have small ] with it «d it. ! In that srrniiHA hdiids."' in exam tuft of r attentioi thrown ( string moss [bf found— I know th( oiierrer »nd 8om< J cannot fhere; tli Where th sworn. 1 1 I was liv Street, in there abo bad a sm nionths oi 1'he lady > wore a ve cmbroidei bound wit say what straw. T bound wit *Jth rufiJ( the banda when the nesday or thln^f bare Jo not kn( what is fo] tile child ; Mrs. Clark from 'f aesi ^ir T&tWOfUlteT. 17 aflTpr. wMentc 0>' closely there was a tuft of raoss clu8« by which attracted my attention, as It looked as it it bad been thrown off the remains. I there saw a strlti;? of reil beads embedded In the moss [beads shown] ; those are what I found —I marked the clasp so as I ihould know them ajr^ln* I also found a! few oMier remains : a little of the child's hair and some bits of Cloth of different kinds. I cannot say how Inn^ the beads had lain there; they wore from 8 to 16 teet from where the remains lay. MABY BLACK, sworn. I am a servant,re8idlnjr in the ctty. I was livlns: at Mrs. Lake's, on Union Street, in October last. A lady came there about the last ol the hitfhth. She bad A small child with her, about ten months or a year old ; It was a little girl. The lady called herself Mrs. Clark; she wore a very thin black cobury dress, an embroidered sWrN a fnfiy woolen sacque bound with bl4cH braid, a black hat, can'i say what trlmniigj; ; her h^t was ot straw. The little child wore a white tlqr bound with red, a, very dark grey diess vith rufiles at tlie bottom of ic. Ipiit the bandajre on the child one afternoon when the mother was ouW it was Wed- nesday or Thursday , there was some- thmg hard sewed In the banila<(e, but I do not know what it was ; 1 did not know what is for; 1 did not see any lom^ upon the child; 1 did notj.see any, rupture. Mrs. Cfiark and n^r thud remaibedthere from Tuesday, Ii«C#Mh 9 tiM 19vottom of the tkirt was a very large pattern; [embroidery shown] that looks like (be embi'oidery I saw at toe t>ottem ot her sktrt. [iirasa shvjwn] this is trimmed aa that was which 1 saw Mrs. Ci^rk put upoa the baby the aioruio); she iett; I cannot say about the color, but that was a dark grey. I d\d not notice what boots or shoes the child wore. I Went down to the door with her but I did not notice what tuu baby bad ou ii» hoad. [Banduge sbQvvoj thia is the satae bandage that I saw Lhe child wear, and there was sometliing hard in it Hbuuc the <$ize of half a dollar, as the |yiece of lead shewn ; it was put ou and sewed over, first one way and then the other* The child wore a small cape of steel color ; [cape showoj lUis u the same in color, material and make as i saw upon the child; (sontag sliownj I saw that sontag on the child, but I do not know if it wore it when it left the house. I'hey weitt away iu Mr^ Wordea's ooach. There was a gentleman in the ooaeh~I do not knovr wtio lie w.u. Mra^ Clark't hair was A>f a preiiy brown color, done up in a braid. I gave her the pins to do up her hair. She wore it brushed back from the front, and done up Ui a water- fall style at the back ; [hair showh] that is the same kind ot hair, but a Uitle fadeil. I Washed and did up thbcbikl's (let Che morning thvy ^eoc awtM^; ftier aftowtit^ 1 do not tibooirniaie tMs ; ohia \ tAomk iaaiMen k fHiuk tier, Mbsii^iatk f ^ THE me«ii Mr*. Cliirk •iooe the weiii iiway. Mrs. Clerk toUl tne on TuefdNy morninir * he was goln^r a\v»7 in the b"*« ■' JACOB VAII., nworn. I reside in Carleton ; am a house ' j) liner; roy brother, the lather of this - supposed murdered gir' was sick and in a dying state, and 1 vi»lted him; this . wiU be two years ago in the coming De- . oember; he died on the 16th December; • X often attended him in bit sickness; . there was a good deal of talk about this geatlenuiB, Mr. Munrue ; It was rumored ^ that this girl. Sarali A. argaret, and he « were keeping company, and I had a con- . vernation with her. giving ber good ad- v< - "lling her bo was a married man. f nd th t she was very foolish in thinking fibout 'im at all : she gave me a good ^eal at tbuse. and I gave her up. and tl tt w» the last conversation I IumI with lur; dk ' aald she tbonght she waaeapa* ■ 1»l« of tA Ung our* ol horteU. 1 saw her at the funeral of her fother, on the 18th ur lOth ot December, 1807; 1 reinrueil to the house, and B«v. Mr. Hartley, wtio attended the tun«^al. read over the deeds. He had deeded his property to. hlH two youngest daughters; there were two lots to Phileaoor Crear and the rest to Sarah Margaret. 8arah Margaret's hair was a brown, between a light and a dark; [hair shown] If I ever saw it I see it now -I believe from my heart and soul thai this is her hair. 1 could not identifv any of her oiiithes, as It is so lo*g since I saw her. I do not reoollect teiiinn any one that 1 thought Manroe would get her money, but I believed tliat.|« would* aB0B9B MUBaaT, sworn. I go to school. I was at Mr. Lordly's one Saturday night— I can't say when It was. but it was late last fall: there came a rinsr at the door bell, and Hs I was goinsf out I opened the door, and saw Mr. Miinroe, that 6itsover there, standing there; he handed me a parcel, and asked me i! I would give it to the wvmnn : I can't say what her name was; she was up in the ladies' parlor : he told me her name, but I forget what it was ; I cook it up to her. and she ai>ked me to hold (he baby while slie opened it ; she j took out a stick of candy, gave me one, and ate one herself. I gave her the baby and went out in the room where Mrs. I Lordly was; I told Mrs. Lurdlv that man , was not her husband, but Mr. Monroe that lived in the hoase with my siftter. | Mr<<. Beldlng. I never saw ber after- wards. BOBBIIT R. BOBBRTION, sworn. I belonr Co St. John ; am a clerk I in the store of I. & F. Burpee. One! morning last fall, before breakfast— I do not recollect the month— Mr. John A.! Monroe came into the store and asked tol see our revolvers ; I showed him what wel had; he bought one of Smith & vvejis' n's ;| It was a cvlinder with seven chambers : It took a No. 23 cartridge; that would bel very small, the smallest size ; he pald| me cash for It— either f 13 or 914, I for- get which. He said he wa9 goiiig on tol the States that morniramcdttlil TuESD^r, Sept. 28. skwn cnsivni, m. d., aworn. I went to the deaU-honse on the tnreuoon oi the 17th of the presMit month, la ooaipany with Cwnstable Calvin Powers. He showed me the remains, honen, etc.. of a jrrowu person and cbllu. I saw a akuU wi»tch was perfect; It was the only thlnir that w«s perfect; tlie other bones were in a great measure de- stroyed, i examined ihe skull (n the eirture In the leilt Iteesple ; on measuring: k, \C proved to be a quarter and a sixteenth of au iiiob in diameter. Mr.^ Powers xuve me the Dkull to take down to the Coroner ; I did »\j, and he directed me to make a thoruuKh examination ot It; I did so iff !tlie presence •( Dr. Boislord. 1 sawed off the top of the skull to ^et a good view ot the interior; thera wa« a large, rouffh. ragjred opeitinjc on the in- ierual portion of the skull; a number ot small pieces of the inner table had been knocked off, the internal openhig cor- responded wick the external one as to position, but it was Jaryer. I went out on the Black H|ver Koad on the after- noon of the same day; i went to the place where the remains were fbund. and exun^ned the ^ouud ,very carefully, more especially tiiat portion where toe brain bad run omc. Auionx the brain matter I found a small fra^^rnient of the inner table of the akall; t»Ulits the sknU 'n'here the jTraj^meuts were broken off. There were a number of fragments of dFe>$s. a child's tooth, and otlier articles picked up by me and others who were there. Tnere were also some bones of a child and also ot an adult, [rootli shown] that is an anterior upper molar ; I bhoHid jud^e Irom that the child was twelee or fottrteen months old ; it might have been older, bat the asttat time for eutting such teeth as that is fram twelve to fourteen cBOntkti; there are. however, exceptions to tlds« some clUldren havinx them much earlier. I have examined ihe aperture in the sV M, and found trkces of lead where the buU entered, aitd also particles stiekfnjr to the fra;;- ment of tione; tlie particles are larger on the frHffmenC of^ bbfae than on the skull. It is kny opinion the circular aperture in the skull whs made by a pis> tol ball of very small sice ; I shohld Juujre froiK; the hin«Jed lo Jury i«»r their lni«peution; wttaes^ ilteu pruoeeded 19 show the Jury tno skull and the plaoe where the frag- ui«Hi< wns driven from the Inner tnbie by the btllt^.] I liMve no doubt but Ihe person to whom thU skull belonged was siiot by a pi^JKol bullet. 1 bad ootiio ex- perimcntt made by a pistol and bullet Ihe same slae as that shown on a^kull to-day; I covered the skull with «i mus- ealar iis«tue and filled the skull nearly f^M with water; two ballets were Hred into the skull whib) it was tilled with wet^r. but neither of them went thniujrh —bolt, bulleu dropped thronxh Into tlie akuUf a third bullet waa tired into Che hkuU v/iihout water or coverinf(, audit parsed tUrouKh from side td side. The sh^ts w<^re tired from a dl>taiioe of two feet from the skull; one of the bullet holes was smashed up, much lur<(er and very irre)(ular, while the two tired through the muscular tissue coverinjj^ made holes eorrespondli'ST in every ra- spooc with that in the skull now snowo, wtikih is the same oauded me by Ooo- stable Powers for examination. A shot tired into the skull sueh as I have de- soribed would probably cause in4taut death; the person may die from the shock, or trout the hemorrhage. On ex- aminiug the skuU I fouud that the men- iagen artery )iad been entirely aovered. so that if the woman had not btien in- stantly kllleU by the shook she would vary speedily liave iUed Irem huiuorr- haidO. .i.'o lf;t; '? LEBARON BOTSrORD, H. D., * •worn. I was in Or. Christie** offica, and Was ahowQ bjr him a skull -'.his is the one ; that was on the d«i j that I> *. Chris- tie said he was going out on the Black RiVer Road, and I saw him start Look- ing at the skull, the first thing that struck tn^ attention was the hole in the lofi tem- ple; the conclusion I drew from lUf ap- pearance was that it must have been made with a pidtol bullet. This shown would be very apt to make such a hole. Thinking mat the bullet migtit be lodged iaside the skull. Dr. Chrinie to<>k off ihe top of tlie crankrai with a saw, but no buUei snta di»eo««fad, at the brsin mat- ter WM «o de— i p e se d, Md •• tmail la qaMMity, that thb ftfts* el tie aknU beittf •Mil ImI allevei tlM eommti to low ■! 20 9(fJ (I (ti';,"MC» ttXiti H ihtii "i i mH. The fnwtr t»art of llit hole Ineim «■• bevelled off«ndregf«d. «rMoh would be the aetiitl retu*t In iiieh • miteile raHififf through. Yeet«rd»r fn pasting went into Dr. Ohristin'd offifie^ and h« epoke of lead marka on the ^kdll. With a nagoifying irlaaa^ I examined the «dg« of the opening of thu ekull ; at one point it had all the appearance f>t ■ metal •erapinfr, aucb as lead* He ahowed me k amail piecH of bune, aueh •« the inner .(able of- the skull wo«|ld appear to have 1 loat, and on it what I thought wae indu- bitable evidence of the pmaejice of lead. That only tended to oonflrm the ooncl»« aion I had previodily arrived at, that vio- lenoe had oocaaioned death. 1 have no doubt in my own mind that a piatol ball had ocoationed the nenon'a dc&tb. The result of a piktnl ballet entering the akull ,Iike this would be, 1 pre«um^,7(qmediate death. [Frafirment f>hown.] Tba* looks like the piece I saw yesterdajr. OALVIM POWBBS, aworn. On Weditesday afremoon, thv 14tb of the present month, I was directed by Dr. liarle, the Coroner, to go out to Looh Lo- mond, to tee about the rtttnains uf a womHn and child said to have been found out there. I ocaordinglv procured a horse and wagon, ' and went out to the place where the re- mains were found, on the BUck River Road. The Coroner came out after me and came to the spot also. I therai found parts of bones, and a skull — thst shown is the skull ; £ brought it into the city with the remamdcr of the bones and other articles ; there were also the remains of a woman's dress, a grey tweed underbkirt trimmed with red around the bottom, hoop skirt, some pieces of Whit- ney oloih, apparently of a woman's sacque, trimmed with blaek binding ) pieces ot a , cotton skirt, fragmenta of a woman's under- clothes, worked on the edge, pieces of what h<|d been a b aok straw hat, trimued with nbbon snd crap«, or something similar; a berlirt sontsg, a child's dress, child's berlin hood, a berlin adntag to b6 worn round a bhild's bhbulders, a flannel wrapper or ban dage, with' three plus in it, with a piece Of lead sewed into it; which when I lifted it np dropped loose ftom the bandage and hung by a thread which I out loose ; a little pink tier or apron, a lictW ohitd's shoe and etockingi also a great maagr fragments of (dresa whiah .^wr« aeaiteeMi arottad^' All ,ihe artieMe t'MW^lVodttca ar^lhOKVtJC Jhroughv# fod iiwt ^a^iinipyjj^BfiaNiidn ever since, and can identify. I gave the THE INQUEST. V aktill tl> Dr. Christie the next morning. X deposited all the artielei* the alKhl I brought them into the city in the dead hou>*. Tl was on FHday, the 17th, I gave the akuU to Dr, Christie. I also found a woman's hair, which had been braided behind, and the front parts were hahf^ing loose ; the hair W|a very long. I also found and gathered up several bones and remains of a obUd ; there wore small pieeea of ribs antt other bonea ; the remains of the ehild lay » little distance from the apdt where the remains of the woman were fbnnd On 'Ttiday af- kemoon, the 17th laxt., after betng to Mis- peck and Black Btver, I via\ted tne place where the remains were found sgain, and made at\other aearoh in hope to ilnd the bullet, but did not And It ; 1 found, how- ever, a ehild's toothy other portions of beti^, little pieces o' clothing, and j^ottions of 4i child's hair, which vrese among the moKs and bushes ; the hair was light flaxen cnl- or. I saw the hole in the skull before Dr. Christie 'to^^k it away i when he took the skull in his hands he' pointed to a littlo btack spot in to, which fell in when he touched it. I also brought ia some briuhv which had been cut from trees to cover the bodies— the brush was ^ruce; I also cut off the bf ancbes from the trees,, and found the pieces ot brush where the bones lay corresponding with the cuts updn them. The remains appeared to have been covrfcd with moss and som^ dead trees. On thw second occasion of vifitinlg the pl^ee, I took a sho-vel from Mr.. Bunker's ^d dug down and turned up the sof^moss, and underneath. I found a little bail a foot or more under the mots, which, on breaking open, I found to be a ball ot a tkssel belonging to the sontag. The moss looked as though it Ivid been re- moved' from a rock dose' by and used to sever the bodies:' " . ' V '*■ " "'' ' The Inquest then fidjournedjuntil Thujra- day okotning, at i(k o'olook. ' . ■ I ! I ' " , T^'f'i mtii ,WTM ^vit' < 'fmraratAY, Sept. 80. ' sworn* I am the wife of liobert Crear { 1 reside in Halifaj^ Nov*; Scotia.; I jbay^ been living in Ualitsz since the 29th of May last — pxtvious to that. I livffd ia Captain 4u(u» Paitersoo's houae« ^lue Rock, Catleton, ; I lived in that hoiiaeJrom the let of August, M68, to the 28th ot'^ay last. I was|)o]:n and , brought ; up 4o Caxlstpa ;/ my parents ,ar« both.^ead,f[4l^rfl wf| a]^ . jiisters p/ ua : therejl fU|i«<«i|%,A94;X axpea,ai»eibier,i«; Turnbull is tne eecdnd, Stavora Jenkms ,'tj TJBUP l?IQPB9T. SI ougbt •e. Iti- n hllr. id the le httr ithprod b ether » little emttins ilnj *f- to MU- ke plttee tin, and ftndthe d, how- of beti**, ohs of Jk tie mnM xeii c'ol» iore Pr. took tho > II little irheii tie \9 bni&W sovqr the also cut id found lone* liy in them. I coVn^cd. On tlitt se, I took, ug down idernsath> under the found to le Bontag.. been Te- ased to blThura- ')•» mi •')■■* »t. SCr;' brew { J jSv^ jljeen ^ay laat liiia liutus ktleton; i August. was l>o|:n Ly< paTents Ujrep'iuf; »ti»er.j«; , w^« enkms % Jen thirdi Phileanor 7an* Crear foi^rth, Chloe Tttrnbunufth, an^ SaMh HmrRafM Van wan thV'ydttiigeat. Ifyihther'a «aaM ««a Joht) Vftft. Mmioent Blii* Ttttitball fa ■dwd, And Sairih Margaret halVettrnitatnir. it ie oyer « year no^ a|A«e I aaw hfae littt she waa in hcnr fatMnr'f hoiiae th« Umt ti«w I ■air her— id her NttI* daughter lived in tlie bdnMr Ihe hud it ehild, bitt was not niarried ; th« lAi^ld ufaa'boni'on thv 4ih of February, a feara^o; ita natoe waa Klla Msy Mmfoe ; it -^dtild have been aix month* old fh^ 4tb «f Auguct. 18M \ the father wall John A/lfmree, arehlteet, ofCft. ffohn i I khow n btKaufee no other mmlk kept comjiany irHh herfilbm the first to thcr laat, and sh« t«M itoe it waa hiat HI* four ye*rs Ago Chi* enHrt^er ainoa he first became aeqaaintitd' with her ; I «•• tk«« living 1« tit. ^pWaini Baton'r house, but alter «ffiitH»r'i death, ^hieh'was on the I«th of December, 1807; I lived in the HouHe with fny siet^r; thb child #as born on the 4tb of FebriiaVy itfter, when I Wa* shere ; [ went for the crootor before it was bom/ washed and dreseed itafterwerd, and was the only tiorse my slater had/ I>r. Peters, of Carfeton, atteik'ded Aer. The ehiid was Tuptdred in the navhl j I shciWed It to the d<^eter t the doctor tOkl me to take a nutmeg und dut it in two. end sew it into a little bag, and put it so that the roundinf part -sitould shove its naval in'^ a bandage WHS {KTt aver that to keep it to its plitoe ; that did not do it Btiy good. A woman in Oarleton by the h4me of Mrs. fill*, « nurse to Mta. OUve. came to the bouue of my sia- ti^'to ksk. if we' had any wordflrom my brbthet in Minnesota ; after she went out ot the bouses my sister said. •«'W^ didn't yott ask Mrs. Ells wh«t ailed the baby r I went to the door ande*H«d Met OacJt. ind asked htt if «he could tell mewbM atltd tiie child. I und»r(i«^d iH^ child atidehe told me it was a rtipture. I askfd het if she could teil me- what was good for it; ahe told me to take a pi«^e of iMid, punch helea in if, end sew it into tt piece of'ebtt«nto luuke i truss. M^ sister told her She had no iead. but khe bad sbm« bullets that father had run Ibr Im g^u.tfnd asked it that woiild do for it { Mtv.BttHtotd her yea— to tMke one end otaash it flat. When Mrs. BHs Wehtoui^ I went up 'wtairs and gM« bullet; f took it down and laM it on the .briok'ut tbtfbearth ; 1 tbot ah* eye o( a ^a«ew a)c# iiiia siiriaahJBi it Aat:> i^took an aW» iuid |r«fl«faM li^lea 4r«^ dag*' wa* n littl* broader tha» m nun^a ban'l, ao that It ahonld go Bi**ly over tho; oMM'* hips, Midi pinaad it aoroand itabodj with thre* pins at tk* bach} it re- mained on th* ekild firom the tknoiputit on— eeme time In ApHl— till I left^ on th*. 2nd of An«aat; ahhmii^ taken off frear tim* to tiin*k y*t the aame bandag* was aW waya naad-^-no smw oHe wa*< nmil*. ioould swear to th* piaee of l*aal if 1 sow it ia Bngland; [bandage nndleadi «hown] iff should -bo stniak d*a4 tW* ninvt*;' that ia- tk* lend'hi^et my fatnet run tin A I laausk- ed ; I cevkl > awenr to U if ii wa* on mf dtnth b*d ; th* oottpd ia> torn and dMoelorod, but it la like tho piece of new faotoiy eot* too il tori o0 aadsewod the toad into it i it #aa aowad *ighi r*Mid and ronnd throog h tho holes t bit wean the foldri noone conl^* puasle m* ii ciun. The oUld wore • md* aliog light bs«w« dress; it was made low neck and ahoct aleevea, with allele nahrow fluting up the waias and aronnd the aleevea; tbe same trimming* wa» abound- the bottom of the dnaa, only it waa broader-; it had a' littl* pookut in It made of the same maie« rial^ fdraaa shown}' ao kelp me Uod! this- ia tkoaiuff 1 bOnght nt John Arnaatrong'a to make ;• draao'kv my atater, atid Mrst Oynthia Dykenuni John Dykemna'a wife« ot Carletoa, made a dress out of it for my aiater; I helped her to tear the dress up afterward and made tew 'dseseea for ibo ukiid out of it^«*tililt' ia on* ot tkem, th* other was made pimn ; tkia dreaa ahe kept to taketlio ohUd out in.' Whfsn. I waa there dio«l|ild:Wate abort tiers* bnt it wa* growing out of them and ahe Wi* ^otngitd gee new vooa. Its hair waa wUtOH^It mnld< not be any whiter; itwaaabort^imdiglisten* ing; [hair shown] .ibis oonldJ Aot be more like ic but it is soiled by lying out: it would not b* an *aay>tbi*g for me to be di?eeived in the hair, for 1 had tho washing> and dresaing of the baby td do., i'tuive not seen my Hieter, dasah M^-gsret* ainoa tb* «nd of August a ' year aigo. I kewrd Ltiat wheh the beat race twya-^the Parte Crew- came back from the :it»tes, she earn* back with them, and J^n Monroe in coai4>aay with her. I ehoutd jcisow J«^ Monroe if I aaw him. ' L'fcavekad aay efOMi bim oooe or twine iftConrc^ andlahoidd not.lil|a to* be very near him toac* aim again • I keatd that kk took hertb n hotrt » St^ lohn« and ikMtkotondUdf tala«i«Ume nkoM it •• Wi 31 thm 1>« had t»lriM ktr to anol^a*. lniD«i fif Cwltion, tl»painiMr4 thathtfiktiirdiki*^ it w$ imm tia* i* October of Jait jmt ha toldnit. 1 heard nnthing Biortif cxetpt Uwt Mr. l«iMft Hcf • noldn. tbeM«ilar, on OeroiKin . litrevt, told nkt laat wiateci whc* my liu*lg«ftd wm working oB hii WMei. ho tiM^ugbt he m«)> bsr looking ■ out of fh* window of oone bouse, «oh« p mrnt i Iforgn^hnt hoMM it woo;k« told 9M. >^lir. WilliMD< Irttno. tbo pointer, in Oorloton, wtnt to iIm hoiu o to ■**, but tboy said she .woo not ihorot 1 board that ihft^ AmI Mt and srono ta the titutm with Mui«littnroaii Iloft fit. John, on the 2Mi «l May and onimd in Uolifox Iha tMi of Mof loat. I >otnfcd tharo at Mr^.AnB iOoilbjm'o HaonUng Ummo till tha ftthol ^«no, when lleii, that Wcdaeadaf Boraiag, fat St. John } i orrHod here the •ame night at o'otook. I otopfod «t Mre. Creov's<->nif aaothMain^law'sv-tiWOdajpo. i %at to Carloton on tho 1 Ith* I iitopped in Oarlcton till Thimday, tho I7tb. Ao I wont down to go to the ioata» I itet Hr. Biead, tho poatmaotor ; he odhed mt if my noora wa4 BM Mm. jCroar $ I told hiai it woe I be eaid, Ml baTO » letter that waa left for you to-day, partiotder." I went to tho, Foef OAeo doo? and he toM a bi^* whom I think ho oelled tViUism, ta hand Mrs. Ureer thu iHteroff theohoU. I. took Uie letter, 'i'hav wee no poeiago ta pay upoo it**-! aeked paitieularly, tnC ho eaid there waa none to pay. 1 took the fetter and put it uito afty podial I looked at she eumpe to eee «!rtoero it oaaoo from and aew one of thMD woo •• Bootow, 'Maaf ./' aaother wee •« OarSoton, 8t. Joha/'-»th«r« were three or fauretaaspe on it and.a three eent Ameiican voalege ataaqi ( the other otdmp wak *• tfti, Jbafan. N* S." I ha«a that letter in mj poo- dNoion [letter prod«oad| 1 1 cbanghtr tbeeo waa eoMCtblnir afoot, that ^if anything was wrangiahonld oome forward aad eay I had gat a letter fhoio mp eieier, for a did not ho'^ liaire it ttma 2r«Me ay eiater at all. My iirter oOttlA »e« write, neitber eoold ehe lead writiag, and hardly print. 1 eannot Mad arritmg. ifiaa Mary Creai, my hue* band'e aiatet, on Oermaia Street, read the letttf dm* to Me* aail aftarward my hue. band, iUibert n. Otnar, i«ad it. Miee Greer atkad hm if I know wbait wne ham » I eaid I did not. When aha meatiooed that the naaN waa Margaret I thengbt it muar rater to my MMor, 4wt I if .be ooald 1 alwaye ran awi^r witb tb^ idea that be h»d doae aiwiiy- peltb tbe girl-' oMide twav with .her fof thf aake oif bet money, afid to gel bar o9 Mn itanide. Mr eieterw^ve a tbia. bUak ; Mpaaip draear-I bought, the atnff at .^ubn Armetroppi a The drese waa nM* How aeck attd ebw(<4«!B?fe« far { cut it oMt a«|d beip«d her tfi:make it ;. it had aomo blacb bffid wqrkcd arobiid tb9 bottom of it.. t>^ «r'9^ f^blafib garibaldi, made of pretty aeaf the .•apia,fft||t,. There were no fonttoae o% tbie gatib(4f|i wben I left heme, butebf e^ *N Wae going to gel- eoiae down to Mr.. JUfoaaijd'e. She wore around her waiel Ajbroed mw of bli^ hb" bon. M»metiiiing aimilar t# ifhat (no^r bava on around my baaquine ; tbe^ribboiR wap luteatnng. She war* a pb«>K white under<> skirt Beat t^ her bo^P.tM't t 9^*f that eha wurr a white eiBbi;oidered one ; it was om« broidtfed.ac tbabi^ttpm, and above U there war a row <4 tbrtfd oreebeted in>ertion» the erochetod it ba r ae l f; it woe an 4ocb and a half or two i^ehea wide. The earn* kiad of inaertion.wentupthe front of the ekirt aeroe* tho biaadtb^ bi atripa ; tbe cotton wae eight or nino-itichea wide between ibo ineertion. She wore a pair oi embroidered drawers } tiie embroidery waa about elx ineheawide; I »bdttld kno«f Mm paitem if I eaw'itfior aheeroelieied it ii^ ipiy houae ; rembroidlery abown] that.ie nearly the earner aa aba bad on b«r Miirt ( I am pr«tty ««ir^ tain thie waa an hrr aktrti 4*9ot4K«f pMaa ehawn] thntiafroaaberdravcrCf. aobf^ ma God 1 thaea are pieeee of bar abMt ami a^ of beK drawerii jtba'f i* her w^tli; Mre* Williaok Ulife.dcew. tbe pai^ni ot both dnaweraend akiia for brf, She bad a wluto ehipatraw bat] I far9i«4iU down t9 Miea Jane Caa^beU to jirt iteoloiodrforibe waa geiag in black for father. Miee Cawpbeli eoiored it blaok and trimmed it witb bleek ailk iUuaionand nairow black ribb^ili with a bnneh of arape,iowe|« on tlif front ; [pox- tion ef bat abown^ i take #y eolemn oatJ» that ia the aame ttunoMpMi, iUu''ien and ribr bon. that was oa tbf liat rgpt put on Satnb Maiga> H VaiiabalelM^ l*ne UappbaU'e, I nave M>me, ol tbarjoime. $fmf9 .at tbo house wbiabi frore «n my own l>*t U tbv aante time.; acd of id^Mur > y lb>^g here witneaa broke down and Degaa lo T«S mWBST. ss 11 Mr** f>t bqtb w*9^h\t\tf\j.] Th«t In liMT wain ri|ibo«-» I bovffht it fa'ltmtM MtoMo'*. At this point many of the jufy And ifMtv tatorii were moved to tcwc, mUI a wi and moutnfal tpectacle was pHsentai, aafth as our Court Hou4(9hat Mldotn, if rrcr. wit- nesscd, and tht inTr«tigatioa vBf adjoucMd by th« Uur« poor aiater ; alie ia gone*^ «h« ii» g had a flat, blaek, gtaaa broaeh, whieh when held up to tha light wonld show a ckanga of |niif iiatti bl«Mk| it kad a aieal pUi in it : Mr. Fhga mtt a sin in ic and mended it t I took it to htm. Qi9 ffot the catringa from John Mnaroe. He gar* her the earring* flrat and neiCt the flnger rtai; . It waa ehonly after he flrat beeam* aeqtunnted with her that ha gave tkeaa to her, more than a year before the ohild waa bom. Mjr father found the brooeh and gave it to her. When I laaC mw her on tha 2nd of Angnat, ItM, she wore the earringa in her aart' and the ring on her forsflnger— thnt waa the day fleft the hoase. When I lived with my auter Munroe wa« there four or flva times after the child was bom I saw htm them and talked to him. Site wnnldke twenty flva T»*<« old, I think, the Mth of this January eomiing. She had only ana plain black dre^a, bat ahe had •atitker aeeond mottming black and wkite; that waa cotton ; ahe also had a bine oo- b««g one. Mbe had a h»avy dark gray itneqne, bomd with Mack braid around the bottom and np the front. I oould reeof* niae it, tor I bought the material at Mr. Jamea Manaon'a. two and a half yards, at eighty eenta n yard ; I do not know tha name they gave it; [portion of cloth shown I jea, that is tne stnif ^it haa not changed color mnek aince i\ kas lain there. Thia is bound aa ker*a wa4, with black braid ; it is the aame kind of braid— I paid three cents a yard for it. The child had two grey dreaae* and a Salisbury flannel one. dotted red and blaek, for wearing round the houee; it had al»o a purple eattoo one, and two lit- tle white chemiaea, with insertion, which she worked around tha arma aad neek. When I laat aaw i*. it had four upper and four lower teeth : it then wanted two day* at being sis montha old. The child wore around iu neck a little red and white Berlin ahtwl or aontag father foufid and gave to my aiater ; [BerHn aontag abown] yes. sir, father picked that up by the New Burying (Ground. She wore it tirst around her neek in winfY time and tha ohild wore it after- ward It had a little black ailk hood, but it waa worn and it ia not likely ahe would take it out in that. I heard ahe had bought another One. The gun my father owned waa an old-faahioned mu«k«t, I think they called it a King Oeorge's musket. Mr. John Littlehale has got it nA«r ; it wa« given to him. The Itaby's fcl.^es were red when I laat saw it, but she got another pair alter* ward«.I believe. The tier* it had when I left were too small for it to wear. After I left «f siatei^a I heard Munroe was f re- qnentty there when he waa worklitg at Mr. d^iUiam Clarke's house. 1 have k«d many aMivartitiOM widi htm and taM him the 24 TBI^ II|Mi]£)ll1l.I rtriouii eoaMqpeaoM of «uch tbingii. H/tf ' MCtqed to itei torty about iU bu| Mid iut. did not know whtt to do* at aiio liludbicii nnd seemed «• be •tiokiog up to him. At fivAtehe did not know he was HiivrriedrM hr denied b«ing a marriod man«.and aaid.it w,a« hi* brother that was ni«rrt«d. -Mr. rSrear knew him w«l>, and I learned frnm h*uti«' d»ughte-r. Mr. Munroe gave Mnne support to ihc child ; be sent two five dollar bUkt'tp tke hatt«e. and three oranKes to>ber« ,1 AiK xioc aw»re of his aendinit anything elae. He used to send notes to her b:if a little l>ov : inyr little daugtiter read ih^m to her i ahe had five or six of those aotea fnom .jM[«ar fire with cartridges She alau had his lili><^nees in it ; alaft. my brother'*, an anot'f &od an iiocle's ltkeo«Mes. I did not ki?, any money »be had. buc k heard tbac she had $i75, and. I suppose if frhe went away with that gentlo nian he took her money fiom her. Sh« sold her property to -Mr. .fohn Juittlehtile for :i<600. I do not know wbart became of it. Shi had some other trunke, but thty were V'Ot fit to take away, and she gave them to Mrs. Hugh McLnien. I saw the no es seat' by Munroe to my sister, and could reoog. mze them if X saw them. She bad i^ dark b own silk pnrasol ; .1 bought it at Mix James Mltnson's; I gave four shillings and hixpen«^ ^r it. The $76 aba bad was for oil»«r thiogs sha sold. . ,v ,, sw^rn. I ajn a married wcjfman, wife, of William Ulive. I am not acquiiinted with, Mr Munrbf— should not ^oyw him if V saw h'm. The .}ast tune. 1. saw my vint.er w«i> th? di^.sjhe banded over tKe property to J|f r. Liitlebale { she went away in Mr.. Littlehak's wagon. We were ,nut, go^d frieodt* at the timv, on'aecount of h^r beha- vior with l|r. John ld(unroe, the architect,. She had receivecl her mnnejr; l^r. James, OUv« counted it out to her ut t^e house* Mr. Munroe knew she had no mother, and I talked to. my sister a^ut the con^uenqes of such tilings, na^ to^d her he was a mac-r riecl ifiati. l( is a |ittl« over a year ago t>inc« I »Hw K\y tibter. I bo^'«>««a .^f; w««i(iog.a black dresHjsnd a a«c]A(l moumr ing oiie,a| ,l^«R(i»4 ^ |>ab« ward t9 Pf>( '^ round ita ahouldert when she took it ont ^Work shown] I drew the pattern of this work ; I can Rwe,ar to Itf an^ (Min bri^g a skirt from whieK- 1 draw tiia pattern for Sarab Margaret Vail'a drpwfMra* That wa# about two yes#s ago. \yhe;i fbe got pne breadth of bf r «kirt worked she would ome to me to' draw atto^er Th6 •*e«mpasa Work'* is heic drawers* bot:oms«->4bei other la her under- skirt. I thought first it was like the »kirt I have on, but that she sold; I can twear bolfa to the pattern and to the work. It is her work and no ether peraon'it. She was- jini coaaraenaing to i earn to w«rk,iind was not a very goo 4 worker. She said If I would dtaw it dff ahe would try and learn to io ic heraelf. ' I n«v«r heard that » he was going to haver a child tiU after father died. Uer child waa. bom two i^omba or so after his dtath. i{>tT hair wa» lighter than mine, bhe always «ro re it braided and piit up in a watcrfiall. My" oldest daughter and sha wore their hair Crossed alike. I do not know ^whether I could recngoiie it or not. [Hair shown] there is no doubt ^ut that is hdi hair i it is exactly aa, she wore it ; «h« had a very heary bend ui hair, and the front enda were •jroll«d aivund her wacertall ; there is no doubt but thatin the^oor un- fortunate creature's hair. [Oape shown] her cape wa^ the color of iln*t but this ia the child'i!, [Piece of sacque shown} thflre is no doubt b*)c this is thv i In about half an hour the jQOachman rotumeil alone. lEie put 4ip' hit horses and ordered dinner 1 e«ked him who he drove out. and he aaid he drove a gentleman and iady abou( a niile and is hail out tha road. I naked hin if he had left them at Mr. CoUina', a» 1 thougut that would be t)ie flrat house ; he did n^t 8ay whether be did vr not. After he eame out froA his.dinnax we wore standing in the yard ( a gentleman and lady with a vhil4 cam« into :tjft9 yard. ii^ maii'a muM WW Mr^ MunrQ%, r'A'l^v Udw 1^1^ In child i the m coachi he had then h I hparc eotrnth see the :°fT, cannot' Manro4 then dr was tb the coat again, drove ] The coa time— tl and ordi had drie ouC in the », chiki g«i»t)e^ |b« lM}f got iftta the fuifioh vni Mi^f.MDjftrM pnil^e chtid in. Tbit [peimlM (o,|i(iv Moi'?*] '»* the miiA .If »«w.. Mft MHOfpf^. ailora ^hf coiehmafi ffjie ha4 hfd htv^^mi^f.hesaio he bad. Mr. Munroe «M ihe boaohman' tliet bad some talk wi^^ t diet uot liear ; I h^ard .l||r> iMuVfoe say to the coachman eomt thing t9, the e^ect that tl;i«|iady difl not see the par*7 she wished 'to. I he^d ,fitm engage tbe ooacbnit!! t6 drl^e'hii^ t^ur a^in -<-I aid rioi heac^Q,v,tltne'iDGntione(|. I cannot say whetUsf 'tb4 coecK^lil'd^ Mr. IrluQ^oe paid tbe b^ll t|i^ ftrst i,iine Etu (iien 0rove a«r«y. IcAAqpt' >«y'|irHetbe# it was the 9 'kt dajr prJbr^.daypi afifrWard the cnachman end t^^^sCiijl^part^ ty*s'j&bu^ ahd he suid he bad. . I as^ed hitt again if be hud. left them at Mr." p^lHus^ eqd be diiL'nb't *ay wbfther he diil' or did not 'VL Munroe followed hio,*** faf «» the door and eaid, ••£ wUi p,i»y ,yoM now :" Mr. Mui^roe gave the eoaebpiAii six dollars, Tbe coaciimap then asko4 Mr, iiunfoe where the kady was— | did not hf«r him sity anything about ibfe chij^ ; Mr. Munroe said he hifl left thtim at Mr; Cei|iins', I . heerd bini saying eomethinf to Jt)^ "ooiacbmen a1>out Mr. Collins cftivinK them in-*I did nut bfar him rev when he was going to drive them.in. Tbecoacbmai^.tl^B w<:9t tp the oteble to put his hpraes ti\, ,)Mr3 Mun- roe came into thi» biir*jroom find eatletl fof ji^ Klass of brandy I^etouk it^nd a»kf4^e what the bill wa|. ,1 tuld ,hi^ it wjes o^ie dollar, t^it took ^PjUt a bill fod laid it on the bw, Ptaited righfc oi^t;^ ftad' get into the coaob. I took tbe bill. thtoki?g it was one dollar. I kept the biJU in qojr hend^ foUvw. td him and. saw hiifi' get U\fo the cppieh, Why 1 kt;pt the bill lund, folio «r*id flip m^t was buofiuse I thougbt ho was \t^ • great hurry, t saw the «oii9h diiva nwpiy. | turned and went into the house, Jirui ^tn I uutiing tlie biU inth* draper t ^«»fia it to I bj * t^ro doUff hiU. it h^n mmmm i^ minutes from tbe time the coaob came till Mr. Munrou came'; there Was not time to SirepCTli diiin«r t 'it bilgbt have been'^ Mtcl* iwg^ as tbe dinner w»s'»e*rly ready. Mr. k>'«nree etid th4 lady did not g^t diiw ner tke 4i^t dey tfc*^ were «iit. Ontba last oocaitioli, when Mn Mtmrow returned he wkvin a ver^ great hurry, an^ appeai^ed' to be ihuch bunted j I thought it %mM»w*« ing to bis 10h|f Walk, and that he had been wwlking fhet. 1 di& net think he weuld luMiv hid time tei Walk'flpom thA pbioe wher* the eoach lef^ biafi to Mr. UoUine* and bMll to our ^ house. I am not eeituin thatMn Mttriroe said hv had beetv t«M»»'Collin|^|' but I h^ard him say Mr. Col linn would dtifit' them ln.< The dey wie wet and heetywiih mist, tut it did not rain. I do nMMI knotr which way. . >th» awinilk .nmsti 1 heard no sound fit brearm'*, I s»,yr., tbe eo-tcbmai^. wheik be drove past; Ke nodded to me. and altheugh the coaob wa8.i>hut up t suppoerdL it was,^ aan^ P»>^;^ f, did n^tt « hand Mm itom* bhia. The Inquest then adjourned until Satuif-' day morning, nt 10 /otcloek. . . I ., H ^ . ... SfWuiH)Ai\ Opt, 9, 1660. .,^ ' For an hour before thnt At which the itt«> vetitfgBtiiin was resumed thifi moming, m Inrge orowd oi'emitMl people gathet-edoutv Hide the Court Uotine, und upur. theSqUoMi ill; front of it, wAiting for the dooMito be uf)ened. It wfl|« jw^ 10 o'elook when the ilion weve unlocked, wid then the people rushed in, Meixing the i^unt ndvuntn^cpuH Ptisitions, eliinbiiv; over the barriehi ^M jiimming oadi other ugtiiiAt the tables anif stoves. The whole jraqp wwt {(peedily HUr cd in every part, till there "Wn^ hotdw Htandmg ruom any whei'e. The ndiiie maqle upon their entry ia huHhed lull enraed, whilte Intemationiil Sleoinbuat Company, a trunk on boerd the steamor " New Xork" at ikMton : I bad not Heen the trunk pre- viouH to it9 being delivored to me; I waa directed by Mr. Kilhy tp deliver it to Cap- tain Chixbolm, the Agent of the Cempany in &%. ^fohn ; lam oertain thiH is the Hame tmok ; I delivored it to Captain Chiaholm lavtnijtbt; there are markH Upon tbear* ticlev It coDtaias ^hf i< letter irom Mr. Kilby: .-,,- ■r.n nf> « '>iij ■!■ Vrncz OP I^nrfeRMATtbtf al Cont&KY; ') !^ii) End of Commercial Whart, S Boston. Sept. 37th, 1809. J John, a-sklng if we had here a black trUhk and valise marked *' Mrit. Clark'' ^r "'Sarah M. Vail " WeoverhadlAdourstookofun- dfiiuied baggage without findihtt any such markM. This morning Mr. Fletcher was reading iQ the Daily Telegraph the testimony ot i^rah Lake, in which she states there were two trunlw, one inside of the other, and he remembered in esamiuing our baggage when it was put away last January, to have seen such a trunk, so, sinoo the Plea ^aland leit, we hi^ve BOade another el- amlnation and hate found the haipstige. There id one bifack trunk with a siMUer otie inside, and a sihall hltak Hag tied to thli^haQdle. There is a {MMmoI aiid^ k f\ivr articfei (if #ia o^^nd's clothing which «lqn*t lame very uea^ It has «m it a New EngUtnd ofaeek, N6. 70a PleaM no- tify the airthorities. I will send it by the New ybr*ThurHdat. Yotttii truly, Vr. H. Kanr. tasi night the think arrived in charge of Mr. Uall, male of the steamer **Now York." I went oxk board w^h Mr. Hall, and brooght it to my ofloe, and in the presence 'of the Coroner, John jt. Mar- shal, Chief of Police. John S. Hall, Mate of Stjsamer "New York," and mjsolf, it was opened, and I t6ok rfn inventory of its contents, aind iharked them. diKTtlk^ think, white wooden stripa on the top— lined "^^ \t^^^ '^^^ white pa- per, conUiibing a small black trunk, simi- lar to ^e taroe 6ne. The large trunk bon- tained beside the small one, a parasol, and a smaH bUck button without an eye. Tfie small trufak contained two thimbles, one without a top ; twohickery nuts, one spool white cotton No. 60, one small empty scent bottle, part of a blnck lace veil, one white hair net. one black faocv button, one child^H Krey jacket, one New York Ledger, Sept. 26, 1^68 ; ortft Chimney Corner, Oct. 17. 1868, one Street k Sliiith's New York Weektfi, Oct. S3. 1868. one Saturday Niaht, Oct. 17, 1868, one Harper's Weekly, Oct. 17, 1868, Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Keceipt Book for 1862, 1866. 1867; one book "Snow Bird, or the Tranper's Child;" one child's urab coburg dress; one pair white rib- bed cotton stodcings: one bundle white cotton dlothK,one chad's plain white cotton petticoat with insertion ; two child's plain white cott(>n shirts; one white obtton do., with' crochet work round the neck ard Mieeves; one childM pin -afore, with white buttons:' one childsdrab coburg drem, with trimming in front, and rouni the pottob and ideeves, bound round the bottom With hlaek braid ;()ne child's white cotton nf^ht gown ; twcrpairw child's wool- ly socks ; two pairs A>., striped red and white ; one ^ir do., dai4c red with white spots, tied aroQiid with a wodian's vrliite coll^, quite narrow; one pair child's white cotton so«;ks ; one pair woman's- drawers with ins Ttiob near bottom ; one woman's un- bleached cotton skirt.with two pockets in it; one woman's white cotton uHdenkirt, with deep eitf broidery round the bottom, one row of inaetiion just above the embroidery , all the Way rodnd, and Iwo rows of inser- «lMi«bOT«diitb«ttt bitadih; one wo- acen that IQl TdB ii«ot%9f :^ if a thing nit* »ythe liBT. ;harge '♦Now .TIftU, in the . Mar- , Mate mU, it itory ot rips on lito pft- i, gimi- ink ton- )l.anA a e. 11>e Iw, one ►ne spool I empty reil, one tton,oite : Ledger, e, Oct. York w Night, fy Oct. cKeoeipb ik^Snow 3 child's hite rib- le white tc cotton d'« plain dbtton the neck re, with ooburg id rount }nnd the d*H white d'a wool- red and th white n's wliito Id'n white drawer* nnan's un- iketa in it; iWrt.wlth itoDi. one iibroWery, of inner- one wo- nmh*fi filite ixibatg dr^M,' with small light buttons. ImU way do#n tfa« frorit, nnd Itooks and eyen, and one pocket ot the Mine material ns the drcM ; two pain wouanV white caffil; one oMId^it white hi\t, trimmed witljr purple ribbon, and White ^imp : one woman's Inc^ collar, one muslin do. with edjring around the cndft; one news- paper pnreel oontaihinf thr<^ photDgmphs : one tin-type photoghiph of a man, (in a case); onp ring cam, li^o of paper, con- taining groy hatir. thia is all the eontento of the triink. On the end of the large trunk WAX ftuttendd by check (No. 706} of steamer **New En^nd,'* a epaU Mack carpet bng. containing one |^ir btafek doth mourning gloves : Btq pieces white cotton —one pi«ce soiled ; one child's napkin ; ona decftyed apple and two pieces of candy. [The trunk was then opened and the ton- t4nts checked off by C^pt. (Hhisholm. On the parciil of pSu)tOffnipbs being opened, (y^ptain ChiiihoTm said he recosnized obe as" tbtt'of Mr. Munroe— the other he didnot re- oofnize— but thousbt itrs was of M Orear. Witness fMumea— 1 hare nciw examined the contents of the trunks, and find them as 1 mai-kod them : they are the same as r reoeited from Mr. llall. JoBV 8. Hall, recalled.— The tmttkH arb the itame as delivered to me by Mr. Kilhy, Agent ot the 1. 8. S. Co. I find the contents of the trunk, now ex ahitned. the same as I handed over to tp^jpi. Chisholm last night. •It ;'^' ». T. WORDBN, Te*examined. That is Che same kind of a trunk as 1 took ftom tha Bl-unswiok House to the Union Motel last (all, about a year agoy I did not notice any marks ifpon it. Mr» John Muucoe sent mefur.it. Thorewas a little black bag similar to that ahown, I could hear sunething jar inrndo the trunk* but did not know wfiit Was in it, MRS. |C1R¥ ANii LOIIDtt,^ re-examined. Mn.Clarkba(ia black bunk apparently new, when she was atini hous^, (trunk ahown) 1 am pofdtive thai iH the tr'^nk pf >Mrs. (;lark. W ben ol^ Mr, Munroc oauie tq zny hon#9« about two or three o'clock on the alteMwn of Monday, I showed him ^be tnink, ( Mrs. (^lark had leltmv iMuse that inonung). JU said it looke'l liked ene thi^was monufaVtiunvd ip his estaUiskment. ,He took a knife and outanotc^ in fho'cMo^-e atrip ef Wood, on t,\» top o| ^ho trank^ to emnpare woods, it of his I have tJoki^ on tfte top o^ ^no trank^ to eompare m and said he W(d no 4oubf 41 ^** Rut seen that trunk ; sile (Hrii. Clark) tv pttt 0^ ttib Isris one In the (Mn arid took It ut) stairs. SUs had a Mne dre«i, which 1 think ( could identirv. it had some white spots on it. [Dress nbewn.J That is the drass that I saw with her. Iwonldknow the bag if I saw it ; it was mode of some kind of eiiamel leather. fO^g . shewn.] That is the bag she hhd when she was ini my hoose— 'lamsureofYt* r '" llAar BLACK ' re-«tamined. f never Aaw Mm. 01ark*fl trunk opened at Mir. Lake^. [Trunk Hhewn.l The trunk I helpbd the boy take down stah« I thought was a kind of a yiei" low one ; there were strips on itiike those ; 1 think I wouh! know heir embroidered' skin if I saw it : sbe had a Small blaek valise like that shewn: that isthesaui# bag. [Skirt flheWn.J I never saw this, but i recognised the phx« nhown tlM other day as that 1 i(aw her Wear. .,41l|^.. SAOAH LAKB. (re examined) I i«coll«(it what kind of a trunk Mrs, C^lark had ; she had two— one wan larger than the other ; both oonimon bbick tratiks, nhe had a bhiolc bae of some denoription with the ilaria^e trunk, '[trunk shown.) Thelarira oneiis just such a trunk is thin : the amall trunk is the Mune make Hs the one she bad. [hair shown.] Thiw la thewmekindofanagl mw Mrn. Chirk have in my iMMsa ; 4 mw some ot' the am* tents of her trunk ; 1 aaw a blue dresa, a parasol, I ooald not tell the color; slio wore a white skirt With inaertion on its edgw, when she was at my place, I oah straw a piece of imiertioD like it, she crodietted ft fur me while she inm therav^[dress shown] that is the very drem that I saw her have at my plktsii fskirt showh] the insertion in the skirt is the same as the peice she done forme. She wore tbafe skjrt while ai my place, [parawl shown i I cannot say that is the pamsol but it is like i% ; fdie m4 a dark parasol in her trunk.; theohildli^awhite cotton Hkirt with the lamc oruehett work on it as on Mrs. Clarks skirt, (child s skirt sbownj I saw that on Mrs, Clark's ohiU when at my hoase. ' The Inquest then adjonmed i»iil 8^ o'clock. AfTRRNOON. S| O'CLOCK. ins. fUBitCCA AKX OMVB -^ re-oxnmi^ed. says : Icaa reobgniae |be worked oBderakirt of my sist*^, it wae wviftml the same as the lower part of the .qne I ijioW haye on ; I h»?e brought anoti|«r skirt with work oo itiike thitonhors; i 39 Tl|^^f%ftlp»f. K| .ill (skirt Dcoditieed) .that is the «kirt Jj^tro ^J)ifihJ4f6V thejj^tteifttg (slirt frQi|» liw^nk sboMrn (0)9 OQiMpai^ed 'witl^ that worn by! wttoew, tti« work was the sanie at ihe bot- toio, with insertion abpye, but vber« that ofwitnetowaa worked between tbo iniri^ froi^ jnabtflty t6 get/the Crank open, and inony bdnohed Of keys Were handed up betora one wan £>und to lit the lock ; at Isfl on9 was found and ^e;)»kirt MTHH ^kcn ou|,) WttiMM-f-Xbls i»,t\}e sane pattern I di«,w for Iter, .aqd nobody but n;iy fiHtpr. worked it ; nojone «an w Ipngfd to my sister ; it oorrenpondp ip every way with my own, and theie ik no doubt in the world bt^t it was worked % Sarah iMargaret Vail, l^never oaw.the eblld ex< oept ^om the window otipy house aprot^ my fiitlter'slo), and <^not identity any of its clothing. I have brought a piece of work the same 8<4 1 drew fer^ her drawers bo^.tom. Alter drawing the pattern for her, and «he tiad made it up, I saw * it i hanging on the olocheil ltne> I drew another pat^ tern of a skirt for her, and* the firagiitent shown lA the tiaiae. In working; the draw- ers botton^s she would not take the trouble 'lO work the snail boles round the bottoms nicely, and I know her work by that. My sister had a likeness of my brother. [Tin typo shown . ] That is a 1 ikeaess of my «ld- w( brother^ who is now in Minnesota. — f Pbetogmpha shown.] One is Mrs. Crear, one is my lather's sister and her husband, David JNickerson, nnd the other 1 do not know. I Piece of hair in ring case shown . j Thatia my pogrold fiither's haiii.v -nn -xui m m)itl**?.:PBttEANOB JAJI8 CnEAR,^ ^ju fj. ft^'«xttMined.) My sistor did ■at'fiaVi^ tho.ser trnnkitwhMi I l^It home. My sister had a blue Coburg drese, with white but- tdm. TDresB shown J Y««,sir, to( IhBtp ^tiie (Jod, that is the) dr«»a I bdtfghtfa^ her at Johh Atmatrotfg'i wfth' lh« juoriey John Munro6 gave her; The btfM)ns tire the same. 1 have ^ no doubt that' ut my 8i.ster's dress. It was inad«f bv Mm, CynthiiP t)yiMttian; 1 Wodld knibw her unde;/-.lf?"t, it had croehetted insertion oii t ijreudth. , f Skirt shown,] That » v^^ < ^,ii». broidery i)he did) in ray house, /I it AW it for Ijier off b«r own pat- .i . "^' fc 0'!:tcr set up (he pattern for the i;v. daiHh MnVgarct Tap. SJhb iki(i dii^ «^^^ di dmwilirs wdHted with a obmpass ptitt^rn ,and another |Hiir. #!t;b the otbwtted ifuertibti on tb(im . tDrivrtf* shew*. } So ^Ip; n^ Qod tbt^t is th« sai^e insertion that. wa9..^a|[;ked,fur h^r d/awejSr by hwseir. '^hose are hdr . drawers, tb^tt'is the new unbI«H}hf;d cotton that was got; fgf^ them, and she b^iched jtihem on the gra#, When she cut them Out»<)ue cut mWtt^o pfliralso ; tbe^ are the buttons alw. Ihaye home ^' father's hairat hpme, \ ][Uair in bbx shown] I knpw that bp;^ ; it is the box which had tiie finger .^Ipg in which John iVjlunroo^ve tomyjiister^apd said he gaVd f'o^r dplUrs for it. "^lat is my pocft; father*8 liaJr.v I out it 9^hui temple w^tl^ my ofri> hai)ds« and diyide^ it with my .si^te;r, [likone» i»bpw^l tbat i« my oldest bniitbct Jacob Vail, ,wtiQ is ^i^ in Minnesota.* [photographaiwowo] tb^t js my own ; .tfiij* IS aunt Margaret Nickeiwin and her q^B- band who is in jQan^. ^i^ l8,;hardly iie- oessary to ask wbo that ia : U in Jobn ^(unro^ thi^ iiiurdedrer wbp fpUed my sl^r . oii^then miu^dcjed W; bgw coiild b[Anoth^ dresp. shewn.] r^n't say [positive about tUs. 1 donTt know'tbivt I 4ver saw ttie ehik^have itPn!. Tiie chiM had two white bleached oottba skirtA with narrow ^ffoelietted initertion around the neck And aleeves. [Skirts sliewn.l She bad ty^q tfith the same pat- tern ,of^ cjfQCheit as this. Don't recollect wHaV kTrtd ofli ha* the child bad. Wtreii I wtis homi^ irith her, it hitd It pairofblu* airf wliltc sfM*ln|8. [Button shewn] 1 hcrer iiaw heir hatci tiiiy buttons like that. My sister: b*i(! a^fJifitsol. 1^ biiught it : ft was i\ vcty datJb' t>!*^wn'. ' ' [ParwHU shewn;! It looks darker tbaft'^tfi« W I boujfbt fo^ her. 1 afai not= 'fiesltivb tihat thics- 4s th^ iiaih« '; the hatidfe ik exactly like hdr's. «hb had i kind off it 'fum»y «hiped scfent bottle ;1 should khdW'iti -[fotae* J*«(wb'.] Y^, that bnttfe eairfe Aut on>r. «Ardi*|^ tH* H/nitkdatfi^t«^,Maryfif]n(b««V, \^atfoterili«r#>^^H, a^iiepi«kMU upunt put it sister henalf sworn. amObJ About ordered and CI Monro4 Wm.sl Office ; of poli< He undi and I c better i self mij had betl He said tell him! 8aid"hc Garleton many a I she had by her fa timies tb( sons for Cordamn not to sc she had £ He said little toni A'om tho on picasu think he i and she i told hern be j^aid ht tlemen,an that Miss not want to keep ai on board ; she /fot ne where the wdpted to was but a sbe expect going to pnas for a went to th( said he ai American to' see her, seen the pe next day h< she still ha ed- '8he s John again leave the n< mmamm^. tuttmif^iif. '^ verSr gra#, in box lebox 1 JdbQ ither*s )rot,bct desdta.t » Jwn iy slwer [a he 4o ither, 1 rais light hn Arm- ny siswsT >vmy la- ohiW> ilped her > tor her, 1 Th** ihewn in put it on my mantle piece tj keep. M^ sinter took the bottle frgin Joe, and kept, it henalf. ? , Kirorn. Ibclonff totbe Parish ot Portland ; ai4 Ohiel of Pofice of tU Parish of Portland, j^bout the 2l8t of ^epteokber laflt, I wati ordered by the Coroner. Attorney Genera), and Chief of Police to go. and get John Mnnroe. I got hm in hit. Cralt'a,' Pi-inoe Wm. Mtreet. We w«bC to the City Police Office; after that W0 retired t6 the Chief of Police's Room, off th0 office, uft 8tain. He undertook to explain the affair to U^, and I cautioned him. and told hioi he ha|i better not ; as the Chief of Police or nw- aelt might be called on the stand, and be had better be eantioufl what he said to us. Uettkidwhat he wonld tell oshewocfld tell bimmlf if he was pat on the stand. (Id said **he waa intrpdnced to this girl first in Carleton ; that he had went to seo the j;irl many a time^arvi ehe had % Child. He said she had some property that was left to hen: by her father : ana she had told him several ttmles that she would sell it : that hor rea^ Hons for selling ii was onacciouniof dis cord among the family ; that he adTlncd her not to sell it. He had a*icerta1ned that she had sold it to a man named Littlehale. He said Uist F^ be was going awa;^.on a little tour to Boston with some gentlemen from the city, partly on business and partly on pleasure ; that the day before he kit (£ think he said Sunday) hd went to see her, and she insisted on going with him ; he told her not. and on her asking the reason, he f^aid he was going along with sonie eeb- tlemen,and did not want h^r to go With him . that Miss Vail told him th^n that she did not want him to have any care of her, oii4y to keep An eye to her and her truubt while on board ; she did so in tbe boat, and when she ;^ot near, ot i» Boston, she asked bim where the Co^miBrcial Hotd, Was, as she waoted to go the^i^. He told her that it was but a secoii'd'clase bote!. She tpHhIm she expected ta.meet amantbero, wjbip was going to marry her. Hhp was going to pats for a widow wmnan. He said she went to tho CommercuJ Hotel, I think he said he and his oompatty wmt to the American House, Thene.xttlay he W bert, E-q., Police Magistrate, which was ^ntiooed fram day to «Uy antil the llth, at wbiob nearly all the ^tneske* who had tMtifitd at the Ioqn««t wero examined by the Magis- trate and rfquikc-d to enter into reeoguieano'S Jto appear at the Supreme Court. During the "nvMttgation tb» following additional teeti moay waselidtcd: STLTBftTSa I. BAWLB, ■worn. I am a medioal praetitioner of 8t John and alito iJoroner for tM City and County of fit. John. I have made an inquiry into the death of certain pvtiea. lufomiation wa« civen to me that remains were bin? at Loch L mond, aitd I went out there and took posaea- >ion of, them. William Dougla-* ahowed me where the, remains were. The first thtng we •awwaa ask uU.baae down. Nmt by waa a 'lock, apf^rently about a foot ab<*ve the level of the mew ; there were seme portione oT hoinata iMfiealyiav these, aad tor*lnba«1c aronthein; fberewi'* tileo a q'l«ta;ty DtHioea covering s^tortion of a roWs' U'Ih* niipmiranc« uf the bone« it wax evident the r»mtin« h«r. Christie ti>aioB frotn Captain Chi»hnhB, A,g0 feet b.ick from tbe road. I have no doubt from the hair and clothing found there that the icmains Wvre those of a woman and chiid, 1 have examined th« skuU, and have no doubt Imt ti:e hole iu it WM caused by apistod shot|and I believe death r suited by \- bu let enteritg the braic of the wt)man. When 1 saw the remaiiis 1 was oen- vinetd that they had lain theta from the fall previaus. 1 was led (0 that cou elusion by tbe atau of the brush, the olobing and tbe Ihisee. 1 made the rvmarfc at tJie time that tbey mu6t I have laid tl,era since last fall. 1 know the prisoner. John A. Munroe; he CulIeJ to see me during the investigation 1 was ho>ding onHhe remHius; he made a statement t^ me volnn- taiily, without anr induofment bring hold oat by m« fur hisi to dtt io: he Was a ti«ie man at the timet ^t <**^"** ^ ^J ^^ ^ ■ ^^ Wilttam | THB i^Qfilf/t. ■M HOlMae Ui-ide lentd by & ik; ebeok it. The en in ray rd to vc> lid t think [ nlao MW ; fromthe ■re^pondtfd 1 IlKOW I b«»rdA ui to see if le had left ire Mvcnl kept buck lid bewen cfre found, d t on the drote cut half a mile 1 mile or stf &uld drlTC 1 came to we turn off u»t by th^t oat of my etofwheie k from the I h»r and maina vii- ■um»i name of Mr*. Clar^. and that ahe vi,!,. ed to make it appear that ahe wa« f widow ; there waa a perfon out there would marry her, or word* to th^t efl>?cti he thought he wa* a paluier from 8t John. Tbe reaaon for atop- ping the eoaoti where he did waa far fear thia peraon miitht ae« her in hia company, and he miffht not like it. He watched her till ahe walked down paat t^ollina' romd. I aaid, "ahe didnolgoint^Oolliui'. for I have juat eome fr >m there.'* Ni. he a«id, he watc)i«d her till ahp paaaed Ci^llina' road ; he aaid after that ahe came back and aaid ohe did not aee the party and ao th<>y came back iuto Bt. John and went to ItakeV Hhe I«*ft Uta Lorlly'a beeauae Mra. L. 8Ui>pected aomethinf;. and i^he did not like to KO back there) ahe did not go b^ck to Jjordly'a, but atof ped at Lake'a, who iteepa the Union Hotel. Ue told me before that ahe w mted him to Ukc her out in a waKKon, but he did not wiah to be aeen in her company , aud thf-refore |he took her out iu a ipoacb. The second time they went out they stopped at ttie same place, and had the coach seut b ming in that night; »he had aern the persons and they would drive her in on Sunday after- noon or Monday morning in time for the Ame- rican 8teauitr: he waa to have her trunks taken dowt to the American ftteamer on Mon- day morning, wbica he did; they were late e^miHff, the last l Chief of Police of gia city waa present a- tlic time. J^ FHILBAXOR XANB OBB&K, when ealcd, wms urged Vy the Magistrate to retrain if posdble, tion the ezliibiti'tn of hny feciiug agaiow the priaoner, aa it waa a oa4e iu which thoy were 4II intereated, auJ it w^a their duty to cinduet it aa in view f a here* atter. Wilneaa replied it Waa a hard civ«e, but ahe wauttd justice done. lo going ovor tne family, she stated that her t«tber'« nnoie w«s John and her toother's name Mary, both dead. Tbe first plnie in, but he said he Jiad uot tim>-, aa he wanted t^^ citch tlie bo t. She toll him t'lootu? in agiia and he :tij aj. He thought I wu not a married wnmiu any more than she was ; he thomiht we were two gir^a keeping houie alon61aon, will you uo tiid poison mr vlfe f9r ne }'» 8li(< told hitb t>h» would have nothing 1o do with it—to po and do it bim^tlf. W* an then raine outof tlin front room together. Me did not stop lorg in the kitchen, bak went AWiy. T did not ioe him but once again till tliii cbild w^n ttorn. Witne^f here proceeded to recapitulate her CTidf uee 4a >o the rupture off the cbild, and the making of the trnaa out it a leiden bullet. 3he cohtlnued: Three t^eeka after the child T^da horu Munroe came t(» the ho^ie. 1 h'ad the child In mj arms, ait'd I »aid. "John, how do you like vour child f Re »m, ** It is a pretty little thing. It looka like ita mother ." He went into the room where my sister was, byt wbat passed 1 do not know, 1 hive gone on several occavion^to Munroe to get mo..ey to defray the (Xpensea attending the child. On onii occasion, he a&id he had no money, but wodld bring some over; he did not c 'mo, but aent a boy with a note and tiiree dollars in It. I buuld not read writing, but I h^aro it read ^loney came on several ocov siouB, and once I t;ot a letter from the Po^t Oflice with tlve dollars In it lor her. Mr;., Croar stated that on the first night of her artiyal shv tO!d the' Coronrr of the request Munroe made to bet sister to poison his wife, butd.dncTt say anything about it at the In- qaest, b'cause she waa not asked as to aay lonversatioua bbe had heard between Munroe and her slater, and did not wi»h to stata any- thibg but in answer to what nlie was asked. AB^AM w» craW, ewom. 1 Was "born in Carletop, but I reside fn St. John, t have been keebing public house in thei citrJ I know the pmoner, John A Munroe. i havu seen Sarah Margarat Vail, but was not well acquainted with her. I knew het father very well. About eight weeks ago, £ siiotild judge, Mr. Munroe came into 118 Prince Will&m Strett, and iti ioking tvitb JiIAi I aatd I saw a Itidy enquiring fOr kim. He asked me who it wkb, land I said it was Margaret or Mias Vail, of Oailetooi, I do not remember which. He asked'me where Che tvas' shopping ; I 'told bfni I did' not know. On Che day of hia ar^est^ Muhrdle 6atae in 'with ftobert Bustin, priaonef'v brothetO^orge, and William Koop. Munroe asked me if i had seen Miss Voil either five or six weeks ago— the time I was telling him beforeamud I told lie qnsrters of a mile of the plaice with Milk Tail. Nothing more #as sah). Ater'the evidence w«8 oloaed on the part of the Grown, it was read over to the pilsuuT by Mr. Chartea Chandler, Olerk of the Oour-. The Maj^if rate then briefly summed np the evid^iloe as proietlted to hi.... It was clear that a murder had been ecmmitted. A aura • ber of Colurtod people in berrying on the plains caide upon theremnias, which by somemeana had became exposed ; information {< aent to the a|Uth6rliIe«, and onexaminatinn a skull is foirnd with a bwflet hole in it. It iftight be said that the woman had gone (o this spot, ant} after murdering het child had driven a pistoHhot into her own brain, but from the evidence it tras clear th«t a hand had been there otter the d^ed v.a» rjomin'tted— the bo dies ha i been covered with mnss and bruHh, the latter eat firom the trees near by. The next question was, who was the person mur- dered r He thotight the eviden'ce most clear on that point, and even th6 prisoner him> self must aoknowledffti that it conid be no other than SaraK Margaret Vail. Her irientii^ ficatlon was most eom|(>let«, even torhe clothes she Wore. Then who comtrlittcd the de^d ? Here tlU teitimtmy was equally strong, point- iiig directly to the prisoner, the stateinont he hiirisflif had made tending not a little to eoa> iivm the buspiciuna existing against him. But ha had Stated that he saw her after (ha visit, tt at she came to tho boat, and he had jnst time to bid her good by and give her the check for her trtlnk which he had caused to be re- moved from the hotel. The Magisii^te had caused the stricteiteuqnirt' to be made in the ueii[^hborhoo4 of the murder, to see if- the statement of the prisoner could be corroborat- ed, but it was clearly ohown that stich woman and child had not been any of the houses nor aecn ii| the neighborhood, the trfinka had eome back from Boston, hut it brought no news of the woman, and every oircainstance pointed so strongly tQ the prisoner that the Magisiratei could hot do otherwise than coinmit him for triai. It paused hi,m sorrow to seo him in such • posttilim, and' he trusted that h> would }«i be able to ahow" his Innocence. Yet he Bhoulcl remember that he waa mortal, and if iRdeed an innbcent man ahould pray carnertly that a iherdfu'l Providence would ao graciously dis- Eose event* that the dark cloud hanging over Im might iMi dispelled. < The'Maglitti(e%tta viaibly aflhcted daring hie rcmt^rlni tlf t!ki vAmnut, who, at thair doae, was han'd^'^fer t« the Sheriff for the fittj^me ©♦art.— ^ '5' '*' ' - .•1A«1( '/ittp tu EitBi W.H.1 On T o'clock^ opened i Allan oa doors of open a luid a«6e Contt*r«M escodNeni and hig o ingRncfj proceedk *re you trial? TlM At Ronbr, bt Mr. t^ Bel fur tki Mr. Jor here in a broagbt ic Ttti pH 'iT '8 ■AC ►JTrtn^i "^^TT .iMl'jfi .'i '>ri),-l ' ,iii-.."ri7r.«i(T "n^iit ?:* I>f»r'!!H '-♦m .TJ^d i'^ I * AJrl Mhji b(:« 9' I--- - laont be to coo- m. But lie visit, had jast X9 check to be re- late had le in the » if the Toborat- I womtn lUBM nor ladconoe news of folmed «o afcis irate ' him for . in such roaid }4t pie Bhk>u'ii) ^Rdeed au ly that a sly .di8- ing ov«r darinR; at thair kff for the ■ »!f1 ntt Uf*»in!4"H|at» ban .^^ ^ k'vniiU ortJ f»>f" -'•^JiiiHw, Hii tfoaoff Jodjg^e iilan presidiag. H«N. A. n. WvnioKB, Mttmeg ihmtnl, W. H. Tuck, Esq, Cott»ue/, ^* : ^' .. r,.i ,.no#ft »br tke ProMcutioa. TtmwAY, Dm. 7, MM. On T\iesdA|r 71 H IVeoember, it tvi o'clock^ tkd St. |«lia ClrQuit i^ourt was opened ki 4ae Cnmi, His .:Ho94r Jad^e AUsa on the Beoolk laMiff b«fof« the doors of tb6 pbart^tQtisi w^re thfowm open » y^Vf }^8l* reirca[4ed «>irer-orOwd- ing and josUmg. ^Sj.m bii.'iS^ -i i;'>t»fc At; ahMittWQatf mknitfs fftstten Uie proceedings eoaitt«M»ed. i:ke CIdiartr Mr. AttoHiey Oeneral, are yon t9^^' to jpji^pcflp^ ' jf jth ^e trial? liOB x^^ <**''" ^^^* 'i*** ^l»i«l« f^i The Atterae; €tweral: I Mi, yoiHr Honbr, btit I im ftwdting ihn v^iytH of Mr. t«Qm^» %i^, I beUeri^ii l^iw- sei for thQ prisoner. ;)i. < Mr. Jordan, of Coamhl^ftirtheprisoB- er : Yoaf Honor, Vr. i'hottilaan will be iiere i^.ii^feir itio»^t^:-^.,j^ ^^^;;;,,. ;; The pliiuih^ir, 'Metitepiidid Bj^l'''. B. WHiiq eilJ )o .tirafifHN no bia Moet, Chief pit Foitkud PoMei, ftppearw id; r^4 w^^ piscere trial, I hate a veHon to mske. That tho Court should nat\(y all rep^trcer« of newspapers that darfajr the irinl of the prisoner, no teeort of the proceeding shati ' he poh^ lished. There eoatd be no donbt that the daily pnbtieation aiMf lendtd mnatd pnb- Ite obintod, ind that niost injnnoasly tb the prisoner, as the eit parlring those parties who violate lUtCh' an order before the ,Ceurt, and prder their pUDisbneot a'^d imprisenmeoU I ahall be sorry if tka jirisooer shoul^ be prejudiced in hia u«- faace, and I do deaire that thav sball not (do so, but I am ^ot catisfied tba^ jC can enforce the order, f should be happy lo jpatikt (he prdei* il 1 had the power to cn- loroe it. I do make an order probibitiof any oomments or remark^ eienoeroing the caae while It ia proceeding, Ifeelxltave -tl^t power and lyill enforce. ' lir. Tsoil^jEi-^The!^ I take exoepUon to, but do not ottatlenge, the, arri^.} I ipimply object that it is irregular. . ATToaNvir GsNEitAL— I must require jtbo objectiona tn be stated, tlutt nijlit- ^ntipn may.t>e Cfitled to thenqk. t'deWot w4|hi Rhjr m9tre than the leariped ceMnael Itp.refort to t^phnicalitiea, but in a^aae'of ^biji kindf adinciDrder muat 1^ obc^rvcd. ' \ tM^fojre^iiMke uilaiutemeol now that ^ 'the^oA«9feL|94y ui^derstapd it. , [ThewU PM!i«^ Pf3 then o^^ed ov^, and John Chaliato^ifi Pudne Bjreeze^ Caf- aoni'iood, 0«c«|i'I>. Wetotore, J^pb^ .Marshall, Bdwlh Froitj^ Thoiji^a, g. Hanli|g(on. William H. Thorne, Samnel ,McOurr, Wimam Bfagee, Jamei Loom, , Joliit, AraMt'ong* Charlea u. Mju^d. Joaeph AWill»n> John Kiabear^ Qeorgb IsNpc F. Burpee, were reported absent.] Tub Clbbk to the pRisoNia— These good men are they who shall pass between jrou and our Sovereiflrn Lady the Queen, and if yon would c ha llenge them or either Tyr IhenA l/SfSiiiaf ifcio i>el)ra they are JAkoi Josipn fifAirmt called. Mr. Thomson.— I challenge Mr. Maher for ea«ae~that he baa made up his mind and expressed an opinion, and I am quite willing tn take the Juror'a word. any MACLKLumwii^mMMii ibnd there being no objectimif-r i i>< XhS Clki^^ T«^THKP|tiSQ^— M Pri- soner h3> upon the Juror^— Jiiror look up'ow >Jf l*nsoner. (2V tU Ouror.)— You shail well and truly try and traede- \\fmi\Mit make? beMleenaw fivvei«ign I^y the (j^en. aa4j|*e V^j^t.w^9tk yon ahall have in charge, and a traa Vmr^ diet gite al^dfMfiiff i^'lie mUmi, So help you God." Mr.Ma6t»^n fUett teek bis seat JnUla boil* Mr. Galbuii W^i^m waeiBSKt called, and Mr. Thomson challfpged iot cause again, and Msasrs. Tysob, Bnriiiiam and IbiSlenM i«ei« bwAni as «riers. il«ib.| stantially the same questions aodaiifsrajri irerf giwi^i§ ^«i^ §pdthf wmt QfHirse TI1BTRUI4. iH RAnt-l Thea«) )tween ^iieen, uiiher ley tre Mftber it mind ID quite iHftttion r. lO Vttte n to try t Jarar, ♦ \'' ^ ' plied to •aed an ihe •▼*• he news- aa no re- ly. TKia rfpaparK. rejuaicial it Gkne- P •n'} CBA' ItkU trial, he »»w»- ie« by the CoiiQtel, iert found MopatMit, )• p»rti««. eupon or- ftUed, and o^lltd, ^or caoeej tiiiitun and I it course I purfued, when Ike Triere fonod Mr. WU< BOO iiidifftfnilt, whertttpon lir. Tnomaon chailenited him peremptorily, end he wm theraanwii nrdtriMl to ataod MMt . Mr. Thomas DaLb, ohtHenned for the same caune, and Mr. Dale having aoewer. ed euhetanitallf aa the other Juror, and that he fell perfectly lalillUd that if the ofidence w«a different, or nuy rebuttini; evidrnoe waa offered, heahou'd be only heartilj glad if able to ao^uit the priaoa- «r. Mr. Ibosiidn--«4 do.aot.Mr« lo |()riM the eiiallenf*'. 'w( Xmx -.m''. *t<'ii.>M it Alian J.— I eanttot wkhdrap. It fron the Triera-Mhey nuet aettla tbf qaeaiion. The tiieta found him perf^atly indiSiir- ent, and Mr. THOusoif challenged per* «mptorily, and Mr. OAUb.vas.Acdaiua.to stand aaide. -nb ci cutiittMitti* DaTi» S. ROBBETi. Mr. TaoMto*. I ehallaoftt for oauaa. But I do m>t iHeh H» f o lhn>u|(h the fbrna, if your Honov will allow ne aiaply to ask Mr. Roberta. Allan, J.-^f you ehallenge forcauie I muat take the proper oourae. Mc TuOJttON -^WeU, I withdimw this «balltnge. . k [Mr. Roberta waa awani, id Ikwaime maaaar aa Mr. 31801011811* aad took t. bis teat aa a juror.] . 'i< I ,.<—.u\t' Mr. Thomas Ltfoair wit eftlled and challenged foroAwae. Two jurdrs haviag beeA aworn now, Mr.Bnrsham and Tyson woM diacharged a a triors, aud the jurors sworn, Measrs. MsoIaIIm add Roberta, were awora to set. Mr. Logan waa ex- amined by Mr. Thooasoa, and anawurod Bobetantially aa the others, adding, that he is perfisctlynnprejudtetd aud prepared to try the ease fairly. The Judge charged and the trieia found him indiffsreaC, when he was oballepgaid peresaptorily.byiMr. Thorooon. i JoKN 0. E»WAl00 waa ohallenged pep- emptotiiy.iiithoiit oiuae by :Mr« Thomeea, and directed to stand aaide. ' TROiftAi'McOM^ikii called, ssid'^ do not think I ought to serve on this Jui^, I bava mode up ny Hund and it oaunot be altered, ii y -• Allan, J.-— If that la the case the Juror ie not eoaspetent. (Stands aside.) Crables a Shaw waa oaUed, . aid after some delay waa awota. OioKOK QtiQ^ ekollenfsd' for etMO, said : *• My opinlona are very decided— my mini ii pretty well made up aa (o the guilt of Mr. Meoroo." To the Attorsey Oknvral : "I think it would have an in- floenee upon mf jedg'ii^nt." The Triers found this Juror not iodif- ftrmt and Ihe challenge was allowed, and theJeror dtaaussed. Jamu* Da.vu sailed, uaehalieogsd, and aworn. Ctfrun S. Qodahd, ohallsnged for same osmss, hut praved to he eKsmptcd en the ground ofilineoa,ayid,i|M,e»paifH| aoeordittgly. • n i • ^id ^v^r 4%n John MoRniiioiv ealled, ead on tke groonds ol illieM in his naUv was p^r- mitted to stand aside, but only for the preoeat^ liable to be called if tke papel beeame exhausted. Lujta Stewart asked exemption as being a member of the Orand Jufy of the County Oourt, but the Judge dQolined, and being unchallenged^ wee aworn* Jahbs Milliqan naked to be excaaed on the ground of illness in his family, standa asids for the pressnt, .^ Gilbert Murdoch ohalleBged by (he Crown. WiLUAM PiTKRs ekaUenged peremp- torily by the Prisoner. Hbhrt Bond, ekalloaged for oause, said : ** I huTo often expniNed an opinion f^em what 1 have read, but I am perfectly aMe to give a irerdiot aeeording |o what I shall bear, not what I have hei^rd. We often eapresa aa o|)inioa oh what we hear or sae.*' Th* Triers tound him indiffer- ent, but he was then ohalknged peremp- torily. Joseph W* Barnbr, affisr SDme delRy, was unchsllenged and sworn. Asa D. Blakbslkb, challenged ^or cause, said— I have expressed no opinion, except to aay that I was afraid Munroe wa'ii in a tf^ht ]^)ace, but I feel free to sit (m the Jui^, ai I fdrm no opmtea ohtil T have beard %(OCh eldee. pTb* triera found hite •*ifidlir(»wil.*' bnt Mr. Btakee- lee was then ehaltonged pe^empterily^aad stood dowoi OKoRoeH; WHnmro, eallod, unohal- tenged, and sworn. 6RAimA«H HoLLT, tmehallaoged, said. — '*I have etprsaeetf ft preity strong Ofpiftion, and wottld rather not eit.'* Allan J.-«-** I havo no dopht you wonld rather not J^t, kal are ypa ao coo- 30 TUB TRIAL. ! ! H: I .1 l( firin<>d io yoar Tfewa, thait yon believe yon ctinnot give an honeit verdict." JaRoa. — ** My mind it etrongly preju- diced ag^ainat tbeprieoner.'^ Alt.-vn, J.—** Then I think you should not serve. Stand aside." George N. Robinsoit, challenged for same cauae — anid, *' 1 have spoken pretty •strongly, and I think I ana anuie«rhat pre- i'udiced againat the prisoner, but 1 think could aet as an honest Juror.** ' Allar J.— "I think where a man nd- tnita h«) h«« a «trong^ prejudice adcinst a prisoner, he is not competent, and should not sit oii the iory/* The ttterg found Mr. ftobinson *^not indifferent,'* and heatoad asiife. David MAOicat— Judg ioir froiu what I t&v in the papers, 1 formed a strong opinion, and thought it an unparalleled casn ; bat I speak frbm what I saw in the papers, and I am sure my mind i. jraa ready to go on with the trial.. Clierk oaUed Jane* Holly, ab> MJit. Oalted Peter Cfaiaholai,. staUd thM he had expreased ao opinion en aeverat occasions in this ease; io answer to the Judge said he considered be oculd ait as a juror, and g>ve a verdict according to the Evidence ii^ieh mii;ht be g\i«n hereafter. Cballenged by Mr» Thoaipson, for cause. Fetbk Ciiishoj.m, sworn, (examined v.r Mr. Thomson) saya: He has ywj strt^hg convictions against prisoner on the report which has alroady been cir- culated. Croi-s examined by Attornw Genr- ral — I have no prejudice agains' pri* soner. Ko-examined by Mr. Thomson — ^I fear I would bo influenced by evidence al- ready given, and might be prejudiced thereby. Triers' verdict, •• not indifferen.t.^6'<5 John Chaloner, sworn— Said he bad expressed an opinion. In answer to His Honor he said he considered it would r^iqnire a great amount of contra- ovidence to obange the opinion already formed. Ordered to stand aside for present. Jambs Millioam sxonsed by affidavit satisfactory to the Judse. Meaare. Carson Flood, O. D. WetvOre, Robert Maraliall, Edwin Froat, and Chas. L. Richards called, but were absent. Thomas Hanii^oton was czcused on a certificate from Dr. Earle. Wm. H. ThosMs and Samitel McGikr called — ab«ont. John Wxntkes excused. b«in{r over 60 years of atre. Jambs Looan sworn, John Armatron^, Charlea U. Hanford, Joseph Allison, John Kinnear, Greorge F. Keans, George F. Thompson, and Isaac F. Burpee, called— abaent. The panel was no- exhausted, and the Sheriff waa ordered by the Attorney Gen- eral to call three Talesmen. Ai.bxan]>br DttFF called and sworn. John Dohbrtt called, challenged for cause, said, to Mr. Thomson, *• I have expreaaed an opinion ; I have no personal prejudice against the priaoner, but as far as the report of the case thus far ia oon- e^rned, 1 bav* bsen prejudiced ; I can- not aay I would be as free to aet as a juror as though I bad not read the re- poru. The Triers found Mr. Doherty incompetent. Edwim FttftST, in answer to His Sonor. said : I am atready ao prejudioed by what I have heard in this ease, aa to be un- qualified to give a free and impartial verdict— diaeharged. Amos FALlta, challenged for cause, said, l hatre not expv eased a very atrong j opinion. I have aaid if the evidence re- flMiiSd intact, it wonld go very hard with j the pi and ii cause Chalh sworn Oe( Tht( Thefo chosen theC charging of Sural] tipon thf been ar guilty." I W. H case for I Four I The prisi the luut Murdfr I to be the of any pe John A. with this ^•as occu| iiition in t aider the occupied, •r- portent whether I SarahMar J'»hn A. *.ll idvie appenred. when Prin a nuaher •ng near half a mill the remai "ons kept i a vvtk afi UHUmiM^ «: r oauiei rj BtroDg dettcerb* aid with tfw) priMMit?. I tlilflk I o»a gif0 m Itm and imp trtiai a Terdiftt as a joror on this Cfiuse as any man in tbo Court Hnuae. Challenge withdrawa and Aoaoa Falea sworn. Oborge Frasuk •worn. Thifl completed thVith the mnrder of Surah Margaret Vail, and stated that upon that Indictment the prisoner bad been arraigned, and pleaded "Not guilty." W. H. Tuck, Esq., then opened the case for the crown, nearly as follows : Tour Honor and OenUenten o/the Jury : The prisoner at the bar it charged with the murder of Sarah Margaret Vail. Murdvr has been defia(>d by Mr. Russell to be the wilfully and malioiuusiy killing of any person wiih malice aforethought. John A. Muoroe, who has bn rock, little WampJ or the Black ii Was om the inkers', ere whs of »h« week in r from a mile lort (US' Henry sh lying noved ii remains tied the moss, it was ; there und. I should set Hnm •gain. (T^nnik (KMitiriBhi| n^ mams was brought into Court. [SkttU produced,] that is thesanit akttll w* found out there. | Chile's Waterproof prodvodd] 'lYiat's the waicipsMf we found. {Sontsg shown.] That's the tonUg, {Uoop akirt produced.] That's tb^ hoop skirt. I wasu't there afterwards when Mr. Douglas was there; that war gthe first ti|he t was out there that season. I had b^n thpre once before a go6d whl}e ago. [dhde and Stock- ing produced.] Yhfti'a tUe aho« and atock« ing we found. Cross examine Wasn't the skoU poUebed when it wa^ ahowu at tks CtocoBoifa ia- yueatP Aoa.-^-yeB. fiai>t . Q — Can yoH say that i« tba sime skoU whiob vott saw on thej^ains? No answer. ^ « t«>v . : • -.(in*,s>;/H Q,~ Wasn't? the skall yoti saw oirt there black. A. —Yes, but this looked like it any way. Q,.— Don't you understand my ques- tion ? A —Yes. Q.— Why don't yon answet ibemP No answ swer, but without effect.) liti-examined by Attorket OxsrEaAL. The skull don't look like it did out there, it is eleaner. I knew it looked like the tianra skull by the teeth. Cross-examined again by Mr. Thom* SON: Q.— Can you swear it is the samr skull you saw out there? No answer (Uia Honor ordered witness U> retire . colowd; ftWom : I was out thete berrt" ing, when some fetnaiiis were foana; it was about the first of the antuinn. Miii'tha Ann Thompson found them; th.' TiompsoD girls went away from us on th.^plains; we were flitting down on There only a^ a. was was th ground and the Thompson girls went OB ahead of «a; heard them halloo ; I went to where they were, and thev shewed as what they had found. I took a sUck and turned over the head, was a rock there ; the skull was little distance from the rock ; it little way from the hair. There woollen sontag there ; wouldn't like to say I would know it [Sontag »ho\va ] That looks like what wutouad out there. I saw a child's shoo with a sock in it too* (Shoe shown ] That looks like* iti The place where these things were foand waedn the lett hand side o£ tho- road, a considerable dtstanoe from the> Black River Road ; there were bashed between the place and the road. I did not take particular notice whether we could see any person passing along the road. Henr^ Brandy was with us ; we did not remam hardly any time at the place, but threw the stielt down and walked awaj. t hadn't been to that place before. I8k\x\\ shown.] That looks like the skull found- The moss covered the shoe^ I put a stick down in the moss just a little way and rooted up, the shoe. Don't hnow whether I would know the hoop skut (Skirt produced.} That looks like the same. The buah laying across the hoop skirt was spruce. Didi^'t do anything with the remains, but we all concluded we would not say anything about it. Cross-examined by Mr. Thoi*40h— From the place where the lemaina were found we couldn't see the two roads, biit we didn't look. Can't say how far it was to tlie Quaco Uoad — quite close to the Black River Koad, though. We didn't stay no time at the place. I wouldn't swear that the things' shown were the same things fottnd there; there were snags and sticks lying across the remains ; it was swampy around the rock ; there was moss, but no wet. tfixtrsL HBtrav braxot, colored, sworn : I live at Willow Grove, at Lake Lomond ; I can't tell exactly how old I am, but think about sixteen. On Black River Koad we were berrying It was between the Black River Road, abont a quarter of a mile from the forks. I saw some konee and pleeea of elething, aaw a ttkuU and a hoop skirt. I went and pulled a small tree or bnash off it — the bn»noh«t were dry and the leaves off. It was qnits dry there, but mossy. There was noma hair lying tbere, too } wouldn't like to swear to 40 P I' I b liH ? I anjr of (!t6 tl^ifigf « IC wa« ntis fottr o'clock in the afternoon, atid wo oeiu home. Sow DooglkB the next Sunday. I think it wot TocMlay when we found tbe thlOKs. I wrat ;^ith Oouglaa the next day, Monday. Mr. Charlton, Crozifr, and Hunter went with us : I ahowed them the thitigo ; they secrtned to be lying Just the aarae as they were be- fore. We pnlled up a buneh ot huir ittnt ' «pfin a waterfall ; didft't do anything with the thinjfH, only Mr< Croisier pulled the hoop skirt out of the tnoiis ; there waa a :; tock 8 little away from it, with no moos on ; the hkir waa brown ; I think it waa a part of the tame hair which I aaw there the fkni i, day i don't tbioH I would know the hair if Xahould aee it again. CrosH-exaiaiDed by Ms. Thomson — I Ktp about three miles firoia Mr. Bunker's, to the kit oi the Quaco Koad ; I neTer was on that place belure, was about a quarter of a mile away from the plaoe ; hadn't been there in two yeara before; the place is fiituatod between two roodsi, the Quaco and l^laok River Roads ; 1 don't know Whethe]( you could abe the road from the spot oi tiot ; there weire sticks like bu^hos laying across tt)6 retnains ; they were quite dry ; can't say whether they had been laying there lor years or not [Sticks produced.] I diun't see them at nil. MAROABBT JANB TU0MP80X, colored, swom :— I live at Looh Lomoed, I was brought up there ; I waa out berry- ing there about three months ago ;. George Diggs, (naming the others) were with us: it was between the Slack River and Quuco Roads ; don't know exactly bow far it Was * from the fingerboard-^about half a mile ; found a skull bone there ;: George Diggs with a stick turned ihe skull over ; didn't see anything in it : saw some clothes and a hoop skirt, but don't think 1 would know them, we did'nt stay any time i then was little buniics over the hoop skirt and a hijt bush bvor them ; wasn't there with 3lr. Douglas; vras never in that place before. ' , Cross»ezamined Yfif Mr. Thotppsoo.— '„ I^(»jeot us. took paxticukr notice c^ the things ; we all we»t away together ; I did not take anf partkukir notice of the things, 83 1 did not go quite as close astlxe others. [The Attorney Oeoeral mked to call George Diggs asain to identify the brurii which was round orei the remains ] Attorney General. — Did you see the brush whioh was ever the hoop skirt ? Wito«s»' -(brush beiag prouuoed] — that lookt like ii/ but. Iberer wasmonr, aakd tiome was bigger. Cross^xamitoed by Mr. Thomson.-^f won't swear that that brush looks like it ; some wore whit«', like what would be poll- ed ap out of the marsh. ISAUH OAB«LS coloured, sworn. [£sa> ined by Mr. Tuck^ 1 live at Locb Lomond : am about seven- teen or eighteen yeanrol age v I was ber" rying out there between the JBlaek River and Quaco Roads the last of August. I saw a skulV there, and some more bones < i saw a big rock there, and some c^d clothes ; a hoop skirt< sontag, kind of red and gray ^ and some hair. I think Georze Diggs took a stick and turned the skull over.- i did not go very close, imd would nut like to say that I eould te^them again. 1 don't think 1 ever was in that sane spot before ; wa9 not near there within a year. It was further from the Quaco than the Black River Road. 1 went with Mr: Wm. Douglas to show him the plaoe. I think it waa Tueadu^ we found the things ; I thi&k it was Monday MIowing., Mr. Doug- las, Brandy, and most of t^ gi>li^i and a good mfaay others welt to the place. The girls who went with us were Mirny Lane, SarahLane,Mary M eedham and a good many others, we went to the same Dlaoe where we found the things before. Brandv and I led the way. The things appearea to be in the same place where we found them. Could not swear to things. Cross examined by Mr. Thompson* : I live a good waj's from the place, I don\ travel the Blaek River Road much, but do the other. I never smelled any thing there before ; there was a good many of us went to see them with Douglas ; wo all left to- gether; didn't disturb any of the remains. When 1 saw the hoop skirt there was no briish oyer the things ; it is quite near tho Black River Road; a person e>iuldn't see the road from tho place very well, for the trees. The roads are quite a step apart ; I tbiok about a quarter or half a mile. Court adjourned till 10 a m. to-morrow. Wevmbsdat MoRNiira, Dee. t. Proclamation was made by the Clerk, and the 8ix«ri9 ordertd to kwmg in the prtaontr. in tbt meantime the Jurors were called and antwered to their names. Prisooer, •ccooipaoied by ene of ihe oily marsbale, entered, and took his place in the dock, looking, as usuai, qoita caliu and coUeotttd. foot north 60 iinl the poq links; i chains, white. Earle wtts 8 aiisrstiAXcr 4t» ittomv fce it ; B poU- sevon- ks ber*' River ust. I bonen < me c^d i ot red George e ukuil i would D again. RM spot I a year. ;han the [r. Wm. I think linfffl: I •ug- I, and a 58. The ly Lane, oodmany M where ndy and xea to be id them. KTSON : I I don\ b, but do ing there us went left to- remainb. was no near the t see the [the trees. ; I think [■morrow, )(;e. ^. ae CHerk, „ in the jte Jurors lir Barnes. Ine of tfeie 1 bit place ait* ealm *^.,- JOHJf C. W|EI.TO!r» iwom. ^\$!xamin«l by Aiiomey Oeneral. ■\ iMy occupation it land sarveyor. On t)ie 9tb and lOtb oi Nvvember I went to Loch Lomond ; Dr. Earle, the Coroner, accompanied roe, and pointed out a cer- tain place where he aaid certain remains ■were fqunil. [Objected by ^r. Thomson, '-•bout the remain! ordered to be atruck out.] I made a survey of which this [pro- ducing a plan of survey on parcbmem] I measured from the Norrh-Weat corner of Bunker'a hunse, and found it 1 chain of 66 feet and 67 links to the road ; from that to the forks or finger-board it was 23 chains end 20 links ; Black River and Quaco Roads join here. The right is the black River Road and the Icfttht: Quaco. Thpre was a place pointed out to me by Dr. Earl, as the place where Worden stopped with his hordes, d(> chains and 57 linkaj here was a pool of water. I mea- sured from that pool, in the centre of the load, to Collins' private road i it was 67 chains and 68 links } from the cross road to the Collins* road is 1 chain and 30 linkfi; from Collins' privste road U) his house is II chain's and 50 links. Collins^ house is on the loft band side of the road ; Woods' house is-further on, on the right hand sid«, about 16 rods. The next house is Moore^s, nearly half a mile from the pri- vate road. It is 3 chains and 42 links from the no'd of water to where the liitle pathway leads in to where a rock lies, I measured in an easterly course first; then measured south east, 1 chain and 30 links ; then I caaae to a small foot path, I measured from thai north 94 links, direct to the stone 60 links. The whole course from the poql to the rock was 2 chains and 84 links ; in a straight course it would be 2 chains. The rock was weather worn, white. From this rock to the place Dr Earle pointed out wh^a the skull laid was 8 feet in an easterly direeiion. It was 11 feet 9 inches from the rock where Dr. Earle pointed as the place where the remains of an infant were found. There were s'ime spruce trees- pointed out; one of these was 83 feet 4 inches from the rock, the other 34 feet ; trees stood 9 feet 6 inches apart. Along the pathway in to the rook it ws« 3 chains and 5 links. Between the rock and the road there is a fcrvbby igi^^w^h of UMS tviitoma.aiilfrs. I put the TMuit who wi« with m on the rock that 1 raieht get tbv bearing from tho road, b*jt couIdoU see him ; he had to hold up dead wood, and I took the bear- ings by that. The best stance to see the spot from the road is further out — I can^c say how far. What I mean to say is that the underwood is thicker all around than at this spot. The place where Doctor Earle said the skull of the infant was found was SO fsec from it; it was with the other Aemaios. The two spruce trees were on the west of the rock, between the road «nd rock. [Hii* Honor — How high were theyPJ A. — About lH feet. I think it is about tialf a mile from one road to the other at this point. Cross-examined by Mr THOMSoN—'WiU you swear that you could nut see a man on the rock trom a point on the road di- rectly opposite P A.~ 1 think I could not. I can't swear that those paths w^re not paths made by persons visiting the place out of curiosity. It was about 112 feet from a point oo the road opposite the rock to the patb leading to Collins'. Q. — The Quaco Road is on rather higher (rround than the Black River Road is it not? A. — 1 cannot say. Q — Did you not see the Quaco Road from the rock? A. — I did not; on the right of the Black River Road the woods are very dense ; along r^lose by the road a little further in «,:* disturbed. Do not remember of any one touching thetu. Saw a sontsg, but do not remember of seing anything more than [ did the first day. 'We went from the Quaoo Road down to the place. It was damp grnund, but didn't get my feet wet. Do not know how far it was tioa the Qoaco Road. Cross-examined by Mr. Thomson : Am quite sure the remains were on the side of the rock next to the Black RiTer Road; remember quite distinctly all about the remains we saw the first day ; the Rkull was just n litile way from the r'ck. Do not know how far it was to the Black River Road. Re-examined by the Attorney General : Tne remains were on the side next the Black River Road. MARY ANN CORDTN, • colored, sworn. Examined hy Mr. TucA;; Live art Willow Grove. Have seen the Black River Road. Went there one Monday last summer-^went with Mr. Douglas, Mr. CroEier, and others; went hy the Black River Boad. Saw some bones there, a skull and Some other pi-3ces of bone, a child's btiot and sock sticking op. Saw some hair stiok« in^r up out of the mose. I lifted it up with a stick— did not toooh it ivith my hand. There was a rook there— I «hould think it was about as far as from me to the chair there, (a distance of about f^ve feet.) The hair was lying towards > '!« Black River Road, nearer the roek T inn the RKuil. There w*«re soae old ' ry bushes lying over the things. X did I ot see any one disturb the things. [Hair btiowD.] When I mw the hair I Ihiok it was a Httle darker, but it Might be the aamcw [Shoe vrodueed.] it looks like the same shoe. We did not biing any thing away with us. It is a kind of a mosey plaee. We all came away together. Cross-examined by Mr. Thomson : Q, Is'nt there a cross r >Rd from the Qnsco to the Black River Road P A.— Yes, there is a kind of a road. There wai no p^th to #here the remains lay that I saw. I will answer as far as I am able. Q.^-Did you seethe remsiiis lying be- tween the rock and the Back River road? A. — (after eotisiderable explanation by Mr. Tnomson)— Toward the Black River Road : can't say how (u it teas from the road. ' ' ' Re-examined by Attorney General . '; Went in off *.he Black River road. [By a Juror — the only way witness can explain the matter is by allowing her to draw it out with a piece of chalk. ] Ark'QRNET GsNinfiAL.— Could you draw it out on r piece of paper P I think I can [Paper furnished but witness thought it was impossible for her to do it for fear of drawing it wrong] \^ Re-examined by Mr. Thompson : It was lowardd Collinti' and the Black River Road, that the hair and skull wevo lying. WILUAM D0UQLA8, SWOni, Jt Examined by Mr. Tttek. -'d. Live at Willow Grove, about 2} or 3 miles from Black River Road. On Sabbath evening this fall, 12(it Septem* ber, in consequence of what I had heard, went to M^ry Corbyn to get her and Rsau Lane, Crozier, Jemima Lnne, Henry Brandy sod others to accompany me on Monday to see these remains they had found. We came down from the Q when we were coming away the same time wo met Misa CoUins again, about half way down to Collins', Sirs. Porter -was with her t they went back with us to see the rt^mains. Misd Collins did not find anything there, she only looked at the remains just as I saw. Did not yefpain there nao^e th^a (eo ov fifteeo minutes the laat time. I went homo then to send in word to St. John, but the stage had left. On Wednesday morning I took my carriag3 to come in to inform the^Polioe Magistrate. I met Mr. Powers and the Coroner (Dr. Earle) who where on their wav out. Mr. Bun kor went out with ns. They gather* ed up the remains and brought them away with them. They were these saiie remains. I have traTelled over that ground quite often years before. The roads are about half a mile apart. Had not been there that season bo* fore; was there once by the Coroner's direction, to make further discoveries, but did not. Cross-exanuned by Mr. Thomson: It is a short half mile from the point on Black River Road to the Quaco Road ; I have frequently passed through the barren ) there is some thick woods and some barren on the ri^ht hand side of the Black River Road, On the left hand side, going from bunker's before you come to tha rock, there are some thickets of bushes. There was no path from the road to the rock. I do not tliink 1 could see a carriage on the road at the end of the pathway from the rock , there was no water when £ wi there, but if rain came the ground being low it would hold water: I never have been there after the raia. Q. — Now, Mr. Douglas, many of the colored witnesbes swore that the skull lay between the rock and the Black River Road. Did they or did they not? A. — They did not. The hair and skull laid on the sivould be lying in a pool of water. When I heard of the matter I gave the alarm as I have stated. When 1 went there, there- were brush and moss covered over tha remains, those look lika the brush. B^ the direoiion of the coroner i out the limbs ofi a tree which siond near, and fitted them on to the btosh. I can not iden- tify the brush. That is a piece I cut off the tree. I could not look straight across to the Quaco Road and see v.. I came along back and forward between the Quaco R?ad and the rock, looking fur the fu^ef' doili bat couldn't see the read. ker't THE TRIAL/ 4S f of the ikuli lay ik Eiver A.— ull laid Quaco towards Rivei- le body When klarm as r«, there, ver the Bj^the le limbs d fitted ot iden- I oat otf It aeross I came een the iDg for be (Md. Cm not t«II whetk->r I eauld leo the lOivl lHt<>r in the Reason. By Hw Homoe.- Where were these fnx holee you speak of. Aos. — Towards the Qiuoo R^d. Re-examined by Attomtey General: I cut tnuse oiecs off the trees which stood about 30 feet, und pare them to Mr. Powers to (it on to the bruoh found. Those are the same as I out off. I saw Powers and the Coroner (it these pieces on the bushes, and thoy fitte«lr ' " His Honor. — Can you show' me ^y the plan where you found the sinxle bone. An«. — ^Yp*. sir. AboAt thirty feet from the rock, [showing by the plan.) ROBERT T. WORDEN, SWOm. Examined by Mr. Thick. 1 am a cosohman ; have been drivinir the Bummer io bt. John. Was driving in 1868. Know the prisoner at the bar: have been elightly acanainted with him three or four years* He employed me en King Street, in this city, in 1868, in the fall, just before the Ueinmeroial Bank failed : it was the first of the week he asked me what f would charge to drive a lady and child to Collins*. ( told him I did not eare about going. He said it did not matter what the charge was, as it did not come out of birr I then told him it would be worth hve dollars. He said for me to drive to the Brunswick House, there was a lady there — a friend's wife — who he had te see out to Collins'. He told me to go there and enquire for a lady by the name of Mrs. Clark. 1 did so. and she sa!d she would be ready soon. Munroe was in the eoauh. In about five minutes she came down. She had a child with her. 1 took the child to be about a year old. She carried' it down in her arms and got in the coach with it. Mun* roe remained in the coach. We started ' for Looh Lomond, 'i'here was aetbing said to me farther. He (Manroe) told me to iro to Ceiliaa\ thtA it was abent a mile and a half or two miles iiaat Bun« ker^s on the Black River Road. I want up King-street, and do*n BrusseU street. It wat) about ten o^elock in this mornini; before we got to Bunker's. About half a mile this side he told me that they would get out of the coach and walk after they got down the road a piece. After we had got diva the Black Etyer Road, abDut half a mile bsyond the forks of the road— •! remembitr the fiit^er hoard, one said " the Black River Koad," and the other ** the Qaaco Koari,"— then he (Miinroe)SMid for me to stop, nnd they would get ont and walk. Ha took i^e child, and the lady and he got out. Ho said Collins^ was nearby, and tlidv would as leave walk. There waa no water there then. He said he would walk, back to Banker's, and for me to gothero and feed. He said Collioa' were frieada of here, and there was where they were going, They walked on down, and I turned bao<. She (Mrs. Clarke) was carrying th^ ehild,-» The woman had on a black dreas : don't recollect abeut the rest of her dre^s or thechlid's. 1 went back to liunker's.put up my horses, and ordered dinner, i think I drove at the rate of five or six miles an hour: it did not take me over ten minutes to come. I had bueii there about an hour and a half, ani had my diitner, when Munroe came back. He asked me if I was ready to return to town; I said yes. He said the folks were not at home whom Mra. Clarke wished to see, and they would have to cove back another day He paid me $5 there. We got aeady and started for Si. John. 1 paid Bunker. I did not see that they took anything to eat at Bonk* er's. it was about two o'clock. On the way in be said to me that I neod not drive to the Brunswick House again, as Mrs. Clarke and Lordly did nut agree. { snid I could take her to the Union Hotel. He said that would be handy for me to taks her to the boat on Ttiursday morn- tog. I drove her to Mr. Lake's, Union Hotel. Munroe sat mside; she and the child got out tl\ere and Munroe gpt out atthe Bell Tower, and he told me togoro Lordly's and get her trunks. Munroe left me there and I went and got the txank-4-it was quite a large black trunk. I ferplot the beg — a leather bag — which was with it, and sent a boy down for It in the evening and he get it. Tnere were two strips ruoning across the trunk on the top. (Trunk ehowo.] It was a trunk like tiiat. [Sag shown.] It was a bag like that. 1 took them to Mr. Lake's. Mrs. Utarice was a very good looking wo- man, I think aboat 30 years uf age or a little over. Recollect her hair was a lit- tle lightisli. I ilM not see Munroe again ,'l 46 THE TRIAL. r uotil Saturdaf. [ carried th« trunk out of Lordly^s myteU ; tbero appeared to be Bomethinf; he««f iottde of the trunk, which moved. Whan I saw Munroe on Saturday fullowing, it wan on JLxng street about 9 o'clock in tbe morning. He latd he wanted me to go the tame trip afain. I told him I would be ready. It waa a damp, foggy day» alter a heavy rain. I waa at Lake*t about 11 o'clock in the morning, when ha met m« there aocord- iag to appoiotaent. The iadjr eaiae down dreaaed much aa on the former oe- ciaion : ahe had no luggage with bar that I aaw, only the child. Munroa waa in the coach. She and the child got into the coach again with Munroe. I do not re- collect of him apeakiog to me from the time we atarted until we got to the aame place oti the Black Hiver Road where we had atopped before. He aaid for me to atop, and they would walk down aa before. I atopped and let them out. He told me to go back and feed, and he would aoun be back again. I went back to Bonkera'. I turned, looked back, and aaw them walking along the road — she waa carrying the child. They were on oppoeite aidea of the road from each other. The road waa muddy : I waa about aa long driving back as before. I met fersons afier I passed the flnger*board. met no one either time on the Black River Road, either going or returning. 1 ordered my dinner at bunkera\ Had been there about tbree-quartera of an hour. It waa before one o'clock when I got there. Ha came about half-past one. He aaid the folka are h6raa whom Mra. Clarke wiahed. to aee, and they aia going to bring her in, iu time for the boat op Monday morning. He asked me then if 1 were ready to go. I told him that I ha j ordered my dinner. He aaid be would rather pay for jny dinner than have me wait. He wanted to get i» town. I asked young Bunker how long before dinner ^would be ready^ he aaid it would be ready is a lew misutas. Mr. Munroe said, "I will pay for yonr dinner ; it doea not make any difference, and we will go.** I got my horaea fixed up, and he paid me there. I told him it was worth elx dol- lars, it being right after a rain ; le gate ma two Commercial Buik pound nutea, and I save him back a two dollar bill,and about 75 cents in ehaaf e» and [Maaroa paid my bill ; do not know wh^t it waa. he went into thn bar to pay Bunker. Munroe was aweating, said it waa a hard walk ; be was wiping his forehead ; did nnt observe anything else wrong. I wae not inside when Munroe waa there. I waa baroeasiug my horaea while he was in. It was nut more than from 5 to 10 minutes till wr were ready. As «e came along he showed me where he used to live, about a mile or two miles this aide of Bunkers'. j)idn't know the old Monroe place till be showed me. He aaid he used to live there. Showed me where the old miU atood. He waa inside of the coach. Before we got into town he told me to take Mra. cTarae's truuks from Lake's to the American boat, on Monday morning, and be would be there to receive them. We were about one and a half houra driving. Ha aaid I might let him out on Prince Wm. atreer, aa he had buaineaa there. Saw him on Monday morn:nir at the Ameri> can boat about 7^ in the morning. It WAS oo the north side of the floats, right at the end of the wharf, where they were taking the freight in. He asked me if I had brought the trunk ; he spoke to me first aa soon aa I came there ; I told him I did not, but would bring it next time : when I remember- ed the load I would have I found I could not take the trunk, so I got Hat" field to take it. I asked him (Munroe) if the lady had come in, he said she had. I weiit for another load of passengers, got a coaoh ftall, and had as much bag- gage aa 1 oould get on ; don't know what part of the town I got my load, only it was up about this part, among the hotels ; it was about a quarter to eight when I got back to the boat ; did not see Munroe there, nor did aot see him that morning again ; have never seen that woman and child since ; the last time I aaw them was when I left them out of the oofMh on the Black River road ; never done any coaching for Munroe afhce ; had done some for his father befbre, but never for him ; have met Munroe on the street since, but have had no conversation with him. Cross-examined by Mr. Themtcn : i don't recollect the day of the week I first took hub Mtt, oaly it wat aarly in the THE TRIAL. week. The road wii quiet when I knra- ed on botb ocoaiioM. Tb«r» were buihee along the fd : mw no person on «itber ocoaaion. On the firit eccation the> were walking side by side when I looked back. On the second time they were apart, one on each side ot the road. I think I could see them abnut a quarter of a mile on the road from where I left them. I took it to be about half a mile from the place where I turned to the forks. The road was wet and mnddy on the second occaaion, but the ^^at time it was dry, The first time he |Mi ' me five dollars, the iMt tiipt he paid me two £1 notee, and I gave him the change, so that ] reciiived abuut six dellara if 1 bod paid my own bilL I noticed nothing wrong about the man, he seemed to be friendly with the woman coming in. He did not seem to be excited. Ue told loe he wanted t'> go into town. I do not recollect of Munroe telling me, on thd last oeca'-'on, that he had pnrtlctt- lar engagementa in town that arternoon. When he told. me that Mrs. Cl«irke and Mra. Lordly did not axree he did not sa) what hotel I should 4j|^ke her to. On tb& Monday morning whiin I saw Munroe at the boat, I did not tell him that I would get somebody else to bring tlie trunk. Do not remember of any gentlemen oalU ing at Lake's to see Mrs. Clarke while she was there. I saw nothing in Mr. Munroe's demeanor to derfote suspicion , be seemed about as usual. I think young Bunker was present when be paid me the two pound notes. He-examined by the Attorney General: I was out witb Dr. JBarie, the Coroner, on a auhaequent occasion. I pointed out to Dr. Earie where I had turned tbe borsea when there before. I learned from Mr. Hatfield that he had taken down tbe trunk, and Mnnree had paid hiiu, but I told Hatfleid that Munroe had paid me too* "^^'It'' SARAH JAKE CotUKS, Bwom. Examined by Mr. Tydt : I live in the Pariah of Simonda, on the Black River Koad, about af mile and a hall from the fo^ks of the road. Onr bouse ia a abort diatanoe off the road. Have been living there eighteen or nineteen years. No house between ours and Bunker's on the Black RiTer Road. Was living there in Uoteber and^OTemb|Bi;of 186p. No wo- man and child named Clarke came to oar house at that time or in that yuar. I waa there myaelf all the time. I bad the aole managernvnt ot my fathei'a houae at that time. Knew nu women named Mra. Clarke or no woman named Vail. Some time in September la»t, my «i*ter and Misa Porter, Mr. Doufclaa. Charlton, Crosier and Hunter and myself visited the place where the re« maina lay. We did not diaturb the remain*. Saw the baby'a cap, tier, ahoe, and aock ; the soek was inaide ot the ahoe ; one of the party took a adek and lifted up the stocking uf a grown person, and what aeemed to be tbe bonea of tbe toes rolled out , tbe stock- ing waa nearly decayed. Mr. Alfred Porter ia our nearest neighbor on tbe road. Uvea on the right hand bide going to Black River. Th«) road from our place to the fingor- board has quite a good many bushes. Therb waa a rock near where the remains were ; the ground waa dry then ; we went in through the bushea ; there was no path then; and there were ieavea on the buahes. ttaw the skull ; it was a abort distance from the rock ; tbe hair was laying near where I aaw the stocking, near the rock. [Stock* ing produced.] '1 bat looka like thu stock- ing ; saw some brush lying partly on the remaias; ren:ained there about five minutes. Uad paved along that road quite frequent* ly ; had never been in there where tne re- mains were before ; saw some othet bonea there, which looked like rib bones. My tatber,» little girl named Margaret Davidson and myaelf composed our family. It would be impossible for any one to have been to our house and I not know it. I did not soiell any smell about there. I saw pris- oner onoe before when he was a small boy, at my father's. Cross-examined by Mr, ITiomson : Visited tbe place where tbe remains were found three times ; visited the place out of curiosity. The place is quite dry and pleasant in summer time, but very wet when rainy^ I remember that there waa no moss oi« the rock when I first saw it; there v ■ » differ- ence in the appearance ot the i ouk when I visited the place the second time. Do not think that bad the moss l>een stripped off a year before it wonld not make a great difference in its appear- ance. 1 never perceived any unplea- sant smell while passing and repassing the road. I was away from home one day in the first of October, 1868 : re- turned ia the eveDing, and was not 48 THE TRIAL. : 1 r .1 I f awny then unfl) ChviflttnaR. Tli^re is ft thick wood iMtweea our house And iHh piHO.o where the lemains wore; I, could not Hay how fnr it was fronn our ( house lo the place. j Mr. Tuck— Your Honor, I would like to ask witnnsfl If ithe cuuld identify the rtmainfl. [Sknll shown.] Witness— Thut looks like the skull ; that looks like the hair too, by the way it \» braUled. [Shoe and sock produced ] That looirs like the ahoe a&d nock 1 taw there* ti»\ry\ • Re'examined hy Mr. Th»fMon : Q.— Do I understand you to say thai looks like the skull you saw out there ? A. — Yes. It looks like It, with the exoep- tiun of the top bein^ sawed oir. MARY ANM LORDLY, SWOrU. Examined by Mr. Tuck. I live In Prince WklUam Street, and have been 36 years married. I know John A. Munroe. and he oame to my house on a Monday morning. A woman came by a cab on the nlj;ht of the 23d and 24th( Friday and Saturday) of Oct. 1868, to my house. The bell ranj; and [ went down and there was a woman who had come in tbe cab. The cabman was of low stature, like a Whalen or a Furlong. The woman Imd a child in her arms and u black travellinir ba^. She went up- stairs, and I went toward her to help take the child's clothes off. [Mr. Thom> son here objected to tbe witness telling; anythimr abo,.^ this part of the proceed- ing. 1 Tbe woman had on a blacH dress and a black liut— I don't know whether the hat was of straw or not; she had also a sacque of drab color; the black bafr had two bandies, one on each side ; [ba^ shown] the ba|^ was just the same as that, and I am sure this Is It. The ehlld appeared about tea months old, with what they eall a ''tow head" or one of flaxen color ; the child was not wtli dressed, neither was the woman; the woman's dress did not probably cost more than twenty five oents a yard ; she had black ribbon arouon her wal8t« with ends hanginfT down her back ; she had a line head of hair, which was in a net on Saturday, but she put It up in a water- frtll on Sundry when she did it up. I (jave tbe child some clothes belonfi^la^ to one which had been left with me before. It had on a sort of brown stuff dress on Saturday night, when I liad It in my arms at the tea table. No other woman or child came to my house on the nl^ht she did. On Saturday, between one nnd two. I went down to see Mr. Munroe, who was In the office. I Nald. ^^Is it m*. sir. you want to soe." He said no, he wtinted to see a woman, named Mrs. Claike. who had come from tbe host, ajid who, with her ohild, were in his oharKO I weat to the dliilnj;-room and sent for tbe wo- man. She eame down and went to see him, and in a few minutes he went away, and in about a quarter of ao liour two triitiks eame. One was a large black one' and the oth^r a smaller bl'iok one. (Trunks shown.) There is a mark on the lar^e trunk by whioh I would kuow it— (examines trunk); that is It,— I saw the mark put op the middle t^hii by his (Munroe's) father, whocut apiece off the slat; with his knife and tasted the wood. Tbe otiier trunk looks like the one the woman took upntairs. Tbe lar (Uairjj obild's baif w« cryfi^ dresf «i I W9ttll y drove It was o'clock, brown, Sunday. say, IS _ woman lyears of Ishe was lefortaer on Moiidky iold {nie thaf. his name was. Wordim. On th<» mornlnie the wooMn weut away, ahe wen( to th« oab an4 le* turned to pay 019. (iMftte o( Moquo •lM>wii.) That looki Uke a pai*otii»e gleeve of a woinan'a aacqite. (Part of dre8« showD.) Tiial looks ikke part of the i«ouiau'a dress-' It i« 0^ pour quality •> (U«ir«bown.) Tiiat looks like tlieiitUe child** hair, and I never aaw but mms be*^ of hair , ime H siuoe* Tbs ob*I(i'i bavf was pretty sAr^bU [VVltaess wat onHiW liera.]! IVht.eUM «m4 a IMla d(«M «( what SMM oalL oinnainioB eelor. I W9«ad know 1» IT I aw It. (jQtiltd'e dr«as,^wn*> Tiiattls itbe eolqr of tb« drees tb« ^bUflhaa to* but LdonTtreH wemUer the riittat' around thOi botienir I do not MUnkil Vtttld remepabet the dress, only I made her waflh (becbUd-i It (the child) \uA »)se. a reddish tler~ (tier shown) V there ts no donbttnihy uuQd tihattbat i«fb« lieR. . Up ope bpt Mr. Muaroa ceJUed<(o sea Uke wemfBh wbilQ she ^^$%imr bouaa* I bna oplj/ one oonversaUoB wiih. Mr . %mifo« wbllie. •be.Faei there, and a« pevfr oaoa %9mf bou8#afterwi^rds. ^ . / ..i„, , (^'—Vou »af y^oii wore angry wbea Mrs. C|i»rke wao^ *way ?. 4,— irai^. I, saw Ur. H^fiTOf on Monday |^.l%^r^ ri%ge just 1^ i^UIn aa I ac^e .y4nk Wi*!?t si!Q|iiInmy froTa^PJibt )^a4 oil f^ 8« ln<( BO ? A,—: that tbat drensiWjl . , chlTd; I do swear to ...». x ji>- Q —Then you are not,i|iIitok«n J. . il^f- I do^ot^ r«(rm!(.pi|fl^«fQrd o| wbat I Mve Q.— Isit ndi cnys fpi ^)? «Wt W $i3!«W»HJ^W m 1 can swear to that; dresi. '^ Q.^Dtf yoa fwear to this eacqiie of the 3 child's ? A.—! do, most certainly. Q.'l^ie wuoian was only two days in yonr hoaie and yet you can reoosrniae her elothinjr after a year? A.—Yes, I can, and I can tell you the reaauo, too, If you tHUletme. , a.-Is thii blkok' b^ji; the «aaie? ▲.— ItljhjkUis. Q.— 01(1 yoD say «he had It wh^n she went to the ob^ch? A.— No, »lr) If you sai^'so. tiiAt'<( n,bt roe. ,.;/.i^ Jft-e^amined \ty, ih* AUomty Q^Mralh 8h9 only JoQk t^a q^d y^ the poaths, 8h( had ehet>iu(i dfese wHl| apvita on, U 8ftei^ the trpakfe.oamei H ^ n» P9#iayj|> i^bout the blue dross. ...-,, i The blu^ dr«^ WM Affi^tp shpwp wit- nc(!8. who ahpwetf t\o^'*«f ooukf IdisatUy, it hv the spots upon it.' , . l^esuoiea— ^4t was thf jarfcev trunk oat nl wblob MuQroe^i faih«r,QUt thf .niece. Sbc fcba wooian) Miyo^.i^VlMr iiuofs a%«#n. I«M»>iiati^iWMt«r( In Oc- tober ana Wwi i gur im i waabag> Mlt« «Mitte»4»n th^'ilWUiilf ir«WiBnir« land. Whan hv „'afi Is broagbt dowu- we used tft , gi v ft , t» ^njUMta check lo the person cHe person td'i^ I 1^' to bis orouffht Ojr, litea^^;liW [TNwshbWh.J ruttk Uke (bat billy jHitttto ^iiief >taa"the Boston b4si, mniu I ieiv'e I liflfebei^ hadil ikObtlie WHd «?«?'Abllt6if, t^SM %iiMi\MW #ay ty' )a etft toens oUfi^ on th^' bps;!. ^« tooii iMs ttelflt and Opened It as ^o uSUafly dfo. Thtere -mpk a^idiher taeuttr inild^ 6f%% farka Oiie, The SokW basr' here looW Ukilthe biuc'^oh was i3^^ tach«d to the t^hk: tSa^ truttie' shown.] Vhkt is like , llie trunk whlofi. was inside, lli«t^'irU-%''pAfHbl'>e-' t#ert>;^^' tyo' ■tfj^^jtr'ft -JlirjfetiMtt itMAkthertf wsib aar^ajwhrah ^ I thifiKt TKIha 4riiS sboa^l ihi !lik(i'tife^ilr(Mtt$'C«klH'Al^ile' We s^duld insist bb checktbg bo fdrtbfiir thi|i t^e passv^nger went. We wbUid' g^t to Portlibd alKMit fire or six 6*<^dk io (he motHlhii i^t^at steason of the year. Tberti ' wWMd ' 'hot be uibdh difBcufty Mi getting baggage there at that tlMd if It was handy. . Atitlttrim' Oentral : WqbM ybu olMtk bagffa««/ kero for , JkmimV ibeownbr vfef agoing li»Tportk«t? ^ A.-tW« would sytded At r^abodgr. I'lrilnfmber ezamin-, ing a tvuiik as siwiEWi^ljr last witness. On the way to B<|i^ii mwoss the iMy I g^ve orders to ring ijip, for ezapilnfiig bfiggaga. J( ooaiin^ttb»a eMiinining. and m, Spr^u^., the vai^ lifted up atnuM^ iA.^blch there wM aome^ing wmk rattled and siOd, »' J, gj^i^j^, yov Wo go^ a pifUie harp/ 1 pMnt^Jtbe tragic and foopd Ab9i^,in||4p. , Twere waa a pa* raapl between lihekwp. I «ziaibAd tM Dbntetiti^sM louiftt tbein i'^ V*;. .1 ^;i,) iirt ■i-U>'ll tail I )irABREsr FLET9HER. 4worn. JEmmitud by Mr. Tuck : I restdb In B6^b< 'I Urn clerk for the International Line; Ira^wW. H. !Kttby, agientot the Line; I do not know of the trunks doming to Boston^ T>iit 1 remefn- bev seeinglhera afterward?. About the Bdddle i of' November, }SflS, I moTed a tmnk from the f mntto the back of the bag^BTige room ^ {trunk shown] that is the tmnk I it remained there uhtil I3ie Inc week iii' Jamiaty, and then e put it in- the loit iftor w« had e^tfamined It. In^ztsawft in Sepfeember last I then ordered it to' be taken dowir fh>m the loft, and opened thb ^^nti^idc^ tranlrand Mr. Torr' opened the ItisMe' orfei llie small nfuAk Vas pue back iatoihe other, and givMi to Mr. loku HUltb brmg ou to8c.John»N.Brf't* '«»«»«* J yliso jCriif$$r4^Mmin^ by Hft ^no^on; f have 'b4en ito the ett^ynf th^Ib- terhktibiialStMmshlp'Ooimpflny f>r seven yetits. ' We sold forty o#'*my packages of'iiliclalttitfd bagghM f w^^ears ligo, WMdhf w«t«> th« keeubttUetbn of foar years. We may have't^^ty'llViB on hand now* ttw «cQijmmla|l4i9o pf twpye^s — n^ost of them' of last year. lif the^e #as % I^rg^ nijiplher; \V8 should aeli at the pr>A of the veaT^ We keep th6 money for wli^eb thOblf^b is sotd and de- poj^li ili'tor th% benefit dftib^ owners, and We act^t*rti3e th« ba^gag^ '^ith dieoks and dsi'criptJon before selling it Itts firsquehtly thb catethatpiiiM^biisrsooiiio frttm Bo«96tt t6;Fonitmd by ^ail and let thieir baggagft/j^da'by the boat. B0^$»ammti^^AMamiey Gtrureit: I don't know thi )^oport!bb of tirunkg aipongst tHe 'present bftg|^il utiptahn^ iK Boston. ' Q«— 'How djH» ftebmethirtitrQDksiure lef?ttibar '•■ • ^':' V "« "-^' Ol^eetii* to by Hr. 11iom»6ff( , * ^" ^' Q|.— Is it be^nmse tbe'pas^b of die oWJter fs ififl^ pAid thAt tbb Wiiiiks siro sometimes left? OOJectc^ tb iMo. tM^ Att<»rttesr()enena Wanted to ask if any pther trunk was ever left by a person The qnesUM #as oMMie^ t6 bt Mr. Tlibmsoii, beeatise it wis imfi^aterliLand Hi* a&sWtf would ihtoltib things Wuob dotild not belcijjoim to (be W)itn«M ^kb owii kiiowl«d«e. V;.j»ii oii/,../,.ftj«. ni. r *>uJi i») %ism$ not oCr— » ' ^ . THBTRIALr ai or the Kttby. of th« iinefn* tit the 3ved a ot ttoe that Is ktil the ir^pat iiMdlt. I then oni tbe nlrftBd i Th4i i ottaer. ring ou . •>') - ; th^ lO- btsevMt lftOk«|lf«8 irs *gi>. of foor -tive on ivpyei^rs lU thejre d leU ai^ 6 money and de- i6n« and diedcs tt, Itts ertoolbo and let ~ - ^ e of fbe lihia arc ml- '.i Mr Mr. itLand i I'.n-: ,. JOHN 8. PALU h sworn. I have been mate of the New York for fivQ years. £ brought a trunk oil to CHptain ChisholiD from Boston; [trunk shown] that is tne trunk which was delivered to me by Mr. Ktlby. our y^aat in Boston. I wa« present when an inventory oi the eoRteota of tbe trunk was taken by Captain Cbi"holDi. Dr. £arle was tbere^and Itblok tlie Chief of Police. Mr. Marshall. > Q — Do you kno'v of $uj trcnIcB belnjr left in BoiCon vheti passeD^rera Jiad paid their fare? Objected to by Mr. Tbomsoa on the game ^oand as above. To His Honor r 1 jrot the tmnks from Mr. Kilby on the 29th of Oetober last, and brought tbem oil to Capt« Chtaholm next day. -'i wHto,. -. i\i^^'ri -...t at -fi^t.. The Court was then' ndjonrnednntUf 10 o^olock Thursday. The Coart opened at lo'o^clock, /uid the Jurors answered to th^ir niMQea* The Cotirt room was not qui^ so cf owd- ed as usual, but the apparent eft,<^ernes9 of th^ i^pectat^rs \aki noi a^aied in ^e Ifeakt' ''' '" *• ■■' ■' '" " * '' WUXUM KlAUAir, ^WQHir. JExmuMd ky Mr. Tuck : I live on the Qiaeo Road^ Patldi of Simonde, have been Uvintf there sinae the 1st or 2nd of Septomber,- aboat a mile and a half from BoDker^^ miao it the first house front Bttnkeff*b on- the (luaeoftoadt haveiieen home all the time «noe living there ; so wfuaaiB anA ohild oameteF my house in Bapteosber or OQtober» 1868 ; nef er knew a womiMi and ohild of the name of Camrke ev 1^ ; de not know theprisMMr; nerer wm at the place when) the remaihe hsre been found.. <>a Uto i Ui" Qfwn-ammmd iu MK^T h m mo n i f •'■'•' Uafc hiHud of the jriaoesrhere ikme remains hairy ^otn found ; Bwniet tell the distaopa lj^«gb Immi . oae toad to the other. I leooaeot thl tha -wsajher was wetia ttM latter part. ^ Ootober; 1M» ; fla»aot say wiAi dal».'it)Waa, iMik remember than haid heea Mitiw hsehea of snow and frost abovtibftt time, and then it tli»wed 9$^ ; I qsmM aotawiaav to the date, but il know thMa wat irii weather aboul the time. . u w. v^ ALFRED PORTEE, SWSm. ■v'*fftM Examined ktf Mr. Ittdc r ."■! I live on the Black River road, aboot' a mile and a half froa the Finget Board, near 1^'r. Collins* piflee. £urth«>r out nn the right t and ride going to Rlaek River. I live ahoet a third of a mile from Got- Itas'-^miae is the next house ; have lived ikere abmit three years ; was home mast of the time about the last of Oetober, '68. I doe^t reeoUect of being away from home at nights about that time. Was away te Quaeo one Sunday, a little before lbat.> Oon't know a woman named Clarke, and her child, or Vail. They never were at my boore. I was never at the place woete the remaice were found, ana did not perceive an) sw^jII wl>e»^ ,4?|(isi|jjj; Ai long the road. • »„,<^,w^ \\:,niM "■l^"'^i'>a'X Grmts-eumiined by Mr. JTiompsoiu . di De not recolleet particularly the end of Octobor,. 1868; won't awwtr that I was or was not at home on the last Seturw day or Sunday in October. 1868 { do not reeidleci what kiad of weather it wee at that time. . ^^r.o- Us-examhud hif AUoruey Gtmtral: ,".\* My lamily eoasisie of my wif«, Mary, andtwoeoas, John and WilUam: the ncxtne^hboT to me on the Blaflk River Road is Bobert Moose, not lar from my house — eoppose «bout quarter of a mile : next is Henry Connolly his plaee is about three qeartai* ef a mile; Jokv Connolly next. Jest a few etees turtiier oat itksnk WUUam Gameil livee aaoit, and Mts. Stewart next, and Ur« Darling awi^ 1 ibiak he lives abont a mile from my plaee. Ennis lives next, about two and a half or three miles I sl|Qa|ld sap- ▲BTKUft SLOAN, SWOm. , .) |,m» Examined by Mr. Tuck, ■. tso -lo live 00 the Qeaco Boad^ Willow Qreve SetHeoMt, Parieh of Simends | was bam iheTe, abont half a mile further oil than MeLelka^s. Am generally hoae.~- Omdd aol aay that I was hoaae tai ^h» latter part of October, 1868. Neett' eaw or knew Mrs. Olartoe or Mim ViV: 4hifre waeasewr eneh a perioa at ottr'honfo, Hetev knew nay Mrsdwof that name \^ be brought in from there. It is ahoati two aadn hatfHllff fram Banker^a. Was at tha plaee whe w t he wma i aswa w ifaiad about three weeks aga^ Neyst saw tht 53 TUB TRIAU remaini. It {« about a mi)* aim) a half in a Btaight line from our plae* to whwe the remilina w«re found. Saw Iba roek thara. It would be a little over a i|UAr.ier of a mile from the t**ck ta the Quaoo Bnjul. iJavidaon and a cnloted nan naoiad Hill live neai our pkiee. Never beard of a woman and ohitd satned Clarke being In that neighborhood. I WAS bofise most of the time in Oetober, 1868. If [ were away it wnitld only be t'l a neighbor's hooae or to St.,JobBk Crots-examiitedbjf Mr^Tkottuon^ 'V Have often been aerost the barren' where the remaine were found crow- huntipg. It ie about quarter of a mile to the Quaco Road. There are thick bnahaa between the roek and the road. There are small bushen between that antd the Quaeo Road. 1 think ym oan eba the Qtiaco Road in (tn« pl«oe. OanH «ay whethar a person, paaaing over the bi)l on the Quaeo road^ c«ttM see a woman dear that rock. ]>ont remember just the time when tbe anow oame in Oe- tober of 1888 — remember of snow eominf though. Hardly remjeaai»er liatiag step- ped away from homo at night ;. rtnaembier ef being home on Hallow Bt# day t «M over as far M Mr. MeLeilan^ ill the eve- ilif>g, and came heme about eigbt or nine o'clock. Tha ground aiontid the wck was wet; there waa a hill toward the Eiat of tba i^oak,'to#ard the <^aeo road. There waa a hole about tkreo' TMt ih dia- meter and ffve fnehei daep, with water in it ; it waa pretty aofi arouild'-'very wef . ]• wotitd eiE|»ebt it t»b« wn vt&attd il U^ /.•'in K-v'^U U ,:i i^-.' 4o ttt •Urj tain Me-eMmmdbj/'Amrne^ ^eh^J Toa could aee the knoll on the Qiiaeo road from tfia fock, and eeold see a horae or earriagepasaieg. To HM HoitQ»r->ll i» abMt half a mOe awajr tnm tbe rook, in lotmals Btrnktv^ai thtiais kind of a acrubbfr growth bn* iwaaiu JanppMeSfakerseweratrotUnir M«r lh» kooU be wo«ld be in aiglit a few . To Awsn QsiiTBRAi/-^ reooUaat o(l>«inff ^oaui OB tfckft dajr nd Mww^mgi af HiaiDwBta. ^ CflhU'Mammtdiit'iaii^ nimtMf -^a '^ a^HMT do yoa itfoall^ dT^Miit hMirwtbat •Veniiif 7' ■» Il A — By the children Bghting ab^ouft apple*. swortu ExamiiJkd by. il('. Tuck : I live at St. Martina ; have b^en Iking there about three montbs ; >tn keepiog a confectionary shop there. I am ahoat 21 years old. I was living at Horace Bunk- et*n in October, 1868. He keeps tbe Ben LomonS ^iise— it i^ right at the c&rner of the roLd leading to the lake^ I re- memlter the month of October,, 1868^ Ha?e seen the prisoner before ; saw him at Loch Lomond iast of OeUber, 1868-« doa*t remember tne day nfi the week. Saw a ooach pasa tbe house. Vhe c^aeb Btttuirned in at>out twenty minutes^ iSawi a lady in the ooaoh : knew the driver to b» Worder. :: he put his horaea ikp and got bis dinner. In about an hour after Worden oame there Munroe and a lady and child cane in the yard. *fi(ttnroe asked Worden if he waa ready ; he said he was. The lady got into the obach, and S^nroe put the ohild in^ T)te coatlimiin and MuuKoe b^ soma talk, t hc£?d Muoroe say that the lady had not Se^n the parties she wished to. V^ ordea paid hia bill to me. I can*t think o& aiytbiog else tbk waa aaid, only Munroe engsced the coaefamaa to come oat again. Uia aaid the lady did aot see the partiea abe wished to see. and tbef would have to eome out a^^ain. I don't tkiak it waa Mora than an hour and a quarter after Worden cama wheA Mun- roe and the lady returned. I den^ think Mr* Munroe or the lady wete in the hoiisa oa tbtt ooeamoo'— I am sure the My was sot. They drore ttray towards St.^ohfl. Some tiasa tbe aamA week I saw the sameooaeh drive by : the coach- inau Boddsd to me. It was a damp day and I did not aee who was in tbe coach. I think il vaa baM^t twalva ^elock. OaaAmaa iratiinMdaieae as )>efbto, about tba amiM time afMr, put MS'borses op and mrdefsd diWMV^hs iNis tiMiM abo«t tear mteMsv bifnra ht ovdsved bif dittner. After lio tad ordered dfaiiier tho coaob- ma* aad I wMVsittiat i& Iho bMMrooHi, lilMNikl think It WM t>ecif«eft Wand dikviisates. veken Maatoe edMhe In ; he toak'off hii^tel, wipad M» fot«fatlad tend said b* had had a hdid walk ; his face appeared somewhat i^d^lilM^ » aum who had be forebc he bad then 1 reatiy ed his would ' have h huiTy ; put bis lowed J Wiil OoachiA^ said it j roe fav they tai posed h theeoat Coaobin: )ro9 tbei! and ask poeh-ed i whhtth( quantity told.hiiB took OQ( right oul the ooac naan vria he did n< Monday was beib think 1 h tween ih iween H Urove aw got the b away anci instead o wftrdt week I ooaeh- npdaf eoeeh. ^elock. ,Abotit op eoaob- OMB, and ;he ftttd Iftoe who hadbeed Xftllpn^ '^<^ V be wiped hia forehead witbrkia hMidkerofaief'; I think he bad on a sort of a half beaver ; he then asked the ooaehtnanMf he was ready ; the ooaehman said he had order- ed his dinner ; Mr. Munroe said he would rather pay fot his dinnerr than have hiaa stop to eat tt, as he was ;n a huiTy ; the coachman then started to {)at hiskorses in ■; Mr. Munroo thea fol- owed klim as far aa the door and said I will pkiy yon msw ; he asked the Ooacfai^an wliat kis bill waa, and he said it ia woi-th six dollars^ Mr. Mon- roe ^ve the X)oaohman some bills and ibey made okaage in some wav.^ I sop- posed he had g^ven him six doilars. as the Coachman said that wonld do. I'ke Coachman then put his horsee in Mnn- r.'Mithen came back to the bar* room and asked for a g;las6 of braniiy'; he podred it ont and took if, and asked me what the bill was^ 1 do not know the quantity's I think tt Was pale brandy<. I told.him thjO bill altogether was #t ; be took out a bill, ^avu it to me at^d went right eat to get into the coach. I healrd the coachlutan ask him wiiere the wo- man wass 1 heard Mm say that Mr. Ck>]lins would drive htfe in u> the boat -; he did noit say what boat ; ho said on Monday mornioz. This conversation was before he had the brandy. I do not think I heard anything more said i>e- tween them. There is no house be- tween Bunker^s and Collins'. They drove away from the house after he had got the brandy. 1 went to put the bill away and found it was a two dollar bill instead of one. I do not recollect the dress of the woman ; did not notice any thing remarkable about Manroe when he returned, only he appoiured to be v/arm and excited, and 1 supposed it to bo on account of fast walking. Never have seen the woman or child since ; Manroe has not been there since, as I have seen. Was at ttie plaoe where the remains were found aho«t the time the Ooronvt^s inque.nt was lield, bot the re- mains were not there tlieh { do not re- oallect t>f any other persons going dot the Black River Road that last day ; it was a heavy, misty day. Cro$a-9xemntd by Mr. Thompton : It ha^. , 144 A.— ^I would not a wear positively f there was nothing to attract my atteatioa ah >ut hia demeanour more than he ap- peared wurm. On the firtil occaaion be told Wurden, in hia usual manner of speaking, that h« wished him to take them hack to the same piitoe. I wai standing about (ve feet a«ray. When he r«^turu«d I did not notice anything remairkabie. a.— Wuild yoo think if he had walked a quarter of a mile beyond w!|ere tha CQaoh i*topped> and then returned to iiunker\ it would not be fast walking, if he done it in half an hour. A..-^I could nut swear > t suppose it Would. \Vhen he paid me the bill I took it, thinking it wa& one dollar. I auppode he thotgbt BO toe. All I hnard him say was that Mr. Collins would drive the woman in on Monday. Did not hear liim aay that they went to C •Itin"'. Re-exmrnimei hy Attorney General, « ! cant't aay the exact time. I think it was forty minutes from the time Worden returned till Manr»e came back on the last ooeasiorf. I think it was about three quartern of a mile from Bunker^s to where tne remains were found. I'm no judge of distance, but I would thiak it was slow walkini; to come from the place where the remains watc found to Bunker's in thiity minutes. { wouldn't think it would warm any man to take 45 minutes, (that ia the time whirh it took Worden to re- turn,) added to the 40 miuutee, to walk 8A%Att LAKE, sworn. ^' t am a married woman ; my husband, William, Lake, is living; he keeps the Union Hotel, Ueion street: he is uiM^ble to come out| owing to sickness. We I tlBTHUC: irere keftpfng thtt hociMln Oetr>b«r. 1809. I r«m«mber a womtn evlfed Mirs. Olatfae eoninf to my plaee onMondi^aflA^noon at three o'elooR» in the latter part of Oe- toher— -don*t know the exaet date. Mr, Worden brougbt ber there. She brought her child, but had no luggage at that time. I did nol notice any. one in the coach at that time. She came in, I show- ed ber a room^ and ahe staid there until the next Saturday followhig. She stop- ped in a room by herself hi the front part of the house, and took her meals a^one in her room; a lady named Mrs. Day was in occftsionally. 8ho done some em^ broidery work for me. 8he made some under-olothing for the baby. S^ made some imrohases for herself — a skirt of blue tweed with red aronnd the bottom; she brought home ft new skeleton, a pair of blue grey stockings, woollen, with trhite on the tops ; she bought a little berlin hi6<)d for the ehild, eannot say what color ; 1 do not reniembet' of any other articles ; there was other hig- fage came in the evening of the same ay ; there wfts a large black trunk with strips across the top ;- the shmll bag did not come with it, it was brotight alter* wards ,• I saw the trtink opened .-^ ipoide was a small trunk, she took' that out ; there was a parasol in tbe iHr^e one, there was a blue cobnrgdressin the small one a white underskirt with ei'oeheted inser^- tton on it, which she %ore afterwards while at my house. There was an under- skirt for the ehikl with crocheted ioser- tion on it too, and a ohild'a dress of drsb cbburg. I dou't know ol artytbing else she wore. Tbe new dress she wore while at my bouse. Sbe was a very good look- ing woman, of good appearance — I should think ab')ut 25. The ehitd 1 should aupposft from ks appearansn was about ten months eld ; 1( had sosae front te«th, I did not Hf e k washed or dieased ; did not see k undressed^ Did not obieive her teeth. I vem«mber ber hmr w»« brown — J would not say for oertHin how abe wore it.. Site waa very thinly elad. 1 did not see any night dress. I would know tbe trunk aa m'ar as I could tell one trunk from aupther^-rtrnnk shown}; that is a trunk of' the same appesranc^ of the one she had while at in;* hoiise. I saw the parasol; [parasbl shown}; that looks just Hke the otte/St was black ; she had a Tery heary head of hai{r. ([9kht shown] She bad that sane ekhrt when she eane to my honse on Mondav after- noon, she wore a black dress. [Child'is on derskirt shown.] Sheteok that off the ohilk the morning she left. [Blue dress shown.]' A dress like thst hung up in th»rooin. 6he put the two little skirts, which she made, on the child whptt she went away from ny house, ((Tniid^s cobUrg dress shown.) h had that on when she came to my koose ; after she took that off she pat on the child a dress of much the same color, with twa little ruffles or frills around the bottom . rCbild's dress prertuced with ruffles on tbe bottooi,} That is the dress shs put on her ebild whUe shs was at my ^touse, and the ehtld had it en the monung ska went away. She made the child some underclothiBf; oui: of some of ber own r her dress was black coburg, very puor, (Piece of dress shown.) Thst isiuat stub matfrisl as lie? dress was made o^ irhich site wore whan she went away on Saturday morning ;; that would be a piece off of the bottom' of the|dVess ;: that is braidt (pointing to braid around the p{ece,> her dress was bonnd with black brbid like it. 9hb had a d^rk hat, trhnmedf with Mack. (Fragments of underskirt shewn.) That looks just like' the same, with the same kind of red* trimming as wb» on hers ;; that is some of the same off the bottom ct* the skirt. She had on blue Rray stockings. (Stevking preduced.) Thai; looks like the otockmgs she wore ; she wore white ovics a part of the time ;• I don't remembev her saci^e. Her hair was middling dark brown, &hi3 oiled it w«ll at my house •; don''t know whether I would know it. [.Hair produced | It appeared be a darkier brow», but h«?rj was oiled ; she had a rery ht-ary h«;aid of hair. There wa& a gentleman sailed to see her while at my house ; I would not knoW him now. It was en Thursday, between eight and nine ir» the morning ;- she left on Hatntday. be- tween ten and eleven o'clock . 1 did not see the cjoachman coins for her. I saw bet lust in her room about 10^ o'clock. [Son- tsg shown } Do not remember the color, : but thai is the same material— it was Berlin, Do not know who west away with her. I , saw the same person on Wednesday after- noon call to see ber. I took it to be the sime. I>o not lemembcr aboat the cbikV^ pinaofore, only that it was a pink on«, (Pinafore shown.) That is the same eolf> . but I could not s^ ^that that is the on - ; It was ealreo, and that is of the same uia- TBITEUtf t i*hen •fler- off the ) drnss up in BklTtB, whpn Tnild^» i that ; hfter child • ith twa lottom . on tb» on Iwr and the tt aw»y. IB black shown.) •ess was t^e went rouM be ISB r tt»at und the th black ttftnmedf nder«kirt le same, f( ns wafr e- off the due grny That re J she time;- ier hair d it w«ll I would kppenred lied ; she ere waa \\e at my . It nd nine ay. be- did not saw hef [Son* |he color, Berlin, her. I .ay after- be the e cbild'^ ik oii'v .e eol'> • he on • ; lame m^- tarUl. I saw her 1wt« • pink pfaafort on the child on Saturday morning. Ct^o pianoforesprodQced— one not faded.) They haTe both been of ^e same material. I du dot know anythhig ' about the shoes or bOcks. Her trunks and small black bag wei« taken awiy from my honee on Mon- day morning. - I do not knew of her taking away any luggage with her on Saturday. She put the ar,:all trunk in the large one before she went away on Saturday. I have never seen ker since that Saturday morning at IJD o'clock. Har lutcgage was taken away ou the Monday following between 7 and 8 o'clock. Mary Black and Maggie Magee were living with me as servants at that time. t ..-„ ; Crosa-fxwmned by Mr. Thomson f' ^ ' ' Q. — ^Mrs. Lake, your feelings are msde up very strong against Mr. Munroe ? A.— No they sre not. i don't think I have ez< pressed my opinions Tery strong against hip. I have not aaid that I thooghi hia» guilty. [lilaek Qoburg d'CM produced}; I swear that that is thf ume material as the cloth of her drMa,,,wJiu!e|i labe iiffve vbU9 M my house. . ,,.(,.,,,,,... ;,h„ , ., „ Q.^Do you adhel^ to your sta^eniPnt that that is the same material of her dtess ? A.— I swear it is of the same material. Q. — Do you tviresr that that is the identi- cal dress which the child wore at your house ? A.— I swear that is the dress that child wore while at my house. I didn't mark it. ' '■> '»vfr! ! .>>!.-• ;.*.•.' ' -•>»•■' ■ Q.— Suppose that sime dress had' been given by Mrs. Clarke to somebody in Saint Andrews three months after that child was at you^ house, and worn by another child in your house, would you know it i A.— I swear I would. Q — How often did you have that child in youtarihik? A.— I had it my arms a good many tipes. She was uut down town twice, I had charge of her child while she was gone. I was not with the child all the time. It did not wear that dress all the time. I would know that dress if t saw it on any other child. Mr. TsOMsoK, holding in his hands the remsine of the faded tier, Do you swear that has been pink onoe^ A.-^l do swear it has. I do not temeiUber whether the gentleman wha called I say that where that is faded, in my opinion, it has, been all pink, and the dress which the child bad on Saturday morning was all pink. .^.^ Blxnmined by Mr. Tuck. 1 live at Mr. John MQFari.jne'a, on Queen street. Am single. Li^ed at W«n. I^ake's, Union Hotel, in October, 1868. Left there after Christmas ; waa there until then. I remember of a wosaan sund ebtld, callad OUrkjS* comini; to Laka'a, near the last of Octoter, 186S, I waa up^ stairs whenth^oame% liiA not see Iham eoaie. Tommy Wurdan brought them{ ek when she came. Did not see any person come with her. Her hair was tea brown ; she had a good deal of hair. I did not notice how it was done up. Did not know John A. Munroe, (prisoner), until I saw him here. There was one roan came tc see her while there ; do not know who the person was ; 'he came in the evening of Wednesday to see her ; no one else called to see her ; he saw her inside the front room door, that was one of the rooms she occupied. I did not observe her teeth. She had no luggage when she came; her luggage came after. I do not renumber the kind of trunk. She had on a thtn black I coburg dress and a white skirt embroidered on the bottom ; she had on a black straw hat> I don't recollect how it was trimmed. The child had a very dark dress, with one rnffl} at the bottom and around the sleeve, had a little grey woollen aacque, steel color; [dress produced] that's tbe deeaa I saw on the child the inurning she lett Mrs. Lake's ; it had two ru^ea pn the bottom ; [sapque 6 lown] that's the •acq.Ud j;ha child had on the morning it left Mrs. tiske's ; did not see the child's hat or skirts ; [remains of dte*A shown] thalTs the aame material, only it is fadad. of th» dsesa whioh tha wotnan had. on. I did not observe her stockingji. She II 1] left on Satnfdar morning, betw^n pine an4 t«W o'elMk. T one was worn by Mrs. Clarke and the other by the child.' M^s. Clarke had on a sontag on the momfiig the went a*ay, but I don't know whether the child had one or not. t^he (Mm. Clarke) Wore a blacli eoburg gari- baldi, with kind of long buttons with scars across the top ; [buttons shown]-f,tho4pare the aame buttons she had va hei* saeque ; [another button shown which was found in the trunk] I think that is the same as the others — there are creases in it the same as in tho others. I did not see more than one garibaldi — the garibaldi was black eoburg. She bought the garibaldi on Friday ere- ning of the same week, while the was at Lake^d. She sewed strings on the baby's 8ontag while she was there ; she bad it when she came. I donH know whet kind the etrin^a were ; it was the little piok Rontag which was shown before. I aon''t know whether those were the strings or not. The child was a girl : I never heard her caU it bv name. I did not see the child's eap ; I did not see it undreaaoa. It wore a bandage with somethinf hard in it, about «■ big as a half doilar. I saw the bandage, it Was made of white cotton. [Baodaffe shown.] That is like it. I put it on the child and pinned it on the back, bat didnH know what it was for. The child wore ti^ bAodage on its atomactn. ' To Hi8 HoNOB Hie ttard material in the bandage was Mwsd through, fint one way and thenil|kijB|ber. _ . , , I didri^t see whafWf UfX Anfl dtft»\ know what place thia nW sabatioce touched. I think it waa Wednt-sdar or Thursday when I pvt this oa. I was pre- sent once when the child was washed ; it was stripped to the sbookiarB — that waa Friday muroincr* I gave the child a string of beads, or gave them to Mrs. Clarke for the child ; they were unstrung. The child's neck waa a little chafed on one side. [Beads shown.] Thosie are the samekind of beada I gave her. .1 geve* them to Mra. Clarke for the baby's neCk. I wasfied a white tier, bound with red, for the child the mbrningshe went away. I would know thn tier if I aaw it. She left on Siiturda;!^ morning in Tommy Wor- den's coach. "There waa a man in the coaob. She took nothing with her but the child. I donH know what tier the child had on when it lef^. It had white hair. [Hair shown.] That is the sane httir aa I saw on the bab^. I dttn't know what kind the trunks' we^^. [Satchel shown.] She bad that wttb her ; that is a satchel or travelling bag. She, had it the morning she went away, but I did Oot see her take anything away but the child. The trunks went away on Monday moro- ing, but I don't know who tooK them. She crochett-d a piece ol lace while she waa at Mrs. Lakers. I did Qot take nor tice what it was like. I have never seen Mra. Clarke or child Hinee, Cross exanuned by Mr, Tftomson : There waa nothing to cause me to no- tice Mrs. Clarke's dress more than any of the other boarders, I know the sontag is the same as she bad when she went away, I swear that that is so peculiar that I never saw one like it before or since, there was little white and Very lit- tle black about the border. There was plenty of the same kind of stuff of her dress. I suppose there could be othera of the same color ; I made no mark on it» and took no more notice of it than of any other of her dresses; I never saw any like it. There are a great many persona wearing the same kind of atuff as her clotbea. I get the beadi from a lad/-*' I never bouebt any. '<■><'* Q.— (ByMr. Thonmcm, showing i^^ other string of beads.)—" Will you swenr that those are not the aame kind of heads?" ■ a I.,- 35f.i?PMfr % to no- an any aoncag ent ecu liar tore or ery lit- ite was nf her others oo it} of siiy w soy (UrSODB as her lUdf— ' ig sn- ^l you dad of f kui j A A- — No ; (he others are a little bit ]ltjri!r,'*hd « Kdtllf 'tWl *dMlfiR»r Ifkifti the beads to Mrii. Clark bn FciiffAyinftTti' ine I think, thouf^h, it iras SaturdnV morninff before she went atray. I wash-ra the child's tieN and gave it to Mr* Clarke, the norninflf before she . wciit away. I did not notice ho« the child was dreiscd. I mean ihat the dress ifith the rulfles on it looked like Uie one the child wore. I've seen quite a gvod deal of the same material wurn by childs ren. Mrs. Clarke's kfiir was the iisufti colour. It Was nicer and richer than a goed many. I hate seen some like it, though, I gave ber the pins she used in het* hair, and stood beside her when she dressed it the last morning. It was the tame color of this hair. I do not reool- leot what day of the week the man palled to see her. He caihe some time early in the week, t ^ cannot tell whether it was Wednesday or Thursday I swear it was oti Wedti«sday afteraoou he called. I do not remember of a Aian calling^ on Friday. Q.— Did you not, in thd pil>6beeding^ before Dr. Earle« sweai^ that a gentle- man called on Friday momihg P A.— I did swear to it. A gentleman did call on Friday morning, and saw Mrs.C^arke in her room. I have no doubt about it whatever ; I could not say wkdiiier it was the same person or not, i tliink ic- was ; I am sure it was the day before she left ; it was some time in the mom» ing-of the day before Mi's. Clarke went away. I do not recognise the trunk, I thought it was a yellow trunk t I swore before the Coroner that it was a yellow trunk ; I only swore to the best of my knowledge ; I knew I was wrong next raornitig when I Went jhome, becailsd I had seen a great many trunks ; I iswore that I helj^ed a bpy doytra stairs With the trunk. ,. -f,^ •! (Tf.j^i 1 .x*h:ii i '^ '•'• <■ Re-examm^by Attorney OtmeriU, I find now I w^is mistaken' about the trunk : I believed at the time it was a yellow trunk. None of the other board- ers had two rooms, i was not in her room much. Ndne of tRe other boardk ers had children with them atthattipaie but her. I have nbver^ ^e^ a sontag like that one she wore before or sl^ce, it was by the peculiar colors 1 reoog* laized it. I remember it was Friday when the gentleman called to see Mrs. Ohtrwj ;^»low it ^a«. t)^'Aa8e it' warf th« fti)6hilng 1 had the most sweeping aitd dasthig to do. JAMBM'UiRBIV, 8W0RN. ^lnQ Examined iy Mr. Tuck: '* *^*^ 1 live with Mr. HuIItvan. in Carleton. I think I am something like twelve years of age. My fttther and mother are liv- irtg at Sand Cove, in the Parish of Lan- caster. I knew Sarah Margaret Vail; I lived with her; I think it was the sum- mer before this last she lived in Carle- ton ; no person else was living with* her. I could hot say whether she was married or not ; she had a child— a lit- tle g!rl,-i-! cannot say how old it was. i think I lived with her about two months. The child Was born wh6n I wont to live there. There was a young man who used to qome there quite of- ten. " ' ■' rr Mr. TtJcK^— look troanc^ ^d •««^lf jfbu can see him. ', ' . •' ' WrrNEi8--To the'b^st of my know- ledge there he is in the crib theroi He useq to comfB op Sundays, and stay aboot pne hour to the t>e8t of my know- ledge and belief. He used to go into the front room with Miss Vail, and I would be in the kitoh^s with the baby. She (Miss VaII) appeared to be a nice girl : she had a kind of light brown hair ; she used to wear her hair in a net with a black ribbon around it ; she nsed to wear a black dress, a black straw hat, an embroidered petitooat, a tljght brown cape. 1 remember the bottom of her drawers wer^ embroidered. The em- broidering was just like a little bog all embroidered. The skirt wfta white em- broidered. I would know it if I should see it. (Skirt shown.) That is very nmoh like it indeed. (Drawers shown.) They s««as to be her drawtrs. (rieees of embroidery shown.) Mr. TucK~"lj00k at thess, Jane, and see if you ever saw th«m before.'' WrrNECs-Those look very much like the drawers dhe wore when she wenta^ay. I rembmber ihe had a Garibaldi with black s|lass buttons, wiflt a little bead through them, up the front. (Buttons shown.) I CQuld almost say tboae were the very buttons. The dress which sha wQre «as a t^in black dresi. I could - 'Mi I 'I 5i •Ql lay whf t il was l{k«. I tUnk il ir«8 BTfUy good. (Reopina of drea* •bovn.) That i« v( ry much lika the jnaUriat it was brfnrhter and blacker than that. Only fur that I'cotiM almost say it was the same dress ahe btid oa when she w^nt wt»y. She want away in Mr. Lit- Uebile^B waggpn. It had been raininfr; It wa« audiiner time. I woald know her hftir if I »houJd see it. Her hair waa light brown. fHair shown.) I oould almoat ^ay that win bar's. It looks very much like it indeed. She had a good head of hair. It looks very mupb like the w^y fbe wore her ht«r. ^I used lo take care of the little baby ; but don't know j\Qfr aid it was. I dureo^am- ^er how many teeth it had > I ibii>h it bad «ogae ; it used to be troubled with its qaouth ; the water used to keep runuing out aa if jt were getting teeth. 'i*be baby had light hair. [Baby's hair shown.] That is very much like the hair indeed!/ it tiBs cleaner than that, tlie baby wore a light brown ,dresis .with a little <;[ttinipg aitianit the bottom, and it had another dress ^of the s^me material, with a floiinc^ liro^nd the bottom of it. I coold hot just say who made them or what they were made fiom. I saw them an the baby. (Re- ihaine o( baby'a dress shown.) That's very much lik« the nna which had flounces on it ; when she woscaway the baby had a little brown dress, withquilliag around the hot* torn of it; fdresa.BhowpJ that is the dress ti^ b*by woip when ahe was going. away from booie with Ht, Littlehale. I have never seen her since, nor the baby. X think tne babv bad a^ottop petticoj^t. X used to dre»s the bsby. Thiere used to be some-, thing harfl wt^rn Just below its little ntom ach. I nevei* siHw its stomach w^th the bandage oflT. it was something like a fiah'- nol. I never took particular notler. Ther* Was some kind of bard substance in the bandage, abom as large as this (measuring on the palm of her hand about tkt size of a penny). fHandage shown] yea, that is #bat the hoAty had on. It feels jast the same as that, substanee did in the one the child wore. It bfd little blapk kid^ boots at4d woollan atockiaga wi^ blue tops. I c^'t Mmeiaber, the colqrof the footing ; !»lj9^,apd8tocfk^g shown], they look jexy m^ch like what the 4hild wore when they if ent away. The bab^ Wore a little white hVtV [hat wHtish was fouiid in the ti'unk produced] th'tft ia fhb hat the baby ^orie v^en it Was f oirig awny. the baby Wdre whMi l^tiilff A Uttl* ifliilf hatr. (lat (torn tr^ak, ekofrn.\ Ttet i i» tb» hat the bab y wore when it waa going awaji I da not kjoow the material. (Saeque shown.)— That, is vpry inoch like what the b*by had on When it Was going ewsy. They went in a lii^ht wagon with Mir. Xityehale— Miss Vail ahd the baby together. The baby' hi^ different stockings. It had a pair of cotton ones With a rib in them, Then it had Woolen onea, too. Q..»When was the last time you saw the person pointed out here at- her kouae i A.—-]t was that day or the day before. 1 heard nothing said, and did not aee them together. I do not xememher having seen him again, aad. never saw Hisf Vaii pinee. (Threa pairs o£^; atofskings from trunk shown.), Tbeae are the stockings. 1 QaX- led the bpby '^BUf May." I did not call it any other name, Cr«s»f€xamne4 oy Mr, Thonuon r, , f- jQ.^Little gir), have yoa talked this, mat- tv over nuok aia<(e yfu were firai o^Ued to b* <^ witoeas la this case } i A.— r don't think ( have. People have ticked to ma— pot much ainca the Cf ^nar's Inquest. I paid Particular attention while of. Mias Yail s to the eoWra of the clothing tbertf. I nevei saw a dress before which had been render the stiow. I' do mean to say that that dress shewn is the sanie dress. 1 don't know about there being two dresses alike. That dress looks like the same material. These atoekings ave the same. These artiolee which wwe an der the snow 1 know by the material are the aame the ofaild had. BAbiea wear suoh mate> rial. . a.— You think because thatia the ma- t^isJ, it is, the same dress? A,— (.), if a tbesame dress* ^r;, I. know the dress the baby wore. .j .• I know what it is tq take an oath, and 1 know the dress tTie ba^y.wore, and I think i ought to swear positively that is the biiby's dress. I neVer saw a dre^s like that op another baby. 1 never saw a dress be- fore whieb bad )b«en under the anow. The Caburg Misa Vail ware waa thin and v^y good. The pieofo sboiirn I am fcure are the aame. 1 doa'ttHiy thexecould not be au* o^hfr dresa like it. but X afn^aufe that ta fi^iss Vail's dreast , (Counsel aaked Judge to note^be ^ei^y,X > Q,r-IJop't vou think it ia ya'y wr^ng f<>r a Uttle ^ irl iike vou t^ f wear that way f A.—t> no, sir, li lan't; because it is the truth. •, ^ ^'^'■>^';''''-1 y ■■-• ^ Ci.^if tliAre^M '«ftbtliiBt^ Aess of the niKtstAii '—A ; 4* no( )wn.)— Ibjr bad ly went lehale— it. Tli«J t had a B then • jrou aaw Houaa ^ efore. 1 see them ring *•«" aU pinse. Oft tiitnk thisnat- rat o«U« ..-(.), it* dreu the I oath, and ^nd I think tt i» t^e J like that I dress be* jiow. The [n and v&y lute are the |f»ot b« «n- \))|e that is kked Judge wrong for I'tha^ way f L it is the [ess oi the Mm* iBitiHfer pot ^dt ii^ )ittM Vait*. woald yofi Irqw the diffeience) A.— i do not think^ so. No one eYer told me that those remains were Mlm Yail's ; r did live abont two months with Miss Yail and the child wos called Ella May : I did not know Misa Vail's «»«rer, Mrs. Crear, or see her there ; the gentleman 1 pointed out is the osly one who ever called at the house i I don^t know who made the bandage ,' It was romp time the flummer before last that Miss Vail left the house, and it wa» booght by Mr, lAt- tlehale. {; Se-examined by Attorney General, I used to see the child's dress con*taiitIy. and know it in that way ; 1 don't know who talked to pje before the inquest; what I have 8 worn to I know and believe, and om not influenced by what 1 hare beMdk JOHN C. llTrXBHAtB, SWOrO. • Examined by Mr. Tuck. ' ^^^^ Have resided in Carteton sixty years ; knew John VniU it^ho has been a«ad two teare ; I knew his daughter Sarah Margaret Vail ; she was suppoaed to be a single wo- man : I bought s*m« property from her early in October, 1868, for $500 ; I bought it for my son ; I paid her the $600 in the house I bought, when she feigned the deed ; the money was some in Comnercia) and some in tit. Stephen Bank bills ; I think she pui the money in her bosom after .James Olive counted it; I know the prisoner by sight and seeing him pass often } I saw her father during bis sickness ; on the day she sold the properly I drove her in my lightwagon to Mr Janes Urittain'o ■, I think she had only an ordinary travelling bag with her. (Bag shown ) ic was oneaifmi- lar to that, -, ! ,. [Witness produced the Deed« dated Oct. 5th. 1868. I>eed was asked to he put in evidence and refused by Court, on objtetion being made by Mr. Thomson } I have net seen her ^inoe. bhe was nioe- looking, and ot light oomple»ion. I would have known her it I had seen her eino*. The child was with- her when I topk faer away. JOSEPH KBNNBDY, aWOm. Ktamined by'Mr. Tuck. ^ \ y^, I drive a stage for Mr. Ingram ftbW'St', John to St. Martins. I was driving )ast lall. I have been sinc6. Ikiiow where Collins lives. Once I experiencecl a sn^ell in coming along tha road ; it was about Ist of last August. Mr. George Parker was with me ; Id6 liotknotr -where his fAtber Uy, HebtfteaUp^hQildar'tMa. 1li«ff4 were other* hot they w«v» etyaoiera. The amdl wa« very dtasgreeahte« > -"n I .' i)^- C^a8-eatdtttined by Mr. Tko4ni&k.' '■ I passed twiee a "week all sttnimer. t only experfeiioed th la smell once. I kiiow it was the ssnte pfvce, becattse there was M grove of bushes there. Q.— HaT* you be?n there ^ince ? A.— Yes, Q.— Ts not that the way you can swear that it was the place wher^ yon experienced the smell } A —-Yes. The road io middling straight with a lit- tie crook } ifhe crook is abont a quarter of a mile from the place where the iremains were found ; there is a middling thick wood where the road turns ; there is a young growth ot fir and 8pr«ee here ; if a person went into this wood the length of the Court Htfuse he could not be seen from the road ^ there is only a grove of biishes where tho remains were foand .' I nerer went through ttom one road ta the other ; 1 dohH know how fhr it is : I ecsld from the stone, see the catting of thi Quaoo Road ; fram Ifi one eoultt see a .stag^ drirtng along the Black Uiver Rood * I was in one da/ witlr some women ; I codld nbt see my wagon after I went in to the rottk v i'i (the WagtMi) was opposite the place ; I csnnot say wheth-* er the leaves were on the trees or not ; ' we stayed only a few minutes ; I £ould drive the staee from this place to Banker's in about live minutes ; could do it in five or ten minutes, acoordiiig to hf I knew her father aud mother v hortntuiher d^fd twenty yearn ago Iw»t month v ner fitU^i: djed two years 9g^ this mMife^'. She Jired ia her fhther^s boiise until she iiotd it \ it was lu tJO lancafid sne in speaking to the child call it £Ua May Munroe ? A. i never heard her say anything to the child j she told me that was its name. Q. You say then it is a common thing for girls to have brown colored hair? A. Yes, sir. JANB CAifPBELL> SWOrU, Examined by Mr, Jttck : I live in Carleton ; 1 am single t t am a milliner. I cannot say 1 knew the girl Vail, but I knew a girl I eupp "' JSSxamiaed by Mr. Tuck ■• 1 am married) and live in CArleton ; I have lived th^re since 1840 ; I am a dress- maker ; I keep no store, only a private milliner shop ; I was somewhat acquainted with i^rah Margaret Vail ; I did work for her some two years and three or four months or more ago ; I made two dresses for her ; I don't remember the materials ; one was blue ; I don't remember the other; it was similar in material, ot a brown color ; two mouths after £ made a saoqne of blue grey Whitney cloth ; I had made dresses for her before that time (Blue dress shown.) I don't reoognlEe it. (Wit- ness did not want it near her, and seemed unwilling to look at closely.) I cannbt re- cognize the work ; 1 can see the work ; I don't remember tho .material ; I don't re- member Whether the drMS was like that or not. ^ Q. Js the color of this (showing dress) the same as the color ot the one you made? A. This is fiided. Q. Is this blue or green? A. It is blue, sir. Q. Does this resemble the dress you mMe? A. I said 1 could not tell. (Remnants of the sacque shown.) Q. Does this look like the fragments of the sacque? A. The saoquo was new when I saw it ; this is only remnants ; this is Whi ffrey; ( upon it ing bi-fti (Eiul: Q. i (The W A. Is< fjefore ; yards of was a be more sin lost aboi S never I MV« Vai (Same Q. Is No, it is '^Draw *t IS crot( urould kn nnd the o , Q. Yo have a mi tell the d M«. IV been well lrivate ivintcd rork for fotir dressed teri«il» ; other; brown sacqae niadd (Bind (Wit- seemed nnbt re- work; I on't re- that or dress) . raader.' It 18 \caa yott lents of las novr ItsithU In Whitney cloth ; nod il Is a tnded blufr grey ; the one I mine had binok ttkirt braid \>pon it ; that '» black braid there (meno- inz brnid on romaaDt of sacque.) (EiulM-oidery shown.) Q. Can you see it rrom where it ia? (The Witness did not want it n?>ir hor.) A. 1 8oe it sir ; 1 have seen some like that ^Mfore ; it is compass work. I bousht two> yards of it fronk aarah Marcarot Vail: it was aboat two and a halT years ago. or more since I bought it. I saw Mistt Vail lost about the time of her father's death. I never knew of my own knovKledffe that MiwVailhadaehild. (Same embroidery sliown.) il. Is tliat worlc done by hand? A. ]({o, it is done w'ith a needle. ^Drawers shswn.) ' ' 9. y this the same kiod of worV?- A. It in crotchet work ; a child four years old ^xould know one was done with the book and the other with a needle. Q. You mean a female child ? A. 1 have a male child of that ag9 Who oould tell the diflbrence. MiiL. Tuck:— Which shows th« child has been well educated. I Hi notice th» appearance of her t^th ; she had one to tbb right, in tb^ upper jaw longer than the ouers; the others were ner at his inqaeat ; do not remember whei-« i took it» all 1 remember is that I got » trunk ; do not drive on Sundays ; I took it wherever Worden told me ; 1 cannot re- member now when it was. JACOB VAI&, SWOKIC. \ ExamineibyMr.Tuck: I live in Carkton ,have lived there 68 yeanM within tour m five days ; was born tfaere.i 1 knew Samh Hargaret Vail. She was w daughter of my eldest brottier, Jobs Vail ; he has boon dead two years on th»lAth of ■ this monih, I hare seeo tlie prisoner, but am not ac^uainjted with. him. oaiw him two or three times at Mr. Adams' previoa»to my brother s death. I last saw Sarah Margaret Yful at he» father's funeral. After the ftmeral we caibe baek to the house. -and that is all I have kno#n about her'Irom that time to this. She was dres< sed in bUck-— In monrning for her fitther — the last time I saw her. Remember her hair ; it wa^ a nice head of hair-4i light brown. She had a good bead of hair. If she was alive aow, she would be about SO years of age. [Hair tShown.l I think 1 can swear that hair gre# on ner head. I baye seen her wear it jnst as that is ; have no reooUeotion of her teeth, onljr they were nice ones — in fact she was a nice looking girl altogether. Her mother died about twenty years ago ; she was about six years old then; her mother had thiee sons and six daughters when she died ; the sods are away in other parts. Last I heard of the oldest son he was in Minnesota ; the other was in Prinoo JGdward bland , and the other is in the Luoatio A^yltim. I have not been out Where the tebains were Ifannd. The daughters are h^ ; Mrs. preiar and Mn.f Oltve a^ here. . „ Q.—- Ton mean to saV ^tthis bsirlook^ iil^e it.,' A.-T-7rom the ittrroaading. <4''f! my mm ttb'lbe 'hSrrfsriit^ !■ "I ¥•) 62 THE TRUI4. } it- he her hair tiie fir«t tins I oaw it before the Coroner. I can swear it it the hair which jjTPW on her hf'ad, i could rot awear toeTery ftirVa hair that I have had in my hand. All I can do is to Hwear to her hair, and I do that positively. The statements made by other witn^asM has no inAucnoe over me. I ean swear it is her hair, and that is all I have to say. Re-examined by A tiomey General. She lived in tr.^ house twelve months when she waa Ave ye«r» old. Bhe lived only a short distance from me all the time •ince until 18C6. 1 have aeen her pvrhaps five or six times a month, and hare seen her wear her hair every wiy. I am positive that is her hair. aaoHiOB cuMNiNOHAM, awom. " Examined by Attorney Omeral. I am.a policeman ; have b««n on the force four years. My native place is black Riv- er ; I was out there last April, about the 20(h or 26th. I was ooming from there in a carriage with Archie McNaufhton and his wife, and two of Any sisters, when I per- ceived as unpleasant smell. I khow where the remains were fo«nd— it was there. It was a very bad smell, so bad that I could hardly get the horeea by it. The wind was North West, blowing towards me. Crots-examined by Mr. Thomaon : I suppose the roaiis were a qiiarter of a mOe apart from that place. I oaa't «ay that it was just at thi« place I perceived the smell. I think it was within a httndr«d rods. I can't sweair to the place— I think it was within a hundred yarda. I did not go in to see what it waa. Horses generally do shy at a bad anvell. I don't remember the nature of the ground. To the Aitoin«|y Oeaeralf-I ean apeak vfith consid^rahjie accuracy that it was within 100 yards of the place where I per- ceived the smell. TpjBisHonot— I said I think I can tay it. was w^t^in a hundred yarda from the place ^here tho remains were found where I perceived the smeU. •t',^" »»BBCCA Aim OUVBi ■wenrh. Siiaminedl^ Mr, Tuck: ' I live on the Mana^agoniah tload. in ^^e SarUh of Lancaster., [Witness afieota^* Ir.iT^ck— Po you ^A a j(Uu of water t Witneia^l^o, Bfr.l 'Sai>a]^ Margaret Vail was my sister. Tne laat time I saw her va> the d^y she io|d ptopif)^ to Mr. LitUehale. Do not ramen^^ Hrhat tikne it wan ; t think it was after haii^t In l«st year. 1 did npt vitjwsHMiiu tMtmiioAhHdvm wa ww^ 01 *■ wj.'j. J. .1 auivo ■•■'J ' •• ■' "■.'■i-^ not good friends ; we bad not been on good terms for about t#o years ; she lived on the Lancaster Road and I on the Mana. wagonish Road, Just a field between ; iibe left Carletnn after her property was aold. I did not know the prisoner till now ; hsve seen him go to my father's house frequently. I could see from my wmdow . Snrah Mar. garet was living there th.>n. It is a long time since first I knew he went with her. My sister would be tweoty'fiva the 26th of January coming. I remember my aikter Sarah's personal appearance. It was twenty-four years on the 18th of last north since I waa married and left home. I know she l^d a nice aet of teeth. I know of notbiog peculiar about them by which I could distiDgulHh them. Her hair was lighter than mine. I remember a skirt that ahe wore. [Skirt ahown . J This is her skirt, i drew that with my own hands ; I call (bat embroidery ; I drew the pattern off of my own underskirt ; I laid that down and took a spoon and rubbed it over my own, and it left a pattern. [Frag- ments of embroidery shown.] That I drew off ot a pattern of my own in the same m^' ner. To Hia Honor— When she waa mnrder- ed they h»>v^ been on her. Mr. Tuck— Your Honor, I propose to offer some other material in eviaenoe. Mr. Thomson ol^eots, but does not state hia o^eotioD. Attornbt Gknrral demands objeotion. Mi. Tuck— Is the material whioh you wisn.to produce a pattern off of whioh you took this. Mr. THomoN ol^jeots. His HoNOJEi allows the evidence suloeot to Mr. Thomson's ol^jection. AttorNxt Qjoikbal— I wish to know whether this point will be reaerved or not. His MoNon-^lt lies with me to consider whether it be a point to be reserved or not. ArroRNKT G»B6Aii— Reads Act of As- sembly, and says if there Ls a shadow of a doubt I am aware the. prisoner has the benefit of it, and I do not wish to brins; in to the, trial of this oanae any matt <■ w' h would admit of a doubt. Bib Honor— I think there -ason why the pattern should not be uecd. In answer to Mr. Tnok witnet ve, thr ' isapattem^ Cross examintdij/'Mr. Ttumfon, That is apatitm; I got ^it from Itts; Bdotes In ddiantbwn ; ahe gel it from her friends in Oanadr.. t havea't^e sha4ow pf a doubt but that is the jl«d«nti^ pattenu [Skii^i WQinan** and ohU4's, and tkag-^ THE TKIAL, 63 sulo«ot know _ or not. looDsider I or not. of Aa- lowota has the Ibringi'i "wT h ^son accd. ve, thp ' menti eoaapared] ThU !• her't; I laid thU down on ttlne •nd' ih»hb6d « ipoonvvtr my hair tnd rubbed it Over the tMttwM*; lliat it the child's^ thf artf th« iMiMf exaet. [Anothsr akirt ootapared with other fnginenta.} I drew off thia pnttetn the sam« way. fkett oortwpond extatly, only tnhi« waa Worked all the way up and her'a waa plain. Th» akfrt I produoe, of my oarn, la the identleal one Arom wMeii my Maut t*ar»h Marfarst'e Jrawefa were drawn, f Another embtoidored okirt oon- parad with the one fonad in (he trank.— Witneee explained how ahe had dmwn it. I draw every hit of it aiyMli^ a hieedtb at a time. [Hair ahewn; witneaa, deeply iliootedf exaoiinee it.l I think I ean tay ihat is SarelY ||argaret Tall'i kAif. 8he deed to braid it and put it tep'in' the atyle of a wa^ terfall behind^ I eaw my aMter wear a grey Witney cloth aaoque ; JfraltMente ahown^ I' say thia ia tb« iameeae^ne; bound an^und the wrtata and aidek a^ith blaek woreted braid . 8he wo*^ked the aktrta heraelf with her own handk^ after I itarked them. The work on he^ il not ddne ahM oafht to he; it waa her flrtt Work (4 ^la kind— not ea good aa ihina. I alway*a exMnined erery breadth aftatraha wovld fniih it, wb^ J would draw tha next pattern. Yon ade, •he baatufe her'a #Kh Uife acieeora; iiMh)>' were cut with aciaaora made for thh'flttr* poae; she bor|(9ped ajt^ H*«4. my large aciasors. [Li^bneaa eh^wnj I know thatxo be my eldeat hrother^l llkeneaa, ho^ in Idinne^a— hit aent H to nij^ father; faiio- ther ahown] that ia my idikter, l|rh. cWr ; pMiother ahownj that ia ^f iindeand aunt ; [another showtf] I naavr ih'w^that be(bra>~ It ia John A. Mttnroa'i. ' ■■■■^ Croas-exwrniud hy Ur. ^th/knamt' "^>^»'i 1 can awtfar that ia h^ aacque ;'ttie day ahe l«ft"*lle had it oh ; I haae olteft aeen H; I know and-am positive that ia my aiaur Sarah MaignritYail'a aiioqne. £. T. xxoii^aa, 8wotzt( ' ' ' Examined hif Mr, !rnck^ ^ . * ^ liTe on CwijDarthen ^tieeet, SaiQ) John. . Know laie pnabher* I khoar the place where t^e remama y«te fhnhd'f wetti ehete or Wed^miday. the^dof hurtBij^aiBber. hi John Andereott' Ari>Ta' me iaVt ih hia wagon I it IMi dh tM^BMtek Kivi^Baad. Booalled, ihMithal/a«iilhfirtMli'«ha liige* hMid. Wadroiva!paa»l»tlialta»day. V Mr. TMoiuor 'rih^tiiiio4liagaaidaiweyaa there waa »oM» affiMb.9)99^.<^ HMt it 1M Witneaa— I went out a aeeond time with Mf^^alein ^owera and P. A, M»maon to tha aaaM plaoe where I had bean drat— the time I waa out with Mr. Anderaou. I irem searching ahant for the bullet, hu: did not find it : found some chtld'a hRir->.it <*ait white i found a etring of beaJN. [Hair shown] eould not aay that ia wh>t I found; it i«aimilar>''aa« quite aa much xHthat)! broni^ht it in and gave it to Mr. Power«| [Wadii Mhown] thaoe are the bead^ I ionnd Ofi the day I waa there with Mr. Anderaha. 1 fbnnd aotbing elae. 1 found tli<< beade in a tMt of Moea, aery atoeaia the pinoe where t^ man pointed otrt aa tha pla««> where the ekuU had beantohnd. The headt and hair were on the i»ide of the rook, a tittle north, towards the Blaok River Ko^; eix or eight feet from the roek. : i i /i ,t CrosM-exomirietijiy Jlif. Thdtniok, ' ' ' ' There ia more bf ir there thaii I found: ft looka like the hair I i^uhd. (Bezels Hhoaro.) I marked tha claap, and that ia bow X coima to knoai*. /Other bMda ahown and oom'<2 pared.) ' thf h^i^de 1 fbuiid atie smaller, ^ui I donH think, there ia mnch difforeQO(i"be.'j tween them at all. I went out ju«t from ourio»itT. It waa a in^ther wtt, aifampj place ; (here w|m a little knoU w here thaj said t^e •kail acaa found. A h^avy raiq would b«^f filled tha little hollpw near tbt, rock,witk.wat*f. , :,^^„:-,-, «,;;.r.a maDBmiOK KovMHln^ awora. ' 1 EsatmnedbyMr. Taci. '"^ I lire in'St. John ) aAa a fiarriater.at^La^ I know where the remaioi w**e found, r went to tbe ^laee about the ISifh of Septem- ber; itwaa rridiiy,^ I aaw k i-ock there; ( looked towarda the BlaiBk Hirer Itoad frtfm the r«lck but ooutd nbt eec the road ih a direct Hue ; looked towards the Qtiaco lload ; cqutd not sea it ; did nbt walk'there ; Hid a horse and ea^iiat^ with mo. ' There wee a pathway to the place, foilovred tfiat ; the ground waa dry on th^ aur^uce ; rock woe bare on the top ; did' not o.vamine the bushes paitieularlj^ ; fbund seme buttons just aldngeide of the rock, I think in a kind of hbllohr, on the aut side of tHo' road. 1 found three— two I gafe to l*o#ert,ttih other I hare in my pocket, [shoWn.l Bid not find anything elite. I drorc aown to BI$ok RiviHr and tetnmed the Hsme eVto- ihg. Wewerathrea toinntes driving from theplacie to Bunk^r'e. DroVe pretfy Ihft. •ipcammed bj/ Mr. fMmuon* - • *' "d BOtbcbiii; to ina, it wril** ^ m'iMl Took my watob onl mA iioMd. Mr. King drove ; it wu ftboul 10 o'oLock mth»OTmr jogur MABcsi, swoiw. JExamned by Mr. J\ick. 1 I live in thin oity ; I am cooneoted with ^e Daily Munuug Piewa. Wait uuc to the plaoe where osrtam remaiiMi were on tbe 16(h September. I drove down towards CoUks'. buk coold Aot find tbepUoe which had been d«iprib«i to ma v. reUirned, to Banker H. and ^1>1bo9 Ounlter vemk withi me. tjibouldiM4iiO.m hiindrBa yvdr ovox tlDM) plain in evaqF direetion from tb^ plaoe.. I did not stop tb» dietanee to the Quaeo Road ; I drove arouiid to the Qoaoo. Road, and Mr. i^U^i 91 the T(e%r(mA, paoed »(;roM. The ilntl tune I wont oat 1 took particular note of the plape. Tb^re are two> rooks : one to the l#st ji^ a jMintod rook, 4>« oth«f . toWfWM the ^lack Ki^ Rot^abouttof aio^t.Waf|itdh^and)^. BetjWeen those fs >htfe it was nointed out to me where the btftk of ttie x^mkins had bees lottftd. There wi& a hOUoV a Uttle to the south east side of the tfat rock, filled with moss ; amnng tbts •nosi was fi frag- ment of a black dreahia ^tlepibee of a woollen stocking, tbaie boiles, a tiuel stieh aa ia worn upon aontags^ it waA I'ed berHn. I delivemd thoaetUngato the Oetener. I could not identify thep^ Ikey w*re little frs^s ";&{•. Xn aearf \uag arou|id.Jibou( ftfty piacee a« I walk«(i Um the ftat rofk in a noirt)» easterly diieolipn* I f9*ffd.a pmfU skull I it WW ob%H:ved by l|r. Horace Bun* ker and myaelt at tae eame time. It, was settit^fiT upright under a small bual^i one portion of iw was lyiM apart about a foot. I lifted it 1^ and the moment I took it in my hands it «q^'%rati^ in th* natural pieces. I then went dixeeUy, efst from |he same roek, I should a^pnp^e^ut the same diatapce I found a p»ee jei a woman's ste^kir j. AU the SfrtioVw % , found. X gave to the cproaer. here b&tkfa epurt Aonse, on the asiM dr;/, [^'4^ vM remains phowa.] this i» the .pieee whic|i .wu lyiPf away from the oth^. Th^M fire tAeotker p^eoea i , tEsVis the s!»ull. JtteetV *toflji^| •bofru.} Th«li> tke vi^^mmtX l^^^, green ,)|^»rk o^ h-jjll^'i^^y^^^i tke MKrisfe. i ?;^4ltmltk. ftf the Itifgnph, was with me i stood on the toek » Mr. Smith went on tWroad t I could not aee him aa he p ast e d alcng ; be woi Id shout out~-sfter a whiWi he.stid •''l see you " and aeon i ooqM distinf uiah htm thsougb the alder bushes, i was tundtpg on the high- eat rook. I think it. In 1^ feet beyond where tke pathway tuvns in« ibeie is a little kuoU where yuu sen se* a mM> Aom the rook 1 1 could not see kirn wlHn4ffot oftUi« rook«» heardft toaiBAomln^* it oooiepaat, and t-0iMild oii4y ate at loolui^ enuibeaat toitard* wkeve jlha p«tkway anten-; «9iiid sea tba t'ta«»im hprsMtand thep ont^ saw them for ani in^ni., When (bey arrived on tha koolli I «>ald' .ijpa tbropgh. XhebHabe»betweQi» tb(a«)9k nnd rondfare lew. and atuiitaa« Tbe gxound is nMigb aqd broken to ton ^MNt, Wt tbia spot ia wet^aduxMqF, pesbapf ii fiM^ ilei^f»> U vonld ,ba met aner a rrMa Vvit ia spongy gr9pnd. > , The Wi bu«bas nf «« bw« fl think if Ib^r nw»i»ywnAi wtb Iblinse it w«aUd bejunpeiHiblftt(^«H'aWffnf PO; the road u»Ml tbfy /mm tp tb« kpf^l bo' yoqd. I no^ifliKlijw^bing/ M(«Miar i^ir- ther on that, ocKjoinof. \X}b^ , # bown.-T WitiiiMeB oavii deapripttoPt oi thfiplag^ by Oos««bmWHM'«^J^. Tkdtnaon. ^^^ \ iiiade tte '(^'ei^ratiQiiit % t^e pttr- poaea ormy ppp^f* T^i:^ ^a« no path tothepl^maitopf. 7J»e ,|4aoe whert I eoMld,8)iM Wv^*'^*^^'^*''^!^ further toi«irdajtb« tv^ )UiA» !tb« paiUi, If a; female were standiai. ttpM tbaioek.a' Krson drifingjiron pp|U/if^^ qai»ld,eee r^ I think.. xKt aid^ra are 'mi thick, ex^apft iii * Sontk^Weitar^ .(Ur«etioA fram t^ raeki. I ' m aofa ^Tiwttoi*is froMi Rxa Hit the P*! iDond. 'eadini I live \ mains ouse. not kufl OcCobe and abi oijdbu sen, a |i ii^nkrit Clerks • Inffwt inf to il person i Tbein is Bunkerh when be grsad pi v^ould nc hint, nor bim« 1 1 or any p) reageiAei P«es«4 a ■OJ BflMl MAI I live Ritaj roa oar ftous thwe goir there all i e'en in 18 noraa'jr boose. Exanwn ton. T k kin ia (be eeml^^^ll fortOiroti ruaryjISM g«ret Vai child. So •Mld'a ftoi biliee! rapi .TMtHtftt^' ^ .J. JOHN COLLIII8, SWOTD^' Examined by Mr. 'Tdek ':' 1 li\n at a place called CnlUnsTn'^e^ \u theP«mh 6f Siraondn bestde 1)%%^ Lo- mond. I knoHT the forks of the road leading to Qiaco and Black ftlrer rnacl. 1 lire on the Blaok Rirer rpid. Tl^ere* mains weris found about a mile ,f^om n|y ouae. I live a little off the r^ad ahd no.-.clhrecl there twenty ifii fMil Do not know whether I waeMi^ tMiMi otrSlat October, 1868. I aeii floating kHiterlal and«iii tway 8ometim«i A« tllial tieie mj 44u)^.er Sarah, and Mifftt«t^i)a*id' sen, a Httie maid, weretm cnil]rip«ite«»s \V>\tlK in mi houfie. I never kocnr a Mn. Clifke either by character or M(»atetioo. I n«r«r bMird of a women of miUd ettni- ing* to my' house. I never knew any vudk peraoB driven to St. Joba from my ^ftee. TheiiB is iK» house betwien my placo and Bunker*kb I may have wHn tka priM>a«p when be was a little boy llviae «Uh Ma graad parents, but I do not knoiv kbn, would liot have known Mm If I bid mot him, nor have had any ounvortttlon trHk him« I made no arrangeiiiem wkh him or any poi^ioD, nor heard of «rty MOb avo raafeibentio drive a penon in. I ofken passed aleb2 the road. InovornotiMd aoy saMlI in paMing alonip the road. MARGARET DAVn)80M| B1forb« Examined by Mr Tutk: , I live at Mr. Colfin's on the Biiuik Ritei road. There is no honte ^#e«n odr ftottse and Banker*!,' I h*v^li#ed there going on shreo years, thftve lived there all the time. I rememhet Ha)low. e'en In 184^. No Mrs. CVsrka ind ebfld nor^n'y stieh pereoni aver bfme to oar hooie. M . n PKTBM, M. D., iWOmt Examined bjf Ur. 7\idk : I am a medical manoniS^ttg fn Cailt- ton. I. knew Jonn rail, i^d aeteMai^ him is (be karly pan or Miiddla ^ I)^ eemM.18^7. He died then, t liitir hif ^libter Barali MttgHret. iMMl W^Owr'a kotiao affMntfiiirW |« 40 afbr iilr fatber*a death, I wda Jm^ for to fo if the house on (he 4(b m nb% niary iSM, and whilit tlNm, 6a^ Het« gare) VaU vae deliyered hf a ^ftir«ti chftd. Some time after 1 CVMHtMd dHt ehild'a itomheh and fouiid it ll^A tn mV bilicft! rapture ; (hat it 4 p^^vAUk of * d Dortion of the intestine through the navai«i I preeeribed a outmeg to be Out in two, ' and nbalf tobeeewn in a bandage and placed roond side down on the naval. The bandrAC wan a strip of oommon cotton. I did not visit her again. Sarah Mar* ?aret Vail «N^> 23 or 21 years of age I ith'mid think* Her hair was o' a ligbliah brown. She wore it in a plaiti and put a tC*ofl deal of oil upon it. (Hair ehhwn.) Her hair was of tiiat deeerlp- t)oo. anil pat up in thnt ttyle I do not kn«w when she left Oarleton. T saw her last in August or September, 1868. I did not observe her teeth. DAVID O JiMITH. sworn, -^ Examined by Mr. Tuck: " lam a reporter on the Tdegraj^h news- paper. Know wheire the rennaioa were found. Firat went there on W^dn^sday. 15th September. Had a lady with me on that octiaaion. Drove down the Black River road. I there saw a akulU thifh boot and two or three ri^a. The. skull wa« lyiiM[ near a rock toward the Quaco road. The riba were not more tl^ago two or three feef. jRrom the akyUf and f V UiigK hone wae fur^.her away towards TiunkerV, 1 aiMerved eome idothing , pi^isof a oiack ooborg drees. There were also «., boon skirt, a eoatag, a child's shoe with a sock, in it, and abreds of oIoth«ng. I dug op the moaa OKar where the skull laf with a atiek aqd turned up some oth- er bones, parte of ribs, and others.. They were liom three to six inohas under' the oioaa. I obaarved the ground par- tieularly and the lay of the lai)d.^The roek was ilat and altghtly inoUned. I was there aboot a quarter of an hour ; I visitM the place again; the remuM badl then been removed ; saw no more reoMdna E; did Bot dietarb the remaiaa on the winaaioB ;— (bonsi shown)— eoir^ of > bonee resemble thoee I saw at that tiase ; the aeeond day that I went ontwaa^ when tboCSiief of Foliee and Worden wenl:thlaktkiawaeaboata week after &%m Hsit ; aolmed rii# ii«t tea that Bta* RtVtrMnd eooM aathe aeea ft«« th* reek; th* aeeood tiae 1 dseva to GoUineV b«l kwrned nothftag aMMtthe oaao ; #«iit oalaiaitt on Tmssday^ the Idth Hofw, with Mr. Mafsh ; wtOraTa ipthr Qmmo loii tft We sil Laps nine inohee aerosa and idTeii or qt %o long. The ground ift a little lower tbltv the sarrounding ground ; the hole Was made by the removal of the moes fkwm the spot; the nonnd m eq|nmei* would bt< 6omparativ«y dry,1>« in thtf faU wonlC be spongy and w«t f th« bushee are lanrel end aiders near the Blaek Kfte^ road ; bpiMMii't tbcr roi^ thijrrit A thftfl^ einmp of eptae^ : towardthe Qtiatib roAd tlie'bttahea are ittdt^' seattereid. idg^'we-eawrijfcsd t>jf,,^v, Jl^^ii^on, ,' Thet#ro'.«4 wiiil4hff«c(i«ml apAn§9i aflMrafs A, buVa pfiiHMiTf|<)ttldiMtaiQii to th« kr«t, and hardly at in this (Mt. 'ilelMMar9•fth•gl•^»d is such t|iatii| 'vlatera bo^ might U Hiws ipme tiaaa ^itbovt detMipff. i do . 2<»t think « yoiijd ktalflns ibbU to deoi* in tdf viHt A f«vMt tt fSit mi \< tkkfm eoHld not eae a peraon on the rock* From the elevated road towards Colline's a person could see another on the rock. If a person in a wagon coming from Col- linsV were to look toward the rock, they might possit^y eee a inun and woman on the rock at any sessoo, bat I do nr>t tbinic they could in the summer when \he foliage is tbifbk. BouaT s. RoeEKT30ar, swori^ .,'^ , Xgamimd iy Mr. Tuck: ,-^ ■ I reside in St. John, and am in the eoaploy of L & F. Burpee, i>n Frinoe Wiliiaai Street. I k^ow John A. Mun- loe, the priaoiier->r-I have very often seen him in our store. I eaw him there ayesr ago last fall, but cannot say ^t what date. It was aboui seven o'clock m the morn- ing. Ue purebased a. revolver; it waaa Smith ^ Weeaen, with seven barrels ; it took a No, 22 oartridge. I had one be* fast the t*alice Magistrate and gaT«>itut« him. [Cartridge shown.] , r^'v To taia,Mr. ThomRon. objected, that it was not eoppeteat to produoe- a No* 22 osruridgaiiaieseit were,abowA thst per- sMSs puxshased cartridges at |he same tisaie, but it was overruled by tlM Judgv. Witaess-1— That is a No, 22 oartridge, snd would fit the pistol I sold to Monroe. Munroe paid me $13 or $14 for th« pis- tel. He had no accouut with the firm that I kno# of. Oross-esamin* I bu,Mr. 7hom$on: I have oftjsn suld pistols of a aise ibat this cartridge would fit. Thatisasise tiiat is freqeently puruiiased. A single bsrrel pistol could be bought for about $3.5d. The pistol I sold Munroe was a , single barrel with seven chamWxSi, and tbey aire all prices up to $20, aodordiog to the mounting. FftANCis 8. jo.xssi sworn. ^JcSef of M^ 'tovpik ?¥l«h of d. I knqw tjiie prlaBiicij' J(ohn'A. I arrsstsid munroji^pn^rince treet. sn.d(to^ ^im to iU|^V* o^e iliM Jttto<^4!^V I foi^d iim ^sft's on, Trfnce \ViI||»iii Surset ^ _.. ^Uhert^s ojB(i,oe that geppeihsn told Una ha waa updt^ th,e charge (4 t|»a Chief af rouse aiyl he must keep his pw|i ^an« mL I than tpojc him to the offoe of t)ie CJMsf^ f^Uce^and he undertook to sx* i)i|i^ juattan tp us. T WSN thin heec; ««- Iiei ttwe « JnUge. ATtridge* Mouroe. tb« piB* *he mm tiseliat it ft sise A tingle tot ftboot Wftt a ■ •ew,, ftnd odordiBg p^ltbof I John A* ^uitiitol^, , r^e CMef I knpi oQan'> loe of t|>e ' to •»• To this Mr. Tbooiton objected tbet it "nriM incooipeteot to bring forward any* thing eeid by the pritoner. Tbit had beea laid down, end eueh evidence wai rout enttom iMed in Um mittinf law of placing a |Mrty in tbt dock awl ekwiag bis moHtb, and taid thai to long aa it existed the party thould be (aardad by the excliiuon of a eonfettioii made by hioii withovt a ttrong waraiaf that kia etaternent would be uttd agtinel him. Hie Heaor taid he did mot think the role of the aotboriUea want aa iitr aa ataft- cd by Mm* Tkomton,and atting tmml>eo- maa'a oates in Arebibald^a rapartt thowed thai where a Irarning wee given and no indueeoMni htid out tba ittataaient made by (be priaonet ma admittible; and an in tbia otaa no aneh.iadatamaDt ap^ca, and tha priaoMr i«aa samad l» k«^ hi«,awa.cai>iif«l»tba.alal«msiBiiMAl af witaaat wat tdrnMbluM aivUaMKo ' • Mcv^lbaBMosatlBtd to-iMva^ *^F^ tio» taken, tbal no vtfifm mafJingTiad been glvMk by tha lUiiilrala. - The witoeta waa aUtvad to f*^«B «ith hit ttatemant.l ■ ai.^ ns^.t -»<•.■ Witaett: Whea tkvOhiaf «f Ifea Oitf Tolite aaMl I broudbft tka Britinarbafbta tlia Police lla||iairtla^ I taid, **TUt U\ Mr. Manroe, sir/' Mr. Gilbert then said to the pritoner that from the talk nut-door it wat thought proper to have htm arretted, and he must oon«tder him- self under arrest. It waa his duty to warn him to keep his own cottnael, as anything he laid might be turned agftiest him at a future day. The chief and I then took prisoner up to Mr. Mirshall't room, upstairs. We sa^ down there, the three of ut. Mr. Manroe then tamed to Mr. Marthall and taid, "I wtt flrtt in- trodueed to thit j^irl in Carleton.'^ Tbit wae the firtt word ipokea. I did not know the prisoner till I arretted bimk I then said to the prisoner n(^ to tell any- thing about it, at we might be brought on the ttand. He taid he did not care ; if he was brought on the ttand himself, he would tell &e tamoi at he would tell them. Mr. Thomson then asked if Mr. Mar- shill ioterpoted the same Earning. W!t. : Mr. Marshall did not caution him at the moment, but afWwards he did once or twice say, "John, be cautious." Ho then said '*he was introduced to this girl first in Oarle^on ; that be had wont to see the girl many a Ume, and she had a child. He said the bad some property that was left to her hy bet father ; and she bad told him several timea that she would sell it ; that hor rea- sons for selling it was on aooouot of dis- oasd among the fiuaily ; that be adfised her not tusolTit. He had aneertaipea that she had sold it to a man named Sttlehale. He said last Fall be was going away on a little tour to Boston with some genUemea from the city, partly on business and pardj on pleasure ; that the day before be left cX think he said Sunday) be went to-aeeber, and she insisted on going withhfm; be to i' her not, and on her aMCUBg thereaioa; he .^id he was going along witn some gen> tl«imen,and didnotwanther togo with mm. that Miss Vail told him then that ahe did not want bim to haveamr eaia of her, onlf to fcaap an aye la bea aad her tronks ttbi(a onboard; aba did go in the boat, and ybiipk ttw got MBir^^oriaSQstmi, idle apked %ft where Of Oomwa w ia l Bfo faM waa, aa aba wanydlDip therav He told bepr thai It w3 bn^ a aaaoii^ daas hotel She toM^^ she 6tp#otad to meat a aiaa tber^. i^ fk» going to marry bar. Re said na wentio ^ CkmuiMreial Kbtel, I think ba taid he and bfs eompany went to tba AawritaaHdiMB. Theatalday he irei» toawkM'.aiiiBhaiM hfil Ae kad nob thapaiMiiriMiBipaelei to tm. Ito 68 Tits TftlAL. n*xt day he went lo sea y»«r Agnirv ; an* sbe BtiU bud not seen the iMr. »fae «ipect- ed. She .said 8he wouki so back to8t. John again. He told her that he would loavc the next morning tor New York, and that he was coming back by rail, that htt would not go down by boat. W hen he gat b^k to Portland be mvw her there on the boat, ki^ aaid while on the way to 8t. John it blow v^ry hard, and he did not seo b^ much oq deck. When near ttoint John, she asked hini to get a coacb for her ; he did so, and on the Way to the American House, she asked him how far it was to Collins':'., as she wanted to go o4t there. He told her it was Irom tv«lve to fifteen miles, and he uromised to drivei her out. Ue said he aid drive her out. ^Uter they drove oat a piece on tb« road pofit Sucker's, he took ber and the child out of the ouaoh, and they walked on, and sent the coach back to Bunker's. Aiter tbey gul on a piece she went ahead, and after awhile came back again and said the parlies whre not at htfme she expected to see. He aaid they then walk^ back to Bunker's, and took the coach and came home ; that the under- standing between bim and her wa» that thty ^ould gp out aniin ; they did go out a secqod time. He said th{|t in going but sh^ complained ot being at Mra. Lordly %; that she did not like Mrs. Lordly. Be named some other hoUJs, and the coachman took them to the Union Hotel, Iq tJnion Street. Be left her jiitte. Ilie second time tiiey went out ne turned the coach back at the samu olace h9 did the first time. She walk- ed on ahead again. She cem^ back and ta)d him the parties wer^ home that she waoted to siM, and fot him to see about hto trunks m Miuumy's boat ; that on Monday morning ho wim at the boat and pal hit trunks en boiMnd ; that he said BoaothiOff aboat thotiokets, bat I do oot rOMenber what ; that be bad a oboaoe to sfo bar just monlf oo tbe boot iras east, iiif off, and only had tlmo to ababi btoda nlHi b#ff* Ho ioitttioaod Oimo ^r t«HM tbbn tbo flfl*t uvUm vae Iftoo y*^ Ho ■iMiiie^od sovotbttg abMt a fottar, but r#ii not bb boaitii^ wbu it wai. At t^ doif tbo SherUr and m» Potter eanio ioitf ibo olRoo wbero vo wore. H« aaid tb^, coaebman broogbt tbp tranka to tbo bea^, and bo pot tbon oa board. I do nak remombor aia meattooiog the «lirao> tian aa«o ol Mlao Vaik Mr* MaraboU iaiorvoaod onoo or twlo^ m^n^u **M» Mrefal, John." He ioterpoaed iomedi- ately after ho bPf^nn to tril hii* story. He' «ddretii><>d his conversation tn Mr. Marn •hall. When I arretted iiim, ho said to me ia Mr. CrafiV, you are not to expose* him, and I told him to go niong to the Police Office. Mr. Marshall was ahead of Monroe st tho time. The Sheriff went with mn and retomed as fur as the Impe^ rial Buildings. 'Ihio was in SeptOnber. I have been twice on the ftroundc, on e with the Coroner, Dr. Christie, Mr. Pow« ers»aqd Mr. Armstronor of the Olobe,%nd once siooe. I am p«^rfectly acquainted with the road; r him (bt be lall af- kboiit • •ft bad I lltree^ be gir remem .11 1 te- I d :«d wt •rebel eb»u Mar «lthr leui it Mpm* «r^f«e( i«ret did eo. tekiag I do not Mid do It. It 'wtTMiathaKoea^cad oo eonvamatton leai f^aiog on at the tioe. i hmfv paid that Mr. Mershall did toocb my ftmt, bat I did not take it to b<9 aif a sign to stop. i dn not tbink Mr- Marshall knew wh«n he did it. I have been out on the ground simse the leaven foil. I noMced that Btandiogon the flit stofte ih« Black River Koad conld be seen at f*ome point*. 1 ooali aee a man aft'insr it) a wasron about the enJ of the path, but not iha wngon. Further on, on the rise toward* CoMin«\ I Ctfttld see a man tjuite clearly. Tnere was water on the ground at the la^jt oc> casion. I tjoufd aee old Mr. Munroe, who was standinfT -on the road toirwds finnlrrrV The place i« much ohanjred aince I saw it first. If I was gning to commit a murder t do nr.t think, know- ing the eround ns I dck 1 could eee "only the lop of the man''* hat in trie wagon on the road. The trees are spruce and oldens:; moat of the alder leaves ar** off before the l*iot November^ Mr. Munroe was the first to apeak about tt>e letter, and Mr. Marshall replied, saying it would be very material. I underatood ihe leit«t was from a girl, and I supposed it was from the girl he was speaking of. I think the difference in ihe height of the ground around ihe rock has beeti caueed by the oxoessive tramping, and would make the difference of the third of a man standing on the road. Before -it was tramped the differ- ence would not be so great It a man stood inside tiie rock towards the Black River Road he *ou!d be hid tt6m every point on tb« road, even if standing cioee by it. H. w. diiSHOLM, sworn. Examiiud by Mr. 'fuck . 1 am Ageni tor the Intvraational Sltam- •bip GamoMSr* I hava bean in- tbnyr «mr> plojr fbr five orsix years. Th* steama^s rno from S'.. J^hn to Kastport, Portland and Boston. The H«suni Agnit it W^. H. Kilby. The first intiirtaiinn f Had «>f a trank was bf a tele)^a'A from W. H^ Kilby. I received n trunk from John S Ha\1, mate of the steamer New Ynrk, oa the evening of the Ist October, 1869. I made an inventovv of the contents of thinc Wharf. There was anotii«)r trunk inside the larire one, and a blaek iiarasul, and a saiaU black button without an eye* i marked every article with the C;* "** sump^ Xhe&uoall trunk coatiuaed two thiuble«,one without a tup ; two hidcory uatii^ one sp )ol white cotton No- 60, one small ompty scditt bottle part of a black lace veil,one hhir net. one black fancy button, one child's grey jacket, one lot of papers, due NY. .Uemcr, Sept. 26, 1S68 : one Chimney C^m^, Oct. 17, 1868, one Street & Smith's iVeu? York Wceklij, Oct. 23, 1868. one SaturdAif Night, Oct. 17, 1868, one Harper's Weekly, Oct. 17, i86tJ, Mrs. Winslow'p Domestic Keceipo R >ok for 1862, 1866. 1867; one book "Snow Bird, or the Tnvpper's Child;" a child's drab coburg dress; one pair white rib- bed cotton Btockin^s: one bundle whito cotton cloths.one ehdd^a plain white cotton petticoat with insertion ; (wo child's plain white cotton shirts ; (me white cotton do., with crochet work round the neck and sleeves ; one child's pin-atbre, with white buttons : one child's drab coburi^ dress, with trimming in front, and round the bottom and sleeves, b3und round the birttom with blaok braid ; one child 'a white cotton nightgown ; throe pairschild's wool- len socks; two pairs do., striped red and white ; one pair do., dark red with wbito spots, tied around with a woman's white ooUar, (juito narrow; one pairohild's white outtK) sucks : ono pair weauui's drawers with inaortionnearbuttomiooewomaniaun- Uaached oottoo8kirt,with two po(*^«t(iiin it; one woman's white cotton undendurt^witb deep embcuidary round the bot|omj one row of insertion juat abo?e the embroidery , all the way rouiw, r.aee>— about twenty-four wiles from here. Cross examined by Mr. Thrnnawn. I never smelled the smell ot a skunk, or never smelled anything like that smell be' fore. It was a very bad smell. To the Attorney General ; — I never smeU led anything like it before. MARY rOBTKB, SWOm. Eaamnedl^ Mr. Tvck. 1 live on the BUck River Road, at Col- linsville. I am married i my husbend'e name n Alfred '\*Orter.( I have two sons, ./ohn and Williams. I don't know exactly how far it it. from Collins' ; it is the next house, a little further out, next lot. I know Uie place where these remains were found. I think I remember the months of Oetober and November, 1868. We were living there at the tane. Netrer knew a woman and child named Clarke or Vail ; never saw a siraage person at our houne to enquire the way cr anything else.. I re- member being home Htliow Eve. Was home next day, Sunday, only while to meet- ing up at Willow Orove in the afternoon with my husband I» the evening we se- turned, after taking tea. I visited the piece where those remaioe were found the very day, with Miss Colhns.. We met the white and colored folks coning away, and Mr. (Jrozier and William l>Ougla» went baclc with us ; saw • few bones and rags ; saw the skull ; there was another bone lying convenient to where the skull wa«. L stopped a short time and returned. I mean the very day the remains were found —that was the first time I knew anything; about it. Crots-esamined hy Mr. Thomson :. Q. — What month waa that, Mrs. Forter,. K }ou please i A.— I don't remember the month. Q. — Then you are quite as unable to state where you were the Slat October, 1808 ? A.- 1 very aeldom went from home on 8aturd»y. Do not recollect the day, but I think I was home in the evening. lOUK FOAVBH, swore. Examined by Mr. Tuck. 1 live Qn the Blsok Kiver Road. Rhi^ntt two miles from Mr. Bunker's. I am ti r. of Alfred Porter. Have lived there > r> ut three years; wss living there in Ocw.jcr fuvtuiAfi: If t* state . 18G8 i i« on r» but L .r» ■•at «ttd Kov«B«>«r, 18«8^ I ivi« «l Mr; OM- liM en fbllotv Ev« Of 1868. Went thet* about arren ifnd came aiwaj abottl ilia* ; vitut home all day. I «Ud not know a wo* man named Clarke or Vail ; saw no aveh ptraon at our hoixw or in tlia naighborhpod nor heard tjell of any »nch woman or obUd. Know where tbea? remains wera foond ; passed ttife place this morning ; visited the plaoe once since the remains ware found ; saw a skull tuxd some hair, some small re- mains of boners and olotbing. JPeteeived no smell there this yfur. Crots-exumined by Mr. Thomson : I have pfvssed there as much as onee a week all summer tind never perceived any smell . I recullect of beins home on Hal- low Ete. Heinember of being up to Mt. Collins* in the evening, and the work I ^ia at in the dar time, that is the #a]r I re- member it* I c)uld not say whether h was raining the week before. I retnem^r I waa hanling] black mud, and it waa -rainiBir I that b one way I came to remember it ; can not sajr how the roaila were. 1 wita sub- poenaed yesterday : the anbpocnh Iras left at the bouse ; I wss in the wooda ; I knew what I had to give evidence of. Q.—Who told you ? No answer. Q.— Did tne person who had aubpoDt^aed you tell you whut you waa wished to prove? No answer. >.•!.., Q.— Have you any reason for not telUng me } if you have, I will not press you i No answer. AvTORMBY Q EM BBAL.— (Watson, police- man, oalled.)— Is that the man who served you with the aubp^aa ? Wit. — I was ID the woods when he came, I have not been told what I was to swear to. WILLIAM PORTCB, awom. Examined by Mr. Tuck : I live on the Black Kiver Road, and am a brother of the last witness ; live about two miles beyohd BUnkerS ; have lived there three years'. I know the plaoe where these remains were found ; was livtng there in Octobtrv 1S63. I don't remember Hal- low Eve ntfiht, but think I was at honie in Ourober and November of 1808. I did not know a woman and child named Clarke or Tail, and did not know of any aush parson being at our house, ur in tbe nf>gbb<)rh<)od. No strailge woiuan or child was at ear bouse or in that neigriborbeoti in that fall. 0»M-€xainineiby Mf. Utomtom Have passed the plate where the remains were found ; never perceived a amell (bare. 1 4Mi^ t«iea*« wf Muf < anyttae; peflMp»tev«teenafvnyBmdays to MMeting, bnt a*! on weak daya. At that ttaae I had no bMlaaaa n> uhe me away. I do net ahoot or flab asveii. I think we had some showers of rain iu the fall of 1868, but • don't remember mneh aNout it. Don't re- member the 31st of October more than I do any oth«r day. THOXAS STUART, SWOm. Examined &y Mr. 2uek : I live on Blaok RivMr Road ; know where Mr. CoUina livea ; i live about a mile from there. Mr. Porter, livea next to CoUina', then Robert Moore, then Connolly, aqd then Mrs. Stuart, my mother ; then Tom. Ddlin, and then I live nelt. I don't ex- actly remember Hallow Eve of 1868, but I i»aa home that day and evening. There was no atrange woman or child oaroe to our bonae at that time, nor no woman and child named Clarke, or Yail ; never knew any peraona of that name to be ibout that neighborhood any where. Cross-exmnkted kg Mr. Thommti : Don't remember the Friday befere Hal- low Bve. I remember the Sunday follow- ing, beoatue it waa the day following Hal- low Bve. I waa in the houae at that time - The doctor «aa attending me ; I had been In the bonae back and forward aix montba before that. I koosr I waa brought in to awaar all 1 couM, but it ia nothing at all. I waa brought in to aw^ar that I luui seen nothing of a woman and child oat there. Never perceived any smell around the place where the remains were found. WILLIAM OARKSTT, SWOm. Examimdby Mr. Tuck: I live at a place called, Bloomsbury Settle- ment ; some call it Oarnett 8ettlement,about two and three-quarter miles trom Bunker's. Sir. Porter livea next ; Boss Metre lives next. You can see one house from the other. Henry Connolly liveA next. You can set all these houses ; it is a settlement. John Connolly livea next, and I live next to him : was living there ia the months of October and November, 1858. Z don't re- member the Hallow Eve of tnat year. ('' I don't hold that up much") I was at home all the time. Did not see a strange woman and child in that neighbourhood. Did not know a woman and obild named Clarke or Vail, nor nevev beard of th«n \ do hot know exactly the phiee where the remaina were found. (Jron examinti hff Mr. Thomson : I WRH hotna nil the tiaaonbout that timet I mw siok : ovtaoi say whether I was Mot| ^ mikssBAi^. ■qf oouMin «to|>ii triM jii«« I buvo poHMd along (be JU«6kIU«er Hoad to Bunker'ft; oaonai MY ^w many fciuM : always watic- •daloDie; never ameUed anytliing there. <( Se'taeamintd by Attorney Gtmral i Q.— Did you (deep ap Ktain or down when yoQ were aiok? A— 1 have no up stairs to my house, sir, so I muat have ^lept down stain. THOMAS DALLIN, SWOEN. I live tbxee and three- quarter m ile« from Mr. Bunker's, in Uie Garoett SettleuieDt ; Mr. Wu. Gamett lives next to me, close by ; 1 live about a quarter of a mi|^ irom Bou Moore's. John CunaoUy lives next to ne, towards Bunkw's, lleury Connolly lives next, Boae Moore next, Mr. Alfred Porter next, and Collins lives next. [ Wit- ness abowed signs of fainting, and was re- moved to the open air. Court delayed come time, but the witness being reported nob likely to be able to eomelbrward the Court proceeded.] . i^iw \au Ooutii •■OROf CAVMETt, SWOKN. JSSraimraed by lA*. Thick : la ' I Ivfe BSav to the Gamett Settlement, mine is the last house in the Settlement ; it is over three milen from' ray house to Bunker's ; have lived there about twenty- one yearn. It is all cleared from where I live to Bo6s Moore's, but a small patch of woods about 50 acres. Could not swear whether I was home in October ot 1868, as 1 am a great hand ior fishing and fowling, I was in the country at the time, but was home nights. There was no Htrange wo- man ur child in the neighborhood about that time nor since; no woiniin named Clarke, or Vail, were there ; never heard of such a woman until the commencement oi' this trial. Gross examined by Mr. TJtoinson : Have not been home much this summer ; never perceived any smell in passing along the Black River Road. Re examinadby Altomty General: Don't remember Hallow Eve, of 1868. It is no use 6f me saying what t don't know. snaAW LAifB, (colored) sworn. Ezumined ty Ur. Tuck : I Itveat Wulow Grove; was berrying in 8?i>t«ssb«r of this year. Htnry Brsndjr, liRotg* Diftgs. and my sitter J mima war ^ m itb me ( it was near the Bteqk River Road. I BAw a head bone, a rib bone, and some clothes. Martha Thompson saw them first The head bone was lying right by a rock. 4I never touched them. Me and my sister AminuU ••< M«rtha Thompson. wtnlttVere the next dftf to^shewmy tathtr, GwuX^nSt the remains. I bsvav went any aaore. oaonvB ivtrmiAT, sworn. ' JSxnmined by JW-. Thick; ' ' 1 live on ' Brittaia street in this oity ; know the priiohet, hud hfive UrtoWn him about Wo at three yeSrs ; know the Bruns- wick Hotel, was there l/utt Fall. A year ago when I was in there, the dcor bell rang. I opened the door, and Munr«>e. (the prison- er) stood there. H« handed me a pMoel and asked me if I would ^ive it to the wo- man up. ataivs Qe said what her name waa. but I don't remember it. 1 gf ve it to her : she had a baby. She openttd (he par- eel.and gave me a stick of candy out of it. aod ^Bve ^he baby one tojs. 1 then went out whers li^r** Lordly waa. I never SbW the woman, before, Mr* Munroe lived in the aam^ bouse with my sister. (Mm. Beld- iqg.) He hsd a wife and two children liv- ing wi^ him ; the houae was Mrs Craw- ford's.. , 1 was i^V>^ ^J^' Munroe's part of the house pncej wpnt to the house quite often, and saw Mr^ Munroe's wifp and chil- dren. When I topk the candy up atairs at Mrs. Lordly'/i, 1 saw no one in the patlor except the one. ..,. ./ ROBEBT MOORE, SWOm. Examinei by Mr. Tuck : I live on the Mountain Road, so called, between Bunker's and Black River : it is about 2 1*4 or 2 1-2 miles from Banker's. Have been there about twelve years. We call it the Bloomsbury or Oamett Settle- ment. Was living there in October and November, 1868. Am generally at home nights. Don't know that I remember HaU low Bve particularly. There were no per- sons at our house exMpt it might be some of the neighbors. There was no woman or chi'd named Clarke or Vail there ; never heard oi such persons. CrosS'ea;amine4 by ^r. Tliomson : Don't remiemt^er where I was on the 31st of October, 1868. I have patised along the road towards Bunker's several times dur- ing this summer ; don't recollect of smelling anything psculiar there ; donU recollect about Uie weather in October. 1868. JOIUr B. MAZiSHALIi, swotn^ JBzaniined by Mr. Titek : My oeeupation is OMef of Police for the ci>7 Of St, John $ have been Chief of Police sines 1862. Have known John A. Munfoe 8 nee hie Childhood ; he has a wite and one child that I know of. He lived OQ Char- lotte Street— ^dont remsmher of his living outo< Saint Joiin. Between five and six 2M»^Riia£ called, 'er : it is unker's. 8. We Settle- Iber nnd It home Hal- xio per- be sonie omBn or ; never lihe 31st hong the )e8 dur- sOielUuR recollect lor the »f Police land one Char- liying au4L ux r 'fJqAk la tb«««i^iii9n tha Ji«t aI,A<|h 4mbet. 186&, I wnit 4owp to KLr. Qt$U'» alooD.otf FrmMWiUiam Simmi, in the ity of St. Joba. Mr. Mnffro* waa in the jar room. I told liim I .wavted to aee him for » morncnt. Ufi cf/Ht p\K of the bar room and went Itito the ^all upataira. 1 l^ld ^io) X had understood that h«* had of- fered to give himself up to the Coruotr. aiKl ^that.the Coroner waa up to tha ^otica Ma- giatrAte'a Oihce. I Mkad him if he would come up now ; I wou*d go ahead, he evuld follow on, and Jose* would follow after him. We came out and want up Prince William Street in that order, and La witnt into the Police Itagiatrata'a room, 1 waa near the door. The Magiatrate said he had i^aant for him ; circumtiaopaa were atrcing againat him. a feell it and go to the 8tates. He strongly dviscd her not to do so, as long as she had iiat she had a shelter— i place to live in ; t ahe sold it, the money Would go and aihe ■vould be thrown vpoa the' W!orld ; however he sold the property ; he said hn was 'oing on to tb« United Saates Snd ahe wanted to go with him t be tdriied her not to go ; she sail lake wanted to eeeru Who wu tb ineet' her at the CaoMMrfcial Hotel, 14 Boaton, who waa going tm matry her.^ They www onto Boaton. He aaid he would either iseet hrr there or she wonld get a letter. When they arrived in Boston he went to the Commereial Hotel with ))er and then rejoined the party he was With, and went to the American Houae. The next morning be went down to the Com- mercial Hotel to see her, snd ahe told htna that ahe had neither reoeived the latter or Been the party she expected, and that she would go back to St. John again. He anid he was going on to New York and would bis gone n few days, and he intended to join the steamer on bia return at Porthind. J don't reeoileot ifaac he named the day. — She said she would go on board the ateamer at Boaton. He jmned the steamer at Port- land; the weather was rough, and ha did not see anything of her until they got mkr Eaatpott er St. John ; she wanted him to get her to a hotel, and he took her to the Brunswick. House. She said that she wanted to go out to Loch Lomond, on the Black River Read, te Collins', to see a man there who waa going to marry her — a paint- er— he did not know his name. On Mon- day he got a coetfh and went out with her ; they got out of the coach before they sot to Collins', and the coach went b with them, and they would bring her in in time for the stctimer on Monri^ty morning, and for him to make arrangements to have her luggage tak^n to ths boat. On Monday morn ng he went down there ; there was some difficulty about the Itfggage oomini; down ; it did come, and he had just time to put it on bo. seen that before;tt is lead ; it haa been mude out of a round aubatanae, [Witneaa wiahcM to explain why he thinks It waa made from a round anhstance.] Mr. Thomjon objecta aa witneaa is not akilled in such mntters. Uia Uonoa allowa Mr, Thomson'a ob- jection. Mr. TnoMtiav says thia ia a matter for the jury to fion»tder, and wishes Hia Honor to take hia objceticn. Court adjuurntd till 2 o'clock. £nminatiou of J. K. Mnrahall resttmad. OroaS'extt.iiined by Mr. Thomson : I have known prisoner Mnoehewana little boy ; he was a member ot' my ola« in the Sabbath Scnoot ; have been intimate with his family for years ; had no desire that Manroe should say anything at the PoHee OlHce, but Vroula rather he should not sa>y anytliing. 1 said to him ** you bad better not sny anything to any body." Then he wont un with his story. That is all I sMd to him. Thew) so far as I can re- member, w^Rre the identical words 1 said, and thM with an honest desire to deter him from saying an^^thing. I did not take down what he said. 1 have given the sub- stance of what he sakl as far as my me- mory went at the time. Sinoe the adjourn- ment of the Uourt I have tbongbt of some- thing else tluit occurred ; 1 have not stated the substance of all he said : I spoke on several oooasions of what be had said ; I did go down stairs and told the Police Magtstrate ptlrt of the circamatanoes. (£- Then you consider you done that as a friend^ A— Idid. Mr. TnoMt'OM.— Tb^n Ood save the poor victim who may be hereafter aubjeeted to your friendship. Q.— Did you not aay, '^ Now John, if there is any person ifr whom you aheuld have confidence, it aheuld be in me. I batfe been acquainted with you and yetnr family, and t^e whole otmnection, so long that you ought to have oonfidenee in me. Now do tell me in confideace tbe whole df this un- CM|iMltoafbir.*» 1l«# ACaO'ria.erill ye«Mt Haa that langliaite^ A.."! df d net. Q."— On tftat oeeaatod dfd yon not put out your foot to Mr. Jofiea to stop ths oonver. aation i A.— I dfd. Q.— Do yon know Joseph Potts ? A.— I do. Q — Ts ha a member of your singing olasaf A.— He is. Q.— Did yon not« at your singing blaep| or near the Centenary Charoh, te.! Potta words to that effeot f A— I did not. When the Sheriff entered, the conver- sation went on the same as It did before. It was between afx and seven o'clock. Mr, JoheS came in and eat down, and I sat dowa with him. I gaderally take my tea at six, but I had not takta tea at that time. M^ motives were frtendahip. I dfil not tell^ Munroe tlwt 1 tntended to inform the Po.- Hoe Magistrate of the cor.verMtlon. I think I told hia father that t would do all I could fot him— £ think it was the next moraini;. Inavenr»er gothold of any members of Mr. Mnm'oe's family or friends. I got all the information I eould as ttii ollleer. Q. — Did yon not, the same afternoon he was arrested, meet ofd Mr. Munroe on Ohipman's Hill, and say, •* John, I am very sorry for this unfortunate affair, but i will keep you posted up In everything. What- ever John sayato me will be in perfect con- fidence, . and no action will be taken ut>on it? A.— 1 did not u«e such words, or any thing like it. I did not put persons in the way of John Munroe's friends, to extract information from prisoner. I was put on the track J Q.— Do you or do you not, when prison- ers are in custody, endeavour to extract in- formation from them in the way of conversa- tion, and then use it against tbem after- wards? A. — 1 do not. Objected to by tbe ArroaNBT OEirza^i.. H1& HoiTOB— I eonsider it is not a proper queation. Mr. ThoUioh — I will not continue the cross examination if the objection be taken. Re-examined by Attorney General. 1 teel it to be my diity. whtn a ciime sucl^ as this, has been comffiitted in the commu- nity, to u»e my best eode&vuura to ferreli out the guilty party, and instruct my po4 licemen to do the aame, and I have dona stf in this instance. (who waa nttt able to prouted with hit ex aminatton in the toraaoon from fainting) re eailed. ->I live about a mile from Mr. Co) lias' ;^ I waa at borne a year ago last Nr vembiBr— on Hallow Eve ; was home a we> Tiltf ' tTAL. Y6 dnot. It one A.-I ft' ttt ore. It k. Mr. It dowa I at six, »e. M^ not tel^ thePo- I think I could Dornintt- fibera of got aU nr. noon he nroe o«* am fery ut l«iU What- feet con- en upon . or any of John trmation rack prison - itrabt In- IconTOTsa- jm after- a proper .inue the |>e taken. \al. Iiin\e*ucl| I comtnu- Jto ferre% It my poj done B(f kth hi* ex Inting) re Ur. Col last Sr i« a we< •Hot it I WM h«ttUnf lity off thtlowtoaa and pnttiaff it in the barn ; mw no ctrMige woman and child there abont that time, nor a woman named Clark* or Vafl. I paaied the plae* where the remalna were foand, but tkey were lifted when I piaeed by. DAVID BTUAHT. sworn* Examined by Itr. Tuck: I live at Upper Black RItct, on the Dlaek River Koad, in Oarnett Settlement; my father ia not living t my mother is aiwidow; she haa been sick. I live a Uttlo better than two milea from Oollins'i was home daring the montha of October and Norember, 1868; was home Uallow Eve night ; do no%know of n woman and child, strangers, or a wo' roan and ehild named Clarke or Vail hcriag been there, or thereabouts. Oros8-€Xanuned by Mr, Thomson : I live about ten or twenty rods from Black River ; Oarnett's Stream is the upper part of Black River. I eonld not say how many times I have been in on the Qlaok River Road this summer— ten or a doaen times I suppose ; did not perceive any smell where three remains were found. I know I 'vas home becauee 1 never was away f^om home. Re-examined by Atiotney Oeneral. From our place to Bunker's would be about two miles and three-quarters; no wo- man or ehild could have comn there with- out my knowledge, in October, 1868. DR. JAM£a cHRiaTiB, swom. Examined by Mr. luck. I am a doctor of medicine, reside ahd practice in St. John ; know Dr. Earle, the Coroner for the City and County of Saint John ; have practiced medicine thirteen years. 1 saw theoe remains on the 17th ol September Iitet— -they were human remains of an adult and child. I made an examina- tion of them ; would know them asain if they were produced ; [remains ot skull shown] that is the Bkulll examined. Cal- vin Powers was present. I examined it in the dead house. It was covered with a kind of black matter ; in scrapin,*; it with my knife, I found an opening in the left temple. Powers and I then took the skull down to the Coroner's ^ur. Barle's) office ; the Coroner then directed me to take it to my own ofBce and make a more thorough examination. I sawed the top off, in order to view the inside. I fonad that the left temple presented a nearly eirenlar opening, a little ragged at its edges, about a quar- ter ot an inch in diameter, the opening on the internal portion of the sknll the same ; the opening ialarft, tnf nvgb Mil ln*|m- lar: the edge* have been broken off; a bullet alvrays makes an opening larger than iuelf ; (akoll shown to Jury] made no fur- ther examination I waa out to where the remains were found— went ont that same afternoon. Br. iiarle, Mr. Armstrong, of the Olobe* and the Chief of Foiiee acoompany- ing me. We met Constable Powers, and. I think, Duraat. We tied our horse* and went in to the spot. I made particular aearoh, expecting to And a buUet. I found. wherel aupposed the brain had run out. a niece of the internal table o| a ahull. I also found aome fragmanta of clothing, and a piece of a aontag, under the moss. What I aupposed to he brain matter lay dose alongside the rock ; it aeetned to be nearer towards the Quaco Road ; I brought the portion of the skull home, washtd it and examined it with a magniiyiag glass and found particles of lead on it ; the particles of lead can be aeen witbont a magnifyinff glass. (Exsmioes it throngh the magnifying glass.) Xhe particles aae there still, bat ate a little tornishcd. The piece I auppose to be about a quarter of an inch in diameter. I examined the aperture in the skull «fter« wards ; you can see particles of lead on it with the naked eye. and quite di»tiootly with a magnifying glass ; 1 came to the conclusion that tha aperture was made with a piatol bullet ; a 3- 16th inch bullet would produce a hole of that size. I made aome experiments on a skull in the office. Q —What were they ? Objected by Mr. Thomson. Hit UoKOB —I think it is quite admis< Bible. WiTNKse — ^The experiment was upon an > other skull with a pistol carrying whs; they call a 22 cartridge— I think Smit), & Wesson's. [Cartridge ahown ] It wa i tho same size precisely as tbAt. I took •■>■ skull and filled it with water, and cot ered it with a mu.scular tissue, and the standing off about two feet I fired the pistol so as it would discharge in about the sam place as this apertare ia toond, then trie other experiments with the water and tis sue. in the first .two experiments tb opening was exactly the same as this, onl • going cbroiigh one side ; in the other ex periment on an empty bare skull the bulle went throngh both sides and mashed th skoD agodd dmil. More tlian tlkdy fron. a shot ilred as this most have been, deat>. would be instantaneous. I apprehend tlia death in this instance has been aiidden, be- cause the meninein artery has been severed; I gave lAie age of the person, before I kneiff ff j^g^ TH^. MUrtUMLfbout who she was, to Jb« from "VWWWyTOtweiity fl?e T. fudged from the teeth and the acut«nem ot tho ridges in the skali There was one tooth extracted, it iDUHt have been extracted some time alto. I could not tell by the HkuU tho mx of tne person. One of the fVont teeth is longer, over-lappin;? the othvr. aD the upper teeth are peculiar. The bones were very much mut!Iate(|, they bear evidence of be^ ing gnawed by animalH. TbeDrstuppet- molar on the uppbr jaw is a little decay- ed; there is nothing very unusual in the front tootli over-lapping. 1 fouAd par- ticles of lead upon the skull upon whioh I experimented, much the same, only ap- parently mere, beoauae of being freiBh. I lound a child's tooth (Tooth produced ) 1 should say it was an anterior upper molai* The tooth would indicate the nge of the child provided it had been cut through the gum ; the enamel upon the tooth is net complete, therefore 1 would think it had not been out. About twetvto or fourteen months is tb« URual age for children to cut their molar teeth. ^VTit* nesReatamines tooth.] The enamel is im- perfect. 1 saw other remahra of a child there ; saw at^llar bone of a child. (Frag- luentHof a child's bones shown.) There n-e some iVagmcnts here which 1 think 1 picked up mj'self There is a piece of the outer table of the ofaild's skull torn out, bus my impression is, that it has l)ecn done by some auimars teeth, it is only external. 1 made no discovery by which 1 could dis- tinguish the sex of the child (Witness examines the large hone ) Alter examina- tion of that large skull I have concluded that death has been occasioned by severing of tlie miniogin artery. fh'oss-excHnined by Mr. Thomaon, I have neyer made any examioaticm of caseH where individuals have .d^ed Irom shooting, my experience of such ca.<;e8 has been limited. It is a scientific fact that >vatcr resists in a great degree. I am perfectly satisfied that with a skull filled with water and the experiment tried a» it was in my office, there would not be 80 4'cat a resistance to the pistol ball as there would if thK. perron were either living or dead, and the skttll covered and filled as it would be in such a case ; t did not fire the shot myself in t^e experiment* it was done under my direction My opieioo, based upon expeneoce and the principle* laid down |o *< Hamilton on Military sur- gery," is that a pistol ball fired at a livinx person's sktill, would not gc througli both th^ bcaia. If tha bedy had lai». there from October. 1868, it wooU cerisioly deooui- posc by June laat. Re-eMOTnintd by Attorney General, There is no dout>t but thu Hkuil of a liv- iuR person would offsr a greater re«ii>taocc to a piHtol ball than n skull tilled with wb- taf. There is nothing very remarkable about the tooth which overlap*— there are many auoh { I see a person in front of me there now who has just aach.an one. In this ea«« the tooth overlaps to the rights that is only peculiar in ^his partieular case, because there might be another of exactly the si^ne peoulltrity. Deoompo«ition would oertaji^y take plaeo by June, perhaps be- fore ; deoompoeitioa had not taken place fully in the skull; there was-snmeof it I cleaned off; the brain waa v^ry offensive at that time. The body ha* been eaten up becauHo the bones w^te eaten. If the body had been buried there under the moss, in Oetober, 18C8, and never been diaturbed until the time the remainn were found, thdtfe would certainly be the decomposed matter remHlning. LbB. BorsvoRB. M. D., sworn, Exanmud^y Mr. T^k. My profession is medicine ; praotloe in St. John ; have been practininR 34 yaarR. ibkull shown.) Saw that skull before in )octor Christie's office ; my curiosity broueht me there , the top of the »kull was not off at that time ; the hole was of hucU a nature, as at once to cause me to conclude that it was made with a substance such Ki a ball might make, oraouie other projctilc ; so much so that it was thought that the the ' particles of substance might be in it. There was decomposed matter in the skull : it was washed out, but nothing of the kind was found : I could not find any mark denoting that the substance had struck the opposite 4ide : this was about the middle of Septem- ber last. A few days after I examined the openins with a microscope ; also a small piece of bone which Dr. Christie showed me. [Pieces of bone shawn.] Thit looks like the piece I then saw; upon whioh I saw the marks which a small scraping of Imd would occasion. 1 looked at the opening h»the skull, and was puzK iug mvt«eU where the subsunce .might be found. I examined the aperture and found, as now appears, that the ball had passed through the skuli, passing tlirougb ;he table and lodged inside in the braio. i^y c^iniun is this, that a wound occasioned with a projectile such as mtt9t have.passed through the ikuU, as this appears, would cause instantaneous death. iabl«s of the ukuU, but would lodge in the I conclude that iti» the skull of an adult. Tl« TRIAL. 774 ft from dtOOMl- 4 • Uf • nUUocc villi WB- tarkable lere at* It ot mc Dltt. Iti e nght— Ur ckte, •xactly >n would cen place Be of it I rensiTe at eaten up the body I moss, tn duturbed u found, compofeed om, praotlM iti 34 yaars. i before in curiosity okull was as of such conulude !e Hucb a« irpj- ctilc ; that the it. There ill : it was kind was denoting oppoaite jf Septem- hinined the ieo a small towed me, |ook» like oh I aaw^ g of le^d opening nelf where examined appeara, tbo akul'i Led inaide |i», that a |^U, as thlB sua death, fatt adult. It htm M the teeth ; thert Is oa« tooth mh- dHit en the left lowet taw ; the teeth are a tine ser. and rfnarkabfy eound for a person over 30 years of age. I don't eare about say- iPff a#ythinK about the age, a^ 1 have never irivcn thot considemlion to teeth, which ts demnnded to poM an opinion in nuch a matter : there ki notbhfif peoolint 6fyt\xt the teeth, only they are not resulnr : one Inpfi ofer ttie other, and oqe touth In a Ht- tlo larger than the others. Court A^^ourued till ^i^y . ^imif*^* lOo'dock. ..... v.,oik wanting t it U the wiadoa toatft on the left akie. The tetlh mm Irraffvlar, ana the left frontal incisor is loiuer and wider than the rigbtf and orer laps u. It would beaflM«nsei identileatlMi, to those who were fsmtliarly acgualAted, l^ut woa^ not be ordinarily noticed. 'j. , i . • Mk TaoMaoM obieets to t|ie first part' df this Biis#erii His HoNoa allowa it^ lttb|)«et to Mr. Thomson's objection. Wtmaae.— Most persons would ttc>« no* tiee It at all. I observe thai the teeth Mii extra good. I cannot eay as to the age. further than be or she is over twenty, and might be ilnder thirty or forty— it iprould be hard to say. fOhUd's tooth shown.) I bhouid say that was a nMsr tooth of a chikl ; the age would de|^d materiatty upon whether It was a first or second molar toptb. I should say* from observation b}> the naked eye, that the uMh had not been cat t the^ are aa roota formed, antf is Ma perfectly dovelopefi. It we«M he ttnsafb to state wlHHr age Hm ehlM waa. Ohm aam i riwi d fy Jlir. T< M na i i« It«Mylfs9««r twale* mMuu; if Hii the iMtt molar il wotrt4 i»lMi mmttla, that # a dentlsi and have praetised IS yeats. (Bknll- shows). The third mola* or wisdom tooth of the left eMs ia gone. TlM teeth olherwise ai% good, except a little irregolarity. TIm right eeatval Ineinor of tlte upper jaw overlapo the right lateral. Wilaeee oon^oting btameirsatd, 1 think U U the aeeond molar tha« wee . eztvaeied and net thielhird aa I al Aral sqipooM. I did net observe ilie spioe between thfae two teaih «» flMt. It U haid to eay . The een* tval inoioers ef the vpper Jaw aio Isrf^ and tha left lateral is hnrger thsa «lm oas#aspond« ing tooth on Iha wdwfr side. Theae lonf aea u s t aaa e d » aeeing the tooth mifht oh^ serve tMa. I ha«e, however, oMs eeoa somethmf ehnllae. fOhildl tooth 8hawn>> ThiBt I ahonld sappose to be the firet or second aalrir of a child. From the siae of it I should Jttdge il to be the first awhur, I shovid iMah it had not been oat thnwgh the ^pna. The ensBMl is Imporf ect and fho root is nol perfectly farmed. Cthilflrea -vkt their teeth atdiie^nt ages. They vary so moeh that ills impassible to uH--<«saaily that slMuldnoihe ewt befwe hr«m 12 'o 14 or Ifi nMdthm Fbam my owo egcpc-^nt* I eanaoi ttH what the age ef dm ehihV mi|ht bd whea the tooth waa in that ecmdi* tiott, naeei h i> i M fi mira a m d or eeeH e«o in tMa elalak f jidgo to — l ie aapsaemip of the tattit that H hid ammr bami enipied and dmt aa the Mbth ia ueimlly erupted at from It^M 14 m«iith% I jmdgmthat#M AiM amei haeo been of ttmt aga« T^ereiaaa Ihudi varhMlon id thoiimt «f getting thsean teaih yott mnwot teH hteaaataly. 1'0 Mr-'Tuaiiina^i^irha mutptiim with |w*«o «Mh U «■« they ahMUd be Mfm^r :-n4 v'9>rvbiM|i-wMi«ities«: isiswdSK -iiiiai HB |a Tl|J!TK|A[^ ot think that the «qamel.7r0uld he thus in. ured bjr expfwttirk to the WMther for a ear. Thia tooth' ii not netrty perfect. I coald tiot a4y iti point of time hOw far ^hia tooth ia fitim perfeetloin. 1 vLuuld aay ^rom three to foor monthp or more, pro. bAbly from three to six mofitha. I have aeen the Jawt and teeth of a child which dif>d before the teeth irere erupted but 1 haTe not made any particular ejumina- tion. To ATtY. OwKr-^When children out their fk-ont teeth at an earljr f ge, I hare obeerved that libey generally etit the molar teeth early •Uo. M-'tV otBira B^ itaxs. i'fciliiftj^1byiician,atiddiBati««i; I baye prao- ticiBd dentUtrr. pbi ponda iteeet prfoieely with the wiadom tooth Jon the oppoaite. aide--the ahape of tho enapt. AU the four wiadom teeth are atUl in the jmt. The formation of the teeth ie ireryiAno. The inegnlari- ty in the front teeth ia verr pleaaing, would i^ve ft pleaaing expr eaaion to the fc»- turee : tomethiag not to be fo tgett a n by frienda bnt may not bo notiead by atrangare. The {wfaaeipei irregularity ia that tlw ttont central inoiaor laps DTor tke right lateral. (CaiilM'a •'^^tk ehown)t I ahonld eali tbk an ur .: ^veloped ^ild% tooth, not erupted. I ahoikiaiinppoae lyinir • oontidaafthle. time under hard oeilnlaK tiamMo in the ^ild'a monthk It w witbont any denbit a fltat molar of the lower jaw. I ipeali ftun my own obaervation. Tho roota are aoareely developed enoni^v Still l^ndge it to be of the lowaf jaw. I aho«M say the ohild in whoia jatt thia teoth «aa« wae eonaidarab^ tmder a year, bntihere ia.no miti*- k it tibia ftrat tootii to heieemtdin thovhend and the emb iy e tiaj m tn iMMgiim to to||iinad«n tAw a*veiMii>^wMho»'th»bM||! o« enrtby form- ation biM>the|eimbefia»^ befermedi I aho^d nay on om Aveafe that a tooth in thia atato would axtac in n child nine or tan aonChaold. I have aeen thia tooth in a jhild seven numtha old and have out down to U( bm dian it waa thsoni^ tMgh oallnUr tunprn It moold tvaMga aho«t the !B(Uck Biver Road, PMC the Forkp aacl go on ^?nuda Bonher^a. I pon*t know who be waa. Cross-examiit«d by Mr. thofMom, I saw the ooaekiuni aff the mad np to Bftnkflv's. X fla»' t tap iwbether it mm the day I had aw^gpoM a»^ horM aack falMycet; I saw thaman iwalhittg op the Bhnk ftiver Bflftd. as 1 wnmk down near the finrlrn mm! looking annnd aflerwards saw him mlk tawartb Banker 'a. It might have been tan or twelve mr fifteen, minutes fromlbe tine I saw the ogaob drive into Bonkar's uatU I mm tha omb on the Black Rinw Boad. TB!i TRIAL. 7» Utter lentUt i\ with (. Mr. I MUnea ilit i» ry thin ft ebild th« old rheex- nftddlt reinark- intpt to I exeep* I might Fonrteen cut e«r- ItttMMl iMwere foanda n a flat ladbeen ^Uadooia — Um«^y edabad herathe IwUre 1 way ba- t's. Mar ••"Ki Iter's. up to ibe Iblaiikat. rkiaad The ATTOEamr QmnAX* piDpond tr> oaU Mn^ OUve.tG atab tba tiaa a4 wbkh aha mve SaTHJi MvfiMat T#U the patttroof the »kjrt to, Mr. TboiaMOotuaaM. Zha Judge would admit ti|e evideooe, but the Attorney ueneial dooided be would not rec^U h^fr. Ibe r's Was seot o^i by the^QwwHf f Dr. IM^. totbeplaoe when th« ti^maina were eakl to be.aiidiuiderthedfieeJIuoiieoftheCoca- ner, who allerwude ofme^ pn the fiA uda^ he gathered up iraai h« saw of the levMiaa. Be identified what ha lound-^e sknll, hragveote of tbe bonee. portiona of a bkisk dress wUh fiona of the b«f nt •M ofjesfiuit* ened, ine hair, udideatifled,(besa artielee. Mr. TboiiMK>n had the bait la hia poesMsioo tor a Ume. It is not exacU v m the eame state The water-fi^l is opened put a litda, and it looks as if some Iqcks hi^l been rat off. I do liok tew«9f thai ainy was cut off. He also ideHtifled toe fraffmentfi of the^ wo- man's sa^net the ohild^ scwk. tbe piepaa of the cbild^s skull broogbt in by Mr. MarOh, the child's hair» peB of which Mr. Knowles gave him. bones brought in by Mr March, parts of the wnAaii's atxaw bat, the ohiia*8 shoe and sffiikingt portions o( womao'iiaQ^a(ihild'a«ti(Ieraoaimt. The greater part hb tnbbght in hlmselt. Ua could not tell exactly who had given him the others. (Ha fadl «Bowad what be ga- thered and whft others ha4 afterwwda brought to him and tbe ocproner to bt all mi^^ np sothatha«(»a|4 not popitively identity many* of the imaUer at-tidea^ Mr. Morrison gave him two buttons, ana Mr. Wilson gave MttaaoHfaerbntton. Tbe top of the wonan^a st ae kieg was broagbt in by Mr, Mecoh. iPortiaiia of tviauaiiig witnese gatborad op and flmgaients of a pink apron. \)tk)fr|Mriionf wei« bveogbt u ^ other |iarttea. Witnesi braugbt w^ nuuPa fieriw aiillaff aad «hi|d** aontu. There Is « bntMb on th* diikl^k aentMr. This aoTMepaniblwiib a bUttoa %a saw aiaee which tt«Mitfihitnn»fka«9oelon —in the small trunk. (BaMMi oottpeved and ehowii to the Jttiyw Ttwy sae« exactly aUka.) WiiMisalsaitaanj#»in Mm beep akirt. BiiMaef iMfwibfaaAto^raaghft fai. Katkiiwfwaa widM tkMk<«lMf ha e«M than* ^Eha pie^t^f^tta HlntfeelMH whleh remained an tk# Aeainand irtiwuauuMraroh «nd Mt\ KiM>wles gave him portioim of the hair. Tbe seoond day. diK^in;{ town, he fbond, a footer more ui.dur the moss, tbe tsseel pf a Berlin t>ui;iag. Witness •leo found the fraEtuoniH of the em- broidered skirt and aruwors which were ■o flreqaently ident^fiod. Witneaashow- ed on Mr. Walton's plan wliere (he skull of tbe woman and otlior articlea were found- Theee articles wmn left in the dead bouse, next day woru brought inta Court, and since they liavo been kept at Dr. Earle'a, in thA trunk in whiob tbey were novr broiisht to Coii n. Tlte trunk brousbt fl'om Boston, uinl its eontent*, werekeptat Dr. Earle'n also. Mr. Thom- son was allowed to tuko uway a child's skirt Ibr a time. The child.s dress and tbe pinafore fbund in the trunk ware compared with thoMU found on the ground. Tbey appear lo bo ol the sama mrteriala, Vo XBM JuDQK— That is the trunk which was Rot to keep thr>se things in, and it was kept looked. Ouly Dr. Earle had aoc ca a to It. oBOBon jonNsoN n\RDXito. I raside at present at N^t;ro Town Point. My proteMon la tbe uioUical. I have been practising since Ibi^. 1 have seen Sarah Margaret Vail. Ti U soma time since I saw her. Some y< nt h a^o I bad a property adiolrdng Mr. Vail's, and I reaided there In wiutor Tba winter be- fbre last was the last time Iimw bar. I saw a atatement that I did < xtraot a tooth from ber, and I tried U^ niooliect. I can- not positively reooUoct, hut. I am under tbe impression Mr. TH0XS09— I ol^ocb to impressions ofthlHkind. Db. Habdino— Well. lOiUly 1 can say no more : but 1 am upder the impression that I did. Mb. TMowaoH— How dnre yba, sir, atter lalapped jrou, foreo unt thii^ stata- «Mnt oif wh^your im|[u .Mi>ilSeidly I onlly any What my inoprsasion Is. Mb. Tboxsob— We don't want your iaipreaalons. wrmaoa— THata whv wnn I snmmoned •sawltaaasataHf I hnve Bo dtotlnot raoeflaetfam of tha matter. 80 Tii£ TBIAa nKMRY OOKNOIXT. - ) Eraminedby Mr, Tuck: I live on tbe road leading to Blank Riv- er, about two and a half tmlttt from Bun- ker's. The flrst bouse ftrom Bnnker's is John CoIUns' ; tho next 1« Porter's; the next is Kosh Moore's— Robt. Moore's., I live next to Moore, the brcladth of three iitty acre lots, eaoh twerity rods Wide. My brother John and I llVeon one farm. "We divided the farm of 150 acres. He lives near me; a little Ititiq divides iut. My brothor Is now sick hnd udHble to come in. I cannot say thfiit I was at home in October or November, 18«8. I -wdfk avray fVom home a ffood deal ftt stfi]) work, at Quaco and Tynoraouth Creek. When I am working awuy from home I generally remain away throe weeks at a time. Do not remember Hallowe'en of 1B68. Have a wife and child, alittle boy. Oannot say if mv wife was at home that time. 1 do not know of a strange wo- man and child being at my houso hi Oc- tober or November, 1868. 1 did not know a woman of the name of Clarke, or a vro- man named Vail. I do not know of any such persons being brou|rhtin from thtt neighborhood in 18G8. The settlement in which I live isknownasBloomabury. My brother has been four cr five days Kick. He mav be able to come in. He is not married. My mother lives with bim. Cross examinal by Mr. jT&ontMn ; I did not say I was at work at Qiiaoo or Tynemouth Creo^ in October 18^ ; I do not remember. I generally am aWaty working in the shlp-yatrds when I can spare time from home. To Attorney GewERAii— Wm. Oar- net lives next beyond John Connolly, and Mrs. Stewart nest ; she has sons. Next i« Tom Dalling's; next is Tom. !^tewart's; next James Oarnetf; next Oeo. Oamett ; next Mrs. Ennls. There is a Ions distance to the next bonse. That is the last of the settlement. From Bunker's to George Garnett's ^^.ght be three miles and some rods. ^Court^a4Journ«d till 2 o'clock. AFTBRNOON. sworn. In oopMqueaet y me. ^1* was on October eta., .. .! CBABLKS CBANDLSK, sworn. I took both, the depositions of William Xa\l»\ %^eA talteu were read to Hr Lake, sigDe^||)r j^iloL tworu to i(^ him. ," „, ^ '.'Z-i Coroneri I>r. Xarle, iaM tee, I sent for the prisoner, John A. Hiintoe. on Sep- tember 21se. about half-past flvo o'clock In the evenlngi When be came, the Coroner and Chief of Police were pres- ent. I said to Munroe that I was happy te liear from the Coroner that he was willing to SMrrender hlmseir durinir the pendency M . (be lQ«wit Uan JOiMS puii.|uiioa /^uns crhab, sworn. I gm a matried woman : have been married sir years the asth of April neizt. I iMlde In Hallfs:^ N. S. My husband It living -bi^ name is Robert O. Crear. B«fol>e I went to Halifax, I re- sided In Captain Raf as Patterson's bouse. Blue Rook, Oarleton. Went to Hattfiix on the 27th May last. I lived In Captain PatMtfscn's flrom tbe and of <^e previoae Aucnf^* Befbre ttiat I lived hi my sis- ter's boaae, Parish of Limoasfer. near CM-Ieton. My fatter^a name waa John Vail; Ita will be dbad two years on tbe IMi ef tMalBMHrtli. Ifymoilierhatbee* deed tvMKtv ye*irt tli» Ibinrdi of last OKMitb. When n^ fa'^ber died be wa« reaidiniein tiiePtft^ of Laaoaster, Just over the otty road. There were ten obildraB of us attoffetiier. One Is dead Ja(M>b la In Minmesol*; John Is In Prieoi" Bdward Island; WlBlWa. the foolish one biin Mur Lv^^^iv'teia^ Hnw tft aead i •l^f^MffAL §1 «it> « ' RebeeeR Arm OVhn Hvm in t/nnsiMtRr ; MIIIH^nt; Bllx* 'nirnDntl l» 4Mt1 ; Huttra J«n1t1n9. In )n 1 tWn% \h^ tiatt It, Diik^s I'Unkf. beyond Rotheaay; Fhil(>htr*r Jan* Orear— that to oijrwlf ; Ohibe Tarn- hull -8h6 riv^g in Botitli Bay; and BaHih MMnrxrH Valt. Stie waa a single wo- man; «o ^^SSiotmi^'SL my honae tngother. II was aboathalf-paflt two o'cltwk wlieh tbey came, and ft wni nevcn or eight wlien they left. I know it was after oatlt They went away togelhfir ns t)efore. I'Uid not soe them sg&in until the Sunday following. My sisier was at the honse, She came a little aw Otoe; Mr. Munroe did noi get there until' three. He remained for t«a—Mr.lMunroe, B$kih Mar- garet, Mr. Cmr. ahd myself took tea to- Sther. ' My liister told Mr. Mnnro^ that c heard he was a married iQ&n, and he raid ho was not a married taiin. He oald it was ills brbtbor George that Was mar- ried. I told hhn I knew better, for M^. Crear hod tibld me he t^ a married matt. That he waA married to Mr. Pdtt's daugh- ter and had a bhild. and he only laughed at me and di$ not say whether he was or not. They W6re alone together ti^emsplTOii for a long time, and t did imt. hear what oonvorsation passed between thepi. Whon he waa in company with Mr. Crear and me and her be was talking ahcut business affaire, abont drawing plans and ppuntiv^. Th^y were a good while together alone. Tney stopped until it wnk a good while after dark. It was piretty near ssten o'- clock when they both went from the house together, i i|aw him baekward.art so that it would above the naveVinto its pUic^. This did tlm child no goodatafl. Then 1 took a leaden bullet and ftftttoned it out and punched holes in it. Ibis was in oonanQuenee of irbitt a nurse toldm6. Ibfi490.otner]ead.|fuidItook a bullet wbiebjay iiitbes bulriin for an old mndcek. liblnk they call^jd U a King Ueorge*s. X nU^e^ the bullet upon the , hearth and with « nirrpw axe n^^bed it . flat. I used ibe bank ol the axe. I called , it the eye, not the Sat of tne axe, the polo, I flattened it out so thai ii waa about as large as a 60 cent piece. 'Hmu I took an awTand punched ndes |U Monnd the «dfge 4\t. Then took a piece 0|l^r Esther's gun. I swear moat positiveiytbat is tbe same. I should know tbe cotton if I saw it. (Bandage shown.) Tbafcis not the one I made; that ia flannel; it was cotton ilia:;! made. This baa bad cotton on tbe outside* but i^ waa pulled olf, I gee some of tb«> cot- ton that w«8 on the laandage firtit ; it was factory or unbleached cotton ; this is tbe same. This— the baudago and trnss— remained on tbe child f^om April until August 2nd, when 1 left the house. Tbe cotton I had bought at Mr. ArmMtrong's; it wan my own. The next time I saw tbe prisoner waa a week or fortnight af- ter the child wAs born ; he came to the boose. I had the child ki my arnM, and I said, *' John, how do you like your ohUd?" aiid he aald " It is a pretty little thing ; it is like its mother.'- He went into the front room where my sister was, What paased between them I do not know. Be never brought anything for the ohildto the hovrae. Before tbe ebUd yhk born I went on two or tliree difltor- ent ocoiwiona to see Munroe, to Sak faftn for money to set aomething for the ofalld. I asked him If ho would not give me some nftoney for my aistei-, to get ■Dine thinga to prepare fbr tbe cliild when itshouldlMbom. Hesaid he liwi no mo- ney then, but he would bring Mome when the ohitld was bom. I went to him three tluaes. Ue never brought lur any mo- ney, bathe aent a letter with three d<>l* lars. ' X spoke to bim after the child was bom 6n tnie putdeot. I said to bim that be knew he was doing wrong to the girl, that she had flo fhther or mother, ind bo was a marrlbd matt, and had a ch*M of bis own. He said he was Horry; he knew It wna wrong, bat he did not know whafe he oonld do, ia she seemed to like him, aadkeptatlidringup to him. An- other time I waa NRkinc to him about it, and I aaw hkm «hed taara, but he did not aeem to aur moch. I also got a letter out of the Poet Office with five dollars for my aiater. There were also two five dollar bUlf end thre^ ovaoges fbtobedto thehnulMW ber. Ttktk iraa Joit after r I tbe c I house the ol the d givel it. I with I and II perty prepai Bot vn bave'nl aroamj or* do thai the mo her ttnl he woo told hi pi»oe,t her, am withna MrTAM no moi« sister w am. St brown h 1. Si ad asp very whi ped » Ij werea i onevrasi others. weept side of k in* drew other «» oneof th piokikwi It waa. I pound to and^ra the stand minute^. these- thi there is tl decayed o: with a pij teeth ifer in my lift, from tbe t I was mar yearn tiSef had agk'si tbe greasy Her hair V androUed waa 4rvi4 TXB TflUL. H'ii 11 tMk hat was ined to be lead dage HO uaoob- sditwaa nd, and I don't is there think I le piece »ir, that ad; that I awear I should Bandafj[& I made; ; I made, tide, hut ; th* oot- t; itTvas bis is the [ trnsa— )ril until use. The iKtrong'8; melaaw tnlght af- le to the irrns, and like your etty lUtle He went later was, I do not thing for the ehUd •ee diflfc'" )aakbttn the child, give me , to get iiild when Udnomo- >nie when Ihim three any wo* ihree dol- child was hiiD that laho ler, ma ho ch'W of 3rry; he I not know to like kim. An- . about it, tie did not It a letter ]f% dolUuTH , two ftye atohedto Mug as' how it was gettiaf rwnund heisthak he was foiag with har ; he aaid that if ite did not wish l» the o^ild wa« barn. He oama to tho houae once or twice, and wanted to take the child away, and I told him not to, to give it to me, and I would take care of it. I never had an*' more conversation with him about that. I heard Munroe and my tlster talk about aellihg the pro- perty wbisn my husband and I were preparing to go to HaliOix, when he Kt worifi Ihere. He wanted her to sell r plaee and go with as, at be woald havaa better ehuioe of going to sea her thin, being ' ' ajronnd' or else do thai to sell it awl g» to the States, and the money she would get for it woald keep her until he could gi?e hev mobs. He said he would lake her to the ikatta. Wbaa I told her not to hare Idin coming to tlie plaos, that I would get ss bad a naoM as h«r. and not to sell her pkos, she got mad with us and turned us onl. This was in AugM and next day, Monday, we went to Mr. Fattison 's bouae. I saw the priaoaer no mora. That was August, 1868. My sistar was about half a head taller than I am. Sheinifliffht eoo^ilaotej, had Ugbt brown hair, and was a ymry irood-lookuig girl. She was stouter tfaui I ,am. iihe had a splendid set of teeth. Th<^vw«re ▼enr white, and one of the. upper tea ' i UKp- ped • little uver her under teeth, ^y were a fine set of teeth except that this one was a little larger and longer than the others. The rest of the tsetb were good eMspt one in the lower Jaw, on the left aide of her head, whioh Dr. Gborge Uawl- inc drew about ftrear six yeMi ago. An- other was a little dssayed. I think it was one of the upper jaw. I often saw her piok it with a pin, but don't know whieb It was. (Skull shown to«witne«s, who ap- peared to grow faint while examining it. and fi»r a tuM leaned against the si& of the stand, but afterwards examined it very minutely, bhe then prooeedad.) Yes, these- the front teeth— are the teeth, and there is tbs one that is gone and that ia the deoayed one whioh she uaed to ait and pick with a pin. I say these ate my sister's teeth if ever I saw them in her bond beCwre in my lifii. I had the eare of ma sister from the time she was live yeaoi old until 1 was married. X havebMnmaniedsix vears t^e iSth of April ooming. My sister had a gitat quantfly of hair on har head, the greatest ouaiitity of any of the sisters. Har hair i^-as di? jded at tlm Uwdc, braided and rolled up in a water(aU»wbilt the ihwt was 4^vuUd. twisted sonnrt and sairied beak cooBd the watecfrtt,, I «o4d no«^ nue li (Hair A%mk) tbai is the same way she used to wear bar's, but ifchM been pull«dom«ince I saw it at the Ia%u««t. sad BOiae of it I aaeM is gena tioce I saw it St the (nqvest. Tbtr* ar.* marlkj of the •eiwor*. She never b«il lier hair eat ia tbii way. I aw«ar poaitivalf that i« the liair my sitter wore wheo I last saw her. There is where it wsa divided in front rolled at the ends and earried reond the waterfall. The wit- aaae beaan to ery sad for some lima the aiMmination was snepanded. BXAXtXATIOH UMITXID, the witne<«a atill sobbina--My aister ha4 > black Alpacca dms that 1 bought for her at John Armatroog'a aome time ia tlWiQh, 186S. (Remaios of dreaa ahown.^ Y«t. air, that ia a pitce of the *birt of ihe drfas for whieh I paid II cents a yard. It was t^ and poor. 1 aaknd for blaek Alpasca and thor sold this to tie for that. I eut aud made the dreaa myaelf Tl) only trim- miog it had waa aome bU--'^ worated braid. There, air, ia a piece of it for whieh I paid 8 centa a yard s^t Mr. John Armetroog'o. The dreaa waa made low necked af d short aleevefi. , You aeehere where it waa bnand at the iop and bottom. Tile reason I made it was that ahe waa nursing end aii*' «a» aahamed to go to any ooe to get it made. It waa made gown way and hooked up the front. There are Home of the hooks still. I can awear poaitive I made that drela. There % my aewing, it ia not very good. I am podtive I ^ugbt tb's dreaa and made it i'or my sister, Sarah Margaret Vail. Sbe had a dark grey whitoey olott aacqur. I houglu the clottt at Mr. Jamea Mansou'a. I paid 80 cenu a yasd for it ; there were 24 yards. It w>>^ jaet hethre tether dkid. (PL oe of as^^oe ahown). Thare'a a piece of thn tack with the biodmg rouad ^e neck of it. Tbis ih^ where the arms were cut off, ind this piece :^ put of the sleeve where the l^tud went in and here is the black binding round it. The aacquc wsa made by Mra, Cynthia Oykemen. All thi* heavy thick atuS belonga to her aacque. This thin ataff mixed up with it I knew nuioiag about. The binding of the sacqne and that of the dreaa are of the aama kind but th«!y were net got at the aasae time. Thia on the d|eas seat 8 eanla a yird, that on the aaeque eeet hut 8 osiMto, l3ie braid for the seeque was got at Igr. Man- son'a. Tho braio for the drsM and the dreaa, I bought at Armotlooif t. I sbotild know two dresses t^sMl\k|i. and, a ^ri wii^ Vi^ktl^W^' (SM^4fm'' lo^nd on poiUVT ilMFiL Tfm ieops^r tb« two dreaees that Wm rteos out m im u ttRt TMIAL. ■iatMf** owB ^eMiet.-<-T1iia ff t)M out alie kept to put on lh« child when sht woat out. This WM • dNM By Bitter btd whan mjr father dM. the ehild had no deoent dreaa. aoaht tor* up one of her owq to make her aoaae. I helped her to rip the draaa and make thnae up. This ithe dreta tbnnd in the trunk) it tibe other dreaa made of the anme material only that o'^e ta fMed from lying ntit. What makea mt to poti> '■iiv* ia thot I mode thia pig aoao trimnting which ia on tho dvoaa foOt.i itt the trtlnk. The othar dreaahad what are called rufflea. 1 helped to make thoae rufllea. Witneaa •howadhoWtba *' pig noHe " ta made. 1 it»n every bii of ttioae flounaea (on the dreaa found on the gro«nd) with mjr o. I'm poaitive aa I hnow I'm aitUag hero that that i« her dreaa made by Bfra. Dykeman, 'Oferletoa. I haoght that dreaa with money Mr. Jbhn A. Munroe pave her in my yre- aenoe. Hega'reherai^bill. laavett.20 fl»r the pattern tUf the droaa at Mr. Arm- atvong'a. There were elsvea buttone ia fh>nt only fhre of them are left. (An- tfther gamwnt produced V. I can awear that iethenttle ehild'a chemise^ 1 made apre- •lentofit to the Child and out it Mit myeelf. 1 know the crochet work the mother pnt in it. (Orawaia ahown). laaaaT year to them poaltiiroly bf thelthemg ripped open, there la aonwthing else 1 know alao. thoae two hut- tona> and alao the eroehet wo(% wtiioh i^ the aame pattern^ aa waa m the ehi|d*aehe* miae« They are ripped up in the fhmt in the very plape where 1 aOw her lipit myeelf. 1 Want Bothiaf more than I have aMn thia evening to kaow that thoae are tho remains ol aBypoormardere^oistOT. Wlineae dea- oribed a ohihPft petiMoat ol anMeaehed cot- ton the iaaM aa Om hoodBfl»aad tho crochet work aronnd the bottom . This waa looked fbrandfouad. WHneaa aaid—TMa ia the Kicoat, I know my own aewiag in it ; I w aleo the t ^mainaof a atiaw hat iHiieh I Sot dyed and trib>med for her. (Remainaof at shown). Thit li part of the hatlgot dyed and trimmed forii>'abt»r by Mra. Jane OampbeU . She had a white hat dad I got f ""•V loatbt att»»«i#a tliae f*"*- M'lfvand Tirethoi Majr.. 1 bell'a. flowera the flow Themaoi comparli it waa ad pliotogft and whe shown hi «ny broth the liken aunt Mar ^t aister When t half a i end Mr*; of mine: sister whi hung froi Fredericti A. Monro mn looked Ml ii the - i«5l jtt wfaieh I [keMoiwi of httlgot MM. Jone id I got^t tho i*me ttloek io«tr4. •ottiVrf M(^,mi wo|o«^»y fiwa hot* '4jm May,, I boufht Aino olao io |fr*, OfMop- belles. Witnoat produced her own crap* flowera sad the |«iry oooipored them with the Aoweta folind on tho ground. Kr. Themaon again objected to thia evidence by oom|MUiaoh« The lodge o^gain decided that it was admiaaoble, Witneaanext deAcribed ptiotog^pba which ahe knew her •iator h«d, and when iboae found in the trunk were shown her, ahf aat4«>-Thia ia the likeneaa of my brother who ia in Blinoefota. Theaeare the likeneaaea of unale DaVid Nick<^ri«on and aunt Uorgaret Niok|(rBon,my fothei^a youpg- ?«t aiater now to Canada. Thiaia myown. When t had this talcsn my aii»ter alap got half a doaen photographa of heraclf. and Mr. Miinroe tooi; fe«irofth«nnaod one, of mine. Re alao (rot an ambrotype olTioy' tiater which he wore in tho focket he had hung from hia wa*eh when he went to Frederioton. Thia ia the likeneaa .of John A.Monroe. I knew ahe had thia for be cave it tohce in my preeenOej The child had tery anall tiera when I left. 1 know nothing of anj pink tvera. 1 never mi w my aietser bave oox money . It'a over two yeOra since the dMfereooe occurred between ray stater he fragmenta were ebo wn me long before tk a. waa done afier Mr. Munroe and my aiater became acquainted, about aix luontha. They wore going to- {^ether pretty nearly two yenre before Mra. Otive found it out. (t(ibbon thown). There ia the narrow gauca ribbon that waa ou the htX, [Waiat ribbon abown.] That is the piece of ribbon dho wore round hor waiot— I bousUt that at Mr. Jamea Manaon's myaelt; I bavo sumeoftbo same on my own baoquinu. I bought that about a week before I left my sister's house. It wuH the jast week ir J«ne vvboa I bouRhl it. When I left my aia- ttif'a the child bod fbur lower and four upper teeth— tbiH waa the 2i)d of iuguat. It was three months old when it tirstowi Its teeth. It hud two como through first in the lower jaw, then two in the upper, then the other four oama. It wan live uioitthaold pretty near when it bad these toctb. It waa within two days of six months old when laat I aaw iU My sister had a little scent bottle : this new pro- duced ia the oaine. My little airi picked it lip in Dr. Uardlng'a yard whan she ^^\is playing there, and Sarah Maffpu^t [ObUdraaook* proqn^Mi}.] I navarsaw any <>r tbaaa. iSMr net uiowa.j I oro- chete4 that wlw- n|y owa baooaout ot blaeik eommoa thread, and t gave it to Sarah Manmret. I orooheted another for mTseU^ [veil shown.] I know nothing' of that. [Ohild'a hat ahown.) I know nothing of ttut>-the ohild hadonly a lit- tle hood when I left it. [Child'n sooque ebown.] 1 never aaw that. [Woman's Btockinara /(hown ] I know nothing of that, [vyooum'a nnderaklrt fhown.j I know that ; it ia tlie same a« that I f^ve tlie baby. [Ring l>oz with hair ahown.] That ia nay ihtber'a hair, and tiiat ia the box which contained a anger ring John Munree gave my aiiater. and for which he aaid he paid |4. [Other nnderakirta,. buttons, eto., shown, which the witnesa said ahe liad never seen to her know- ledge. Ohild'a akirt produoed.] That iielonga to the ohild of my sUUer, Mrs. Oli«e ; froaa this the pattern of the sklra of Sarah l|argaret was drawn ; worked^ , on the pattern of thbk it would not hava^-t the same number of noles. Mr. Thomson objected to thia evidence, and the witness stating tbat slie did noi aee the pattern drawn the evidenoo war exolnded. ,. I last saw tlie trnss on the child on thefore waa called upon to re^ eognixe clothes Chat had so long been exr ,1 pused to the weather. I did not pan with my sister in ill temper. She turned me out, but the dispute was the day before, and we spoke when we parted. I never fuiid I dia not care what became of my sister after that. My little girl bad not the samo chance of seeing vi^bot was Koing on as T had, as she was at school, i f'ir«t„ knew Munroe waa a marriefl than aboni' two weeks after no began to oome to thr;' house; I told my sinter. Although f ■ ^ wtks examined twice before, I didnot say that Muuroe wanted my slater to so witii mo to Halifhx ; I wa» never asked about^i it. Ue proposed tbat she Should go witb me in order that he could visit hhr unbe-, ';' known to his wife. He did not seem ' to care muoli whether sh'^ went with me or with' bim, as long as k answered his purpose. I wonid not object, if she wished to go with met but she would notcn consent to go, and I said noUiing. U4 bad such inftnence with her be oould gee her to do any tbins he pleased. He waa then working at Mr. Clark's honae, and she wottkl iMVe better epportnaitiae oi aeeing bIm there and sbe would not go away. I saw a great deal of «iai}roid6ry [T »yll fn bnt I i|«Ttr Mw Miv llk^ Hito belNv. ThptiMnda mtjr lMr« it, \m% I n«nrer ^aw any. [BMrt pitxIi^tMd 1^ Mr. Thoroson.l Thirt la tb« aamepattam, batlat^r ; that doaa*Dat My It waa Sarah Margaret'a. I did not aay it was this pattern waaab rar«, bnt the large ahawl pattern which Mrs. Olive got from my annt, who bronght it m>m CanadiL You can't arfrueitieontof that; I'll aay a« leald before, that I never saw on any man, woman or Child any embroidery lilce that wheel pattern, althonah it may be very common. That you snowed me la not* the same aa Sarah Maivaret'f, after till, aa it ia mufeh better worked than here wai. Looking at the akirt prodaced by Mr. Thomaon, she said: This was not done h^rd— thia was imported ; it is made of verjr dlfl!ftrent materials. You see, she «Md, when ftirther interrogated by the AttonMQT General, that thin waa im- ported, and thia (one of the fl«ffmenta) waa done here by a poor iKnorant fj^irra haftd. Thia (the imported one, at ahe called it,) waa never worked by any lady*a band in St. John or Carleton. J^t-CMNNiaiMl fty dtUnt^ O0i0ralj My little daughter went to school to Mlaa Whipplaa. She went at nine o'clock in (be nionainib returned at one, then went back and remained often pntil nightikll. More than tUat, she was often nm allowed into the house to i^y*a,and was at home generally in the montha of October and November, lb68. His mother lires with him ; fio aaw no atranga woman and child at that time at hia booaa, or in the aettlement ; narer heard of any aaoh woman and child ; knew bUo Mra. Clwka Mid child, or Miss Vail. To Ml. Tamisoiii^^IageneroUyathome; thinks be waa at bom's on that Hallow e'en, beeanse he neVer eomefl to town cii that day; {(oneraUy doea Ma marketing before H al- ow e'ien. because that ia not much of a muHltotd^j li^To Amaasn Gmhsrav—Wu geoeraHy •t ham tliltailf tnMM ii o«l Anr, vliMi be ea«a to M. MB* lf. (6 irbo >ronj|h MP woe did on DOtbing lettMr I ^ r, be eooH himfdie ft •♦poor fromthe »' At ftid onmbary oa John. When ittnder> and her uitbelnff lentated nheoane ing with B woman beunlof Notet ir a Mbs ion. fall. I another, all. My a yonng • the Ben punkerK*. Ilna were l>ner woa about roianl ns W Mr. BMt'JT iMn MW tNM VM HMnp akML ' S waaftolathoiM oil eitfMro§BtiiotthiO«> tober, IMS, wbm a «Meh, a liiiin. il man and child "^tiM to nt hotow. I Was awar at my Hum Unm the Uke. My ne|ibew, George Bauker^ iMI in ebarge of ^ houne at the time. (fratt-examined by Mr. T/uh^m, I beard the ooaieb WW out* Jl do not roaembeo whether tbii* were heavy vaina that week. I oanaot teil what is the dia> toBoe between the ^lack ilivfr Aod the Qaaoo Buod. The distanee troin my hoaae to th« place where tlia renwins wei;*^ found in't know ex> RCtly the plans wbeie the rpoBUN ware fuuod} but I know pretty near, ne drove paat It about lour or five o'clock in* the uriemoon . We perceived a vory had Bmell. This was between GoUins' and Bunkera', belore we oaine to the forks of the road. The day was fiigjsy and the wind blow from that side ot the road. It vras a dreadful smell. I never fell anything liko it before. The hoTMa abiod bat t oan not tell wliether it was the amell caused them to do so. 1 ean not denrlbe the saMU at aU. OroM-exatnined b^ dfr. TVwmaon* This was in the last days of April. We were at a funeral ; I was along the road since in August, and foand no snioll then. I don't know exnbtly the spot Where the remains wore found. AJ;.UK BJNO. M. D., Proved that William Lake, of th« Onion Hotel is very ill of ohrunio rkenmatism, and unable to leave his bed. The Attornbt (iBfaaii. then moved that the deposition of Mr. 4yi^ke be put in evi- denoe. After oonsttlti'^g the Ant of As- sembly, Mr. TuoxBOX biMi to admit that all the rei|uireni«nts ut the Aet were oomplied with, and that the evidenoe, if pressed, innat be iulmitted* Ueantiineanotnerwit' new waa called. svLvasna iaru, w. n. f ama pbysioian, and Ooroner for thf ywur, btft mituikmfulnfiM^. Iwadtoot on SepltlQiber ntk,% tbt >laM on the Btaek Hirer rand whar^ Ih4 remains wera fonnd. Mr. 0. Armstrong, qf tb« f7/b6e, was with mo ; I sent Powers, the consta- ble, before me. The pbuje is. I think, a 2uarter of a mile fhmi the forks. I fbcTnd ialvin Powers and William 0^4X1*" *^^ Bunker's. Thcv drove ahead. fuMPoug- las showed us where the remains lay. We found the skull lying on its base ; a por- tion of the neUis, with thigh bdne attaolk- ed, some riba, vertebrte.' The skull wna eighf or ten feot fh)m the rook In a North East direotion on the Quaco roiid, by the side or the Hat rook. Too ribs were nearer to the rook, more to the side of it.' The hair was lying nearer the rode tn^ the skull was, abonttwo at three Aet from It, as nehr a^ I oonld j udgo. It waa all Visible then. We found portion^ of a, woban*8 dresH and child's dress. These witness de- scribed as they were so oflan desoribed by other witnesMs. I saw some bmsh.appan lently ootof some rtpnioe trees, and otner stuff like sBtall trted Wbleb bM died on the barrens for whiit c^ nntriment, and with- ered away. Tbe trees about were spruce, and seveml kinds; the growth between the rodk and tbe Bhiok Biveir road was prect,> thick. Too oonid not see the ruod immediately oppa«ite at all ; we could not see our hutses. I waa out there at dif- ferent times, hnd tried whether I could see the road. By Standing on the rock I was able to toe a boggy when it was about sixty rods on towirdu f X)llins'. The cover was dp. and I could s^ the top. Saw that the brush was out from the sdrrounding trees; searohed and found tho trees from which th^y were cut, and matched them. I had tbe pieces that lAntohed tM brush, and had the oorrespoAdinff pieces cut from the bddy of the trees ; 1 ola this because I thougnt those pieces were cut off to cover the remains. The foliage was off thii brush just as it is now ; I fitted those pieces (Some of the pieces were shown to fit.) The brutih appeared to have been out some tinie, and haa lain all summer evidently. The pieces remaining on the body of the tree Were much more fresh than the pieoen on the ground. Some moss— a good de;\l— also covered tbe remains^ The collar bjn*j we fbuod under the mosf a foot down, or nine inches at least. I think tht£t the body lay near the rook. The collar bone I think was taken op the sdCtmd time : the bones h^ certainly been dlstarbad by animals, aiid had Men Vety niaeh eaten. Nearly V TIMWMf tb« nw^pa hml l»h Ui«N during ih« wj^q* ter lUMi aimiiMr. Mj ImgpMsMkort wnA that it tMui trom the RmI l»ebin. It iruuid df- p«id entir«ly on th« lort oi we«ther it ww^ wbon deoompoaillon mjigbt Mt In. Iftbe >>'>dy WM tbtre on Nor. l*t, It may be that 'naoeltipn would aet in in » few dnye ; uAtftk Vf9 Do4y beoftine flrocon decpoptuni- tion VQuId atop ; it would g«> on in Spring when the enow tniiwed off. I tbouglU the remaine were tlpose of a female. I judged from the dotfiingt end I thought the akuU had the appearance of a female vkull. . Tin remains were broui^ht in by Galvin Powen, and haVa iiinqe been in my poeeeeHion. I went oni thvre aereral times. I don't know e^notJi who went with me the mo- coad tiqai. The, Chief of Palrce and Wot- den went out with me onoe in a douUe waggon. Wordentheooaohman— tbeper- son wjpp gave evidence here— sat in the back s^et. t did not ooint out to him the plftoe wbero the remaina were found. He did« without any >roid Srom me. point out the place when .we goli to it. Be got no intimation from me, and I. did not see hfm get any from any one. Eh pointed out the phioe on the Blaok lUver Itoad very nearly opposite where the remains lay. It was on this side. It was not a rood from the place, in a direct line in from the road. It had rained the day before, There was a rot on the road that had water in it, also a place where some earth bad been remov< ed. 'i'his was directly opposite the place ? Dinted ont by Worden. [Skull shown.] bhi is the skull, when first I saw it it was partly filled with decomposed brain matter, smelling badly, and eoveredpartly with tisr cide. I tried te see the road nrom the rook. My horses were standing on the road and 1 was afraid to let them sutnd. I could not see them from Uie rock iapr untfil I got quite elof*e to the roa4. The pathway 'Nvos very little beaten when first wo wient out. [Flan shown.] Standing just down from the roek towards the Slack Kiver Ho&j you could not see the rood at au. You had to come down this way by the path. There [a spot on the road towardla Collins*] is the place where I saw the top ottho buggy. Stepping down from tm ruck towards the road a i little you could not see the road at all. I ab npt know whether you cookt see the roa4 fnr further on. When first I saw the skull there vfM no hole showing because it was covered with the tiaKW(brkaiidb|Mk,.4«x|^^l. .■9»P m&T Christ^. X}M h^ to plaan U. . Ue it, 7h^%^¥iJ<'^F^L'^^^inpM. 1 iiftftfe it waa M% by^ RUttel buDet. U thatyeinttlw^uUM tanrd. PkM«in^ In tiMlte a bullet woald oui off the lueningiti artery, a hrn branch, and the result would be 1 Inlttk, almost If not instanta- neooaikwth. ' If Mr MVion did not die fruM thrsheok she most thMn hemorrhaM very qifiekly. lllun't ^tnk it poaslMo she could have lfi«4 a moment, although «h» might have. I think that from hUoH a wouad tMu« woaM boTery little exteihml bleedfai|. A pMbl bullet entering in thai phwe, 11 fired alone, may beooipe spent aad remain in tlkalMkin. There is quite a ridge in %hi skttU Wh«re «he bulM piiMed. Tlthi is harder Uian tha Nvta»g skail, is Mora hvltlle and wonM hraak inuoh morfi easily. (Remains eyMnif»sd by witness aafJ reoog- nieedl. The portbns of the pelvis still rebaniini avsTery sumUI^, and are elftl »i- toMied to pakefth« thigh bone. The vw> tebaaiAe. IBisaalnyof ehild'sskullshowii] This was haadad *to ma by Mr. M«reb during thf ki%west« ThktiHa portion of theseodnffvertahea ofaaadalt. Jodgtog fionrihesknU I think that the child wa» yoong. Thefa (showing an opening in tli* skull] IS the anterior fontanel, showing it must be a very young child, I think lean than a year old. Waman's bair shown]. This hi the same we brought in, it is now oiorei' sent #hen Capt. OMsholm opened it ami toakaninventoryof'^he eontents. Thesa a re the same. They have been in my peit- 8e<«sion sinM. The various articles iw they WOPS branghtte flrom the grourd wwa put together. 1 sea an the fhmtal bone of the onyd'askall the mark of a wound or irOi»v, it must have been so when 1 got it, m> fiough 1 did not see it al firet. It ontera TWMHirr is now mk tbal Tbcy iiey won ok, and 1 wns i» Olifld )t. Ohiii- it And aypen- j(wtll«sr pre pat |e of tbe on ten kec Urn MWMillMeWkl. (tiiiilir« TMa to Iha UM>«li«r ab iaAHil.« i »'t prolMMl to mtf wbotlwr it to ,'• nM>tor. 1 Iwtlwr it to •ppw and the iJor> oner thore w«a no diiiteriet at the thna and it mattered not whether the prisoner was arrested or voKintarily went to ear- render hiidself, nor did it matter that tha Cor6aer did not ehooie to take him into custody at the time. Be waaa penon In . authority: ha was holding an Inquest in thto oase ai the time, and nnieea witneas showed that ha gave the prisoner an oipU- cit warning tha evidenee waa inadmiMtbto. tie again quoted the ruling of Mr. Jostiaa BeUer. The Attomuy GenpMri aigoed that whan the prisoner made bis statement to tha OMef of Polioe he waa in ouatody. but when he made hhi statement to the Cor- oner he was not under amnt at all. He argued further that even if a prisoner wheu in Custody voluntarily made a stata- ment which ha wa« not led to make of any induooiueiitor threat, tbatstatamant weald be adatHsihie in evidenoa. Tbo Attoniey Qeneral wished to see tha in 8nd last's Plaaa of the Crown, add asked the Judge to wait while ha sent for it. TWaiavinved somedetoy, and as it was neatly one o'oloek the Court ud* journed tor dinner. AFTERNOON. The Attorney iPeneral atated that ha bad been nnaole to procure the boolc ; but he cited Il % n? 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-4503 .ma te.froni thfilk^oat t^tkQ.bMk otSfi9i hir^^pvp daoUf)i|)d. I wei^ ito^^hti ba^ik oflOce and returned agai^.i^^di^^lMa him ase^und timJQ to opme in; b« teijM^, ''Damn i(, I d<5»t want to hear tJIJie Story .*V T.^^ doGir b^tweeh the pfflbes was left opiBtt. Wheh I wehe io to the back odco a^in, Mteiroe was M tl)ii$ ehalr 1 ttsnaliy sit in. I WiD d6wn ftpob' the tiditoli, i>rdl!«bN two feet from him, Meinj^him. He «a1d, It fa not Mrs. OlariBe at all— that ia an asanmed name; it is « Vail ^rl, ftrom Carleton, and her child, that I have ha«i so much trouble wiUb; ske ioolt tlie name of Mrs. Clarice to mal;;e it appear that she wap a wi^ow., ^e was goin>r on to Boston or New York with Mr. Feoe- ty to gat' som^ things for Mr, Fauety'a hQUse. Sh^ yranted to go wi^h bl^n to Boitoni to see sothe tpan who aifje said wlafbed to marry her. I thlnl: h\n a "Id thW man was ^ palntiir, btit I wit! Hioi s{)«Mk eei^ain. U« tri^to )b«nin«rt$ cial: House, and he and Hr. Fenety ami 1I« md h» MM $nilkair'8«ad llMd hia hofaaa rnd gafebla (Mrniar, md 4hayi wanld fPtdfcMOii whorawar thay iwem> ' eolng. They 0Di opt ofthaaoMh and tha eopfi^iaciaa tnr|ied;iMplif the raaaau bei did ao^Wwtba|he,4Ml po^t wai»Vt||ij}' man— the painter tJD#r0fr;tq^ed him with the girl, for fear^e ytaiUo^ptUhe ftjjshe tools the child 4hd 'wal|(ea ahead, arid be watched h^i- tibtll she i^a^sed CdlMriA' i^ad. I said to him, she did not go to CdHfiis«, fUrt #as bnt thefe^ iteiilta,V6, I WMebt^ her ttirtfl ah^ passed CTolHna'. [His Honor is ihotqiiite clear about ad^ mJfttiBgevidenas elieited by^uestioninfT. Atar explanation by Atfornay Oeneval, His Honor allofrs it.} Witness: After a tiniQ. she returned wi|h the e1;itd, fuid said the folks wei'e not at home, and he w6uld have to bring her oat aome othef day. ' Tbey' ca^ne l>ack to Panket'a, got In th» coacfh and catne back to^iOWh 9ha was dissatis- fied wHh itAylllg «t -M««. I/irdly'tf, MiA wacted to g6 somewhere else! h^toole ' iiertotlie>Unlmi Hei^k iMia wanted to go out to aaa< ttaia man> acain^ and^ be Uipk. iar ooi In a ooaoh as Salore; about the same place OH the roadheafcnfipad tha ooaoh again* they «;ot oufi, Mid tM ooacb- anatber hotei-rl can't spaak ^r certain tho name of the house. He ivent; to Ma her at this Commercial Houaeon the fol- lowing; day ; ha bad to; go ^'roui tliat to New York with Mr. Foneij , he M^ent to New York, and \»n ber there at the ho^ tel. When he returned to Bostdn he went to see her again. She waa very m«ich dis^)utisfied, and wanted to j^et home ; she had not seen tb6 man whdilh she had gone on to tie^,, wboni she sup- posed would marry hef. ' he told her he was not going by the boat, but by rail as fat as Portland. When ho got to Port- land and went oh the steamer fbr Saint Jdfan she was' on board. He saw nothing of her, I think he said, un'«il he witi oofttihtfin the harbor to 8t; Jc^bn ; com- ing np\he hatbor he saw berj, and sh^ asked hint" Where she should stop. He said be thought at the Brhtiswick ISouse — libi^ly's— as that was the handiest pliKce fbr her ; she said she was dissatis- lied stepping tliretlE;,^fdl>afiethotigfbt Mrs. Lordly knew wn6 M^iiras. She i>ald to hitn that there wM$. a "pafaon, a jointer ii-cth St. Jdhn] out to Lake Lomond, yvhiAA she #iahed to hee, and ahe watfted hitn to drite' her tint ; she she wanted to po in an opeh wagon ; he did not eata^ about being aeaa driving wiUi soil sosna Qtbet- persona wiUith«iei.stopped at man drove l^ac^c to Bunji|9ra. She took ii«*^J* ^•>^«ft*raihaljf#f his riar for taking a coach. H^ drove out the child, and walkedaw^ty op the rpad» down towards CoUliis'. After a time she <»nhe hti(M with the ehlTd and said she wasn't eoming irt to St. John again, as this folks waref lA home, and tbay Were going to.drive lier la On iSundayiavenlng or Monday raorj:rfBg< i» ftima for the Amafioan beat} ahe wishied him to take her bagiiqge dovn to the bo# a|)d g^t it ^ch«^eq. He .weo^t .down to toe boait on Mpnday npornli^qrai^d the bagijip^ was . not there » h^ had , enifaged Hotne one to bring it; b\it Ithad nbt arrived; when the bagMige came.the li^t bell was ringfng; be ran down to^hebbat; he thodgnt he would not be able to see her; but hj^ saw her on thO deck of the boat \ he h*^ .^*>^ time to slip the rat all ha siUd. < > t ii > i tfoss ex^ined hy ' j^;: JhmSi^'}^ ^'''''^ * I won't awear positively tliat th.»se w^e the remaihs oif a female, r had m v impression as to the remains I saw this nforhlnH* t ' wodld* mt iift(^rtake ' |o swear whether thoaia rsciialM laare tha retnalBs of a n%ala or Dimatob ili—fio you ala* ^fCsr frciHi thO other dorotata aa to tha iti|ury wUicb you alf leaaappoMa on tliM(ioMia} ahull? A., I&l 4htvafsg^^a,riif%»o u»y ^opln- ibn as they have to theirs. I would not TBVTmJKi Bdrty w ftdfe Hre tho Id not IMNNllKMd W 1 IbBIld lMlfei> tonntlMr*. A|r. CTboinson iriiows w^iiMa oUmw imttpiM; witfiflfM comparm tbetn, and says thw are the samq kind of lyattana »8 W«8« f'^ond. Mr. TlionsQu shows otBW bair; witness compares the hair produced with hair found, says, I thinic the hair fhund is the darkest. [Jary ex- amines hair.l > •? Witness: I think I hAV« siv«n a Afr stateniMit of what was said to me t^ the pri«oB«r. I did not make a msfraoran- dum. I don't reoolleot of prisoiwr stat- ing Oiat a warrant had issuad asainst his brotbei% and Im liad cotaotdKlve himself IV^' iM}^M:P*^^^^ ^'^ arrested, thouffh, the nw»t before. f « » TdHls tlonor: I went out with Wel- ton to show him the srounds ; it was be- fore th^ Conrt open«d ; I showed hiro the plasjB Where tLe remainii were Ibohd ; be m«J» »»«Mnwroent» in my presence. Tttei AttoRMy Genetwl ooiielud«9 to oa»f Wai. iMke's depoaittons taken b*^ foB» the Pslioe Magistrate in evidenotk [H«M(Ml to Clerk to read.] Mr, Tbonieon ol^ecta to flie eridence *?:^<>' oe»ng legal evidenoe ; not that all thd ffM'nialiUes bad not keen gone ..^'?li!l*'? *^ taking, but there are parts ot ft Whioh, if the party were in the wit- ness, bo», would be excluded. He ar- gued that it was not comp^eiit for the Judge or counsel to read over the d^p(S- sition on the trial, and erase What is not evidence and retain tb|»resL If one part nullity."*'**^**^*' «^« .^*W UWSW « Hi^ Honor thinktiir^ 6vfd^1ice be not Important, it had better not be otftrieJd. Thb Attorney General submits to Uli Honor's rutin}.'. The Attorney General pr^dnoed the rauielaiie certitleato of the prisoner. Mr. Thomson objects to the mairriage cer^i^oate as eviffonoe, ineomaoh ts it w^ n(ot properly oerUOed by the CUerk of th^ J^eaee. .^eotion hold good. lie AUorney General stated that thiii closes the prosecution. Mr. Thomson said thtit.fict htrtAft been iafbniled by the pnaeoutiifi oflkieM when «ihe Mme for the Urowh ildQl^d have it, and it wafonlyonanfppHwitipkitathe 'Ooiurt,that hsnbkiined it. jUe nrait re-* peat that he never saw a case so ponmcted, and that while tlie greatest courtesy wmtj. shown to hiin«ielf«, ,^ie greatest detenaina*^ 1 tioh was sIaowo to jihwui^ a convictuw. Ue woold now put fK>aM wUnease!* pn the 8taiMi»i|odittbec|^.^ur hi* case would addK««ithf9iiifii( greater kigth^ i wcno uanwim^it, «wom. £r9?nniflrifloner to be such a pkt^on as would be ed to commit such a crime as has been charged to hiin. I went into th^ Police Office on the ereninff ol his arrest to satis- fy myself whether the rauor was really tnie; 1 did not believe be could be guilty ofsuchaorime. I leit old Mr. Munroe and Mr. Mar^bair talkies; together on the street on Chijpman's Hi|l between Mr. Jones, the tailor^s iftnd Xr.Cruikshanks', it was on the eveninji; of Munroe's Arrest. I went out to fhe place vfhere the remains' had been found, abojdt' a month ago. in company i^lth David Otklio, the plumber, Charles ITay and AdamToung ; I was in and saw where Ibb place w^,. and the Btehe; I walkM doVm tbe road. One of the parties htii a phpolifx lU^ ^aM» I paced off abbtit 0DO paces, I, left ^m. f>n the rook in iToht of tlta plkoe %Mre ibe remains were foon^. I tblitf CJaV)p£I11 had the pist^; heilmi: I could b^r the rejpbrt, but not very distinctly; I walked idoWn, towards the forks; don*t know how kr from It, OoU'examinedhyAUwmey General:— I stepped abontf three feet at a pace; I oonld not say whether I could ba^e heard the report or not iff had not been listening; I did leave John J. MunrOe and Mr. Mar- shall, Chief of PoUoe, on Chipman's HiU, talking on that very evening. MiHN J. nvKBOi, sworn. I am the father of the prisoner at the bar; I leedleM the night jmy son was ar rested; that nijg;ht I ttiit Mr. itarfchall on Chipmlui's tJfll. W^h6n'I tras coming down the Hill he was going up Mr. Ma«*shall put out his hand to shale hands antS says. John .this is a sadallair,! fiel very sorry lor vioa1ndeed,bat i will keep you pos- ted ttp; I told Jphh that anything be sai4 to me Would be a strfet cqnfldeboe, and hd action vtottld be taken upon it: I did n6t make bini iany r^ply; I wanted to get home tkp the s&eet;.l hav«i not been in Co^frt but once since the oommencement of ^is trial. I never saw the hair at all. My son is an Arohitect, he was doing very well; his business has been fcereasing teirjr fast ; he wf • i» no peeuniary emY rra8»> ment at all, that I am awai» of. i state positively that 1 did metl Mr.^iacilMiU ea Unit wan^ iwf Idt wy dStn^! aatts, the statemtnt then was read to him. Witness :— These are the very words he used, word fw woi4. That if«a thp laal tHE fklAL. 93 ,7 'I this that to ki- He he lotbi had ntft nrib^ reed, dho ta- bad ovi- POtM sb ho t io d to he fttiiof theoMivarNntlonwe had. i poai- tivelv swear that he toll ma that h« aaid tolninroe t*^* ntm John, if there is any peison in whom yuu can have confidence, It ?8 in me. I hbve known you and your £uwly«nd oonneotioiH for a lofigiime. Now tell mo in eonfidonoe the whole of thie anfor^anate afliur." He then nafd thatSflunroe, after this, told, him what ha bad sta^ to the Coroner, and h^ said it tfasiTiBry iittprobable. Be ofl^ed no ex* ease 'for his treacherdiu two-faced co^v n bocKKiuUt eharacter to my knfiwmg. I frequenUy m^w, hiip do^'ng ujiaipine, often cams ia (joptac^ ifith Inm m*m wa^ <^ b^s^ne^n* He waa apt » per* •Ml liha. m my opinion^ wo«ld ha failty dmMdiA ariott* His dispasitfon aaemed "to ha Tsiy aiKtionate as far as 1 saw. i .Uiifr .'■■:. lamaistaBa.eattsr. IJnmbaMaiwoAr km at tike Wiggiaa Agfku»* I Imve faniwn tiM frtsoiMfr for •«««» w M||lit3f«Mm H4ve AIM agood deal4h^. |}« sfiemBd t(^ have ngnMt deal of basinsfSy and aee awd to attend to it 4Nr mpd night. 1 aaMaJy wesdd hat o thoaghl he waa abenft the laat peiaen to eoeimilta erimft«f UrnkMihaiaoha^pd with. M:;* •"■!«««- nj,#f !i */'j;.>. i. Mr. Tbnm8(iii'W>«MMWi^Ml l^otim- ment. IFhe Mi#i«aHv«tf nbtioB trdm the M m ti^ m i m i ti jfiitoi^ thkt the onse for the crown would dosa t^Hlivy hjff Would have boon r«c(y.. |h^ f iMeeaes e«unin- ed wetn thoie 11%'^pjmned tobeprfsent. The Judge WOitld|«e|Nr araituqga while. «aa,e^Mfuid e a m wiM^ i hav* kst>wn l^e |«neoner nt the bw fw twesityte tw«iHy«ii» Tsanr hafve kaown Mm in* timatd^;; fie Hved nest door to me, and i flaw him lamHy overy day. . I always thoaght to bore' a twy good etoraeter, ti#y a«iM' and haofbnMve. t pever Im- a^^tflAik mm,9t hip. lya^ai ioa jyd '.to; WUr/UMMD" with him. lie 94 ^§/il^m TfUAL. I' * Fenety . /c was on a Tbu^iday., i Ihink ^HlM 8tb of Ootobef. 1 Gun swear it was on H Thundfty. 1 went wtth hioi : was a passenger in tbe boat myself. Did not flooM bMk with bim^ » Urn l«lt th* boilt at PiHTtland. and gave im the key oi bis Mtittf room, y did not see him alter. .,, Xo AiToaMir Uinbral. — /won't swear it w|a the 8lb ; it w«8 aboat the 9Bnd when I oame baok* U the 8th oame on a Tbursdi^, 1 swear it was the 8th. It i, nould ikot b»Te been the Tbnndfty prerioas. r, / was ten days in Jieston a*ji was back tJMre on the aotb. K 'Hio deienoe hsTing no other witnesses > now x«ady, the Uoort wasatyodnted st ten ), loinutfli to five o'clock. ''■ WBi>Ni!8DAY, Dec. i5^ REV. W](U:.IAM SCOVIIi, ^(unined bjf Mr, ThompBOJU \ 1 l^ave k^own th« prittooer nbont two I^am one ortoe Trustees af the n»' Asvlutn. Be was the , Mrobi- I was l»BqBentIj brought in; , oon* tact wrth himT J thought Mm an oblig- *1n^ inofibuaite young man, H9 w«8 J very oieve r in his bnsin^s as att KtiitA' *>%eet. J bllief e be has bitoti in a gtkxl c ImsiheMi of late ye«r». Until tMs iiiitter I transpired / uWw henrd Anything '] MMinst bis general dunMHwr. As tarns /knew be was sober and industriootu •TH^^VMI tfom What yroa mw ot Mm . anglcoew Q^.bJg oh ( ir<« ^r would you ))elteve blm caj^ableot |l>9,|uUnooluuvod Certainly npt,, . ^ t -j ^. „ .„j „ AS tsr a« /odiild jndtj^ ^ Wfiii jbeon- "• Utrty ^ikilable and gentle. Hot (tfoss-examlned .' ) "(fam n Civil BngliMir itt dhnri* of «he E^AN. A. Raiiweg^. MaVvnlRiOw Che prisoier swoe Sept 1811^ w4iflaili« Wriiiit- ' ed in««oaipaoy 01 which- J taoid oom- j( iDMii. He enlisted «s a peMwts^ but was ^ pronuotea to a I4«uteBnn«yr4li ?tli» ibl* lowing i^bruary . He in ; a« iMfoiijMVQt^ clever ii)i las buslneas. |b Jhrj »iiJ*fii ^mM^ %ii tl Wl seemed tO.)^ itery >i^. pose him a person onpablo of oommftting such a crime? /never think BO. saw anything to lead me to SAHtm V. THOXAS. / have known the prisoner for a num- ber of years, mor« particnlarly^ within the last two yeam as Secretary of the WigKins /nstitution of which be was aroblteot. He generally had the credit of uhdersUndlng his bueiness. J never saw toytnlng out of the way in bis dis- position more than other people gene- rally. Never knew him to be pMPlon- nte. As flir as / had anythlfig to do With him be was eentle and quiet. I would be sorry to believe any one oonld commit auoh a oriroe. Never saw any- thing in bis diaraoter to Inauce ine to l>elieve he would do it. J0«lt PABKS. "^''^ ' Jam a member of the Engineer tym- pany ; am now captain. Wos lieutenant when Mr. Boyd was captain. J have known the prisoner J think since Feb- ruary 1804. He was then promoted to be lleK^natit in the company. Have been ae very bus/ lati^v, ekc^ediniiy busy. My impression wis that he was « very good arohitect. He W48 reofunrkaMy amiable in his diapodi- tkaa^ rfttier easy wlien any arcMkge- ments were to bo made with regwtl to the oompaciy, willing to aaaefit, to. any- h4 Me'lued indultrt6u8. ' ties (tf seeing hIM; oomnany he well ladeed. JT never fltod^Wt^hloi. Tii^ of a very mild lti4)M J knew notldnt bg^Riai tar. ' -I ' Jipd|Llli|>iWeiil wilMiliiAi hiaitfncii MM *i* >i>lM»fsm> hiii > W'P f hi? <»»yaK t «a B< i\mt m i^vmmt>^ and cfittfifirSfMe , Nbimself very ^tault to'' .Mhewai^ Va AsnoalHoo. capabto of ODtdmitMng 8B*idi a erinie as ,, (4 7?>lr>. TROif^AB IfAYITT. •»•! '^^ii TJ^ai^ knbwn the prieorier dBjtSB^'^e waaaboy. Jw« not parMouiaiiy sb- qnainted Wltlt him. 7 flrat kikeW hlin whm to went to Bobool with nM^ own ta^r* JlMW«o6cMln contact wtth Mm occaaioaiUy..' Jtlmngbt lilm rnniM Jo- offensive boy, an^.^'i^ BfMine as a man. I am a magistrai^. ^ Hel«te employed by tlw^nsaipM tnit ii ^ thia aaaacn, prspnring ateni Jer:lmpniv!ain«ita on tiie gaol. Mfta9p0av«Nl;^%» be a» competent mtak-rtl " m vuukdohig a larm, iMipi- Coipmittea of fieaaiOQf a||i- KOf^S wheabewiSi 'ajr^- ad.Xam'S4rtl?%oi^at there ^^ a^V- tklhgag«th^lit»&i\»8l cbaraofa^'iittlli ttia%Mtt«p%bb lisaaik Hkdimg irbin Jhat.f'lliMr itt lita eondnet, and rs flu- as knowaoiu^ iS^om any thing / have seen of blih jTliwe no reason f« b^eve Um oagisbto of eSich a JarioMh I Imte knoi^ ihi pldsoaMV> ft' M ; 4 yOara. Hlemadkdkawliigafortnie^swttS yoarsaiaee. Bav#<£r««iMntl(f cie^, bifn «ijRee. X think j: iiave b^d oppoi$«iiA- ties of forming an, oBlnion ofkla olifiiio- tfsr. The transactlpn^ 9!¥^i s>^)M^^<^X. to me In^ buslnees poi# of view, and / Was fhVoonibly impreknMW)Ltraio7 I ilever skw attythfttf fili^'**"^- ^ but mildnese; I7h never' hilMrd anV' tftlni Whett Jhenirdtie WMtmalS&itilTvtttvM to give cre««to IM oliiri^ Mrimm^ fittte, that ta all #teatt%ttfi 'il m pin smt Any- thing i» his •oiuiaiet to iMd' BMrtttHM- lie veks eonUl'odtoniit -' ." Hiiyaa^B;-^#ft^ ->'v. ■■,•,.• ' riaia»af^lliu>t«tif4r.* Fl^i^^klb^n the firttoci«^ dnrink Iton jeitrs^ iMi ibti- maiely. bait I lAymftat hlni ooMSioiHttry KlSfe katyiitwineso^^ ^i i Ml i ao ttofcs'WHh klm, saw agooddenlef Hin tetlfeat w«y. /always thougki hii^isMatttoa qniSt andinofffltosiva^ X Hitak tai Wi bually anga«sd teJMafwMBaiqia. if very clever for a nun^iiia agtb, \Jav^ cringe wlt^ which he Is charged. Jnave kifown the prisoner 4 or 5 yearn at the utmost, /came little in coutaot with him. W^at business ho had to do in bis profession for md he did. / am no Judge, but he antiafled me. / onlv came hi contact with him iii tho wAy of bushfiess : his oondnot in that respect Was satisnotory to me I thonsht Mm bOnast and honourable. / Immi no op- portunity of forr "^ing an opinion of ma obatacter. Fraiu what I know of him / oerlainly did not believe him capable of committing such a' crime. We sell a u urn bar of pistols. Tiiey are not at all a leading article. X cannot sa.v whether the No. 22 lathe ordinary size pistol we soil, ^ylolerka would know fetter than I, as /attend very little to making ont orders. . WIIX^ n, KNOWJ^ES. tamatra^iHiaker. carry on businsss inSt. Johsi. Xesanined that trunk this mpeninf , (thetrunKJbroi^hc frook Boston). ^Tn^King frosi^ the wood m the cleets that is' an Ameifean trunk; it is Ameriosn w&i^ wood. We oevor use that wood hoKfhT-we use nruoe and pine, / bar^j Sii^.aosto of ^le timnks, made by ^ inme^ v^iev have po such wood. Uiu^pe rdly audit ilie trial On this nqint. Sir, ThotiukAi ^poaed to pht^ in the 4e* tKMdtbn taken belwe Uie Coroner to show «bnft Hin. Lofdiy tfaMi stated that eld Ifr. Uiut^ said thatthis was one of the tnutlcs ittade at hit ' &etpty . Attorney Oeiithral coiisented. This portion of Mn. Lor(H|> deiK))iiUoii fWi then tisad m follows :^ , ^'/to6kllr.Br«niMbdQwnto the opBoe stti sh6w4d him iha mtik. m ^mm- mM and io<^ed. and said ft looked like <^e mannfietored in his establishteest. Mfl.tobk'akhifeoat of his pocket and Ottt ^6 i^d of we dat on the top of the trunk. M put sdtfk of the wood in his mouth and chewed anC**^ there is no' do|^ the" we|e out dfnis eMnblliitment." This sv^m to hsr Blr». li(Mly on October ' We9, biaftite tW (XMpner, Wimtilfe.— llr.'liQntOe'and i getonr tifeets ikU «r. f%M»^: That Bnd ^f woodwi) wUrmJj^. We sometimes get wood. >it neviBjf Any while wood. » all > e«A Judee K^. Thsf is Am^ can wood. WenaaketMtbttomotiiwftOle pieee when jmmau^ dKnuaeTer put more 96 't»HB TRIAL: 'i*ir..i ik 'maeb 1 three pfMM. '^# pint fieire wider ttum the American pine, yt looks like nn American bottom. We often see the bottom of American trunks made of three pfeoen. We generally aae one board — never more than two, American pine is more brittle than oura. We seldom groove and tongue ouns. We generally give and dowel them . This is tangoed and grooved , Mr. ]dunroe'8 trimka in this respeet are BMide thANnnieaMoiira. Aa far a3 1 can judge tkw tarunk j|i;i»i'.4MMttcMi» JuaniifiM)* lo ATfouttrOmfmAL^-A hsw idvMqrs notioed Uiat Araerioan pine in their boxes is very brittle and knotty, /t has not so moch mp as ours; it i< whiter. Th^y irenorally uSe pme more knotty and brittle. The Americana get pine from this port, but J think not ofthia quality. We never put thei«e pieces in che bottom. ^ I can not swear that this is American pine. 1 can not swear' that Mr. B^nntob never puts three pieces in the bottom. There are C>mo Atneriean trunkk imj^rted here, bat ot 80 many as (brmerly; they don't im- port so ^any for the last eighteen months. ' Previous to that thejr weM imported large- ly , such, trunks as that. 1 nearer Imporfed i^y, but i tiave aeon many sent to tnti fbr rvjpairsf and / know prettjr wril an Amijri- olin trunk when J see it. The bottom Inreaks more Quickdy out of Ameriean trunks thao otti of otttis. I am a merobaot doing businefa in St> y Jofaa . X l^va known the prisoner auuse iHBB. 1^ eoapJioyMl him then U^ make aon^e Q^tn^ drawinffi lor ahouae I wasbujld^ng. I 'ifpM mnoh satjfdied, t^i plciluw^ v^Uh his Wfwk i^togeUier. pp ^uob p6 that it ij^ve me jleaaure tq recflmDOifDa .Jbini to oihers. iHS^ig aaUsftobilT^ln 1866 I tJ^, JpIpb tQ malw jBOipe dra«ii|g« ior a ■fitiool haqpecNr* Waterloo stiteat, |b irhlon I was i^cil^ted. 1 aaked him it nf Vt^iild ^ve lAe diawinga aa his aubaeripifon. ,U^Af- nred not onbr to 4o so.bul^^so lop)^ pare t]b speonioatte>^Mtjwrin (he V(»ril tree of 9\mm* $m »• 8#- tol from tbo rook. Ifar. Baraond went down towaeda Collins', in a i3wWt:tibo«Qck. One, i think. w*Bt in*o tboaraeda, and ono stop- ped on tbo lood. i titiak it waa Mr. Young whi0 "ooot Into the woods. The nfbm waa leodi • TbO Oir -v^ oliMwt stmihat day. I dlifail tiak<» attj! particu- lar ^iotioo ii^hfti^fr a person on the nick dobid Vo seen HM the rdad, Thb grpilind ^ wo« a/UimjKMon $Xid ^rd the daY we Worb iwi». p4 Ifmv4 4ronl4 be soft in met l^eotbcr. It waa a moMI unbk<^y laoki«« pN* tip » wonoo tp Bf* ^n of}f»^ 0911 Mfxir4* 1 m HP* -ohiinro whether pemon olMwng m *ho raad near the ■Mhwagr ooMi bo mm. fieom tbo rofdc I bavo.kiMwai idfota . A* Mmanm olaMMt over since icamo |o«.lWo OQflMf r^^ years ago. wilhbiipaiMk . „ n^an^.ttpio the iime tbia jw i wyfadr i.»oovorlinoii«nsr- llnnip ugainalniii^ot mjvnm kaowWdge. jio genawHf hoA Uttte to, aay when 1 weot^or him 0V:kuBineaB. I mawet oaw iflK te lito madoit to* indaoa mo to — ^Up otmMo bi ooowiitting On6h iPv^-lliMt' aHooiiA wtm i THE TRIAli. pmainn ni out IM. A. B About a week IQUMtO SAW the etuij^t roBk the it opens ' On the liore ore between Smith & .99 ear- \,me st^e Iver with )l Hovea 1 a litUe ebofe oa J toward* the shots [onnyand *. They inker's i ws, i^ttd 1 i}rtadth«y d the p»P- lond went (!ttrefBtion. . One, i (nedtop- . Tbe „ Alttotit Jpartictt- fte Tbck le ground ,« day we be eait in > unbke^y h, in ofber whethfr n»r tt»e Jnoafreve. Your loot would sink two or three Inches in the mos-s. Did not notice the road particular! v . 1 think there was not any water near tne rock. Jt had not rained before. I think that there was a strip of barren land along the road at the left hand side goins out. 1 did not par- ticularly notice whether the roads were clean theuk We walked about for a time, Mr. Raymond then w«it towards OoUins'. Oanoll then fired a pistol, i think he was on the stone. J was on the Black River Road and Raymond weal a considerable distance towards Collins' ; Raymond said he heard the shot distinctly. Afterwards we met Nagy, the furrier, and Kenny came there, and they went, I should judge, about 600 yards towMNis Bunker's, and thoy said they beard a shot that was fired. i do not know the distance between the two roads, i did not observe whether a man on the rock conld be seen from the road. 1 have known the prisoner some time almost intimately. His disposi- tion was quiet, amiable and kind — particularly so. i shonld not think bim a perstan capable of committing such a crime. Be is almost the last person i would have suspected. JOmr RANKIN. J am Deputy Sheriff. Since Mnnroe's arrest, have bad him in custody and have seen bim several timesevery day. He has behaved as well aaany prisoner over befaAV- ed yet ; giving no trouble in any way what> ever. Since hiH arrest he has amused him- self by reading. 1 thuik I have Icaows him sTnoe shortly after he was bom. / ne- ver heard a woipd against him. Never came mnebia contact with him as a man. JAMn A. AABDINa. I am High Sheriff (tf the City and Goon- ty. I have knomi the prisoner as yoang mao Mnnroe twelve or iourteen years, pep* iMM^lo^iger. Porwg thost ysan heard 90tUl««mi9it bun ; rather tk» reresse. QeuMi fwmri isonsidered a leaawrkably qpietyAiiiag siu). ; I cannot Mty fromimr ^,faQli««a4 faring the^ last six ■iPOtiMlhi«»SMpatnataialofbiai. I $Qnm bim qftm foid inonsntifa in manner TTPimlmidya^* t.wmkbe wasaMsQlivie tei Ais bnsiiisw 1 MooUeet when ttw la- qnept wM^b«ld. Tbe pvoceedingB were going eaking tbia waa inadmissable evidence, but he «d not think that under the cir- cumstancaa tha Attomty General would have otnected to it. The Attorney Gene- ral would not withdraw his otyection, and the witneaa left the stand. NBWTON x'kAT. I work at carpenter work, and I have known the prisoner since IStfi quite inti- mateljT. i should say he was gentle in difqxmtion, off-handed and gentlemanly. He did not. in my pretience, or to my knowledge, show any vicious oaalitv. 1 always said 1 thought it impossiole he could ba guilty of tbia crime, i went out to the plaoe where the remaina were foond on Thursday last. J. J. Mnnrpe, the pri- soner's father was with me. 1 stood upon tbestone and Munvoo drove my horse |M8t, and / oottld see him distinotly as ha paaaad, could sea his aonntenanoa and Imow who hewaa. i oaltod to him aravy tima I saw hiu : 1 aaw hin at diflbreni pkoea. I saw him nearly oppoalte the atone on the road* and fagain towards Bunker'a. Wboi we wwitotttiledmy liorsaioaiiiw paoaa to gat something to tie him to, and 1 aould sea my boraa. Tbia waa Ihrther towacda CblHns^i, and therafore 1 did not ibitib it necoa<4ery to have n mnn drive in that di- rection. The snow was on the ground wh,m I was out there. I kicked it off the stone, to be sure that it was the stone. I raea-tured from the stone to the Qtiaco Iload ; the distance was 1275 teet. UnlejM yoi^had some mark to direct your attention, it would be impossible to see the piftoe whore the stone is from a distance. 1 did not try to asoei;tain whe- ther a man standing on the stone could be seen from the Qnaoo road. The distance from the stone to the Black River road is 48 paces in a direct line. To Attorney General— There was a tit- tle thicket between the stone and the road. I cannot say how far it extended towards Bunker's. It is a very small thicket any how. it is just so thick as to interfere with a person going to the road. There are some portions of it is thick enough to interrupt the view. For the greater part you cQuld see fh>m the rock a person pass- ing up the road at intervab. I can not say that you oould see a person fur the greater part of the distance, but you oould see him directly opposite and at several other places. I do not know the shape of the stone, i tied my horse near the path- way. In going in I tamed tb the left. I should say by the appearance of the stuff over it that the stoue is rather long. I measured the distance to the QntMo road with a tape line. Mr. J. J. Mdnroe held it with me. I have been working with Mr. Munroe since June and work«)d with him to last Saturday. I have not been dis- charged. To Mr. Thoxsoit. — Wbaiber I work with him or not makea no diiSnraace in this caae. I have no interest in thto case to make me awear or lie or tall anything but the truth. WM. BATARD, M. D, I have known the priscHMr a grea* many years, quite since he was a boy. As far as my oppoTtanities for observing hia went, I tnooght h»bad a good diqxisition, i never saw anything to indicate that he had a vieioua dif^pomtion. Ha appeared to. ha . particularly mild aad inofimisive. «lahoiikl' not think that lio was a man (» oonuwii. a orima like this« (Woman's aknll shown,)— There are no asMia hv winah I ohi toU wliather this bdcmgeatoa aaala or feiala, tianaially the bones of the mala are kttgaraod tiiiidc- er. but there ax« ae aaany flsoaptioBa that thia cannot be sancdad a« a rtua. This is ii thick skull. Ko awatomia* woold ba justified in saying, mnHif iboai t>ie vfh 1(0 THE TaiAL. pcarnr.ce ufa skull, whether it belotijjed to a ninle or feujHle. I hnvo hmd umny innle Hkulls thinner thnn thi^. (Uun«M Hiiown^. 1 doni't >^'ant tu look at thetM, for 1 couUi not pretend to tell withiiut the whole ske letMii whether they bulontfed Ut a mule ur fejiniile, and then I could not Hpenk puHi- tively. The boneH of the pelvis are gener- all;y widc-r and deeper in the ItHimle. No one could tell iroiu thefrthe child from the tooth, uud«r any cir- cniitstanucM. Children are tH)U)ctiuieH born iR'ith tcoth. I have had three ca^iCM in uay ttwn praoiice in which children were born with the hiciHorH and ic i» recorded that a child went to 7 years without teeth. I b&xe .seen a child go to '22 inontha without teeth. If i found a tooth with tho moin< brane u))on it unbroken which accretett the natter Irou which the tooth Ih formed, and which srows thin as the tooth begiDR to protrude, and finally disappearv, 1 would be able to form an opinion ; but I have seen teetli when protruded have the onamel n> imperfect that unletw 1 saw the tooth oove- rea with that uemhrane I could form i;o opinion, I have seen, a»a coDttequenoe of dtaeuse, the enamel on a tooth 8o corroded or worn away aa to be no guide to enable any one to form any opinion. I can't de- tect any tottinbrane upon this, but there miKht have been. The atmosphere bbs little effect upon enamel, but it would kave had effect on the membrane, if the tooth were covered with it. The atmos- phere has little effect upon the enamel, when perfect ; otherwise it would waste the tooth. It would act more upon the enamel of the fir6t tooth, bet^uise of its not l!)eing so perfoot, than upon the enamel of the second. 11 a body was left dead on the 31st ot Oct., and exposed to the atmosphere, when trould it become so offensive as to be neces- sarily observed by paseors bf T Svory thing must depend «pm tbe state oftheatmoKihere. A body while ftoten would noi deewDo^ose. After it becaoie tkewed^ 1 should aay the dteompoeitkn would follow so fiut thtt the luell would be perceived ISO to lft» liwt OK Mnch ot ooui'se would depend upon position and the way the wind bhnft I tUbk deoom^ sition would set in more n^idly in a body thoroughly thawed than in one newly kill- ed in sprinff. Cartridge No, ^ shoirn. If a pistol with a ovrtcidge Of this eiie were disebargr'u oloiMr to t^e head, would the ball paa tht^Bf^f . - I am not prepared to say. Much d«*- pends on the strength of the detonating powder nnd the diHtance at which it was tired. My imprrsninn is that it would not. A larger one certai.ily would unloas the pijwder was bad I certainly should ex- pect it would Mtrikc tlie other tude of the skull. Itiita question '^uite undecided whether a Imli would |»asH moreeaHily through tho brain tlian through water. My own iropressioL is that it would. Water posscKses extraordinary powers of re»istance. 1 think more than the brain. To j\ttobnkv (ixNKRAii— 1 won't say whe'her this tooth was out or not. Three months is veiy early tor children to cut their teeth. Four months is alsw early. It more frcquentlv occurs ac seven. ' 1 think that when a obtld culn its teeth at three monts 1 would expect the molar teeth to be cut early also. If the weather was warm nnd rainy in November, I should expect decomposition to take place at once in an exposed body. If dooomposition set in be* fore thn body was frozen, then I think it would be much more rapid when tho body thawed than it would be if a bod^ had never frozen. • Decomposition eertaioly would not go on while the body was frozen. The strength of the smell would certainly depend upon the extent to which decom- position extended. Even after a thaw, cold would arrest decomposition again. Of course there would not be so strong a smell ifportions of the body were devour* ed by animals, oEoaox aiCKS. I live in Brussells sit'eet. I am a trunk maker, I know the prisoner, I have known him about three years. His office is in the shop and ho seemed to he very busy. I knew Sarah Margaret Vail. I saw her several times, and saw her on the City road. 1 can't say how often. She was visiting her sister, Mrs. Jenkins. I believe her sister then lived on the City road. I can't tell exactly what tiase that wao. I think it was the suoimer before I went to the Trunk Factory, and that was three years ago. I thiuk she resemUed her aieter, Mrs. Jenkins, a good deal. She niifht be taller and sho mighta't be as tall. I eenldn't say. 1 seen her hair down one donr. I can say it was light hair, but may thug else I can't say. I seen her and her nieoe, Mary Jenkins, out on the road to- gether. The last time I saw her to my certain knowledge was on the wharf, the wbatf from which the American stean. host leaves. That was f the ecideU water, would. bmin- »'t »y Three to cut rly. It I think 1 three ith to be a wftrm I expect ice in an It in be • hink it the body lad never y would 5n. The certninly I decom- n thaw, I again. iTong a devour* I a trunk 1 have lis office I be very I Vail. I on the en. She >kins. I [the City liae that Ibetbre I khat WM [lUed -, She >BstaU. lown one Ibtttwiy 1 and ber lioad to- to my |h»rf, tte steaB. ,— find oertain* >Mitthat 1 Wfw working up tha railway at Brundage n Point removing hounes, and I came down on the Saturday night. It wam nretty late when 1 went down to the hont. It wan a darit heavy morning. She wtut l^ing along ttie wharVtownnis thesteumcr. No one wan with hor. John Munruo p:iH- Hcd on a little before that on his way to the Atenmer. lie patiMod me about the cor- ner oft ho freight houso. lie did not Hpeak to me and did not seem to notice me. I did not nee her go on t>oard the boat. I wouldn't Bwenr too pesitive it was her be- cauflo it woM a long time since I Raw her. When you saw her at that time wboui did you puppofle her to bo? I didnH bother my bead who she wan. Whom did you suppuHo her to ite at that time ? i didn't suppose my head abo berutthat time, because I had very little .\ce some days after when /began to thinic who she was. Looking back now, who do you think it was ? i now believe it to Ije Mies Vail. To Attt . ^y General— i vill he 23 years of age in ^pril. My father is dead. J live with my mother in lirussells St. i only said Miss Vuil's hair was j-ellow. J didn't mean yellow. That was not my evi- dence. 1 said light. If yon can make a meaning out of it I can't 1 cun't tell how far down the wiiavf / saw Miss Vail. Hhe had a baby in her arms. Its face was turn- ed half round to mc. 1 am sure of that. i can't think how far down she was. 1 iiave no right to think. 2 thought it was Miss Vnil. 1 cannot tell how many days- after I began to think who she was. 1 did not sav I did not see her go on board the boat, I was not asked, i was thinking who it waK 1 saw going down the wharf,and John — Here the witness stopped. The Attorney General pressed him to say whe- ther John went down with her. He deni- ed he had said so. He said — i do not speak too positively whether it was Miss Vail or about anything. J saw her on City Road. I learnt bcr name by asking who she was. It is a habit to ask who persons are whom you see walking with one you know. I caunot tell you when I found out that girl's name. H wtis befoi*e I went to the Trunk Factory. I was then living in Meadow street, Portland. I can't tell how she was dressed. Sfae was bareb^ided I can't tell you how her niece was dressed or what she wore, r remftrked Miss V«n h«ft»a«B her hair was loo«>me weeks before I told Kilpatrick ; it wu itfter the inquest I went to work with . j nroc, and I am at work wiiili him still. ( .said that Miss Vail and Mrs, Jonkin* resembled one "lujther : cannofcsaywhf 'jrthej reser Med one an- other in heiftht or in tf 'i c.ior of the hair or in complexion, or lether their teetli wore alike ; can'twv w '.ether Mrs. Jenkins , wivs a foot higher; -.md the last time, to my certain knowledjie I saw Mi-^s Vail was on the wharf; will not be too nositive now ; won't swear now. I won't sweur tj any article of her clothing, whether she had a lionnefc or hnt or hoi)d, or whether she had an umbrella in her hand : will swear she had not one over her hen, I. 1 think she had a sacque on ; cm sny it vas ^ gray, but will not swaar to an article of her ' clothing. 1 will not andertake to pay she had on a blue sacauo or a red one. When asked again he sain— if it was a red one as- suredly I would remember it ; won't swear , she had it on at all. I said 1 thoug'it it . was on a Saturday night; know Hallow- e'en is in the end of October ; that I came down from Brundage's Point— won't say positively. I was in the habit of coming down during the week for things for the man I worked with. This man was Mr. Charlton. I will not swear that 1 was not , with him on the .second of Movember. I don't know what.Mr. Charlton's Chris- tian name is: asked what Miss Tail's name was ; never asked what Mr. C.'a Christian name was ; it did not suit me. Wouldn't be a bit too positive that I was not at BriMidage's Point, In the employ- ment; of Mr. Chartlton that day ; will not 8W6ar positively tbat I was not. Wiil not swear that I was not at Brundage's Point in the employment of Mr. Charlton frooi ^i^mmf mmmm IM THE TRIAL. ber ; would not vw^ar to th« tlm« I wao there at all. The question was frequent* 1 y repeated, and be always HaUl bejrould not swear. He again said, I wascVrtain- , ly on the wharf on Nov, 2iid. I was not up there all the time from October ?l7th to November 9th. I eamedown on rjat- ' iirday nieht ; did not swear that I would not say that it was on Saturday night I V, came down. I ottma down every Ssturday night but one; that was not ^he one. I will now Rwear that I came down that Sa- turday night. There was something par- ticular about it— it was Hallowe'en. Don't know where I was on Sunday. Know I was at home, for I g-enerally spend Sun- days at home. Went down to the whdrf that morning just to see if any one I knew was going away. I just think It was a dark, heavy morning. There was nothing particular to direct my attention to it, only I bejjan lately to 'try to re- member what sort of a day it was. This was more than a month ago ; it may be R.x weeks ago. It did not take me very long to remember it. Hearing of this event I then l>egan to think what sort of a morning it was. Until latelv I never mentioned this to any one but iSlilpatrlck. Wouldn't be too sure that she went on board tho steamer, and won't swear it was Miss Vail. I said idin't bother my bead about who she was wheto I saw her go down, and did not notice particular- ly ; it was a kind ot bother to me, and I commenced thinking about it ; can't say when I commenced thinking. What set it bothering your head? I ca^i't say. r don't ti)ink it was six months after : I don't think it was torec months, or as much as two months^ It wasn't a bother £:t all. It may be about six months. I can't say whether I was at work or not at the time. I was in St, John at the time. 1 can't say that either, for i some- t (lies went away. To Mr. Thomson : I knew Mary Alice Jenkins intimately, and seeing a strang- er with her, I askud who she was. Mary Alice was not grown up at that time; I took her to be 16 or 17. The woman I fiaw going down the wharf had a child in lier aiun.«. The face seemed fairuHar. That was what cause'^ me to reflect on it ' nftorvvards. i saw the face of the child '' turned towards me. Munroe passed me at tbe corner of the freight house. That was bet'oro I saw her, i do not say they , were together— both went in the'^direc- t on of tlie boat. The passengers v^ jnt into the iioat that day from the I'oats — from the eud of the wharf. That Avas the direction they took down the ■vvharf. I ttrst mentioned this to Kilpat- rick. This was after the inquest. Mr. Tbomwm : Then Ik aAroek you tliat tbiagirl that was aupposed to be mur- dereu was the girl you saw going down the wharf? Yes. From hearing Mr. Munroes story I was led to reflect on the subject. He (Mr. W.) wanted rae to say that I worked up at Brundage's, from October 27th to November 7th. I can't Say I worked the* s all that time. I nevor re- collect going np to the Point In the nine o'cloek boat but once, m^d 1 am not very sure of that once. " WIIililAM HOWARD, sworn. I know the prisoner, I knew Sarah Margaret Vail, of C'arloton, by eye- sight. Four or five years ago I was fin- ishing a house in Carleton- -John McKay and myself. The bouse is right off tlie SteamtK>at Wharf. Slie was pointed out to ine. When I was working at the K%uud House, about two years ago, I often saw her. She used to take a walk up as far as the Tower. I ol'teu met her. I knew where her father lived. I can't say that she lived there. She ws a fiue looking girl. I think her hair was dark brown— I did not notice the color much ; It was very glossy. The last time I saw her was Sown at the Steamboat Wharf. It was a dark, wet morning, it w^as a Monday morning. It was so w^t that I could not work outside. I live not far from the wharf, in St. Andrew's Street, near Queen Square, and when I am not at work I u^iually go down tosee the boat go away. 1 saw Miss Vail on the steamboat and Munroe standing beside her. I saw her going down tho wharf: my nephew was standing beside me, and nsked me if I knew the girl. I saw John Munroo at tlio head ot the wharf. Sho had on a black dross and I think a grey (;app. and sho had a child in her arms. The passengers went aboard that morn- ing from tho wharf right on to the saloon deck. Munroo was at the head of thf wharf. He stopped talking to a man, and after that he went down and went on bonril. I recollect well what the child had on .Slie had the cliild on her left arm, and it had oa a red and white Berlin hood. I think it had a rod cloak on, nut I would not be sure of th«t. The arms hid it. I took it to be a cloak. It wa'i something red. I said Munroe stood beside her on the deck, and they went down below and I saw nothing of 'them after that. I vol- untaHly sent word to Mr. Munroo what evidence I could give. To ATTonNKY QKNKnAii: It was three or four minuter before the last bell rang that I saw Mr. Munroo go on board tho steamer. He did not go down with hov tcjho boat. She was before hinr and iij TilBtBIAL. 108 »u ttiat mur- dowu nroe'a abject. that I )ctober isay I v^r rc- -.e nino ot very I knew byeyfi'- was firi- McKay off the ited out at the i ajjo, I Q a walk met her. I can't "-S a fine vas dark ir much ; [lie I saw i( Wharf. It was a yet that I not far s Street, en I am to see the i; on the ig beside 3 wharf: ine, and taw John arf. She U a srey ler artns. at inorn- le saloon ad of the a man, went on child had arm, and hood. I I would hid it. I iiictliing \e her on lolow and I vol- iroo what it. was three bell ranj; >ottrd tlie with hov n\t and LiJ was M eloM ^^h'tl^^ im tbal dsril* K* WM half the length of the wharf flrom her when he started after her. I was stan . ing on the other side of the wharf"' knew her well. There were plenty °' people going down at the same time! acme close (o her, some ranning, some walking; butnooae with her. I was at the lower end of the other side of the wharf. I saw her a long way ap the wharf. I was about thirty feet from her. I was not at the end of the wharf— I was about twenty feet from the end. There is a railing all the way down at each side of the floats. J was at the South side, she was at the North side. She was not more than tour or live feet from the rails on the North side. There was a great crowd going down., She was walking slowly and looked twice behind her. Munroe overtook her just as she was going on board. She went on board ahead and he was two or three feet be- hind. I am positive he went downstairs in the boat— I can't be mistaken on that point. I did not see him after. I think tliere was not much difference in size be- tween Uisa Vail and Mrs. Crear. I am satisfied there was not a half head be- tween them. Mrs. Crear's hair was the darkest. I never observed her teeth at all. The boat was a little higher than the top of the wharf. There was a plank from the wharf to the saloon deck of the boat. I think it was about high tide. I can't tell exactly what day ii was. Q.— Supposing high tide was half-past eleven, would the boat havo been in that position at eight o'(;lock? A.— If the boat remained thereuntil ten o'clock then she would have been twofoet higher than the wharf. I Btate it would be high tido about ten. The Attorney General produced the Almanac to Hhow It was high water at noon on November 2nd, but witness per- sisted in saying lie was not mistaken. He could not tell whether it was Novem- ber or October that ho saw this take place, but he was satisfied it was on a Monday morning. To Mr. Thom.son: My nephew went home to Bristol about «ix wt^eks agp. I am sure this was on a Monday mornmg. It was in the fall of the year. There was a groat rush from the South side of the wiiarf to the North side. The boat was a little higher than the wharf. The pro- menade deck was aboUt tuc level of the wharf. I noticed the plank right upon the saloon dock. It wax erected from the wharf to the promenade deck. This was the case for the prisoner. It was now half-past four o'clock. Mr. Thomson 'asked that he should not be pressed to comnicugc his address to the JqiT now. Re vsnitd Ubi*^ to ooOalt tbelmmenaejiMn of taatimony, ao f» to put the case of his client fairly. He would itotoooapy more fiian the fore- noon. The Attorney General wished to have Sermlssion if he desired to produce evi- ence in the morning to contradict the evidence given by Howard, and to show that by no possibility conld the boat have been in the posttion he described on the morning of November 2nd. Mr. Thomson oblected to the admission of such evidence, but the Judge thought he would admit it. The Court then adjourned ).UI Thurs- day morning at 10 o'clock. THURSDAY. mux n. muB, a witness who- was reloaed admittance by some of the constables on Wednesday afternoon, was called by Mr. Thomson, and said : — J am a shingle maker. 1 have known the prisoner for 86 years. As &r as i know ho was always mild and inofl^nsive. / never saw anything vicious in him. Was much surprised when I heard he vras ar- r^od. 1 could not believe it. Mr Thomson next spoke of the iraputa- tion thrown out by Calvin Powers that the hair put in his possession in order that he may try if it could be matched, was cut or t!\m(*ered with in some wny. Mf i Munroe, father of the prisoner, had sworn that he had not cut the hair, and he was prepared to put on the stand Mr. Jordan, m whose possession the hair remained the whole time. The Attorney General said that Mr, Thomson's statement in the case was quite sufficient. Mr.Thomson then proposed to read a tele- gram he received the night before; to this the Attorney General objected. The only way Mr. Thomson could now put any fact before the Uourt was by aflida- vit. After some time it appeared that thi» tolegram and another received this morning, referred to a witnms who was supposed to be able to give import- ant evidence — a farmer from Sussex — who was then in Court. He was called. BDWARD PRICK. I got a lady last fall a year ago at the hood of Looh Lomond. I was coming to St. John to market with my son from Sussex. We call that the back way. It is the w»iy I always come with my team. I came now to town on my own busi- ness;^ I was attending to it v/hen you sent for me. She camo into Mr. Craw- 1 focd'asooa aftanlgQtthore {this I 'Ixink iitlt the nead of Lake Lomond,— It is at the head nf the big lake, ftnyway. It Is where I always stop. She said she was waltlDf? to come In on the mall. The mail did not como along. iShe had with her a small child, from nine to twelve months old— a A-ery small child. She told me she would pay me to bring her in; I said all right; I would not allow the lady to walk, in at an^^ rate. Ou the way in she told me— Attorney General objected that what she said should be Ktatcd. Evidence as to her name admitted. Witness: The impresfilon of my son and me after we heard of this case — Objected to. witness : My impression is she called herself Mrs. Clarke. I am a poor hand at describing. She was a lowish si'/ed woman, dreseod in dark clothes, a black straw hat with dark ribbon, I think, crossed over the top of it. I don't know any more. I brought her into town to where the old hay scales were, near the Golden Ball. She got off there ; she said she would be in the market in the after- noon or morning and pay me, but I never saw htff after. The child had something like a tippet and a Berlin hood of white and red ou Its head. We talked all the way in. To Attorney General : I can't toll what day I left home. I can say what day I got home again. I got to St. John be- iween four and five o'clock in the after- noon ; I don't know what day of the week it was; I don't know if it was Saturday — I am certain it was not Sun- day. It took me from the afternoon of one day to tlie next eveninu;. I can't tell what day I got homo, but it was the night of the big snow storm. I got to St. John one afternoon, stayed here xintll the next afternoon, and vradied home the follow- ing night. That was the big storm that remained right on. I don't know tbct I can tell what month that was. Craw- ford's is about four miles above Bunker's right up the shore rond. I can't tell — it was on Saturday or Hnnday I saw this woman. I am ponitlve I was not a Sun- day from home. It could not have been on Saturday, i wouldn't state that i left home the next day after Sunday. It took me. a day to come from home to St. John. Q —Can you recollect whether this was in the end of November? A.— It was late ; 1 do not think it was the beginning of the month. \ To Mr. 'Thomson : I am sure I did not reniain over Sunday in St. John. It was jn the fore part of the week. To the best of my knowledge it was on Tue.sday, but can't be certain. TO^^IAb Mr..Ikelf«gHthtniaidi»ci tmit m ^m ... \ ,,{1 .''.ft ^"r- GEKTLKMIK OF TBI JCAT;-U BOW bcCOOKt ray duty to, address you upon the most import- ant ou« ever tried in this city and ooaaty : im'- portant for the individual interests involTr^ and the great interest it has excited in the eoiu- munity. I am satisfied, gentlftmen, tbatyoa will weigh the evidence carefully acd well, and that, should any doubt arise, you will xive the benefit of that doubt to the prisoner, and will lean to mercy. I have already spoken to you of the unsatisfsotory state of our crfniinal law, I raido my voice onoe more against it. I would rsuse my voice in my dying hour did the thought then floi^ii across my mind, against its luons' trous cruelty and in)ti8tice. It is not my duty now to argne the question of capital punish* men. Respecting that.and the right of <«ny .state or court to inflict it, we probably all hold dif- ''orent opinions, but it is an awful thing far any court, for any set of men in cola blood, by any maohinery of law, to take the life of a fel- low being. If you, gentleman, find a verdict of "guilty" in this ease not oae of you can escape the responsibility of so taking the life of a hn* man lieing, and when the scaffold in erected, and the bell is tolling, and the rupe is placed on the neck of the victim, in that drend hour not one of youoau eacapo responsibility for what is done. If. gentlemeut yonr conscience Justifies you in such a proceeding ; if you can reconcile this taking of life to your oonscienoe?, then let that rest between you and your God. Thank Qod no such re8pon«>ibility rests on me. I have dis- oharged my duty in this case to the best of my humble abiliUss. If I hod known thai^ this case would be conducted as it has been, I would have shrunk from the responsibility of under- taking the defence alone and unaided : but I little dreamed that such a course would be taken, and that every corner uf the country would be ransacked for every witnos* whoseevi- donoe could in any way tell against the prison- er. I thought it the duty of the crown as Parent Patrxn to t)£tabliih the innocence of tbo prisoner, were he tnnocent. OS to establish his guilt, were he guilty, buttuch has not been the course taken. While I admit that the greatest courtesy hns boon shown to myself personally; 1 must protect most solemnly against tho manner in which the ease has keen conducted, which falls little short of b^ing posi- tively blood*thiri>ty. The Counsel for tho prosecution asiumed the guilt of the prisoneri and appeared to think it their duty to obtain a conviction at all hazards. Such is not their duty. This is the first time 1 have over seen a ooae so conductedi and I hope it will be the last. It Is as much the duty of the crown to see that the innocent escapes as to itee that the TUfi AUK 105 1^ itrr"// tecomet import' ty; im- nvolvr! ho eom- tbat yoa rell, iind (jive the and will to yoa of llaw, I I would s thought ts uions' , my duty I punlsh- «n> state bold dif- ig far any id. by »ny of a fel- yerdict of lan escape e of abn- ected. and oed on the ur not 00 e at is done, ics you ill incile this an let that hank God bare dis- est of my t tbl« case I would of under- ed : but I would be countiy hoee evi- be prison- as Parent <)ttabliih innocent. ', buttuch lel admit showu to jHoIemnly has l^oen iervations. The cause is no light one. If it were a mere matter of money to be gained or Jo8t my languRire may seem too strong. But The lift of a husband, a father, a son, is in my hands, and I ctn not iu«tify my taking any rhether the life of a fellow being shall be taken away. It is a shame to our humanity, a foul blot on our Christianity. I ask. I implore each one of you, as you value happiness, as yoa hope for salvation, to lay your hands upon this law and say to thisOourtand this country that while this law exists no man's lite shHlI t)o taken by your verdict. That when the .-iccii-<>d is allowed to speak for htmself, then. uDd Mjt till then, yoa wid a>:quire into and pass jn4«itoettlap«RrbartMM0lia#«1H8. L«Aft^flf man of evidence. Take the evidi-fiee «r MW Crear. and eb^rve what a feelin* perm^es it. Whiles man's most malignant foe- may go on the stand to swear awav his life he is foreed to be silent Is this f lir T In it iu^t 7 I appeal to yon not to consent to pass jidfrinent on the evidence offered to you until tt)i.> most iniqui- tous law be sw»pt from the Statute Book. It iff bad enough when a person is E«>nt nnjnstly to the Penitentiary. The law then may make him amends and restore him to society. After you have rendered your verdict, and the Judgeba.^ pai>sed sentence, and the hangman has done his duty, and the corse is out down, and the out- raged earth has taken it to its bosom, what re- paration can be made? Th^re is no more dis- graceful record than that of th > criminal trials of Great Britain. Tbelf.ws which were so ad- ministered had their irrnund work in ferocity for Which they might find some parallel in the Oxt Testament, but certainly none in (he New. It was death for murder, death for arson, death for robbery, death for stealinir any sum biicrher than a shilling, death for fraudulent titatements by i\ bunkrupr, death f >r eyerything. and such 1,iw8 as those were carried out by judges andjurieii, and the I w. mercit'n) in thi.s as in other respects, refused the prisoner the poor benefir. of counsel. When f was a student counsel wna not allowed to luidress a Jury on behalf of a prisoner. Could anything be so monstrous. You can hardly believe it. I can now hardljr realize it myself. The time will nome when the present scene can bardiy be realized : when it can hardly be imagined that counsel begged uf ajoryio stand between a silent prisoner and voluble prosecutors. This case, gentlemen, I confe.^, is shrouded in myttery, which I can not clear up, which, perhaps, no man can clear up until the xecrets of all hearts are disclosed. It it is not madu clear as the sun-light buw dnre you take away thut man's life? I deny tbar. you have any such right. The mystery which surrounds the'ca:>e but resembles themy^' tery whieh surrounds ' the proriccution. tho management of which I never saw piirallelf>d. When the prisoner had been arraigned, and the 'Attorney General, everything atfeciing tho proceedings or altering the constitution ot the Court. Was not all this most unfair, Axain I implere vou to stand l>etween the prisoner and all this mys- tery, and all these efforts to socure his convie-* tion. Another peculiarity of this cabO is, that it rests entirely upon circurastiintinl evidence, the very worat evidence thiitciin stand against any num. It has been asserted thiit oirounistan- ticl evidence may (>o the Ftrougost and most re- liably, and I believe that the Judge in his charge to the Grand Jury expiesscd such views. From these views I entirely dissent. Circnm- stantiul evidence is must dangerous, unruliable. 1 KM THE TRIAL. filMiNg. IwMitnyriNdtolMarMr.TMfcibirtkAWifioMdd Mkte wMMlwftf hirliM- 9 ttit cUreniMtu»i»i srideiMcu ttromiw ! brnd. sad Ui« miDiaiar wm «mTku4 .Mid Mf- aa atr«ct •vidcnoat Mid I sm BoMurethat! teoeed to impriMnmsnt in a DmitraUary* H« 1 I Jaa diract avidanoat Mid I am sot aura tbat Hu Honor tha Judce did not two almilar lanca- ! a*t, baoanae it may bappan that peraona would ; suppoM tbey saw otben oummit some oriiua I and yet ba mMt>il;eii. Thnt sbows bow weak. I wretctied unti tuliible i< all buinan testimony ; ; but ia tbut a reanon why we shoald rely upon | vtUer evide;ico yet roitra wretobed and unreli- ; utile? if the iiroseoutins counsel admit tbat | direct evidence it* so unreliable, how, in the ' nnme of God, oan they ask you to tind a verdict ! wUea this uircuuistuntiul evidence u mado up I ofdirect evidence, end when, if one link in tbe I chain is wnntii g uoniinuity is Kone.CiroutnstHn- I tial evidence iseimplv i> i^uuiber otlinKs proved I by direct evidenuu, and frem that you are called ; upon to form u cc'nolu8u>n. From fallible evi- j de«>co, an infailiule conclusion I Oh I most; hideous reaMoniiiK, t evidence, and to regret that language of a directly contrary toodeucy had been used by authuiirios »if uu mean note. Hueti 'auguage, said Mr. Thomsim, has been used in tbiii Ouurt, and against it I uiUbt emphatically protest. One caiio referred lo was thut in which the Ai.uo Domini water mark on paper, which wasufuaily held to be conclusivu evideuce, wns shown lu liave been put in iho year boiore that whose date it bore. iSow there, the lenrued counsd Continued, i.s a tact iu iliat most ineluiicholy re- cord that, lime iificr tiuia, men wo:e sent to the scaffold for forKt-ry, and it whs now known that many of them had b<:en ooudoiuned utiju.Uly. lie also cited trora the hamo wurk the case of Kir T. JJavenwort, whu, attaoUo.1 and rob- bed, swore that certain parties robbed him. I'urtunately they Hucciwied in proving an alibi. bjiue time after robberAvtro arrested, in their piMsession was found the property stolen from fiirlhoma:^, and it v/us nscur'^ained that they wore the men WHO robbed him. Ho gave com- pensation to tlie men he bnd unjustly accused. Baroii Aldcr.ioii aliid found it uccesrliitures have not seen fit to alter tha law of evideuce, Judges have seen the ne- cessity of thus cautioning Jurors. Kuviowers und thioKars of every class begin to see the nec< ssity for a chsnue, and tbe dav will soon arrive whan it will be altered in Englaad. I hope it will s(>on bealtered too in thu Liuminion. Take the ca«eof a cUrgyman and his wife which rMceutly excited su<;h attention in Kngland. A clergyman and his wifo travelled iu a railway carriage with a yo'ing woman who, at one of tue stations gavo the clergyman iu charge for having ounimiMed an indecent assault. lier evidence was most positive, and ttool the te^it oftuamost iievero oross-oxamiuuiion. iary« than taraad tha tabiaa on taa yoaa« woman, charging bar with peijary. In thia oaaa his wife was a ooinpetent witneas, and on tba a^idenoa of the two. which tha law requires, tba yonnc woman wa» convicted of perjury.Thus to the atar- nal disgrace of Bnglish junapindoDoe thesa two liarties were oonviotad at the sane aaalMSibafore the same- judge, each on the evidanoe of the other. The Home "Secretary could not under- stand such justice as that and the clergy man wac sot free, pardoned. There is now no means by which an innocent man can procure reversal nf a false conviction. If it is discovered after his conviction tbat ho is really innocent a royul pardon must issue, to a man guilty ot no offence. That is the law. If there is to bo any reform any where in our Jurisprudence the axe^shouid be laid at the root. If a man oin be shown in- nocent, the ronobinery for a aolemn reversal of the false conviction should at once be estab- lisbeusiue!!8 transaction, and to lend you to con- clude ibiit tiiid was .Sarah Margaret Vail. That is not aaou);h in such a cnse as tbis,whero life is at stake. If we sec murder cummitted and string the murderer up to the lamp post, we our- selves become murderers. The comt>act which binds society together requires that in such cases charges of onmephall be proveuoh case cannot avail : there must be poxitire. coaelu- sive,uooonti-overted testimony. The next point fir your consideration is, were those remains Inund out there the remains of Sarah Mar- garet Vail ? Unlesis that is established by indubitable unoontroverted testimony, your verdict must bo nn acquittal. I ■mow not how far the statements which have appeared in the newspapers, from time to time, may have affected your iudgment and in- clined you to look upon the evidence on all tliesu points with mindiii prejudiced against thu prisorcr, but I would remind you that justice suuuld alivays bo largely tempered with mercy, woaut ibUwife trideooe younc tk«*t6r- hese two w,b«fore )e of th« )t under- erRymaa to mo&nH ) reversAi red after It li royal ofifenee. ly reform terahould ibown • Bvursal of be estab- iras tnken ud of the «re is no evidence 1 mast be a upon it ing aTor- wm Sarah eoasifltent d commits y Miy. ao- wo to di> liw impose «coant for d vend the jOC us ro indeed in Is there whom th« iret Vail ? y evideooe Where is „ of is Srt - eu to con- Voil. Thiit lero life is nitted and oat, we our- »act which such cases courts of _,e evidence md Jury to buoh onso re. ooBclu- noxt (loint ise romaina iarah Mar- eatablished teittiinouy. quittal. I rbioh have me to tiuio, ^. and in- lenoe on nil against the that justice with uercy. THUftUL. 107 ir, Iftbcpr^adiM lie miad antnat tat priaoati. ^ so ortaUd oava found their waj into the lury box, I entreat you to direst younelvea of tbem. I know how difficult it is tn divtst tho mind of prcjudieet once exeited. It waa bad enoaKb that etutements at variance with the laws of oridenoe. admitted at the preliminarv investi- KQtions by gentlemen not very veil ncQualuted with that law, shouM have been published ; but some of the paper? went oven farther than thi?, and even Hoineof the religious papers undertook to sum un the eviilencu, hold the dcale* of lui^- tice. woiirh the evidence, and decide adversely to the prisonnr. (liool God I are wo in a Chris- tain country 1 Did not tbedo writers knew that this mtin would have to undergo a trial on thi^ charge ? VVa« it riKht. was it fair, waa It Chris- tian« to laboi* thus to create prrjudico against hinj 7 Do they forget that the same Qou who giive the coinmanHttiont, ''Thou shall not kill," also comiuHuded "Thou shalt not bear faUe evi- dence HgaioRt thy neighbor?" Did they not know that although the old law was given amidst the loud and dreadful thunders of Sina<, a new and bettor law was ushered in under dif- ferent and vastly contrustiug circumstances; the one amidft tempests and lightnings, the hurri cuue and the whirlwind; the other in (he still- ness of a calm, cleiir nigot, when the shepherds heard the soug uf angel' and a babe lay in a uangor. The Uod who thuf came to save us Kave men a new cummandment which superseded tnedread|fulJewii-ou imagiae that thin young man, stjuidinK hivb m his profession, overwhelmed with busiue."?, netting $:^K)0 to $tOOO a year, would take away life for such a sum as $500. is all decency ban- ished from the iiind, that such a suspicion can be harbored ? Why, the poorest boxgar would not commit so great a orime for so paltry asuiu. It is simply incredible. No one can believe it. What could have beau his motive? If be com- mitted suoh a crime. God alone knew it. ^'o humau eye hod seen him commit it. n'< human ear beard him, nor can human comprehension graap the motive that compollod him. Then consider that the man who intends to oominit murder chooses secrecy, silence, dark Be8i>, What secrecy was there in theconductof the prisoner? In broad day litfbt, in one of the priucipul streets of the most populous city of the Province he takes a ooaohmau off the standi drives to a hotel, there takes up this woman, thou drivoi out to tho Lake in view of the whole communi- ty. If this WAS a preparation for murder the aunais of tho world present no parallel to this cuSe, nor oould anjr one pi esent, in his wildest day dreams, have imagined any thing so prepos- terous as that be should thus, in broad day. haro gone to commit such a crime in the ligot uf that sun which at the instant should have been darkened. Good tiod 1 it is incredible. Tho onso of the Crown was that he contemplated murder when he drove out on Monday* Can you be- lieve anything like that? Why in the rame of heaven, or rather of the Prince of Darkness, did he not do it on that duy ? Tho roiul was then as deserted of passenKcrs as on the Saturday. That was proved by all the witnesses, if hii own .^tory wus not the true one, what took him out v>n Monday? Why wait an hour and a auartur out ut that place On his return to Bunker's he staccd openly in presence of Bun- ker, and without any attempt at conooalmcot that tUpy mount to go out again. I a»k you to say whether at that time he had murder in hi.) heart. Will voubulivoit? A miin having mur- der in his heart does nor. proclaim it ill this way. Was this tho conduct ot an innocent man, or of nneintunding to commit murder? You lanfX be satisfied that it w:i3 the conduct of an inuo- cent man. If he wished to commit this murdcr wny did ho not do it when they wore together in the States. In a large city like Uostou there were many onpurtunitios. They were strangers inastrauKo land. Mo one knew him or her. Completely under bis control, as she wus said to be, what was there to prevent -hisdocoying her into a place suited for such a deed, and then committing it uniier cover of darkness, if her body wore aftorwanls found no ono would Know her, H^ suspicion woulil ever fasten upon him. Can jou believe that he would bring thi« girl homv, where she anahe were known, and thou com- mit this deed. if«<.>. he should he in a lunatic asylum, tie certainly eau't be in his auusc''. Let us follow thif matter up. What dvios he do? He goes to FreUericion on the Thursday, and does not leave that place dntil Friday after- noon. It was late in the season, aud iirubably it was late in the night or early next morning that ho arrived in St. John. I want you to maik 109^ Tm'mm tklfi especially, bee«n?e Murf BDieV iitAte4 that on Vrldftjr a gentleman naHed on Mrs. Clarke and'went to ber roum. There can be no doubt on that point, for when further qne#tU>ned by the Attorney Qoneral shesrid i^tie remembered the day nn that on which the hnd most work to do She said she did not know who it was. Who was that man? Certainly not thA prisoner at the bar. Who was this man? what arrangement wnp then made between him and the woman ? With this mys- tery surrouoding the case what riirht have jott to presume that the prisoner mur- 'deredher. If he was so fooli«>h as te bring her down from Boston to this city, where every step ho took wns fraught viih dan- ger, why at loabt did he not make some at- tempt at conceal men r. Why did he not get a bug^ry as ho might have done and tako her up nt some street ourner and drive h«r to the place where he m'^ant to periietrate this deed ? but he did not do this. Did you ever hear atiytbing like this 7 He took the same hackm-m with him, and this man, Worden, says stopped near the place where the remains wer* foand. Wor* der looked back nnd .»aw Munvoe and the wo- m:in walking towards Collins'^, the man on one side, the woman with her child on the other. You must assume that they retraced their steps and went into that pUce. Am I misre- presenting the evidence ? That that is the only concluiiion you can arrive at, I can show you on this plan. He Buys he stepped there (pointing to plan). How 1 ng would that coach be in sight ? I assert it would be almost to the Forks, Before he could have turned back to commit murder in this place, the coachman must have passed the Porks. What time would tbu< ol- ajise? Say five minutes. He must have walked for that time towards CoIIins's and then retra- ced his steps. Now what sort of plaje was thnt to take a woman into for any purpose after those heavy rains. On4y two nights before 25 per cent .)f all the rain of that wet month had luUen. Could hf have «rot a woman in thero for anv purpose. Wrtut would induce her to drag herself in there. Now there is a path, then there was none. Would she voluntarily go ii)t> that swampy, horrib'e hole. Incieditblo. He darent commit murder on the road and drag hor body in. That was too monstrous a hypo- thesis. How in the name of heaven did he get her in. Then remember th.itall the way on the right hand side there are woods ii: which a short distance from the road they would be thorouKhly concealed, and from which only one roHd need be watched. Yet it is said that he took her in between two roads and placed him- S'ilf in a position where he could be observed from two roads, fs this probable, is it credi- ble ? If he acted so, then he wns a candidate for the Lunatic Asylum. Take the evidence of George Bunker. Hesaysthut Munroe oame to the hoHse in half an hour to forty minutes after the coach. They should not allow a witness to stretch the time when they were trying a man for his Hie. but take the shortest time, or allow the whole time, the fullest time, what time had he to ommit this crime. The prosecution took piiins to show that after committing the crime he waited to cover the body with moss and t> cut branches to cover it, and thwi he hnd to walk tkree quarters of a mile. This could not bo done in le.<8 than fifteen minutes, nnd it seems incredible to me that he could walk that distance in that time on those bad roads. Then what w(U! his manner when he arrived at Bunk - cr'.s. It was caid that it was perturbed. Does the evirieneo show that hi? appearance was any- tbing but what a man would show after a rapid walk. Banker and Worden observed nothing t mttTP. Alltliat waa •ff*\nst him wn«, ttiht be said he wns in aburnr'to get into town. A man steeped to thellps in crime, who earns his daily breaa by taking human lite, whom long prac- tice in crime had rendered callous, could not be more calm in his demeanor after the perpetration of sujh a crime than the prisoner was. Will you say that he was a mnn steeped to the lips in crime ? Yet he must be if he could have done nil this, and if you believe thi' testi- inonr. When a man commits such a crime for the first time, he showd it in his looks, his man- ner, bis demeanor. He goes down to the wharf on Monday to get her luggage checked, aod ac- cording to the statement of Marshall, says he had just time to see Miss Vail, give her the checks, and say good bye. The law of England does not favour such oonf f sions as these. It is harsh enough, severe enwusth, cruel enough, without authorising its officers to crosa-ciueation and torture the prisoners in their cnstudyinto making confessions, to be used as wi'^ence against them. If the evidence of .John .1. Muti- roe and Potts is true, what can the public think «if the conduct of John R. Marshall, whose duty it is to protect the pri'oners when in his custo- dy—ho who had met this prisoner in the lamily circle, had known him from boyhood, had wor- shipped before the same altar with him, and under the guise of friendship entered his cell and said. "Now John, if there is any one in whom you should have confidence, it i^ in roe; I have known you and your fimily, and >our friends, and whatever you say to me shall bo in strict confidence." and then, when he had thus be- trayed his victim into confexsioi) immediately repeats what he htxl been toM to the nnthor.- ties, This is wliat John R. Marshall dir^. In iruiseof a serpent he obtained a confessio . and then betrayed the confidence of a man he ailed hisftiend. No conduct could be more despi'a- ble, mean and contemptible than this— nothing mor»horriblein a tlhristiun—nothing morerc- Crehensible in an officer of the l;i.w. He should e dismis.''ed at once, if hi^ evidence is true, as unfit for the position he occupies. If it is un- true, there is most wilful, delibcrnte, malignant perjury. Based on this statement is the whole* or nearly the whole of the evidence. I do not envy the feel incs John K. Marshall must expe- rienoeif his miserable, contemptible, sneakiiit; oottduct succeed in making a cane. He would succeed by prostituting friendship, and at the expense of respectability, and he was goinir to say of character, but he had none to lose. The man who could pay such a price to secure a conviction was entitled to little credit in any community. He admits that he touched Jones' foot when Mun roe was making that stateraeni.. If this wa.i accidental, ns Jones said, how wou d it have impressed it<*o'f on the mind of Jone?. If ho accidentally touched the foot of one of the jury fn pas.*ln«r would either remember it half an hour after? If it had a sienificance, then it was what I charged. Let us now pursue ihe thread of this reasonini; It is said that he got the trunks put on board the steamer. Nowhere wos another most extraordinarv feature of the case. Ii he was guilty he must have the checks. What so ea.sy as for liim to ko t^ B.)8tcn, ^ehd a messenger from any hotel with the ohecas and get the trunks. Ho could easily have found a satisfictory pretext for the journey. Would not a guilty man hare done that ? Would be not have removed such evidence of his guilt? Doe4 it not show conelasively that he is innocent, that he had not done so. Athotber thing. Would not a guilty man have removed all tho clothes from the remains. All evidence ot iden- tity would have been destroyed then. No one ever knew u man act in such a manner a.s TU£ TRIAL 100 hi I'e ^ niHn (daily [ prao- could ff ih« rl!»on»r ii>e(l to could 4 tesri- itne lor a m»n- 3 wharf nod ac- layB he ler the Inglond 9. It is snouKbt lueation xly int'» J. Mmi- ic think nee dut/ iH custo- D lomily I ad wor- iin, and his cell In whom , I have friends, in 8trict thus be- lediatelf iin'hor.- dif*. In m\n , and Ihe a) led dtspi'K- -nothir.8 more rc- e should true, as it is an- _ja.Ugniint le whole* ; d(. not U8t cxpo- (inenkiui; e would at the Koin«r to ■ise. The secure a it in anv jtl Jones' :ate'neni. jw wou d of J«ne?. )f one of ember it noe, then ur*uc the athcKOt ^ow here re of the e check*, en, send iieciC9 and [e found a "oulrt not Id he not It? Doe* Bnnocenf, r thin;. -td alt tho |e ot idcn - en. No lanner as i hemiiFt have acted if be, iigai)ty, ImvinK nil the evidoncR itKAin!d : otherwise be could have cunoealed hiuiKelf But whnt doe« be do? The Inquest g en oa tor eight or '.en days beforn any tui«- t>ioion. att4iched to him. Ho attends to his lusiness at the Kaol. ith<>wing no unnasinefs or trepidatioD or alteration in his manoer. Fol- low this up, (iuilt always hides it bead. Did be hide bi^ huad ? The moment it came out that the police were luokinc tor bis brother treorge. he came to me. Isaid.to bim of course, Munroe, you are inuooent. Go to the Coroner, tell him they are lookinK for tho wronic man, iuid (five yourEolf up. and he did so. Did you everhe.urof a guilty man who did a thins of that sort. Tbrouitbuut i|^o whole irvestigation there is no trepidation— no change of demeanor, {purely this ought to plead for the man. barely hid previous character nhould plead for him. The whole idontiticiiiion oi the olwlhiug re>rought up, Dues not this omia* si'in seem strange. V.'hilo they i-ent ii> Uostoa fur witneii.sw renpectiBK the tnink, one mostini« portant i ieoe of tei^timony they left behind-- the pa8'«aid to huve been committed, ' I am told that Marshal and Powers were out at the grounds mivking experiments with pistol ahots. No evidence was given of such experi- ments. If they were made, and the evidence withheldt then were (hey doubly damned. No doubt it waa withheld beoause it would tell in favor of the prisoner. Nothing more horrible could be conceived. How dare they act in tbig maoner. No language is too strong to stig* matite aneh conduot. Another thing yo4 should remember, when the crime ig jaid te have been committed the folia«e waa fhllen. The place eould be seen from the road, and a peraon paasing would have his at" tentiea immediately attracted hy human flgures eapecially by a female in a colored dresa. The trial of openoer Cowper for the murder of Miss Stout, a Quakeress, is another -)f the many caaes that ahow how unreliable is circumstantial Svidence even when it aeema strongest. Mr. lowper, whose brother waa afterwards Lord OhMoellor. waa pretied to atop at the hofse «l 110 THE TRIAL. Ml»«St'ati whnhad conceWed a «lnfnl panslon for him. He cnlled :it, the hon^e. fipent the evcniiiir. but refii!r the tniirdor nnd came neiM* being convicted. The partioH proRe- cuting him, not 8ati<eing in Jeopardy when it is not even proved that the remains are those of a femtile. naye you any idea of what the conse- quence of your verdict will be if you find him guilty. It will send him < the aeairold. It will deprive him of life, perhaps life eternal. There will be no moans of rectifying this if ynur verdict proves unjust. There will be no appeal. Take no such awfiil coarse. The cnargeof the Judge will not relieve you from the responsibiiity. I hope in God your verdict will be in accordance with mercy, such as tho founder of tho Christian religion came to teach. The evidence must appear to you conclusive before yon incur such dreadful responsibility. If you find him gniltyi each one of ynu must f^el that by him und him alone has the rope been placed around tthe prisoner's neck. I appeal to you as sons, as husbands, as fa- therR.— by the memory of the mother who watched over the days of your helplessness, and hashed the wallings of your lips, yet ail too feeble to lisp the simple prayer she longed to teach you ; who, with love undying, guided the tottering steps of your intanoy.ancrthe way- ward treading of vour youth— a love whose first fiure ray was shed upon your cradle, and which, t may be. will throw around your dying bed an almost hallAwed lostre. Sander noti I pray you, the mother and her first born boy 1 By the rememberance of yoor father, whose love, se- cond only to a mothor'B* has watched with anxi, 008 eare yoar goings oat and yonr eomings in whose fondest Joy and prid6 it was to foster your growing power, and as best be ooald to train and fit you fairly to win, and worthily to maintain, an honorable place in that roagh school of life, in which the stem taaks of man* hood mtut be mastered,— break not, I beseech you, the father's heart. Some of you are fiuabands. By the devoted love of her whom you oall by the honored name of wife ; of her who for yonr Bak« hu left hither and motheri ' sister and brother, and plscmg her hand lovintr- ly in yours, his smiled uimest how strong the tendrils which, stretching out from them, are wound around your hearts. Your chiefmt thoughts are (or their welfaie,— your brightest hopes aro clustering around their little forms. The s ; Ti UTitil iAntu of .; I i«n- ife, nnd whoods. Bhil«lren oa well lore Ht- love and »: how jut from I. Your elfaic,— > Hround ncentlve are tli® m ; "y'« nnxiety ) misv a By tbe nes, hft^e I },iB little irs at best rolne will nbw over he hover- of Wi«yr Ing of his when the )ur Rchln* [ed iUlfti^t upon your ,. '^'Ble?**^, An mercy f vlead for )>efore that ernity.yott «y ot your SBAL'S me of tbe jy Gener- therefore legraph ; I: -It be- Jeneral of on Ijebalt nful caset r sincerity b|I have to rlable cha- look after intain tbe interests of I have at- ily witbout have been pod-tblrsty tiduotor of it proaecu- itly when I tce and find >arse. It" I had failed In dlHchar^lnpr my part in thiti profieoution— if I bad consentod to allow evidence whluh wan vital to tbo cause oi' Justice to remain unltear^— what would your opinion of me bavd been whon it was Icnown to you that a moet brutal murder had been committed under cir- cumstances of peculiar atrooitv, and tbat it was essential tnthecauseof fustioe that its perpetrator should not escape ? Would I have been worthy of your confldenoe or of the confidence of the Government which appointed me, if I had been dere- lict now r The Chief of Police hannishm6nt, and you have been warned n tbemost emphatic way respecting the conseqvenoea of your verdict. Gentle- men, with that you have nothing what- ever to do. Yon ai«ibotthe makers of the Uwa. It is simirfy wad plainly your duty to enquire into the Mlota of this oaae and return « verclkit fooording to the evidenoq^ to the beat of your Judgment. You hftye been oaUiod upon in the moet solemn mantkto to reB»mber that the Angel of Death may be hovering over sohie one of yon now, though you do not see the shadow of his ibrm and hear not not the rnetle of hie wings. Yes, gentleai«a, thatuuijf hetrtieof yoo.lt may be trne of any of us, and therefore I trust that yon will remember that while you are deliberatintr upon the evi- dences, and that you will ronderyonr verdict na it you "believed that to-inor- row'« snn may find you berorn the bar of the Almigiity Jud^e. And if the sands of your lives should run for a few months or years longer, and you should be spared to mingle with yonr fellow men what position would you ooonpv in their eyes if through symftnthy ibr the prisoner or because you entertain any pecniiar views with rezard to capital punishment, you allowed yourselves to be inAnenced by the appeals now made to you to acquit a man whom, aocordinff to the evidence, you should have found guilty. What would be your position if because of the pathetic appeal addressed to you, you disregarded your duty and the solemn obligation of your oath "? It . is your duty merely to find a verdict as to the fact, and you have nothing to do with the consequences : nothing to do with capital punishment. If becanse I was opposed to capital punishment I neglected my duty as a public prosecn- tor, and either by drawing a defective indictment or by omittingsotne material evidence, allowed a prisoner to escape, what would you think of me ? If a wit- ness called to the stand, and sworn to tell the truth, because he was opposed to capital punishment and was satisfied that a prisoner's life was in jeopardy, thought proper to vary facts or withhold the truth, what would you think of him? What could they say of him but that he was guilty of peiijury ? And what bet- ter position would a Inryman hold who through such scruples would refuse to fiudaccording to the evidence? It lias been argued at great length that the pri- soner should be heard in his own case, and that great injustice is dohe becanse he is not allowed to give evidence ; but many able men say that this wonld be the greatest cruelty. The law of Eng- land acts merciftilly. It puts the pri- soner at tbe bar as an innocent man. All the presumptions are in his favour, and if any reaaonable donbt exists in tfai case then they have no right to weigh it. but are bound to give the prisonefr the^ full benefit of it. Such is the mercy of English law. If the prisoner makes amp statements, and it can be shown that if was made under the slightest induce^ ment, that statement is not admitted in evidence. Snoh is the mercy of the law;' Suppose that law was altered and the pri- soner did not choose to give evidence, would not the irreeistable conviction then be that he was guilty? All the safeguards the lew now seta about the lurieoner would be removed. Mway able dtJ^Bt^iii^-' 112 THE TRIAL. Dion re(j;arcl the proviMinnH of the law now exiHtintr ill theHled to you with all p<>t«Hible Holentnity of tone and man- lier In the name of tlie Saviour, to ataud between the priHoner and the gallowa. I reffref tiiis. In tbie Clie way jurymen are to be treuted ? Are men aolemnly Hworn to try tiiis case according to the evidence to stand for all their lives aa perjured inen, nnd in this to be atiiced in the name of the Saviour of all ? Wliat I ask is that you invoHtigate Uie whole evi- dence fairly, and that if there is an^ rea- sonable ground for doubt the priaonor bhall have tUobonefttof that doabt. The learned Attorney General then cited au- thorities to ahow the value of circum- Htantial evidence, and relied much up- on the very case of Sir T. Davenport , cited by Mr. Thomson. In that case Sir Thomas positively identified tho men he acccuseil as being those who robbed him. They established an alibi,»n<\ this, which •was circumstantial evidence, proved to be more reliable than the direct evidence of Sir Thonius, the innoeonce of the men he accused being afterwards conclusive- ly proved by the apprehens'on of the real robbers. Some of the authorities say that as a few persona may agree to a story whioh they may all repeat aa direct evidence without having their testimony shaken, but it is impossible that a large uuatber of witnesses stating several facts can fabricate. Such a strong circum- stantial evidence may be even more satis- factory than direct evidence, and there have been more instances than one in v/hich such has been the case. He con- tinued ;— The counsel for the prisoner had asked them to do away with circum- stantial evidence because there have been cases in which parties were improperly oonvioted on such evidence ; but there kas been a very muoh larger number of cases in which peraooa were unjustly ocmvioted on direct evidence. So that if you do away with circumstantial evir ienceton auch ground* you inuatalso do •way with direct evidence. Then thc^re have been cases in which persona made oonfesaions of crime* that were never committed, so that for the saiue reason cottfeaaions must be set aaide. All evi- dence would thus be wiped out Where then could evidence l>e found? How could crime be punished ? Crimejnrould run riot, and no man'a life would be s»fe. There can be no aafeiy in any cnmmanity in which tho laws are not properly administered. You have been appealed to not to sever the husband Imm the wife, the child Irom the parent ; but who has been the cause of the separation ? If the prisoner had had any regard for those ties, would he have maintained foryea^a an illicit connec- tion with this woman on the other side of tho water, forgetting tho partner of his bosom and the children of his loins in the arms of a puramour ? The learned oounsel for the prisunerdid not during hin apeeoh, in the wise discretion for which he must receive all credit, think proper to refer to the evidence he produced tu show that the woman had been seen after the date of the murder. I will refer to the character of that evidence bye and by; Mr. Thomsoh :— I did not refer to it be- cause 1 understood the Judge to desire mo to close before one o'clock. I acted in entire deference to the wishes of the Court. Judge Allen :— I certainly did qot limit you in regard to time. I am very scrry if yoa misunderstood me. I should not have stopped you if you had spoken until six o'clock. The Attorney General resumed : — I will now proceed to comment upon the evidence in this case. I assume in the first place that a dreadful murder has been committed,and that the person murdered is Sarah Mar- Saret Yail. It has been said that there as been no proof that the skull was the skull of a woman, and much has been made of tho fact that the medical men could not say whether the remains were those ol a man or of a woman. But you are not confined to this only, you are bound to look at all the surrounding circumstan- ces, and when you fini with those bones the hair of a woman, the bonnet of a wo- man, a woman's drees and drawers, and underelotbing, and when in addition to that a child's remains are found, an infant a few months old, do you require any stronger testimony than this to show yoa that the remains are those of a woman and a child ? It would be absurd to suppose that a man would have been there in UMt loaelv spotincbRi^«evett leaving out of the case the condusivd evi- dence fumiMbed bji' tbe discovery of the bair and clothing. Tbe firs*- point for yotito con- sider is, was the body round tiiat df Sarah Margaret Vail? Because, I candidly teU you, if that fact is not established* the priso- ner is entitled to be ao^uitted; and u there sbottld bo any doubts in yoar minds in re- iereooe to this, theprisoMK it entitled to THE TRIAL.! 113 li tho Htered. » Mver 3 child ten the >ri«oner rould he connec- ■ side oi r oi his 9 in the ioounsei speech, )e must » reier to nw that e date of jharacter toitbe- leairo me acted in I oi' the i|ot limit y scrry it i not have uotii six I r—T will e ofidence place that iitted,and arab Mar- hat there was the has been ical men ains were But you are boand rcumstan- lose bones of a wo- werS; and ddition to an infant quire any show you roman and ppoeetbat 'it lonely \uAH «ri- pfthebtiir yotito oon- t 6f Saiftb aidly teU ,theipnaO' Old it there inds in re- mtittod to *he benefit of them. The learned couniiel haflnrgneci that we have no cvidenoe to idon- (ify tlume r(^riialnii. We hafe the eviiivr'!t own Htiitenient to the Co- roner, tliat the wonitm whom he took out in Worden'H couch x%»» not Mth. dnrke, bnt, to u^4e his own wordx. "the Vail girl from Carleton with whom I hare had ao uiwix trouble*". It ha« been e« intended that t ere i/» no proof that this waN Sarfth Margaret \\\\\\, but no other Vail girl than thin bao been spoken of. She was the only unmarried sister, and the defence has not nhown tbnt there was another girl oftbatnaraein Carleton. And when I speak of giving the prisoner the benefit of tlie doub4, I mean a reasonable doubt, and not a mere fiinciful and imaginary one. What rensonable doubt can exist here of the identity of Mrs. Olarke with ca- rah MargMret Vail ? Supposing these to be her remains, the question arises, who in- flicted the wound that caused her death ? Unless you are satisfied beyond all reason able doubt on this point the prisoner is en- titled to an acquittftl. The renuuns Wece first foond by certain colored people woo hate testified hwe ; the affitir cot to the knowledge of Mr. Douglas. Ho showed them to J)r. Etirl. It was erident that tbA remains had been oovered with ohms and a&- torwAfds torn to pieces and dOToored by wild ammitls. Tbey were alloired to re- main as first seen, till taken up by the Coroner and Mr. Powers, who brought them to the city and have kept them in their custody ever since ; so that no doubt whatever can exist that the bones now ex- hibited are the identical remaint discover- ed near Black River road. It has been said that there matt ho a motive rifaown for the conunisBion of so dis- graceful » orime. Such a movder, no doubt, most have had a powerful motive. But wa^there not suehaone in tibis onae ? The prisoner is a manried iaa« with two children. This woman, witk ^wiiom ha has be««i naintainiog* » ooani^tioD fi>r vears,liM»^ehild whiobiahelitved to be his->«ihe has soldi f^ ^3QQ« th« property left her bgr her flahen and •HiiiMch he stales th«b i^ sold it joobimry to hw ad- vice, Mrs. Orear says thai bo did advias hertQfoIlift. Hero, thek^ it tliii wonwui foUowidC him about at » tiino when Jri» pa9^QA w as turning iiuio dtsguai, and «he wasnodonbtirksemtandkathaamsit^bip. I . sistHon going with him against liia ro^ monstruncef*, hir Mr. Fenety and othnra with whom tie «vaa utfquainted were going on at the same time, and hedid not wish tan. be seen with her, Would not thai be irkf Koii ^ and make him desire to aw rid of her'> llis Counsel says, why did he not i do^^rr J i)or there ? The reason , if lie had a> i rear jn, slumbers in bis own breast. It niay have been that it was because it was ia strange place, ov becauso be was witi^r/ persons that he knew, and nmy havo fearww ed detection. Ho wos follo BustfWi, and she dogged him baek. Ue bad to take care of her^ for she had sold her property, and sbo. had no home, s»l; pkceto rest her hoad. Ue took her lOni Lordly 's under an asduined mune, buf Mra n Lordly sospeoted her and it beeame neoes-cHr sasy to seek another place of eQnoealm«at.,(!i In this position ho WM forged to move ban 'u from house to houaa to prevent detection. - Cad yon imagine anything move irksome 2 y. Is thereamanin. the world who woakktv/ not gijre any {Murtbly possepssoQ to get rid -n of iuoh an intolerable burthen ? I do not a mean to m^ that the motive here mention*^d ed would inBuenoo every man to commit K •uoh a crime aa has been perpetrated bar». w It is not every man who, undw the guise oi:^ friendship, would have takers that woman n and her babe into the woods under aomam pretence, which nonum tan declare bnti^ft himself, and in a moment, in the twink-. w ling of an eye, sebt her with all herstnsn;; upon h«r head into tho presence of her ;e Creator, ieavng her body to be torn by ?r dogs, and to find a pkm of burial in tner if maws of tiw wild beasts of tho ianuk^w Evidence as to the pnaoner's fpod pn«! ;?> vious ehavaoter. has beetf much talisd xm; r but where is tbece a mao who at gome timo or another 1m« sot possessed n Mod ohaiiirtm? JivwEgraMm hosone ootiT.ho {t forfeits It. Tko wimeiMb awom llkt$uiH eould not beliovo il-wk«B thir hetid thuto? the inriaonof iwaa^diaMed widt^ Am orimew Why, BO. one elm JMteved it. ^<^ ob» oonid b» mofo iNa|>rim9 the »? The mi they i walk ; Spy and ng out he range e prison* gflrstto ie; then g oat to re; and irhich he It bebe- on ■he Who it every that no This, if ould be heeomes lis state- id of that Monday defence away in the bar woman . that ige of mob . Is it slept in won itime 7 ^ him a ioamedt I. It may priMBAT [orden > wns unfairly pressed, but not for sensible men. It was for tne pr noner to show where the woman spent thuM) vlays. Ue surely must know the name of tho man she went to marry. Between the two trips uat there he weiTt to Fre ment, a strtinge woman with her child, surely some one would bare known it ; but never agiiin, as far as knovn. was she seen by mortal eve. lu the name of goodness who were tne persons she stopped with ? The reason of nis baste from Bunker's, so emphatically displayed, was a natural de- sire to get avray as mr and as fast possible from the scene of a dreadftil crime. Nothing can be more full and complete than the evidence of the identification, airs. Lordly has been, it is true, contradicted by the father as to the mark cut on the trunk, but the mark is there and qorrobcffates her testimony ; even if mistaken on that point her evidtaoe is important in otherli^pectB. Sbto q)eaks to the drees axU hair of the wo- man, the age and dress and bajr of the child. Tbe oladk dress of the woman and bla^ waist riUwn. she described, corres- pond with tlioee found. Here we nnd that the child had two d ttMBce , both made oat of the samemttteriat— an. old dress of the mothk's-'^iie is fonnd in her tniiik«nd T the ether In tbe woods with the remains. Mrs. Lordly swears ta the child wearing the dre« found in the trunk brought from > tioHton. Mrs. Crear explained that these '^ two dresses were made firom on old drefft of the mother's, and that she helped her '^ to, make them up. I maintain that in all the annals of crime there never was a case in which circumstantial evidence was so cjgent. It was said that none but a mad- man would have chosen such a place ; non« bat a madman woald pernetrato each i^ crime. A woman and onlld are taken away by the prieoner and never again seen alive. Twelve months later remains ar« found on the npot where she vras Ust seen ., with him, with a ballet hole In the head' such as would cause instant death. And, ' dose by, the skull aud remains of a child. , Add to this that her teeth are identified by her sister ; that Mrs. drear Is able to point out where one tooth has been extracted, where a tooth overlaps the other, and thai another has a bole in it which she 'need to pick with a pin ; th*t her clothes are iden- tified, the aresB taiade gown fashion and her own sewing on it, and the tra«s worn by the infant, even the little string of red heads ffiven to it by Mary BUok, giving their suent testimony ; aiMi there is rat on« >. conclusion at which reasonable men oould arrive. Tbe woman^s dress is identified by Mrs. Orear : so are the drawers, wbieh,. are worked In a peduliar pattern. Mrs.'^ Olive, who gave her the pattern, reoeg*' ^ nises them and prodvces some of her own ' embroideJty with the same^patterd. Miss Campbell idehtlfiea the trimming and Howers of the hat, tad Mrs. Orear, who bought the reft of them I'proaaoee them aiod they correspond with thotio fonnd. Thmt, ^ too, is tl^e evidence of the hair, which in '; identified ; the testimmiy of Mre. Crear as '" to the flattened bullet which she made and a placed in a bandage for the child ; andthif ? IS found with the remains ; of Mrs. Lake, fl who identifies several of the articles fonnd,"! the pink pinafore and blae dies*— enre- '. ly it cannot be that all this amy of wit-1| nesses have sworn folsely! Mary A*oltr testifies to the wopian wearing « grey mok*^ boand with Mack braid, and ^he pi£k son* ''* tag. ^th are ioan^ with the remaiusi, 't; On Friday she, sewed string!! (m the latter,'^' and here are the ideatiA atfiiqisun it iiow; and she also nweaai that idie pot the bandage on the ehild that moming. The evidence of ttw Uttie MdCareii ral, givea in childin» giiileliiwinw and Smpaeitj, is oonvfaieing. $he eei^liinly doei not seem to Imve perinxy in h»r. T«t ah* . identiliflB ifae dra« and the.difld^s hwdagt 'I 116 TIifiWAU f I and the hat. On'tbo Botitaf hf pepu^iar batton of » oertaiD kind, and in the wo> man's trunk another precisely ^mjUar is iound. He read portions of Mrs. ^^ive's tepti- luony and of a lew other vritneeses^and continued :— What can be inorq clear or convincing than this ? Here t( is esptained that this pattern of embroidery vas a rare on^: that thei^e articles of underclothing are the work ot Miss Tail's own hand from the pattern and traelug of Mrs. Olive. Passinia; gmto the testimony of Vti. March oi th^ NewsfiXii Mr.Smith of the Telegraphy. I have briefly to say tl at these gei^clemen -w ho visited at the same time the grounds vrhero the remains vere found, gdve a very clr aX description of the nature of the spot arid its surroundingf. Wbile Mr. March wi\s stondinji by theroclt, Mr. Smith drove in a carriojise along^tbe road, calUpg out when opposite to the place, yet Mr. Nlarch distinctly testifies, tbjit he could not see Mr. Sinith until be bad parsed, on a long iray from theplaoe. John Udllins has been brought bere and you have his statement thfit be never saw the Mroman and child, that they sever were at bis bouse » and that be never brought tbem into tp^n. In reference to the confession aa .stated by FrancfsS. «Fones. I contend that it was entir<^ voluntary and was glvim by the th%j)ri;iicner after due caution. Be asserts diatmotly that- Mmshall and himself, catitiptied bim. remiAtfiug him of the ])ro- babifit:» of their bein^caUed to give &vi- deoce against him. Ue did not care for that and said he would make tbe same stf^tement if be were on thejstand himself. Ho then jgPtia on aod rela^ to them tba^ Mms Yiirh»a aold hto prop«rty contpury to his advice ; that siie bad persisted in going on to Boston urith him in spite of bis remoos^noes ; that some of his friends tvere going on in the boai with him and he did not want to be se^n with b^ by toom ; that .she went to Bpatoa io be atarried to somebodV— hd didn^t know trbom ; that baviug ailed to i)aeet that "somebody" ia BoBtoD« or! even to get a lettco: firomj lLim» aheeamebftpk intbe^^e boat wi^h him to S^.. John ; with lOl that I have joat read to you Groin 1^. 4oi9A> taatimony. Sten the moat utribrdSnary dln^paociea 'aturday before with this infant she had not a single article in the way of change for ber infant ! If fn that state she went on board the steamer, is. it within the range of probability th^t oa thie way she would have got something out of her trunk for her ch'tld. But so far from her having made inquiry for her trunks from any one on board, it appears that when the belt was rung for passengers to have theur bag- gage seajfchea. the officers on tba (tt'^amer at the time distincijly state tiiere was no owner for these two trunksr^in one of which something was beard rolling — to put in an appearance at all, and they at nrst supposed they had got a prize. It was said that she miicht have got rmt at Porikknd. Yes; bat if s&e bad would, not she, who was .10 poor and almost in tatters, have looked after her trunk there or in Boston ? The statement of Jones is owroborated by that of John R. Marshall, who had been so bitterly assailed by the learned oounse). His evidence oorreqxmds with that of Jones aud Dr. Earle. It was said that bo had poanped the prisoner under the guise of frienchhip. T'bis the evidence dis- tinctly eootradicted ; but was it reasonable to suppose that be would take such a eouTse, when be must have known that the sfBtement he wfa said to have made to old Mr. Monroo, were true, the state* ment so obicJned would not have bean ad- mitted as evidence? Wj^s.^j^lijiieiy be would dotbia? v'j . 3 ►« i . . 0r. Chriatie's tastinoMr Jaama no doubt that the hok in the skulT waa produoed b^' a pistol boUat. Dr . Bots&F4 ^^ofiipB tbi« opinion/ and ali the Doctors affree tut iha wound produced by a pistol snot in that part ot 4e head wtwld oauae almost ipstan* ianaotts death . The den tista testified that the tooth Jbund waa that of a ebild of the age shown by other witnessas to b« that of Miss Vi^Ts ehild. They wan aU of opii^ kn thai the tooih bad not baen cut. Ite. '¥iti>TiRIL. 'il7 I whea eionce. I letter It time he had >eUing. itter he e vrrotc >ro4ac9 s ip U»© lamur* ■s baea having • Whw 1 on Ihe she hod chango he weot hin th© way she ec trunk r having ftpy one the belt jeir bag- (tt^'amer •Q was no a one of g— toput ly at DTSt hras saia she, wUo era, have Boston ? >rated by I been m •ooansel. that of Ihatbe ;he gaise dis- _. jable such a mn that made to le ^tate* been ad* iUuiy be doobt iiwedljjr iihis bihe in tbat kt instan* 'ifiedthat of the I that of I of opinr 1%. WE. Baytitd !^t^H||lfhat't^hen tfi^ fri)ht to^tfi of 11 child ati) out Aa early an this one of throe months be would look for indications of the uioiar teeth at a period correspondingly early. Dr. Fisk bin theteeth of theadalt skull was such as to attract attention of trieDd^; but likely to be unob served by strangers. The letimed Oounsol f<^r the defence, in his address t> the Jury, comjplained that I had not brought Mrs. Jenkintf apon fhe stand; earlier in the day he^ with e^ual bitterness, charged me with bringing too many witnesses Without her, and in my thirst for blood, striving witti an uncalled for 2eal to convict the prisoner at the bar. In the exercise of iny udgment t saw no reason for bringing her from her home, as any testimony she could have given was unimportant. I have to state that I am bound by the office I hold to discharge my duty iu this rr an3* other case that may ATise, wthont fe ir or favor. and without reference to what the learned Counsel may think or say rcs2)ecting my conduct or motives. Th^ Attorney General then read the evi- dence of Holmes to show that Munroe had enough time to' o^mmit the murder anf^. cjnccal the remains before Holmes saw the man walk up the Black River road. Uc read also the evidence of Mrs Ciear in full; e )mmenting on this he sa'd, I place gr^at importance on that part referring to the leaden truss. 'VVlmt could be more convincing as to the identity of the remains than this one article ? She descri- bed this with a minuteness which baffles-— nay banishes — all nuspicion of her state, ment being a fai^ricatioa, and we have thd testimony of others to show that her ac- count was in many iniporBhnt nartijulars .strictly correct. Who, having heard this part of the evidence, could presume to question the identificatlun of that child's remains? And if the child's,the mother's also ? Her a.sssrtion that the prisoner had advised her sister to sell her property and go to Halifax with t!io witness,Mrs. Crear, 1 regard us strongly tending to show that the prisoner was auxious to have the un- fortunate leave the place and the Pro- vince, less the scandal or the facts ooaoern- ing her shonld interfere^ with his rapidly increasing busineBs. It has been urged that as Dr. Biirle stated, the prisoner gave himself up ; that he did not keep out of the way, but oourt> od "nquiry. If that fact stood alone he siiould got the full benefit of it; but take the other circumstances into account.lle might have thought the remains were so decayed ai'to be IneltpKbl^ of t^ng! I'deiliilftef A that ooupfed \fit\\ this his standing iti the e immunity Was such that this was the be^t course for liitn to take Looking on fox- ther into the evidence giveri by Dr. £arle, we llnd hdre again in the prisoner's cari- fession to him the statements that oanngt be reconciled with the facts. If he r^> mained at the place where they got out ^f the ooa'^h and the Woman w.ilded' on to Collins^ she would have had to walk 1& miles and he would have bad to w;tlk Imck to Bunker's in the half hour or forty min- utes. Thei^ agiiin, his statement to the Coroner as to the tim3 the woman went on board the steamer differs firom the state* meut he made to Worden. I shall not weiiry you with going over all the testi- mony of the remaining Crown witnesses, the statements of those gentlemen con- nected with the steamer and of Mr. Torr, the Custom House Officer, ra to the ring- ing of the bell, the 'examination of the luggage and the opening of the trunk wore 80 clear, that they must be fresh upon your mind. But I must say a word or tw.> about the witnesses called for the defence. I Would not impugn those gentlemen who were called upon to tft<4tify to the general good conduct of the prisoner, partionlatly in reference to business matters; nor w juld I question the position taken that at one time in his life — like most men and vil- lians, too — his character WaS not v«!xardei as psrbaps it is now looked upon. £videne3 of character amounts to little again$t the positive evidence that a murder was com- mitted; but 1. mu.ullet; of the child's dress clearly identified ; of the pinafore positively sworn to; of the little sontag iind the strings sewed on it : and of ttie other portions of a child's olothfing, oan- iiot leave a reasonable doubt npon the mind of any sane man that those were the clothes of Miss Yail's child. From these facts and a multitude of others equally convincing^ it is plain that on the 31st of October, 1868, Munroe, the prisoner, went out to that place in com- pany with Sarah Margaret Vail and her child ; and there can be no reasonable doubt but that there he deliberately committed the terrible deed for which he is now being tried before you, whom I bolieve t*» be, gentlemen, notwithstand- ing the doubts I have heard expressed to the contrary, a fair and impartialJury. I have been accused of acting in a blood- thrlsty manner because I have brougiit so many witnesses forward in this case ; and it has been more than hinted that I vas talving credit to myself for haviug traced out this long and. ove^vhelming cliaio of convincing testimony ; but far from that beiUK the case I have to say emphatically that to the Coroner, Df. Earl, on whose full, clear and painatak- itig depositions I have mainly relied for guidance in this case, and not to myself, U due the credit of unravelliijig this dark iu3'stery, and traoing with great patience tiie long thread of evidence which now enfolds the prisoner at the bar. In conclusion,! have only to'say that I have done my doty, and that while I hold my present office I will earnestly endeavor to discharge the solemn duty i owe the people faithfuily and consclen- tiouslyit If tor anything I have'done I deavrvaoenaare, I oall npon the Judge to apply such oenstire unsplMrii^i;Iy. I believe I have done my duty, i now leave the the prisoner in yon r care, with the earnest prayer that the great Ruler of the Universe will direct you aright in coming to a just and fbir conclusion as to what the faots prove in this all-impor- tant case. It was a few minutes past five o'clock whan the Attorney-General resumed his seat, and his Honor the Judge asked the Jury if they w^ould prefer to hear his charge at once, or whether they would first take tea. Some of them spoke of being tirod, and even not very well, ad- ding that they would like an adjourn- ment till moVning in order to come to the final consideration of the case with their minds clear They were anxious to getaway, but they felt the importance of this case to be so great that they woud prefer to have the court adjourned to next day. His Honor therefore ordered that the Court be adjourned to meet at half-past nine next morning. TlietbrouK of Barristers and others was so great that some_minutes elapscdjatter adjournment, before the Jury could leave the box or the prisoner be' remauded. Friday, Dec. Dec. 17 The Court was opened, pursuant to ad- journment, at 9 30 a, m. The Court House at that early hour was crowded to excess. The learned Judge almost immediately commenced his CHARGE. The learned Judge said the prisoner, John A. Munroe, stands charged with the inui-der of iSarah Margaret Vail. The in- dictment is drawn up in the usual form. After explainin;; what murder is and what express and what implied malice, he said before proceeding further he had a few observations to raakd respecting his own conduct in this cose. It was .said that he was not justified in adjourning the Court, but he believed that he was. The la>V re- Juircs the Sheriff to summon twenty-one uTors for each court. Thi^ was done, and of the twenty-one only fourteen attended. The law also authorises the presiding Judge to order an additional num'~er of jurors to be summoned for the trial of criminal cases, if he shall think it neces- sary. In capital cases the prisoner is al- lowed to challenge twelve jurors peremp- torily, and in his view of the law, he he- lieved that he was fully justified in adjourn- -tBMttiiL, Judge Sly. I I now 0, with Ruler igbt in man to Impor- o'clock ned Ills ked the ear bis ' would poke of rell, ad- djourn- come to ise with ttttxious )ortance ly woud ;rned to ordered meet at e throng reat that rnuient, e box or ec. 17 nt to ad- rt House excess, ediately jrisoner, with the The in- }a\ lorm. md what he said d a few bis own that he le Courts la^ re- enty-one one. and ttended. iresidiufs in''w of trial of it neces- j^r is al- jpei*emp- hQ he- Ittdjouru- to b« RanunQoed. If be who wioQg w this, Mr. TbonifioQ, ii it •hould becoiae necessary , would bavo bi? remecjly . He ooald QOt see tnat the priHoner could be in any way prejudiced by having forty-eight of the best men in the Couaty summonMl from whom the Jury would be selected, or bv the postponement of his trial tor a week, llo.wevcr, whether be was prejudiced or not) if the summoning of the new jury was illegal the prisoner, would have his remedy. The Attorney General bad appealed to bim to express his view of his conduct in con- ducting the prosecution. He could not Heethat the Attorney General had over- stepped the line of his duty. He, as the proiiecuting officer in all criminal offences of the higher degree, wa-^i bound to sum- mou all the witnesses who oould throw any light on this mysterious case; and the moro serious the offence, the greater was the obligation on him to see trait the case was fully and tborougiily investigated. A good deal had beep said about oiroumtttan- tial evidence, and reference had been made to wbat he had saii in his charge to the Grand Jury. He saw no reason to change the onding exactly with the piece of 'wadding found, and it was proired that the person charged had previously had the whole of that paper in his po»«e»ion. Al- though no one saw the shot fired, it cvuld not reasonably be doubted by whom it was done. It would be aa ioferanod to be dravm from the facta proved and therefore a case of oiroumstantial evidence. The case cited by Mr.ThouMon where the uoole was convicted of the murder of bis niece, yirho was still living, chooftfa a oasejjepend- iiig on oiroamstantial evicMnee, was mare frequently referred to as a warning agaiirat convicting for murder aniens there wan dear proof of the corpiu delicti^ as it was termed — that is, of the death of the person said to be murdered. In that case there was no evidence that the ebild was killed, the only proof being that sbo was heard to say, '^ Ob, uncle, don't kill me," and that she was not seen afterwards. Tiie conviction there no doubt waa improper, because the niece was living at the tune, and afterwards returned. A caso involv- ing that principal had lately been tried before bim in the County of* Carleton. Four persons were indicted for the murder ofa man who had lived with one of them and disappeared. Suspicion fell upon the Earti&s, and indeed two of them had been card to say that they bad killed the man, but they were acquitted, because there was no proof of the corpus delicti, and for aught thnt appeared the man may be living at this day, 'fhough there was no doubt that a conviction might take place on circum- stantial evidence, a Jury should be more cautious in such oases than when there was direct evidence ; and it was only where the facts proved, and the iuiforenoes to he drawn from such facts, left no reasonable doubt in their minds that tbe prisoner was the person whooDianiittedthecrhne, that they would be iustified in convicting. Crime always seeks coBoeulment. A person go- ing to commit crime always ohoosea a tiiuo and place, wben no eye can see him ; if, therefore, it was neceswiry in uU cases to Yfgfb MMii Mt pmmmmtMiafm^, li mi tilMHiMft of t«ii. 6riMrtMa)tt i^otfldHjstoliiwV ■ *Ue wdald now tttvn tbeiratlention to th« faetfl of thS cftfe Tlie burden of pitK)f rest- ed upon the Crown . Tlie prisoner waH pre- Bunted to be fnnooent until he wtw found ffuilty. The Attorney General m>«8t show tnat ibe murder wad committed by the priM' oner. It was not enotfgb to show that this was probable^-tliey mast be satisfied of it beyond n reasonable doubt. Thore were three questions for their de- torinination in this case. Ist Were the remains found those of Samh Margaret Vail? 3nd. If they were, was she unor- dered? 3rd. Was she nmrdered by the prisoner ? The first question also inrrolved the inquiry whether the person called Mrs. Clarke was in reality !:^aiah Margaret Vail? To ascertain this, let them go back to the first knowledge they had ot this woman, when she arrived at Mrs. Lordly 's on the 23d-24thof Got. 1868. On tho following day ht»r trunk and bag came there. Mrs. Lordly^ saw the trunk opened and the smaller one inside of it, and she also saw several articles of clothing in the smaller trunk, particularly a bKie dress. Th -n wo- man remained at Mts. Ijordly's until Mon- day, the S6th, when tho prisoner called and took her away. 'I'he trunk and bag were taken from Lordly's to Lake's Hotel on Monlay fevening by the ooachman, VVorden. Mrs. Lake saw tlie trunks open- ed, and identified several o<" the articles of dess. OnMondny, 9nd Nov., the trunks and bag were taken from lake's to the American steambont by direction of the prisoner, and checked for Boston ; they went to Boston, and, not being called tor, remained in the warehouse there till the 29th Sept. last, when they were sent here on application of the authorities, and de- livered to Capt. Chisholm, the agent of the Steamboat Uompany, and are jinxiuccd in Court with the check of the steamboat "New England" attached to them. The trunk havtag been opened in the warehouse in Boston was proved to odntain the same articles as were in it now. Mrs. Liordly had identified the trunk by a ma^k which shestiid Mr. John ^.Monroe, the prison- er's father, made upon it at her house. He might here reniark upon the con- trad iotioo between Mrs. Lordly and Mr. John J. Munroe. She' stated in her evidence before tho Coroner that Mr. John J. Munroe eallod at her house on the Monday. thAi she took him down to tl>e office and showed him the trunk, that he said it ktokod Ukt one from his factory, and taking out hi.s knife cut a ffllMe )ow then, they had traced this trunk which came to Mrs. Lordly's, from that to Mr. Lake^R, from that to Boston, thence back to iSt. John, and here they now had it. They should mark what some of the contents were. Captain Chisholm produ- ced a bide cobour^ dress whioh Mrs. Lordtey sqA's she saw Mrs. Clarke take out of lier trunk, and she pointed out the spots on it by wHich she recognizod it. Mrs. Lordly^ said also that Mrs. Clarke had an embroidered petticoat, and that some of the fragments produced were like it. He then re&d the rest of Mrs. Xiordly's evi- dence^-what she s^id of the prisoner's coming on the Monday, her dcscriptiop >f the hair, sash, ribbon, the sacque, thu child's hair, which she called tow hair, and of the child's dress. His Honor dwelt upon this. Mrs. Lordly said that the dress found out near the Black River road resembled the dress the child wore, but she could not remember the ruifles about the bottom. Mrs. Crear told tliem that her sister tore up one ot her owa dresses to make two dre.«tses for her child, that one of th^se had ruffles and the other what she called a pi/;nose trimming. Ma- ry Blacker Mrs, Lake swore that uie child wore the dre.»« with the ruiiestbe Saturdp^ morning she lelt Lake's, that she had tLe other dress on when they came to the liouse first, but the mother changed it a ieyr days after, and that the dross found is the dress the child wore on the Saturday. Neither dress was found in the trunk which came from Boston. This reconciled the evidence of Mrs. Lordly with that of the otlter witnesses, (^nd corroborated it to that point. A tier was also pro- duced. Something was said of the difficulty ofspeakin;i; to such articles, but it does seem that females remark mure closely than nien the materials of dresses, the style in which they aire made up, and the character of the work. There may be difficulty, but when there arc .so many wit- nesses swearihg, sometimes oositively, at other » to thfe best of their opinion, to such a nu liber ol articles, t!iis is a strong liict tiHHlftUi*l^lkerldelnktfitetMki:«ri4ik«e ftf • uuiins/— The tier from the trank was per- fjBot. Another ioand outside Mm. I^ke swore had been also pink, althoagb part of it was now iadsd almost white. Mary Black or Mrs Lake&wore the child wore a pink tire when she left Lake's bouse. Mrs, Ijordly was positive as to the ti*^r aad the dress and aacque of tHe obiid. It was for the Jury to say the marks on the blue dress were such as would enable her to identify it. Mrs.^ Lake also positively identified that as the blue dress Mrs. Clarke had at ner house. The trunks oame to her house. She saw them open and the smaller oneinside, just as they were when produ- ced in Court by Capt. Chisholm. In that was the oobourg dress whioh she swore was thBi^me she had seen at her house, or one just like it. Then they had the evi- dence of Mrs. Crear, who swore positively as to the blue dress, and siid Munroe gave her sister the money to buy it, and she herself bought it Mrs. Dykeman'made it. Mrs* Dykeman proved she mode a blue dsess tor ^i.ed haw the work was done. Vfl»tii4L. MRft RRlud IB •M' tHMK^MMI •hown hflrsbe swora that sb« bad dWn seen her sister do it up, that shfl wore it on one ocoasion berseli. ttnd that the pris* oner oiten had the embroidery in his hands when her sister was woflcing it. She swore alt» that she never saw a pat- tern like that of this pctticoatt The pho* tographs found in the trunk she also re- cognized, and the (Miper box containing the hair of her lather. Then there was the evidence by which they were to deter- mine whether those articles were the pro- perty of Miss Vail, and whether the wo- man called Mrs. (Jiarke whs not !:jarah Mar- garet Vail. This was one of the questions they must dntermine. Suppose no state- ment had been made by the prisoner Was there enough to satisty them that the Wo- man was Sarah Margaret Vail ? They had iiowever. the statement of the prisoner on this point. A good deal had been said as tojthe mannor^i'i which this had been obtain- ed. If it had been shown that any threats were used, or inducements h^ld out, in or- der to cause the prisoner to make those statements it sliouid certainly have ex- cluded them, but by the evidence of the po- lice officers it had been shewn that Munroe was first cautioned by the Police Magis- '' trate and afterwards by Mr. Jones, and thej' stated positively that no inducement wus held out to him, Tlie evidence there lore wtis admissable There was, it was true, a contradiction between the Chief of Police Marshall and Mr. J.J. Munroe and '■ Mr. Potts. It was for tlie Jury to deter- '■ mine which had given a correct account of ' what had taken place, unii in doing so to ' make due allowance lor the excitement of the parties and judge whetljer Marshall . could have forgotten everything that was . said. If they canr.ot reconcile the state- ments then they must determine which ' to accept and also whether idarshall wil- * luUy misstated what had occurred , and therefore was or was not wholly unworthy of credence. This much he must say that il" Marshall made such a statement to Potts as Potts alleged, then his conduct was not only indiscreet but most improper. What riaht has a police officer to bold con- fidenfinl communications with a prisoner riSiidy ? It was utterly prepoeter- o T, :« that this could be permit- . • ^: M not say that Mr. MftTshftll -':,■» a statomenc to Potts, but if J most improper. They had i hether there could have been a confidentiul commanicntion to Marshall when Jones was present. The material question at present was not whether Mar- mat dki fMk» «iM» n^kkiim^^^i^, bat whether the prisotier m4de the state- ment to MtinrhaU #hioh be gave iti evi- dence. This did not depend on Marshall alone, but they bad also the evidence of Mr Jonas and Dr. Earlo. If they had reported correctly, the prisoner said, not that this was Sarah Margatet Vail, but that she yrvLH Miss Vail, dr as one of the witn^saes put it, the Vail §irl firoiB Carleton. Jonas stated that he said her name was Vail, and did not mention her Christian name, Mar- shall said that he said the woman's name was not Clarke but Vail, that he was ac- quainted with her lor some years, that she lived in Carleton, that she had a child,that she had some property and sold it. Dr- Earle stated that the prisoner stud, ** It is not Mrs. Clarke at all, it is the Vail girl from Carleton and her child with whom be had 30 much trouble." They had no evi- dew» of any other Miss Vail who had a child and property, and With whom the prisoner was intimate. They had besides these statements the facts respecting the dresses, photographs, and other articles found in the trunk and on the ground. It was for them to determine whether the givl who went out there with the prisoner on that Saturday, and who was murdered, was or was not Sarah Margaret Vail. The prisoner cannot be tried for the murder of one and found guilty of the murder of another. If they were not satisfied that this was Sarah Margaret Vail, then he is entitled to an aCquittiil If they were satis- fied that the woman called Mrs. Clarke was Miss Vail, then it was tor them to deter- mine whether the remains were those of Sarah Margaret Vail. If they were not satisfied on that point he was entitled to an acquittal. This is the proof of the CoV' pus delicti. What evidence was there on this part. It must be made out by cir- cumstantial evidence. There was no posi- tive proof, but a number of circumstances. They had traced her to Lake's Hotel. This she left on that Saturday with the prison- er. How was she dressed, what was there peculiar in her dress, in that of the child, to enable any one to idetitify remains. She wore a black dress, black Garibaldi and black hat. Miss Campbell stated that she dyed a white straw bat bliiok, trimmed it with black Illusion, black gauze ribbon, and crape flowers, and that Mrs. Crear took this hat away. Mrs. Ells siov Miss Vail in April, and she then wore a bhck straw hat. Jane McLaren saw her wear a black dress and black straw hat. Mrs. Lordly said she wore a black dress and black hat. Mrs. 101 tate- pvi- -shall of Mr ' lorted i this I she [ifesses Jonen il, and , Mar- I name as ac- iftt Hhe Id.that • »«:• , •• It 'all girl bom he no evi- ) had a am the 1 besides ling the articles and. It rthegivl joner on kordexcd, A\. The murder lurder ot* led that ja he is are satis- arke was ;o deter - those of xere not [titled to the Cor- ibere on by cir- no posi- istances. 1. This j»rison- ras there he child, ana. She laldi and 1 that slic [muved it ribbon, |at Mrs. lis savv •wore a ,Ten saw blauk. Ad she kt. Mrs. LOwMuatlMi Of wan a UMi Ai4«r ■ooM kind, trimiuad with Ua«k. Mary Black that she wore a tbia blade ooboarc dress and t>mbroidcred petticoat and biaok hat trimmed. Hhe did not know bow. Mth Crear, when the remains ol the straw and trimmings were shown to her, stated that it was the same kind of straw, the same kind of illusion and oauze ribbon, and that she had hemelf purchased the remaiodeir of the black crape fljiwers Miss Camp- l)ell then had, and she praduoed those flowers, to show that they were the same as those found, only that hers wore fresher and bri)j(hter. If her evidonco iS reliable this is certainly a stron{$ fact. Very true, there is nothing uueuuimon in these tbinj^s. Many wo- men wear black straw bats with some such trimming; but it is the aocumula- tiou of all th(»te facts and circuaistanoes, the correspondence between all those remnants and the articles worn by Miss Vail that they must rely upon in order to determine whether these were the re- mains of Sarah Margaret Vail. Then thev found by the evidoc^e that she had a blue grey witney cloth sacque, bound with braid. Mrs. Dykeuuin made her such a sacque f>ome two or three years ago, but would not say whether the pi«»ce shown was part of it ; but the piece was blue grey witney, and bound with black skirt braid, as was the sacque she made. Mrs. Crear said she had a dark grey wit- ney cloth sacque, that she bouj^ht the cloth at Mansou's and the braid, and that one piece shown her was the back, of that sacque, and atiotber part of the sleeve. Mr-b. Lordly said she had a kind of drab sacque, and that the piece shown her looked like part of the sleeve. Mrs. Olive also ideutiried ibo pieces. When witnesses swear positively to some por- tions of what Avore found and say they don't remember others, this seems te show that they say what tliey believe to be true. If ihey came to swear falsely, it was just as etisy to swear to all as to a part. Mary Black .said Mrs. Clarke wore a grey sacque the morning she went away, and that the piece produced was a piece of that .>»Rcqne. Here was the testi- «mony of independent witnesses, who seemed to have no motive to swear what is untrue, and it ought to have much weight. Taking all these circumstauoes together with regard to the sacque, that she had a blue grey witney sacque, that she wore it the morning she left Mr. Lake's, and that part of such a saoque of the same color was lound out there, all this must have weight in enabling thoiu to arrive at a conclusion. Mrs. Lake and Mary lilack spoke of other ar- ticles, lu the trunk from Boston there n wkll» aadeMkirt wttb MibroMirjr wbleh was partly soiled. Mrs. Lak«» aays ahe wore such a pettlonat wl en she came to her house, took it otf a few days after, when she bought another, and put it in the trunk. The skirt she bought was a grey, trimmed with red at the bottom. The dress now taken from the trunk she says bas the same appeamnoe. Mr*. Lake says she saw no night dress with her, and none was found in the trunk. She recognised thd skirt in the trunk, also the child's dress with the rufHes, which was the one she wore wlien she left her house. 8be said that when the child came to her house she wore another dress of the .iame material ; that this waH afterwards taken otf, and the dress with the rnffles put on and worn until she left the house. The learned Judge read Mrs. Lordly'S evidence on this point again. (Mrs.'^Lordly saw the child wear a brown ooburg. She thought she recognized the material in the dress found on -the ground, but she could not remember the ruffles.) Mrs. Lake stated that Mrs. Clarke bought bine grey stockings with white tope, and put them on during the week. Mr. March, some time after the remain ? were discovered, found the top of a wo- man's stocking, which Mrs. Lake said was of the same material. Mrs. Clarke also bought a hood for her child and a sontapr tbr herself while at Mrs. Lake's. She havi a sontag for her child when she came there, and while there she sewed strings on this. On the child's sontag, when found, were strings, and the Jury could judge whether these were on originally or w^re sewn on afterwards. Mary Black swore that Mrs. Clarke wore a sontag the dav she went away. All this evidence with regard to the black hat, the black garibaldi, the groy sacque, the blue grey stockings, the underskirt with its trimming, most assist them in deter- mining whether these were the remains ol Sarah Margaret Vail. Then as to the clothing of the child, Mary Black said she wore a dark drab dross, with nifties at the bottom and sleeves, and said the dress found was the same. Mrs. Lake said the child had a dress of dark coburg and a pink pinafore, that the dress found wtts the same ; that she had remarked the work on it, and would have known it if she hail seen it on another child three months after. There was some little contradiction about the evidence of Mary Black. She said that a man called ou Mrs. Clarke on Friday. The certificate which bad-been out in showed that the Prisoner was in Fredericton on Friday. t was clear that the prisoner could not have been the person who called. They shoold give what weight they thought proper U> any discrepancies in the evi- dtti .Miii'iriliii t I •ni the skull or tlid bones that wore found, those of the pelvis hav- ing been alroosc destroyed, but the el^hing was that of a female, not of a man ; the hair was that of a female. There was some evidence as to the iden- fity of the hair, eapeclally that of the ststors. It was for the .lury to say whe- ther there was anything about it* so pecu* liar as to enable them to identity it; whether they, being under the impres- sion that their sister was mucderod, were not through that inducod fo swear so positively, no doabt believing what they said to be true. It is pretty hair, but he thought many women had similar hair. Another piece of evidonco in ly be morfi reliable — that with regard to the teeth. They heard what the doctors said. Dr. Fiske said the irre;j;nlarity in the front teeth was a pleasing irregularity which would be remembered by friends and probably not ol>sei-ved by strangers* The teeth are handsome, and one of the fronfe teeth laps over. One of the toeth also has been extracted, as described by Mrs. Crear, and one is defective, as she stated. It is for yon to say whether these things, and not they had the facts that the skull was perforated by a bullet, aufl that the remains wore covered with moss. 1 llcrtl mot tbat bav- tho of A nale. iilen- if the who- necu- ly it; ipres- , were sar «o ,t they but he r ha\r. teeth. 3. Dr. n the nlarlty friends Rngets* 3 of the he toeth ibetl hy ?, as she ei" these It all the |ch a* to icUisio"' serious A-id«nce ristie as let pass- llenoe as aiifn«i'»t formed ery i>"- lence of [he skull et, caus- such as dixe No. from all Largaret -loletice. deration r. Earle, Una, the t the re- loss and lipal ovi- ine whe- er death Lad Rone came to another by eir- saw her that the net, and ith moss. THB TftlAii. m If thoy were catisflod on that point, tlxcu the ntfxt quocition tbr their coasider- atloa wa«, "By wljom was thq mur- der uonitn i tted ?' ' They now come to the most liriportant part of the enquiry, Who do thoy find was the Inst person In whos© company Sariih ^nrharet Vail was neen. Certainly the pHsoner. Tlie evidiatico of Wovden show* thin. Thw loHrned Jud)j;0then read this »vid;n>oo in full. A snrTev ot tbe ground was made > by Mr. vVolion. Tbe diatanca from ]iunli«r's £^ use to the tnidd'e of tit* road is 1 ebain 47 liDk», frou that to the; Fm*lcs 223 ciiaijiB 20 linlcs. from the Furlc^ ta the place whore Worden turned, near what is called the pool,39clialus 5 links, fi-omthe pool to the patli 8 chaikis40 links. Total f\*om iJtlnker's hon^e' to the path leading into the place, 6A chains and 68 links, a Uttlo over three quarters of a mile. From the pool to Uollins* iM67 chainsaud 58 links. Total diBtaAeefroin Bunker's to Collins', 132 chains and 26 links^ or nearly 1 3>4 mila This Jadge rethd tiie evidence of GeorgA Buiiker, JoLia ColiiuH, arHi (tie otiier perapaa liv- iii{{ on both ruads, and continued ; The evidence proves thai tUot prisoaer went out with her iu a coapti. on Saturday, October 3lst ; that he waa the last person seen with hor; tbiit he i;6id Worden on the first d^y he went out that she was golnig to Collins*, and afterwards tbat the Eorsons (she ^vtlnted' to eee were hot at oinef thtvt on the>eQOnd day be retwfn- ed without the woman, and told Worden the people she wanted were at home, and that MrTOolJUns iwooid brtaig her in oti Monday rnpcning in time tbr the buatj' Mr. Collins knew no such poirsons as Mrs. Clarke or Miss Vaif, and neither he nor any one elae livinji; on eiti»»r road ever knew of such a person being out there or had brought her into, the city. The evidence of the two poAioe fttficers and Dr. Earle on tiiis peint was that the prisoner stated that they got out oa the two occasions nearly at che same plaoe, ai|d ttiat she walked toiwarde Ooilius' while he rem&ined behind, and that on the second oocaaiqn sbe caue back and told him the people slie wanted to see were at iioiue, and thtttshe w«s to remain with them until Mondi^ moroteg. Mr. Thomson argued Uwt if tbejr took part of the pmoner's stwtementtmqriiMUtt nke the whole. That is not so. U is true tbat if the Grown give pari of • irftemient it must give thef whole in evideaoe, but the Jury. were not bound tp belieretbe whole butmfty believe part and r^e bring ber in? - Who brtnagbt Iter int'> These were nerioiM qnastiona. A^ln l«r - them aak^tiiemwlroe wbetbsr tlior* wm ' i aaythii^ inMtmrAa's tMumerj Aoeording^^ to his own staiteamt be remained whire ' , he cot out of the carrkige, nvd according^ to the evidence of Worden . and Bu nker he i was aw«y about three qoarteni of an hour. <' They can not speak positiveiy as to the tiin9,.but see what was done. Worden drove baok, putiiphis'noc88s,then ordered n dinner, and dinner was nearly reody when MunrM eaxno to tfae house. They ooilta iocm their !Own opinion as to the tioie spent ^ in gt'tting a pUua dinner in n country^ hoa89» Munroe^wben hearriTed,wA« sweat- v inff,a« i said be had a hear jr walk . if he had f only come kma the forks of the road, woa'" tbpkt a heavy' waUc ? Was there anything* extraordinary in tbek getting oat on hotftv occasions at tiM» samepkoe. Why dkl noti<' the ooach gK> on to Collins' with the w»>:< man if he ^ould not Uia story on thia^ ^int wae sot oonsistobt.. Uo told Dnt~ jSarLe tb%t besaiwber pais OoUina'. Whe«>^- a m$oi teU» a plain, honest, oonststent* > stoiy it should kiu, in his fiivor ; but if> ii^^ was .inoon8ist0at and untAw in port, thetvi this wa» a 8U>olif cireufmstance againsfea ' hiai. If she was nut brraglit in , t^hat bo* >" cane other? On theother faaad, waa tbe«' testimony of Hicks, wbieb was so extfuairdt« i: vofj and oontradykitoiy, tbat he woahl^: read the wtiiole ef it to them. U«^ endeavour^ to show that on Mon*/. day morning be saw Bliss Vail gKvv: on board the steamer. In judging whether < ' they would beiiete a witness, they mustw :.. J-. ^^^ merely^ bgr his laqguaze bnt ahia<1 demeanour. • He wonki leave it to to say whetber the^ could give ere^^^^ denoe to the testimaay of one who iMttod aa • he had, and sO' often sakl that he eould nok> ^^ swear positively to anything, ooDttadioted'^^ as it was by the evidenoe of UoUtns aad eoff many others, ,.Xbe eiidenoe ot Howard^ -waf also oootradtetbcy o| all; <^ evidenel»l'» wbiolv showed she waa oarriei onk and no^* brought in bf OoUias oraiijr oa* olst in the sevial fiUse s'latomenfe. to tbem fbr thS Jjuld u?t mJSS ^'^**^^' S* purpose of te^^t^ hfuKBlf frutt Su^i- - ^ ^ ^eoouset I had no «pnoe«ttaMnilhw ■■ Har:<: iWitb lb«M partis, foatii iiw:i 136 THt TRIAL. it was not dear that he anight not hare been mistaken as to tne day, and have seen her on the day Hhc went to the States with the priHoner. | Mr, Thamsen. interropting the Judffe, said the evidonoe of the witnem and ot Mr. Hunt lift no room for mieh a supposition ] Tbere was another point. Howard swore that h« taw the woman go slowly down the wfaarf.Muiiroe follow her, and then Manioe and the woman stand on the deck and gcrdowm siaim togotheir fe the boat. Thia waJBeoMiMectwith Mnn- roe's own statemeBt ibat ha bad Jusl tUoe to giva her the obeoks laad ahake bands wiwberwben the boat went off. [Mr. Thorason asked the Judge to read the eri- dence oi Edward Priee^ which; he said, must prevent any jury from convicting the priHoner. The Judge read ' the evidenoe. nnd said : ] Some of the desoriptions given by Hun witness Oivrrespond with the des- criptions ot the dress of Miss Yail and bn child, and be thinks she gave the name ClMke, but he says that his return home was delayed by ftsnow starai,and that this was not the ftnt snow of the year, not that which fbll in October, but that whioh lay on the gnmnd all winter. He wa» snre he was not Irom borne on Bunday. It may be the day after that be left home, but he thought it was on Tuesday, and it was about lour in the afternoon when he ar> rived in St. John . . Tb giaaiy iandM, bcoitts^ In InaMii «flUn tbere Is scarcely anything free from doubt, but such a doubt ais in matters of serious importance to themselvoa would cause them to nesitate. If, on reviewing the evidence, they entertained any such roosoaable doubt the priHonor waa entitled to the benefit of it, Mt if the evidenoe led them to the con- clusion that the prisoner wtts guilt^r then it iras tbeir duty to find a verdict no- oordingly. He told them , as he proceeded , wiMre ttc eividenee conflicted, and also wbat inferences he drew from the evidence. Be told ih«m now again that it was their duty to woij^ the evidence and draw from it snob inlerenoesr and. co^ slusions as it seemed to them to justiiy. Th6y may draw very difierent inferences from his. They were not bound to adopt bis views, but inuHt judge for themselves. If they found that the foets established that the body was that of Sarah Margaret Vail, and that she was murdered by somebody, and if all the fiMSts and circumstances had led Uieir minds to the conclusion that she was murdered by the prisoner and no other per- son, then, however painful it may be, it was their duty to find him guilty. On the other band, they should not find such a verdict ppon mere probabilities or sus- picions. Ue bad now discharged his duty under his oath, according to the best of his ability ; be would now leave it to them to disdmrge tbeir's in aooordance with their oaths. The charge and the reading of the im- mense mass of evidence occupied from 9.30 a. m., to 3 p. m. After the Jury had retired, the crowd conUnited in and about tbe Court, anx- iously waiting for the verdiet, and in all the prlncix>ar business points of the city might be seen little knots of people solomnly discussing the whole trie:, and conjecturing when the Jury would return to court. About three o'clock tbe word quickly- cir- ottlated that tbe jury bad agreed, and tbe crowd became, it possible, larger at the Court House, and every face wore a painfiil, aolwnn look. At a quarter past time tbe Attorn^ General and the ooun- «rt ot tb» prisoner oanse into court, and the Judge littered the prisoner to the tMT. He cMMred^looking pale and baff- gMrd, and very anxious, and taking ma seat in the dock, gased mecbanfoally abaut, with that restleas yet' steMiy starc^ whidi 1mm beconae familiar during l^bia triid* Tbe Jury entered about the Hittna timCy and their names having been called, thcF atdM^aepslbly affected, and as men who bad been <»llea upon to ps 9 th< t ajtp Hp« ft ped low << T "( pris and asth "*£ tion At prjao ainoi preh€ oroitc •*eeio< his si his ha the se shook lasted —not! orbeai and tei they 8] self HO of this by th« P«Ued Gent tne con *nan, w and thr ^nst^ a." he ht leaned went to At two persons hi OoaxtHo doors. T '^••orow* the landii human bi ^^ce unah inside. Court J doubt, serious sethem ridencc, e doubt mofit of booon* Ity (ben iiot no* >oeedcd, nd alflo rideoce. \a tbeir iwfrom IS eis it fey may- un bis. s views, ir tbey ibat tbe ail, and dy, and had led sbewas herper- nay bOj y. On dsaoba or sus- his duiv letof bis tbem to ith tbeix * **^ r ^ :' rtk«la- rom 9.30; i crowd irt, anx- ad in all of the note of e whole en the About tlT dr- ied, and larger at e wore a rter past be ooun- >art,«»?'l still eniDtv A .»i 1 °^^ ^be tlook tnu 1 tbe doX?/the n?a^S2ntra'„i:°^*^^ -"^T ?<*. and a disorS^ »^'*^'*'e'"oopen- * largely ofbqy^^llL^'^^^, compSed ! olamatlons ^and °n th«t"t "^^'^Z ex- * down fk„ ...!_"« '" their haste broke-* In ■i 130 ail 'J « If a ("i • •• ■ ' " w "i" Jul,. J_,,^j, > *«, ' \ two O'flioftk, BrobaWv flu^ I ?«»^ had •Bfcmffif.i?^" hundred doors. The^'^^^i^B^bt the JandJBff beiii* lSLl5f.**^'TO and 'ho Court said : ^® *"<» addressing ^"urci "na^Hrs Honor^.,«». "'?"«*»& Into >Qgly. There xvasTi^^n^ ""^"^^^GOni- "tes, and it w« S,?dS.°/r ™« '"in- doors wereop^S^ ^'j^'l "^"ftotbat the in, looking verrm„^5 vP''.*"'^er came wearing his ovTrcoat anS'*'''^" ^o^"? baVu, hisiiand. oTt^Jf„«»"ying bi^ the dock, he placeii »»« i ^*i.h*« Seat in on theseit and retted hij'^'* ^^^ bin in front of hini Sfd hi« 'I?''™ on the raU all the whileTook n^i'j'}" '^^ his hand rection, and that aplweS^^^^^^^ ^^' Hm countenance wnVr*^ "-^ **'^'he floor. the Court said: '^^^^e and addressing li^^^^^^^^ in THS TRIAL. comos my putnfMl f*\itj to rnnr€ thut tho luMtJuciginuiit of the law b« passed upon liini." The Cl«>rk, (»eorf«B Ulaioli. Eaq,, than aJdressod tbu priiu)iM>r as tt>llow»: "John A.. Munroo, you have bo«n in- dlctotl for tlu) wilful' uiurder of Burah Margurttt Vutl, wlioioiipon you plottcUid • N"ot t)f)U frjond ' «lulUy ' by a Jury of your (Mjuntry r what have yoix now to huy nliy sontieiuro shoald not bo passed upon yon T' TliA priNoner hikvlnft tuade no reply, tlie Clerk th'ni made proclamation Qnn.- niandlnj; all pi^rsons to keep alienee ^hileMontencfi of death was being pro- iionncod. Hii« Honor Judge Allon, with gravo and beuotning' tnlen, rose and said : *' John A. MuDi'uc, you have been ir- dlcted by itio (ixand Jury of the City and County ol St. Juitn tor tbe murder of tte* rah Murgarefe Vail, and you have received a fair and tnpartinl triAl. You bairo been defended by ono of tho ablest Coontiela in this ProTinoe, and yoo have been found guilty by a jury of your oountry. fn this verdict I fnlly c«>ncur, and I cannot flee bovr any reasonable person can, from the evidence adduced, think otherwise than that you are guilty. The jury have, from the kindness oi their hearts, I presume, anA throagh regard fbr the f^lfngfi of your latnily, rooommendad you to moroy. While I shall take caro to CiMrward thin ro- comioendatiun to iJiH £xdolleooy tho Uov< ernor General, I ouonot hold out the slight* ent hope that the prdro^nttve of lueroy will be eseroiscd in your cuse< You ahould use all Ibo time you have to spare in this world in Necking forgiveness Hrom J\l- mighty God for yjur many sini*, as vou cannot hype ior mercy from man. 1 snail nutretorio anything 'thai migbt WQUnd ydur feelings, bat all lihall siyls that the unfortunate #ohian who ][>Iaoed reliance in you was burried be|pxe her Maker witb* out that ^parotlqn wmob. so for as wo can judge, sb0 aorely needed, You will have further time to prepare for death and for obtaiiung that Atrgivincm you so muoh need ; and you sbuttldkKe no lime in seek- ing mercy Jirom on Higli. It only remams that I should pass sentenoe upon you — not my sentence, bat that which the law di* recta. The Mentonee of the Ootkrt is; that yoo be taken benoe to the t>I^ot firum whence yoo came, ind that on Tuesday, the 15th day of February next, you be tuk- eh frotQ thence to the place ot execution, and theM be banged by the neck until you are dead. And may the Ainigbtjr ii»ve merry on your eouU a, ib txtUot vtmj l^m ..ti •j^M^ u ' I i «krj.7/ i i 1 Ci'l 'U. - ^REMOVAL. -if Ol!' ,,;• ■■ . . .Tiifk ..... ,,. . -1. "NEWDOMmiOir Printiiig ^delv; . IS BEMOrED, PHi«axt»ii*8 Brick Biildrag CHABLOXTB BTBBBT. A few doiffsSontliefCottfttiyMarlret The Saint John Advertiser, IS WBOSD MONTBLT IfOR ^HkftfttjOVS 'DIS' Tf^imOX, WITH A ODA^AJniiWiW: ' |m:« ffii v» quXATlOK evui -unifiniii i FiVff THOUSAND cd'A/V^/ rrilE /BVBRTISBR oirrolatei itt srcrt X PHrt of New Brunswick and in the princi- pal towns in Nova Scotia and Prince Edwiird Island, v>d is tbe beat advertiaiug madium in the Mp-it'n » Provinoet, „ , „, Basil?'' ;' Cards $1.00 i>er month One KiPT^th Golamn ^,,,1.80 " '* One Fearth Coitttti.........'......i.„' 2.50 ** " One Half Oohuaa,^.....«t.»;..«M-v; MB^ ** v^ i i- OneColuiBm....,^......,.,.iMk'4M ?^; :1 ■'**' ' > Iiocai neUo^^lUaa o^aii per Ua* ibi eaob inaertioQ. ' ; ,, , i .,» ■ ■ ',' . All pa^mwMs IQ b«9sd» at'«h»«kpiratl -iM tit .^■^•<- iMtod fON. OIU-'C |ohii,N.B TSfi €0NFi:SS10i!l[ TO .toJiouq fmi iii Ivit-'ui vxli JmiikjI TVEtmAY MOIiNISa, FKH- 15. To-day a funeral patt Imn^ over our city; this is a morning of norr"' * — deep ioeffaoeable son^w. The t^rime < i tourder —murder the most cold blooded, brutal and abhorrent— bos been ezp utcd by the life pf the perpetrator. The kuIIowm ImH hod a froflb victim to-incd in devotiona. Quite a large nomtwr of persons were pfreeont, embracing Offioera of the liaw. Magistmtes, Coroner's Jury, Keporteni, ttc. At a quarter to eight the g«>ng oora- menced tolling, and the blaok flag was nii»cd. A tew minutes l)efore eight o'clock, the prisoner was brongbt oat by the Sberitf, accompanied t^ Rev. Messrs. Stewart and Latbern, The prisoner walked out to the platform with a firm step, ana looked up at the fatal beam, apparently to sec that nil was in order. lie looked pnle and anxious. The Rev. Mr. Latbern oflered a short prayer, and the llev. Mr. Stewart addressed a few words to him and took leave of hini, when tlio fatal cord was cut, and the miserable man was jerked from t(^rrafirina and MUHpoiidod in the air atwiiit two foot I from the plMtJbrni. Ho strui^^lod bar. I, j and bin Mnlferinj^s npjtyared to be tor- ! rihlo. I Tiio followinj? is the fonl'ession loft j bol»iii(l by Mnnme, and willi bis coii- { sont publlsbt'd to tlu> world : CONFESSION OF JOHN A. MONROE, To^herifTHardini;, In presence of Messrs. Stewart and liATHERN, 14th Feb. 1870. The first time I went out with Miss Vail it was only for a ride ; we had no quarrel, and our going out was at her wish . W heft we got out of the coach, at or near the 130 THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION. m^^^ pluce described on the trial, she had a sat- chel, and we walked along the road, I can- not say how far. Sat down and had a lit- ^iiHlittoia b^M-hemi i a pair — a breiich-Ljader same as my own, the HMtte of it I gave to a friend. I had learned her to asc it. T|idie wan no intention. on iny ]\irt to harm lier at tbuk titde. W« catae back,, and I lef4 her at Ijako';* ; she wivs to havo^ne to Boston dn the Yhurs< diiy after th« )(iriit goii^giouti/bub it wa^ too stonny, 9Ad I woot \r»(li:at Uowh. i * I went into the buahes ; tho^ child cried ; 1 came mt ngaiu -T5wae-.ansvy,;J stBinglwlithB cfaUd* Id? .ftHii »■■ >T»;*it /( ( i i Hi itiitiiji "h'k'^rf '/t^\ ti I'l i,jii; 111' )■ -i i. M,i uIJ iiidw not know that it was actaally dead. As she was rising up I shot her (Miss Vail) in the head— I do not think on *he same side found the pistol in her pocket, or just fallen out of it, a common handkerchief, and a wallet with only a few doUatft itt it. I threw the wallet m}^, ^andkercJ^ef away and left at ohce. and haVp ueyer been bacic since. I prevlopsty pad sb-rii^; of li^ii'"' ihonev rfci>t«ldl 'nt)ti a4> bow'mnctt— jjerliaps Half br 'ii' ftttle'im'bro. 1 cannot say thdt rtjoney waaribt oiiodf the niotives for tho a<* cbmiTYittod. I do hot say it livtei in self-'d^^Mcid I kiilM M iK» ' VaH. It was the rnortey/'nijf" anger with her at tho time, and inyiMd tbDoghtsi on and alteri the > trip to Fi?edfirl0toti, working together, ct^used m.e todo.the bad act ^'ho letter written to>lrs,(.r.|{|jr was^-ritton by ij|»e and mailed ii;^ Bosto;^ by; a iVieud of ^lino living in or ne^r Boston. I nev;ev kiUotla^y^K^thorp^r-'^oiu or child. , 1 M.r. Siynod, JOH:N.A.MUNBi)Ki ' €RAnT,TO.: ^'t'K^v-AnTvl -^Yitii^saeq »•> .John hATw;UN«i:«iinf(: " ' ' ...!iim\['\nmi: H/i'vt In wit? i 1 ' 1* ' t. t, .H 1 mn Imn '>;v ■ •'•A, ' ( I.' Hi*' «. " Mi jopsif ■-•h! Oil Hi o.i 'i i<)htm .naiMiiio M'' Uirr .hrio 1 ■H #ridd4; ii (Ij^uoidr y dead. As liss Vail) in e same side tet, or just mdkercbief, )Uatt itt it. indHerql^ef haVp uev;er ously ,/jad iltlleWdre. ii6t ohbdr itted. I do )«» F kitlM '/i«y angtir kditbDoghtm redfiri^toti, ,« todpiUio ^ 91; pe^V ■i,4SrW Ti '■1' (> V. yr. mm II,. .>.»'r ',1, •