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Iffcondition, and incurable.The Daugherty - Van Horn Murder I'rial.mewheiudvaagaiiEast(Special Correspondence Indianapolis Jour- ( thistpanti.eitilrttilyituISeydis■ei-nISr-11o10 isdl--le1-i,J,r-11vS'tOJ-toisItJ.J.iae.trr.yi-.1-scII-; n-ct 111 lie x-n-idn.d-lie18-UJ)nal. ] |Tipton, November 4. 1 all pTito circumstances attending the oc- oeooi currence for which Win, W. Laugher- . *lul ty is now on trial for hia life are too ” ‘‘Ml well known to your readers to require a statement here. A history of the pro- lluu* eeedings in the case, however,ntay not °*nn be amiss. attceOn tlie calling of the ease in Howard | j\n county, soon after the shooting, a j tb® ' change of venue was taken to the Tip- 1,1.® ton courts, and an application for re- trul 1 lease on bail was made and refused. S1^11 The case and filial trial was set for the H!l‘° November term of the Circuit Court. ®umlt; Hix months ago an application was hom made by the defendant for ball, Judge .lHt (Tarver, of* Noblesvllle, presiding, w‘l{] which was refused.On Monday, at the opening of the court, the counsel for the defense ap- n*”1* pcared, as did also tliat for the prosecution. but owing to the fact that aj,c® Hon. John Davis, of Anderson Judge 0,d 1ol the District, was unable to appear, | c0l,tI. lt;the case had to be continued- On Tuesday evening, information was re- Umt ceived by Clerk Cox that Judge Davis ®jn.co di«l not intend to appoint any one to V1, hold his court, so that officer, together A with the Sheriff and Auditor, decided now to appoint J. B. Robinson, who was I'Y® sworn In Wednesday morning, and tiiet the case called for trial at 3 o’clock. so mi The counsel for the State made a a fu* motion, the first thing, for a obntinu- ‘^ed, ance of tlie trial, at the same time sig- J UuiH nllying their consent to allow the prls- lm*J* oner to be admitted to bail. After 1J considerable dispute, the amount was I fixed at $10,000. ««■At the opening of the court iu the wm evening, the State withdrew its mo- aK®r tion for a continuance of the trial, to JH!r 1 which the defense did not object. The a ea9e waH then set for 0 o’clock Thurs-day morning, when a jury was iris- jnunpauneled. The following persons i jcomprise that body, selected alter but I |or!a few challenges: Iredell Wright, I *n® Amos Sutton, Jefferson Rees, J. M. J’Vm Smith, Thomas Balden, Edward Lo'1 Shoemaker, Oliver Iliatt, Jesse Alexander, William Legg, Orlando Har-1 'eHl low. Henry Russell, Phillip Itnm-sayer. IAH of the remainder of yesterday’s ; session was occupied in preliminaries, A ‘ etc. 1 1 °At the opening of tiie court this | ,,morning a large number of visitors . was present, including a number of . 3prominent gentlemen of Indianapolis, among whom arc Hon. A. 11. Conner, m W. J. Elliott, and others, who are 1 here to testify to the character of the prisoner.Four of Lieutenant Daugherty’s companions in tiie regular army are also here to testify iu his Lehalf. I J “Lieutenant Daugherty came into the **£ room In the best possible spirits, al-though looking not at all well, having '' 'recently been suffering from an attack , of the ague. ,The case was opened by u brief statement on the part of the State, afterlegeworcanHI AiexaRwhich the testimony of W. J. Elliott, . ,in reference In I lie defendant ’« eliitriic- 4 .thi ieveid,ill)diininheallde.i as ice era in ny ,nd rein-ad-in-»p-in reference to the defendant's character, was admitted by agreement,before the prosecution presented any of its IWitll6M6fi. IWhen General Elliott hail conolud- I ™a ed, the prosecution began their testimony with that of the barkeeper of the Henderson House, Kokomo, where the shooting was done. His evidence und the cross examination consumed nearly the entire day.Lieut. Daugherty is ably defended by Hon. T. A. Hendricks and Jonathan W. Cordon, of IndianufMdis;Hon. N. R. Overman and JudgeGreen,of this placq. and Milton Bell,of Kokomo. J. E. Elliott, Prosecuting Attorney, is assisted in the management of the cuse by J. W. Kearns, C. N. Pollard and Col Murray, all of Kokomo. The case Is exciting a great deal of interest throughout this entire district of country, and the court room is at all times crowded with an eager assembly.mehisble:al-PollcaCourt— Mr. Thomas Kenedy, who lives near Benjaminville, had one thousand dollars in greenbacks in bis bureau drawer. He has a boy,about seventeen years of age. who, by the advice of Quigly, an Irishmanwho works for hi iu, took six hundreddollars of it last night, and came to Bloomington. The two were found at the depot of the L, B. A W. Railroad,the her by : / dee herfriemeantgetIlutthedeedrepulintending to leave on the passengertheydue In a few minutes after they were arrested. Policeman Congleton and Butler brought them to the police office, and searched them, fiuding all ioe, but thirty-five cents of the money for I stolen. They were lodged iu the cala-ex- boose last night, and had a bearing»od I this morning. Quigly, who is aboutrs old. 'in- j twenty-five years old. wlih a face bad-871 ; ly burned with jiowder, was sent to we (jail in default of $800 bail, and young ims Kenedy was released on $200 ball, bis ,ry, | futher going his security.of i Both parties were placed on the uti- ' stand and voluntarily told their story, mil they both being Informed that they tD. need not tell anything but what they lire 1 chose. They made a clean breast of.I lbQuigly’s trunk was examined and I.— revealed some strange facts. It seems be j lie has been counseling a Mailameics- | Larue, of Chicago a fortune teller,andiion- she had given him the name and pic-Usui reentture of his future wife, her occupation and residence. A correspondence has been kept up between them, in which iclr | she wants, as a proof of his sincerity bur i in love affairs,a present of one hundred tiie ! dollars. It was a very singular be ! letter, and revealed some queer things sic, j Qulgly had written about, which oth j would not be proper to publish. The who , hand-writing appeared to lie that of a lies, j man. No doubt this is one of the ath 1 many cases where poor, Ignorant fools uld 1 are trifled %vith in this way. One of ing, j the letters from the Madam Cliarvoy* flu- ant contained the questions he bad uni- 1 propounded, one of which was an-1ClteloFutinwlpatinIIVtoBltinupmthaanToTrCHJtotmibitun«nmiK*wtabtinjecW4SttideNilP*foifoiVIthelt;lwto •ncfeii“iofty
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Bloomington Weekly Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 10, 1870
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