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morphine: think nobody called for mother; don't think I heard anybody tell the boys to go to her mothers. We j did not take hold of the body ; nothing! wrs moved by us; don’t know that father was away from home on Monday j Don’t think he could have been away j without inv knowing it. From his be- !' %w' iiug sick. 1 remember he was at home. J The letter of the 31st of May 1 think is j m father’s hand : also, the statement4 A.’ j Mother smoked usually in the evening, j She was baking and expecting couipa- 1 ny the next day.Re-examined, by Campbell—I don’t j know whether she had on shoes or not. \ think she had. Never measured the : high! of the bullet: saw the door last! week : it has not been changed. I didn’t!* jknow where father was all tlie limci thcv were hunting the bodv. ;m O •*llcnjaminc Hayden, direct—Live in j Plainfield ; am acquainted with Gossett | and wife: worked for him. 1 went bv\ Mr. Gossett’s to Indianapolis. Mrs. (Li came out to the gate and asked me to \ stop at Browning Sloan’s and get her j some morphine. I told her that I could 1 not do it. that Mr. G. had requested the. druggists not to sell her morphine only j in small quantities* Don’t know how i long it was before her death. Tansy j* % fwas keeping drug store in Plainlicd the j year before. I expect I said Tansy but j meant Green. I bought her nothing. \Janies W. Hamilton, direct,by Camp- j bell—I know Gossett; have corres-i pomlcnec with him and am acquainted ! with his handwriting. Don’t think the jrequest” is his. jCross ex., by Gordon—I became ac-! quaintcd with him three years ego. I I was working on the 1. ^t. L, If. II. IC7' Ithen. 1 irorked from 1st April to Sep- j ten*her: I then went to St. Louis and j up in the State some distance. I then j came back and went in a mill here ; have j been here most of tlie time since : was born in Ohio: don’t know when he first irrotc to‘me or I to him. I don’t know when the lir-t letter was dated: have | not had any business transactions with j Gossett more than to lend him some moncv occasionally.• mEIGHTH DAY..Marv 'Wilson, direct, by Campbell.—I am Thomas Wilson’s wife: live north j of Plainfield and south of the Gossett j farm: was acquainted with Ids first! wife. I was at the house in the morn-1 ing after the bodv was found ; two or |■%.» •» ♦ Ithree others there before me: she was lving in the back room of the smoke-house. I saw a pistol on the ground and a rope hanging up and an old razor after I went in. Saw spots of blood but no stripe of blood on the door. I helped to dress the body for the grave: combed the hair; it appeared to be scorched. I saw the “last request;*’ saw it handed to the mother of Mrs. G. Mrs. G’s brothers and sisters were thei e There was a great many people there. SO people cat dinner there. Her righthand was drawn up—partially closed and had to open.Cross ex.* by Gordon.—Don’t now how her hands lay as she was in the room. X live three-quarters of a mile from Gossett’s. John Wood came for me and we went right tip. The door was shut when we got there. She was | lying on her left side: one of her feet j was lying on the sill the other ou the! ground, I looked in at the south wiiir j dow; the pistol was iu the first room; j the rope was about over her; the joist I was tolerably high ; the rope was over! •it; nothing on the table but the razor; she lay rather to the south. I don’t j know how far the door was open* Saw no blood till I went in. Saw no blood on the sill or ground; none on her! hand ; some on her shoulder but dou’t Jknow which one; her hair was done up Perhaps Mrs. Uomaday combed her hair ;saw no powder marks. She had | no balmora! skirt on ; don't think she ] bad one on. She had on a corset and ! hoops but no shoes, I did not see thepistol when I first looked in—I saw the rope- Gossett was in the house when I went. Heard no shot in the night; saw the “last request” in‘the hands of the preacher-—lie read it Her person was not exposed, her clothes were down.I?e~ex—She was more than average size; think she would weigh 140 pounds at the time of her death. DonT know lierheight.John Wilson, by Campbell, direct.— I live on an vjoining farm to Mr. Gos-sett's; lived there 40 years. Kuew the defendant and his wife in her life; was Lot the house of Gossett the morning the body was found. My sou was there Iwbtm l got there; was in 1 the smokehouse; saw a rope over a joist and ah f bld raior on an old table. {Saw the pis-^Sbl V the btittefcIdbod ioiL UrnfcONTlNUKn FHOM Flit ST PAGE.]
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Danville Hendricks County Union
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 02, 1873
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