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XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

his face, two and o half or threa
miles off, Have sino then seen
Worrell in St. Louis jail. I rec
ognized him, and he recognized
me. This was the first time I
zaw him after he left my house,
‘When I entered the jail two
friends went in with me. I
walked behind them, they went
in first. Worrell was then in the
large hall, not in the cell. I saw
the catch of his eye. Worrell at
onee stepped ‘round, shook hands
‘with me and said, “How d’ye do,
sir,” and asked me if I was well.
T asked him i? he was, telling him
I was. He did not speak to the
other gentlemen, IT asked him,
“Do you know me, sirf” He
said, “Do you know me, sir?”
I said I thought so. Whereupon
he asked the jailor to let him
go back to his cell. He would
rather go back to his cell. I then
went with the jailor to see Bruff.
The cells are opposite sides of
the jail. 1 recognized Braff and
he me, He was the same man
that was at my house. While I
was there, the jailer who had left
me, mentioned to me that he,
Worrell, wanted to see me before
I went out. I went; Worrell re-
marked I looked fine and healthy.
T said I was, He then asked if
my family was all well. I said
yes. He did not appear to want
to talk much, but he asked me if
the roads were good. I told him
T supposed they were, He said,
T suppose the roads ara pretty
gond, I asked him then before
T left, “How far did you go that
day when you left my house?”
T am a little too fast. Then saya
TI, “Did you call on those men
you decide to call at and get
your dinner?” He said, “I went
to St. Charles.” Then said I,
*T suppose you did not call on

those men you said you was go-
ing to call on?” “Did you call
on Dr. Mellheny and Dr. Wat-
kins?” He said, “No.” At my
house, in conversation, before
they started, Worrell had most
of the chat. It was very cold.
He asked me if there was a good
house about thirty miles off,
where they could stay all night.
They were going to Bt Charles
I told them Dr. Mellheny kept
@ good house just 30 miles from
my house. Then he wanted to
know if there was a good half-
way place to get their dinners.
TE told him Dr. Watkin’s, It was
a very good place just 15 miles
from my honee. Worrell did most
of the talking, though Gordon
and all agreed to stop at Dr. M.
all night, and at Dr, W. at din-
ner. It is 36 miles from my
house to St. Charles. Worrell
took down their names on a piece
of paper 80 a8 to recollect them.
In jail, W. said they went to
St. Charles that night.

‘When I first saw the body it
waa in the snow, the face par-
tially uncovered ; he laid in a kind
of a twist, one arm under kim,
his head to the west. He had
on an overcoat, and a fur of some
animal, and leggins, There was
a wound, a hole, right in the back
part of his head. A young doe-
tor ran a stick about as big aa
the Judge’s penholder, about 4
inches into it, just like a bullet
hole. Saw no bullet. I saw no
other wound, except his nose was
to one side. When I first came,
bia face was the only thing un-
covered, The rest was covered
with snow and brush, whieh ap-
peared to have been brought
there. It appeared to have been
eat before and laid over him. The
gully was not very deep, Any man

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