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610 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

thing cleaner than men’s hands
in his kind of life usually are, as
if washed particularly.

George Quary. Got at Brown's
on Satorday, between 11 and 12
o'clock; went BR. MeCon-
aghy’s ‘house; it was shut up;
went on, and after I bad got
about 600 yards, heard the
erack of a gun down abont
Brown’s house; I made a kind
of stop, and Jooked, but could
seo nothing; I thought Brown’s
sons were out in the fleld and
had their guns with them; saw
none of Brown’s children when
‘T was there; saw no one but the
old_woman.

Samuel McKinstry. Sunday
morting, after the murder, I wae
at Brown’s, about 8 or 9 o'clock;
McConaghy and his brothers
came to Brown's; they stopped
at the milk-house; it was ex-
peeted that they’ would know
something of the murder; I asked
Robert if he knew anythii
about this matter; he said he dic
not; that him and his family
hed went away on the evening
before; that he had been to his
brother Mike’a to a grubbing; he
told me after this, that Brown
had two guns, that he had had
the small gun geome time; that
when he was away, he left the
gan lying in bis house, on the
bed; asked him if the gun wes
loaded; he said it was; he said
he was not at the grubbing.

Abraham Carothers. Had John
Brown hired at the time he was
Killed; on Friday, 29th of May,
Robert MeConaghy came to the
eornfleld where I was harrowing
corn; John was setting up after
mes we all set on the fence, I
suppose ten minntes; then I
started off and left them, and
drove to the lower end, about

forty rods; about the time I
turned, Jobn was just starting
down his row, and MeConaghy
towards town; as I came up and
John down the row, John said
he was going home to buy the
colt; on Saturday I was sick in
bed; after the middle of the da;
John came to the room where
was; I knew what he wanted; I
told him to go down atairs and
get my purse, and to take $10
out; he went down and got the
purse, and eame bsek to the
room; I saw him pour the spe-
cio out and spread it over the
burean, and commence counting
it ont; I told him I expected he
would come home in a bad_hu-
mor, without the colt; he walked
out after a few minutes; that
was the last I saw of him,
Joseph Shannon, Am sheriff;
the morning Robert was in
prison, be cried bitterly; said
that he was innosent, and if I
knew his situation I would pity
him; the thing that bore most
hard on him was that he eould
not account for how he put in
his time on that day; asked him
low he had spent that day; he
stated that him and his wife and
two children started early in the
morning to go to-his mother’s;
that he had put on a clean shirt
that morning and left his dirty
one laying on the bed; that be
had Brown’s small gun bor-
rowed; and he left that laying
on the bed; he ‘went on to his
mother’s, and got his breakfast
some time after he got there; he
then started to Hare’s Valley to
hnnt a house to move to; he left
his mother’s, he said, about 8 or
9 o'clock; he then stated that he
did not want a house, but that
his wife wanted him to move
away, beeanse she was afraid

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