Reading Time: 3 minutes [462 words]

EDWAED D. WORRELL.

71

eame back that night. Had no
Jong or continuous conversation
‘with Worrell while he was there.
Don’t profess to be a good judge
of insanity. Know it when I
gee it plain, I saw no effort on
his part to conceal himself. It
was very cold. The persons in
the house remained pretty much
about the fire. Worrell did not
stay in his room any time exeept

while sleeping. There was no
fire in his room.
8. H. Gould. In Jonuary,

1856, kept tavern with my father
at Vincennes. Worrell stopped
at the American Hotel kept by
‘ns (then ealled the Gould Hotel)
from February 2 to 6, He was
in conversation with many gen-
tlemen there talking about Kan-
gas, slavery, ete, particularly
with a Mr. Butler, who, I think,
is connected with tha railroads.
Saw no insanity about Worrell.
They had so long a conversation
that I pointed to him and said
to a man in my employ that I
thonght Worrell was a very in-
telligent man and capable of giv-
ing a great deal of in?ormation.
He had two horses, which he
sold. The day before he left he
sold one to my father, Think my
father or self were the first per-
sons he proposed to sell the
horses to. While at Vincennes
‘Worrell appeared to go about,
T took a walk with hin. We
took a drink together. He seemed
disposed to make himself famil-
iar with every person. We went
to tha most public coffee-houses
in the place. We have no theater
there. We are too moral. Wa
have balls. Don’t know that I
am a competent judge, but I saw
in him nothing to make me think
him insane, Saw nothing about

him different from ordinary per-
sons except his disposition to
make himself familiar. Have
seen many however, do
the same. Did not think them
insane. I have seen crazy men.
Worrell showed no such system.
Have kept tavern and been ac-
eustomed to observe men since
I was 11 years old.
Cross-ezamined, There is no
depot in Vincennes, but the
trains from St. Louis stopped
there to let passengers eat. Pris-
oner did not look like a man
who had committed murder and
was flying from it, Never saw
him intoxicated. He asked where
the depota were and would walk
out to them, When he went to
the ball, he unbuckled his vest
and handed me the pistol to keep
for him, Next morning he got it.

Tanuary 29.

Edward Lane (recalled). The
duty of a sentinel is to obey all
orders he shall receive from an
officer of the guard. If a sentry
receives ordera not to let a man
pass he, a8 a last resort, must
shoot him, but he must try all
other means first. Was in Fort
Leavenworth in 1855; I stood as
sentinel there. Have there
known even officers approach my
post and page without the coun-
tersign. The sentinel is sup-

to know no one while on
post. I would not like to risk
myself in passing a sentinel who
had orders not to let any one
pass. I have often been detained
syself by sentries, Was a pri-
vate.

Gross-ezomined, Sentries have
shot at men. Have never shot
at a man, in such circumstances,
that T was eequainted with,

Related Posts