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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

ham Haskell, foreman; Holland Albes, Gilbert Bond, Joel
Barnard, Zalmon Bellows, Salem Cobb, Charles Cutler, Frank-
lin M. Farnum, Ephraim Fisher, Lincoln Fay, Wileott Har-

wood, Emerson Johnson.

THE WITNESSES FOR THE COMMONWEALTH,

Benjamin Baldwin. Reside in
Worcester—tend stable for Flagg
& Dodd, _hotel-keepera—Mr.
Whipple's stable adjoins the
hotel. I remember the death of
William Stiles. De Wolf called
me as I was coming from Flagg
& Dodd's stable to the house, and
said he had Stiles drunk in his
sleigh; asked me to help get him
up stairs in Whipple's stable,
and laid him on a eot bed that
was there. This was about 10
at night. Stiles said nothing,
seemed perfectly helpless; staid
about five minutes; Mr. Samuel
Stone waa at the stable with De
‘Wolf; 1 remained there but a
few moments; Stiles was on the
bed; he said several times, he
wanted to go home. De Wolf
told him he should go home soon.
T went back to the house and
went to bed in a short time; De
Wolf told me about 12 o’elock,
that Stiles was dead; he said
they had been to Bartlett’s and
Cobleigh’s.

Cross-ezamined. Tt was the
practice of De Woif to lie down
on the bed when people were out
late; the room was warm when
I was there.

Samuel Stone. Was kitchan-
colonel at Flagg & Dodd’s Jan-
uary Inst. De Wolf said about
5 on the sfternoon of Stiles’
death, that he had got to go away
and would like me to take care
of the stable; he went away
about 6 o’elock; a little after 10
De Wolf came to the bar room

and took the lantern and ey to
get into the stables he he
saw Stiles drunk in the sleigh
and saked me if I would go down
and help him, said I couldn't go
just then. In a few minutes I
went to the stable, Stiles lay on
hia back in the bi with a buf-
falo doubled up under his head.
De Wolf sat in a chair; I staid
about half an hour, About ten
minutes after I went in, Stiles
said his hands were cold and he
wanted his mittens put on. De
‘Wolf got up and put them on for
him, Stiles said he wanted to go
home. De Wolf said, “be quiet
8 little while and you'll feel

ter, and then T'll take you home.”
Stiles said he had lost a good
deal of money by one person and
another. De Wolf said, “you
haven't lost any thing by me,
have you!” Stiles ald, “yea, I
have lost a good deal by you.”
I staid three or four minutes aft-
er Baldwin went out, Stiles
tried to get up while I was there,
‘but eouldn’t—wonld raise him-
self about half way and then fall
back. Baldwin told me in the
morning that Stiles was dead.
De Wolf carried the scholara to
school in the morning, and said
he was going to see Stile I
went with him. About five min-
utes after we got there, De Wolf
and Mrs. Stiles went into « kind
of closet and shut the door and
conversed together. They staid
about five minutes, then I came
away. I saw Stiles on a bed in

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