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ROBERT McCONAGRY. 605
the prisoner with the murder of John Brown with a rifle;
the bullet entering the right side of the breast and penetrat-
ing through the breast. The fourth and fifth counts charge
the prisoner with the murder of Elizabeth Brown ; the fourth
count by giving her a mortal wound with a stone aa de-
seribed, on the back part of the head; the fifth by giving her
a mortal wound with a stone on the forepart of the head. The
sixth count charges the prisoner with the murder of George
Brown by a stroke on the back part of his head, fracturing
his ekull, and by a mortal wound inflicted by a stroke on the
left jaw with a rifle gun. The seventh count charges the
prisoner with the murder of Jacob Brown by shooting him
with a rifle through the head. And the eighth count charges
the prisoner with the murder of David Brown by strangling.

THE EVIDENCE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH.

Wm. Brown, I was working
at the Furnace (Matilda) ; start-
ed away; looked at the clock, it
wanted twenty minutes of one;
tied the skillet and aledge to the
Tope, and started over the river;
saw this boy, Fisher; eatehed up
together at Pollock's; went to-
gether to this side of H. Rick-
et’s; stopped and took a drink;
we sat there some time; one of
the name of Boblitz came and
went on; we went on to Brew-

ster's; boy he went_on to Cis.
ney's; walked on to Eli Taylor's;
when’ I eame to Cornelius’ there
was a small girl at the door;
came near to the line of prop-
erty between me and Wakefield;
heard my dog bark and howl I
got to my house, and reached
for the handle of the door; found
the handle was not there; looked
towards Robert's honse, over the
fields; as I straightened myself
up facing the barn, the frst shot

Biographical Encyclopedia of Penna. 1874; Souvenir Edition, “His-
toric Huntingdon,” 1909.

*Cawvin, SamveL, (1811-1890.) Born Washingtonville, Pa.
Eduested in common schools and Milton Academy; Principal of
Huntingdon Academy for two years then etudied iaw at Hunting-
don under James M. Bell; admitted to Bar, 1836 and began prac-
tice at Hollidaysburg; Member of Congress, 1848; declined renomi-
nation in 1851 and resumed law practice; raised a volunteer com-
pany, 1863; Member Constitutional Convention (Pa.), 1872. Died
at Hollidaysburg. See Sell, J. 8. “20th Century History of
Altoona and Blair Connty,” 1911; Africa, J, 8., “History of Hunt-
ingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania,” 1883; “Historic Hunt-
ingdon”; “Biographieal Cyclopsedia of Pennsylvania,” 1874;
“Biographical Congressional Direetary” (1774-1911), 1913.

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