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ROBERT McCONAGEY.

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Brown would kill or shoot him;
I then asked him if he and
Brown had had any serious qnar-
rel lately; he first anid they had,
but afterwards he said it was
two or three years since they had
some pretty bad words; Brown’s
horses bad got into the corn, and
he was runing after them, and
had got very angry, and he came
to the house and told Brown that
if he had a gun he would shoot
the horses; Brown told him that
he had better take care; that if
he shot the horses he would ahoot
him; I aaked him if he had seen
any person at Hare's Valley; he
first paid no; afterwards said
that he bad; thought he saw a
woman, but did not know as she
had seen him, and if she had, he
thought she would not know
him; theis name was Turner;
stated that he had not beard of
the murder till next morning
early; he said that he had poked
away his time on the road; said,
“Oh, that T had not delayed my
time co on the road, but had gone
to my brother’s husking frolic”;
stated that he understood that
his dirty shirt was missing; he
asid he knew where he had left
it, but he did not know who had
took it away; he then said he
didn’t know what they might do
with it to try to make evidence
against him; told him that pub-
lic opinion was very strong
against him; he asked me if I

thonght he was guilty; I told
him that from all thet I had
heard I could not believe any-
thing else; be wept bitterly
then, and said he wished he had
never been born; at another
time he went on to tell me how
he supposed this murder had
been committed; he said that
there was & couple of strangers
came into that neighborhood two
weeks before the murder, who
said they were lost; they came
to Cornelius’, the man who lives
east of Brown’s and stayed
all night; be then said they
‘were women, or men dressed in
women’s élothes; they left there,
inquiring the road to Hare's
Valley; that they had been at
his house and Brown’s; they in-
aired there the way to Hare's
Yalley, but did not go that way
towards Chester Turnear's; he
stated that he had not seen them,
‘but that his wife told him that it
might he them; they had be-
haved and acted curious; the
next time afterwards, two weeks
he went to account for the mur-
der, he then said that he believed
that it was George done it, and
that in shooting he had missed
the old man, who pursued him
and killed him, and did not like
to tell it; though when he was
first put in jail be held out the
idea altogether that it was
Brown; did not assert positively
that it was Brown.

THE WITNESSES FOR THE PRISONER.

William MeNite. I went to
Brown's Sunday morning, about
7 o'clock, after the murder; saw
him lying with his arms and
feet tied; I told him it was a
very unfortunate _cireumstance
that had happened; there was

a little dog beside him; he
remarked he would give the
world if that little dog could
speak five words, that it would
aequit him; I said T was sorry
to see him ‘in that situation; he
seid his arms hurt him from the

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