TRIPLE MIDER BURGLARY and ARSON. Trial of Gotleib Bohner and Albeal Iron FOR 11111 MURDER OF John Peightal, Sarah Peightal, and Scott Garner, IN PENN TWP., HUNTINGDON CO., NOV. 17TH, IHGO Verdict: "Murder in the First Degree." Rohner, and Albert :Van . :Borde - nbcitirg, ware arraigned for trial on Friday morning tho 14th inst. They plead not guilty. The following aro the names of the jurymen empan nelled : Na•han Greenland, John Mil - Silas Gibbony,D.tvid Jkondurs3n, Jatuea'•llorn_ino,M. 11. :5.40040 a cob 11.liett - , J. D. Appleby, David Jones, Edward Couch, Ralph Crotzley, -Lincoln.- The princes wore brought - into Court - lit quarter of eleven on Monday morning last. Mr. Speer, raked tiir i other assistance to Mr. S. 'l'. Brown, as he was unable on account of hoarseness to act as counsel for de. 'fondants K. Allen Lovell, Esq , was thereupon appointed. The Attorneys for prosecution were Dist Attorney :M. S: Lytle, and I'. M. Lytle and It. ;true° retriken. 'the case wm. opened by P. M. Ly tier attorney for,Comutonwealth, , ,,who titeted'the - Uistory oPt6 = initiderotilien the hearing of,testimoy proceeded. 'Aftdreio Grose, a' Surveyor, - was Culled and sworn, who had made the !drafts, one of the farm and house, and the killjoy of., th 4 interior of the house,. itg tho fin"sitiod Of" the" Wait 4.liq,,wheroliscovered., loiter Teightal set in Penn 'township; fun second cousin of' John Peightal. Ou the evening of the of November I was at Pleasant:Grove *Station; I left the station between 8 and 9 o'clock, and went up - the railroad with Ilenj. Hoover; we 4iartod about 60 rods from the house, the going up the railroad; and 1 went -"towards the public road; on going zthrough the field, about 30 or 40 rods - from Peightal's house, I smelt some -thin*,e' like smoke;_f saw a blaze inside the window, ran to thu house,burst :ed the door open, discovered three fires in.the house, and ran back after 5Air....1100% ex; met _him about 40 rods 'from the house; we came back togetb .cr.;illoover got two buckets; and we got water from the creek, and put it - .on the <load bodies; I smashed in the window and oratened the fire 'on the got-ittke, the _extinguished; Danl. Beigifkil ::itha'ived,- also Henry &eights!, Wel. Addison Leo, Napoleoii:AleOiror; said Andrew F. iGroveXieVe and rslaited 'to Pleas mut Grove, and that's all I saw that night:': I went back the 'next morn ing with Grove and Hoover; there was snow on the ground_ which fell on the Pith; wo looked for ground-which and found them; we trucked them in the meadow between thu house and railroad; I took the boots;ttod shoes from the jail. „liven me hy. Pouse, and" they fit the cracks peel/44y; --;• , • - (Yoss-esomitied.-L:C:illed Hoover be 'fore. I oVertookhirn; ,called heroin' I went into the house,-but -got no an , r awer, -saw the bodies . were burned; gave Isaac Peightal boots who re turned them to jail. Benjamin Hoover.--Peter 'Peightal and 1 started home from Pleasant Grove Station together, until we got within 89 - ;0r:._994, - ,rOdti Of. Peightal's -crossing; Peter left me, and I went up the ruitengdp heard soinbodY calling sue, underkothl him 'to iay"'Fire;" left and : went.;towards: John Peightal's house; met Peter in the or -chard; he said; ‘,'Whht.in' - .. - the world does this mean; John Poightat's house js afire;" rasked Vin.if—he saw any 'thing of the old folks; he said he didn't know where they were; he had been ,atback window where they usually 44t; 'and hallooed to them but got no answer; had;burstedlfront door open and halooed, but got no answer there; we came on then, and the first I dis covered fire was when I got on the fence; 15 rods from the house; I get two buckets, and wo carried water: inteithikiteherrpart nritil we Saw no danger of them burning up; discovered fire in back robin Where bed was, but the door was-shut; Peter got a rail and we knocked it in; had part of fire -out when Henry Peightal came to as -filit'us; we got fire out; Dun'l' Peigh• tai was the .next, one who cattle; I told hith fo'f6tElf-a'lailfeitP with' a' 'light, which he did; when be came back we had fire out; Addi Son Leo, .Napoleon 1102ver Andrew : . Grove camp tbei , abniit.; this' 13(tuie tithe; Grove ibroOilit a sheaf of oats which Was 'vent into - the house at the kitchen and - by the light of the lan .tern'and sheaf of -oats, we saw old Mrs. Peightal lying about 3 feet from Aiiedoor inside; .that's.ttil3.,"Only: body .I.lawlhere; the-tittle was. there and it appeared as if the family had been At supper; there,was.a Are, near gre. Adjiittrited'till 2 P. 111. , ,Daniel about One ballf. mite from scene of, murder;heard atm/Mei at 9 O'Cloek; went to-Peigh tare-rhouse,-,about'lo; went into kiwi'. en,'and saw a'tablel.vbiell was spread; saw dead bodies on floor; Jobe Peigh tal laid with feet under, table, and his head near eldinney;SeOtt Garner laid From the other, en d 'of table near the window; Mrs Peightal laid in front of:door, about ten feet from the table; 011 were dead; -Tames Strong and Win. States and two others carried bodies to another room and laid thent out. Grove—llciar4 of inni;dnr i•I o'CloCk went-to tionats, and there found Peter Peightal, Benjamin Hoover, Henry Peightal; Lee and Na poledn,Hooveriarrived about the same tamOr did;.l asked about the oondi tion;of things Lin - the - .house; think 'bodies t i the 'Were• lyitig dead - in-11in kitchen; I tben,said,"Gen tlemeb,,tbis is a murder - and I knew who didli;" Lee and I'wentlto barn And each got ashearof oats, )vhich_we lit in:the cellar lirthnlinuse; and then entered the kitchen; the first body I saw was Mrs. Poiglital's lying about 3 feet in front of door, with , the Cloth. ing burnt frona.ber lower extremities o odmmething..resembliu,g.. a pillow -,. arOnitel her head; I, took it off - her and saw a 'ea' in 'E'er heAl could: see - thleforni . ' of 'the -old gentle man very distinct, the boy's not:quite so distinqt;, the table was set; tho plate whOro - the old .gentleinan sat, bad a po- WM. LEWIS, HUGH LINDSAY, Publishers. VOL, XXV. tato on about half pared; the boy I think had a potato pared and mashed and had his coffoo poured out in the saucer; Mrs Peightal had a cup full of Coffee, hot having commenced eating; I saw two men on morning of the 17th about 7 o'clock; they stopped in our store at Pleasant Grove; 1 saw them leaving the store and going towards 3lcConnellstown; saw the same par ties betwoen 11 and 12 o'clock passing my place .towards Peightal's house; saw then neYt in prison; these are certainly the men I saw. Cross examined—Couldn't tell where ' they were when I saw, them first; I was about, 100 feet from them when they.otitered the store; I was not in the store; when they left, the store about 7 o'clock I was about 30 feet from tbom;itrWas daylight; when they came' brick , the Arne - day they Wore walking on the railroad, and I Wris at The'end •of Ilia' s;tore ; they didn't. step; a good many. people du travel up and down the road; I described the men to Mr. Ward as he wished to tele graph. Samuel Liminsberger—W as at John Peightnre house, and saw the; three bodies; the wound in John Peighial's body was in front of ear on the left side, and was made by a bullet, which did riot come out; Scott Garner' was shot orr left - side of 'head and bullet came ;out ,on the right side; Mrs. Peightal was shot on the right side of the neck; the bullet did not come out; she was also wounded above her right ear; it ivas knocked in and the skull broken; they were all dead; all the bodies were covered 7.'1L11 hed•clotbing which had been set on tire; Mr. Peigh. tal-was herlied on right leg up to his head; think -right arm was - burned; Mrs. Pcightal was burned on left side and all over her lower body up to her waist and tier - arms Scott Garner bad one leg burned, hie left side partially ; I found the tracks;-they ,eft the rail road_, went through the meadow •.to the cornerof the barn; they were the trackii of two men side of each other; they 'walked round the barn ; and went to' the house along the lane, ono behind the other, up to within 4 rode of the liotise, where tracks were tratuPed. Cross-examined.—Tracks were not tramped at the barn; lane was not tramped so much that we Couldn't see them ; looked for them about daylight on the morning of the 18th; barn is about 100 . yards front the house; trucks wore ,11 . 6zeif •hild *were, clear 'mid , Williont States. —Heard of murder and got to house about 12 o'clocic same night; saw all the bodies; formed a jury and e x amined them about eleven o'clock ; probed the wound in Mrs. Peightal's head with a knitting needle, which went in about four or five inch es; a powder wound was right around where Mr. and Mrs. Peiohtal were shot; the bullet went into window tio hind win.re Scott Garner had been sit ting. William Strong and I washed the bodies. H Conrad.—Was at; house next morning; made a short examina tion of wounds; in my opinion death of John Peightal was caused by; that wound. Cross•e.rantincd.—A wound of that kind would CAUSt) almost instant death; wound in Ntrs. Peightal's neck was not necessarily a fatal wound ; wound on bead looked as if it bad bean made with the butt of a pistol ; the boy's wound was fatal. Dr. R B Mistling.—Have beard testimony of Liminsberger, Dr. Con rad and States, and think the wounds described by them were •suflielent., to cause'ieath upon,all VOA slit, house about 11 o'clock; Watit flitff rootn - mijoining kitchen to get arc . - axe, ' but no axe-there; the bed co-t:oring acid r bidding littd . beeti' taken off; the bureau was broken open, the-entail drawer was pulled entirely out, and the lock-,oir the lower dyawcA l trekett off; foundliatchet in front of, bureau with handlo broken . off, Lind` the axe also; the chest had been broken open; welonlid u ; small pocket-Wok - in in which was six dollars;'two gold dol lars in chest, and ten diites-'lo.llyer:- . Moses Hiliner.—Wzii4l'.. - .l3,ari - §e' the morning after the murder - ; t ivas" in room where the bureau was; I found the axe standing behind the bures - uTfeund a gold dollar on the floor , ,itOt'ettrof bureau, which was broken optic: E . " E. Loca=Live itt 11011idays. burg am in the hardware business; raw_ the prisoners at my store the 21st of October, who wanted to • purchasti pistols; my clerk, Wm. Mitchell, show ed them different kinds of pistols, and while they were looking at , them I left to - go to supper; I missed - CA-0 sin gle-barreled pistols whew' came buck; they_ were breech loaders,-_of manufacture ;I keep cartridges same as those used for Allen's pistols, made by bunter: - Croes4 , xizmizied keep.'accounti§ of my cash eitleii'MiclCilay pistols cost 8-1-:oo.etich, „ . , . at: house next morning,and. found, a cartridge on kitChthi &Mr; - lying about 3 - or 4 feet-from Mr. Deightal ; (cartridge correspeinht - with some afterwards, ta ken from prisoners.) Ilr.'Kes,s:/er-T reside in Altoona ;; am a druggist, 'am acquainted, with Gotleib Bobtior, lie called himself Charley Moore; he bought medicine from me, and a few ; days before he was arrested be said' tviii'going • to New York to get $BOO. ; Cross-examined — lle got medicine from me more than once; he Was cre dited, but Inever got ally monnY; depended on his statements about pot ting money; don't recollect ever see : ing -Bordettbourg. f ' Amelia Foust—,Lire in, Altoona; have seen prisoners pretty often ; have known CharleY about, four months; 'saw him pretty rid!lr'every other even - - ho told me ho was to get money from Germany, don't know Itow much; he told me the first Monday after pay day, the 10th; we*woro to be married in a week from the next day, going to housekeeping. and property was to be paid for by tine money from Germany. Mrs Filer—Live in Altoona ; prison• ers boarded at my house; they left on the 13th of October and came back on the 20th of October; they went away again on Monday before Thanks egiving between 6 and 7 o'clock ; Char fey told me I needn't -leave the door °poll as they wouldn't be back that night. :David Stinson-B.lw the. prisoners about •three-quarters of a 'mile from Peightars house on the lfith of Nov ember about 11 or 12-o_'clock ; 1 was . working on the road, with Abraham Collor, James Farley, Adam Snyder land two others; some one of the Men talked to them ; these are the very men. Cross-examined—This happened on the day before Thanksgiving ; nobody with them; heard of murder the next morning. Abraham Coller—Corroborates Stin sOn's testimony; am positive these arc ; the men. ICross examined- I saw Charley along the railroad three or feur times about two weeks before the murder was I committed; had no acquniutanee with him ; Alber t made an attempt to get I on g coal train, but failed. James Forky—Corroborates Coller's ; statement.; I asked one of them where they were going; he said, to Dudley ; am positive these are the mon. Washington Lang—ltesido in Me- Connellstowd; keep a public house; saw these two men at my house on the forenoon of the 17th of November, and 2 or three weeks before that ; the first time they were inquiring fbr work of Mr. Smith; the second time they came early in the morning, got some cider, arid before they left got a pint bottle filled with brandy, and took it with them ; they loft about 10 o'clock. Cross. eXa ined—Mr. Smith employs men to work, and the first time he promised to give thorn a job; they talked as if they had 1 eon working at Broad Top. John Sweeny-Lire near McConnells town, within 30 feet of the railroad; saw these men at station on the nior. 'ling of' the 17th between the - hours of 9'and I 0 o'clock ; Albert asked me whatlime the coal train went to Dad ley ; am positive these are the meat. • Mrs. Margaret Sweeny—l a m the wire of John Sweeny ; these men stop ped in our house, and staid about an hour; my son talked to them; eta sure these are the inert. James Ward—Heird of murder on the night of 1.7 t h; went to the house I and was there two hours or over; I started to Huntingdon between one and two; got here between 3 and 4; went to telegraph office, and was told that the 11 o'clock train east was at Lancaster.; went to ~Car Inspector's ,ofteri, and while, there the . telegraph operator said that a man had told him he had seen the two men I was after got on the Cincinnati train west; 1 went to telegraph office and despatch ed to Altoona to have.i hem arrested ; I remaiacd • there until train arrived at Alto6mt, when 1 got a dispatch that two men had been arrested ; I got the description of men from Mr. Grove and gave it to the operator as near as I could. John Swirell—lleside in Hunting. don; am a car inspector ; was at sta tion;orOhe'morning,of the 18tq Ward met rue; inspeeted the 3,32 train, and Raw . LIVO mon get on the front' platformand rush through the ,car in a great, harry; I told Mr. Ward .rsaiv- two men get on that train, and advised him to celegraph to Altoona. :Gross exa mined . 1 .1.1.10 y, , grit in at , the south side; I was within 30 feet of them ; I didn't know either of them and couldn't identify them. JesselDecker—Live in Huntingdon ; on that,trigitt was at Jacob's saloon about 12 o'clock ; saw these men there; they carne in about 10 o'clock; Char ley-61d me ho had been at 'Stapleton, and were going to Tyrone; they were in the oyster rumn.when I left between 12 andl'O'clOek; they bad a bundle with them. Cross-examined-Got acquainted with Charley at Letterman's, lust spring; he was then, working on the canal. • A. A. Jacobs—l keep the" saloon spo ken of by Mr. Decker; think. these were the men who came into saloon about 10 o'clock ; they drank ale, and tmoked cigars and ate oysters down between 12 and 1 and didn't see them after that. Cross.examined Charley told me they came from Philadelphia and were going to Louisville ; they paid me with a tive.dallar greenback. James Buchanan— Wao brakeman on the passenger train that night ; 1 collected the fare from them; they told me they didn't have tickets; one gave, two dollars, and other, one, reed-balf ;'I thirik these are the' mon"; there were only two got on here. Mathew McAteer—Am a railroad conductor, and passed this placo on the morning of the 18th November, at 3,33: two men got on here and went to Altoona : when they got off they were_arrested pointed them out to Mr. Cramer, - depot 'Master, - he 'pointed them out to Mr. Clarke ; 1 made change for two hues from Huntingdon to Altoona, John M. Clarhe —Reside in Altoona; am railroad police officer; on the morning of the 18th 1 arrested , these two mon; Mr. Cramer came to my house, between 8 and 4 o!efock, and told rho' fie' had - s dispatch to arrest two mon who had committed s mur der near Huntingdon; was near by when the train arrived; McAteer said there:ex:344llmo men : who f gi3t an:at Hitntifilyion) - Bohner Witi - walking HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1870. -PERSEVERE.- away as fast as he Could, and I told him to stop; Mr. Cramer took charge of Bodenburg, and I took char • e o f Charley; we took them to the lamp house, and from t herd we took them to the lock-up; ltordenburg asked me what this meant; I teld hill' we had a dispatch from Huntingdon to arrest him; he ha ha-cd; 1 put them in sepa rate cells, but before I put them in I took their bundles from them, which each one had; made a fire on and went to telegraph office to telegraph to Huntingdon, lint found, Cramer had already telegraphed; wo received a dispatch that a' man would he up on the next train to identify them;l went back to lock-up, and Charley said he had been in Tyrone the day before; about 8 O'clock a boy told me one of them had got Under the lock-up; went there and saw the mayor and many others; we tore up the'" floor, sent. a boy down, but he could see nothing; Mr: Peck went down with a lamp and he could see nothhig; he had gone back to his cell; we then searched them and fotind-a knife,a pocket•book Colltaining $llO iii cnrVeney, and some other things on' Bodenburg; he had a box with cartridges in it; we found ,a paper of cartridge in Charley's 'pos session. ' TUEsDAY Grinner.—Reside in Altoona; witness corroborates Clark's testimo ny nboitt, arresting 'prisoners and 'tele graphing io Huntingdon; Bodenburg, when arrested, had a black moustache and a good black overcoat; the other man %vas pretty roughlfdrcsied.' Hon' Geo Potts.—Ant.' mayor of ' Al tootle; arrived at lockup about. S'o'clk; Clark told me he had pot in two pris oners for the murder ofa whole fami h; found Mr. Witmor at ' the door of the lock up and I went in; one prison er had got under the floor; Charley was sitting in his cell; saw the bundles and put them away; after Borderburg had got back to his cell, we examined both prisoners, and logic everything from them; witness was shown the ra zor, pants, shawls and other articles which be identified as having been ta ken from them; wo went to the cars, and the bundle containing the l lack pantaloons Charley said, was h.s, and the ono containing shawl Bordunburg said was his; all the money we found in the bundles we put in,bank. Cross:examinal—Toid Mr.. 11'1111 m son to have the train Maine(' until we would know who the bundles be longed to; Charley ackhowledged the bundle to he hih that contained the mon eyra _th e .._ Q th ey fordeaburg said was his. rthar Storm—Am a poli ce man in Altoona; heard pf arrest on the 18th of November; I saw them first in the lock-up; Charley was in the cell, and the other man Was under it; I-helped Mr. Willitimon to Open the bundles; (he identified the articles;) I marked "A. S," on the pants; I carried the bundle containing pants to the cars, and Charley reached for it; there were in the pants a bag containing $59,50, $22 in halves and quarters, a 5 kane piece and '4B cents in coin; it was ,tied up in bunches; didn't find any money in bundle No -2; in bundle No. 1, was a cape, light colored shawl, and other articles; in No. 2 .was a plaid shawl, tied in a rod handkerchief;, Mr. reigh tal got the money %%bleb was counted iu the mayor's office; total amount in coin $260 48, delivered to hint. o.os-examined—Don't know how much paper money; beard it wassloo; Clark and Witmor brought prisoners to nuntingdon;all was American coin, except a Mexican dollar. Isaac Pech—Livo in Altoona; saw prisoners between S and 9 at . loci.-up, they were hunting one; I got a digging iron,"broke up the floor, got down, but didn't see him; saw him after; ho came out; ho had Mtn in "ugly mud" that smolt pretty bad; I found, $40.50 in gold, in lock-up,between tbe ceiling under the floor, shoved down a crack; also found 835,50 in halves, $2O in quarters, I Mexican dollar, ,840 in . gokl and 75 cents; gave it to Mr. Storm, wlio, took it to bank; it ,was included in total amount; found a broken razor below in the vaults, where a bolo was made; it had dirt, on it. , '- Cross-examined—l found no timey on prisoners; foUnd mine in lock up at terwards; didn't see the man digging under the floor. • Jacob ff. Witmor—Live in. Altoona; am apOlicoman . ; on the morning ,of 18th I went ; to Mayor's office; ho told Me ho had two fellows in the lot* up; and not to let them out; Clharley had cut six different places in his cell; I asked him for his implements, and took from him a_pocket,knife; went,to t 136 ' other coil and no] one there, there ‘ras a hole in bunk; look ea down privy hole hut ,sane nothing there ; I thought weapons , were under there, and wont down and found A , ra• zor with the name of "Peightal" on it; 1. throw the easo away on account of filth kept razor in my .desk until yesterday. 008 s-examined—l saw name on it' the same day 1 found it; that's all I found under the floor', .Clark and. I camo hero with them; hpd: to take thorn to jail on double.quick ; they were handcuffed, and I had 13ohner. Chaplin—Resido in Hunting : don ; am a barber;, was acquainted with John Peightal; sharpened. razors for him ; (showo razor and case, an d stated that be had seen thorn , before;), I put, his name on the razor; it Wong. ad to Jehtt.Poightal. Cross examined-1 beliovo_John was the last of the family I marked razor for; that is:My writing nu.it. Isaac Peightal—Live in IPenn twp.; am a brother to John Teightal; this was his razor when ho lived with me; I read that name, and , know • it was put on somewhere; ho took razor with him when he left my,houSO-, ; _.- Cfo4.eXantined-LPon't. think I saw '= • _ „ M` • 7 ;ti 'ett. ' • <4 the razor after ho left my house; it be longed to John ; it was the only razor about the house that was marked,thnt recollect. ' Kennedy .11. King—l went to jail on the morning of the 18th ; I asked the officers whether they bad been search ed; he said they had, but they had no fire-arms; wo searched them again; the largo man (Bohner) pulled off his boot, and I saw him take a paper in his hand which contained money ; I took it from him ; it was $122,00 in greenbacks, and currency; I banded money to : Sheriff, who took possession of it; they 'bad searched the small maff, but I noticed ho couldn't speak plain ; he inid ho had' tobaCco in his mouth; when I reached up to take him by the neck, ho spit $27,50 in,g(ild iu my hand ; one $2O gold piece, a $5, and $23. Cross•eaamincd—l went to jail with crowd which was excited; threats were made by the crowd ; prisoners made statements to Y. M. Lytle and H. McDivitt about fifteen Initiates af• ter they were searched; 1 saw what I 'supposed was Wood on a vest, which appeared us had been washed, and on a pair of pante. Richard Laiagdon—l was at the jail on the morning of the 18th; I told the little ono to examine himself; found nothing on him; examined the other and found $192,00 in his stocking; I then tent to little one; told him to speak. plain ; he said ho bad tobacco in his mouth; I tapped his cheek and as he was in the act of swallowing I caught him back of the [leek and he delivered out of his mouth $27,50 in gold. Cross examined—Don't think I saw any blood on their clothing. &imucl Paightal—Live about 3 miles from John, who was my brother; he had been living there about 14 or 15 years; ho went there shortly after marrying Miss Sarah McCall; I was in Alttionat a short time after arrest, and got all thelclothing; they were put up in two bundles; black shawl, cape and pants in one, with white handker chief around it; a ,plaid shawl in the other and red hankerchief around it; have had the two bundles in 'my pox session ever since; the initials of "S. Mc" her maiden name, worked oil the handkerchief with red thread, I would suppose Were hers; Mr. Peightal was 65 years 'old. Cross examined—The initials on the handkerchief I never saw before. two and Garner—liwo about two and a halffrOM - Mr. Peightal; Scott was my son, and had been there three summers; his flatter died 5 years ago, in Salisbury Prison ;"1 sewed for John Peightal, and made these pants for Scott, and took them to him on Mon day evening belbre the murder; Scott was 10—years; .1 month and 10 'days old. Cross-examined—There wero no per sons in the house on tho night of the murder but the two persons and S cott Garner;llr. Peightal butchered on the Tuesday before murder. Re direct—air.'Peightal was out at the barn on Tuesday, morning arid found two men on the loft. 11i8s Margaret McCall: Mrs. Poigh• tal was my aunt; I visited her and Br ed there last winter ; I saw hor hav ing a shawl just like this; I believe all these articles to have been hers. James McCall : I reside in Hender son township; Mrs. Peightal was my sister ; this is a shawl that was bought by my father for her forty years ago; the calk: is one she wore in her young days; she was in the habit of putting "S. Mc" on her handkerchiefs and this corresponds with her other• handker chiefs. ,Sheriff Neely: 1 met the oflicers at the cars, and we took tit,: prisoners to jail; there were some threats made by the crowd ;in jail we searched them; Mr. Langdon and Kennedy King made Albert spit out $22,50; examined their clothes; wouldn't say there was blood on them ; the measure of tracks bro't in exactly measured boots .and shoes; witness then gave .up the $122,60, found in Charley's stocking, and $6 in gold which had been found in his vest; I got on Saturday night last two ease, knives sharpened to a point, and scab bards, in their possession, andiarewell letter ; got one knife inside oteharley's pants, and the other in the bed behind where Albert had been sitting. Cross Examined --- I deposited the money in bank, and got it this. morn ing; Mr. house and Weaver wore with me when I. got the knives; I furnish mailable iron ,knives to prisoners,these are cast steel; there is no convenient sharpening place in jail, ,and they were not sharpened there; never saw such knives about thorn • before, and none Were furnished them by me. Mr. Lung, the guard, got them thread to mend their clothes, as they said; the leather for.the scabbards came off their boots; they said they got them in a cavity under.the window, where some former. prisoners, put things, but I cleaned it all out in the spring when I moved in.. went out to the house with ethers the morning after the murder was committed; • -found tracks.of two men in ,the meadow, go ing up towards the barn, and then go ing towards the railroad; Addison Loo, Moses Ilarner,and James Boring help ed to measure them; the latter meas ured ,with a rule and I took them down; measured tracks coming down • from, the house; the left foot measured thus : length of heel, 3 inch es, width of heel,,ll inches, length of foot, IA inches, Width o'rShnok 2} in., widest.part of foot •FincheSs; the sum). ler•traek, thus . : right'fbot: length •11.1 inches;, hoe! , 3 inches 'square, shank .2, inches, broadest part 31 inches; snow fell the , day before and tracks •wero easily recognized; came, to, jail •the day they were arrested; but the boots and shoo were off before I went in• TERMS, ,, $2,00 a' year in advance. lhought,the shoes' corresponded With the tracks; the house.is situateth.in Penn township, Huntingdon county. Prof. Louis J. Veilh.—This witness stated that the two letters taken front the prisoners on Saturday and given him were a correct translation from the German. The tollowing,are copies Of the letters, which were read linstvtsiunoN, Dec. 25th 1869.—An open Idler bathe fitroters (rough people in Geentani and blood hounds of Huntingdon. In strength of my office and in the name of the devil I take the pen in order to announce not my death but yours on this Chr:stnuy. Rascals that your are, you wanted to kill us nta we *didn't do the crime. We were four of -us - -the two wlio dune the crime made their escape. By:that reason I came to the conch,- ,sion to save my life, for the merciless fate did threaten* me with death.' We 'resolved it was better for one roan to die than two. We , were to be gone long ago, but we. had not yet weapons. But for . that purpose we , received ' them, for the proverb says, -“Patiene, reason and time, (that will be three noble things) a man that is able to wait can make every thing possible." Who the min was that done the crime you needn't know, you can ask himself. Fur that purpose I gave up my be lief that I knew it—there is no Gud in heaven. The hog-shepherd sitting in the court knows it. Lytle—or whatever hIS bad name may ,be—he wanted to bring me some snuff, the damned blood hound. Ile will re ceive not tobacco but a pistol shot to go to hell. Yes, you German, you said that !yen were ashamed—you Shall not shame yoursel ves much longer, you it ill receive in the same Mao a ball of death.' Who these are I kedp it for myself. You were right in telling in the newspapers. I have laughed heartily over that crime, as I shall kill you-like mad dogs. Now we deserve death. It you want to fol low us you can do,it, then our balls will kill you. If you believe on a God you can pray once before you meet us fur our balls will bore-your breast. You must not believe you are going to capture us again so, quickly like Altoona. We were not prepared fur that, but now we can see how it stands -everybody we will cross wilt bo knocked down. 0, with what pleasure. we will receive them who aro coming after us. It makes no difference whether brother or friend, you are nil lust in death, for we have money and good weapons already this very day. Yes,' ne am going iii company and woe to you people of Hunting don. Your town shelf be laid in ashes and wheerer.will resist shall be shot down. I repent again you should riot raw us and if you will do it I shall make a trial with .you then. I have get a good eye which never misses the right conjure. I need only one finger of my right hand and you s—ta and bandits must leave the world and go to That all this will Happen I testify it 'here with my signature. Gouviticui, Front devil, from hell, from death and de btruction. Y. M. and B. 11UNTI:saIDON, J:111, Ist. 1810 ran laskigiN' - ircat•l‘r nest taw-which after centuries till the close of the world will he remembered of me. You wanted the his tory of my life so I want to giro it to you with 'the pen this time and the next time with the ball. I get Mona , better with the bull then w ith the pen. We could have left Altoona but was too light. I wanted to get into prison and then to get nut of it; that makes the law book full. The watchmen in Altoona (the rascals) Lave stolen all the money and we sboutd suffer for it; so is it; the small ones got hanged and the big- ones get free. ,Those - bloodhounds of watchmen in Altoona; they shall die the "first day. I wish they could enjoy that stolen money. - I will enjoy too, to use my now weapons for them. They shouldn't fall by a murderer's hand, but by -the hand all noble one." Yes I do it with my hand. Others are doing it with the mouth and the heart; that I call murder. I want to 'explain to you everything right, for you are all made of a bad stuff. I do not wonder you are going to the church and sleeping with a wife that keeps you in the dullness till you die like a dog. But we, we are made of gold and jewels. Hurrah, hut, rah, hurrah! in the name of the devil and his servants may live. You damned cattle ! You believe on God, you want to go to heav en. You can go in your The ministers of the gospel canto to see us too. I sent them off right away. I told them that I ran all these things off with My shoes.. All the ministers of the gospel should be hanged, only it is a pity for the ropes but one I will not condemn, that is Mr. Steckel. lie speaks German and is a man who I like. I'll get shut of hint otherwise-I'll get tiled or sleepy: I'll change my mind with the world and to-day; on the now year, I'll count how much lead : and shot I need in the next twenty years, especially for the dogs who are sitting in the Court and who are made of the same bad stuff—and such dogs want to take our lives. Every human being has that right, but they Must not catch themselves. Yes, you would have laughed if you would have seen us hanging on the rope. * • * * The thick Brown and that dig which has ta ken my money in the jail—prepare yoursebt:eis fur death; come like a thief in the tiight and demand your lives. • ![ere follows eighteen verses of jargon,pro fanity and threats alike senseless and uniu : telligable, and the writing cloSes as follows : This night you will all become angry 'on account of me for 1 'will slay • theshepherd . and the sheep will scatter: Behold, hero a pen ;nark brings the death, death, death. I make•three crosses for inv name is froni a Cross. Frain 'MAN ' Chart adjourned until 2P. M. _ Limiasberger—l was with. P. Peighial when measuring the tracks and 'comparing the boots and shoes with them; they went through the meadow to the barn together; one foil lowed 'the other up the' lane; could trace. them to a wood pile near the house, where the snow was tramped umthe boots and sloes fit the-tracks; 1 saw the same tracks up, to a tittle cave about three-quarters of a mile from the house. saw tile prisoners tile're between 3 fulfil o'clock the - same day of the murder; traced trackfl froth there to house, and from there back to rail road) the same persons made theta; they were sitting , by the fire .at-•the cave. • Cross:examined—f, first saw ,boots and shoes the nest day aftertheY \Vero brought here; went ups with" Peter Peightal; snow had 'thawed a little; mensured•traelcs;'l'saw them at the cave the day the inurdessas nomina ted; I,re•measured.the tracks the same evening after their arrest, by the light of a lantern. Witness_ examined the boots on Bohner, and stated that they like'the Coots; the boots, fit the largest track. Margaret McCall--I saw inonby Mr, Peightal's house about a year ago; my aubt'sliblVdd:it. to nie;.it was in a muslin poke, which she took from a bureau drawer, in • ,ii far. corper of a moth; it, stood in the sank =place the day of the murder. Cross-examined—Aunt' claimed' mon ey as hers; nothing said about any oth er monev•at that, ttrine.:'. .• Thonta - s Westbrook i = Live in Poets town;-adjoining -- Hunting,don . ; • Oirthe morning of nth of Novembar Lwas at the statiidi. about 20' mi‘tittteti:,b'efitre arrival of the Cincinnati train ;:Char ley asked me how soon the train woul.: be hero; rtolif him in a lOW minutes; they came - together and gilt " on ' the 'train: ani ndsitive Charley iallidthan; no other passengers got, on., '; ,) cross examined : NeVer saw hint:be fore; they both sat in the office wait• ing the train. (While this witness Was telling that it was cold that night, and he himself had a soldier's overcoat on, Charley, who was beloW -, hint iii 'the bitr, - said, "1 hadn't an overcoat on," thus convincing the jury beyond a doubt that he. was the one who, was r at the station) Mrs. Sai•eih Gable : LiVO in Altoona; um acquainted with these men ;'they called at my brinso; 1 washed. ler Al bert; three or four weeks before, they tom me they • were going' to Harris burg ; they said they Wouid . bring me a present and pay my rent; 1 ,never saw them after they came back; Al bert told me they were getting a for tune of $6OOO from Germany. Cross cramineg : Albert had a letter 'written in German ; some relative in Germany _was to give hint the 'money; Albert alwayskohaved himself wek,iit my house. , . - Francis B. _Brallace.—Ant , a•r:Store• keeper in Huntingdon,;(witners, was showy) a bill which ,was found One of the prisorors)'T sold gdmV , te "John Peightal for the use orJoseph Kyle; sold him -Kentucky Jean amounting. to $8,75, four, or five years.ogo. „ Cross-examined The bill Wastiot in ' my handwriting; - Joseph Kyle died about 8 years ago. • P: M. Lytle, Esq. : Saw 'l.lte'l prison fil at on the• day , they. were , •arrest cd; saw them tvhen brought; off train and rent in jail ,with the Sheriff in ad vance of the party; twits actingias a private citizen ; the •Gernme , popola lion were excited,: the prlSOliers wattle voluntary statements to Me ;•"'I cau tioned them'net to tell anything' 'would criminate themselvete. [Counsel for defendants, objected ;to omitting confessions:qf ,p,risoneri„os evidence, as there tippeared to ti initiation; Mr. Lytle stated ho was re quested to come back by Charley at - a subsequent day, whew theiCourt ruled that the confession made then would be admitted as evidence, and-Mr. Ly tlo;proceeded Bohner stated: to lroo that he andliddenburghad,come•from Altoona and ; arrived kore at half-post 4 o'clock; they' walked: Co l'eighttil'o that Monday night, aneslePt iii thk barn; inquired fur work' of'Mrc Ptiigb/ tai on Tuesday; that.heinid polite oat towards the, railroad and ha(l,•,sho r tyrr them the Wny; they staid in the neigh borhood that day inquiring. for ivierli y , and slept that night in a' bare' fartker down the road; went to , McConnelisL town on , Wednesday forenoon,,,-staid there sometime, and • started .back to. wards Pleasant Grdvo, - and - walketi— slowly ;so as to avoid - getting ft> Peigh tars too soon; at about seven o'clock they started from 'railiond, 'Wake() through the-field to O corner of 'blitil yard;that they had two.single-barreled pistols that, had been ; purchased. io Hollidaysburg, and that hokPoiropr) loaned 13ordenburg his pistol, and lie staid "at the corner of 'the 'bardYard while llordenburg did thwkilllitg;• sta . - ted that he heard„threo„shots, that when Hordenburg,caute put„lie handed him one poke of money :citta kept the other; ho ;seated that Ito,tdnu; burg told him he had killed i three;knd I think he said that he had. fired:the house; they then left and came along the railroad to.nuntingdon; he has re,. peated the sante statement to me since; Bordenburg's statement corroborlifes Bohner's, except - that he says Uohnor did the killing and he watched; they; also stated that they. had been there two or three weeks before. ". :• '-' •'• Cross-examined The. statements were made separately;4. don't 'know, whether they learned I was a, mouther ; of the bar; I asked Charley where the balance of the money was; I was employed by Mr. Peightal to - recover it; neither of them acknowledged that be had done the killing. , R-111. Speer, Esq - 7 j - saW ' Charley , throe years ago to-morrow, Jan:l7th; when I: defended himmt•this was indicted for lareeny. r•:•.. Cr oss•exa mined—l met, him'in, and said; 'Gotlieb, this i 8 .1.1. 610. RI/Ipfri% he said, I 'could get • him o f itt 'or said, "No; this is not' killirig:abrilE"•' NO. 28, Commonwealth here' res - 634.1 Al. There being no witneeseepmejde , oft defence, and no argument-submitted on either. side, Judge. Tayloryprocee'd. ad to deliver• the charge, }which _occu pied an hour, , The Jury retired at the ; conclusion. : of the charge, and returned._ in, fifteen minutes with :tlll3" i fol)9Vritk verdict: "Guilty of niurdei4n'the 'fitiAt degree:" _Bohner lieard,ithe, "verciikt- , with as much unconcern as hu,hassbeed, , noted for since his arrest, ticnbur n'OpCareirdepreised in hung• his head deitin,':infi• I tearif Were' noticed to trickle , "doin 'Ohbotr l ' MO ho was,tulfen to the jail; u 7„, On Friday morning at .90:1'njoek, ,tllo:•pria;i oners, Bohner and Bordenbourg, Jr.er) bro't , into Court 'to Teceive their 'scinferice;"` ' prisonersrwere Odd: to stand iitrarrijAttaked' if they had anything to.say.vr hy,the sonlenee shotild not be "pronnuneed. Borilenhchire re: plied that ha-rvas(not,kuilty ; tha't'- lie' didn't know anything ntAokilling-ofttio family or • !Aiming of the lons() until he eit to . Altoinia, The Judge , than' - konouneed "the senfdtici; • k. that, they be hanged.ll. tho.nedk until' dead, in the ,jail yard. 119;,Pienics' in 'a town iti •'3.lakyirtua v ". are4Ound tth by thiYghls standing a long: row, whila- the- .ydung . • alook the line and kiss.thera night." Wish we, . .„ sae-Whitt should u y m oung un'es, ry with him "Wlien% eitliiiig"'uptiri his pfliationd?---AffeutiOn in his heart, fection,in his , manbers, cioufecticin cry in his pockets. ITER.,:A. while boy met a colored , lfkl the, other day, and asked .him, :what Ito had such a short nose for. '4,spectn-• A so t won't poke itself in other people' business." a THE VELIDIC'f, ,• 5 • INM SENTENCED.- ,',
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