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JOHN B. S., born April 4, 1814, in Lexington, Kentucky, eame with his parents to Springfield in 1827, and July 1, 1833, entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated there July 1, 1837. He was assigned to duty as second lieutenant in the 6th U. S. Inf., promoted to first lieutenant, Dec. 25, 1837, and promoted to captain in 1843. After more than eighteen years active service, during which time he was in almost every frontier fort, and served through the Mexican war, Captain Todd resigned his commission Sept. 16, 1856, and entered into mercantile business. In the summer of 1861 he was elected the first Delegate of Dakota in the United States Congress. He was commissioned September 19, 1861, by President Lincoln, Brigadier General of Volun- teers, and in 1862 commanded the 6th Division of the Army of the Ten- nessec. He was re-elected Delegate to Congres- and served until March 4, 1865. He was elected in 1867 to the Territorial Legislature of Dakota, and was Speaker of the House at the session of 1867 and 'S. General J. B. S. Todd, then a Captain in the United States army, was married March 25, 1845, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Cath- arine S. Hoffman, a daughter of Colonel William Hoffman, of the United States army. They had nine children. The second and third both died in infancy. Of the other seven, KATE H., born in 1845, at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, married March,
1869, at Yankton, Dakota to Edward F. Higbee. They have one child, JOHN TODD, and live in Yankton. FANNIE A., born in 1852, at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, was married June, 1873, to J. B. Van Velsor, at Yankton, Dakota, where they now re- side. JOHN, born in 1854, at Fort Rip- ley, Minnesota, married August, 1875, to Mary F. Hughes, at Yankton, Dakota, where they now reside. DANA, born in 1857, at Springfield, Illinois. MARY H., born in 1859, MATILDA C., born in 1861, SOPHIA J., born in 1864, the three latter at Fort Randall, Dakota. General J. B. S. Todd died Jan. 5, 1872, at Yank- ton, Dakota, and his widow and four minor children reside there.
FRANCIS WALTON, born April 17, 18!6, at Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, and brought by his parents to Springfield, Illinois, in 1827. He was edu- cated at Jacksonville, and graduated in medicine at Cincinnati Medical College in 1838. He was appointed surgeon in the United States army while in the City of Mexico, in 1846. In 1849 he went to Cali- fornia, and was married there in March, 1851, to Mrs. L. M. Jackson, nee Bullitt, of Nachitoches, Louisiana. They have no children. Dr. Todd is a member of the California State Board of Health, Presi- dent of the Stockton Board of Health, and Secretary of San Joaquin County Medi- cal Society. He resides at Stockton, Cali- fornia.
WILLIAM L., born April 14, ISIS, at Edwardsville, Illinois, and brought up in Springfield, where he learned the business of a druggist. He went to California in IS45, before the Mexican war or the discov- ery of gold and was there when the survi- vors of the Reed and Donner party arrived; so many of whom starved to death as they were snow-bound in the mountains. William L. Todd was married April 14, 1868, in California, to Mrs. Cla- rissa J. Pike, whose maiden name was Chase. She was born in 1823 in Duchess county, New York. Mrs. Todd died child- less in March, 1874, in Sacramento. Mr.
Todd resides at Los Angelos, California.
ELIZABETH f. was born January, 1825, at Edwardsville, Illinois, married in Springfield July 21, 1846, to Harrison J. Grimsley. They had two children. JOHN T., born Feb. 3, 1848, in Springfield, mar- ried Dec. 12, 1871, in Summerfield, New
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Jersey, to Cornelia Meesler, daughter of Rev. A. Meesler, D.D., pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of that place. They have one child, MARY SWIFT. John T. Grimsley is a partner in the mercantile firm of Herndon & Co., and resides in Springfield, Illinois. WILLIAM L., born March 17, 1852, is a clerk with Herndon & Co., and resides in Spring- field, Illinois. H. J. Grimsley died in 1865, and his widow married in January, 1867, to Rev. John H. Brown, D.D., pas- tor of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, and later of the Thirty-first Street Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Dr. Brown died Feb. 23, 1872, in Chicago, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. His widow resides in Spring- field, Illinois.
LOCKWOOD M., born June 17, 1826, in Edwardsville, raised in Springfield, studied medicine and graduated in St. Louis in 1851. He was with Sherman as commissary in his march to the sea. He married Emily Husband, and lives in Vir- ginia City, Montana Territory.
FRANCES S., born Dec. 19, 1832, in Springfield, Illinois, married there Dec. 18, 1849, to Thomas H. Shelby, of Lexington, Kentucky. Mrs. Shelby died in Springfield Feb. I, IS51, Icaving one child, JOHN TODD Shelby, born Jan. 25, IS51, in Springfield, Illinois. He was brought up near Lexington, Kentucky, gradu- ated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in the class of 1870, married Novem- ber 7, 1872, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Lizzie M. Craig. They have one child, THOMAS HART. John T. Shelby is a practicing lawyer in Lexington, Ken- tucky. Soon after the death of his wife, Thomas H. Shelby, with his infant son re- turned to Kentucky, and is now an exten- sive farmer near Lexington. He is a grand . son of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky, and on his mother's side, a grandson of Edmond Bullock, Speaker of the first Kentucky House of Representa- tives.
Dr. John Todd and wife celebrated their golden wedding July 1, 1863. He died Jan. 9, 1865, and she died March 11, 1865, both in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Todd was a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church in the city at the time of his death.
TOLLEY, ISOM, was born about 1754 in Virginia, went to Bourbon county,
Kentucky, when he was a young man, and was there married to Isabel Whitesides, had six children in Kentucky, moved to St. Clair county, Illinois, thence to Morgan county, and from there to Sangamon coun- ty, in what is now Loami township in October, 1823. Of their children-
DANIEL, married Jane Bailey and left Sangamon county soon after.
ELIZABETH married John Weir, and moved to Iowa in 1843 or '4.
JAMES born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married Elizabeth Mace. They had eight children. SAMUEL was killed by lighting on Spring creek in 1840, aged twenty years. LUCINDA married Arthur Davenport. They have seven chil- dren, and reside near Berlin, Sangamon county, Ill. MARY A. married Ephraim Shryer. See his name. MARTHA J. married Aaron Van Patton. See his name. KATE or (CATHARINE E.), born August 27, 1828, was married Jan. S, 1845, in Sangamon county, to William W. Beerup. See his name. They had three living children. SOPHIA, born Feb. 25, IS49, married John K. Shumate, and lives in Springfield, Illinois. ROSETTA, born Sept. S, 1855, died March 19, 1861. ADA- LINE, born Dec. IS, 1858, resides with her parents one and one-half miles south of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois. ELIZABETH married Charles Myers. He died leaving a widow and six children at Middletown, Logan county, Illinois. MATILDA married Harris Elliott, has two children, and lives at Middletown. SUSAN married William Douglas. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Tolley died in 1838, and James Tolley married America Kelly. They moved to Kansas, and he died there.
NANCY married John Porter. She died leaving one daughter in Clear Lake township, Sangamon county, Ill.
JOHN married Susan Washburne, who died. He married again and lives near Salisbury, Illinois.
UNITY died unmarried, aged about twenty-five years.
Mrs. Isabel Tolley died aged about ninety-six, and John Tolely died, aged about one hundred and six years, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
TOMLIN, ALMARIN, was born July 28, ISoo, in Cape May county, New Jersey. Rhoda Smith was born
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June 15, 1So2, in the same county. They were there married January 11, 1821, and had seven children in New Jersey. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October, 1837, in what is now Cartwright township, where five children were born. Of their children-
EMELINE, born in 1822 in New Jersey, married Samuel Sutton, a native of New Jersey, also. They have three children, HENRIETTA, JOSEPH and CHARLES N., and reside three miles north of Salisbury, Menard county, Ill.
LOUISA, born April 4, IS24, in New Jersey, married William B. Quinn. They have one child, ALMARIN, and live near St. Paul, Minnesota.
EDWIN, born July 29, IS26, in New Jersey, was married April 5, 1854, in San- gamon county, to M. Margaret Correll. They had nine children. FANNIE, the second, died in infancy. EVA H. was married March 16, 1876, near Pleasant Plains, Illinois, to William Sinclair, of Cass county, Illinois. THOMAS A., CHARLES S., LEE C., SALLIE, JACOB, ANNIE and ISAAC F. The seven latter live with their parents on the farm settled by Mr. Tomlin's father in 1837, and is one and one-fourth miles north- west of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon coun- ty, Illinois.
JEREMIAH T., born Oct. 5. 1S28, in New Jersey, married Jennie Richmond of the same State. They had four children, and Mrs. Jennie Tomlin died in 1869. J. T. Tomlin was married to Mrs. Belle Newman, whose maiden name was Hall, and moved to Quincy, Illinois.
HARRIET, born August 27, 1832, married Josiah Reed. They have cleven children, and live near Circleville, Ohio.
GAMES S., born Oct. 19, 1834, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Anna Townsend, of New Jersey. They have ten children, and reside near Wichita, Kansas-1873.
LYDIA H., born Sept. 11, 1836, mar- ried Josiah Alkire. They have three chi.dren, and reside in St. Louis, Missouri.
MARY and MARTHA, twins, born Sept. 11, 1839, in Sangamon county.
MARY, died in her thirteenth year.
MARTHA is unmarried and lives with her mother at Jacksonville, Illinois.
RACHEL and RHODA, twins, born January, 1842, in Sangamon county.
RACHEL married Monroe Rankin. They have two children, and live in Mc- Lean county, Illinois.
RHODA married Stephen Capps. They have four children, and live at Jacksonville, Illinois.
Almarin Tomlin died April, 1859, and . his widow resides at Jacksonville, Illinois.
TOMLINSON, ELIZA- BETH, whose maiden name was Mc- Kinnie, was born in Orange county, on the Shenandoah river, Virginia. She was taken by her parents to Fayette county, Kentucky, and was there married to Elijah Tomlinson, a native of Virginia, also. They had ten children in Fayette county, and Mr. Tomlinson died about IS12. Mrs. Tomlinson with her children came to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of IS29, three miles northwest of Springfield. Of their children --
WILLIAM raised a family and died in Kentucky.
CATHARINE died in Kentucky,aged twenty years.
MARTHA married Andrew MeKin- nie. See his name.
CHARLES B. went to the Galena lead mines when a young man, and died of cholera in 1833, at Mineral Point, Wiscon- sin.
LOUIS.4, born April 16, 1SoI, in Ken- tucky, married there to Nathaniel Hurst, and came to Sangamon county in 1829, and died in Springfield many years later.
NICHOLAS, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in St. Louis county, Missouri, to Nancy Davis, and came to Sangamon county in 1845. Mrs. T. died leaving seven children, and he married Mrs. Sarah Brady, and both died in Springfield, leav- ing four children. Their son, Charles Tomlinson, lives in Springfield.
REBECCA married C. Hendricks and remained in Kentucky.
LEWIS.
ANDREW, born in Kentucky, went to the Galena lead mines in 1827, and died there in 1828 or '9.
GAMES M., born May 20, ISog, in Fayette county, Kentucky, came to Sanga- mon county with his mother in IS29. He spent five years in the lead mines, went to Kentucky, and was married April 30, 1837, in Fayette county, to Louisa Hurst, who was born Jan. 1, 18og, in Ohio. They had one child in Kentucky, and came to San-
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gamon county in IS38, where they had four children. Of their five children, MARTHA E., born Jan. 31, 1838, in Ken- tucky, married March 6, 1866, to John W. Hurst, has three children, and lives in Galena. ELIJAH and ELISHA T., twins, the former died in infancy. Elisha T. enlisted in November, 1861, in Co. G, Ioth Ill. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted January, 1864, served to the end of the re- bellion, was honorably discharged in Janu- ary, 1866, and lives with his parents. JOHN B. and THOMAS H. B., twins, born July 5, 1841. The former died in in- fancy. T. H. B. served from August 7, IS62, to the end of the rebellion in Co. I, 7th Ill. Inf. He married Mrs. Sarah Shu- felt, whose maiden name was Meadow, and lives near Lafayette, Indiana. AN- DREW J., born April 16, 1843, enlisted September, 1861, in Co. I, 39th Ill. Inf. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, was wounded August 16, 1864, at Decp Bot- tom, Virginia, and died Sept. 14, following, from the amputation of a leg. NICHO- LAS B., born June 24, 1845, married Sarah Gillock, have one child, and live in Spring- field. James M. Tomlinson and wife re- side three miles northwest of Springfield.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson died at the house of her son, James M., Dec. 31, IS50, near Springfield, Illinois.
TORRENCE, WILLIAM, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, and married there to Margaret Cham- baugh. They had seven children, and Mrs. T. died in that county. Mr. Tor- rence was married to Celia Sheriff and had two children in Virginia, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of IS34, in what is now Rochester township, and two years later moved into Cotton Hill township. Two children were born in Sangamon county. Of all his children-
JOHN, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Sarah Donner, (a sister to George and Jacob Donner.) They had five children. GEORGE is married and lives in Tay- lorville; SUSAN married Henry Baker and lives near Medoc, Missouri; MAR- GARET married Edward Todd, and lives in Springfield; WILLIAM, married, and lives near Atlanta, Illinois. John Tor- rence and wife died in Atlanta.
ABSALOM, born in Virginia, died in Sangamon county, Angust, 1835.
ROBERT, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, married in Iowa, and lives near Medoc, Missouri.
NANCY, born in Virginia, was mar- ried in Sangamon county to John Adams. They had three children.
SAMUEL, born May 7, 1819, in Hampshire county, Virginia, was married January 7, 1841, in Sangamon county, to Polly Delay. They had eight children in Sangamon county. GREENBERRY, born Dec. S, 1842, is proprietor of Cotton Hill mills, formerly the old Breckenridge mill, and lives in Cotton Hill township, Breckenridge postoffice. ELIZA, born May S, IS44, married H. Peddicord, and died August 15, 1873, leaving three chil-
dren in Champaign City. CHARLES, born August 22, 1846, married Josephine Peddicord. They have one child and live near Taylorville, Illinois. ELIZABETH, born Sept. 13, 1848, married Edgar Eggle- ston, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois. JENNIE, born March 22, 1850, married James Shaw. They have one child, and live near Taylorville. JOHN, EMMA and ANNA live with their mother. Samuel Torrence was killed by being thrown from a wagon attached to a run- away team, Sept. 21, 1875. His widow and children live two miles south of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAM, born in Hampshire coun- ty, Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents and is living with his third wife near Taylorville, Illinois. He has one child by his second marriage.
SILAS, born in Virginia, raised in Sangamon county, married in Iowa, and lives near Winona, Minnesota.
GANE, born in Virgina, married in Sangamon county to Harvey Fasset, and lives near Winona, Minnesota.
By the second wife:
EMANUEL, born in Virginia and died in Sangamon county at about twenty- one years of age.
JOSEPH, born in Virginia, raised in Sangamon county, and is living with his second wife in Taylorville, Illinois.
ISAAC, born in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives near Decatur, Illinois.
MARGARET, born in Sangamon county and died at fifteen years of age.
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William Torrence died in 1841 in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, and his widow married John Davis. He died, and she lives in Taylorville, Illinois.
TORREY, JOSEPH, was born March 25, 1788, in Connecticut, came to Madison county, Illinois, and was there married to Olive Slater. They moved to Sangamon county, and settled on Sugar creek, where she died in 1S20. Joseph Torrey returned east and was married Jan. 17, 1828, at Millbury, Mass., to Abi- gail Sibley, who was born Nov. 29, 1804, in Massachusetts. They had four children there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in 1836, where three children were born. Of their seven children two died young.
ELIZA A., born March 2, 1829, in Massachusetts, was married July 3, IS51, in Springfield, Illinois, to John C. Moses. They had two children. ABBIE, born August, 1832, was married in Taylorville, Illinois, to David Hay. They reside at Wichita, Kansas. JOHN C., lives in Tay- lorville. Mr. Moses died May 16, 1860, and Mrs. Moses resides with her sisters, Mrs. Sattley and Mrs. Rockwell.
SUSAN, born March 18, 1831, in Massachusetts, married, Sept. 21, 1853, to Albert Sattley. See his name.
ABIGAIL E., born Sept. 10, 1833, in Massachusetts, was married in Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 7, 1856, to Sylvester Paden. He died August 15, 1860. She was mar- ried July 7, 1869, to Humphrey H. Hood. They have one child, HARROLD, and reside in Litchfield, Illinois.
ELLEN, born April 4, 1841, in Spring- field, was married Dec. 29, 1858, in Tay- lorville, to Charles V. Rockwell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio. He came to Chicago in 1848, and from there to De- catur, Illinois, in 1850, studied medicine, and attended one course of lectures at St. Louis Medical College. In 1854 he located and practiced medicine at Taylorville. He graduated at St. Louis Medical College in 1858. They have five children, LULU, SUSAN E., GERTRUDE, ESTELLA and GRACIE A., who reside with their parents at Taylorville, Illinois.
JOSEPH S., born Feb. 8, 1844, in Springfield, was married Oct. 27, 1868, in Centralia, to Elizabeth H. Sloan, who was born Nov. 27, 1844, in Rock-
wood, Randolph county, Illinois. They have three living children, JULIA E., LEWIS E. and MABEL. J. S. Torrey resides in Taylorville, Illinois.
Joseph Torrey was in the boot and shoe business for a short time, afterwards en- gaged in hotel keeping, and subsequently n pork packing with James L. Lamb. He died on a farm near Illiopolis, Illinois, Sept. 2, 1845. Mrs. Torrey died in Tay- lorville, Sept. 10, IS57 ..
TRAYLER. Three brothers, Wil- liam, Henry and Archibald Trayler, were born of respectable parents, in Green county, near the line of Adair county, Kentucky. They came to Illinois about 1829. William settled near Greenbush, Warren county, more than one hundred miles northwest of Springfield. Henry married a sister of Eli C. Blankenship, a merchant of Springfield, and settled at Clary's Grove, about twenty miles north- west of Springfield. It was then in San- gamon, but now in Menard county. Archibald was unmarried, and engaged in business in Springfield, as a carpenter and builder, in partnership with Reuben Rad- ford, the latter of whom went out of the business, when Mr. Trayler associated himself with a Mr. Myers, under the firm name of Trayler & Myers. Mr. Trayler owned the lot on which the Episcopal Church now stands, at the corner of Adams and Third streets. He had a dwelling house there, and Mr. Myers, having a family, kept the house. Mr. Trayler boarded in his own house, with his partner. William Trayler was some- what given to telling marvelous stories, and a little inclined to boasting. With that exception, the three brothers were sober, industrious and retiring men. For ten or twelve years after coming to the State, nothing occurred in their lives un- usual to the settlers in a new country.
It has become a proverb that "truth is stranger than fiction." This was never more completely verified than in the events I am about to relate, concerning these three brothers, who became victims to the most remarkable case of circum- stantial evidence on record, one that would, if given in proper terms, be of absorbing interest to the legal profession. I must, from necessity, make my statements as concise as possible. Hon. William But- ler, deceased, is my authority for what I
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have said of the birth and parentage of the brothers. I have gathered all the other in- formation from the older citizens of Spring- field, files of the Journal and Register newspapers, and from an elaborate article that first appeared in the Quincy Whig, and copied into the Springfield fournal of April 23, 1846. The latter is princi- pally true, but contains some glaring errors, which, by the aid of men who took part in the proceedings, I have been able to avoid.
A man about fifty years of age, by the name of Archibald Fisher taught school in Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois, and in that vicinity. He also worked at odd jobs when he was not regularly em- ployed. He was unmarried, economical in his habits, and lived in the families of the people wherever his business called him. In that way he had saved a few hundred dollars, and at the beginning of the events I am about to relate was mak- ing his home with William Travler, who was then a widower, with several chil- dren.
Mr. Fisher, wishing to enter some land, he and Mr. Trayler started for Spring- field together. They set out in a bug- gy without springs-called a Dearborn wagon-drawn by one horse. On Sun- day evening they reached the house of Henry Traylor, and the next day all three came to Springfield, Henry riding on horseback. They arrived about noon, Monday, June 1, 1841, and stopped at the house where Archibald Trayler boarded. After dinner the three Traylers and Fisher left the boarding house in company, for the purpose of looking about the town. At supper time the three brothers re- turned, but Fisher, having stepped aside, as they were passing along a foot path among the trees in the northwestern part of the city, did not appear. After supper all the others went in search of him. One by one they returned, as night approached, but without any tidings of Fisher. The next morning the search was continued, and up to noon was still unsuccessful. William and Henry, having expected to leave early that morning, expressed their intention to abandon the search and start for home. This was objected to on the part of the boarders, because it would leave Fisher without any means of con- veyance. They continued to search the
remainder of that day, but at night> William, who evidently felt greatly dis- appointed at being detained so long, hitched up his buggy and started without the knowledge of his brother, Archie, who, missing him, followed on foot, and overtook him just as he was entering the water at Hickox mill, on Spring creek, near where the O. & M. railroad now crosses. Archie called to William, and remonstrated against his going until the mystery was cleared up. William turned around in the water, and they both re- turned to Springfield. Notwithstanding all this, William and Henry started for home the next day. The mysterious dis- appearance had to that time attracted but little attention. Three or four days later, Henry returned to Springfield for the purpose of making a more diligent search, and with his brother, Archie, and some of the boarders, another day was spent, and he returned home. On Friday, June 12, James W. Keyes, the postmaster in Springfield, received a letter from Mr. Tice, the postmaster of Greenbush, War- ren county, saying that William Trayler had returned home, and was circulating the report that Fisher, the man who had left there with him for Springfield, was dead, and with something of a boastful manner, stated that Fisher had willed his money to him, and that he had gained about fifteen hundred dollars by it-a much larger sum than Fisher was sup- posed to possess. Postmaster Tice re- quested the Springfield postmaster to give him all the information on the subject that he could. The contents of that letter were made public, and the excitement be- came widespread and intense. Springfield had, only the year before, adopted a city organization, with about two thousand inhabitants. The mayor, William L. May, and Josiah Lamborn, the attorney general of the State, headed the move- ment to ferret out the mystery. Men were formed into squads, and marched about in all directions, so as to leave no spot unsearched. Examinations were made of wells, and every conceivable place where a body might be concealed.
A club was found with some hair attached to it. It was confidently believed that the murder had been committed with that weapon, but it was afterwards demonstrated that the hair was from a cow.
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This search was continued until Saturday afternoon, when it was determined to arrest William and Henry Trayler, and officers started for them on Sunday morn- ing. Henry, being nearest, was brought to Springfield on Monday. The mayor and attorney general took him in hand and used every device to elicit information of the supposed murder, but he protested his innocence of any knowledge on the subject. He was reminded that the cir- cumstantial evidence was so strong that he, with his two brothers, would certainly all be hung, and that the only chance to save his own life was for him to become a witness on the part of the State. He withstood all the pressure until Wednesday, the seventeenth of the month, when, pro- testing his own innocence, he stated that his brothers, William and Archibald, had murdered Fisher, by hanging him to a tree, without his knowledge at the time, that they had temporarily concealed the body, that immediately preceding the departure of himself and William from Springfield, on the second or third of June, William and Archie communicated the fact to him, and engaged his assistance in making a permanent concealment of the body; that at the time he and William left, ostensibly for home, they did not take the direct road, but, wending their way through the streets, entered the woods at the northwest of the city, and that on approaching, where the body was concealed, he was placed as a sentinel. He then entered into a minute description of the murder, going into the smallest details. He said that his brothers entered a thicket of underbrush, where the body was concealed, placed it in the buggy, moved off with it in the direction of Hickox mill pond on Spring creek, and soon after returned, saying they had put it in a safe place; that Archibald went back to town, and that William and himself found their way to the road, and proceeded to their homes.
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