Report of the trial of Leavitt Alley : indicted for the murder of Abijah Ellis, in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts / reported by Franklin Fiske Heard.

  • Alley, Leavitt
Date:
1875
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Credit: Report of the trial of Leavitt Alley : indicted for the murder of Abijah Ellis, in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts / reported by Franklin Fiske Heard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    would have no opportunity to reply, that he desired to show that tlie witness had first been examined by Mr. May. Witness continued : The first person I told the story about seeing Leavitt Alley on Wednesday was to Mr. May, who exam- ined me on the subject; Mr. Skelton came for me and intro- duced me to Mr. May ; the conversation took place in the court-house ; before this I had a conversation with Mr. Dear- born and Mr. Skelton at my stand; liaven't said I had conver- sation with Mr. May, Mr. Dearborn, and Mr. Skelton, before I talked with Mr. May. The Attorney-General. You can stand down. John M. Batterman sworn. Am a son of John Batterman, doing business at Nos. 471 and 473 Harrison Avenue ; have known Leavitt Alley since July, 1871, and he has been em- plo}'ed by tlie firm, and previously by my father ; I wrote this order [order shown to witness] on Tuesday morning, Novem- ber 5, and gave it to Leavitt Alley about eight o'clock. The counsel for the prisoner attempted to show that Alley went for the iron mentioned in the order, but the Attorney- General objected to the question. The counsel then asked similar questions to accomplish the same object, but all these were objected to by the Attorney- General, who said he was willing to admit that Alley went for the iron. Mr. Somerhy. That is all we wish for. Cross-examined. The first time, after the 6th of November, that'my attention was called to the time I delivered the order to Mr. Alley, was since the trial commenced, and since Mr. Joyce testified, I think ; the reason I think it was about eight o'clock when I delivered the order to Alley, was from the fact that I had come from my father's house, on my way from Hyde Park, where 1 live ; the delivery of the order to Alley was the first business done in the morning, and I remember the fact, because we wanted the iron very much. Mr. Dahney then proposed to read the order referred to, to the jury, but the Court ruled it to be incompetent. George W. Carpenter sworn. I reside in Somerville, and am in the stove business, at No. 13 Union Street, Boston ; have been in business there five years ; on the 5th of November I