To Mr. Dwight.—When I arrested him in Providence he told me his name was Hicks—Albert W. Hicks.
Elias Smith deposed—That he was with Nivens when he made the arrest.
The Court.—Are you a police officer?
Witness.—No, sir; I am a reporter of the Times.
To Mr. Dwight.—The prisoner denied all knowledge of the sloop E. A. Johnson or Captain Burr; he said he had not been in New York for two months; I understood him to convey the idea that he had been in Providence for two months (identifies the watch and pocket-book as those taken from the prisoner in Providence); I cannot identify the clothing; I addressed the prisoner at the station-house, and said to him, “Hicks, you are charged with the murder of three men;” he said nothing; I then changed the language and said to him, “You are charged with imbruing your hands in the blood of three of your fellow men for money;” the prisoner shook his head and said, “I do not know anything about it;” I then said to him, “You have been on board the sloop Edwin A. Johnson;” he shook his head and said he did not know anything about it, and was never on it; Mr. Nivens read the newspaper accounts of the transaction to him; he said he did not care much about the arrest except for the interruption to his business, as he had purchased a place in Providence; I told him he would be identified when he got to New York; he said we might think what we liked; he seemed annoyed at our pressing the subject.
Cross-examined.—I never found out how much he had paid; I said to him, “If you are innocent, then you are willing to go back to New York?” after hesitating, he assented; Detective Billings, of Providence, was with me when he signed the agreement to come back.
SCENE OF THE FIRST CONFLICT ON BOARD THE SLOOP “E. A. JOHNSON,” WITH THE BLOOD-STAINS ON THE DECK.
PORTRAIT OF OLIVER WATTS.