Dideme Burr (the widow of Captain Burr, dressed in deep mourning) was called to the stand and deposed—My husband, Captain George H. Burr, left home on the 8th of March last; I have never received any tidings of him since, save in connection with this affair; I think I should know his watch from the case and its general appearance, and by the guard (watch handed to Mrs. Burr); this is the same kind of a case; I should say it is the same watch; he carried it some nine years, as near as I can say; (ship’s articles produced) I think the filling up in this paper is in my husband’s handwriting; I saw some of his clothes in the Second Ward station-house; (Kossuth hat produced) he had a hat like this, which he wore from home; this was his shirt; he took this from home with him; I know it by a piece across it, which he put in himself, on board the sloop; those pantaloons I think were his; the suspenders are precisely like those he had on when he went away; he had a vest the same cut and color of this produced; he did not have it home with him the last time; I could not say positively, but I think it is his; this black handkerchief was his; I hemmed it myself.
Cross-examined.—My husband had more than one coat; he often bought clothes, and brought them on board the sloop; I first identified these clothes at the station-house.
Mr. Dwight said that these were all the witnesses for the prosecution, with the exception of Captain Nickerson, of the brig which had had the collision with the sloop E. A. Johnson. He had been telegraphed to Boston, and as he was a willing witness, they expected him by every arrival. He sails between Philadelphia and Boston, and it may be possible that he (Captain Nickerson) had been detained at sea.
The counsel for the defence intimated that their testimony would not occupy much time, and they would probably close to-morrow. They preferred, however, that the prosecution should exhaust their case first.
The Judge said he would allow a reasonable time for the appearance of Captain Nickerson.
Mr. Dwight said that Mrs. Hubbard wished to correct her testimony as to date.
Mrs. Hubbard again took the witness stand, and said that she saw her son, Smith Watts, last on the 13th of March, Tuesday, and not on the 7th; she was confused when she first came up, and made a mistake as to the date.
The Court then adjourned to ten o’clock on Friday morning.
Fourth Day.
Catherine Dickerson, recalled by the prosecution, deposed—I have had hair from Oliver Watts in my possession; it was in his daguerreotype which I gave to someone in the station-house; this daguerreotype and hair now handed to me are the same; I knew this to be Oliver’s hair because I cut it off myself.