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THE BOORN MURDER CASE Denmark, Lewis County, New York, and on a hoe and boards and dug a grave as well May 15 was brought to Manchester, where as I could, and took out of his pocket a both brothers were promptly bound over to little barlow knife, with about a half of a blade, and cut some bushes and put on his await the action of the grand jury. Upon his arrest Stephen stoutly main face and the boards, and put in the grave, tained his innocence, even when confronted and put him in four boards on the bottom by his brother, but after both had been in and on the top, and t'other two on the dicted so man}' persons of character and in sides, and then covered him up and went fluence told them that the case against them home crying along, but I wan't afraid as I was hopeless, and urged them to confess, know on. And when I lived at Wm. that Stephen made the following written Boom's I planted some potatoes, and when confession: I dug them I went there, and something, I "May the roth, 1812, I, about g or ю thought, had been there, and I took up his o'clock, went down to David Glazier's bones and put them in a basket, and took bridge and fished down below Uncle Nathan the boards and put on the potato hole, and iel Boom's, and then went up across their when it was night took the basket and my farms, where Russell and Lewis were, being hoe and went down and pulled a plank in the nighest way, and sat down and began the stable floor, and then dug a hole, and to talk, and Russell told me how many then covered him up, went in the house and dollars benefit he had been to father, and I told them I had done with the basket, and told him he was a damned fool, and he was took back the shovel, and covered up my mad and jumped up, and we sat close to potatoes that evening, and then when I gether, and I told him to set down, you lived under the west mountain, Lewis came little tory, and there was a piece of beech and told me that father's barn was burnt up limb about two feet long, and he catched it the next day, or the next day but one, I up and struck at my head as I sat down, came down and went to the barn, and there and I jumped up and it struck me on one were a few bones, and when they were at shoulder, and I catched it out of his hand dinner I told them I did not want my dinner, and struck him a back-handed blow, I being and went and took them, and there were on the north side of him, and there was a only a few of the biggest of the bones, and knot on it about one inch long. As I struck throwed them in the river above Wyman's, him I did think I hit him on the back, and and then want back, and it was done quick, he stooped down, and that knot was broken too, and then was hungry by that time, and off sharp, and it hit him on the back of the then went home, and the next Sunday I neck, close in his hair, and it went in about came down after money to pay the boot a half of an inch on that great cord, and he that I give between oxen, and went out fell down, and then I told the boy to go there and scraped up them little things that down and come up with his Uncle John, and were under the stump there, and told them he asked me, if I had killed Russell, and I I was going out fishing, and went, and there told him no, but he must not tell that we was a hole, and I dropped them in and struck one another. And I told him when kicked over the stuff, and that is the first he got away down Russell was gone away, anybody knew it, either friends or foes, even and 1 went back and he was dead, and then my wife. All these I acknowledge before I went and took him and put him in the the world. corner of the fence by the cellar hole, and STEPHEN BOORN." put briars over him and went home, and The trial commenced on Tuesday, Octo went down to the barn and got some boards, and when it was dark I went down and took ber 27, and closed the following Saturday