es, but not more than two or three. Witness
remarked, that Jeffers said he had seen and taken 150 or 160. Oyster
replied, Jeffers is a liar. Some conversation followed, in which it
was suggested that attempts might be made to prejudice the public mind
against Crandall. Witness had since met Jeffers, on the Avenue, and
spoken with him on the subject. Witness remarked to Jeffers, the poor
fellow has suffered enough by so long a confinement, and Jeffers
assented to the remark, and added that he believed Crandall to be
innocent.

_Jared Stone_ was acquainted with Crandall, who lived three years in
witness's family, and eat at his table, in Peekskill. Crandall was a
physician who obtained a good reputation in that part of the country,
and it continued unblemished. He never was known to have any abolition
papers, or to say any thing in its favor, but was, if any thing,
opposed to it.

_Mr. Wilson_ was present at the time spoken of by Mr. Gaither, and said
one of the officers came out and said he had discovered more than he
expected, and remarked, my hopes are more than realized. He could not
recollect exactly the number of papers the officer said he had found,
but thought it was one hundred or a hundred and twenty. Some one in the
crowd said "we ought to take the damned rascal and hang him up on one
of the trees opposite." The witness then went away.

_Mr. Judson_, Representative in Congress from Connecticut, had known
Crandall from his boyhood. Crandall studied with witness's family
physician, and acquired a good reputation; nobody stood better in the
neighborhood. After he had finished his education he removed to
Peekskill, since which witness had been in the habit of seeing him
frequently; and he had always known him as a peaceable citizen. The
precise year when Crandall was admitted he could not recollect, but it
was about 1827 or 1828. Witness had not seen him for two years till he
saw him here in prison, and had never heard aught against him till now.
Mr. Judson also testified, that the prisoner was a brother of Prudence
Crandall, and that at the time of the difficulty with her and her school
for blacks in Connecticut, he met Crandall on board the boat on his way
home from New York; that he talked with him about that school, and the
prisoner said he was going to break it up; that he did not know as he
should be able to do it, for his sister Prudence was obstinate, but his
other sister, who was with her, he knew he co