636 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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604 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS

Wealth. Andrew P. Wilson, James M. Bell, and S. Calvin, for the Prisoner.

The indictment in the first and second counts charges the prisoner with the murder of Rosanna Brown. In the first count, the charge is by a mortal wound given with the barrel of a gun over the right eye in the forepart of the head. The second count charges the murder by cutting her throat with a knife. The third count charges the prisoner with the murder of Rosanna Brown by a mortal wound given with the barrel of a gun over the right eye in the forepart of the head, and by cutting her throat with a knife, contrary to the law.

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Biographical Notes:

**George Taylor** (1799-1881): In 1849, when the Legislature created the Twenty-fourth Judicial District, he was named for the President Judgeship of the new district (composed of Huntingdon, Blair, and Cambria Counties). In 1851, this office becoming an elective one, he was elected and, upon the expiration of his term, re-elected, holding the office for twenty-two years. He died in Huntingdon. See Africa, J. Simpson, *History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pa.*, 1883; Lytle, Milton Scott, *History of Huntingdon County*, 1876 (account as given by his friend, Col. William Dorris, of the Huntingdon Bar); Souvenir Edition, "Historic Huntingdon," 1909.

**Andrew Porter Wilson** (1806-1871): Born near Roxbury, Franklin County, Pa.; graduated from Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) College in 1823; studied for two years in the law office of George B. Porter of Lancaster; graduated from law school at Litchfield, Conn.; admitted to practice in the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut on April 5, 1826; returned to Lancaster and was admitted there in the spring of the same year. In 1828, he was appointed by Attorney General Calvin Blythe as his deputy for Huntingdon County; admitted to the Bar in Huntingdon on April 16, 1828. In 1837, he was a candidate for the Assembly but was defeated, and again in 1840 and 1846, he was defeated in his run for Congress. He continued his law practice until 1863, when he retired from active service; died in Huntingdon. See Africa, J. Simpson, *History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pa.*, 1883; *Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College (1802-1902)*, 1902; Souvenir Edition, "Historic Huntingdon," 1909.

**James Martin Bell** (1799-1870): Born at Bell's Mills, Antis Township, Blair County, Pa.; educated in Huntingdon, Pa.; studied law with Robert Allison; admitted to the Bar in Huntingdon on August 10, 1824; removed to Bedford for a short time; returned to Huntingdon to continue practicing law; appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the county (Huntingdon) in 1827. In 1838, he was nominated to fill the unexpired term of David R. Porter, who had been nominated for Governor. In 1845, in anticipation of the erection of Blair County, he removed to Hollidaysburg and entered the banking business; organized state banks in Johnstown and Huntingdon; started the banking house of Bell, Garrettson & Co., which finally grew into the First National Bank of Hollidaysburg, of which he was president until his death at Hollidaysburg. See Africa, J. Simpson, *History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pa.*, 1883; Lytle, Milton Scott, *History of Huntingdon County*, 1876.

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