The court documents relating to the trial of
Thomas Border were obtained from the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
They are copies of handwritten documents which are forty years old. Some parts were cropped in the copying and some words are illegible.
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                    COVER PAGE

              March Session,1867

                   Commonwealth
                             vs.

                    Thomas Border
                    Thomas Baird
                     William Taylor
                __________________

                        Homicide
                __________________
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         PRELIMINARY ARRAIGNMENT
                FEBRUARY 12, 1867

  Left side of document lists costs of arraignment
trial such as  costs of making out warrants, constable's fees for serving warrants and
subpoenas, and the wagon to transport the prisoners to jail.

  The right side states: Defendants were brought up and after hearing by the Coroner's Jury  were
found guilty of the murder of John Donohue and
were committed to jail to be tried at the next  Court of Quartersession to be held at Pottsville, County of Schuylkill.

Names of the witnesses -

Mrs. J.C. Northall                Samuel Michel
Mrs. Wm. Cole                    Henry Jones
Mary Ann Heyaur                Jasper Wyland
Mrs. Margaret Haggerty     Thomas Mordy
Regina Maden                    Solomon Dory
Absalom Lambert               John Campbell
John Flynn                           James Kerrigan
Michael Summers               Thomas Thompson
Brian Mooney                       Elijah Gregory
George T. Seal                    Michael Whalen
Ralph Haywood                   Richard Gregory
William Cooper                    David Morgan
Skip Maden                          Patrick Summers
Sarah Michel