Trial of Charles M. Jefferds for Murder, at New York, December 1861

Charles Edwin Wilbour, Charles M. Jefferds — 1862

John Walton and John W. Matthews were murdered June 30, 1860. In July, 1861, Charles M. Jefferds was tried for the murder of Walton and acquitted. In December, 1861, he was tried in the Court of General Sessions for the murder of Matthews.