Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-08-17

- The Supreme JUDICIAL Court for the county Of Nor
iolk, held Dclham, rusfday the 4th inf

THE grand jury, conGaing Of twenty very
te,pe3ahle men pr al unaoipons voice, return
"a bl,of nlanert aganf Jason FAM
BANKS, Of Dedham, for the wi!fnI murder Of
ELGaABEvH FALEs.-
TIE Indictments charged The prif7ner, lat he
ON the 6,h DAY of May. 1871, wiifully, m ali.
eog1y, and ~ BIS malice atorethought, with a
knife, made an aAault on the deceafed, ana
murdered her.
Ga tAis indictment he was arraigned On We'd
neEdsv, and BY his own confeut, Thur(day was
aligned for his trial. On Thudday morning
eight O'clock, he was brought into court, and
beng iniorEed Of his right to challenge, he
challenged number Of the jury, and then the
trial proceeded. He was afiGed by A. 0 Il,
and Mr. Lowell as his council, appointed by the
court al his requsf.
The Attorney General opened he trial BY
Eating the fsGs generally, which he expected
would appear IN evidence, He explained The
nature of poGJive and PreiumPtive evidence,
and informed the coart and jury thar the trial
would contain much Of he iatter-that
BE fhculd rot ule any conditions made by
he pr loner after The murder had been commit
ted
The governments council examined between
thirty and forty witneGzs. By the refimonies
If theie a greal variety of cirlumalnces were
proved, fiona wheuce The following ts8s were
mace 70 aPFear.
@ Thatth9 rrfoner i about tverty-one years
Of age tha5 he oecexeL was eighteen That
he was much Of an invalid, de6ur1.1i IN lis
riqhr arm. and hat lived I'D iJle life. Thath1
had a kind cf fondrcls for the deceafed and
that he paid much more attention % him than
&c any ordrr young man but he was not allow
Cd to Wifi Ter fathers houf-, which was more
than one nile iom Ills oRn f1ther's. They had
been II a habit of meeting frequently in com
pany with oth,'s, walking together and lepa-
rating thrmlelves I'd va KS from other people
The pTironGr had uled T5vlageiul threaten ngs
agsn6 hr family probably becaule he was
not allowed to visa her. On Saturday the 10Th
If Nav. lie tod tvo IF lis fri B.. that he
houid meeth=r in he p7aurl o. Monday, AID
endcavcur IN ihdusr her ~ Co cfF wiki hrrl.
2Bd marry him and that If i1e Iaiuled 10 90
70 lie would atcr pt her ch4Gty. Shl was
h.althy and cheerful wakes 10 meeting, near
" two Iuilss, o. the l,venieerth, being in The
practice al iiHgiag II publi1 voIlhP AN Join
ed the oriaer ard E1rg freely. On Monday
moaning tae BEGAN with tie family buin-'s,
z1d with her mother, fiflr sc. went through
he c!aaI baGusfs az aiming, in tie f0re-ooa.
Beng engaged 70 70 ont o. Wifi with her I'll
far and rthers in tile If =rnoon, lhe dire Z early
o. mix, which th- frequently ul=i Tor her din
uer. 6bs had been remarkably gay al the
morning. She went III half pat twelve 70 Mrs
Guilds wa lived atout eight rods louihVeaerly
from her fathers. Fer buGaeis there VAS RAP n
Ccive book, lhe had lent, hut that family
having nc5 done wi It, ihe cil not bring
Il away. She tarried -h9te until neatly
r-o o'cloe-, csy and cheerful when lh-
sane cut Fl. Popped II tie door ten ,ninules
OF more, Porting with child of three or iont
years old. NO notice was taken III the way the
wated but ihe LETT ,he houle iiagir z as ihe went
"a few miuure, raG o'clock, ihc was
fond in q l1r called Mlnton's FaHue ~ her
father and kinim4n, eighty rods from Eer
fathers houia,an about the fame diltauce from
Mrs. Guilds The lines +. ON her farh4i'stO
from Guilds TO the place whEe fhe was found
ana from thence t1 her fathers. formed tri
angle If rearly equal ddes
When her father cane 70 her, fhe was ali.e
Her Throat was cut INTO the wind pipe and
nearly "a the back Fart Of il lhe bad a wouRd
made With ftnall knife by a aab, il hcr back
between IL. ihoulder blades, behde her back
bone ana rot bow her recE oRe CAB IN
her fle, -ep wo1n6s in her lefr arm,
t1ue VI. 4.cl l,vsred the teDdols. two fight
s7an Is L. &c. nghr arm, and deep one ia Ter
ieft IL p,nb which tcvefed The ball from he bore.
When et father came 10 her. The laid with her
face ora Gone, brea he'd through the wound -
her throaf, and xpired within few minutes
To.Hutae murder on the defendant 1t was
proved, that Re had informed two perfons OF
his Expecting to meet her there, for the PIr-
oies aforementioned, and that IL had about
two o'clock proceeded to thar place f; that two
X oung women heard her lcrearas Of diltreE for
ten or fifteen minutes, about three o'clock u
and knew her voice and meRtioned to each 9TH
y that fle was IN diaref TIE wind blew frslh
from where the was 10 them, Tie d.Gaucs being
about 7orods.
Her mother became anxious far her return
hooked cut few nj autes after three, and the
p-iouer, vet wiki blood, holding a bloody
knife III lis hand, was feen conmiEE Cd theI
door. The alarm being thus given, her father
wsnt to tie place VIE The body was, IN The
p1i.oHel'g layna where NY laid and that ihe
va. dead H. had 4 vourI Ia bis tbro2r