The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-26
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Supreme j uslicial Court.

j., PRESIDING.
Trial OF the Alleged Bopdoinham Bank Robbers.
Reported specially for the Press.l
,.iis. I WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Our report in yesterdays Press left off after the
amin ation OF City Marshal Head. Our Reporter
furnishes the following in addition f-
The Government has disposed OF some twenty five
or thirty witnesses to-day, and will probably get their
testimony all in by tomorrow noon.
Alter the testimony of Marshal Head, the remain-
der of the testimony introduced was to show that the
prison Bartlett hired span OF horses and carrya at
Gilsons livery stable in Portland June Goth to 90 to
Brunswick and that he stopped at the Tontine House
in Brunswick that night. This is shown by the Ho-
tel books and by the testimony of Christiana Griffin
OF Brunswick, who had been to Freeport on visit
and was returning that day. She testified that when
within mile and a half of Brunswick she was over
taken by man with span of horses and earryall,
who asked her to ride after hesitation she con-
sented and got in, and rode with hime to Brunswick
she got out at Tontne Hotel; said the asked her
the different routes to the place, concerning the Ho-
tells and said he should have reached there before but
had been detained in Porlanlb sick wife; that he
pretended to hail from New York; register at Ton
tine Hotel, J. Dunbar, Portland, and dated june
Goth; she recognized Bartlett as the man. ~ 4
1t is then pretty clearly proved by tho testimony
that this eam quito early the next morning. went
Bowdoinham, thence to Bath, arriving in Bath be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock Of the morning Of the 21st
Charles j. Perkins, livery stable keeper in Bath,
testified thata span of horses and carriage stopped
his stable, and that he bought interfering leather
for one of the horses. 1t is also shown in evidence
that Mr. Perkins afterwards identified the horses and
carriage and selected the interfering leather in
Mr.. Gilson's stable in Portland. M 3 KS
hna' inns .eain hrs. went 10 nowdoinham from
oruusw-cA' hsleao oi gong drect to Bath, is in
ierfeu uom tne testimony OF brunswick hickman,
VINO says that ne assisted In Harvesting this team in
the morning. and that soon after 1t left he took team
and started for Bath, and when he was returning he
met the same team, but did not recollect to have
passed it. ~ ~. EDS iaa4e-f ~
| t Witnesses were also introduced who saw the team
the Bowdoinham road in the morning first going
to Bowdoinham and then returning in tho direction
of Bath. Witnesses were also introduced who saw
the same team in the early evening going in the di
rection of Bowdoinhan again. i8-.I. - ads a,
Mr.. Perkins and his hostler testify that when thf
team left the STABLE about hall past T. 21st of June
there only one in the carriage and thew both rec
ognized Bartlett as the one. sHtsg
Abner W. MoFadden, of Bath, testified that he saw
carryal and span horses on Lincoln street. which
ne rs the team IN question: that 1t pOt
nearly opposite him, he saw q man who had been
sitting by the road with valise get in, ter nrs
throwing in his valse; said the team stopped oppo.
site this man and he got aboard at once
The keeper of the toll bridge at Merrymeetpp Raw
called Bay Bridge tie titles that a team answering
this description passed over the bridge going towards
Bowdoinham, the evening before the robbery. be.
tween 10 and II O'clock that he took fifty five cents
Tor toll which driver paid of his own accord. and a.
forty cents the to for one and five cents for each
additional person. the toll gaherer inferred that there
were four persons in the carriage; wife testified to
taking the toll in the morning Ior team which, &C.
o0rding to her description, must have been the anne
one The team is then heard from seve. al times be-
fore reaching Portland and is usually represented as
Going very rapidly indeed. Elie4
Jas. Tarbox happened to be up that night tending
his bees, who stated tlathe resided about half way
between Bowdonham and Topsham, and about half
past 3 o'clock heard team go by at very rapid
rate They are also heard from several times before
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