Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-05

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z. What was your business theres A.
Painting-was at work carriage painting.
u. Where did you go next from Fall
Riverr A. To work in Providence.
q. When were you first married! A.
When / was about %.
Q. When did that wife die? a. In about
year.
z. When did you marry your next wife?
A. Could not tell exactly think it was in
1913 or 1919.
Q. What year did your first wife die? a.
Could not tell you sir.
q. As near as you can-how long before
you married the second one? Could not tell
you.
g. As near as you can. A. Four or five
years | think.
Q. Where were you residing then? A.
Providence, II. /.
q. Work as Il painter? A. Yes sir.
Q. Have any difficulty there? A. No
q. None at all? A. No sir,
Q. Never got into passion with anybody?
A. No sir.
@. Always controlled your passions did
you? A. Never had any passions-never
had any occasion for it.
Q. How long did you reside in provi-
dence? A. Could not tell you sir.
Q. When you were on the way from
the officers that there was hole in front of
them for? A. Don't know that l did
don't recollect it.
q. What did you tell them there was
toll bridge when you got up to the State
House for? A. Don't know as | did.
| Q. Have no recollection of it? A. No
sir.
Q. Had any conversation with anybody
since this murder except your counsel! n.
Yes sir, with hundreds OF people l should
think. There have been over three or four
hundred in there while l have been in Jail,
most of them stopping and talking with me.
q. When did you employ counsel! A.
The next morning after | was put in Jail.
z. Didn't you asked for counsel that night
when you were brought into the jail? A. /
think | did.
Q. You asked for counsel at once? A.
asked for Mr.. Plsbury.
q. You didn't recollect much until the
next morning? A. No sir.
q. Yet you recollect that? A. | recol-
lect of ask ing for Mr.. Pillsbury. | will tell
you how | recollect that if you want me to-
Mr. Reed don't care for your reasons
1t is sufficient to me that you recollect. How
long had that revolver been in your trunk
prior to the trouble with your wife on the 10Th
OF July? A. | always kept it in my trunk.
When it was not in my pocket it was in my
trunk. always made a practice of locking
it up.
q. Before the 10Th of July did you carry
it round with you? A. When | was gong
round in the evening did.
q. Didn't you say in the presence of Mr..
Whitehouse, and in the presence of Mr.. Scott,
when you were adjusting this difficulty with
your wife. when you came up here at the time
the Grand jury sit. did you not say that that
| revolver had not been out of your trunk for
two months? A. l don't know.
Q. Didn't you say it? A. | don't know
but what did.
Q. Don't you recollect that you said it?
a. No, sir, do not.
Q. Did you have a revolver out the night
of the 10Th, or later? A. No, sir.
Q. Didn't have it out? A. l think not
Q. Did you refuse to let Mr.. Fowes come
in that night? A. did at first.
q. Were the burnt and torn clothing
strewn around when he got in? A. The
burnt clothing was in the stove.
Q. You say You paid for all those? A
Yes, sir.
Q. Did you pay for the cloak? A. Yes,
sir.
Q. Out of your own earnings? A. My
property paid for tine cloak.
Q. Did you include under your property
your wife's earrings? A. No, sir.
Q. Did you pay for all the dresses that
you tore up there? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Didn't she have any which belonged to
her-was not that wrapper you tore up given
to her in New York? A. Don't remember,
sir.
Q. Did you make any distinction between
what belonged to you and her when you tore
them up? A. | considered what was there
belonged ONE.
@. Considered what was hers was yours,
did you? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you sell all your earnings after
this difficulty? A. What had down there
yes, sir.
Q. Did you declare you would never live
with your wife again? A. Yes, sir
Q. Repeatedly, did you? A. Yes, sir.
q. You say after the 10Th of July, while
you were up here, the boy was bitten by a
dog? A. Yes, sir.
O.. What tine was that? A. Could not
tell you. SIR think it was long after that.
Q. Did you send DIR. Bell down to see
your wife? A. Yes, sir, sometime in Au-
gust.
Q. Sometime in August? A. Yes, sir.
q. What day of the week was it? A.
Could not tell you, sir.
@. Was it not on Monday? A. l think
not Don't know; could not tell you, sir.
Q. Don't recollect what day of the week
it was? A. No, sir.
Q. How long was it after the boy was Bit
ten by the dog? a. A day or two; could
not tell exactly.
DR.. Geo. L. Brickett, recalled by defence,
testifed-Arrived at Hallowel on evening of
Monday Sept 10Th, between 10 and / O'Clock
saw roll of carpeting lying on work in
Lafiin's back room; that was while Mrs. Hos
wells wounds were being dressed First
time ever saw Mr.. Hoswell was some 3 ORA
weeks before the affair occurred; met Hos