Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-17
IrIGNEH'.S STORY.

The testimony of Wagner was resumed on
Saturday morning. He began by accounting
for himself while in Boston before his arrest.
tiers subsequent to it, he said
A policeman stepped to the door and grab
bed me by the arms. | asked him what he
wanted; he answered, he wanted me;
asked him what for; | asked him to let me go
up stairs and put my boots on he answered
me that the slippers were good enough he
then dragged me along the stree. and asked
how long l had been in Boston; l was so
scared, thought he asked how long had
been there altogether, and | answered five
days; l intended to say five years. Then he
asked me if could read English newspapers
| told him no; he said you could you would
have seen what was in it; you would have
been in New York by that time if you knew
l asked him what was in the newspapers; he
asked me if was not on the Isles of Shoals
last night and killed two women; | answered
him that l did not do such thing, and he
brought me into station house No. l.
found City Marshal johnson and Benson
there from Portsmouth; before that police
man asked me if | had been in Portsmouth
that morning, told him yes, and that lett
there after 8 o'clock that / came to Boston
before dinner, and he asked me if did not
buy new suit of clothes | told him yes
he asked me if | did not shave my whiskers
off; told him yes; that was all conversation
on the street.-When l came to Boston my
beard had grown three weeks; l thought it
would look little neatcr; told policeman
that when he took me; did not know what
| was saying when l told him l had been
there five days. After l got to the station
Mr.. johnson said that is the man we want;
answered, That's the man, but perhaps the
wrong one; he says where is that tall hat you
wore last night on Isles of Shoals told him
| had not been on the Isles of Shoals and
had not wore a tall hat in my life he said
woman on the Isles of Shoals has seen you
with tall hat that night; l asked him what
woman; he said Mrs. Hontvet; he said he
had my whiskers in his pocket that were
shaved by a barber in Portsmouth: l told
him to show me those whiskers; he did not
do it; he then told me he had found the ba-
ker where l bought bread, and that had told
baker that was down to Isles of Shoals that
night; l asked him to put the baker before
me that said SO; he answered that l soon
would see him; was taken to another room;
there City Marshal johnson stripped me
naked; asked me when l changed my under
clothes; ! told him had those underclothes
on me nearly eight days; he says, you
changed that in the morning when you went
to Boston; he said there was no gentleman in
Boston could wear underclothes eight days
SO clean as those were; told him was poor
but still was gentleman and could wear
underclothes as clean as any gentleman in
the city of Boston; after my underclothes
were overhauled was put iuto a cell staid
IN cell TIL next morning; was then taken out
again by two policemen and dragged along
the street by my hands; took me into some
KIND oil buliding-do not know what it was;
was put on seat; was kept there about ten
minutes, all the people looking at me; was
taken from that building into another one
where they took my picture; then taken out
ana brought to the depot was brought 10
Portsmouth. When l came to Portsmouth
the streets were crowded halooing, ''kill him.
kill him;' thought they would knock me
down; Hontvet came to a side door of the
station house and halooed, down YOU mur-
derer;' | said, Johnny, you are mistaken :"
he says, damn you, you kill my wife's sister
and her brothers wife;" | said, John |
hope you will find the right man who did it. "
He says, 81 have got him." he says hanging
is too good for you, and he'll is too good for
you; you ought to be cut to pieces and hung
on fish hooks l told him that the net he had
spread out for me to drop in he might drop if
himself lie says where is that tall hat yol
had on that night when you was at the Shoals
told him had no tall hat; he says, wha
have you done with those fish you were go
ing to buy from the schooner last night?
told him did not buy any fish. that | was no
out of Portsmouth that night. lie told me
that dory was seen that night between twelve
and two o'clock going on board vessel lying
at anchor on Smutty Nose Island. He said
that then the dory was seen crossing over to
the east part of the island and had hailed
another vessel there.
told him he better look after that man
that pulled to the island in the dory. Then
he and his brother in-l law answered that was
the man. His brother-in law. Evan Chrien-
sen, told Hontyet to ask me ii could not get
the money without killing the women. told
him never stole the money, and if l was thief
lcould get money without killing people. He
says you stole fifteen dollars you took a ten
dollar bill ont of that rk .hook sho,v;nu 1,