The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-08
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS in MAINE.
THE TRIAL OF MISS MINK.
Important Testimony.
Special to Press.1

Especial to Press.1
RoCKLAND, Oct. 7.-Considerable progress
has been made in the Baker murder trial today
and the public interest in the case has kept the
Court room filled with spectators notwithstand-
ng the storm. Ten witnesses for the govern
ment have been examined today Robert Hall.
Jr, testified to having been visited by DIR.
Baker on the evening of the murder, and that
the murdered man left his house little before
nine.
A. M. Weston testified that he saw DIR.
Baker coming from Halls about the same
hour and that he saw him stop and then drive
in the direction of Warren Mink's house.
A son of Warren Mink, 10 years old, who
with his brother years younger, were the only
persons known to have been in the house on
the night of the murder testified that he went
to bed with his brother about dark; that his
aunt Lucy Ann was then in the kitchen and
emembers of no one coming into the house be :
lore he went to sleep; he heard some one call
Miss Mink" from the front side and back side
of the house, and answered 'swhat," but did
not get up and went to sleep again; the next he
remembered was when persons came to the
house after it was ligdt'
Several of the neghbors testified to going to
the house on the morning after the homicide.
Andrew H. Spear testified that 120 rods of
stone wall in the vicinity of the Mink house
had been thrown down in searching for the pis-
tol with which the murder was committed;
piles of wood and of slaves and heading had
been searched and two or more wells cleared
out and searched. Search for it had also been
made in the Mink house. The appearance of
room in which the homicide occurred was min
utely testified to.
Coroner Rust, who held the inquest, testified
and described the appearance of the body and
the articles taken from the murdered mans
person and the house. An exploded cartridge
shell was found near the murdered mans feet
also found cartridge shell of different size in
a stand drawer near the foot of the bed. He
testified to finding letters with DR.. Bakers
signature at the Mink house, and also identified
letters found by him at DR.. Bakers house. No
ammunition of any kind was found on the Doc
tors person and no papers of any Importance.
The pocket-book found on his person contained
very trlfing sum of money.
DIR. Walker, who made post norton exam
ination, was strongly of the opinion that the
lower wound in the body was received first and
was the cause of his death. The ,econd shot
burned the skin and the shirt was burned to a
cinder and tie cinder was not broken and he
thought it had not been disturbed after this
shot was fred
The prisoner has generally maintained the
same self-possessed bearing as yesterday, but
this afternoon, when the shirts worn by the
murdered man were shown to the jury, she
seemed to be somewhat affected.
The prosecution have yet a large number of
witnesses to testify. V.
ITO the Associated Press.]
In the trial of Miss Mink to day ten witnesses
for the prosecution have been examined The
Mink lad testified to having seen DIR. Baker 90
to the house the afternoon preceding the muir
der, and after asking for the prisoner, go t., the
back door and try to get in, and heard him say
she Lucy ANN was up to some of her old
tricks. Telling his aunt of this when he went
in short time after, the boy heard her say that
he would find out what those old tricks were.
Dr. Walkers testimony was the most i'm
portant given to-day. He states that the lower
wound, in which the bullet entered between
the fifth and sixth ribs, at the point of their
attachment to its sternum, and passed through
the heart and left lung and lodged under the
seventh rib near the spinal column, would pro-
duce death in very few seconds. He believes
that this wound was received frsu while the
doctor was standing, and was the cause of his
death. The skin around this wound was black
ened but not burned. The second bullet enter
ed between the second and third ribs, passed up
the outside of the cavity of the chest and under
the clanical into the side of the neck, where it
was lost. DR.. Walker believes that wound to
have been received while the murdered man
lay back upon his back. The cuticle around
this wound was burned off indicating closer
proximity of the weapon
The County Fair.
The County Fair has postponed the several
items of its programme one day ON account of
the storm.
Teachers Institute.
The attendance at the Teachers Institute has
been small, only four or five teachers from out
of town being present.
Accident to a Portland Vessel.
New YORK, Oct. THE bark Daring of
Portland, Gerry, from Sagua II days via Dele
ware breakwater, reports that Oct. 9th, at
o'clock p. M, 6 miles east from the Highlands
she was run into by a bark standing w. N. w.
striking just abaft of the fore rigging on the
starboard side, carrying away the fore top gal
liant mast royal mast, fore top mast head and
fore rigging, stove the bulwarks and plank
shear, cutting the vessel down two streakes be-
low the water line causing the vessel to leak.
She had to keep the crew constantly at the
pumps. They cid not understand what dam
age the other bark received.
The Norwegian Dark Rival arrived tonight
reporting that she was the vessel in collision
with bark Daring She lost her bowsprjt, all
her head gear,cut water and sprung leak.