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

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me another booklet book and said l stole five
dollars out of that. / told him that he was
mistaken. They then left me and some more
| people come to see me one was Randall living
on the Isles of Shoals. | was crying when he
spoke to me he says, Louis, how do you
feel?" told him felt bad because people
thought was the murderer One man was
brought to my cell and was asked if was the
same man he saw; that little policeman then
told me to put my ha. on, ard did so; then
he asked the man if he knew me. lie answered
that he thought was the same man he met at
Newcastle Bridge the policeman said all right
and then the man went away. Two hours af-
ter that another man was brought there; the
policeman told me to put my hat on again,
! did so. The man told me to turn around,
and did so; he looked at me from front be-
hind and both sides, and said that is not the
same man | spoke to this morning. he said
| he spoke to a man that morning and aske d
| him how he got across the bridge, and lie an
swered he put a pole across, and that I was
! not the same man because he had big wills
| kers; the policeman said had my whiskers
| shaved of; then the man answered him, mo
matter, that is not the same man."
| When was examined at South Berwick |
| so testified and no officer was then called to
say anything about that. In the evening John
| johnson and the little man took me into the
ONCE. HCH tne illtic man Sdiu &: we are
| taking you here to help you, and City Marshal
johnson and will do all we can to help you,"
| if | would say had done it that should
| say | had been drunk and did not know what
| was doing. | told them that / would die
innocent than take my liberty again as muir
derer. Then he said: Louis, there is too
sure proof against you; they will hang you
but if you say you did it in drunkenness they
might give you six or eight years" | told
him | was willing to suffer, for that One who
had saved me twice out OF great trouble would
save me again; | meant God. | have been
once overheard and have been saved again,
(here Wagner wecps violenty.l Once ]
dropped in vessels hold and was crippled
up all over. | told him that God saved me
that time and he would save me this time
again. Then he put me back again in the cell.
Next day was placed before Mrs. Hontyet
at the station house, and she said, ''would
you not like to kill me- l was no: allowed
to answer her. She then told her story which
was put on paper by man who had been here.
When she had told her story she said: ''Your
feet are big but the tracks You made that
night are small; you walked or your toes
that night" She asked me whose beaver hat
| that was | had on. While she said that her
! husband whispered in her ear, ''n0t tall hat,
| but say felt hat" | told her had not
| tall hat. and she could no. tell for true that l
| had done the murder. Later in the evening
| | was taken out of the cell put into irons, and
| was told | was going to be brought to Port
| land When l was brought out the street
was crowded with people. Rocks and bricks
were flying about my ears, then turned
| around and looked. and saw Mr.. iIontvet
! nearest to me, throwing brick or rock at me,
but it struck the little policeman.
When we were on the way to the de,ot
rock struck me in the head; put hole through
my hat and cut my head blood ran down my
| neck the crowd was thick could hardly
move; | saw fishermen with Hontvet trying
to get to me, but policemen kept them back
or they would have killed ne. | was brought
to Saco that night. The County Attorney
came o me and asked me if | had counsel;
| told him no; he asked me if wanted one:
| | said did; | went into the courtroom, but
| there was no counsel for me-
l was not on Smutty Nose Island on the
9TH of March; was there last. three weeks
| before last Christmas and took ballast; never
| had any trouble or ill.will with Karen or
| Anethe; no difficulty with any of the Hont
vets. They were the only friends l had.
| l never had anything against the murdered
women; | was there sick; the women were
always kind to me; most of the time there
was only one woman there, Mrs. Uontyet;
never said to any one that | should have to
|
| Chas Z. johnson came into bar room and
he said he knocked man down and took
thirteen dollars out of his pocket When l
went to Boston | had little over twenty dol
lars; l had been working for that money
| eight weeks, / could not say who paid me;
Burke paid me five dollars not long before
| this happened; | was net in the forecastle
while l was batting travis the night of the
murder; got one dollar for batting those.
l blistered my hands sculling the dory. |
showed them to two sons of MIR. Burke and to
Peter Burke; | took needle and opened the
blisters and let the blood out. The shirt has
never been shown me since l left Portsmouth.
1t never had blood on it while had it. The
boots shown are mine. The shirt shown me
is not mine; l said in South Berwick |
thought from what the girl said that the shirt
was mine but said l wanted to see it first;
had the jumper and frock on the morning of
the murder and the overalls | wore every
day; did not at any time put shirt in the
vault.
At the request Of the foreman, Wagner ap-
piled the white shirt wristbands to his wrist
and the collar binding to his neck The as
ISOLATED press report says that the wristbands
were a half inch too small
Silver ore is found in Dade county, Mo-,
in it is thought paying quantities, and the
state now claims to possess deposits of all the
valuable metals.
We learn from the Wilmington CONNER cial
that the wooden ship-yards of the Delaware
peninsula are unusually active this season.
Some of them which have been idle for sew
eral years are now resonant with the ship car
penters hammer and the caulkers mallet,
while those who have continued their opera
tons unnterruptedly present greater guam
tity Of work on hand.
1t has been generally believed that shad
could not be taken with the hook and line.
Mr.. Thomas Chalmers of IIolyoke, Mass,
has demonstrated to the contrary Discover
inc that captureI sha1 contained in their