The Portland daily press., 1874-02-16

said he carried Julette Edwards to ride afte
leaving his wife; said he went home to hi
fathers in Green asterhe left the Edwards girl
Mr.. Arteus Hams-Live in Green; knew MT
Lowell for 10 years; remember of his wife
disappearance; saw him week after her dis
appearance; I asked him about trying sonit
potatoes or apples had about my team; he
said 1 ant keeping house now; said ..whert
is your wife," he said "she is in New York,
said he had had letter from her.
Mr.. w. H. Washburn-Reside in Auburn
am in charge of the workshop at the jail am
turnkey. Is handed letters marked G and ID
Think 1 first saw them the 25th of Septembel
last; 1 took those two letters from girl {
pocket in the Jail; they had cut some papers W
and put them in the register and set them or
fire; the cry was set up of fire." I went uI
and searched one cf the girls and found Those
letters: Lowell asked me that night if l had
got two letters in the girls room; said yes
he said 81 had two letters up there and would
like to have them if you have them" One day
he called me to him and said she thought MS
wife must have gone year before the 6ridge
was; he said the day that they said she disap,
peared he didn't go to ride with her; he saio
the reason he didn't 60 to ride was because his
ne said when he took the horse from MIS-.
Blood he took the horse to the stable, and ne
had his best clothes on and didn't want 70
clean him, and therefore didn't 60 to ride. ne
said that about that time at the Lincoln plocK
he and a man named Libby were passing there,
and Libby pointed cut woman that had on
one of my wife's dresses. l went in and found q
my wife; we had some talk in the entry, then 1
went over to MIR. Kerr's in Auburn with her.
He said they can say what they want TO; tne
dress; have seen letter marked X has been III
my possession; gave it to the County Attorney
got it from Lowell in the Jail.
Two witnesses were called by the govern
ment yesterday afternoon, and an attempt
made to prove something that happened IN
Lincoln Block, Lewiston, in the summer OF
1870, but they did not appear to know anything
about it,
Mr.. e. F. Fasset, an architect, was called on
to testify with regard to the weight of witness
es with whom Mrs. Lowell had been compared.
Gen. A. Chandler, paymaster of the Bates
Mills, was examined to fix the date of the fiual
settlement of the corporation with George A.
Button. 1t was on the oath of August.
County Attorney Wing was put upon the
stand as as matter of form, to testify as to
the identity of the skeleton produced in court
with that found in the woods. Mr. Wing was
sharply cross examined by Mr.. Pilsbury with
reference to a supposed ear ornament among
the other relics, but which had not been put in
as evidence. He was also asked if he had TAX
en- any measures to ascertain where Mr..
Nichols, the first husband of Mrs. Lowell, was
He replied that he lad not but subsequently
amended his answer
Seldom E. Richardson and j. w. Richardson.
his father, testified to conversation with
Lowell in the spring of 1872, when the prisoner
stated to them that his wife was in New York,
and that they Tere separated on account of his
wife's jealousy because he went with other
women.
Three letters written by Lowell, one to his
present wife, one to female prisoner in the
Jail, and one to a Lewiston girl, the last two
entirely too vulgar for publication, were offered,
but not read, much to the disgust of the spec
tators.
The case for the prosecution then closed, and
the court then adjourned until Monday. w.
Marine.
BATH, Feb. 15.-Arrived to-day, steamer
Achilles, Colburn, from Mobile 4th, with !, $50
bales of cotton consigned to J. G. Richardson,
for mills in lewiston She experienced heavy
weather in the gulf stream-lost foretopmast
and sails. She passed on the 11th, twenty
miles southwest from Hatteras, schooner j, H.
Stickney of Baltimore, hound north.