Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-16
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE
daily Sennsl,tc Jonrnal.
THE LOWELL TRIAL.


this morning.
The first witness called was Mary L. Smith
who testified in relation to the barter of Mrs
Lowell's effects by James Lowell to his cous.
in Cyrus; the prisoner admitting that the ar
tces were his wife's; the list of the things
thus transferred, comprised several dresses,
ladies underwear and little trinkets, Miss
Smith who is Cyrus Lowelfs sister-in- law
then told how Lowell and she were alone in Il
shed and he placed chain upon her neck
and asked me if would marry him. After
he put the chain on my neck, he wanted to
kiss me, and told him wouldn't do neither
he said the chain had belonged to his wife
he said it was a gold chain, but it wasn't the
chain produced in Court; if it was not that
chain, it was larger had locket about like
that; | took of the chain and he put 1t back
in his pocket; | had seen the chain on Mrs.
Lowells neck before she disappeared re-
member that Cyrus brought home pair OF
pants which he said he got of Lowell they
were checked pants, Of a sort of cinnamon col
or; they looked like new pants and had not
been worth much; there were spots of blood
upon them; one on the knee, one on the fly
and two on the hip of the pants, apparently
as if bloody fingers had been laid there he
spots looked as il they had been washed, rub
bed by hand; spoke of them to Cyrus the
pants or portions of them were introduced
and identified by witness as the very ones
pieces have been cut out on the places where
the spots were; once asked Lowell where his
wife was he said she had gone off with a
circus; this after he had put the chain
round my neck; he also showed me lady
ring, a gold ring with green stone in it,
which he said was his wite's; he wanted to
put it on my finger, but wouldn't let him ;
said he would give it to me if | would let him
kiss me, but would do neither.
Cyrus Lowell, a cousin of the prisoner,
testified to buying a pair of pants of James
Lowell in the fall OF 1870; identified the Gin
namon colored as the ones. His testimony
about the spots similar to that of the forego-
ing witness. These cinnamon colored pants
he obtained of the prisoner for mere trife,
being boot in an exchange of boots. A new
Cyrus Low ell, was that James Lowell, the
prisoner had a wife previous to his marriage
with the murdered woman. Ii did not appear
who the woman was and he did not know
when they were married.
FRANCESCA Smith testified that she was a sis
ter of NJ L. Smith; had known the prisoner
eight or nine years. In July, 1870, be offer
ed himself to her and she refused him, saying
she would not have married man; asked
him where his wife was; he said she had gone
off with a circus and that if witness would
have him Lizzie would never come back to
trouble them.
istry in Howard University and Chemist Of
of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a
physician, was examined as an expert in
Physiological Chemistry. He testified that he
had examined the cinnamon colored pants for
blood stains he described the stains and To-
Gated them on the pants; the largest stain
was a dffused or secondary stain, represent
ing rather stain of water in which blood
coloring matter was found, two of the stains
were of considerable expanse.
DR.. Wood stated positively that the stains
were blood stains, and displayed drawings of
the blood crystals found magnifed go times.
Legal cases are on record where the blood
stains have been detected and Analysed after
sixteen years; was positive that these were
blood; the witness was not crossexamined.
Seldom f. Richardson and j. Nj. Richard
son, his father testified to a conversation with
Lowell in the spring of 1872, when the pris-
oner statee to them that his wife was in New
York and that they were separated on account
Of his wifes Jealousy, because he went with
other women.