The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-19
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS IN MAINE,
THE CARSON MURDER TRIAL

Further Evidence for the Government.
BANGOR, March 18.-In the trial of Carson,
charged with the murder of Drawn, this fore
noon was occupied by witnesses who were ju-
rors at the coroners inquest on the body of
Drawn. Their testimony related mainly to the
character of the wounds, also showing that
Drawn was drinking man. Several witnesses
testified that he could swim, and one that
he was never so much the worse for liquor that
he could not take care of himself in the water
The principal witness introduced by the prose-
cution thus far is Mrs. Cordelia Doherty, upon
whose Confession" Carson was arrested. Her
examination began at 23O o'clock and the cross
examination was still in progress when court
adjourned, at o. clock, till o'clock this morn
ing.
Mrs Doherty was one of the party of ten
that went up the river from Milford to Sunk
Haze on Sunday, the 10Th of July last. Tho
party was composed of Mr.. and Mrs. Carson,
Mr.. Drawn, Mrs. Doherty and six children.
According to her statement the men quarrelled
on the way up river as to who should be captain
of the boat Brawn's relations with Mrs. Car
son were also called in question by Carson.
Carson asked his wife if she had brought ''that
thing he told her to, and she said she had
Mrs. Doherty discovered shat thing" to be an
axe under the board in the bottom of the boat.
On the return trip, the children all having been
landed BEFORE the two women got out at a place
known as the Point of Rocks, at the head of
the Big Eddy, about half mile above Milford
village The two men remained in the boat
and the women started to walk down the shore.
They had gone but short distance when Mrs
Doherty says she heard Drawn cry out, and
directly after Carson struck him blow on the
head with the axe. Drawn fell into the water,
foated down stream and sunk. Mrs. Carson
drew knife on Mrs. Doherty and made her
swear five times not to reveal what she had
seen. Mrs. Doherty's statements do not entire
~ agree with those previously made, and the
cross examination by Mr.. Knowles, counsel for
prisoner, is keen and searching at every point.
Missing Vessel.
EAsrPoRT March 18.-The schooner Addie
Ryarsen of Lubec is missing. She left Boston
for Wilmington, N. c., six weeks ago and has
not since been heard from.
Nominations by the Governor-Obituary-
Child Burned TO Death.
AUGUSTA, March 18.-Among others the
Governor to-day made the following Lomina-
tions Alfred M. Aubert, Orono, State Assay.
or; Richard Dresser, Judge of Municipal Court
at Aubarn Edwin FL. Damon, Auburn, Taxa
dermst; Job Prince. Turner, Justice of Peace
for the State.
A girl five years old, named Taylor, in Wind
sor, YVES burned to deathSWednesday. She was
sitting in front of the stove when gust of wind
blew the fire out the door igniting her clothes
and burning her SO badly she died in two hours
A man named Blackman, of Windsor. fell
from log he was choppng in the woods, and
died Immediately. Supposed rupture of blood
vessel in brain.
Benjamin Davis, prominent citizen, aged So
years four months, died at his residence in this
city to-day. He was born in Massachusetts,
has resided here since 1914. was director of
the Freemens Bank and was President for
twenty-five years prior to 1858.