Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
Tho Meaker Examination.

The preliminary examination oil Lewis
Almon Meaker and his mother Lucy
Meaker. was concluded at waterbury
Monday and Tuesday before Geo. H.
Lease Esq. with whom sat j. NJ fuiief
ton. Esq. ,L
Almon waived examination and his MOTH
or pleaded not guilty. Monday DIR. Henry
lanes testified to having made WIN
Drs Falcs and Washburn h post mortem
examination April 9th, and to having
SAINT tho stomach of Alice Meaker to Proi'
R. A. Withaus at Burlington.
Prof Witthaus of New York city, pro-
fessor of chemistry at Burlington. testified
to having found traces OF strYchnine IN
the stomach. Deputy Sheriff +. H. Ather-
ton told of the finding of the body and The
circumstances which led him to 90 win
Almon. and 10 an exclamation that Lucy
made when she found Almon was gong
to show where the body was in which she
took the blame on herself
w. Z. Carpenter. druggist, testified to
selling Almon the strychnine the evening
of the 23d of April. Harley F. Bates said
be let Almon have livery team about
8: As the same evening. which was returned
about 8 O'Clock the next morning. Almon
told him he was going to Stowe.
Charles b. Thompson was passed by
this team and overlook it on the Henry
hill, rs we related last week. Charles
ArmIngton,a neighbor, testified to abuse of
the child by Mrs. Meaker. Richard
Thorndikc's evidence was 10 the same
purpose; he had seen her beaten with II
broomstick. Harvey r. Henry had also
seen abuse.
Tuesday Jacob Foss swore that he went
to Meaker's after the disappearance and
related statements that Mrs. Meaker made
to him. Mrs Eber Iuntley who lives
opposite the Meaker's said that in the two
months the Meakers had been there she
had never seen Alice play but had seen
her working and suffering harsh treatment.
She was made 10 pile wood and do out
door work. Miss Gertie Foss had seen
harsh treatment and so had Jennie Arm
ington TO whom Mrs. Meaker said her
husband and Almon didn't know where
Alice was but she did.
Ira Humphrey was driving team on the
Little River road the morning of the Oath
and found a girls light straw hat by the
road near Randal's mills. Mrs. Mary
Germaine, the mother of Alice. identified
this hat rs that of her daughter. Mrs.
Edward Ashley who lives on the Little
River road about II o'clock Of the evening
of the Esd saw n team with man and
woman in it passing. Her four children
had the measles so she was up and knew
the time.
DR.. Fales testified to sending the kid
neys and liver Of the dead child to Prof.
Witthaus. Nathan II. Somerville said he
had seen Alice abused and that Mrs.
Meaker said she had done all she could
for her. This closed the examination and
the prisoners were committed to await the
action of the grand jury.
j. II. Germaine. husband Of Alice's
mother. yesterday took the little boy
Eddie, who is eight years old, from Horace
Meaker's. Meaker did not want to let the
boy 60, but after some time Germane
succeeded in getting him. and he will live
with bis mother in South Burlington.
Alice would have been ten years old the
25th of next August.
The prisoners had an interview yester-
day with Horace and Nellie Meaker.
Horace said to his wife, "Checr up, truth
must prevail" and to Almon that he had
nothing to say to him except to make his
peace with God and pray that He would
forgive him. Almon asserted that this
had already been done.