Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-11-24

little girl were with him then; thew hail
an open buggyi he saw them twice before
they went out Of sight. He said thew
passed him on the side towards Waterbury
from Thorndyke's; that it was a moon.
Ight night, and they went out of sight
over a Knoll soon after he first saw them,
put when he came to the top of the knoll
ne saw them again; they were going
towards his place; he did not RECOGNIZE
me woman and little girl; he did not
Know Mrs. Horace Meaker or Alice. when
he saw them from the top of the knoll
they started the horse, which had been
standing still he saw the girl toss nm
her hands, but heard no outcry; the Oirl
mad on girls hat. II was about 9: Is
O'Clock when he got home; he was verv
IA with the black mare owned by
Bates.
MRS. DELPHINE ASHLEY,
a Frenchwoman, wife of Edward Ashley,
lvlng on the Little river road, q quarter
OF mile beyond Randalrs mills, testified
that on the night of the % of April. about
ii O'Clock, she saw man and woman 90
past In buggy drawn by = black horse.
Her children were sick with the measles
and she was up to give them medicine;
the team Was going towards Stowe; the
night was light
MRS, LIvA A. FOSTER
lives on the same road as Mrs. Ashley
and near the Freewill Baptist church, and
IS the wife of Leonard Foster. She testi
he'd that she was at home on the 23d of
last April and heard some one crv
" Mother" three times about IL O'Clock
and soon after heard team come upon
the bridge. She was wide awake and
plainly heard the cry, but supposed it was
her son up stairs, MS he was sick with the
measles; the clock struck in n few min
ules; she heard no other team that night;
the road is about three rods from the
house Her son and daughter, aged
respectively seventeen and eighteen years,
both testified that they did not call
their mother, and Leonard Foster gave
the distance from the house TO the
bridge MS five rods.
The Fosters nearest neighbor on the
other side of the bridge from them tesi-
he'd that about IL o'clock on the 23d of
April she heard strange sounds on the
bridge, as of persons trying to still one
another. She could not distinguish the
voices to tell the sex; her window was
down at the top; couldn't say Just how
long they were on the bridge-perhaps
fifteen minutes; heard the team come from
the bridge and stop again near Mr.. Fosters
pasture bars, and 60 along soon after; she
and her sister slept up stairs in adioinng1
rooms; was in bed at the time.
TWO OTHER WITNESSES,
Mrs. Louisa Demeritt and Samuel R.
Mansfield, also heard team 90 past on
the same night at times which make it |
appear that it was the same team heard
by the others.
Mr., Dillingham; showed a girls hat,
one worn by Alice Meaker on the night of
the fatal 23d, to Ira Humphrey, who swore
that it was found by him in this Little
river road, near Mr.. Barber's bars, above
the bridge near the church. Some corn
and oats were found on the ground near
he gate by the watering trough, by Lewis
White, who lives on the farm where the
body was discovered.
SUSAN PICKETT,
The wife of B f. Pickett, who lives on
street, in Waterbury, testified
that about 9: 20 O'Clock on the 23d she
went to the millinery store of her sister
in law Mrs. A. c Stebbins, who substan-
Iiates her story in this respect, and she
saw horse and buggy near Gov. Dilling-
hams, and the horse was hitched. Mrs.
Meaker and little girl sat in the wagon,
and Almon had the reins in his hand ready
to get in; she saw nothing more of them
she knew Mrs. Meaker slightly.
SHERIFF ATTENTION
was next called, and just as he was get
ling at the story about the interview with
Mrs. Meaker at her home in Duxbury,
Mr.. Palmer objected, on the ground that,
if she made any confessions, they were
obtained by him from her by improper
means, and therefore should not be repeat
ed. The court then took IA recess till this
when Mr.. Atherton's testimony
will go on.