The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
THE ALBION MURDER.
John S. Baker on Trial for Killing
Mrs. Tuck.
TESTIMONY FOR THE pROsECU-
T10N ALL EN-.

Augusta, Dec. 19.-The trial of John S.
Baker, for the murder of Mrs. Julia Tuck in
Albion on the 9th of last September, COM
menced in the Superior Court today. A iary
was impanelled and Couaty a Attorrey Haines
opened fer the prosecution.
Herbert M. Heath appeared for the prisoner,
Attorney General Cleaves and County Attor-
ney Haines for the Government.
The first witness put ON the st and By tbs
government was Newell Tuck of Albion, hus-
band OF the murdered woman. Hs testified as
follows:
last saw nv second wife alive on the fifth day of
Ssptt mber It home at about 7.20 in the morning.
She was al me head OF the lane that led from the
MAN roaa o my house. There 70 one at the
house with her when left 10 the morning: there is
no one else ia the family; went onato the road to
work that mornings and my wife accoqpanied
me to the head of ths Ia ia: lsft lar ia
her usua condiio of health While working on
the road that forenoon went 10 Mr. Bakers to get
4TihK OF water aud asked he prisoner at he bar
John. have You got some good water there?n Saw
No was much Illustrated and took the dipper my
sei,s sen ana got dri1k GA going home a. noon |
could no Nod my wife ana called to her. kept
senrehing until found her ia the privy; She was
sitti, 6 wn by the side If the seat with her hair
caught on pre- jacting box; spOxe to her sayeral
times found she did not answer and took hold of
her hands finding them cold did not think she was
aesd then and Carried the body into the house; no
iced sears upon Julia's throas before she aiken
into the houses there distinct scars of fingers
mostly on one side; thsre was heavy scar on one
side and three or four the other that the blood
settled,
DR.. George II. Wilson, of lbion, testified:
Was cslled to Mr.. Tuck's the first time about two
O'Clock m ON the day Ut the murder found
the body Of Mrs. tuck on the btd with the e. es
Wlde open, mouth and face black; saw marks on the
tnroat ABOUT thres quarters of inch above tho
clavicle snd three inches to the right medium line
as though made by thumb skin abraded slightly
ntapir sknrn Al,
round; there were alsJ marks about inches to the
let OF the md pipe as if made by the fiugers of
man. Myself and Drs. Richard Deaney and W.
ABBOTT made an autopsy at clock next morning;
found al the vital organs In healthy condition III
my Judgment strangulation at the windpipe causeI
throat facing the body, and my fingers and thumb
ntted the marks perfecly the effect of putting the
hand in this position viii force where the prints OF
death.
Drs. Delaney and Abbott being placed on the
stand testified substantially in accordance with
DIR. Wilson's statements in regard TO tho im-
prints OF fingers on the neck and the post
mortem examination.
Mr. Llewellyn Libby testified that he visited
the prisoner in the Jail on the night Of his or.
rest, and after being four hours with him got
the c cenfession, which was printed in the pa
ptr5 after the murder.
Marx Rollins and Henry Sewall testified
that they also heard Bakers sconfessien, which
was suos sntially as printed.
At $50 O'Clock counsel for the prosecution
rested their cR7a