The Portland daily press., 1884-02-01
FROM sTAID sACo.
The Greatest Sensation Of the Kit
terry Murder Trial.
OSCAR BLANEY REPEATS Mps CON
FEssiON IN OPEN COURT.
Progress in the Testimony The Prosecn-
ton Gaihe ing Up the Threads Acute
Cross Rxaminfng The End Not i'm view.
Especially Reported for The press.)
In the Cours Room.

In the Cours Room.
An sudisnce hardly as large in numbers 81
the ones which have been present the two
days past was present at tae court room in the
morning.
The testimony was even more sensations
than that ohs red yesterday, though of fal
4 different character. A living witness told th.
horrible story today which bloody clothes ano
horrid bones mutsly testified to yesterday. Ole
Mr. Blaney testified with much earnestness
and iabored apparently under deep emotion.
His hearty repulsioa of the suggestion of de.
/ fendant's counsel that he ever entertained an
idea that his son Oscar was murderer and
so ished to divert suspicion from him, was
enc OF the wholesome incidents in this mass oil
evil. Few more interested audiences could be
found than the one which listened to OScar e.
BlaDey in the afternoon. There was little
need OF a sheriff to prtsArve oroer, for the
whole crowd with almost breathless attention
hung on his words. He told bis story steadily '
and with little interruption from counsel. All
the sickep,ng detaiIs were given, and now tue
| Two shots were fred as the defenceless man
lay Oh the bed was shown with expressive
gestures. Baney is not as interesting when
he begins to speak His voice is high and
rather weak and his sentences are apt to be
rambling. He mentioned "the murder OF
Thomas Barrows" as il he were an utter
stranger to him. His cross-examinaton was
sharp and scathiDg, and statements were OBJ
tanned from him differing from those given In
/ the stories of other witnesses.
1t would be difficult to corjare up testim ,ny
more frightful or conclusive OF guilt than the
last two days has witnessed.
DETECTIVE WOOD cRoss-ExAMrNED.
At the coming In OF court this Thursday
morning. Mr.. Drew began the cross-sxa,nina-
tion of Detective Wood.
| On the 33i of November we called at Mrs
barfows house about or 5 O'Clock D. m. He
| thinks 1t had been storming that day. He
Mrs Barrows. She told ip addition to what
was stated yesterday about speaking TO her
| butcher or milkman about her wanting man
70 do the chores when her husband, Gates, was
III ana wsnted him to send her a man. That
| one AFTERNOON she was called to the door and
| found Thomas Barrows. That his clothing
| was very much worn and his toes were out: (:
that she asked him what he could do and he
SAID he could do most anything about the
| place-milk, take care of cattle, cut wood. and
| that she was SO much in need Of man that
| Sue took him in. She said her con was sent to
an asylum or died. That her husband lived
through the winter and until the following
Hntdmn. That Barr0ws remained, there on
the place doing the work, and was very
| good man, bat he seemed to be Infatuated or
| to have mania for her. That he was very
| Jealous II anyone came to the house, man or
| woman It made no difference, he you'd be
! cross and ugly for some time after anyone had
called, but aside from that he was o very
| good man.
| One afternoon there was a lady at her house
and in the parlor with her daughter Martha,
| while she, Mrs. B. was standing in the front
| door; tlat Barrows came to the front of the
| house and fred at her aud then fred into the
parlor window and then shot himself in the
arm; that he was arrested aud committed to
Alfred Jail. At the time he fred she Jumped
out of the door, off from the steps and broke
one Of her legs and she wasn't able to appear
III court ut the time and he was discharg ed
from custody, aud came directly back TO her
house. She said she believed be worshipped
her and had q mania for her, and that was the
only Thing wrong about him; that she thought
II she was married to him it would make it bet
ter for her; that she was afraid of her life un-
less she married him. Sire thought by marry
ing him it might reconcile him. He asked
her II he had been kind husband to her. She
said be had, other than the Jealous and quar-
relsome spells he would have when any one
visited her. He asked her if he ever raised
his hand or struck her, and she said he never
did; He asked her il she ever saw any signs of
insanity about hIm and she said she had.
She said that Barrows was very much dis
pleased with Oscar Blsney for keeping compa-
NV. vii her daughter Martha; that Thomas
didn't want Martha TO marry Blaney, and that
Oscar didn't dare to come to the house but
used TO meet him at Mrs. BtrFow's fathers
house She also told OF he trouble they had
at a church sociable. That Thomas laid 10
wait for Oscar Blaney one night out by the
stone wall, hav'ng knife with him. but o.
car went bs driving rapidly before ne saw him
At another time also she spoke of trouble be-
at a halh af fha
church where Barrows made the daughter
Martha get down on her knees aud holding
8 carving knife over her head swear solemny
that she would never marry Oscar Blaney.
Fiat then Mrs. Barrows herself iuterposed and
stopped her husband. She also said that Mar
tha vas afraid OF her life, and referring to her
ihs aue son said it was necessary TO have a man
in the house to take csre of him aud thai he
had previously been in An insane asylum, aud
1t was his impression be heard something about
tue Insane as, lum At Augusta That evening
he was there about thre or four hours. These
things We're net given on direct examin .tion
as they were now suggested to him by ques-
tions of counsel. He remembered further
that Sheriff Gotchtll showed him
The rooms and the door, and Mrs
Barrows showed him the window
from which she looked. When the sheriff was
showing hin these hugs she was not present,
where the sheriff then went she did not know;
he came back twice, the frat time he stepped
ont OF tho house wi heut telling Mrs. Barrows
what he was going for. The conversation oc-
CURED in the sittlDg-rooD; q stove was in the
room and fire was built by Mrs. Barrows and
he brought iD some wood for it. The wood he
brought in had'just been sawed by q man he
did not know. An unknown man was in the
house while he was sittiag there. Mrs. Bar
rows toll hiia she was going TO her fathers to
sleep.
He did not recollect seeing the man since:
he thought the man had sandy beard aud
was rather tall. WhAther Mrs. Barrows said
this man was her father or not he did not
know. Mrs. Barrows said 'she has come for
me-" and answered the question the man put
to her by saying she was not ready TO 60. He
bad revolver with him that night he thought
but i'd not show 1t TO Mrs. Barr, ws. He Q
copied chair most OF the time while he Was
in tue room and sat quite near Mrs. Barrows,
and once she reached out and took his band
and held it, for length of time he did not
know. This occurred near the last of the in
terview. The next morning he called on her
quite early, about half past six. She said the
horse was driven up to the barn the evening
before, near the shed and did not say the
horse was hitched at the bars on the south side
of the barn" He was not the man who brought
Roger Amero to Boston, Mr. Wiggin ana Mr..
Howard performed that duty. He was wit
ness before the authorities there on the matter
OF his extradition. lie had not stated ALL that
had taken place at the house of Blaney. He
saw Mrs. Blaney there and the father OF Oscar
He did not wait till Blaney returned from the
rallroaus Dut alter remaining q lew moments
drove down the road with Deputy Sheriff
Bsechsm. Blaney got ont of this wagon and
got into his. Blsuey. Barrows and himself
were present when the conversation occurred,
Notes of the statement of Oscar were taken by
County Attorney Higgins but not signed in
his presence and personally he reduced no
stasements 10 writing at that time. He made
memoranda of what was said the next day;
he did not have it here and had looked it over
once or twice In the last month. He did not
have il with him as it was not full memoran-
da, nor old he have it when before the grand
jury. Once or twice he had re-read these
notes He saw BlsBey In Alfred jail Decem-
Der h and Goth of last year, and went there
for that purpose by the advice of the Attorney
General and County Attorney but took no
statement in writing He did not see Mrs
Barrows out at The inquest in Kittery but she
was present. He had not been to see Mrs
Baney since Oscar was In Jail but had b9en
once at her house. How many times he had
gone to Kittery on this matter he did not
know.
Re-direct-His business made the use of
memoranda necessary, as frequently he had
many cases on hand. At the time he was in
the State o.. gagged on this matter he was also
looking up the murder of Officer Lawrence at
Bath and was employed on that case ten days.
1t was at the point in the conversation when
Mrs. Barrows asked him if he would be
friand 10 her. that ha took hiS baod uis