The Portland daily press., 1884-09-18
THE SNOW MURDER.
Some Facts Not Before Made
Public.
WHAT LIBBY HAS TO saw FOR
HIMSELF.

Hon. S. @. Andrews and A. f. Monlton.
Esq, are the counsel for Mr.. Thomas j, Libby,
now in jail under indictment for the murder
Oh Lydia .. Snow. Libby has not yet been in.
formed as to the murder and thinks he is held
Tor debt. He is by no means out of danger al
though the surgeons think his chances
much improved. He had an effusion of serum
from one ear yesterday. He is, for the most
OF the time, RATIONAL but his mind occasionally
clouds up, and he requires change of subject
to remove his confusion of brain.
According to Libby story las far as he re-
members what he did with himself on Thurs
day, September 4th, the day before the muir
derO he says he came into Portland from
Prouts Neck with $500 in his possession.
This money had been paid to him by the
boarders at his house. He says ne had several
checks cashed at the bank before the bank
closed on Thursday, the 4th inst, and the
bank people at the Casco Bank corroborate
this statement He remembers putting up his
horse in Portland. He cannot place where he
was during the afternoon, after he cashed the
cheeks. he says he recollects going to the
hall at Cape Elizabeth to take his second de-
gree as Knight of Pythias and also that he
was intoxicated but believes that he took his
degree before he was expelled from the build
ing. He says when he went from the hall he
found Lydia Snow walking up and down out
side, and he remembers taking her into his
wagon and bringing her to Portland, and put
ting up his horse at the stable where, he
thinks he had an alteration with some one,
a oVTno nnnuw 1I,ox Al
blank. he doesn't even remember his going
to the Jail in the ambulance, or seeing Mr..
Moulton there, or the conversation he had
with him there
Both Libby and Mrs. Libby state that he
was full of liquor when he came to Portland.
lie says he should have had $3.50 pinned into
his trousers watchpocket, besides the $135
found in his pocketbook He paid Mr. Went
worth, whom he was owing large bill for
beef, 800, and some small bills to others, bat
he should have had, besides the S135 found on
him after the murder $3.50 to $500. His wife
corroborates the statement that he carried the
$l5O pinned In the watchpocket, as she knew
1t was there when he left home, and the
marks OF the pins remain in the trousers.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Libby think that when
he left the restaurant after 8 O'Clock, Septem
Der 4th, he went into some saloon to get
drink and that his condition being noticed he
was drugged and robbed. But if he was
drugged and robbed in the saloon why didn't
the robbers take all his money! Why leave
the $135 behind?
The report has been circulated that lydia
Snow had said that she would have revenge
on Libby for turning her out of his house and
calling her "a lewd character" But this re-
port receives no credence from the attorneys.
Lydia Snow was known as light-hearted,
good-natured, frivolous woman. Besides the
testimony all goes to show that Libby had the
pistol fourishing it around his head when
Pingree entered the room at the hotel. Shots
were heard and a woman's scream. Lydia
wouldn't have been likely to have been the
one to scream if she had shot him. The most
mysterious part of the whole tragedy is
Lydia's remark to her brothers wife, when
she left her house September 4th, "that If she
(Lydia) was shot then her sister in.law was t.
keep Lydia's things in her possession"