The Portland daily press., 1886-03-06

just as far as he could, and found potato
attached to string. He said, | asked him
Il 1t was on a beam or shelf. He said on
beam or plate.
Mr.. Cooper testified, and photographs Of
the building and interior of the stable were
shown, embracing the end where the Paris
green had set over the window, and shew
that there were no beams or plate in the
lower part of the stable; that the upper
floor timbers rested upon narrow board.
which was let into the studding, too narrow
to place potato upon, being little over an
inch thick.
The State rested its case here.
Mr. Drummond, counsel for the defense,
made an opening, and called Perry and VIII
liams.
the poisoning of Weinberg's cows on June
12th that he went to the town house, and
found the selectmen, and they employed him
to look up the matter, and authorized MIN 70
work $50 worth. His compensation didn't
depend on any contingency. de tnen went
to Weinberg's house and from information
acquired there he called june 10th at
Cooper's house. He found the boy Caro- IN
the stable, where Mrs. Cooper SAID ne was,
and had a conversation with him, about
potatoes. He told the boy some people
thought he, the boy, had poisoned the cows
He asked the boy to give him some potatoes,
and he brought up two of the White jackson
variety. He didn't ask him to get smaller
potato, and didn't receive any from him.
When he was at Weinberg's house they gave
him two potatoes dug out and filed with
Paris Green. He said while he was in the
barn with the boy he saw lot of cans, one
of which contained Paris green. On June
18th he took Williams as a witness and went
to Cooper's stable. He took down the can
of Paris Green, asked Williams to mark II.
That he reached up above his head wnen ne
took down the can of Paris green that ne is
6 feet 3 inches tall; couldn't say exactly
where the place was from which he took II.
lie took paper bag off workbench be,
| side the barn, and put the can in it, and told
the boy ne was going to take 1t away the
boy said better ask Mrs. Cooper and at his
request the boy called her and she came on
| to the barn floor and said she had no
objection to his taking it. He took Williams
with him as witness to the fact he found
can of Paris green there. They then went
away. Witness denied that he got the last
poisoned potato from DR.. Bailey on June
goth, but said it was some weeks later. On
July 1st in company with Williams he went
to Cooper's house. He didn't go into the
stable with Williams but told the latter to
go in and make thorough search for twine
or anything that would bear on the poison
ing. He went into the house, talked
with Mrs. Cooper, while Williams was
in the barn. In about ten minutes Will
ams came into the yard and lighted his
pipe. He went out of the kitchen door into
the stable leaving Mr.. Williams talking with
Mrs. Cooper at the kitchen door. He went
up into the barn and looked around, and
went down cellar. He made general search
and didn't find anything, came out ana
| started off with Williams. While they were
| going down the driveway he said to VIII
liams Il guess we have come on tom fools
| errand," or something of that Sort and VIII
llams replied II guess not, found potato
| fixed like the Others" He replid, "the devil
| you have" Williams had on sack coat
| with outside pockets and potato in one Of
| the pockets. They then went to their office.
| He couldn't remember whether they walked
| over to the office, in Portland, or rode. He
II d,tf fha rrf,tf how 20 Ahnfr
office. He testified that he had no talk with
| Williams previous to going over to Cooper's;
! also that he never had such a conversation
as Stafford testified to, that Williams didn't
put the potato he found with the other Dota-
| toes which he Perry had, locked up in his
desk; that Mr. Frank WaterhOuse came to
| his office with the boy Card and asked to see
the potato found in the barn. he told him
that Mr.; Williams had it in his possession; l
asked Williams to bring it over and he did.
| was paid 500 by the town in this case.
Have been engaged in several eOw-polsoning
| cases with no better results.
Joseph S. Williams testified he had been
engaged in various kinds of business; was q
| seafaring man, carpenter and stone mason,
i and was Perry's partner. At Perry's re-
1 quest he went to Coopers and went into the
stable where the boy, Card, was. Perry
| went to the work bench and picked up a can
1 of Paris green and asked me to mark it.
| Perry picked up paper bag and said he was
| going to carry it away. The boy said he had
| better see Mrs. Cooper. Mrs. Cooper came
| and gave her consent. Went again with
Perry said, Williams, we will go over to
| COOper's tomorrow and see If we can find
| anything" When we got there Perry said,
''YOu search the stable thoroughly, and see
| If you can find any twine or anything, and
I'll go into the house and talk with Mrs.
Cooper" | stood about in the centre of the
| stable, and as was looking around | saw
1 some little loops of twine over window.
4 nd rnnf rorY hon AIYTl and a fO
tato, wrapped it up in paper and didn't look
farther. | went out, lighted my pipe, and
Mr.. Perry came out and went into the stable
| while talked with Mrs. Cooper. In five or
1 ten minutes Perry came out and we started
| down the driveway. Perry said something
| about we had been on wild goose chase,
and l told him l had found a potato.
stopped at my house in Knightville till after
| dinner and went to the office. didn't tes-
| tify found potato on beam, but over the
/ window in the place where pointed out. |
left the potato with the grand jury.
| On cross-examination he testified that he
| had worked at days work about four months
| in three years; that he had been engaged
| travelling about, hunting rumsellers, buying
1 liquor by the drink or bottle for the purpose
| of earning witness fees, which was all the
l him the selectmen had authorized him to
1 work $50 worth. He said except when the
| potato was in the possession OF the grand
| jury three or four days, he had kept it locked
up III Tue kIlCI6u Ol HIS uOuSo III hHlSHI-
| ville and he didn't take it over to the office;
| that he didn't show that potato to Mr..
| Waterh0use, but that he and Perry c0nclud-
| ed to show one of the other potatoes. He
| couldn't tell when he got the potato from the
| grand jury; it might have been in January;
| and then stated it was earlier. He said the
| ends of the twine which he saw in the stable
/ which attracted his attention might have
| been from an eighth to a quarter of an inch
| in length. l am feet inches tall. He was
| sure no one had seen the potato since he re-
ceiyed it from grand jury officer.
Mr.. Cooper said he went to Williams's
| house and was told he was not at home.
| Thereupon he went in and found him there,
| and asked him to take the potato over to Mr..
| Waterhouse and the boy to see, and he said
| he would.
Frank Card testified he went with Mr..
| Waterhouse and asked to see that potato,
| and they were shown potato.
| Here the defense rested.