St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-02-18

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went to live at Fosters; they were her
foster parents; treated her as daugh-
ter; was married at 10 to III. c. Brown;
moved to Wards block, st. JOhnsbury,
Feb. 1884 was divorced last Septem-
Der have seen Manchester Daily Mir
ror in Wards room sold Ward tin
pail like the one in evidence; Ward
gave her a gold watch and chain on
her 25th birthday; this was before
either were divorced witness lived in
Manchester most of '85, leaving her
furniture stored in Wards block sent
for Ward one time when she was sick /;
Ward proposed marriage repeatedly ;
she refused came here in October for
her goods when Ward urged his suit
again he said that Fosters folks had
broken up relations between them,
that if witness thought more of them
than of him she could do SO but that
she would see the time when she would
be sorry was here again in November
when Ward repeated his proposals and
witness again refused told Ward that
Fosters folks had objected to the mar
riage came here from Manchester Sat-
urday evening last and asked Ward
where he was on the two nights In
question he said that remained to be
told. In the cross examination witness
said Ward had never paid any of her
bills or let her have any money; was
friendly with Ward up to last fall
when he lied about the money matters !;
Ward sent her indecent postal cards
signed &C." witness wrote him a letter
in relation to them which she said was
dictated by lawyer H. c. Bates. Dur
ing the witnesses testimony number
of letters were read which it was claim
ed were written by Ward and which
showed the writer to be pretty
thoroughly infatuated. Among others
was written that the watch had best
be returned "befOre you hear good
deal from me that you won't want to"
81 tried not to get mad. / begged and
plead and cried and coaxed and begged
and plead again" ''When [ am mad
am liable to be ugly. You would have
a fuss and now you will have all you
want of it before You get through with
me, | shall show you what | am made
of before you get through with me"
The pOstals were declared too indecent
to be read and were not put in evil
dence.
Rev. NJ. H. Ryan and EnOch F.
Osgood testified to hearing team go
by between l and 2 o'clock a. m. Dec.
80, while watching with o. Wilson in
Noyesvile.
Mrs. A. r. Race heard a team driven
rapidly by her house in NOyesville at
2 o'clock Wednesday morning, Jan. 81.
w. E. Sherrar was returning from a
visit at Mr.. Steele's, beyond NOyesville
shortly before 10 on the night of Goth ;
saw horse and low posted sleigh driv-
en- by that attracted his attention and
looked like the one hired by Ward
D.
A. w. Eddy was at the fire. Next
morning measured eight or ten of the
tracks back of the barn; produced
stick cut the length of the tracks and
also notched to mark the width.
Joseph Drouin and A. C. Prior tes-
titled had sold Ward 8's boots and 9's
overshoes during the past year or two.
1t was shown that the measurements
taken by Eddy correspondent with a
9 OvershOe.
Edward GOodenOugh saw the sleigh
tracks below his house on the morning
of the fire and remarked that somebody
had been having a rumpus there.
Elan GOodenough saw the same and
picked up the Manchester Mirror. The
paper was not there the night before.
G. H. Clement, clerk in E. t. & H.
X. Ide's store sold Ward peck of oats
on evening of Goth and directed him
to n. M. Scott's for candle, as they
were out. F. E. Clark, ScOtt's clerk,
sold Ward a candle about that time,
was not sure of the date.
Sheriff Sulloway testified that on the
Saturday after the fine he took the
same horse hired by Ward and after
reaching the Hazen road let her have
the rein and she went directly to the
cross road where the "rumpus" was
the morning of the fire. The sleigh
was backed into the tracks there found
and fitted exactly in width, angle of
the braces, slant of runners, etc.
j. c.. Gray, of Sylvester & Gray ia
Wards block, said they were out of
candles on Jan. %.
G. S. Smith saw the team in Wards
barn on the evening of Jan. Goth at
about 7 o'clock. Also saw the same
team there last Monday evening.
F. E. Clark and Frank Brown testi-
fed on the various varieties of candles.
The defence then put on A. j. Snow
who lived in Wards block last year
amp had worked for Ward over a year.
Never saw him have hitching block.
This closed the testimony.
States Attorney Montgomery re-
viewed the case at some length. He
was followed by Mr.. May, who called
attention to the penalty the law laid
on crimes of this character. He claim
ed that the respondent stood well in
the community, and that the whole
business was case of black mail. He