Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-16
THE MURDER OF MRS. PRESCOTT.
Mrs. Baker charges Her Husband
 With the Deed.

Mrs. Baker charges Her Husband l With the Deed.
 BOSTON, Dec. 15.-In the trial at Cam l bridge of MT. and Mrs. Baker for the murder of Mrs Susannah Prescott at Groton the court has overruled the motion for separate trials The following written statement from Mrs. Baker, made April 21, was read to day:
 MT. Baker is telling lies all the time. ] know nothing about doing it at all. He drove in the door and hit Mrs. Prescott three times with the hatchet. I was looking through the window and saw him. He wiped the hatchet in the grass and then went in again three different times. It was about 2 or o'clock in the morning. I did not know he was go- ing to do it. In the morning he told me not to go into Mrs. Prescott's room as there was something wrong in the room. I did not go into Mrs. Prescotts room until my hus- band went over to Gus Woods. Mrs. Pres colt was sitting upon the floor be- tween the bed and stove. She could not speak, she never did speak because I was there until she died. Baker did not say any, thing when he came back to bed after he hit Mrs. Prescott. He has no right to put it on to me when he did it himself. He was wick ed to put it on me. If Baker had not put it on me he would have got out; he would swear to anything; he would put it on Gus Woods or anybody. I knew he would con
 
 about it. He said it was Gus Woods. I said, 'sYou put it on Gus Woods and every body and it will come on yourself at last."
 Another statement made by Mrs. Baker on the 23d of April was read. In it she stated that she went to bed at 8 o'clock the night of the murder. The horse got loose and woke her up. Baker was not in bed. She got up, went to the barn, attended to the horse and then looked in the wash-house window and saw Baker strike Mrs. Prescott three times with the back of the axe; he hit her upon the head; she was sitting with her back to the stove; he came in 8 second time and struck her three times more upon the head; he went out and placed the axe in the woodshed and came back and struck her more blows with the back of the axe Mrs Baker made these statements because she supposed that her husband had made confession duplicating her.
 Officer George H. Innis testitied that he had at different times heard Mrs. Baker say that when Mrs. Prescott was struck the room was dark; that after her husband had beaten Mrs. Prescott to death she went out also and sitting upon the grass cried bitterly; that her husband was trying to place the blame on her shoulders; that tramps committed the murder; that Gus Woods did it; that she knew nothing about it at all.
 Professor Edward s. Wood, of Harvard, testified that he had analysed the stains on several articles taken from the apartm ents of the Bakers and the murdered woman and found them to be human blood stains.
 After recalling several witnesses the prose cution closed and the court adjourned. To- morrow the defense will open it's case.
 NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND Financial Circles Deeply Interested i'm
 the Change of Management.
 BOSTON, Dec 15.-The matter of com manding interest in financial circles to-day was the transfer of the New York and New England management from Boston to New York hands. The opinion is general that the road has entered upon new and severe trial although not few entertain 8 hope that all will be well and that the property will con tinue to prosper under the policy which has proved so satisfactory for three years. The Transcript says that whatever is hoped CT feared relative to the roads future, few per sons can be brought to believe that this whole business is aught else than the culmi- nation of the revenge of Cyrus w. Field, who promised to get even with Messrs. Clark and Higginson if it took half his fortune. President Charles B. Clark said to-day that the New York people did not come here to find fault with the management. They had bought the property and came to take posses sion. Said he: ''I am not willing to say what I shall do in the future. My personal interest in it, however, con tinues and my good wishes go with it. I shall not sell any one of my twenty-five shares. I am unable to say whether not MT. Field had hand in yesterdays busi- ness. I have not seen MT. Field, have re- ceived no letter from him and have written no letter to him. I know nothing to the plans of the new board" MT. Clark said there was truth whatever in the report that he was to succeed MT. Watrous in the presidency of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road; the thing had never been discussed, never been thought of so far as he knew. Director Eustace c. Fitz said MT. Bostwick would continue to act as presi- dent, but he would have the assistance of general manager to whom the general care of the property would be entrusted. This place had been offered to MT. Clark, but the offer was declined.
 Alice Oates Dying.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.-The statement that Alice Oates is dying alone in poverty and want is denied. She is dying, but sur rounded by friends and comforts at the resi-