Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-27
BY TELEGRAPH,
MAINE DISPATCHES.
CRIMINAL CASE.
Inc Trial of Foss, the Murderer. Con.
lBued.

PARIS, Feb 26.
he case OF State VS.. Foss, was continued
before the Oxford county S. J. court hold .,
Paris today.
Today, DR.. Willis A. Ge,chell, a regular
physician, testified: H. A. Wentworth call.
ed on me January 4th, at nv house. T cyan.
ihed a wound on the right side of his bowels
ne returned home; | visited him and CYAN.
ihed the wound; found cut less than an
ihch wide, but it extended through oyeralls.
vest, pants and wooden shirt into the abdom.
mai cavity. assisted at post mortem ex-
animation with Dr. Bennett and Dr Towle
the coroner. The wound extended to the ab
domlnal cavity. l found wound in one of
the large intestines, and wound in one of
the small intestines of more than an inch in
length; clots of blood covering all the organs
ihdlcated that hemorrhage took place during
NE; found an artery cut. The immediate
cause of death was hemorrhage caused by the
wound; the amount of blood lost is estimated
at f1ve pounds; an artery was evidently cut;
Wentw orth died of the wound described:
Judged that the wound was necessarily fatal.
Dr. Bennett assisted in the post mortem
examination. He testified that the wound
was On the right side of the belly, about four
inches from the naval and four inches above
the hip bone. The cut was about seven
eighs of an inch wide through into the intes-
tines An artery was severed. He saw a
cut in the vest. The wound was inward and
slightly upward. He found much clotted
blood. Wentworth died from hemorrhage
resulting from the wound, which the doctor
sescribed as sufficient to cause death.
DIR. W. c. Towle of Fryeburg, the cor
oner, conducted the post mortem examina-
ton. He testified as to the wounds and the
cause of death substantially as Drs. Getchell
and Bennett did.
L. Rogers, Of Brownfeld, testified that he
had conversation with Foss last August.
He met him on the road; Foss asked if he
Rogers, had seen H. A. Wentworth and Foss'
wife go along; Foss also said that he had
something in his pocket that would speak
seven times, and he asserted with an oath
tHdt he WOulu use IL :, Ile Sdlu tIldt I1dTNell WAS
liar and a thief and that he would have his
revenge on him.
Martha A. Kicker, of Brownfield, testified:
Foss said in July in our door yard that he had
little dog in his pocket that would bark
seven times as smart as any of them. After
wards he said that if his daughter was at
Wentworth's he would go and take her
away, and if Harvel or his father interfered
there would be blood-shed. At another time
he made threats against Harvell; | said you
would not murder him. He said no, but he
would kill him as he would a snake.
Stllman J. Durgin, who resides at Brown
field was summoned and testified: On Jan
uary 4th w. S. Foss came to my house from
Wentworths. He said there had been a row
at Wentw orth's He said Harvell he'd taken
him out of his pung and dragged him. He
got his knife out and if he had hit him high
enough would have hurt him some. He
made a motion where he thought he hit him
on the legs. He said he hit him too low. He
showed a knife to me. 1t was common
lack knife. think he said he tried to stab
him. but did net hit high enough.