Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-12

Seilon appears very different today from
yesterday. lie was then all calm AMI cool
but tolay he sits with his head bowed dowr
and can hardly speak. He has not sic p,
during the past three nights and his physical
condition is very weak. Today he ate very
good dinner, but before that had taken little
or no nourishment
This morning Sellon sent for Col. Jasper
Hutchings, who is recognized as one of the
leading criminal lawyers at the bar, and en-
gagged him as counsel. They had a long con-
suitatiOn at the police station, and upon Col.
Hutchings' advice Sellon has declined to
talk about his case or to see any reporters.
Baggagemaster Whtehouse of the Maine
Central, was the first man to enter the pos
til car, and is the most important witness
that the government has.
This morning Postal Clerks T. F. Garfield
and E. F. King made thorough search of
he car in which the murder was committed
and which was returned here on the morn
ing train. They found blood everywhere,
and even the ceiling was spattered with it,
Under the letter-rack was a pile
IF mail bags and beneath there was
a package of letters saturated with
blood where they had been hidden by
Head Clerk Sellon. They were enclosed in
new envelopes and forwarded to their dest-
nation. 1t seems that he had told Head
Clerk Frank +. Brown that the letters would
be fonnd there.
Superintendent George E. Dame of the
Railway service of New England arrived
h re this morning and has known all the
new facts in the case today. He says that
everything has not been as pleasant between
those men as has been reported but that Si :
clair has been trying for some time to get
out from under Sellon's charge. He has con-
siIered Sellon overbearing and he wanted
to get into another crew.
[By Associated Press.
BANGOR, June IL.
The mystery in the case of the murder OF
Jerry Sinclair is cleared up SO far as fixing
the responsibility for the crime by the coro-
ners jury concerned. The jury empan-
eled today by coroner Whitney examined
five witnesses with closed doors AMI took
testimony regarding the circumstances at
tending the strange affair.
Superintendent Dame of the postal SER
vice. Boston, testified relative to the condi-
t on of tire car and marks of blood. Bag
gage master Whitehouse toll the circum
stances of being called by Hayes to get some
| quor for Sinclair "who had hurt himself
a nj doctors Young and Sanger to the result
OF the examination of the body after death.
The most important witness, however,
WIS postal clerk Hayes, who was in the car
with Sellon and Sinclair, and
his testimony consumed most of the
p. NJ. According to his story as reported
there was i'll feeling between the deceased
AMI Sellun, and the latter called the former
hard names, at which Sinclair went to the
en,l of the car where Sellon was and clinched
him. throwing him back upon the sorting
table. During the struggle Sellon grabbed
,,p IA knife, which was a long thin sharp
blade which he used for eating twine ON
bundles, and s,abl~d Sinclair, claiming to
have done it in seif-defence. Having heard
the evidence of the witnesses named the jury
returned a verdict about 6 o'clock tonight, in
which they find ''that from the evidence be-
fore us the said Jerry G. Sinclair came to
his death on the evening of the 9th day of
June. 1888, at Bangor, on board the United
States mail car No SCI, from the effects of
a stab in the breast made by sharp instru-
ment in the hands of A. G. Sellon."
1t is currently reported, and generally be
lieved to be true, that Sellon has made
confession of the whole matter and admitted
striking the blow, but pleading self defense
as an excuse. The officials, however, posi-
lively refuse to say anything in regard to the
matter.
Sellon will be examined in the municipal
court tomorrow, when the whole of the facts
will probably appear.
Sinciair's remains were sent to Ossipee,
N. H., tonight.