The Portland daily press., 1888-03-01
Afternoon Session

Afternoon Session.
Detective McCausland was recalled by tn
defense, He said: 81 could not see on tol
of the safe and don't think there could hav
been screw driver there"
LEVI BRIDGHAM,
recalled by the government said: son thl
22d of February l had the keys to the OUTSIDE
door the savings bank building and the,
were not out of my possession"
MIR. cRowELL,
recalled, testified. 81 made an examination
of the vault the day after the tragedy ant
did not see any lamp or screw driver ON toI
of the safe. lplaeed myself in the position
in which / found Mr.. Barron. Mr.. Hamil
ton was present and others after placed
myself in the position in which he was
found. They wanted the door swung back
against my head and pushed it forward
One fiange struck my forehead above the
right temple. The door did not strike me on
the spot where the dent was found on Mr.
BarrOn's forehead, neither did it come
against my cheek. Mr.. Hamilton said il
just fitted my head while Mr. J; II. Drum
mond said it didn't. The door did not strike
my head behind the ear and when l turned
my head, the corner of fiange struck my
scalp"
The plan of the vault and safes being pro-
duced, the witness explained to the jury bow
lying in the position in which Mr.. Barron
was found. He examined the top Of the safe
when crawling over and found no screw
driver or lamp.
ISAAC b. coDDING,
of Medfeld, said: II worked in store in
Medfeld in 1877 and '7S, and had occasion to
go to Cromwelps house every week on
Thursdays continuously these years. l
never knew that Mr.. Cromwell received a
sunstroke, and never heard of it until re-
straw for his wife to sew but never sewing.
was at Mr.. CromwelPs house twice on the
21st OF February, 1878 and can't say whether
he was at home or not"
MIR. DODGE,
was recalled and stated that Stain got into
the attic of his house through a little room
over the front entry and hole cut through
the attic floor.
ALLISON B. DYER,
of Medfeld, testified that he had known Da-
vid L. Stain. He said 81 have seen Stain
with sandy moustache and saw a pair of
handouts at his house once. 1t was either
in December, 1877, or January, 1873 | was
painting his mouse IN March, 1878, and / fix
the date by Mr.. Wheeler's death. | went to
see Stain in January, 1878. saw Cora on the
steps in front of his house and l asked her If
her father was at,home, and she replied, mo
he has gone down East.
Cross examination: sit was between the
18th of January, 1878, and the 1st OF March
that ! asked Cora where her father was"
Here q quite dramatic colloquy occurred
between Attorney Baker and the witness
N IN
Stain hung?" questioned the counsel in a
loud voice.
"No.'
Didn't you tell me that you was coming
down here to hang Stain?"
NO"
Haven't you said that you could not earn
$15 easier than to come down here and testi
fly against Dave Stain?"
''Mr. Dyer, didn't you steal horse of Da-
yid Stain and then have him to pay for it?''
Indignantly mo. sir, and | didn't steal
harnesses of John 9. Dyer
Didn't you describe the horse that Stain
drove down to Maine with. to Mr.. Crosby and
then retract. your statementY
The witness stepped down off the stand
"You pick me and I'll pick you.
I'll give you all you want"
MRS. cLEAvEs,
was recalled and said: II was present when
Mr.. Hamilton gave his testimo ny about my
him and deny that l said my
was poor"
MRS. MILLER
recalled, corroborated Mrs. Cleayes and
stated that after seeing David l.. Stain on
the stand and hearing his voice she was posi-
tive he was the man that boarded at her
house.
JOHN HARVEY,
recalled, said: 81 know that Cromwell was
away three or four days with Bill and me on
a thieying expedition in 2S76. Rev. Mr.
Sewall would not marry Charlie Stain and
the Ballard girl without permit and Stain
wrote one, Lizzie signing the name of her
foster mother who objected. Charlie was at
STAINS house for few hours with his first
wife about the time my sister died. l came
to Stains after my sea voyage, the first OF
January 1876 The first knowledge had of
a secret place, Stain told me about it. heard
Stains statement about Charles stealing
his fathers oyerceat. Charlie was going to
Boston and he,waS urged to take it by his
father and went OFF and never returned with
it. l heard Lizzie Ballard's testimony about
a present of paiI of boots from Stain and
know that in 1876 we had 40 or 80 pairs of
stolen ladies' boots concealed beneath the
house. One day he selected pair of boots
from the lot and gave them to her. She tried
them on and said they were too high in the
instep. He took them back and while she
was absent exchanged them for another pair
they fitted"
JOSEPH A. BEAN,
of Natick, Mass, district police officer, testi-
fed: II have ben an officer since 1869, and
have seen Mr.. Stain with brown mustache.
/ searched Mr.. Stains house in February
1877, in connection with the breaking into
the Needham depot. / found what | ca lied
a Jimmy under Stains bed. 1t was an iron
10 inches long and an inch wide,
turned up at the thin end. The other end
was thick and little rounding. He testified
in court that the iron was taken from wag
on and fashioned by him to thaw out sink
spouts. At the preliminary hearing, Bell
and Harvey said Stain wore dark brown
coat. There were four stolen rings at that
trial and a cameo ring, marked "E. p. /" on
the inside. Ella Perry was the owner Of this
ring. There were no letters &c. e. 5. on
any of the rings. had conversation with
Oliver Cromwell last May, concerning this
case. told him that Young Stain was in
Jail, Maine, and was saying
that Cromwell and Stain were engaged in
the Dexter bank robbery. He said he did
not where Dexter was. or where the bank
was, and he never was in Maine. Says l,
IOu NC pCCh al NAoh"S
Yes was his reply: We'll, you know
where Dexter is No he said. l asked
him if he had been in Thomaston,
me, and he said Yes He asked me if Dav-
i'd had anything to do with the matter, and
told him mo- Well he said, if he did
there is no chance for me- When | arrested
Mr. Cromwell for this crime he said to me
that he told his wife when he went away
from home that he was going off and should
never return again. He said he might have
skipped the day before | spoke to him about
what Harvey had said and he replied that
if Harvey had squealed on him it was all up
with him.
what is life without liberty said Crom-
we'll. He wanted to know what good it
would do to tell and | said / didn't know.
Then he began to brace up, and said he did
not know anything about the crime"
MRS. BARRON
recalled, identified her husbands false teeth
and said there was an indentation in them
which she had not seen in them before the
tragedy"
The court records were produced, showing
that Oliver Smith of Oldtown, Me-, was con-
yicted in Penobscot county, Me-, in 1856 ON
two counts of breaking into stores IN
Oldtown and Bangor, and sentenced
to tyyo wears in the State Prison, being COM
mitted. The records of the United. States
Court. Peleg Sprague, Judge, were also pre-
santad shaving that in 1851. oliver u,