Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-10-04

box esn,zssinx tie baby ciethisg Have
rnsae sonss xaers sienfs with ~ eslibre
revolver: 10 sse hos far posder would iEn-
bed it.elf II ts~ al jset is~,i az
\ Here the apszrstss ~2s b-1uShs IA that
lid sheriff hst xpssi IBsH'ei ~ita. sass laz
nov the fxeesiissst was made. A side
e3aIsiaing 2 = for revolver ssi b1ars.
marked bosrd M. fr,d AZ ST two iaehes
maxzle of revolver, bead No fred al Al
| four inehes dlsiaaee. board No AZ s'x
inches, NJ. I 81 eight inehss. NJ. ) s. ten
inches, No. 8 N twelve i7cnSs, No. ST
! fearfeen inches. No a. six'sen inches.
No. 81 eighteen ieches. NJ 10 AZ t~eaiy
4 aehes, Ne. II at twenty-five iRehes. No
( l2 " txerty-t. u- isehe., No IS a. tai,'y
inches. No IA ,htrty-six inches. No Is
( forty-t~o inehas. No i6 forty y-sight inet'e:.
No Il hfty four iashes, No. IS sixty
/ inehss. Ne. - siIty-six inches, No -
seventy ! ~oiashss. The eIpsrins MS were
made with revolver the same SIZE snd
( length of tarrel as that Of the one
found On the bed with Mrs.
I Coolry The boards shosn are pisnfd
wi'h & snco'h surface. Experiments were
mate three or four weeks ago.
Cross exzmnation-N ednesdsy morning
alter Mrs Cooley died was the day wa.
there irsI. Dill not see box of cartridges
there then. 1t was hehI stand that vas
a, the head Of the bed | understpod some
;hing had been taken from the room. ID
rot remember seeing lamp on stand al
that time. When sas cartridges they
we're szF wbfFe stand was the day before.
Norton poked box Of cartridges toxsrt me
with bed stat from where s,ard set. Don't
knoe shere cartridges came from. Never
saw them uaiiI saw them on floor. The
cartridges are - ealibFe.
Wnnes, locked at board No. l. The
boards w5re upright sgainst block of
hardwood shown On apparatus. The in
dangations seen ia the hardwood block. two
OF which there are, we're made by 81
calibre. the rest were made By % calihre.
Don't know Of neither Deputies Jones or
Mitchell having box of babY clothes At
North Arson this summer. Don'G know
thar they we're ever taken Gu; of Danforth
& Goulds otice.
Re direct Box of cartridges were on the
hoor opposite eide of room from windoF.
;. ; Walker, recalled Was present in
the room ~hen Vaughan ard Norton were
there Thursday morning, Testified as 10
cartridges, as did Vaughan.
A. ID Brackley, member of the Grand
Jury. Live in New Portland, after having
been drawn as member Of the Jury re
ceiyed letter from Notion. Shown letter
! marked Government H., ard identified il
a. the same as witness received.
The Attorney General read letter from
Norton to witness. The letter battered wit
ness some~ hat as 10 bis ability 10 serve as
a grand Juror, and " hle the writer dil not
want 10 influence the witness, nor seek 10
govern his Judgment nor that of his assoc
stes in weighing he evidence in the writer's
case before that body ..he waited the jury
t. take into consideration the true facts.
with no hope of reward nor fear OF punish
mett The writer regret ed that the jury
did not know just Whist the ohara ter wss
OF the important witnesses who would sup
port til, charges sgsinsi him, and desired
the Jury to be- fair and if they could save
him from paying ont large sum of money
in corrup,ag society to do so.
Ruel IL. Stanley Of Bangor. representa-
tive of the press: Was at Moosehesi Lake
Morday sni Tues lay. Came here in res
ponsc to telegram from At.oreey Gener-
al Liulef.II Ws. At Norrdgswock ia
on Moadsy after Norton WAS incarceri,ci
there. Went there to get Norton's tfes
history. Got there after dark. Wen, to
the house Of deputy Mitchell conrcctea
with tue jail Mitchell introduced witness
to Norton as 4 newspaper mac. Several
other prisoners were present TO whom Wit
bcss vas Introduced. The conyer.aiiln
that evening was general. The prisoner
WAS playing cards. Was unsuccessful in
attempts TO engage Norton in colversafion.
witness tod Mitchell he had better call in
the morning Went to hotel. Mex; morn
ing called sgain. Mitchell locked wittess
in the corr er with the prisoners who were
doing abou, tie stove Norton WAS dressed
Norton was in serious eoad.tion of mini
that morning. Tod Norton what wanted.
He seemed willing to TUX win witness.
Norton began hatory of what witness
called remarkably strange hfc At this
point the prisoner leans forward aId turns
siyhtly il tis chair, right ear to witness
and ! iu,ert upon what y ssii. W Wtuess
tells IN an Easy, rapid nanacr the story IS
trl him By prisoner. As the witness r.
ctes de story Of Norton's first marriage
ard that the pti'oner spoke tenderIy aol
sftac na'el5 of her, Norton appeared agi-
ts'cl aad la. hand tfemtied as it re.ted On
the ia / OF HE bar. Witness said Norton
OH tbet occasion seemed 10 open his hraast
70 witness anil make hin his confident.
Norton ,hnsrt v taessa papar obt,iairg
tcs. uat nf Skowbegsn officers being Ia
Auel-ta Look up place where he bought r.
yol,cr Told witness that the Only feYol-
ser he ever bought he bought in Lowell.
Niss. sometime IN the "sixdes' and that
he had G-,,I il only once and tha,wl about
a week hgfor, tn. tragedy that Ms Ccoies
htda cat she wanted sho. a1d he hrei AZ it
The officer. found HI, uistol in the "left
hani drawer" ii TIE rsiilr. hut INA; wss
not ne pistol that kiued that woman M
there. a. tha, one fNoftaa'sl struck the
cartridse ia the Genre. vhilc III, enc that
killed ih,. worisn struck fb. csrt-iIye on
the edge When asked rs witness If be ever
hn-rei child. Norton s,id "G-I. no. ~
Never Killed onaY' sNo Ever bum
a tnmors" D-nitno" Ever kn7u
a turor 70 be ru, from the woman's bed, :
No" Here Norton placed hi, right band
behind III, car a. though to catch every
word. ii answer 10 wif7ess' question if he.
Norton. orei Mrs. Cooley At the time o.
her death aaything that could be used a. =