The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-25
ARGUMENTS TODAY.
Isaac SawtelIe Will Spend His Christ
mas In Court.

| DOVER n. H., December 4.-The Saw
telle trial was resumed at DOG o'clock this
morning.
| Testimony for the defense was resumed,
| Attorney General Barnard conducting the
cross-examination.
| Celia Peavey, wife of Frank Peavey,
stated that she and her husband went to
| Springvale February 8, and when returning
| passed the Rankin and Blaisdell places,
| reaching East Rochester soon after o. M.
Ida Kennedy OF Boston, identified Hiram's
writing and signature to paper Mrs. Saw
telle told witness that Hiram put on a new
shirt the day he left and that she then had
the first pleasant words with him for some
time. Evidence with reference to their do
mestic relations was objected TO. but was ad-
mitted CrOss-examined by Attorney Gen.
Sawtelle was during friendly call on Sat-
day, the week of Hiram's disappearance.
Witness saw Isaac at her house In East BOs-
ton about l o'clock Sunday afternoon. He
staid some time and said he was going to
Rochester that night in search of Hiram.
Witness made 40 Inquiries. Mrs. Sawtelle
volunteered the Information about the shirt
In their conversation about Hlram's disap-
pearance. That conversation with Mrs. Saw
tele was the only time she was in the store
during long period. Being recalled after
the folio ing witness she stated she did call
at the store again the next Monday.
Marion Andrews, sister of the last wit
ness, was present during her conversation
with Mrs. Sawtelle and testified to substan
TALLY the same facts.
Elizabeth Andrews. mother Of the last two
witnesses. called with Ida Monday evening
after Hiram's disappearance at Mrs. Saw
telle's store. Mrs. Sawtelle told her that
Hirsm had not slept at the house for long
time. Witness related substantially the same
story about the shirt as the previous witness.
Isaac called on the witness with white rag
bandaging mis- wrist. Rag was bloody, and
witness saw the sore only through the rag.
Cross-examined: Isaac also said the quarrel
between Jeanette and Hiram made him,
Isaac, almost crazy. Witness made many
confusing statements aud was badly. broken
up on cr0ss-examinati0n. Having stated at
first that Isaac's call was a week or more
before she heard of HIram's disappearance,
she stated again that that call was the Sum
day when he informed her husband he was
going TO New Hampshire to look for Hiram.
DR.. Chas Tufts showed by weather rec
ords that the weather was fair February g.
snow fell from January 27 to February 16.
CrOsS-examined: Witness stated 1t rained on
the evening of February 4.
John |. Springfield of Rochester, civil en-
map of the road from Rochester to the
grave. He indicated locations and distances.
Spring6eld's measurements showed the |
grave to be over five miles from East ROch- |
ester and miles from Wallace's store, and |
the distance from Varney's mill to Wal |
lace's 6 25 miles The plan was then re-
moved.
After short recess, Leavitt's Almanac |
was admitted TO show that the sun set Feb |
ruary 9th, at 5.19. allowing for the difference |
between the standard aud true time.
Thomas FL. Haskell, clerk of the Massa- |
chusetts state prison, notwithstanding the |
States objection, showed, by copy of tn |
prison record and by vouchers, that 81 l,279 Y |
were paid by the prison authorities on I,aac's |
orders to Hiram, Jeannette and Isaac's |
father. Cr0ss-examined: Witness said he |
had no knowledge whether the money thus |
obtained by Jeannette, which amounted to |
S134.38, from 1885 tn 1889. was used for Isaac. |
Dr.. Eoenezer E. Grant, Of Great Falls, tes
tilted that one of the wounds described by |
the states witnesses as fatal would not be |
fatal, but would cause profuse hem0rrhage |
In the lungs. The other would be fatal with |
hemorrhage. Witness gave measurements |
OF Hiram's body and said such body |
couldn't be CARED over rough ground with |
out leaving good deal Of evidence of |
blood.
The court took recess until o'clock this |
afternoon.
The defence restad the case this afternoon |
without calling the prisoner
Thi- afternoon the prosecution offered evil |
dence In rebuttal. |
DR.. Flank >. Draper. of Boston, professor
OF medicine In Harvard University, and |
Va Ouubth LbsLiQ II /
that he made nearly 20 autopsies and 275 to |
300 post mortem examinations a year He |
had repeatedly examined persons who died |
from gun-shot wounds. He stated the liza |
bility to bleeding was very small. A bullet |
entering the left side and passing back |
wards would not necessarily be fatal. Som.. |
hem0rrbage would probably show itself at |
the mouth or nostrils and the blood would |
De thrown out, assuming the man had Con- |
seriousness. He said bullet passing
through the heart would cause immediate |
Inconsistencies. He did not think there |
would be any bleeding from the mouth or |
Dostrils. The transport tion of body In a |
small space would not necessarily produce
blood on the carriage. He thought, from
the testimony of others, that three hours
elapsed between the death and the decapita- |
tiOn of the body. |
DIR. Ham, recalled, said this body indicated |
that the cooling process had not set in when |
decapitated The cutting was consistent
with the theory that the man had been dead
for hours.
Several witnesses testified in confederation
OF previous state testimony and In contra
dictton to the testimony for the defence re-
gardiDg the time the Willeys passed be-
tween East Rochester and Rochester.
Hiram Falker testified the Willeys brought
In the lumber late on the first day of Febru-
airy. They went on wheels. He measured
both loads the following morning. He
thought they had not arrived at D. M. Other
witnesses had agreed that.February 5th was
the day the Wileys first went en- wheels
rhis closed the evidence at 80 and court ad-
journed until tomorrow, when the final ar
gumenIs will he begun.