The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-18
COMPLETING the CHAIN.
Testimony at the Inquest In the
RIaisdell's Corner School house.

DOVER, N. H., February 17.-County At
torneys Burbank of Saco and Kivel Of this
city had consultation here this morning
and decided that Mr.. Burbank should con-
duct the preliminary examination which be-
gan at Blaisdell's Corner at . o'clock yester
day. One duty of the jury will be to decide
whose body was found and who the mar
was that was killed. leaving it for the Straf-
ford county authorities to determine what
killed him. 1t is now known that the man
brought here from Rochester on the ia
tai day was the same man whose likeness
was shown as DR.. Blood and who left here
for Portland. The search for Hiram Saw
tells missing head was continued today in
the woods of Cast Lebanon, but no traces of
1t re found. Just before dark, it began to
snow. IL much falls, it will pre-
clude, all possibility Of prosecuting the
search. Today County Solicitor Kivel
made arrangements with special officers
Shields and Wltham to remain and continue
the search with officer Wilkinson of ROches-
ter, at the county's expense.
A man supposed to be the suspected "Dr."
Blood left here Iaesday morning at 10 80 for
Portland.
The second day in the Sawtell inouest
opened at the Blaisdell Corner school honse
in East Lebanon, Me-, this afternoon. Coro
ner Carl's first move was to order all the
witnesses and others from the room. John
Greenfield, eX-sherif of Strafford county.
was the first witness. He Joined the
searching party Thursday with Detective
Shields because he knew the country. He
was present when the body was found
and described the circumstances as
they had already appeared In print 1t was
the same body he saw at the sehoOl-hous
Saturday, and the same that DR.. Tobey iden.
tilted at Rochester this morning.
DIR. William II. Tobey of Boston testified
that he was acquainted with the Sawtell
family, and had been for ten years. He had
doctored Hiram six years for scalp trouble.
The diseased fingers and lame ankle were
described. He should say the fingers ON the
body he had seen this morning were the
same. lie described the ankle aud tine corn
on the outside of the right foot He believ-
ed them the same as he had seen this morn
ing. About four weeks ago Hiram com
planned that corn hurt him, and the wit
ness performed an operation for il. He
| should say 1t was the same corn he had seen
this morning. He described the body and
| said that Hiram wore low shoes on acconat
of his twisted foot. 81 have not the Slight.
| est doubt" he said, 'that the body Saw
| this morning was that of Hiram f. SawtelI !"
Detective j. b Wtham testified to finding
| the shoes last Friday morning, He recog
nized the shoes as those OF Hiram f. Saw
| tell. He was with the searching party
when the body was found. He described it.
and thinks 1t that of Sawtell.
Detective Shields testified that week ago
| last Saturday he was sent to see Mrs. Saw
| tell, get her story and act accordingly, He
saw her again the next day, and determined
to come to Rochester as quickly as possible.
He missed the train that night and did not
leave until Monday morning. On Wednes.
day the witness was satisfied that the bod '
of Hiram was in Maine Somewhere
and came to Lebanon. He was with the
searching party when the body was found
and described the circumstances the same as
previous witnesses had done. He was moi
acquainted with Mrs. Sawtell the first time
he went to see her. He was a little ac-
| quainted with her husband. The body
found was the same one seen this morning
by DR.. Tobey. Shields described the things
found and added that the collar button was