Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-20

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iehs EqsA THIN jsmTed up ed vsst
css and vas gone from Is 10 70 nirusss
CAme back suA-g ard said be esuIdn's
No Ne DID hssss- Tea ninu1es perAape
ssisr heard shoutisg snd s,v Gre ses H.
Ciask nouse. Tbomas said, aWAis, Hsx.
nenj dsa't hurry" asd visness sasd Is was
pfsty aos 70 visit shen there vns . Ere
Ahes they sct home from the Zee Thsma.
came ~ 70 witness and putting his hand o.
bis shesldes ssid:
i .sD---a Henry Clark be eaa's ksep .
CRIB any iongss.-
Vita % said be dida's We any bouI. ia
ihomsa' posssssion vhen be came bach
from docking for his borse." They kept
.ercfene Ia the room where Thomas vent
esioFs scins cut with the bottls. Also hsd
revolver that be f1usished round
Wnen be and Thomas dsank thsy dram
Hom dark bottle Witness said be had
no trouble with Thonss- Tia latter told
BIN sitter the TIRE that be saw Clark and
Sseve Brown up ss the IRE and be wanted
70 sss behind them and pssh thsn into Ihs
nfe. Witness was as The house when III
sscord house vss buried. he vssp's
feeling veil and went to bed early,
I M.
Heard Tnomas call: "Ayfs, where 10 nv
ssvolvsf?" Soma enc came into IN. vis-
nsss' room AID went 10 the bureau drawer
and TOOK ont Whist be supposed vss the re.
| voivsf. He Afterwards heard some one 10
out Of the house and also heard item come
osck before light. Got up about 6 O'Clock
and the chimney Of The burned house drss
sstrse ed his attention Heard Mrs. Thcmss
say that - soon - she got breakfast she
vas going 70 pack her shings. Went out
and found 6ssfbird And they looked
for tracks sd found In the dev, track,
that looked ~ II made by rubber boo. 10
the dew that vas then on the ground. Wit
ness had heard Thomas Soy that he wou ld
get iquare with the whole nsiahborhood.
His spite seemed 10 be principally against
Clark and Steve Brown. When be wen
iato the house after the burning Of the barn,
saw they bad their trunks packed Had
heard them ssy they were gong away after
they got that pension. Witness noticed
when he stepped into the bedroom
OF Thomas tina, morning that the latter bad
his psnts On Cross-exArhined Witness
said he vas born 10 Comma. Weat T.
Lowell in 1851. Was divorced from bis
wife. Had heard Stafbird call Thomas .
id rsseI. A pint 81 liquor would cover
sli he had drank ~ Thomas. Helped |
Toomas in hsyi,g. Hal come from New
York to Tegus.
Thomas Winter testified that the wind
vas narthsest on the moraing that the eide, |
Clsrk's house vas burned, blowing oppo-
site from ,he bara. tie Was down there |
aad saw Thomas 60 into the bare. Said to
some after the FIRE vas seen that he va,
afraid that Thomas was burned up in the |
barn.
Francis S.1rsr Of Augusta was called. He |
testified that Thomas told him that sbouI |
IL minutes before Il burned he vas In the |
barn. Stephen Brown said that he frs,
saw the ere at young Clark's house from
quite . distance. IL evidently hae |
just broi en- out. The flames |
flashed up AZ he had ssen them where ksro- |
sene was burning. Didn's see any possible |
way for sparkle from The elder Clafk's
house to ignite the barn, - the wind was |
blowing in the opposite direction. james |
s. Brown said the wind was blowing the |
spsfks away from the Thomas barn 90 |
Wednesday morning
Isaac s. S:Arbird was one Of the impor |
tsnt witness for the prosecution. Had |
lived In Chelsea for year and 10 months. |
Was al inmate Of the soldiers home. Said |
Thomas owed him s. and he let him have |
Is more and Was TO take 500 worth Of hay,
paying $40 when he got the hay
This wss burned up in the barn. Tes
titled Is to the tracks and said be |
went into Thomas house after the FIRE /
and accused him Of setting the fire. Used
violent words. Was going to take the hay
out the morning the barn burned. On eros,
examination the defence claimed he had NO
- nh IN tak a ont ha hs rat
Others testified that the wind was north
west when the barn was burned.
Recess.
Mrs. Clark was recalled and asked by |
Carleton II she had any kerosene. Said |
there might have been some oil in cans. If
any very little.
On cross examination asked IL she wa,
positive - to the night when she went
down with Winter to her house for hens,
and she said it wss SuodAy night.
SilAs G.. Thomas called.
Moved into the house he now occupies
two years sgo last June.
Was at Henry Clark Jr.'s house the
Sunday night before the fire. Saw the
light they had when after the hens and
went up. Monday wife and went out to
Randolph.
When we got home let the horse 20
Went in to help get supper Went into
ell to see IL his wife would give him some
Of the liquor that she had hid away.
The night Of the fire he said he was one
Of the last ones in the house TO get ou,
goods. Afterwards sent down and htched
into his rack and hauled away goods thu,
were taxed out Of the house.
He acknowledged that he did break OF
tie crook Of the pole and went over to his
house and got his own pole and used 1t at
the well where they were drawing water to
put out the fire.
Went down to Randolph Monday and
going home the horse acted Is though 1t
had been poisoned and they had to walk.
Finally the horse fell and they left her
supposiug she would die. She Afterwards
came to.
Was very lame the next morning and felt
badly from drink and from trying to push
the wagon up the hill when trying to get
the horse home. Didn't go out much the
next morning beciuse Of this. Hadn't
been in the barn the morning Of the fire,
but went out within 80 feet Of the barn and
fed the hens.
Flames did not burst out Of the south
west corner Of tho barn but on the eide
next me DufDeu buliulng-
Said wind did blow cinders down where
only northeast wind would carry them.
Said what Starbird did cay Was, Hoped
somebody would shoe! him il be did another
frie ID favor told HIN best I could
do with him was 10 pay him when ! got
my pension. Sssrbifd, the witness said,
didn't dare use the language be said he did
Thomas denied bis goods were psoked, ex-
cepi come of his wife's goods in ono truck
Nothing Of general use was PACKED. He
acknowledged there had been hsrd feeling
between himself and Henry CLARK, Jr., but
a. this lime there vas DO hard feeling.
Had buried the hstehet duriog hay ing time.
when he cut The hay for CLARK. HIS i'm
preston was tbs. the barn caught from the
house.
Cross examined SAID he went into the
army as assistant surgeon. Had practiced
medicine in Belgrade, Boston. Chicago.
Finally came 20 Msine and was sent to
Thomsaon fer lAroe0y Of team Ct Port
land and was pad1ntd after serving y
.nt b, cut OF four years sentence.
That was the only line had ever been in
States prison. Had been for 3 months In
the hou,e OF c. ecton Llsrsnce, Mass
for sdnlssIy.
He came to CHELSEA to Iva two yearssg'
Hsda's spoken with Mr.. Clark for year
previous to hsyiog time.
Was msrriel to his present wife b.
Rodetick Mcdonald in Gardiner
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