Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-12-15

| back into tie hease Harmon and I drank
| Il While my wife v4s tu.ains the supper %
| TIE table. TIE night eefsre / had turned
my horse out and bad ., huns for her, and
say hsr soirs down scscss tne ssAis piece
and /! ran round her asd hsadsd her tossrd
The barn. As did 80 my wife stepped 10
the dsar And told me 6, have snpper before
| ps.siss the hsrse up. / wss not intoxicated
| tnx. aixs aod did cot q ,uri.h 9 revolver.
| IL srmoa,s ties in my 10 ae-eiu ely false II
viii be tso years nexs FeoruAry since
| have bad ary trouble With Henry CLARK.
aaa Ely hired MAJ Harmon cas hi, hsy th;s
summsr, for ins lss OF his mo siag mAenine
in eating mine, snd he workrdwslh Us part
Of the tine. Aiss helped milk his COW While
| be sss sway jh,re had been no hs'sh
| xorts or HI feeling between me and either
| of the Clarss during the san ner Az that
| tine received pension OF SIC month.
| and il has noe been increased TO si1
| bad nothing whatever 10 do viii the setting
| Of these fees.
| Cro.s ExaminA,ioa--I did aos 90 GA,
\ docrs uasil half past eight Wednesday morn
ipg, and then was out only 1--we or ten
| MINUTES l Fever told Storey tina. came
ous OF the bare only Is nil uses before the
| Ere there broke out. o. Moadsy when l
~ss At Gardiner got sqssrs of rum I'D
| half a plat OF whiszey. | drank the whis
kew and some O. the rum. That evening.
% came in FRI m the ell, saw my horse
| Z ing down into my field, sud | .ent right
oa, and was out from FIVE 80 ten min
| utes; not lor ger; just long enough to bead
| the horse up Io.sEds the barn Prior 10
going out had put PINT f"k Of rum in
| nv right pants pocket. Should say il Was
| then about o'cIaek When | started 10
| head The horse q che stared to run. |
might have gone $50 or 200 rods down
ACROSS my swsie, aud drove her b,ck.
| We then ate supper ami Harmon and l
drank the rum. My trouble viz the Ciarks
WAS this: l had q bill s2ainss the old
gentleman and he struck me over the head
| four or five times with cane aud the
| Young M .u h ID meSrrested for ASSAULT sod
/ brought me before judge Stevens. have
| never threatened the Clsrks Never had
| any trouble with Harmon. Ga this Mon
| day evening" my wife was in lie ell AID
went out there and asked her for some
thing TO drink, and vas out there long
enough to get this b1t,le. / helped carry
some OF the goods out of the
/ bedroom in the Clark house When nod
| ied ths, the CLARK house across the road
WAS burned got up out of bed and looked
out Of the window but did not go out
There WAS nothing in my house packed up
| W, daesdty. was up all of Wednesday
night to save my house. l was at GArdi-
ner Tuesday and was drunk when l got
home at Light about 9 o'clock and went to
| bed.
| Ward W. Winter testified that he was a.
the frsl tire aud saw defendeng bringing
picture out of the house. He had been
| drin king.
| f mira T. Thomas testified; Am the wife
| Of DR.. Thomas. Ga the day of the fics
! h.e my husband and got home from Gar
diner about quarter past six l WAS get
| NJ supper and my husband came out into
the eli and asked me for some liquor, and
| p ,ured some rum into 3 pint ,,ele that
he h,d and gave ii to him. He pat it into
. his pocket and went out into the kitchen
He started to go out she asked him where
be was goiog. and he said to LOOK after hrs
hor.e said: Don't be gone long, for
supper is mosi resdy He sent out and
wasn't gone m1re ihsn ) minutes and
came ia and be and Harmon drsuk from
the bottle, and then we all sat dom snd
had supper And when Mr.. Harmon got
up from the table he looked out of The vi l.
dow aod sad tb- Clark house was on fire,
and we all went. The DR.. had to wat
until be bad put on his boots. Did not
know the other house was burned Un.ii SUI
rise Wednesday morning. | wen9
TO bed between and 10 TUESDAY
night. Ny Husband slept with m
4nd he was not out of the 70 m
after he went TO bed was not il
our barn that morning Remember of Lucy
Clark being there Wednesday morning sno
! n 80
clothes and having them handy so II the
house did catch Gre | could save them and
told her | sh uld take my pictures down,
and did so, NJthing was pscked in the
house. Ny trunk was also h .uIed GU; by
the door. This was after the barn was o.
FIRE. My b. sband and Iu. no bundle in
the FIRE on " eape, ~ night.
Cross Exsmiaaliou--DI NH ms mber how
long a i'm. it was on Monday evening be
fore the doctor went out doors. after cpmir 9
out o, the room where vas with the boul-
it m Chit have been five minntes. I didu't
pay much ateugion. r. TX he was nut
doors about ten MINUTES. An sure he did I
90 out of the house Tuesday night H
was "solid," aud guess he couidu'l have
gone cut il he bad -snte to
w. ii. R.ckhf testified hat the witness
Stsrbird, sioce the FIRE, came into his store
and ssked him to & 40 to the jail and buy
t1e lease OF he Thomas place The mort
gage had run GU, s'd .reclosure, and be
would give dollar if witne IS woul 20 and
bu7 the Jesse, for h. (Sa,birdl wanted 70
get possession Of II. Starbird said 1--WE
have got him in snug plsce, ard we are
gong TO put him into Thomastor. You see
why want to do this can buy 10 acres
c fl Of the CLARK place ne have got rid OF
the Clsrks), and that brings the old Csrk
barn standing on mine, arc | have got just
as good little place as shsre is il
Chelsea
John C McCardy tss iaed that Stsrbird
. told HIM that be bad hay IN Thomsss barn,
and Thomas had burned IL up, and he ( : az
biId) va. g0iug to have him In Stale prison,
ard II the woman who lived wi h him didh {
keep i'll, or said any moie, he would have
her thete.
Several witnesses were called and testifed
that on the morpif the barn burned the
: wind vas northeast, 10 the direction TO take
ciuders from the Clark house - the defen-
dents barn.
The government resumed at 70, sn1 10
troducYd the record of a CONVICTION OF the
respondent in Lawrence, Mass, in 1877. OF
the crime OF sdaltry, and imprisol ment ten
months. Alsna record of onvlcnsn III
Portland in 1879 of the isrcsry of a team,
for hch h was sentenced 10 four years
Imprisonment Il was admitted by the
, government that he was psrdoned out at the
end of % months. This testimony was ia
t ITO ueed for the parpo,e of impeachiDg
! his ctedibility ss witness.
! s. c. Thom.s recalled by the govprr
ment | was married in June, 1885
, There was q mortgage on my household
furniture and farming implements, sleigh,
harnesses. etc That vas 10 addition to
mortgage on on real estate.
The gOverrmen put in the record to
shoz that in the foregli NOR ssge, gwen
) in Juce. SO, the respondent represented
himssif as single n,su.
This cIosed the testimony. The county
attorney hen N we'd for a view Of the
. prem sss, ard the judge so difec ed Ctu'.
will come in tomorrow morning at 0 clock
wis n the jiry will proceed to the premises
10 lesiiou. Mnch testimony has been in
.rodgced as to the dirse,ian Of the wind ON
Wednesday morning and Of the direction
OF he Cit ders a. they lie there now, AID /,
is though, a view will be al aid 10 the jary
in thi. respect.
Fate gave Us parents. choice gives
friends ard-urnfssstnnz al skiiE has gtya :,