The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-25
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Mrs Pease then went on to tell how she CON
tnued to wash the window. After she had
done that she shut the window and locked it
Then she put up laundry package, got her
little girl ready for school, and then went to
work on the window again, opening
it and washing on the outside.
Suddenly some one grasped her
hands. 1t was
The Same Man
who had called on her at five minutes to eleven
O'Clock on the evening of July 9th. The man
held her hands, sometimes one and sometimes
both He said that it was impossible for me to
identity anyone and that it was useless for me
to go on the stand and say that it was Mr.. Bur-
rOWes who called on me.
/ told him had seen him four times. He
said it was impossible for me to identify any
one, and then he said he would proceed to show
me. So he turned his eyes in toward the bridge
of his nose like this Witness then tried to turn
her eyes SO as to look at her nOse]
Pulled Out Some Teeth.
dropped his mouth down, and asked me If
could identity him. said; mo, your own
mother wouldn't know you"
O.-How many teeth did he pull out?
h A.-Two or three.
Mrs Pease then went on to tell what the
mysterious unknown man said further He
said thai III ll6Y cduRlb Ille, IL L WAS d WltucSS
they would put me through such a course Of
Free Masonry as never dreamed Of The
unknown further instructed her as to mental
reservations which she might make while testi-
flying.
The unknown then told her that if she dared
testify against him and his Canada friend he
knew a nice little quiet cemetery up there where
there was vault they could keep her In. He
also said they would put her in a casket and
drive the nails down. Mrs. Pease said, you
would not do that And he said they never
stopped at a little thing like that. He also said
there were skeletons in the vault.
sHe said he and his assistants were going on
to Canada and another crowd were coming on
to take his place. Mrs Pease said he made her
take an oath that she would not go ON to the
stand.
Odd you use Bible2
Al don't remember.
Q.-How could you get Bible?
A.-All 7 had to do was to reach my hand to
a little table.
Q-Then that was a different Bible from the
one used by the black man at night.
Al do not always keep my Bible in the
same place.
all this happened between 9 and 10
O'Clock in the forenoon?
Q.-And all your heighbors were at home?
A. think all but those in the Milliken
house.
Q,-The Carlton house was as near your honse
as You have said, and Mrs. Cartons kitchen
and dining room locked out upon the yard.
Ayes.
Odd you not make an cutlery?
Al screamed once when he seized my
hands.
Off this man was in the shoe shop at the
corner OF Bracket and Gray streets why did
you not cry out for him?
A.-Witness did not think he could hear.
Q.-But was it not worth trying?
Witness then went on to tell, that on
the night Of the Democratic parade she
went to see sick friend, going down
Bracket, over Danforth and down Tying
streets. tits a dark place, she said, and
I looked to see if could see anything,
for I am always afraid there. I saw a
close carriage down the street, and soon
heard some one say, "There she is. = 1t
was the voice of