The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-10

| 6.O5 O'Clock in the evening he took Ian
tern and went to the barn, which he en-
tered by the tie-up door. He attended
to the fastening of some windows in the
tle-up and several doors, passed to the
| horses where he threw some hay into the
cribs of the horses, both of which were
there. The rear, large barn doors We're
| fastened securely. When he entered the
| tie-up door it was about two-thirds dis
tance open. 1t was probably the same
distance open when he came out.
| When the witness began to tell of what
happened as he stepped out of the door,
Godfrey was manifestly greatly inter
| ested.
The witness stated how he came out
| through the tie-up door, and as he partly
turned to pull the door to, he saw at his
side a
Medium Sized Man,
with whiskers, and wearing
slouch hat. The witness had been
acquainted with Benjamin C.
Godfrey for more than year, and when
the county attorney asked ''Who was the
man who struck you that night?" the
answer came firmly: 81 think it was
| Clark Godfrey"
Question-The respondent?
| Answer-'I do.''
| The witness then told how he tried to
| cry out; but the next instant was strick-
en- down.
The witness had about $213 in money
in his pocket book, besides checks, re-
ceipts, etc. There was also letter in
| the folds of the pocket book.
Here County Attorney Perkins pre-
sented an envelope, which the witness
| raoOoOizad m tho rooIyot hoaI1
| Among the checks in the pocket-book
was one endorsed. But the witnesses at
tention was not called to the fact of this
endorsement until May 9th, after God
| frey had been arrested.
The letter which was in the pocket
book, was again shown the witness, and
he testified that he saw it about week
/ after the assault.
Coming to the question of Godfrey's
boots, which are destined to figure in
| the case, the witness said he saw God
frey the forenoon before the assault, and
the latter wore boots that were not long
legged.
After long confinement in the house,
the witness saw Clark Godfrey April
10th. 1t was on the road, where he met
| Godfrey. Witness attempted to
Look Godfrey in the Face
but the latter averted his face, as if look
| ing at something in the field, and con-
tinued with averted face until he had
passed.
The Strout household had frequently
been alarmed. About two weeks before
Dec. End witness having returned home
| one evening, startled someone one from
behind his corn house, who fled across
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after while leading his horse to water.
the animal showed signs of alarm. Wit
ness looksd about and saw two men
moving Off in direction such as no men
would be likely to be following at such a
time of night for good purpose.
County Attorney Perkins here present.
ed short stout club, which the witness
! recognized as one which he (the witness)
had used in the la1se on two cold morn
ings to break the ice for the horses to
drink. A cap was next presented to the
i witness, and he recognized it as the one
he wore at the time he was assaulted
MI. Higgins here took the witness in
hand and gave him a severe and search
ing cross-examination. In some portions
of it the questions evidently raised the
dander of the witness; but failed to
shake materially the witnesses straight
forward story.
Mrs. A1meda r. Strout,
wife of the preceding witness, was next
called. She is a tall, fine appearing wo-
man, who had evidently dreaded much
the ordeal of public appearance on the
witness stand, and had not been reas-
sured by the ordeal to which her husband
had been subjected by Godfrey's attor-
ney. Mrs. Strout testified to the circum-
stances of her husbands going to the
barn on the evening of December I'd. She
saw him leave the house with the Ian
tern, and the next she saw of him he was
lying insensible across the platform at
the barn. Mrs. S. w. Hobson went with
her to the barn. The witness ran back
to the house to get something hot; but
her husband was unable to take it when
she returned. "hen he was carried to
the house. There was a long mark or
welt on the right side of his head, and
caused, she supposed, by his falling upon
the frozen ground. His extremeties were
cold and he was unconscious. With all
the warm applications which she could
use it was ten o'clock at night before
signs of returning life could be detected.
Then he apparently came to. and in re-
sponse to question, murmured,
Struck, Struck,
and relapsed in to unconsciousness
| again.
Saturday morning after the affair Ben
jamin G. Godfrey called at the door and
inquired for Mr.. Stront. She told him
her husbands condition.; and Godfrey
asked her if he would be able to identify
the man who struck him. She replied
that she thought he would be able to by
the next day. She said that Godfrey's
face changed perceptibly when she told
him this; and he asked her for some
money due him for cutting wood. as he
was going away Monday. She referred
him to Mr.. Hobson for his pay.
The evening of the assault Benjamin
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