The Portland daily press., 1892-10-27

of Mrs. Pease as to her Identification as
Mr.. Burrowes of the man who, on the
evening of May q, 1891, rode up to her
steps and threw upon them the anony-
nous letter wrapped around a pen stock.
She stated that it was light night, and
that she had no light in her house. We
shall Introduce to you the weather OBJ
server, who will show you from the rec
ords of his office that the night in ques-
ton was not light, but on the contrary
dark and rainy, And it will be for you
to say whether on such night MIS-.
Pease was able to recognize man wnom
she had not known before, and identity
him months after. We shall show you
that one of the street lights was l6o rect
away and the other 1856 feet away. The
larger, the arc, was behind the man DIS
he threw the letter.
1t will be for you to say whether Mrs.
Pease could see what she said she saw.
Now as to handwriting we shall intro
duce to YOU some of the ablest experts in
the country who will testify that the
handwriting is not the handwriting of
Mr.. Edward T. Burrowes. We shall also
introduce to you q well-known gentle
man of Portland, who will testify to the
same effect, and also several well-known
business men of Portland, who will corro-
borate this.
Mr.. Cook closed with brief statement
of the law applicable to the case.
The jury then were taken to view the
Pease premises.
There was no little interest in the
court room when the defence called its
first witness,
Edward T. Burrowes,
and he was eyed with much interest as
he took the stand. Mr. Burrowes was
neatly dressed in black, and wore white
fourth hand necktie. He appeared cool
and collected on the stand, and answer
ed in low even tone, which was not
modified even in the most exciting parts
of the examination. He testified that he
was forty wears old, and came to Portland
TWENTY-FIVE wears ago when boy OF four
teen. For five and a half years he had
worked in crockery store on Middle
street. After that he entered the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary and remained there
four years. Then he entered Wesleyan
University at Middletown, Conn.
During those years he worked summers
at screen making in order to earn money
to pay his expenses. He also travelled
selling crockery for Hayes d Douglass
during the short vacations. A few
months after leaving school he began
the screen business in Portland. In re-
Spouse to questions from counsel the
witness described the magnitude to
which this screen industry has grown.
1t pow occupies the three large buildings
on Centre, Spring and Free streets. The
buildings have four stories and base
ments. There are in them three acres
of floor space and in the busiest season
ITO people are employed.
Judge Sylnonds then placed in the
witnesses hand the two anonymous let
tiers of May IA and May 2, 1891, and
asked him if he wrote them. The wit
ness replied that he did not write the
letters. did not cause or procure them to
be written, and did not have any part in
the writing Of them. He never had any
art in the sending or delivery of them,
or any knowledge.
Judge Symonds then asked if in May,
'91, when the letters were said to have
been sent, the witness had had any ac-
quaintance with Mr.. John w. Pease.
Witness replied that he had seen Mr..
Pease for 10 years or so; but had not
known him Intimately. He worked for
his (witness's) brothers in business diff
leIcHt rum lio Own. LIZ my ,,ooA6
of his domestic habits or his family.
The examination then proceeded much
like this:
Q.-In May, 81, did you know Mrs.
Pease?
Al did not know that there was any
such person.
Q.-When was your first knowledge of
her?
A.-Last March when I saw in the
newspapers that Mrs. Pease was alleged
to have received some letters from me.
Q.-When did you first see Mrs. Pease
to know her?
A.-When came into the court room
last Monday she was pointed out to
me.
Judge Symonds then gave witness the
letter Of July, '92. and witness denied
that he ever had ANYTHING to do with the
writing or sending of it, or that he ever
had any knowledge of it. Witness also
denied knowledge of the envelopes
which had been put into the case. AS
regards the statement by Mrs. Pease that
on the evening of May 21st, '91, the wit
ness rode up to her house and threw
upon the steps letter wound around
penstock, witness said he did not know
where the Pease house was at that time.