The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
WHAT EXPERTS THINK.
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Two Of Them Say Burrowes Wrote
the Letters.
MRS. PEAsE REQUIRED TO SUB
NIT SAMPLES OF HER WRITING.

mony of Experts in Handwriting-Mrs
Pease on the Stand in the Forenoon
and Tells of Mysterious Stranger
Who Followed Her on the Cars
The public interest in the Pease-Bur-
rowes case showed no signs of abate
ment during the proceedings yesterday
The court room was crowded, even
through the examination of the Massa-
chusetts experts in handwriting, an ex-
animation which could not be otherwise
than tedious to spectators, since it was
comparison of details of handwriting.
Mrs. Pease, whose testimony was SO
interesting feature of Mondays pro-
ceedings, was present promptly when
the court opened, accompanied by her
husband and sister, as on Monday. She
did not show any effects of the ordeal Of
the day before, and was as well pre-
pared as ever to take the stand
Mr.. Burrowes was also promptly on
hand, taking his accustomed seat near
his counsel. Mr.. Cole, book-keeper, ac-
COmDdultu lllln do Ol
The first proceeding after the opening
of the court was the calling of Mrs.
Pease to the stand for the completion of
the examination began Monday. Judge
Symonds again conducted the cross-ex-
animation, which proceeded substantial
ly as follows:
Q.-Before the evening Of May II, 81,
when the letter was thrown on to your
steps, had you ever suspected Mr.. Bur-
rowes of being the author of the anony-
nous letters?
Ayes.
Q.-What excited your suspicious?
Al was much worried by the
letters, and one day seeing a letter on
my husbands desk from his Chicago
agent, read it and learned that Mr..
Burrowes was offering money to agents
of the Portland Screen Company to leave
that company and work for him. Sew
eral things like that came under my no.
tice, and I thought that man mean
enough to do that was mean enough to
write such letters about my husband.
The witness was not positive that this
was her first suspicion of Mr.. Burrowes.
1t was as nearly as she could remember.
Witness COulu uOt give JIG udoO WINCH
her suspicious were excited.
Q.-Now at any time when any of these
people were at your house. did you ask
them who they were?
Al am not positive. I think |
asked the lady.
Odd you ask her where she lived?
Al am not certain.
Q.-This man who was in your house
from o'clock in the evening to o'clock
in the morning, did you ask him what
his name was?
Al cannot say.
Q.-You speak Of sending the letter Of
July 20 to Mr.. Larrabee. Was he your
counsel as early as that?
Al have no counsel.
Here it was developed that she sent
for Mr.. L arrabee instead of sending the
letter to him.
Q.-Why did you send for. Mr.. LARA
bee?
Al knew not whom to trust; and
wished a friend.
Q.-Then it was friend, not as coun-
sci for your husband that you sent for
him?
Witness could not say; and did not
know whether Mr.. Larrabee was her hus-
band counsel at that time.
Odd you receive other letters after
that of July Goth?
Al think August 2 a letter was
picked up on my steps. August the
woman called; August 6 the big man
called, on Saturday night. Monday I
sent telegram to my sister. Wednes-
day morning, the 10th,
The Dude Called.
The 18th / received two letters threat
ening me- think I got no more letters
until l went into the country, between
August 18th and the 18th. This man
who talked with me on the steps (the
one who came at five minutes of eleven)
was on the train; and / think he must
have thrown letter into my lap.
Q.-Have you ever seen that man
since, except the time he appeared at
your window?
A.-No.
Q.-Mrs. Pease, will you. produce the
letters which you received after July
20?
Aft my counsel wish to produce
them they may.
Judge Symonds-I then call for the
production of the letters.
They were not produced and the
court said arguments on this point
might be deferred.
Then the cross examination of Mrs.
Pease proceeded.
Q.-What has been the state of your
health in recent years?
Al have been pretty well.
Q.-Have you been something of an
invalid?
A.-Not lately.
Q.-What do you mean by lately?
A,-About II years ago had tumor.
Q.-Have you been well since?
Al have done my work.
Q.-Have you been accustomed to take
medicine?
Al have taken very little medicine.
$50 thatyour health has been pretty
good?
Al think it would be called so.
This concluded Mrs. Pease's testimony,
and she took her seat by her husband
and sister, where she remained an in
terested spectator of the subsequent pro-
ceedings.
The counsel for Mr. Pease next
brought forward expert testimony to
prove that the anonymous letters of May
14th and 21st 1891, and that of July, 1892,
(which contained the scriptural refer
ences) were in the same hand writing as
certain, Letters ackuotv1edOed To have been