The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

her that the letters were true. He played
upon her feelings, recalled that they
were members of the same church, APP
pealed to her in the name of religion,
and when, out of the fullness of her
heart, she had told him that she would
forgive him if he was truly penitent, he
turned on her and insulted her.
Then she Indignantly closed the win
dow.
But he had found that he could
PLAY Upon Her Feelings
and soon she received letter asking for
another interview. Like the good and
holy man that he is, he had filled that
letter with scriptural references. Coun-
sci for the other side have held that she
should have granted the interview on the
post Office steps at o'clock. But you
will remember that she received the let
ter late that day. with little time to go to
the post Office in time to stand on the
steps.
Mr.. Rand referred to Mrs. Pease's iden-
LITIGATION of Mr.. Burrowes by his habit
of twirling his moustache. Mr.. Rand
said that the first day of the trial Mr..
Burrowes had frequently twirled his
moustache, but from the smoment of
Mrs. Pease's statement he had ceased
that habit. This showed the wonderful
self-control of the man.
As to
Expert Testimony
as much could be obtained on one side
as on the other. But he wished to
weigh those experts, and see to which
the most credence should be given. The
experts for the complainant testified
that when the samples were presented to
them they did not know what opinions
would be desired of them. And after
careful examination they had declared
that they found resemblances which con-
vinced them that Edward I. Burrowes
wrote the anonymous letters. But on
the other hand the experts on the side of
the defence came here only after the
case began and they devoted themselves
to finding points in which there were
differences. When asked if there were
not similarities they answered that there
were resemblances.
Mr. Rand then called attention to
points developed by these experts, speci-
flying the two forms of letter r and two
forms of letter S in Edward t. Bur
rowes's writing, and also in the anony-
nous. The same is true. of the letter
w. Can you doubt that when you find
three different letters made in two differ
ent ways in his acknowledged writing
and also in the anonymous letters that
the same one wrote them both? Can
you doubt it when you have only his de-
NAL to refute it. and when that denial is
the denial of confessed liar and writer
of anonymous letters?
Now as to the crossing of the rs, the
point has been made that the crosses of
Mr.. Burrowes's Us slope downward
while those of the anonymous letters tip
upward. But they failed to note the
fact that in the anonymous letters the in
dividual letters tip backward, SO that an
upward tip of the crossing of the I
would in reality bear the same relation
to the letter that the downward tip
would in the standards.
is admitted by all the experts that
the anonymous letters are in a disguised
handwriting, but through that disguise
resemblances are found which point to
Edward T. Burrowes as the auther.
And now we come to
The AIibi.
They say that Mr.. Burrowes went out to
Cape Elizabeth at 5 o'clock on the eve
ming of the 18th of July and was there
all night. If that can be proved it will
be the strongest kind of evidence. But
can it be proved?
How far away was he? He is a con-
fessed liar, but he doesn't lie for fun. He
doesn't like to lie here. Now he says it is
from two to four miles to his house at
Cape Elizabeth. Finally he concludes
that it is about three miles, He further
testifies that it would take time equal to
from 20 to 80 minutes to drive from his
cottage to the Pease house. Who
testify as to his alibi. They are en-
ployes, friends, people who go to the
same church, all of whom wish to help
him. But what does their testimony
amount to? All but two Of them left
him by 8 o'clock on the evenlng of the
18th of July, and those two can give no
definite evidence. Now Mr.. Geo. III.
Davis is one of those men who proposes
to know all about matter, and when he
does know, he does not propose to
change that knowledge. He says Mr..
Burrowes did not leave the cottage that
night l ask him how he knows. "Be-
cause 1 saw him 60 to bed,' he says.
Any other reason. Eyes, he was there
in the morning!n'
If man wants to write himself down
an ass there is no better chance than a
court room to do it. And then he goes
on to tell you as palpable lie as ever
was told. He told you that he had driv-
en- his horse over that route many times,
and every time it took exactly the same
time to minute,-just to a minute, max
ing no allowance for weather, state of
travelling, ETC. If he had said it might
vary minute or two, should have
thought differently; but no, not the vari-
alton of minute!
This showed of how much value that
witness was.
But 1 propose to group this whole
company of witnesses, and see if their
testimony amounts to anything. They
all reckon time from the game of tennis
which was stopped by darkness. Now
the almanac shows that on that evening
the sun set at 10 minutes after Z O'Clock.
This would probably bring the time of
closing the tennis game fifteen minutes
earlier So it is not improbable that the
time when thu last person saw Mr.. Bur-
rowes that night was nearer 10 than half
past TO-
Mr. Rand then went ON to argue that
Mr.. Burrowes might have gone out of
the house in his stocking feet and ridden