Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-12
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those in ordinsry FAM lilies.
You remember The effort the defense ha,
made TO prove that Mrs. Getchell did no
make a present Of the harness to Trask
Yet all this proves to you thst Mrs. Viii
l;sms testimony was accurate for che told
that one of those .tters was from Lendal
T,tcomb. You have heard the testimony
sbout the loud talk made VIII Deputy
Sheriff Jones was present. As Mr.. Getch.
oil said it was strange that Mrs. Getchel
sbould run up bill and let is be sued with
ont informing her husband. Now
gentlemen the testimony of Howard
Wvman as to her saying her husband
was NAL about the Stewart bill. Then
about the time he came home from Dee an
Point mad because he didn't fl nd his wife
At Ocean Point, the incident that the coun.
eel didn't have time to go into. That
butcher knife incident testified to by Arletta
Getcbell shows that there were strained re-
la,ions in that house hold
Then when Mrs. Getchell said t, Eliz
william thstif Getchell got as trou olesome
az ri, old father was "she would poison him
70 death" This shows that the subject of
noison was running in her mind. "What in
tbu, aer do you suppose | care for him,
using tina vuIgsr epithet? You remember
mi, stq.ement Of hers to Mrs. williams
u, YOU ,uppose that woman, Mrs. Will
laus, against whom nothing could be
h,opghf a woman on the downward side of
life. testified falsely: Don't ask us to be-
lieve that rhe would come in here and lie
before God Almighty.
Cent? m.n, faces are stubborn things.
She wanted Mrs Williams TO keep her hus-
hand. letters and wonderful confirmation
of this comes from Mrs. Burnham who said
that she saw Mrs. Getcheli writing to her
bou.ekeeper. What a condition CT affairs
between "A husband and wife, wonderful
state of domestic felicity, when her hus-
band threatens her with butcher knife
when wife tries in everywsy to keep letters
from husbsnd. Yet the counsel would
have US believe this all because of the won
deriul affection between Trask and Getch-
ell. Now thu learned counsel has com
mented on Trask's appearance on the
ssnl and t, Eis poverty AMI all th,t to
show that Mrs. G tcheli could not have
cared for him. We cannot understaod how
woman can leave her chillren as well as
her husband to 90 with another man. But
they TO it. With our knowledge of human
nature we are morally certain that there
were adulterous relations between Trask
aud Mrs. G. tchell. Actions speak louder
than words. Now, gentlemen, do not be
deceived, We have an unpleasant duty to
perform. VIM. Henry Getchell WIS fonlly
muir lered. 1t will not do to let our sympa-
thies interfere. Life was as sweet to him
as to you or |. oh, that something might
have inteIfe red that noon when he came
home light hearted and cheerful
to prevent him from drinking the fatal dose |,
How does she know how many potatoes he
ate? She watched him. He does not die
rs did the foxes she saw poisoned in her
childhood. She gives another dose. He
wants doctor. lie spits with the deadly
poison in his mouth. The doctor comes
and prescrbes. He was better, better,
better. If she was guilty would you expect
her to advertise it then and there?N Let's
examine her conduct then and there? Did
she deceive DR.. Driscoll when he
she began to lie, to deceive DR..
Dhscoll and I'll prove it to you by the
testimony in tbi, case. The doctor inquiries
and she says he came in and took some of
his medicine on an empty stomach, and that
he went to the barn and got some whiskey
there. Why was she lying there? DR..
Drisco>l if he'd not been lied to would I'M
doubleday have discovered those symptoms.
DR.. Driscoll swore that Mrs. Getchell said
her husband went to the barn and drank
some liquor there. Why did she tell what
she knew was lie? Take the testimony and
not be carried off your feet by sympathy.
She gave the doctor to understand tn at her
husband drank mixed liquors on an empty
stomach. We have depicted the restless
anxiety of her guilty conscience. Why did
she give him third dose? Why dill she
give him second dose? Counsel says my
theory is that he had all the poison by 3 p.
Nj. Ambrose swears he saw her give the
third dose. You've seen him on the stand.
IL was quarter of a century ago he was in
the asylum and since then G cd has spared his
resson, and he has come on the stand as
truthful witness IS | ever saw so far
~ appearances can go. Then they
tried to make him the murderer
ont they had 10 abandon it. 1t
would be strange if he could tell the ex-
act time. When that occurred, he didn't
nave the presence of mind of this wonder
iu' woman, who. when her husband was in
"S'biN' VI Sti liHilbt pOlsuuiHS Weut 10
TIE door aud got Emery Nash to watch the
cows lfyou can place any reliability in
human tcs imony YOU n,ust believe that OF
that breakfast table. she said she gave that
third dose of gin after the doctor left. Oh,
she did 1t. What old she do i. for? Oh,
me meshes that the guilty get entangled in.
Tod has so ordained ii that crime should be
punished.
Inc doctor was coming at S o'clock. De-
option would no longer be possible. Aud
inNeat of giving him his medicine she gives
nun some Of the poison; proven beyond the
possibility of doubt
on, gentlemen, we were affected by the
eloQueace of the able counsel in describing
mat death scene. He told us how Henry
Called out where is Emma, when the dark
ness OF death was upon him. 1t was at
hc'ing II true. Let's understand about that
terrible scene. Let me read. I'll COM
men 'e on the question Mr.. Norton asked
her, Did "he gradually fail after the doe
"r lent" ''lie didn't seem to-" etc.
included in Ibis which Mr.. Carleton read
vast statement that she asked him to
nave some gruelland gave him some about
O'Clock, Sae went in and sat by the bed.
he seemed to be better, she tells us. he
seemed to be going to sleep. In minute
ne looked different, rolled his eyes. Con-
n