Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-12

op N for them to ct illnesses to prove it.
What did Mrs. Williams say. She told
you Trask said he was going away. Mrs.
Getchell, what dill she say, that she WAS
going to look for eggs, not as the counsel
would have you believe, to sit with her hus-
band at his work but to hunt both b rms
all over and get one egg.
Was it Trask's overwhelming passion for
VIM. Henry Getchell that he came down
and went into her bed room that morning
when her husband, VIII I'm he loves so, is
out at the barn milking. And Cetchell
comes in and Trask sinks cut the other
way.
Now / come to Ida Haskell. The coun-
| sci did confuse her. But Ida Haskell told
| the truth as she understood it. Did she
have any malice. What base fiendsh nj y
tive il guiding these government witnesses
to come here and lie. Whn comes to
iisprove Ida Haskell. Annie Dud-
ley who on cross examination didn't
know whether she was at the camp
meeting that time or not. Annie Dudley
Va'n't there, the government proved it by
Eveliue Keen. Mrs. Keen cook d on the
stove. What are the exigercies of a case
that requires open, plain, bold perjury.
Whit d, you think of such defense?
Then the low, contemplate way, the Wit
ness undertook to break down the character
of Ida Haskell. Why don't they bring
Maurice Damren here.
Why, gentleman, they searchel Ocean
Point all over and they bling here, whom
Not the Damon's, but make a wise choice
for their side and bring Mrs Burnham.
Now the counsel wakes hot over Abbie
Keen, school teacher in Sidney. Counsel
could not say anything bitter enough again
Abbe Keen What possible motive could
she have had, whom the defen liant selecte
for a companion aftt her husbands death.
Aboie Keen, who is employed by the select
m, II to teach the young. Mrs Gett hell
trusted her, and yet to get her testimony out
Of the way there is nothing they don't say
Alb )ut her. And then Ell 5 comes in here
qualy for the denunciation Of counsel.
Has George Ellis come in hire with a mo-
i've to lie? 1t seems at any rate they trusted
him with letter and letter for Trask.
Mrs. G1tchell soys the lett was to be
delivered that night so as to t a horse to
go to Winthrop. May be Trask over such
a business letter would have had the curiosi-
tv to ask Ellis if he read it. The first thing
Trask wanted to know, the fl st thing he
asked about this letter was, "Did you read
it?'
Artie Robinson says his father, Chas.
W. Robinson, was present, now why was
not Chas. w. Robinson put on instead of
that boy, whom they have made believe he
heard just such conversation. Why not to
grove this important point, was not Chas.
W. Robinson called.
Her moral standard was that 80 long as
her intentions were pure she could be any
where with him, even with a quilt
hanging up between them, sleeping on the
floor, hardly an arms leng h on the fl Jor, it
is hardly believed that they would spend ell
of the time talking of the ten command
ments. Don't ask US too much. OF course
Mr.. Peaslee, Mrs. Gilmore, Elm4 Richards,
Arletta Getchell none of these are to be be-
lieved. Take the trip to Somerville, to
Togus, the incident of riding home from
Augusta when her excuse was that her
hands were cold. Take the Incl lent when
Trask tried to get the Keen's to go home
with her because he was afraid of "Blll
Hen" / claim that it is fully established
that there was adulterous re alton, that
VIM. Henry Getchell trusting as he
was, stupid as he might have
been, finally got his eyes opened.
He learned what was going on at Ocean
Point and went down there. Does a hard
working, poor farmer go to the expense of
going to Ocean Point simply for the pur-
pose of riding home With his wife and take
the chance of passing her on the way? Did
Name Peaslee the boone companion of
Mrs. Getchell, come here to testify falsely !?
We have it in Mrs. Getchelrs own state
ment made to Mr.. Norton that she left Mr..
Trask on the wharf when she came away.
But here on the stand she says she left him
on the 81 lie of the hill and Mrs. Burnham
declares he wasn't on the wharf at all.
Now gentlemen the counsel has stated to
you that the relations existing between
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