The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-22

| were pointed OUT TO MIN as lHS Al1e'
men. They were at the barn.
He asked Lewis where he had beer
that day, and he replied in Portland
He said that he found the body. HI
said that he
DIDN'T.KNOW He WAS MURDERED
| till he returned from Gorham. He
thought the COW had kicked him.
He said that he tumbled over the Lantern
in the doorway after opening the door.
After he was put under arrest be said
that it might be good thing for him.
He would plead his own case if this
matter ever came up.
In South America he had plead cases
for poor folks, and once receivedS20 The
man was wealthy or he wouldn't have
taken the money.
| When asked where he was between
and 7.50 O'Clock he said that he came
from Mr.. Lowell's and went into Mr..
| Coburn's water closet. He also said that
in China when anything like this hap,
pened they took all suspected persons
and fed them on rice, and that the
guilty party couldn't eat Nthe rice, and.
| thought they'd best try that on him.
| Because of this, witness had his sus-
picions of the man. They tried to get
him to sleep, but he didn't think that
| he slept during the night. They tried to
| get him to take some coffee, but be
| would not. Mr.. Lewis was very sparin G
| of his breakfast. Witness said to him,
| you haven't eaten or slept any, and
| from what you've said
BELIEVE YOU ARE THE GUILTY
MAN,
and truly I did think SO as constable
| of the town." When he made that state
| ment Lewis turned red and joked it off.
Cross examined BY Mr.. Chase, Consta-
| BILE Libby said that GRAHAM was there
| body. The water closet is in shed that
runs from the house toward the barn.
| The entrance is from the kitchen, also
| ae can enter it from the woodshed from
out doors without going into the kitchen.
| In reply to the witnesses direct charge
| that he WAS the guilty man. Lew is
| laughed it off and turned red. He made
| no reply. He was very sociable during
| the night. He said that he owned a
| large tract of land out in South Ameri-
| ca, and used tobacco there.
| 1t was when outside at the first of the
| evening that Lewis said he tumbled ov-
er the lantern.
| He did not know who first found that
| axe.
MR.. FAY'S TESTIMONY.
| Alter an intermission OF five minutes,
| Mr. Frederic K. Fay, correspondent of
| the Boston Globe, took the stand and
| related the circumstances of his visit to
| the Coburn house few hours after the
| made by Lewis, who made it himself as
| a narrative. He told Mr.. Fay that he
stumb led over the lantern. Witness
| asked him questions and he answered
| them, excepting the last. He said that
| he had answered the question several
| times. After answering questions he
| would resume his narrative.
Witness told Lewis that he had given
| him the best interview he ever received.
Lewis replied that he was an old news
! paper man himself.
Cross-examination did not bring forth
| any new points.
COLEMAN'S TESTIMONY.
James A. Colem an testified that he is
| 10 years of age, and came to work for
Mr.. Coburn the 14th of October. A
| friend of his worked for Frank johnson,
and wrote him letter about the place.
His duties were to care Tor the horses
and do chores. Lewis came to work
there the next Saturday. On Decem Der
18th Lewis went to Portland ut about
am. ana returned at about SIS p. m.
After Lewis arrived, witness went out
and put up the horse. He and Lewis and
He gotathrough first and read paper.
When Mr.. Coburn finished supper he
went with him to theb barn.
When he returned to the house be
asked Mr.. Coburn for piece of tobacco.
He heard the O'Clock whistle blow, and
went over to the Lowell house. He saw
Lewis and Mr.. Lowell n the sitting room
as he went by. He W, ut into the kitch-
en-. There were present Mrs. Lowell, her
three daughters and her little son. He
did not hear any person go out of the
house. Mr.. Lowell came into the kitch-
en-. Before he came in it was about
twenty minutes. He saw Lewis next
water and said II want you, and you,
and you, to come over. Mr.. Coburn is
dead.n
Witness fingered, for he thought Lew
is was bluffing. Then he went over and
found Mrs. Klmball in the tie-up with
Mr. Coburn's body. She said that he
was dead and had been kicked by the
COW. Witness found the horse unfast-
ened. After Lewis and GRAHAM had de-
cided to 60 with the team, witness
found the bloody axe leaning against the
wall, just inside, at the left of the door.
He called Lewis's attention to it. He
looked at 1t, but GRAHAM came only i.alf
way.
Witness fastened the horse that night
himself.
About three days before Thanksgiving
a COW was sold. Lewis told him then,
weeks after, that $40 was received for
the COW.
Cross-examined: Witness came from
South Boston. Thomas Sullivan, who
works for Frank Johnson in Gorham,
got him the place.
He had worked at Stroudwater last
summer for Mrs. Annie Boothby. and
also two years ago. He never knew the
Coburns or Lewis till he came there.
Coburn would weigh $50 pounds.
Mrs. Kimball did not sit down to sup
per with the rest of them that night.
He thought it was about 40 minutes
from the time Lowell came into the
kitchen, till Lewis came in. Tallman