Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-10

A.-Yes.
Q-What was it?
Objected to.
Mr.. Carleton said considerable testimon,
had been put in on defence about Getchelli
drinking and about the iron-bound jug. II.
had asked 1rask if he diint tell Wyman hs
would show him the stuff Henry drank.
The testimony was excluded.
Mrs. Annie Allen was called and sworn
Stated she is the wife of Chas. Allen
blacksmith. Was at Ocean Point wher
Irask and Mrs. Getcheli were there in 1892
Odd you see Trask and Mrs. Getch
ell go into the woods together alone?
This testimony was deferred until the
notes might be read.
Emery Nash was called
Was asked about Mr.. Fowler bringing
out the gin.
Odd he get it without anyone sug-
costing it,
A.-No.
Q.-Who requested him to get it?
l couldn't say.
Cross-questioned-Didn't you make that
suggestion!
Alright and might not. Somebody
said, Jack, get the bottle"
Afternoon.
Elias NJ. Taylor of Sidney was called and
sworn. Lives about q mile from Henry
Getche|rs.
Never saw Getchell when he thought he
had been drinking.
Jonas N. Hammond, one of the select
men of Sidney, was called and sworn.
Lives about three-quarters of a mile from
Getchells.
Stated he never saw Henry when he
thought he had been drinking
Congregational you intimate
with him, ever go fishing with HIM, ever
see him in the drinking shops of Augusta !:
A.-No, sir.
Eliza Williams was called to the stand.
q While you were at Mr.. GetchelPs
last summer. did Minnie Jones make 8
statement about finding her mother and
Trask together on the lounge when she got
back from the spring with water?
This to contradict Minnie Jones' testi-
mony.)
A.--She did.
Odd she say her mother sent her
for water to the spring?
A.--She did. She said she hurried back
and found them on the lounge. Laforest
jumped up and was arranging his garments,
as was her mother.
Witness stated Minnie told her she could
frighten Henry.
Cross-examination-H not asked Min
ME about this. Minnie told her last July.
Hadn't been talking to Minnie about Lafor
est of her mother at the time.
Counsel asked her if she wasn't in the
habit of talking about people. She said
that she didn't know that she was.
. Q.--She respected and seemed to love
her mother?
A-Minnie seemed to love her mother
and to be fond of Laforest Trask.
Q.-And yet without any statement on
your part she made this conversation?
A.-She did.
Q-She commenced to abuse her mother
in that way without any suggestion from
you?
Ayes.
Eveline Keen was called.
Q.-Do you remember of some statements
at your house in presence of Emma Getch.
ell, by Trask?
Ayes.
Q-Give the conversation by Trask in
the presence of Mrs. Getchell.
Ale asked me to carry Mrs. Getchell
home asked me twice. / refused. Then
he asked my husband to carry her home,
as he was afraid of "Bill Hen," meaning
Henry. My husband wouldn't, and Trask
and Mrs. Getchell went off together.
Relating to the track incident, witness
stated that she called at Mrs. Tasks cot
tage, at Belgrade campground, on
Wednesday evening, and Mrs. Getchell
wasn't there. She saw her in the afternoon
and asked her to go to meeting. She said
she didn't like to leave her little boy alone.
This in contradiction of Mrs. Getchell.)
Cross examined-Didn't see Annie Dud-
ley there at the campground that week.
Odd You or your husband give any
reason for refusal to carry Mrs. Getchell
home that night.
A.-Didn't remember doing so. Trask
was somewhat intoxicated.
Witness could not be absolutely certain
that it was Wednesday night that she called
at the cottage. 1t was the night she came
to the campground.
Ida Haskell was recalled.
Q.-What did Mrs. Getchell have on her
head the night you saw her and Laforest
Trask walk down the track together?
A gray shawl. Witnesses for de-
fence said it was hat and Annie Dudley
wore it.
Q.-when did you go to the camp
ground?
A.-Thursday morning.
Q-Was Annie Dudley at the camp
ground?
A.-No sir. Not until Saturday.
Q.-Is Annie Dudley taller than then?
Al should say she'd grown heap.
Q Were you in the bushes with Maui
rice Damren that night?
A.-No sir.
Odd Trask find you and Damren in
the bushes?
A.-No sir.
Cross examined.
Q-You are sure about your testimony
that Annie has grown head?
Ayes sir.
Q.-Thats as as true as any Of your tes-
timony?
Ayes sir.
William Robinson of Sidney was called.
Had lived in the neighborhood with
Henry Getchell; knew him we'll.
Odd you ever hear Henry Getchell
express a desire for death? (To this ex-
captions were noted)
A-No I neyer have