The Portland daily press., 1894-10-19

| store offered year before.
On May 3,st witness left Bridgton for
| Portland, stopping at Hiram Junction.
where she took supper with Mrs. Nicker-
son, mother of DR.. Nickerson, of Portland
At Hiram she saw Mr.. Burbank step off the
train. He asked her if sne was going to
| Portland.
On the train she sat with Mrs. Nickerson,
the latter oecupyin ing the inner end of the
| seat. Mr.. Burbank took a seat next behind
| He asked witness why she was going to the
| city, and she replied that she was going
shopping and TO get situation.
Leaving his seat once he soon came back
and passed her Chatauqua Assembly cata-
| Iogue, telling her to look it through. AS she
| did so slip of paper seemingly leaf from
a notebook fell out. On this slip was
written in the handwriting of sM1. e. W..
| Burbank the words:
go to the st. Julian won't your
To this the witness replied: Certainly
| not.''
This slip of paper was produced and iden-
| titled by the witness.
After having given witness the Chatauoua
catalogue Mr.. Burbank according TO her
| testimony began poking her and nudging
her saying Won't you2'' Do'' etc. .,etc.
| Mrs. Nickerson who was with her noticed
| his extraordinary behavior and commented
on it,
AS the train neared Portland witness said
| to Burbank II want you 10 leave me alone
You go your way and ! will go mine
Then Mr., Burbank seized her carpetbag
pushed ahead of her and in other ways
acted very rudely, stopping finally at the
entrance to the car Witness snatched her
carpetbag from him, telling him to leave
| her alone.
| Burbank said: II will force you to go
with .-e.'' His manner was excited.
Then witness left the train, and seeing
| Mr.. Elroy Davis, the train announcer, went
up to him and said II ask your projections;
| l ask you to take me across to the West
End Hotel"
Witness then related how Mr.. Davis
| showed her the way to the hotel and left
her in the waiting room While there Mr..
! Burbank came and began talking to her
| in loud and excited manner. accusing
her of acting improperly and threatening to
| tell the people in Frye5urg and Mrs. Os-
good. A lady and two children were IN the
parlor at the time, and were much disturbed
| by Mr.. Burbank's action.
| Mrs Hutchins then related how Mr.. Davis
| showed her to Room 63 where he stayed only,
| long enough to light the gas, and tell her
about the bell.
| After Mr.. Davis had gone Mr.. Burbank
/ came to the door, which she had locked,
| and.made repeated threats, saying, II shall
report you. 81 shall tell of this, etc.
| Witness declared positively that the door
| was not locked when Mr. Davis was in the
| room. Neither was the door of Room So
| locked when Mr.. Davis changed her to that
room.
| Mrs. Hutchins then related how the next
morning Mr. Burbank was waiting for her
when shescamerout of the hotel. He took
| the same car, as salready related, and
| troubled the witness to such an extent that
| she finally told him that if he did not stop
/ persecuting her she would make it cost him
| Thousand dollars. After leaving the car
at Lincoln Park he followed her to the
| stores where she went to do shopping.
| There Mrs. Hutchins saw police officer
and, determined TO make a bluff, shesasked
| the officer where DR.. Gordon lived. but at
the same time she looked back at Burbank
as if telling the officer about him. The bluff
| worked, and. Bur bank started Gown PrebIe
street in very much of hurry.
Witness was tnensasked to identify from
| her knowledge of Mr.. Burbank's handwrit-
| ing.the various letters in the case.
After the noon recess. Judge Symonds
began
THE CROSS EXAMINATION
of Mrs. Hutchins, questioning her at length
as to her relations with Mr.. Burbank. She
said that her relations with him were
friendly so far as outward appearances
went up to May lst last At the time her
| aunt warned her against going to the
| factory she did not know THAI the relations
| between her uncle and Mr.. Burbank were
| unpleasant.
Continuing. Judge Symonds then asked
| the witnesssif she was SO scrupulous about
her good name that upon the mere sugges-
tion that unpleasant things had been said
the summer before about Mr.. Burbank anG
| her, she gave up the idea.
4 You, yourself. knew, without being told
| that there was no basissfor those reports.
Of course knew that { had been i'm
| prudent and had done things which l would
| not have done on second thought.
/ How imprudent?
| He had gone with me to the Chautauquan
assembly andsother places.
And did you therefore think that you
| could not acCopU punt pOSlIlOn III d S6etl
| st ore without giving countenance to those
| stories?
.Witness replied that the Hutchins family
| had talked and would talk and it was the
fear of such talk that sent her TO Bridgton.
Judge Symonds then questioned about the
letters she had received at Bridgton.
Did it not strike you that Mr.. Burbank
must have, formed a strange estimate OF
| you to think of winning your affection by
telling you how soon his wife was going to
die.
| ] presume it did.
Now, Mrs. Hutchins do you really mean
to say that Mr.. Burbank ever put such stuff
| as that on paper
He certainly did.
Witness was then asked where she was
when she received the letter she described
and she replied that she could not. She was
vlsitingsfrom place. to place and did not
remember just where she was.
.. Judge Symonds then branched off in a
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