The Portland daily press., 1894-05-04
The Defence Endeavoring t, Show That
the Symptoms Shown by Gstchen Were
at Variance with What They Should
Have Been Were the Government
Theory True-The Case or the State
Nearly Concluded.
rspecial to the Pressl

HE Will be away. come owe TO Jne mouse
tonight. Will see you at your fathers, but
you know to do what we wantto we must
be alone"
Cross-examined. He had alled at the
house very often. Trask was at work in
the house. Didn't know that Trask and
Getchen were together gooddeal. On the
day he received that letter he made an
effort to find 'Trask. Hecarrid the letter
week; did not go to Trask's h)use; made no
effort to deliver the letter to grask. witness
was at his house when he real the letter.
It was sealed when given him, but came
open in his pocket.
by what right did you read that letter?
No answer.
Were you authorized by Mr. GetcheH or
Trask to read that letter?
Couldn't say that was"
Have you ever stated thtt you never
read that letter."
Couldn't say positive"
..Were you asked by Trask If you read
that letter.
Have no recollection abouj it,"
Trask came to his house to inquire about
that letter. Somebody was with him, but
the witness didn't know that Charles
Robinson was with hin. Had no recollec-
tion of stating to Trask that he never read
it, or that Trask asked him.
''will you deny uponthis stand that you
said that you did not rad that letter?'
mo. sir
.'If you did say SO toTrask then you told
an untruth?"
ssYes, sir,
''By what right
DID YOU EBURN THAT LETTER
at the end of the week?"
Ths witness said he thought he had
carried it long enough, SO tlat it would't be
any account. He had 40 permission
from Trask to burn up his property and
made no explanation to Trsk about it.
ssDidn't you believe, climing to be an
honorable man, that it sh,uld have been
delivered?''
81 did't them
There was no writing on the oustide of the
envelope or address upon.tle, inside. The
exact words were: 'sCome over to my, house
tomorrow. He is going toAugusta, and
shall be alone. We intend to come over to
your fathers sthis evening, and shall
probably see you. But there will be others
there, and you know to dc what we want to
we must be alone" It WIS signed EN-"
This happened in the fall Of '92. 1t was
about sunset when he received the letter,
and Getehell was in the house. There was.
no previous arrangementabout carrying the
letter.
Miss abby Keen, school teacher,
testified that she was at the Get,
cheu house a few minutes after the
death and staid all night and Sunday
night. She went to the house, the day be-
fore the body was taken up and remained
four weeks. She corroborated the previous
testimony as to the Monday morning break
fast table conversation. She also said that
Minnie brought letters to the witness's
schoolhouse FROM her mother and the wit
ness passed one of them to Laforest Trask.
She accidentally saw few words. They
were; "Laforest, Henry is no better. Meet
me today where you did the other day."
Mrs. Getchell spoke to the witness of
making Trask present of harness the
fall that Trask's barn was burned. She
also said to witess that
IF THEY FOUND POISON IN THE BODY
tbev,d have to find where it was bought be-
fore they.could prove anything and she knew
she hadn't bought any on the Kennebec
river OF anywhere 6iSe- AAA WI ooAA SnAao
to the house after the death. while the wit
ness was there. After Wltnses went away
Mrs. GetcheIl said she wanted to see La
forest in regard to the story of their being
down river. She had told thestruth to:Sherif
Norton, and she was AFRAID Laforest might
not. Mrs. GetohelIs brother was sent to
Trask. Mrs. GetcheHtold witness she had
agreed with her brother as to signals . by
lamps for a Mr.. L. B. Ward. After WITNESSES
brother came, Sewall GEdden returned. He
told Mrs. Getchen that Laforest was in the
barn Witness told Mrs. GetcheH to tell
Laforest to go away for fear she might have
TO testify about it in the future. The night
Trask was in the barn, the witness slept in
the sitting room. Mrs. Getchell closed the
doors when the witness went to bed. She
did not return for nearly two hours. She
slent in the same room. Witness was at the
Getchell house year ago last spring. Trask
worked there. He entered Mrs. Getchell's
room while she was sick in bed.
cross-examfned. Witness never saw Trask
on into respondent's room when she was in
he'd and well. Had seen him go in there
when she was conva-escent from hemor-
rhage. Witness saw hsr spit blood.
Tho signa,s tn regard to the presence of
Mr. ward we're to let Laforest know when
be came and when he left. On the n orning
after the funeral, witness said to Lafcrest
Trask that 1t would be better for him to
keep away from the house for awhile. Might
have said then: There are
DARK DAYS AHEAD FOR EMMA
She thought it anyway. When they asked
what she meant, she couldn't deny that she
said. "You'u find OUT After the autopsy