Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-05
FINE POINTS.
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reut with load that day. He staid here
THURSDAY night She and little girl went
,o meeting that night. Trask met them
and a. ked about getting the horse for haul
inc wood. Cross lots she could 20 tv Trask's
in Is minutes. Trask slept on the lounge
Thursday night. Trask staid there pretty
often. lie worked here let, this past sum-
mer and fall. Henry and he were
together quite lot. Trask put
m curtains there Friday morning.
She asked Henry to do it and he came
hack and said make Forest put them up.
Task was not at work for husband that
day. Mr.. Hamm was here Thursday night
and that was Why Trask slept on the lounge.
Porest wasn't down to Augusta Friday
Went to Augusta Thursday she supposed.
He staid at GetchelPs Monday nigh. AMI
Tuesday night. His tools, carpenters tools,
he carried them home Wednesday. He
never had been there since the night after
The funeral. Henry used to complain
NJ being tired. That was all he COM
nla;ned Of up to his death. Was at Ocean
Point last summer. Witness told about her
franks being taken to Lyons house. Trask
and Henry planned the trip to Ocean Point.
They CAM home together and left her. She
wanted to come home with them. Trask
came back to the Point. She told about a
ouilt separating her bed from Trask's at
lannon's. She said to Trssk "If Henry
wasn't afraid to have you sleep up here
when he was here, l amt now"
The little boy she said staid with her the
whole time.
She had staid few days a. her sisters in
H. "a
is Helen Austin.
DR.. Dri.coll wanted to And pint bottle
and she gave him one which had held the
gn and sulphur and asked lin "why won't
this do?" He put carbolic acid in the bottle.
She showed Sheriff Norton the bu,tery.
Then abe witness testified from his reco'-
lection) showed Norton the bottle that had
contained the gin and sulphur. She iadi-
Gated the shelf she said he put it on and
tried to put i. there and the bottle was too
long and she pu. it on the shelf below.
On cross Witness sail
poinv from sitting room to the left the cup
hoard in question as on the south sile Of
the buttery.
Witness reading.-My husband is a
drinking man. Once before my husband
gagged while drinking from the medicine.
He said it was the nastiest stuff. This was
some time before. He had been bothered
with this numbness ever since digging po-
tatoes in the fall. Sh, had but one child
by him.
Once Trask went with Henry and
her to Hallowell. Trask went to Gardiner
with her one time at Henry's suggestion.
Wouldn't be certain whether Trask was
at Hallogel one time last summer when
she was at her sisters at Hallowell.
Thought this was year ago last fall.
Thought che remembered of her sister call
ing lin in.
Cross examined Witness said Mrs.
Getchell talked very rapidly and he was
obigel 10 write in his note book upon his
knee. Wherever Norton's questions were
omitted il was because he wished to be
sure and GIT her testimony anyway. That
day they made inquiries about Trask.
Witness did not 90 to sink spout with Nor
ton. Stood at corner of the house while
Mr. Norton went to TIE spout.
Redireot.-Didnt think there were many
questions omitted in his report of the COR
yersation. Thought Miss Abbie Keen was
in the house at time and there when witness
and sheriff came away.
Here the government recalled DR.. fash,
but changed and recalled Mrs. Helen Gil
more.
Mrs. Gilmore stated that she saw Mrs.
Getchell at Mr.. Trask's house one time.
This was at the house of Trask's father.
This in the fall of 90. She came down
from up stairs with her apron over her
arm. Mrs. Getchell said she had been clean
ing up Laforest Tasks bureau drawers and
she had some papers and letters. She
opened the stove and threw what she had
into the stove.
Cross examined. There we're others pres
ent in the room when this happened. Mrs.
Trask asked where Lsforest was. Didn't
remember what Mrs. Getchell replied. Re-
membed the exact words Mrs. Getchell then
used.
Sheriff Norton was called to the stand.
Stated that he exsmi red the outlet to the
sink at the Getchell house. There
was wooden spout extending 10 or
IL feet from the lead pipe that came from
the sink. There was ice upon the spout.
Directly under the end of The spout there
must have been Is inches of ice. Made an
effort to find Laforts. Trask that day.
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house.
Witness said he went into Mrs. Getchell's
huttery. She showed him = bottle which
she ssid cont,ined the gin and sulphur.
Th,ught ii would hold nearly quart. 1t
was very similar to the one shown in court
Thursday. Asked her where it was kept and
she put out left hand to shelf. Later
when she tried TO put it on the shelf and it
wouldn't 60, she said she guessed she had
made mistake and that the shelf below
must have been the one.
Cross exsmined-Didn't take away any
OF the residue under the sink spout.
Q.-Have you visited various drug stores
sluce Dec. 9th in connection with this case
Al have, in Gardiner, Augusta,
Hslowell, Waterville and Oakland and
Randolph also in Lowell, Mass, and in
Nashua, N. II.
Others Of his deputies may have visited
drug stores for similar purpose. Had him
self visited every drug store in the places in
this State that he visited for this purpose.
Redirect.-Had found that strychnine
was kept as general merchandise at these
places.
Dr. |. z. fash was here recalled.
He was asked If it lay within the realms
Of human probability person taking Is
grains Of strychnine at 1920 without any
treatment would live until lis.
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