Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-10-23
MYSTERIOUS BUNDLE
And the Livery Rig That Connect Lawrence
Keesan with Chambers Murder.

Providence, Oct. %. - The greatest
legal event in the history of Scituate took
place at Richmond village, when Law
renee G. Keegan was given preliminary
hearing on the charge of murder
J The most important development in the
| (onrt nroceedings was the Identification
bf the prisoner by Miss Fanny Oatley,
sybo saw the phaeton buggy with its big
tmndle covered with the laprobe. She
s,ositivelv Unidentified the driver as the
| prisoner seated before her in the court
room.
Miss Oatley lives in old Bank village In
Scituntc, and she sat on her own doorstep
during the afternoon Of Sept. when the
uhaeton buggy and little black horse went
past, followed by buggy containing two
women dressed in black.
Miss Oatley has been crippled for nine
wears. and she was carried in chair from
her place in the score Of witnesses to the
spot where they were sworn.
| Franklin p. Owen, Scituate's town So
licitcr, inquired particularly about the
carriage containing the big covered bundle,
and the red-whiskered driver who sat on
| the left side of the seat.
81 saw man who had light mustache
and goatee," said Miss Oatley. ut was
| nearly 6 o'clock, and it was getting dark
| l was sitting with my brother. There was
no one with the driver, but he
Had a Big Bundle."
Miss Oatley looked at the prisoner
closely and stated in her reply to the ques-
| ton put by Mr.. Owen that she was sure
| that the prisoner was the same as the one
| whom she saw driving past her house.
Mrs. Annie B. White, Providence
| iressmaker and widow, testified she
knew Keegan and that she saw him in a
buggy on Friendship street on the day OF
the murder. She positively identified the
nrisoner as the man whom she saw on
that day in company with a portly and
dark woman. 1t was about 4 o'clock when
| witness saw Keegan and his female COM
| panion.
Gilbert Bishop, Nelson Bennett and
| George B. Dexter positively identified the
black mustang and buggy. The horse and
carriage were brought to the courthouse
door so that the witnesses could view them.
Then the three witnesses positively and
unreservedly identified the accused as the
driver of the horse ON the day of the muir
| der.
George Dexter, who went to Cranston to
Identity Keegan week ago, pointed
Keegan out as the man in the carriage
which passed him on the day of the mur-
der. Dexter said Keegan and the woman
with him were talking pleasantly when
they went by.
1t was 10 miles from Providence where
witness saw the team. The government
considered the witness the
Next Strongest to Miss OatIey.
There is difference of about two miles
from where Dexter saw the woman alive
and where Miss Oatley saw the big bundle
in the carriage A hnlf-mile beyond Miss
Oatley's home the body was found in the
cart path
Some of the witnesses from Providence
were called to swear to the borrowed re-
volver and to the statements made by
Keegan concerning his whereabouts on
the day of the murder.
The government rested and Lawyer Nc
Gill asked for discharge, but Judge
johnson held Keegan for the grand jury
in $50, 900 He wes taken to Cranston Jail
In default of bonds ~..t,
There was sensational incident to
mark the close of the days proceedings.
Keegan arose from his seat to accompany
the deputy sheriff, but he turned quickly
and advanced to where Mrs. Mary A.
Bacon, his boarding mistress, was stand
.nG.
Kecgan muttered some words of conso-
lation and then kissed Mrs. Bacon twice.
He went toward Mrs. Whalen and show
,-ed his curses upon her, calling her
),Yiu-cr, looking for fee.
Mrs. Whalen is the witness who iden-
tifed the body Of Mrs. Chambers. and who
says tho lover of Mrs. Chambers was
Kecgan, the accused, and not Martin
keegan, as she first stated to the authori-
dies