Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-11
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,,oof the government has VI auuitefous
p..;on. that would kill a husband and take
nm a lot of poverty.
w Thsv say Henry was jealous of his wife.
rhsn witnesses TO prove it. Eliza Wilkins
~. 40 des.rous to get this testimony in that
,',hont aces. on she threw in a remark that
W.. Gstchen toll her last summer. her
s1snsnd was Jealous of Trask. Husbands
mot usually tie most intimate
s.;a,ds with their wife's pnamour.
rh;s testimony rests on broken reed as
80 that Of Mamie Peasiee. If, as tie
W"n,. cav. over two years ago Trask was
at,sd of "Bill Hen" he got over it remark
ahIy quick. 1t was too remote to have
cnnnose Getchell did swear as Mrs.
1o,e, said about running up bill. Oh
.uhn,it that's too trivial to prove that her
100 was turned to hate. You can't help
n,5er microscopic investigation such things
n yery many families. About the testi-
n,orv concerning the butcher knife that
ni,nt when Henry Getchell was intoxicated,
.het i. left out. Even if true she YVES not
str.d of him. Surprising man under the
,hs ;oauence of dfiok and in the heat of q
cement of anger should make such q re-
mark i, proves nothing in connection with
this case.
about her leaving him that was thrown
an, nv her own cross-examination. This
o,nel thing which could not have been
u,oyen in any other way she like truthful
rom.n told the truth. And what touch
81 human nature there was in all of the
s;,cnmstances. The reconciliation proves
that kindly relations existed between hus-
ha 1nvnI hnr
,rutbfully she told you about the reconcil.
i.,ion. When she left that bowl of cruel
for him didn't really mean to leave him.
About the threats. The COVE rnmens
would have you believe she told that kind
old peighbor, Mr.. Wyman, things to indi.
cate she would kill her hus-
hand. She denied she told M, mic
peaslee at Ocean Point that things would
he different when she came back another
summer. -,
think she probably said it and has for
gotten it. For Henry was to build cot
tspe and they could do as she liked and it
was this she had in mind. Things would
be different. ..
II Mrs. Getchell did say to Eliza Will
liams that she would poison her husband il
he was as troublesome as his old father, if
she made such a remark 1T is proof of inno-
cence rather than guilt. No poisoner would
ever have made the statement.
Afternoon.
Mr. Heath argued about three hours dur
i,e the forenoon session and in the after
noon renewed on the campmeeting incident
and the testimony as Annie Dudley having
grown head since, a statement that he
argued was improbable; also that if Trask
spoke about the same bird, the bird referred
to was Ida Haskell.
As to what is alleged Mrs. Getchell said
about a private trouble of her husband, he
argued that il those witnesses intended to
tell the truth they must have had in mind
the trouble which she says he did have dur
ing bis life time and for which she occa-
sionally treated him. Il as Ambrose says
she referred him to DR.. Driscoll, that
proves she did not intend to convey such
an idea as is argoed by the government. 1t
ia impossible. Then when she i, said to
have referred them to DR.. Brickett for the
cause of his death; if she did so. that was
the act of an innocent woman on the face
of it. As to Madison Getchell's testimony
leave that with you.
As to Abbie Keens dishonest purpose
take the expression which she twisted to
the effect that Mrs. Getchell said they
couldn't prove she bought any poison, in
stead of telling what she finally ac-
knowledged to be true that Mrs. Getchell
said God knows | never bought any poi
SON
That remark which John S Wifi attributes
to her, about riding to Thomaston on the
horse sled, submit that was the remark of
an innocent woman. Had she been guilty
she never would have made it.
They didn't put John Fowler on the stand
to disprove the statement attributed to him
about Henry having a bad spell in the
woods. Then as to the shocks, take the
testimony of Or. Scott Hill. As to the
story about heart trouble, why didn't they
call the physicians whom they say she
claimed stated Henry had heart trouble ?
Do you think the woman lied about the
heart trouble, in view of all the witnesses
who heard him say he had heart trouble?
The counsel dwelt at considerable length
upon this.
Has there been guilty conduct since the
death! There has been not the slightest
She has been frank and free to talk abou,
Wv never WAS Il WOIidu pun "
such an ordeal before. She has b. en- ex
amned and cross examined or
previous statements. and without vari
atoms except in slight particulars
The only variation of any account relates
70 sendirg for the doctor, mere trit1e.
You saw that DR.. Driscoll couldn't bs
sur. OF conversation.
As to her brothers testimony that he
went to Carlos Hammond's the night Abbie
heen says he got Trask, they have not in
noduced Carlos Hammond to disprove it
why was not Minnie Dow brought here Il
suostsntiate Abbie Keen? She was pres
ent that night.
Here is remarkable case without an,
motive proven. Here is a woman who's,
conduct has been frank and above boar
rom the first and who appears on the stan'
as truthful woman.
You followed my points brought out il
@e cross-examination of the experts,
ana don't think it necessary to discuss it
,oeny that single physician who went Of
WIS staud is in any sense an expert. DIR
iash was quite fair, but he had treated bu
0oe case, which he saved by tanic acid ant
astomach pump.
lou remember how unfair DR.. Crooke
Vas when he attempted to make you be
Heve he had treated a case where one Crail