Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-01
COUNTY COURT.
TRIAL OF CRAM AND BOWIE
FOR MURDER.

and James Bowe:
Readers of the MONITOR will remem-
Der that on the 25th day of April last,
as the workmen at the Tolman- Simp-
son & Co. mill at Greensboro Bend
were moving a pile of lumber into the
mill to be dressed, they discovered
the body Of a man under the pile. The
body was afterward identified, by
clothing and articles in pocket, the
face not being recognizable, as that of
one Isaac Miles, a wandering sort Of
an individual, who had been missing
since about Thanksgiving. A few days
after, James Bow, the Waterman at
the mill, and Abner G. Cram, step
father of Miles, were arrested, and at
a hearing before Justice j. D. Wilson,
were bound over to await the action
of the grand jury at Newport, where
they have been since they were joint
ly indicted at the present term of
court, and the present trial is the re-
suit.
Court convened at 2 p. NJ. Monday,
Sept. "a, and the first murder case in
Orleans County since the celebrated
Hayden case. M P Riordon, States
Attorney, WV Miles, and John Young
appeared for the State; J. w. Red
mond, I'll. F. Graham and Henry @.
Bates are counsel for the respondents
Both respondents pleaded mot
guilty." to the reading of Indictment
and the work of impaneling a jury
was began. After four hours, a jury
composed Of the following named
gentlemen was selected:
Q. P. Hunt and @. @. Wheeler of
Troy, H.sH. Day and A. M. Gray of
Coventry, @. III. Jones of Barton Land
ing, A. FL. Daggett Of Morgan, Clark
Royce of Charleston, @. @. Davis of
Newport, @. D. Bailey Of Irasburgh,
Gerald A. Hodgkins of Westfeld, A.
w. Wiley, Bloomington, and Lot Ed
wards of Derby. An adjournment
was then, had till 9 a. M, when the
real work of the trial began.
James Gochey of Wheelock was the
first witness called on the part Of the
State. In the fall of 1913 he lived at
Walden. His wife was sister of Isaac
Miles, the murdered man, who was
making his home at this time at Go
chey's, Miles was in poor health at
the time and the Friday before
Thanksgiving started for Hard
wick to procure some medicine, lleav-
ing all of his PERSONAL effects atEGo-
chey's and saying that he would re-
turn and stay during the winter and
do the chores. He did not return and
Gochey never saw him afterward.
He identified clothing found upon
body at Greensboro Bend as the same
worn by Miles on the day he went
away. He also testified that week
after Miles went away Abner G. Cram,
ono of the respondents, put in an ap-
pearnnce at his place and stayed there
all winter. He came without any In
vitation2and was all the time talking
about "Ike." Said that "Ike" had
stopped with him and James Bowe at
the mill in Greensboro Bend the night
he left Gochey's; that he went out
early In the morning, saying he was
going to the Ed. Reed place in Wheel
ock; that he had some powerful poi
son with him, and that he knew when
they found ''Ike'' that they would find
him dead on the ''Jerry" Gray place.
Mrs. James Gochey corroborated
the testimony of her husband, and
swore that the body found under the
board pile at the Bend was that Of
her brother. She identified all his
clothing and the stockings and nit
tens which she had from time to time
mended.
N. r. Kimball, who is druggist at
Hardwick,l testified that in the latter
part of Nov, 1898, Isaac Miles came
into his store and purchased a bottle
of compound tincture of benzone, and
had talk about buying some of his
ointment boxes, but could not posi-
bly, state whether any were sold to
him Or not, but thought he bought
some later of the clerk. He identifi-
ed bottle found on body at Bend,
bearing his label as the same bottle of
tincture of benzone sold to Miles;
should say it was in the same wrapper
and in same condition as when sold.
@. 0. Dawson resides at Greensboro
Bend; has charge of the lumber yard
at the Tolman, Simpson & Go. mill.
He showed model of board pile under
which body was found, and described
surroundings and position of body.
Body lay on its back, face up, under
the northeast corner of board pile
10Y fit. south of the mill, on the side