The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-25
WEAVING THE WEB
Evidence Piling Up Against
Lawrence c. Keegan.

Livery Zig Cjcsciy Connects Him With the
1 Chamber, Nurdcr-The Mysterious Bun
! die a Prominent Factor.
Providence. Oct 22. 49, Tho greatest
legal event in the history Of Scituate took
place at Richmond village, when Law
renee C. Keegan was given preliminary
hearing on the charge OF murder.
The most important development In the
court proceedings was the Identification
OF the prisoner by Miss Fanny Oatley.
who saw the plAeton buggy with its big
bundle covered with the laprobc. She
positively Unidentified the driver as the
prisoner seated before her in the court
room.
Miss Oatlcy lives in old Bank village in
Scituate, and she sat on her own doorstep
during the afternoon of sept 3 when the
phaeton buggy and little black horse went
past, followed by Il buggy containing two
women dressed in black.
Miss Oatey has been crippled for nine
years, and she was carried in chair from
her place in the score of witnesses to the
spot where they were sworn.
Franklin =. Owen. Scituates town So
licitor inquired particularly about the
carriage containing the big covered bundle
and the red whiskercd driver who sat on
the left side of the seat.
II saw u man who had light mustache
and goatee," said Miss oatlcy. ut was
nearly 6 o'clock and it was getting dark.
/ was sitting with my brother There was
no one with the driver, but he
Had Big Bundlc."
Miss Oatlcy looked at tho prisoner
closely and stated in her reply to tho ques
ton put by Mr. Owen that she was sure
that the prisoner was the same as tho one
whom she saw driving past her house.
Mrs. Annie b. White, a Providence
dressmaker and widow, testified she
knew Keegan and that she saw him in n
buggy on Friendship street on the day OF
the murder She positively identified the
prisoner as the man whom she saw on
that day in company with portly and
dark woman. 1t was about o'clock when
witness saw Keogan 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
unreservcdly identified the accused as tho
driver OF the horse on the day of the muir
dor
George Dexter, who went to Cranston to
identify Keegan week ago, pointed
Keegan out as the man In the carriane
which passed him on the day of tho muir
der. Dexter said Keegan and tho 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 Ontlcy.
There is n difference of about two miles
from where Dexter saw the woman alive
and where Miss Oatley saw tho big bundle
in the carriage A half-mile beyond Miss
Oatley's homo the body was found in the
cart path.
Some OF the witnesses from Providence
were called to swear to the borrowed re-
volvcr and to the statements made by
Koogan concerning his whereabouts on
the day Of the murder.
The government rested and Lawyer Nc
Gill asked for discharge, but Judge
johnson held Kccgan for the grand jury
In $50, 600. He was taken to Cranston Jail
In default of bonds
There was sensational Incident to
mark the close of the days proceedings.
Keegan arose from his sent to accompany
tho deputy sheriff. but he turned quickly
and advanced to where Mrs. Mary A.
Bacon, his boarding mistress, was stand
ing.
Koegan muttercd some words of conso-
laton and then kissed Mrs. Bacon twice.
He went toward Mrs. Whalcn and show
cred his curses upon her, calling her II
poriurer, locking for u fee.
Mrs. Whaon is the witness who iden-
titled the body of Mrs. Chambers, and who
says the lover of Mrs. Chambers was
Reagan, the accused and not Martin
Keegan, as sho first stated to the authori-
ties.