The Portland daily press., 1895-01-29

dollars and gave Lewis TWO of it. 1t also
| carrying large sums of money.
| Ii d oes OF appear then that there could
have been any money motive for this brutal
| mnrder IL has not been shown that there
was any iii will between this respondent
and Mr.. Coburn.. revenge could not have
'G Tne re resnondent will account for every
cent of the money that he had In his pocket;
We shall show thai TINS an sn G1 e hno
and had received less than three dollars
| from him, When arrested he had three
dollars in his pocket ana part OF 1t was
We shall show you by witness that this
one dollar bill resembles very closely a bill
that that vii ness short time before paid
| to Byron G. Coburn.
I saw hat if he defense should rest now
without one particle of evidence, you could
not say. upon your oathsIyou could nol
that that man and he only. committed this
terrible crime. You could only do that by
the testimony, of that man who sits over
abouts during that fatal halt hour and has
told conflicting stories as to his conversa-
| lions with the respondent. Lewis. We can
many new witnesses. We shall show you by
the testimony of an unlmpeaehabe witness
| that Edward GRAHAM VOLUNTEERED the infor-
nation on the following friday to his Wit
| ness tnat he was in the Lowell house all the
time during that evening. so that he has
| lied twice as to his whereabouts this eve
ming for Mrs Kimba1l must know whether
| he was in her house that evening or not
Also the government has paraded here as
damaging evidence, the question of Lewis
to Sheriff Chute as 10 whether Graffam Lad
| told Sim that be confessed to the murder.
| They would have you believe that he asked
that question without knowing that GRAHAM
| stated to him that he committed the muir
| der. We shall show that 1t was printed in
the newspapers that GRAHAM had confessed
aewls here denies in total the
| brutal crime that is charged against him.
judge gentlemen by the testimony that
whether this young man, a bow in stature,is
guilty of the awful death of Byron G.
| Co burn.
WILLIS H. DURAND.
The first witness for the defense was
| Willis H. Durand. a farmer of Gorham. He
| lives alb out one mile from Westbrook on the
old road to Gorham village. short time
| prior to his death witness purchased cow
of Mr.. Coburn, paying him $40. He paid
him $40, a SIS. So and two ST bills. He
paid him at his house. One of the one dol
lar bills was a new one. the other.was soiled
some. 1t was not silver certificate. He
recalled these bills because when he gave
Mr.. Coburn he one dollar bills he remem-
| beIed that there was good deal of rattle
| TO one of them and less to the other. and he
knew that that other was not silver GER
| tificate. The one dollar bill said to have
been ia ken from Ora fam was handle to,
him, and he said 1t had the same general
/ lappearance as that which he paid tos
4 Coburn. G54 5 (
The cross-examination was conducted by
Attorney General Powers, who thus far
took part in the trial for the first time.
/ Witness did not know What CoourI did
with the money. Witness had seen other
one dollars bills similar to that he paid Co.
burn. He simply said # had the same, gen.
| eral appearance as an unlimited number OF
/ other bills have. ~ HjHi
ARTHUR w.qRICH ARDsoN.
Arthur W. Richardson testified that he
resides about quarter of mile this side
of the Coburn houses He was at the Coburn
| house on the night of the murder at be-
tween $50 and 10 O'Clock. He did not enter
the barn that night. 1t had been warm
thawy day. He stepped out toward the
northeast corner of the barn and there saw
tracks in the snow going just around the
corner. II was very light night. The
tracks looked as though they had been
made Just before the freezing at sunset.
| The form of the shoe showed very plainly.
| The tracks seemed to he running tracks:
| Witness first left his house about ga that
| night and went 10 the house of II. j.. Els
| worth, situated between his house and the
village. He saw, MRS. Lowell get out of 2
team at the Mosher house. He could walk
| to the Coburn ouse from his place In about
fl ve minutes OF less:
Cross-examined 1t was muddy walking
that day. Witness did not call the officers
| attention to these tracks. He heard GRAHAM
say right there that he made them. and was
told that the officers knew about them. Wit
ness was not the original discoverer Of
these trao ks. 1t is about three-quarteIs of
| mile from his house 10 Ellswortil's.
nAuTD EATPIrR
David Patrick testified that he is farmer,
and resides mile and quarter beyond the
village. He first learned of the murder
about 7.30 the next morning. He arrived
there about O'Clock and remained till 9.45.
He saw GRAHAM at the house, and when he
| got back to the village he saw GRAHAM and
one of the young Lowell boy in the black
smith shop. Ora fam, said 'How'do Mr..
| Patrick Witness had not seen him for
\ over year and never was much acquainted
4 with him. Witness said ''its pretty hard
case about Biz GrHffam said, II was not
at the Lowell house all the evening"" He
volunteered this statement. When he said
that, witness looked up at him pretty sharp,
j tatdshe appeared kinder strange" His APP
peurance attracted WITNESSES attention SO
that he thought of it going home. y
Uross-examined. That was all the, con-
told it to any of the\sheriffs or oonstah les
or the coroner or county attorney. He told
il .rst to Mr.Fay of the Boston Globe. And
yet he had thought about it and felt that
Ora f am was telling wrong story. He had
first told it to an officer when he told it to
Tone OF Mr.. Seiders's clerks; Mr.. Chase, Is
his name?' (Laughter.)
Direct resumed. He had been asked by
one of the deputy sheriffs, the first of last
week about the matter. That is, man
came to his place whom he supposed was IA
deputy sheriff. No one else had asked him
except Mr. Fay and Mr.. Seiders. He had
never been summoned to testify before that
day. The blacksmith's name is Charles
Cross resumed. Tine man who came to his
house and asked him about this did not
tell him that he was an officer.
CHARLES HANSON.
Charles Hanson of Gorbam, farmer. and
proprietor of livery ble. testified that
I Graffa came there to work for him the
l7th of November and left the 6th day of
December He did general work about the
stable There was no price agreed upon as
to wh~t he should pay him.
Witness did not previously know him.
Ora fam said that Lewis sent him there.
WitpasS Maid him first al out ahout a weak