The Newtown bee., 1895-01-25

en from the closet and burned paper talk en from the cellar in two different places. He then told the story of how his fathers cows, to the number of perhaps or
 10, had their tails cut off by mischievons
 boys, one night at sharon, showing that
 he was in no way connected with it. He
 also told of the flowers sent to Mrs Lov-
 ell by John Bresliu, which was referred
 to down at MT Lovell.s house on Satur-
 day afternoon, stating that at the time
 she. was sick at Great Burlington and on
 one of his visits to see her John Breslin
 had cut the flowers from the front door
 yard and he himself had carried them to
 her. That he went away on December
 28, partly on business and partly to visit
 his relatives. On cross examination he
 stated that he had seen paper similar to
 paper exhibited and partly burned about
 the house but could not state definitely |
 when, and that there was wrapping paper
 of similar character kept in the north |
 west unoccupied room. That he went | away on December 2S, to secure note
 by mortgage at his fathers and to see about some Western property that he
 was interested ip. That he could think
 of no reason why Kate should set fire to
 his house except for revenge or tenn
 porary insanity. George A. Drew was at this point in- troduced as witness. His story was substantially that he lived in Newtown
 with c. B Sherman about one eighth of a
 mile north of Mir Lovells. That he vas l at home on the 18th and after dinner was | out of doors under shed. That his at- ention was first called to the fire at M Lovell's by MT Lovelps little girl and MT
 Sherman's hired girl, they both calling ! fire at about the same time. That he and
 MT Sherman's man, Joe, ran down across
 the lots and when they got there the fire
 was plainly visible, burning through the
 east side of the woodhouse roof. That
 he took pails and pumped and carried
 water to help put out the fire. That they did not get water fast enough and went
 into the we'll room with rope and pail
 to draw more water from the we'll there.
 That while there he heard door closing
 
 light dress skirt disappearing and some one Was closing the door. That this dress compared in color with the dress he SAW Kate wearing that afternoon. That about five minutes after he saw the dress fire broke out in the Germans rooD overhead. That the first he knew of the fire was when he saw MT Johnson on the wellhouse roof breaking in the window and pulling out part of burning bed- stead. That after MT Johnson came down from the roof together they went up into the Germans room and saw the traces of where the fire had been, opened
 some windows to let the smoke pass out . and came back down stairs and wenT
 home. That at about o'clock in com pany with Joe he went back to MT Low ell's passing in front and through the
 south driveway down by the burned woodhouse, looked up at the house but saw no light up stairs, and passed on down to the COW barn where they found John Breslin, John Steingart and James Cummings milking. Had been at barn : from three to five minutes when Emma . Lowell came down and said the house was all on fire. That they all went up to the house, he getting there first and pass ed in through the sink room into the
 kitchen through the dinning room to the front hall and up stairs. Found MT Nc - Namara up there and heard him cal ] loudly for lights. That Kate came with P ! q, ,sth ;lp After fire was out all went down stairs = and after five or 10 minutes Mir Me : Namara suggested going up stairs agair and found smoke in the unoccupieC northeast room. That Mr McNamars U was overcome by the smoke and Kate ane - he led him put into the hall. That Kat followed him into the northwest unoc cupied room, and while there F pointed out where the. firs :, could be seen in a crack betwee,
 the floor and baseboard, and almost tht same instant some one shouted tha the fire had been found. That he looked E int. the closet after the fire was put ou l and saw evidence of burned clothing anc J bedding. They came back to the furnish J ed room and found the evidence of where $ a fire had been set and had gone out oi g itself in the closet of that room. Ina : during the evening he in company witt p John Steingart and James Cummings | went down cellar and found the ashes o1
 a paper that had been burned under the
 cellar stairs and smelled keresone oi
 that had been spilled on the stairs
 That John Steingart and James [ Cummings and himself went out to the Q barn at about 80 and finished the milk. e ing while John Breslin stayed in the e house to watch. That he found the cur g that belonged under the kerosene tank T with John Breslin.
 Mir Williams then took his turn at the 0 witness and found out that he had lived T in Newtown at MT Sherman's for six 2 years. That he knew MT Lovell's fam t ily, Mir Breslin and Kate and had occa e sionally gone down there to spend the Q evening. That on the day of the fire he l did not notice anything peculiar about e Kate except that she didn't seem to try to do anything toward putting out the [ fires. That he did not mention the cir. 2 cumstance of seeing the dress until thai 9 following Sunday afternoon when he 2 told of it to Mrs Sherman. Did not 3 mentioned it to Messrs Blackman, North } rop and Leonard when they were at the g house because he did not think of it. rrt,ot . z iret ha dnubtad uhpthar Kata