The Portland daily press., 1895-02-08
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married.?
II did not know that. have heard
il. Init it was news to me-"
witness next admitted that he called
FREQ ilenJly to Sue her at Mr.. -Drew's, and
| went about with her.
Ibid you not often stay late calling on
her at Mr.. Drew's?"
"As late as ten or half past ten
O'Clock"
as half past two!
NO"
"Do you rem ember circus last sum-
mer to which you took Miss Dunn?"
Eyes, about the seventeenth OF Au-
gust"
| that circus?"
ayes"
"And remained at the house late?"
mo. l did not stop at the house at all
after seeing her home"
"How late did you stay?
at was about eleven O'Clock when
got home"
Judge Symonds then read from Mona
HAMS previous testimony in the lower
court. wherein he had said he could not
remem Der whether he remained until
half past two or not on that night. "a
Monahan adhered to his present state,
mept. saving that he rode three miles to
| had put up his horse, he saw by the clock
| that it was half pasr twelve.
| Judge Symonds asked witness why he
did not remember this at the previous
time he testified.
Monahan said he remem bered better
now. He had thought it over at home,
and the sight of the clock had su bstanti-
ated and Intensified his recollection.
"Did Mr.. Drew come into the kitchen
| that NIGHT after the circus?n
"I did not see him."
| Did you not hear him coming?"
II was not in the Drew house at all
that night"
Did you not say in your former testi-
mony that you were in the house with
her?"
Here Mr.. True objected that the wit
had never said that he was in the house.
| The former testimony was read and II
was found that in the previous testimo-
ny Monahan had spoken of being AT
| the house." This, the witness claimed,
meant that he saw her home to the
! house.
when was Miss Dunn's purpose OF
coming to Portland first made known
1.-TWO or three weeks before she came.
She spoke of it two or three times. She
| last spoke of it on the last Sunday in
October, while we were coming from
church. She said she was going to
| Portland Tuesday, and wanted to see
me- if came any time. I told her that
there was an excursion next Saturday,
and / might come.
"Was any arrangement made for you
to see herr"
"She asked me where I stopped, and
said at the United States or Preble. She
said she would be at one OF the hotels
| in the afternoon, about train time"
| whV abe did
not wait aud come on the excursion?"
II do not know"
WAS there any reason why she should
go two days earlier, paying regular fare,
when she could have got excursion
rates, and stopping at an expensive no.
tel?n asked Judge Symonds.
Monahan did not know any reason.
"Was not the reason that you and she
did not want to leave Lancaster on the
same train?"
81 do not know that it was"
HWas not this talked over between
your"
NO"
"Did she give any reason why she
| wished to go Portland earlier, pay hstel
bills, etc., when she might go at excur-
sion rates?"
Witness did not know of any.
During these times was ANYTHING ev-
er said by her Representing you for your
failure to marry her?"
Nothing"
aDo you really mean to say that, Mr..
Monahan?"
"Yes.n
"You intended to marry her. didn't
you?"
"I thought she was good nice girl;
good enough for anyone"
"You knew she was disappointed at
your delay to marry herr"
"She was never disappointed at my
delay" 3as
The questioning was then turned to
another occasion about tLis time, when
witness, coming home from Portland,
met Mary Dunn aJlthe station at $50 p.
NJ. and walked with her to Mr.. Drew's
house. Monahan said he left her about
9 o'clock. Here ne was again confront
ed with his testimony in the previous
rtial, where he had left the time so in.
late. In this previous testimony he had
said that he got home little after 49,
With ess said that after seeing ershome
he had to return to the village, ~ and
thence 90 three miles to his house, which
would take considerable time, as he had
to get his horse at the village and put it
up after he got home.
The questioning then turned upon the
business which the witness transacted
when he was in Portland last ,Novem-
her. He said he bought meat of Cum
mines Bros, rub bers OF the A. H. Berry
Shoe Company. etc. He ordered two
dozen rubbers that day.
Here Judge Symonds again confronted
the witness with the testimony in the
previous hearing, when he said he
looked at rubbers, but did not order
them.
witness could not explain this discrep-
ancy.
The questioning next went into the
circumstances of Monahan's arrival in
Portland on the Saturday. He came
nm from the train and took dinner at a
restaurant opposite the Preble. Then he
went to the United States Hotel aud
preble House to inquire for Mary Dunn.
He found her a the latter place. Satur-
day afternoon, about O'Clock, he went
to Murray Brothers. to look for horses.
He was there about half an hour.
"Wbere was Mary Dunn at that timer"
"She went up to DR.. Fosters"
"Where did you first meet Mary Dunn
that day."
"At the Preble.
Witness then told how he went up to
her room, where he remained about ten
minues. She wanted him to go and see
a doctor.
"Do you say. Mr.. Monahan, that that
was the first time that she told you Of