Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-15

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was Oliver Cromwell of Medield, Mass.
Two weeks after this, Bird was going
from Boston to Walpole, when the SAM
man got aboard the train, came up to him
and spoke. He remarked that he had
just returned from a trip down East,
meaning Maine.
Mr.. Pierce said that he and others con.
sidered that Maddox knew more about
the Barron murder than he had told, sc
they found him and gave him to under.
stand that they had quite q full under.
standing of his intimacy with Stain and
these men from Dexter to Cambridge and
when that place was reached asked for
one Philip Mason. a former resident OF
Dexter. He said that he had a horse lead
ing behind the wagon, which he wished
to leave at Nason's stable. In Maddox's
story be also spoke of taking them to
Madison Bridge. Maddox, it seemed, had
money, and it must have been procured
from these men.
Mr.. Pierce said that Ira Page told him
that he met two men On the road out
from Dexter whom he recognized after
ward az Stain and Cromwell. They asked
the way to Dover and were In great
haste. their horse then being quite warm.
| Col. j. B. Peaks, Mr.. Pierce said, remem-
bered of riding In the stage from Dover to
Dexter, when Cromwell was a passen-
ger, and he afterward recognized him in
Bangor jail The time of this stage trip
was Jan. 4, 1873, and Col. Peaks at
tention was attracted by the mans
strange appearance. Mr.. Pierce said
they had the testimony of one of the Dex-
ter storekeepers' selling crackers and
| cheese to a strange man, Feb. 90, 1878,
who was afterward identified as Stain.
He severely criticized the testimony of
several of the witnesses for the defense
and the Crowell testimony he considered
"N. G." Regarding Hatch S say about the
jury disagreeing and the B. G.. Sanborn
receipt, Mr.. Pierce said it seemed strange
that 1t should be alleged at this late day
for a new trial. Before closing Mr.. Pierce
gave a little general summary of the chief
points and then presented q protest
against the pardon of Stain and Cromwell
which was signed by 1874 Dexter people.
He presented the following certificate
which will explain itself:
1 WAS sheriff and jailer of Penobscot
county while Stain and Cromwell were
confined In the jail, waiting trial, and
until they were taken to Thomaston.
f. H. Appleton was county attorney, and
before these men were tried Cromwell on
one or two occasions, called me to his cell
and asked me what kind of a man the
county attorney was. l answered that he
was perfectly reliable. T%hereupon Crom-
we'll said: "You go and see him and ask
him what the government will do, pro-
vided 1 make a full statement" went
to Mr.. Appleton's office and communi-
Gated to him my conversation with Crom-
we'll. After a lapse of several days, Mr..
Appleton gave me a typewriter state
ment to hand to Cromwell, keeping q
copy himself. This 1 handed to Crom-
we'll, and Cromwell said he would make
a statement after he heard from his mini
ster and his wife. He wrote to his wife
and also to his minister. The letters
passed through my hands and were in
spected by me as jailer, but he received
no communications from his minister
whatever, rs nearly as l remember, and
the matter ended there. He never made
any statement to me, nor to anyone else,
30 far as 1 know.
tSigncd) George W. Brown.
from Mrs. Barron and her son, which will
also explain itself:
of Maine:
John Wilson Barron, for whose murdcrcrs
a pardon is now asked, because the petit.
TONERS say they believe there was no muir
der, most earnestly protest against the
granting of a pardon upon any such
ground. In the past we nave defended
the honor of a murdered husband and
father In bitter controversy with the
leader of these petitioners. in the firm be-
lief that he gave his life to preserve from
these convicted men the treasure of his
bank, which these petitioners have been
wasting in attempts to prove him u
suicide. We have patiently borne the bit
terncss of the struggle, and have spared
neither trouble nor expense to defend him
against their injustice. We have had an
guish so keen We trust they may never
know what 1t Is to endure 1t. Now we
demand that these petitioners shall not
be permitted to undermine the decision of
the courts on this question, which Is
dearer to us than life itself, by seeking
the intervention Of Executive power to ar
bitrarily override judicial determination.
We respectfully submit that it is I'M
manly and dishonorablc for them to ask
the determination in this Irregular way
Of a question SO vital to US and that 1t Ia
not to the credit of human nature that
they ask for 1t from alleged motives of
humanity.
Dated Dexter, Me, Aug. 10, 1895.
(Signcd) Chloe p. Barron,
Wilson d. Barron.
In a few short additional remarks, Mr..
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