The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-29


He returned in about five minutes as
pale as before, and with an expression OF
face that must have caused pity III tine
hearts of those who saw him. LDurAng
the testimony of GRAHAM, Lewls's face
was continually fusing and pallng In
way that seemed to indicate some d1s-
order of health, as well as mental strain.
His cheek would suddenly become
bright pink. then his neck would be
flushed. then only his nose would pe req
and then mis- upper lip above MS
moustache, and at times there was a
large flushed spot on the end OF ms
chin, while the rest of his face was pale.
This is Graffam's testimony verbatim.
GRAFFAM'S TESTIMONY
live in Gorham at the house of Abner
Lowell. I am 20 years old. Before l
lived in Gorham I lived in Cape Eliza
beth. I have been in the town of Cor
ham somewhere about seven or eight
years. / was ten years old when my
father died and thirteen years old when
nv mother died. Since that time l
have been at work at different places.
I have been doing farm work the most
of the time, and the last three years
have been going to sea. have been on
the coast between here and New York
and to South America.
first met Lewis, the respondent. at
Pysandu, South America, year ago
t his winter. was in the Benjamin G.
Cromwell from Portland. Me-, and we
were bound from South America to
Baltimore. Lewis came in the same YES
sci. i don't know just how long trip
it was, but we were sixty-tbree days
after we got oudisde of Montevideo. until
we got to Baltimore. Afterwards / left
Baltimore with Lewis on the schooner
Charles n. Trickey, Captain Pickett.
went to Richmond. Va, discharged
load of coal, came back to Virginia and
loaded soft coal for Dover, NH. That
trip was about a month think. That
trip was made think in May 1894.
have been on no other voyages in the
same vessel with Lewis. I stayed home
about month and then l shipped on
the schooner Charles j. Willard, went to
VinaI Haven, and from there to New
York and discharged a load OF paving
stones; from there to Perth Amboy and
loaded with clay and came back to Port
land. I was home about week and
went out in the same vessel aga in to
Swans Island and took load of paving
blocks to New York; then I came to
Providence, RI. and came home to
Gorham. -f-
II LOOT TO GORHAM
some time the first Of November of last
year. When / was paid off at the end of
that trip had S26.57.
When I came to Gorham l went to Mr..
Lowell's. I worked for Charles Hanson
two weeks and received from him all
together So. rs. The first time he gave
nee fifty cents, the next twenty-five, then
fifty cents, and after that he gave me
two dollars "a two dollar bill. had
money by me at the time he gave me
| these different sums. I sold an over
coat and got $1.75, andI had money in
| my pocket that got for my last trip.
got the money from Hanson as went
along because there was no decided price,
and 1 didn't know how long was going
to stay. I pawned the overcoat on Fore
street in this city about the first OF
Novem Der Tor $1.75. The ticket shown
ne is the one I got. bought the over
coat in Boston just before ! came home
and I pawned it for it was too small for
me when I had two shirts on.
remember Thursday, the 18th of last
December. In the morningI was at the
Lowell house, and about half past nine
or ten o. clock went down to the Coburn
house, went into the barn and stayed
about half an hour and then went to
Gorham village. l had breakfast about
nine O'Clock that morning ! think. When
IsI left for Gorham village went UP
/ Coburn's lane, up ..over the hill across
i The field and across Parker's field to the
| Hannaford woods. I went to Hannaford's
woods to see some boys that were chop
ping wood there. didn't go into the
woods because I didn't hear anybody
around and didn't see no tracks, and
| SO l went r1ghG TO Jhe village. Wen'
to the barber shop of Frank W. Morse.
When
IsTARTED FROM COBURN'S
that morning / ran from the barn to the
foot Of the hill.
After got to the barber shop sawed
some wood for Morse and was around
| there the rest of the day talking with the
| boys. I smoked some cigarettes that
day in the shop and had some apples
and candy to eat which Morse gave me.
l don't think 1 bought anything there
that day. may have bought box OF
cigarettes of him.. was there when
Morse went to dinner and when he came.
| The handkerchief now shown me is mine.
! remenib Der that day that Morse and "a
young fellow named Barker was fooling
with a stick and Morse let go of it and
IL slipped through his hands and struck
me on the lip and made it bleed. wiped
the blood IF on my handkerchief. I
remained there at the barber shop until