Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-14

screw driver upon the floor. Had Mr.
Barron met his death at the bands d
murdeIers. Mr.. Crosby believed that the
people In the postoffice underneath would
have heard the noise. while Miss Wood
who was in the postoffice all day, heard
no noise. He said the piece of rope found
around Barron's neck was a part of a
piece that hung in the back room of the
bank, and not such as murderers and rob-
bers would carry. BILLY Scott" Mr..
Crosby said, seemed to be a mysterious
parsonage whom nobody identified or
knew anything about except Charlie
Stain, who said he was familiar with him.
All of young Stains testimony MI. eros
by considered a hoax. He thought posi-
bly, Harvey might have been the famous
Billy Scott" one of the characters said
to have frequently visited the Stain gang
at Medfleld, Mass.
Mr.. Crosby brought up the matter of
Judge Peters believing that Stain and
Cromwell left Dexter and the State in
great haste. He cited various instances
of where and when persons met men on
the road, answering the descriptions
brought up in court, which went to show
that they had not made much Roadway.
if they were fleeing from the scene of SO
terrible a crime, for in one case cited they
went but 10 miles in six hours. Mr..
Crosby believed that if they were the
guilty nes and on the road as was claimed
they would not have stopped.
At this point of the case Mr.. Crosby
called Hon. Josiah H. Drummond, who
had been interested in the civil cases be-
tween the Dexter Savings Bank and the
Barron estate. Mr.. Drummond said that
he was present to state some of the mat
tiers connected with the investigation of
the bank books, etc. He said that Barron
did not keep his accounts and the banks
separate, but all in one, that he paid out
and put in the same as if it as all one.
He kept little cash slips which he copied
into the little cash book. Finally he be-
came indebted to the bank and then CON-
menced the work Of tampering with the
books. Previous to Aug. 8 of 1877 the
check stubs showed what the funds had
been expended for, but after that date to
the time of his death there was NO record.
Loans he had treated in the same way,
his death. Mr.. Drummond explained in
detail the method adopted by Mr.. Bar
ron in his bookkeeping. He made men
ton of the finding of Barron's body in the
vault and said that in his opinion death
came by suicide. i
After Mr.. Drummond finished, Mr..
Crosby introduced the testimony of DR.. /,
Springer to the effect that he saw Mr.. Bar
ron shortly after he was found in the
vault, that he appeared like a dead drunk
person and evidently under the influence
strong narcotics. Here Mr.. Crosby said
that at that time people supposed MI. Bar
ron had been murdered and that mar
cotics had been injected by the murderers
but when the suicide theory came up
it was remembered that Mr.. Barron had
been in the habit of keeping drugs, and
40 doubt had taken a large dose before
the cell. He presented books
Mr.. Barron's work in the bank
the day of his death, and pointed out
,rasures and changes. Following this, he
introduced the testimony of one f. c.
who claimed that Barron had in
his possession Il pair Of handouts, which
he said he kept ready in case a burglar
came he could handcuff him. The
point brought in here by Mr.. Crosby was
that Barron had purchased the handouts,
thinking at the time of committing
The forenoon session adjourned
to meet at 2. 80.
Afternoon Sc ssion.
Mr.. Crosby resumed his argument at