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

working around-put some wood in the
stove, went into the dining room, and
fro m there,into an adjoining room and
stayed there about five minutes, and
! then she came out and washed her hands
| and then went into the dining room
and sat down. l talked with Coburn
that night. Coburn asked me If / was
going to chop any wood that winter and
/ told him I guessed not. He said II L
was we might fit up logging camp, lit
up the way some Frenchmen did and
sleep in the woods, and told about some
old stuff he had around there. and Mrs.
Kim ball came out and said we were not
Frenchmen and didn't want no such
| things to live in as the Frenchmen did.
Mr.. Cobarn had two lamps there setting
on the wash tub where he was reading,
| one high light, and one low ohe' ana
he asked Mrs Kim ball if she didn't want
the big one to sew with, and she said
no, she wasn't going to sew, her arms
were lame. Mr.. Coburn was reading
daily paper, and he was reading an ad-
vertisement about some horse book he
had sent to him, he said he had it sent
| to him aEfew days before that. wanting
| him to take it.
| I don't remem Der of hearing the tan
merry whistle blow that night. I should
say l was in there from rs minutes to
half an hour, and then l went directly
| to the Lowell house. met Lewis COM
ing out as was going into the Lowell
house door.
| had some conversation with him.
asked him where he had been. He
said he had been to Portland that day
and said he went aboard the schooner
Benjamin G. Cromwell and the Grace
Webster, and that he was going to ship,
he thought, on the Cromwell. He was
talking about getting the Grace Webster
to run, and he said he went down to see
the owners, and they asked $1,000 for
her instead of $125. He said he made a
bluff and told them he would take her
| and Gov. ROBBIE would back him up. He
| asked me when she was going home if
any body was around the Coburn place.
told him l didn't see nobody. He said.
where is Mr.. Coburn? / said in the
kitchen. He says where is Mrs. Kimball?
And told him she was in the dining
room. He then said that Coburn had
money and he was going home to get It,
and he would come back and tell me and
The ,,at N ~
WENT OFF RUNNING AND LAUGH
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down over the banking.
| then went into the Lowell house into
the Kitchen. Mr.Lowell, his son, and Jo-
seph Coleman weresthere, and in little
while think his two daughters Annie
and Josie came ill., 1 sat down and
smoked some cigarettes, ate some apples
anditalked with Mr.. Loweil's son about
going to sea. I should judge l had been
in the kitchen 20 minutes when Lewis
came back. When he first ..came in he
came inside the door, stopped minute,
then went to the sink and got drink of
water, came back and stood in the mid
die of the floor and said he wanted to
hold us all as witnesses, wanted us all to
come down, Coburn was dead. ! went
| down with Lowell and his son and
Joseph Coleman; we went to the barn
and into the tie-up. All
Mrs. Kimball was there. took the
lantern from Mrs, Kimball's hand and
went up alongside of the body and
looked at him. Mrs. K imbaIl told Lewis
and Coleman to harness the horse and
20 to the village after the doctor. and the
coroner. Lewis said he didn't want
Coleman to 60, that I knew the way
around better than he did, and SO l weut
up to the house and got an overcoat and
i went with him. I'VE went to DR.. Straw IS
house, and the doctor WASN'T there.
Then we went to the Methodist church
and found the doctor, and then went
down to Harding store and telephoned
for coroner. From there we went to
Roscoe browns and then back to the
Coburn place. Going up Lewis and I
talked about lis sB
THE DEATH OF COBURN. J,
Is When we left the yard Lewis said" Tt
4 is pretty serious case, amt it, Ed?" /
said "Yes, it is; did you do it2" He
said II suppose I did," asked him how
he done it. He said when he first went
into the yard he rent in easy, went into
the barn, backed old Dick out of his
stall first. he put the barn window up
half way and put thes pitchfork handle
under it. then went into old
Dicks stall and backed him out,
and when he saw Coburn coming
he hit the horse with the ak handle
and he run back, and then he stood
behind the door, and when Coburn came
in he hit him, and after he was down
he hit him several times. / told him it
was pretty hard case, and he better
look out for himsef. He told me not to
say anything to anybody.
"How did you happen to ask Lewis
about this thing9"
"The reason I asked him was when he
went home he said Coburn had money,
and he was going to have it, and l sup
osed he done it. I told DR.. Straw about