Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
THE SAWYER CASE.
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son stated in part, as follows: ION thu
Saturday morning of the murder. we wer.
driven out of the fields by the rain In tn,
afternoon is did not rain as hard. and Al
went out after the COWS l saw him hall
way down the pasture, and to get the ami
mails ne had TO so to the further end
On his return he stayed about th,
house, and, to my certain knowledge, wa.
III during the evening. During the after
noon he bad on high boots, the same IS ht
wore when took him to Gardiner He had
TWO or three suits of clothes =
After leaving AL by the wharf at Garli
ner, Edgar directly returned, leaving there
about noon, and arrived in Monmouth at :
O'Clock. or this hour he was positive.
de stated that Al seldom went away, and
never was out evenings He stated that
when he left Al the latter be thinks, had
IS or IS. He had gone to Gardiaer to
| look for work
When questioned why he drove by the
| hotels at Gardiner to the wharves. he
stated that he didn't know anything about
Gardiner, and wasn't looking for hotels.
anyway. He denied having made the
statement that he wished never again to
see bis brother, after they had parted Mt
Gardiner.
Edgar also stated in the interview that
when asked If be knew any reason for his
hrother's bdving gotten blood on his cloth
Ing, said that it might have come from
the pig which he had killed a few DAYS
previous to the murder Edgar testified
that he never knew Of his brothers ever
having committed an unlawful act. That
ne mad been in mining camps, was on the
plains, and at one time a cowboy.
Mr.. Carleton said that the piece Of
calico, on which it was stated that there
were blood stains had been lost; that Nc
Dowell had given it to a physician to have
1t tested and that it had somewhere been
mislaid
Regarding the clothes which were in
the possession of Sheriff Norton, Mr..
Carleton stated that he had never found
any blood stains upon them, ard that he
did not cause the clothes being sent to
Professor Robinson 10 be examined. On
cross examination, witness could not re
call having asked AL about having had a
nose bleed on his way to Gardiner. the day
after the murder.
n. A. Prescott testified that he was n
resident of Monmouth and was a book
nNStSi III iSu JIuulty. I1t Eau seen
Augustus Sawyer have in his possession
two purses, one an ordinary shaped one
the other six or eight inches long and
slim, and that he generally had paid his
bills in silver. Mr.. Prescott also testified
that on May 10, 1894. Edgar Thompson
had been in Mr.. Dudleys store, about ?
O'Clock in the afternoon, and made a pur-
chase, the adjacent entries determining
the hour. Witness testified that there had
been duly rec >rded on tho books of the
town clerk of Monmouth, two bills of sale
running to f. A. Dudlc7, and signed by
Edgar Thompson.
James Goodwin testified that he was
carpenter, residing in Monmouth. On
May 10. 1894, as he was returning, about
or O'Clock, from the house of one Dur
GIN where he had been engaged at work,
that he met three teams, Que Of which cor
tanned Oscar True and Albert Sawyer, near
the Sawyer farm, and going in toward it,
He testified that it was at the time light
enough to recognize u person. and dis
tinctly see anyone. He testified that he
saw nothing Of the tramps, which were
reported to have been seen, and that there
was no one about the Sawyer house when
he passed by there. On cross examination,
witness was quite confident that it was
not later than 5 30 when he left work, that
evening.
Fred W. Rolfc, aged 81, testified that he
was carpenter in the employ Of Good |
win.
He stated that he had been working at
the house of Mr. Durgan on May 10, with
Mr.. Goodwin, and that, on that afternoon
he met the same three teams to which Mr.
Goodwin had testified to having mot.
Redirect-On his way home he net no
pedestrians. He thought 1t was about |
6. 30 p. NJ, it having taken him from 80 |
to 40 minutes to drive home
Gross examined, he stated that he could |
not say whether or not he had made full |
day work, but that he had not cut it far |
short sf 6 O'clock.
AT about go, the meeting was adj |
journed until Saturday morning at 8 |
o clock.
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