The Portland daily press., 1895-12-07

French, for the mothers sake.
In regard to Abbott's statement as to
his Introduction to Mrs. Greaves, witness
said that it was correct Up to that time
he had acted as Mrs. Gre ves's agent and
! had paid bills for her as follows: One
item Of 50. 30 for boots, one for S6 paid to
the Atkinson Company for furniture, one
item of Sc and some odd cents to pay
Mrs Coolbroth for dress, expenses of
about 81 so for going to South Berwick
for evidence of her husbands death; also
lie had let her have change from time to
time for tobacco for when she was out
of tobacco she suffered; also, he had paid
Mr.. Abbott $6 for her for railroad fare
to como to Biddeford, also about 81. 25
for horse hire. He had been to various
places with Mrs. Greaves in procuring
evidence.
Witness served in the war in the 7th
Maine. He also raised a company, about
one half Biddeford men and the other
half from Boston.
| When the check for s2175 came, Mrs
| Greaves came to witnesses office with an
h,
asked him how to get the money. He
told her to go to the bank and she did so
but came back saying that she must be
identified. He went with her and they
got the money. They went to his office
and she asked how much she owed him..
He began to make an itemized bill and
she said that she didn't want the sums
for the boots etc to go into his bill She
dictated bill for expenditures and ex-
penses AMI he agreed TO it,
Then she said Chow much for your
seryicesg' He thought he told her abou6
S25.
Then he said "How would S33 do for the
whole amounts"
She agreed to that She took four $40
bills and he gave her S. and So tor
change.
She asked what she should do with the
money. He told her to take good .care of
| it as she would need it to get. her homo.
They went to Mr.. Staples's bank. He
said to MIR. Staples Here is lady, who
wishes to deposit $1,000"
She said that she would deposit only
$1,000 and would keep the rest to buy
home with.
In regard to Mr.. Abobtt's testimony as
to the 5000, witness said that it was cor
rect. Mrs. Greaves called on him and ssaid
that she wanted to give Mr.. Abbott a
present because but for him she would
have been pauper, as she was before.
To FOL tz
Abbott.
On w:tness's return to Biddeford he
| told Mrs Greaves the whole story and she
said that Mr.. Abbott ought to have had
more. Witness did not know what was in
the package till Abbott opened it.
Asked if Mrs Graves's statement as to
his taking the Sl175 was correct, witness
said: "That before God and man can
swear is false, evidence" "
=. Witness friendly relation with Mrs.
Graves continued till November, year
| after she got her pension, when Mr..
Noble came down. Previous to that they
had gone to house owned by witness
and he had asked her $1,000 for it. She
wanted him to take $3.50 but he refused.
When Mr.. Noble came to witness office
he came in, went to the farther end and
lit cigar. He said:
MY name is Noble Pm govern
ment detective and pension examiner y
Witness said that he was glad to see
him, and Noble spoke of the expense of
prosecuting claims and said:
- Doesn't it sometimes cost as much as
$500 to get a single piece of evidence?'
Witness said that he had never known
of such case and Noble said:
Mrs Greayes tells me that she paid
you $1175 for getting her pension and l
demand that money"
Witness took that as joke at first.
and spoke OF it as such. Noble asked
how much Mr.. Abbott received for GET
ting the pension and witness said that he
didn't know Mr.. Abbott's business.
Noble said: II have found out through
shrewd financering and engineering how
the matter stands.''
Then he declared that Mrs. Greaves had
told him about the $1175 etc., which she
claimed Lord had charged her for get
ting the pension.
At that witness said Look here, if you
have come here to blackmail me, you'll
lind there's law that takes care of such
fellows as you"
WELL I'll make you smart before I get
through with you," said Noble.
At that witness opened th e door and
said 'You old reprobate. you get out of
this office if you don't want to be helped
out" Then Noble went out.
Witne stated that the night before
Noble came, Mrs. Greaves came and said
to witness that she was in heap of
trouble. Her Uncle John had come and
had demanded her pension money and
what she had done with it. When she
was poor he didn't know her. but now
he had come to make trouble for her.
Her uncle had told her that he was her
sole heir and it was his interest to look
after her money. She said that she feared
her uncle and then she cried bitterly.
The next night after Mobiles visit, Mrs
Greaves came again and told witness that
the had m ado matters worse and that bar