Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-12-23
THE SAWYER CASE.
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mained at the barn uHtii 10" "i"N~' ~
uossibly d little later. Then he wen'
home. I went into the house very soor
after that, and we all bad supper.
"That evening we had callers, who re
,nained 4 little while. Al, being tired
from the days work, went TO bed before
o,cloek. Mr.. Keen was not 80 well az the
evening went by, 80 said l would sit uF
9TH him. which I did. In the hight Mr..
Keen had bad spell OF coughing. 1t wss'
think. the worst attack he ever had.
I've were always afraid Of these spells
and as he seemed to grow worse this time,
/ called AL He got up, and after we had
given the old gentleman medicine, ana
done all we could do, he grew little easier.
Then I told Al he had better go to bed, az
7 guessed there was no danger. he did
so, and slept until O'Clock, Sunday
morning We did all the chores that
morning, and started for Gardiner at ~
O'Clock. On the way stopped at neigh
bor,s and asked her il she wouldn't 20
over and stay with the women folks while
I was gone. She said she would 90, and
did so I don't remember meeting or
talking to anyone else on the way to Gar
diner. We got there about noon. At the
High street hill told Al that would
leave him there, for the horse was smooth
and couldn t climb very well. 50 he got
out taking his bag.
II had given him so bill, and he
Thought he would get along Gil right un-
I'll no had got job. drove back to
Monmouth, and stopped at Gray $ to look
at his horse, as I promised the night be
fore. Then went home, arriving about
o'clock. Nothing occurred that after
noon OF evening worth mentioning.
1.-The next day, Monday, the man who
brings tho mail stopped AZ the door and
snid: Have you heard about that affair
over the hill, over at Sawyer'sY l said,
NO. what about it. His reply was that
the old man had been found dead, but
they didn't know just how it happened. 1t
was believed, he said, that ne had been
killed. That WAS all heard about 1t
then, but later on In the day l heard the
whole story. Mr.. Keen was not satisfied
with what he called Republican medicine
presoribed by DR. Blake; asked me to see
Dr.. Edwards. that afternoon, and get
some Democratic medicine. Mr.. Keen was
m old time Democrat and hated Republi-
cans.
~ called ut DR.. Edwards, and learned
that he had gone up to the Sawyer farm.
I drove up to Sawyer's. There was II big
crowd there, and everybody was excited
over the crime. /, like everybody else
there, was curious to know about the affair,
and went to the barn where the body was
found.
~ looked about the place and tried to
find Dr. Ewards. He was not In the barn,
40 went into the house. | saw State
Detective Ira True there, and asked him If
he had seen Dr. Edwards. He told me he
knew where ne was and went and got him
when I told him what wanted. 1t had
lust been learned how Mr.. Sawyer was
killed, or rather they had just found the
bullet, and every body was saying that it
was a 80 -calibro bullet. remember that
quite we'll l talked little about the
affair, and then went back home, DR.. Ed
wards promising me that he would come
as soon as he could. He came two hours
later. was at home, and he told Us what
he knew about the murder
Il stood for moment In the door of
the room where the inquest was being
held, after leaving the room where the
doctors were making the autopsy, and re-
member seeing you (the Journal rcporter)
taking down the testimony.
There was lots of talk about the mur-
der after that, and several asked me
different things about it. l told them all
l knew (Which you can see was little),
and said If there was anything | could do
would be glad to do it. Time went y
and the grand jury met My wife and l
were both summoned to appear and
testify. The summons which my wife got
was for her to appear and testify to what
she knew about illegal flching which was
going on near there. Then my summons
came. The man who brought 1t drove up
to the door and said, AL I've got a sum
mons for you at Augusta. l asked him
what it was for, and he says I'll tell you
it's about this Sawyer affair l told him
would be there, and went.
My wife went, also, but the evidence
which they wanted from her was about Al
md me- and they questioned her closely
about where we were and what we did,
Saturday and Sunday, They also ques-
toned me- They tried to get me to say
had the nose bleed. but l hadn't had any.
They asked me II had seen anybody in
the neighborhood on that Saturday and
told them about the two men l had seen
while n King the blind I gave them the