The Portland daily press., 1895-01-25

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Witness had heard MIR. Coburn talk
over his money affairs before Lewis.
On the previous Monday she hadheard
him do SO.
The drawer in which he kept his bills
was in his sleeping room. 1t was never
| locked, nor was the bedroom door.
D., Mr.. Coburn employed Edward Graham
| last summer in haying time. and also
two years before. HesIived in the house.
Mr.. Cohurn paid him in the same way as
he did the others.
Lewis first came to the house few
days before haying. When he came back
in the fall he came direct to the house
After the apples were picked he went to
work for MIR. Harmon at Gorham Corner.
While at the Coburn house afterwards
he fixed up the tool house in the barn,
he also did some shingling; then some
painting in the house, having finished
that the night before he went to Port
| land.
There was no ill will towards Lewis in
the family as far rs she knew, on the
| part of Mr.. Coburn or anyone else.
Con the evening of the 18th, after 6
O'Clock was this GRAHAM in your houses"
| 81 didn't see him."
| The day before he was at the house and
stayed about an hour in the afternoon,
was inside the house and went upstairs
Direct examination renewed.
WAS any money found in the house
after Mr.. Columns death?"
| mo, don't think there was"
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Although in the forenoon it seemed as
| if all the room for spectators was COM
pletely taken up, yet in the afternoon
there was a noticeabl increase in the
attendance. and particularly of the fem
| - / ta
at least one fourth were women, and
half of them young girls, whom it would
seem might have been more proftably
employed than in following the details
OF horrible murder case in court and
standing up in dense crowd all the af-
ternoon.
Many women came early to secure
seats, and remained in the court room
all day. There is one elderly woman, in
particular, who was present every day of
the Prawda trial, and who evidently in
tends to see and hear all there is of this
| one.
DR.. STRAW'S TESTIMONY.
DIR. Straw of Gorham took the stand,
and testified that on the night of the
murder he was in the Methodist church
at Gorham, and was called from the
| church at little past 8 O'Clock He
went with Lewis Mcclellan to HardiDg's
store, and there saw Lewis. who said
that bloody axe had been found. He
went to the Coburn house with Lewis
| Mcclellan. He saw the body in the tie-
up. 1t was lying between the COW and
Irba Ion n m ing
the wounds on the head. Witness was
| present at the autopsy on the 18th.
| Cross-exam,ned: He fixed the time Of
| his being called from the church because
he heard the freight go py. The janitor
called him out. He saw GRAHAM out
side, who said that Mrs. Kimbail sent
| for him, the witness, and a coroner.
Witness replied that there was no coron-
er, but Selectman Mcclellan was in the
church. GRAHAM said that they thought
that Coburn had been killed. When
witness saw the body it was very notice
BILE that the top of the head was stove
in. Witness did not put his hands on
| the body. He saw very little blood but
noticed that it was spattered on the
wall. Serum was ooziDg fro the head.
Witness had no further talk with
GRAHAM, after that evening. He didn't
suppose Coburn could have life in him
with the top of his head stove in. The
| left leg of the body was extended out
| straight and the right drawn up little.
The arms were lying straight by the
side. H last treated Mr.. Coburn last
| April. He weighed 1870 or 100 pounds.
| Witness was his regular physician. The
body was covered with sheet and
blanket.
Dire,t: Witness arrived at the house
at about o. clock. Soon after he ar
rived, a message came from Coron er
Perry, not to disturb the body in any
way.
CoLEMAN'S TESTIMONY. =
Joseph A. Coleman next took the
stand. He had been in Jail, held as a
witness in this case, since the 10th of
December. He had worked for Byron
6. Coleman, for IS month. He began
on the 18th of October. Witness first
saw Lewis week after that date, when
he came to the farm. Witness was en-
gagged to do chores
On this fatal Thursday witness was
engaged in doing chores about the house.
At A. M. Lewis went to Portland
In the afternoon two men called at the
house. They left about Pm. Mr..
Coburn and Mrs. Kimball were at home.
They had supper at about $780, Witness
and Mr.. Coburn sat down first to supper.
They got up when Lewis drove in the
ward, Witness Embarrassed the horse.
When ne returned to the house Coburn
was sitting in the kitchen. Witness and
Coburn and Lewis sat down to supper.
Lewis drank part of cup of tea. That
was all that witness saw him eat. Mr..
Coburn passed the remark that Lewis
didn't have much appetite. Lewis replied
that he had some kind of stew in
Portland. After supper, witness and
Coburn went out and did the chores.
A fter that witness saw cat fight, and
called Columns attention to it, Co.
burn went into the house first. When
witness went in. Coburn was down Gel
lar. Witness asked him for chew of
tobacco. Then witness went over to the
Lowell house. AS he passed the corner
of the Coburn house he heard the 6
O'Clock whistle in Westbrook, as he
passed the window of the Lowell house,
be saw Lewis inside. Witness went into
the kitchen. He did not know at what
time Lewis left the house. They were
simply sitting and talking in the kitch-
en-. He was there when Edward Graham
came in Lewis came in at least 20 min
utes after. In coming in the door ne
stepped, walked right over to the sink
and took drink of water. Witness
offered him his chair, which he refused.
Then Lewis said, II want you, and you