The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-23
MERROW ON TRIAL.


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lSkillin g. Hawkes. store and the other
Five, with receiving stolen goods. MIR.
| True briefly related the evidences of the
| robberies and how the goods were dis
posed of.
ARTHUR G. WEBSTER.
| Arthur G. Webster was the first witness
for the prosecution. He appeared as a
small and pale young man wnen he took
| his position on the stand.
| He testified that he is 10 years old.
| Last spring he worked for Joyce Bros.
at salary of IS week. He boarded at
home He had brother employed in
Skillin & HAWKES. store last February.
| Witness first knew Morrow when last
| winter he was keeping livery stable on
Chestnut street
Last winter Morrow told Webster that
if the latter would get the key of Skillin
| & HAWKES. store, there would be good
thing in it for both Of them. Witness
got the key from his brother clothes, got
a team from Morrow and in company
with man named Mcdonald, who
worked for Morrow went to Skillln q
| Hawkes. s store at night.
| This was in the last part of last Feb
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er's clothes before he got up. The next
day he sold the tobacco to Hamlin.
The next visit to the store was about
the middle of March. Later he got two
40 pound boxes of tobacco and hroug hit
them to Merrow's stable. Morrow came
in, in an intoxicated condition. He
claimed witness was not treating him
fairly. He choked him and held mallet
over his head and witness gave him the
key, as he demanded Witness took the
two boxes of &toabcoo and sold them to
Hamiin.
At that time witness was employed by
Joyce Bros. The first time Morrow came
to that store was one day last summer at
noon, when witness was alone. He said
he'd give witness half of what heg got for
them, and witness gave him some silver
ware, but witness never got half of the
proceeds.
Later Morrow came in and took the
rugs curtains and silver castors and put
them in his team. Witness got between
$40 and S12 out of it. w
Previous to the row about the key, wit
ness never paid a cent for the teams he
got of Morrow. After that he paid one
dollar each time.
During last summer Morrow came to
JoycegBros store at least 10 times and
took goods every time. He always came
when witness was alone.
GROSS EXAMINED BY JUDGE saw
AGE.
Witness had lived in Portland all his
life. He first met Morrow at the Chest
nut street, stable by hiring teams of him
little over year ago. He hired the
teams to go riding with for pleasure. He
then worked at Goold's periodical store
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went to work at Joyce Bros. IS store about
the last of January 1895.
During last SUNNI er he hired teams
once or twice day to ride for pleasure.
He took young lady in the evening and
went alone in the day time.
Witness and Morrow got talking about
Hawkes. store because Morrow asked him
where his brother worked. He knew
about-his brother because he cana there
to hire a team. Up to then witness had
never told Morrow where he worked. He
SIS week, paid So for board. provided his
own clothes and paid from 81 to so cents
each time he got team. a..
When Morrow first suggested getting
his brothers. key witness said he'd do it.
Morrow said there would be good money
in it. Witness slept with his brother, got
the key while his brother was asleep, and
a
not there. The hostler Mcdonald got
the horse for him and went down with
him to the store. Witness passed the
tobacco from the store and Mcdonald
took 1T and put it in the sleigh.
Morrow was not at the stable when he
returned. He sold the tobacco to Hamlin
next day. He had sold him tobacco be-
fore. He got it from John Hernandez.
He had represented himself as a tobacco
agent to both Hernandez and Hamlin
He had represented himself as cigar
agent to Morrow, who used to introduce
him as such to his friends.
Witness was selling tobacco for Her
nandez on n commission and gave him.
self out as a tobacco agent.
The next time be went into the Skillin
IL Hawkes. store was the last of March
or first of April That was just after he
got the key from his brother and Morrow
had the duplicate made. Morrow had said
that he could get duplicate any time
and could make pattern himself. This
talk was in February. He didn't get the
key till March because he didn't get the
chance. He did not testify in the NUM-
cipal court that he got the key in Feb
ruary to have duplicate made. Witness
never got team to go to the depot or
the New York boat apd never said SO. He
never told Morrow That he had lost his
key to the store where he worked and
wanted to get it duplicated.
a Morrow had the key made from the
Hawkes. store key the same day he
brought it to him, He said it cost a dol
lar and he gave Morrow so cents.
Witness had got teams thore when Mer-
row didn't know it. because Morrow had
told him to get a team whenever he
wanted it,. Witness never urawled into a
window and got team that way. Mer-
row used to ask him when he got teams
and witness would tell him and he'd put