The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-11-18

side OF the necktie are spots which looked
to the witness like blood, but he was
not sure about that.
"From the hip pocket on the right
side, took glass. said Mr.. Patterson.
prod ucing small tumbler. He also
produced the bottle found with the
body, half pint bluss glass bottle, still
containing liquor which nearly filed
it.
DO you know what's in it?'' asked
the county attorney.
"Well, I don't drink, but they tell
me it's rum replied'the coroner. The
court observed that there would be no
objection to pulling the cork to see If the
contents of the bottle smelt like intoxi-
eating liquor. Then the counsel took
turns in smelling of that bottle. Mr.,
Pierce called 1t rum and poor at that.
On oss-exaInination, the coroner told
of holding the inquest. which began ON
the Monday after Moore's death and ad-
journed from time to time until October
6 or later. The coroner did not know
of the presence of detective at that
time. He reoollected the witness, Sides,
but could not recall how extensively
Sides was examined by the county at
torney.
MIR. Pierce asked If the witness,
Sides, was urged to tell whom he
claimed to have seen about the hotel
that night. The witness rcolleoted that
Sides was asked who he saw.
Mr.. Hilton objected to this line Of ques-
tioning. The inquest was matter of
record.
The court said that while this might
not be the best of evidence he did not
regard it as inadmissable.
The coroner was asked further in ref
erence to the clothing, which had been
somewhat cut by the surgeons: in re.
moving is from the body. He did not
notice any odor of liquor about the
body. There was on one side of the
throat one mark and several on the 9TH
er side. In all, he spent Is or 20 min
utes in examining the body. During
a part of this time the surgeons were
at work upon it.
According to the best of my recol-
lection, Sides said he was not certain who
the man was he saw in the hotel office"
said the coroner.
On redirect the coroner testified to
noticing clothes lines strung from the
back of the hotel to an adjoining build-
ing. There were two lines, from
two to three feet apart. The clothes lines
looked to him as it they were old.
The clothes lines were discussed more
or less am ong the jury who saw them
from the roof of the jackson building.
At the afternoon session.! George W.
Ellis, deputy sheriff, testified thatshe
had measured the distance from the
window in the hallway at the rear of
the Exchange hotel in Waldoboro to the
roof of the jackson building adjoining
and found it feet and inches. Meas
uring along the wall OF the hotel, he
found the distance to be feet inches,
from the window sill to the ground ia
45 feev. The jackson building is at
right angles to the hotel. The deputy's
first measurement was made, as he ex-
press it. slanting, SO that his line reached
the roof some distance from the point
where it joins the hotel. The second
measurement. was along the walls.of the
hotel.
On cross-exa minntion, Mr.. Pier ce
asked If there was not a hinge for a
window blind in the hotel wharf. The
witness could not recall it.
This concluded the testimony for the
state.
True P. Pierce, ESQ.,, opened the case
for the defence. He said that perhaps
never before in this state had q case like
this been presented to jury. The jury,
he said. had observed many reouliarities
in this case not accustomed to be pYessn
ed in the trial of cause in court. But
of these more particular mention will
be made after the evidence is in and
when it is proper to refer to the char
acter and effect. of this GLASS of evidence.
On Monday morning. Septem Der 2s,
1891, the body of Edwin Moore was
found in the rear of what was the tx
change hotel In the village of Waldoboro.
Mr.. Pierce said it would be shown
that on the evening of September 27,
1891, before 10 O'Clock, Soule said he was
going home and did leave the hotel.
spending the night in his own house.
The testimony of MoCarthy would be
subjected to such an examination that
1t would be shown to be of ne value at all
Even had the state shown that he was
the Victim of a homicide, it had failed
to show that Soule was connected with
the case.
The cause Of Moores' death may never
be known, but 1T is a reasonable theory |
that 1t was accidental, due to a fall |
while drunk. from the roof of the JACK.
son building. 1t will be shown that on
the Saturday night before, hs.had gained
access to the hotel by means of that
roof. Even If Moore was the victim of
violence there is nothing to show that