The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-09
The Pease Assault Case.

The case of the State VS.. Eldorus Mahoney
for assault with intent to kill on j. W. Pease
was continued in the Police Court Monday
afternoon. The affray occurred in the Ar.
lington, hotel kept by Stephen Peirce
early in the morning of July 1st, and was
reported as far as it had then progressed in
The Journal of last week. The first witness
introduced for the State was Mr.. Pierce,
who testified that Pease called at his room
and asked to have lamp fixed. That after
attending to the lamp he, Pierce, followed
Pease out to see that he went to bed. That
Fease stopped in front of Mahoney's door,
IN which Mahoney was standing, and that
some words ensued between them. Pease
tried to force his way into the room and
Mahoney hit him in the face with pitcher.
Pease was not knocked down by the blow
but his face was bloody and Pierce went
down stairs with him to wash his face.
Pease then went back up stairs on the run
and again tried to get into Mahoney's room.
A slight scutfle took place between them,
when Pierce stepped between them about
the time the police appeared and arrested
| both Pease and Mahoney
| DR.. A. G. Ellingwood testified, describing
Pease's wounds, which consisted of a bad
bruise, swelling and discooration over the
| right eye, a star-shaped wound on the top of
| the head to the right of the median line, a
cut just back of this and cut behind the
right ear. A silver plate in the forehead
and bridge of the nose, put in to close a
former wound, was slightly moved. Dr.
Ellingwood thought the wounds could not
have been made by one blow of pitcher as
described by Pierce.
Drs. II. II. johnson and Elmer Small,
who were called to Pease Thursday and
Friday, described the wounds substantially
as did DR.. Ellingwood. DR.. johnson probed
the wounds and found fracture of the
skull at the star-shaped wound. He consid-
ers this the most dangerous of the wounds.
The doctors agreed that the wounds could
not all have been made by one blow from
the pitcher.
Mrs. Pierce, Miss Florence Pierce, Stanley
Peters and W. II. Brown of Dixmont
described the affray substantially as did Mr..
Pierce.
Mahoney took the stand in his own behalf.
He said he was in his room and heard Pease
| in the corridor. Pease was making loud
talk and Mahoney stepped to the door and
looked out. Pease tried to get into the
room, and was forcing his way in when
Mahoney hit him in the face with the
pitcher, which he took from stand beside
the door. When Pease came up stairs after
washing himself he rushed for Mahonev's
room threatening to kill him, and the two
clinched, but were separated by Mr.. Pierce
and the police.
No attorney appeared for the State, and
Judge Rogers questioned the witnesses In
the examination of DR.. johnson, the Judge
asked if the wounds could all have been
made by the blow from the pitcher as de-
scribed by Mr.. Pierce. Mr.. Mcclellan, at
torney for the defense, objected to the
Judges version of Pierces testimony,
claiming the same right to object that he
would have with any other attorney. Judge
Rogers decided that MIR. McLellan's words
were an interruption to the court and or
dered the attorney removed from the room
Mr.. Wardwell was called i'll and conducted
the defense from that point. He made
brief plea, claiming self-defense. Judge
Rogers decided chat an assault and battery
had been committed but not with intent to
kill; that Mahoney used unnecessary vio-
lence in trying to keep Pease from the room
He ordered the respondent to recognizes for
appearance st the October term of S. J
Court in $500. He secured bail.
There has been considerable talk or tile
street that the wounds on the mans head
We're caused by blows from the policemeus
blllies, and the evidence in the case tends to
show that they We're not from the blow
struck by Mahoney. There was some talk
that Pease was robbed of money earlier in
the night, and O. F. Fellows, Esq, of Bucks
port came down last week to investigate for
him. What he learned is not yet divulged.
At the time Of the trial Monday afternoon
Pease was reported as unable to cross
the street from A. j. Condon's, where he
was boarding, to the Police Court Room,
but Wednesday morning he rode down to
the boat and walked on board without as
sistance. He said he was going to Bucks
port.