The Portland daily press., 1897-10-01

J he talked with City Marshal Tricky
about 1T. Previous to his visit to LySn he
never talked about the matter with any
ono. He never talked with frenen Miles
about the matter previous TO his visit to
, Lynn, He talked to Miles about it the third
) week in February. Never talked with
him in January or December. He had
J circulars printed about this patrol scheme
on the third week in February after he
recovered from an accident which he
suffered, He showed circular to Miles,
but not during December.
Calling your attention to the month
Of July last, said Mr.. Heckbert, did
you meet a stranger about that timer
II did" said Waite.
he called himself William Stetson
Saw him Wednesday for the
1rst time. On the next Tues
Gay he met Stetson in front of the obser-
yatory and they had some talked about
some innings. Waite told him he could
make money at his souvenir badges work
II he could get the orders.
4 II told him L was willing to take up
anything that was proper. Stetson said
II have been thinking since l saw You
that you would be good man to take
the place have here. want to go to st.
Adams and think you would do and fill
the place we'll. ~
II did not speak, said Waite, ''half
dozen words while we were walking
from the observatory to Lincoln park.
He told me that the business he was en-
gagged in was that of firm in Canada
which bought furs dyed them by secret
process and brought them her and sold
them. The pay was something like $500
to $500 q month. 1t was largely mail
business and the agent in Portland would
have to fill orders. / told Stetson that
belonged to several orders and we talked
about this matter for some time.
. "Stetson told me thatHwe would go to
Bangor and see man there connected
with the company who would talk with
me about going into the business. He
said nothing to me about it's being an
Illegal business.
We went to Bangor. Stetson invited
me to have a drink at the West End hotel.
drank lemonade here and he drank
whiskey. We took the lilo train for
Bangor. He invited me to drink in Ban
gor and again in Old Town. l did not
drink at either place.
after l came back from Bangor I met
Stetson at his room at 316 Congress street.
The day before was arrested there was
another man at his room. He was intro
duced to me as Mr.. Clark. Clark asked
me to sit down beside him. He told me 1t
was necessary to find out few things.
He explained something about the bust
ness, about as much as Stetson had and
nature of trust. l signed paper answer
ing these questions about myself After
this Clark left the room.
"Stetson told Clark he needed money
about $3.50 for current expenses. He
wrote check with my name on it for
$500 and gave it to Stetson saying i will
telegraph to headquarters for voucher
and any time after Saturday you can cash
this check, give $500 to Waite and take a
receipt
81 next saw Clark at ten O'Clock on
Friday, met Stetson at 8 o'clock at his
room.
''He said to me Il forgot something and
with him. He took out small box.
would not swear that. he tooklanything out
ofthe box. said had headache and he
offered me the box. | took two of the
tablets. On the way to the Preble house
| was thirsty and took drink of soda in
a drug store. When l got to the room I
was thirsty again. Stetson went to get
some water for me and said there was
none in the pitcher. Stetson went out
of the room and got me glass of water
| drank it. | have no doubt it was water.
After that we sat down at the table
and talked. They showed me telegram,
saying something about instructions from
the table and began to ask me about
fires which had occurred in the city. 1
told them fires had occurred and Stetson
said 'There was one at the Ciapp Elock,
wasn't there? / said there was. Then
Stetson began writing again and asked
me more about the fires My head was
aching very severely and didn't hear all
that was said. know that told him all
about where the fires had occurred and
meantime Stetson went on asking me
questions and writing. [ listened to
all that he had to say and answered the
questions which he asked.
FINALLY Clark pushed the paper over
in front of me and putting his thumb on
a part Of it and asked me to sign it.
picked the paper up and tried to read it.,
but couldn't, it was such poor writing.
Stetson picked the paper up and said that
he would read 1t to me. My head ached
J so that | could not hear what he read to
me, but Clark put his finger on the lower
part of the paper and said sign it there.
signed it and then something was said
about my owing money. l told Clark that
owed some bills which troubled me
and that wanted to pay them or would
like to pay them CLARK asked me whom
owed. l told him that l owed Photog-
rapher Smith bill. By the way, sa i'd
Stetson to me. 4 was over in Smith s
studio yesterday and he Told me that If
you didn't pay that bill you owe him he
would have you arrested.
Well, that would be bad thing,
oeblu Cldrk. L VIII gave you d Cn0ch 10
pay that bill.
"Stetson said that he must hurry to go
down to the telegraph office in order to
get this telegra am off SO that the people at
the headquarters in Montreal would get
1t before they went to dinner. l walked
ldown with him to the telegraph office and
MS we were going down / said l had an
awful headache. Stetson asked me to go
into Smith 81 Broe's and take two more
of the tablets which L did. We then
walked down Middle street, and as we
passed the Thompson fruit store fire Stet-
son said to me: That was bad Job,
wasn't 1T?
~ told him didu't know what he
meant and he explained about the setting
of that fire. Stetson said that he rem EN-
bered one fire at Dover in building lust
like this. There was photographer in
the upper part of the building and Stet
son said that he knew fellow who went
up into this photograph gallery. took
some bricks out of the hall, through
which the photographer used to throw
negatives OF obscene pictures, and taking
a candle tied to string lowered it down
the hole and set fire to some kerosene