The Portland daily press., 1897-10-01


he went to the front yard and shovelled
some more. He saw Waite shovelling of
the front steps of his house. He had an
iron shovel and witness particularly
noticed him. After shovelling off his
sidewalk witness turned around and be-
gan to shovel that of Waite's. This was
the first time witness had seen Waite that
morning. From $50 O'Clock until 7.S0
O'Clock he was in the yard.
On cross examination witness said he
was half or three quarters of an hour at
work In the back yard before he saw
Waite. By slip of the tongue witness
referred to this morning as the 10th.
After little quibbling with the
what he meant by this statement. He
saw no one else shoyelling snow that
morning. The electric cars run from
kn1ghtyille TO Monument Square Port
| land in about Is minutes.
Angie M. Tibbetts. wife of the above
witness, remembered the morning of the
severe snow storm in December, the 18th
day of the month. She remembered of
her husband shovelling snow on that
morning. She called him to breakfast at
about seven O'Clock. At that time Waite
was with him.
On cross examination witness said it
might have been later than Z when she
saw Waite. 1t might have been half past
seven.
John Hayden of Knightville also re-
membered a morning when there was a
severe snow storm in December but he
could not place the date. He was sick
from Dec. IA to Jan. 18th and was at
home. The morning following this severe
snow storm he saw Waite in front of his
house with shovel. 1t was about 7.30
O'Clock. He was shovelling snow in his
front yard.
Cross examination-Witness said this
was the only severe snow storm he re-
membered during this month. Witness
was sure he saw Waite about 80 o'clock
William II. Smith of Willard, motor
man on the Portland & Cape Elizabeth
road. He remembered the morning of
Dec. nth. He saw Waite that morning
at 8. 10 O'Clock at the post office. He got
on the car there and rode into Portland.
On cross examination witness said the
car left Monument square for Knightville
at G. ~ a. IN. The next trip on December
last was at 6.26 a. M, next at 6.52, and
annother at 7.3S. Witness said that 6.52
car reached Knightville at 7.l5 O'Clock.
William L. Bradford of Knightyille,
was the next witness. Mr.. Heckbert
said this evidence related to the fire in
the Clapp block Dec. II last when the
fire was at 12 40 p, m.
Witness said he saw Waite on the car
that day for Willard at IL o. O'Clock. This
car reached Knightyille in about 20
minutes. Witness said that this car
leaves Monument square a few minutes
after IL O'Clock.
On cross examination witness said he
got to Portland again that day at about
one O'Clock. Witness said his father got
on the car that day too. Waite got on
the car near the foot of Center street on
Commercial street.
May Belle Rowland, Of Bath the neice
of Mrs. Tibbetts who has testified before
She remembered the 18th of December
last on which date she left Bath at II
a. m. TO visit her aunt She, got here
at 1920 o'clock, went by electric car to
the United States hotel. She got of the
car at the hotel and took car TO go TO
Knightyille. Her aunt met her at the
station and went to Knightville with
her. She got to Mrs. Tibbett's at one
! O'Clock. As they went into the yard of
Mr. Tibbett's house she saw Mrs. Waite
at the window of Waite's house. She
waved her hand. Before she sat down to
dinner she saw Mr.. Waite going up the
main street of Knightville from his
| house.
| On cross examination witness said she
knew 1t was Mr.. Waite because her aunt
| told her that was his name. She was
| looking out the window at the time Mr.
renee. Her aunt had also written her
asking her about the date.
| George L. Cushing of Portland con-
ductor on the Cape road, was the next
witness. Mr.. Heck bert stated that this
testimony related to the fire in the morn
ing of Dec %, in Congress hall.
| Witness said that he couldn It remember
| the date but it was the morning of the
| fire because he had seen q ladder on a
building in Temple street. On that
morning he saw Waite get on his car at
Knightville on his second trip in from
Willard. He didn't know this for GER
tainty but he thought this was so. Waite
came into the city and got off at Temple
street. There was fire in progress there
at the time.
Witness said on cross examination that
he didn't see any fire apparatus but he
did see ladder against the building and
several fremen. Witness said he arrived
in Portland on his first trip at 7.12
clock. On the second trip he left Will
lard at S. 80 o'clock. Witness was not sure
what trip it was that he saw Waite.
Mr.. Libby stated for the benefit of the
court that the still alarm for this fire was
at 7.15 and the general alarm some min
utes later. Cushing's car got into Port
land from Willard at 7.12.
Were you summoned here by the
State?' asked Mr.. Heck bert.
~ was'' said Mr.. Cushing.
'And by the defense too were you not, -
saw Mr.. Libby.
''That doesn't make any difference, -
said the court. "He is summoned here
to tell the truth no matter which side he
testifies on"
The court then adjourned for dinner
The court room was crowded when the
trial commenced in the afternoon. A
large portion of the audience was ladies
and these followed the interesting testi-
mony vely carefully.
The first witness of the afternoon WAS
Mrs. Mary e. Bond. She said she at
tended the meeting at the Friends church
on Oak street on the evening of June
10th. She was asked if she saw any one
at the church when she was going into
the church. She said she saw two persons,
a man and woman, rather shabbily
dressed They came out Of that part OF
the church where the fire was SCI. She
spoke to them and they ran. She had not
been IN the church more than Eve
minutes when the fire was discovered