The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-28
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and 1t was moi admitted.
Having failed to put the fire out with
q glass Of watar the witness testified that
he ran down ST, iirs and got man to tele-
phone for the ch enical engine. Witness
said it was abont 200 feet from the door
way of the Farrh lgton block to the corner
of the United Sta ties hotel. Added to
thhs the fire WAS up three lights OF stairs
from the to doorway. Witness said he did
not notice any pc. csons in the hall.
On redirect exa mination witness said
he did not know the man whom he met
coming out of the building but he knew
he worked for Bailey & Noyes. The box
he was carrying HAD not been found on
the fourth floor. Iii was up the second
flight of stairs. With ess said it was surely
10 minutes past when he discovered the
ire. Witness said he could go from the
Mace where the fire was to the Y. M. @.
A. rooms where the telephone was in two
minutes.
! W. e. Randall employed by the Port
land Street railway. On June IA he was
running on the Congess street line. He
was due to leave the station at Preble
street for the hill at las o'clock The
car was on time At the United States
hotel on that trip Waite got on the car
and got of of it at North street. He did
not know anything of the fire on the trip
but coming back down town he fonnd the
ur0IO0h ItyluSi uOS0 ln 41oho VI uhO
Fsrrington block.
On cross examination the witness said
Waite got on his car on the side of the
track farthest from the Harrington block.
At Mr.. HeckEert's suggestion the witness
showed thu jurors the spot
on a plar, where Waite got
rington block. ldr. Libby objected to this
evidence being admitted but the objection
was not sustained.
Witness said it was las o'clock when
Waite got on board the car The spot
where he boarded tfAe car was about 100
feet from the station at the head OF Preble
street. At the time Waite was carrying
q camera. 1t was q large camera but the
witness did not notice whether or not he
had box with him. Witness did not see
him before he boarded the car. He got
off at North street five minutes before Q
O'Clock, but witness did not know what
direction he took after he left the car.
After Waite left the car, the car went on
to Fort Allen park and left for down
town at O'Clock. 1t was 2. 10 when he
passed Harrington block and the depart
ment had just reached there. No hose was
laid when the car came along. The fire.
men were just laying a line of hose across
the street and the car was hurried along
to get past before it closed the street.
Louis M. Douglass, janltor of the
Friends church described the fire under
the front steps of the church inside of the
building. A lot of boxes, paper and
other infammable material had been
placed there and set fire. Part of the
platform was burned.
The witness when he first discovered
the fire said it was about four feet
square. He started to tell what his wife
had found in the rubbish but the defence
objected and the question was not adj
mitted.
On cross examination the witness de.
scribed the fire, when first discovered.
in a more particular manner
| j. J. Meader notified Hremen at the en-
| gine house on the corner of Oak street of
the fire.
On redirect examination witness said
that no kerosene was kept about a the
church anywhere.
Deputy Sheriff Ezra Hawkes. was at the
Friends church when the fire occurred
Witness said he saw Waite at the fire that
night in the crowd. He asked Waite If he
| lived about here and was told that he did
| not.
On cross examination witness said he
was not sure that the man he had spoken
| to was Waite. The man he spoke to was
very off1cious and seemed to be hustling
about in very nervous manner. He said
| that he was suspicious of this offieious
person and that was the reason he had
| spoken to him. But the witness was not
sure that Waite was the man. He WASH t
dressed the same and he wasn't sure that
/ it was Waite.
| ssMr. Hawkes. will you tell me whether
or not it was this respondent whom you
saw at the Friends church that nightP'i
asked Mr.. Heckbert.
81 can say whether it was the man or
not, say he looks like the man."
"Will you tell me yes or no; whether or
not you can identify this mani"
mo, will not, 1 only think it was
Waite
GLOW do you identify him as being
the same manP'
81 don't say it was the same man."
"Why you just said Waite was the man
whom you identify as the man who was
acting SO offioiously about that fire?'
Numbered Mr.. Heckbert.
"No. 1 didn't, 1 only said I thought
he was the same man, replied Mr.
| Hawkes..
NOW look at this respondent, Mr..
Hawkes., and tell me whether or not he
was seen by you at the fire that night"
said Mr.. Heckbert.
| time. l won't say he was the man who
was at that fire. The man saw wore q
different suit than he has on now. He
wore bicycle suit and bicycle cap. He
looked as If he had just got off his
Wheel
| why can't you say uennlGely WneGner
or not the man whom you spoke to that
,, night was Waite.''
III didn't look at him carefully
enough
"And yet Mr.. Hawkes. you knew that
there had been several incendiary fires up
to that timer asked Mr.. Heokbert.
| II did, said Mr.. Hawkes..
"And you can't swear positively
whether or not the man was Waite al
| though you are deputy sheriff, and it is
your duty and was your duty to follow
any man whom you suspected as having
caused that fire. +"
at was my duty but there was no real
evidence against Waite go 1 didn't follow
him. ;"
"IIow was he dressed asked Mr.
Heckbert.
"He had on q light suit of clothes and
O bicycle cap" said Mr.. Hawkes..
"A full bicycle suitr'
~ don't know whether it was a full
bicycle suit or not" said MIR. Hawkes..
"Can you tell whether or not the man
you saw had on knickerbockers or short
pants?"
II cannot" said Mr.. Hawkes..
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