The Portland daily press., 1897-10-02
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water, but the lire got away from him,
The fire was running dercely up the side
OF the partition.
Tobias A Burke of the Argus testified
that he had often seen in the police
guard room a card Offering a reward for
the discovery of the person who set the
fires. 1t disappeared long time ago,
but he could not tell exactly when.
Mr.. Heckbert asked that notice be
sent the City Masrhal to produce this
paper. The court said it would not Or
der the notice to be produced, but Mr..
Heckbert could do it if he liked. MIR.
Heckbert said that he would order the
notice to be produced by Mr.. Sylvester.
Mr.. Burke testified on cross examina-
ton that he had not seen this notice of
reward since Marshal Sylvester has been
In office. He further testified that he re-
nembered that the fire in one of the Far
rington block stores occurred on June
10Th. He knew that he had seen the no
tice of the fire in the paper on June 18th.
And this notice said the fire had occurred
the day before. MIR. Burke on redirect
examination was positive that the notice
in the Argus was printed on July 18th.
II. III. Bigel0w, of the PRESS, testified
to having seen the placard of reward in
the police station. 1t was on the door
between the guard room and the deputy
marshal's office. He couldn't say that it
had been there since Mr.. Sylvester has
been in Office, but he believed that it had.
clerk for the Boston & Maine Railroad.
was called. He remembered the 18th of
December last and remembered the fire in
the Clapp building. He went into the
building at 1880 to take a pair of shoes
up to Mr.. Smith He noticed the pile of
After he had been in Smith for a few
minutes, Sherry HHcame in and said there
WAS fire in the corridor.
City Marshal Geo. W. Sylvester was
called. He was asked if he remembered
seeing the notice of the offer of the re-
ward since his testimony before. He
cou dn't find the notice, though he had
made efforts to find it.
Fred Small son of Stephen r. Small,
was called, and said he had seen the re-
ward placard IN the police headquarters
about the first OF June. 1t was about the
size of an ordinary poster. Mr.. Small
told what was on this poster.
Gross examination-He couldn't say
when the card said the reward expired
Mr. Tobias A. Burke of the Argus was
recalled. He also told what was on the
poster. There were five fires mentioned,
and $500 was offered Eon each of them,
making $1,000 in all.
On cross examination he said that he
didn't notice anything about the expira-
ton of the reward.
II. NJ. Bigelow was recalled, but knew
nothing about the expiration of the re-
ward offered on the card.
Willis l.. Strout, chancellor OF Bayard
Lodge, outh Portland, remembered
Thursday, Dec. 3lst. He vas at Bayard
Lodge that night and saw Waite there
when he went in.
On cross examination he said he was
sure it was Thursday, Dec. 31st. Waite
is not member of that lodge. He re-
called the date because he made his report
that night He recalled that Waite was
present because he heard him playing the
nia Oh q n
thought of it from that time until day
or two ago, when his attention was called
TO it.
William L. Bradford remembered
Thursday, Dec. 31st. He attended Bay
ard Lodge that evening and saw Waite
there that night about 7.30 O'Clock. He
went home with him to Knightville,
after the meeting was over on the same
car.
May Belle Rowland of Bath remem-
bered Sunday, Dec 20. She was at
oh arch that day and saw Waite there,
and after church went into Waite's house.
Waite sang and played on the organ.
She stayed there until 80 or Z O'Clock,
and Waite was there all the time.
On cross examination she said she re-
membered the day because it was the
first Sunday she was at Knightville. 1t
was the first time she had met Waite
She did know about it when she was On
the stand before, but HADN'T been asked
about it, and SO had said nothing.
Mrs. Agnes Nj. Tibbetts also testified
that she was at Waites house on Dec.
Goth in the afternoon, and that Waite
was there. She went in in the afternoon
and stayed until Z. 10 O'Clock.
On cross examination she said she
could only tell where Waite was on Dec.
18th and Dec go These were all the
dates she knew about.
Wilbur NJ. Waite, the respondent was
recalled and said he was at home all day
on June 10th, working on his souvenir
book. After that he went to Bayard
Lodge, South Portland, and stayed there
all the evening.
On cross examination Waite told about
the tiremen's badge which. he had got
from Chief Eldridge. 1t was just after
the Odd Fellows fair. He got the badge
so that he could go inside the lines tc
take photographs OF suspicious fires. He
had not told Eldridge that he wanted the
badge for his patrol system work. He
had done this work of taking photo
graphs of fires in Lynn, once for Deputy
Marshal Nelson, and again for others, he
could not remember just who.
At this point Mr.. Heckbert said:
May it please the court,
THE DEFENSE RESTS
The County Attorney then began call
ing testimony in rebuttal. Officer
Charles o. Jones of the Police Depart
ment was called. At the time of the
alarm on the morning Of Dec. %, he was
on Exchange street and went to the fire
on Congress Hall block. He saw Waite
at this fire. He was standing on the
right of the door, and wore a fireman.
badge. He wore q dark coat and cap
1t was three minutes after the alarm was
pulled in. 1t was about z o'clock in tht
morning. The officers hunted for Waite
few minutes later, but they could moi
find him. They didn't see anything o.
him after few minutes after he got tc
this fire.
Cross administrations told where
his beat was at that time. He was or
Exchange street when one alarm wal
rung. There were not many people al
that fire when he got there. He was try
ing to keep people away from the door
There was small crowd there. He was
the only officer keeping the crowd away
from the door. officer Pickett got there
as soon as he did. He was asked who
else he saw there, and went on to name