Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-16

40 years She had been at the house
all day, Saturday, and Mr.. Freeman
had been about all day. They went to
bed together at 10 o'clock. He got up
at 1890 returning at II. He had been
sick all day. she said, and been in poor
health all the spring, with no appetite.
His stomach seemed to trouble him.
He had not appeared right in his mind
and had complained of his head
troubling him. She arose at o'clock,
Sunday morning. not noticing anything
as to the condition of Mr.. Freeman, and
went about her home work as usual.
No one had stopped at the house that
night but them.
She testified that MacMitchell had
given him a pill about O'Clock, Sat
urday, but that she did not know what
kind it was, but that George had taken
one and had suffered no i'll effects from
them Regarding calling Mr.. Buker,
she said it was about o'clock She had
called him, not getting any answes-
from her husband. On Mr.. Buker's ar
rival, he at once found Mr.. Freeman
dead and told her SO. She said that
Mr. Freeman had not been taking
any kind of medicine. She said her
husband drank at times, heavily. He
had had habit of talking to himself.
She said there had been no one at the
house the previous evening but her and
Mr Freeman and MacMitehell and that
here had been no trouble. She stated
that she slept lightly and that Mr..
Freeman must have died quietly. She
said he hadn't drank any liquor on
that evening.
She stated that MacMitchel had left
the house before dark. She knew 1t
was earlier than O'Clock. Mr.. Free
man lad been kicked by COW within
six weeks, III the side, ana last winter,
had fallen from considerable height in
che barn, striking on the back of his
head. When asked at which side Of
her husband she slept. she said it was
outside of him and that she did not
have to disturb him in leaving the bed.
George II. Freeman. one Of the sons
and father of Mrs. Bragg. said that he
heard OF the death, Sunday morning.
going right to the house. He denied
any knowledge of his fathers ever nav
ing driven men from the house as alleged,
Mrs Bragg had been in the habit of
ing away four or FIVE days at time.
She did not always tell where she had
been on these trips. His father and
mother had mad the care of his daugh-
ter, Annie, he said. since she was IL
years cid. He said there was no trou-
Bile among them, and felt assured he
would have known it had there been
any.
Charles Freeman, the other son of the
old people, said that Mrs. Bragg. his
niece, had been at his house, Friday,
the day that she was away from home,
and vas on the way there when she
left him. He testified that he knew of
no trouble and thought that. if there
had been, he would have known Of it.
Oliver 2. Buker, the neighbor whom
Mrs. Freeman called on the Sunday
morning when she first discovered
something wrong with her husband,
said, in substance, in reply to inquiries.
am II years Old. and have known Mr..
Freeman 5 or 10 years. | saw him,
Saturday about 6 O'Clock L. NJ. lie
was driving cows at the time, and also
at work about the barn. | have heari
him complain of not feeling well, but,
not on that day. He told me one day.
i"' lohs aSo' ''i'' ms iieait iiu t.eied
s'''iiN''iiiite' ana 'na' ne haa - ~ "" !,
during these spells. | have heard loud
voices of men and women coming from
the Freeman house, but never saw any
fights, or anything like a row. Mr..
Freeman was a peaceable man and a
good neighbor
MIS- freeman cdiieu me 10 COME |"
the house, sunday morning, saying
that she thought her husband was
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evidently been dead some time. lie
WIS laid out quite straight. The bed
was not disturbed as if tv,o had slant
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III IT, me pous WIS nearer .lie iroii'
size thdn the back-not far from the
middle. | STAYED there only about five
,,in,toe mon or,;r. .ftar 1.eor.a E,,.eo-
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4tdli. Inc ciotiieS were JAM over hlih
as in sleep. His face was turned toward
the front of the be,tl-avay from the
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suIilcieht room Tor more thah one TO
sleep in that bed. ] have heard that
Mr. and Mrs Freeman did NOT slae,
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nut didn't say how long this had been
so. | saw no clothes in the bedroom.
What loud tall have occ.e;o,aI,,
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heifu mas seheraiiy pech ABOUT the
first Of the evening.
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