The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-27

asked A6aU10gs
"They might open the letter." replied
Murray.
Heating told the man that he didn't
believe the railroad people would open
personal letter to his brother if he wrote
one to him. Murray made no reply to
this.
Heating asked Murray where be had
got to Boston from. Murray said he had
reached there from Pittsburg, and had
been two OF three months on the way.
He said he had been working the races.
cat Mystic" asked Heating.
Murray said that that was not the
place.
where was il then at Sheapshead Bay,
Cony Island"
eyes, that's the place, " said Murray.
When the wagon came along Murray
was sent into the station. He was not
searched by either Heating or Cousens.
After Murray had been sent to the sta
ton the officers went down on to Com :
mercial street again and began to try the
doors along the further side of the street.
When they reached tho Maine Provision
and Cold Storags company's store they
found the door open and SAW light in
the place. Heating and Cousens went in
and found Deputy Marshal Sterling, OIL
GERS White. McGrath and Stuart there.
Heating described the condition OF the
office. On the floor were a lot of butchers
frock, bags and other articles. The outer
door of the. safe had been blown off aud
the floor ofSthe room was Uttered up
with all kinds Of articles. Heating
picked up dark lantern from the floor
and some one else fourd few drills un-
der the safe.a. The room was filed with
powder smoke.
The next morning while Heating was
taking Murray into his cell after the Mu-
nioipal court hearing he asked him II he
didn't have any friends from whom he
might obtain bail.
"Where can I get bail'' asked Murray
with an oath.
Heating told Murray that things looked
bad for him, and asked him what ne had
been doing in Boston. Murray replied
that he had worked in restaurant there.
On questioning the prisoner the witness
found that he could not give the name OF
a single restaurant where he had worked.
This ended Keating's direct testimony.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Morrill,
Heating said among other things that
about twenty five minutes elapsed be-
tween the time Murray was arrested on
Commercial street and the time whom he
heard the explosion. 1t was not q hot
nj ght, on the contrary it was quite cool
Witness was positive that Murray's face
was covered with perspiration. Witness
admitted that any one might have hidden
themselves on any OF the wharves and
escaped detection.
Officer Andrew J. Stuart testified to
his movements after he had heard the ex
plosion. He had left Heating and had
finally discovered the door of the Cold
Storage company's store open. He had
called Officers White and McGrath, who
were on the opposite corner of the street.
to him by whistling, and the three Off
GERS had entered the place which was
filed with smoke. Stuart's description
of the condition of things in the office
was not much different from that given
by Heating and other witnesses.
John S. Greenlaw, is d night watch
man at Twitchell & Champlin's store,
which is five hundred yards or more to-
wards the west from the Maine Provision
and Cold Storage company's store.
Greenlaw had heard the explosion when
the safe was blown, and ran out on to
Commercial street. He saw no one on
the street, and after staying outside a
few minutes had gone lack into the store
again, only to come out on to the street
again within minute or two. He looked
up and down the street but saw no one.
After minute or two he saw Officers
Keating and Stuart near the foot of
Union street and had some talk with
Heating about the explosion. The officers
went up Union street and Greenlaw went
back into the Twitohell & Chamrlin
oompany's store. In three minutes he
came out on to the street again, but saw
no one He walked up towards Union
street again and saw light in the Cold
Storage company's store and went in.
All of this time he saw 10 one on Com
mercial street below UDion street. The
purpose of the state was to show by this
witness that no one had passed up Com
meroial street from below the place
where the safe was blown after he had
heard the explosion.
On cross-examiation Greenlaw stuck to
his story and was positive that he had
seen no one excepting the officers. He
said it as possible that man might have
gone up the street and he not have seen
him, but he did not think. it probable.
| Officer Cousens was tho next witness.
He described the capture Of Murray by
himself and Heating and related the con-
versation they had had with the prisoner.
His testimony did not differ in any way
from that given by Heating about the
| talk with Murray.
On cross-examination Cousens said the
man they arrested didn't look as if he
had been riding on freight train, as he
said he had boon. He looked too clean