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was virtually putting answers into his

mouth.
Witness then went on to say that he
had only one pair of shoes, but that those
he had on ho got after the digging I'D of
the body.
On redirect examination the witness
was asked who took the pillow shams off
the line. "Arhat man, replied he.
pointing to Day.
"When you say that you and Augustus
Day dug up that body, are you telling
the truth or lying?" asked Mr.. Libby.
81 am telling the truth, only what is
Gods truth replied the witness.
Mr.. Lyons-"Did anyone tell you to
say that Mr.. Day helped your"
Witness-"No."
MRS. MATTE r. KIMBALL,
mother of the witness Rounds, was next
called. She said she had two sons, Joseph
and Harry. They were both at home on
the night of Oct. A. About O'Clock
they heard whistle outside, and Joseph
started to go. She took him by the arm
and asked him to stay, saying that the
whistle meant something wrong. But
Joseph went out, and witness remained
up until Joseph returned, which was
after nine O'Clock. Joseph said nothing
to her about what had been done. She
had heard that. whistle before; but not
very often. She believed it was Gus"
Days whistle. Day had said to her the
Sunday after Mrs. Roberts died, that he
had $500 job. The witness then testified
that Day gave her the pillow shams, say
ing to her: eff Joe owns them let him
own them: but don't let anyone know
that gave them to you.
Witness told how the shams smelled
badly, and she washed them. They
smelled as though they came from a
dead body. tts3
On cross examination the witness de-
MED an insinuation that she had fallen
out with Day, but said she did not have
anything to do with him. Witness then
described the whistle without the house
and told how she saw Joseph and some
one else depart In the darkness. Then
she sat up for Joseph tolreturn.
Witness testified that when Joseph
| went out she was SO much alarmed that
she got piece of paper and made a
memorandum of it. The only other case
when she ever made such memorandum
was when the body was found. The
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS her to remember
the dates, but she had now lost the
paper.
When witness was asked why she had
oto CHI 4
"You know in all cities there is much
evil going on, and my greatest object was
to preserve my boys"
Then the line of questioning went into
the subject of the dress.
"He did not have on that night the
dress you have on, did her" asked MIR.
| Lyons.
"Well now, what question that isp''
replied witness.
what dress did he have?" questioned
the lawyer, and the witness said she
could not tell. 1t was probably an old
scrubbing dress; and she described how.
| when she moved to Westbrook, she had an
old dress in bag.
| Mrs. Kimball said she had no talk with
her boy about the grave before he was in
| Jail. She did talk to him about it while
he was in Jail. City Marshal Knight
William W. Webb and another man came
over to Kennebunk the morning her boy
Haley, of the Westbrook Chronicle. She
thought that no one but Marshal Knight
went up to see the boy, who was upstairs
| in bed. Witness did not know the body
was taken up until she heard of the find
| ing of it. She said nothing about the
pillow shams at the time the officers
visited her house.
Her boy was at home during October 4.
and did not usually go out evenings.
Questioned as to the smell of the pillow
shams, witness said she had not had ex
perience with dead bodies, and did not
quite know why she attributed the smell
to such a cause.
Then Mr.. Lyons asked the witness why
she gave the shams to the Deputy Sheriff.
County Attorney Libby objected, but
the judge admitted it.
But when Mr.. Lyons put the question,
the witness said:
81 have decided not to answer the ques-
tion"
"But the court has decided that you
SHALL" Then the witness replied:
| "Well, thought that if Mr.. Day had
done this horrid act, did not want the
shams; also thought if he was an hon
est man and had shams he ought to give
/ them to his wife -
Coming to the talk with Day about
doing job that would bring in $500.
witness told how she had demurred until
she KNEW what the job was, although
the times were hard. Day at first pro-
posed that Harry help him ON the job.
Witness said: ''Why don't you take
Joe" His reply was that Joe would tell
of it.
| Witness said she had heard Day whistle
number of times; but the whistle that
night was peculiar. Still she thought it
was Days. She did not see Day, but
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