Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-03

from the pushing, as it seemed and the
Nnlgnt jumped IN and appeared to be q
Top OF MIN. and l saw knights elbo
come up and down over his back, five {
six times. Norton was not in view aftt
| going into the hole
! spoke to the men in the shed and the
came out, and knight got out and &c
onto his team and drove off. saving: II
you want any pie. you can have it.
Almost every time Knight went u
through there he would call Norton "Joh
- "A day or two before this, hear
Norton FORBID Knight going throug
| there.
On Characterization. witness testifie,
that when this affair occurred he wa
about to leave NOrton's employ, but ha
stayed with him since. and that he coul,
not give the language Or the substance o
| what Norton said in reply to Knight OF
the day of the alleged assault. Saw Shea
the policeman, there after the trouble
ard told him about it. Did not. tell hin
that Norton called out "sinkspout." Die
not tell him Norton was to blame.
| Frank G. Hall. one of the men at worl
in the shed at the time of the trouble. ties
1 titled that he could see in the pOsitiOn h,
was at work. Knight when he came in;t
the passage way. but not when he got t.
tne watering trough. Lovejoy said
''Sinkspout.' anu Knight said: "What i.
the matter with You, John L.? Come ou
here and will do you up" Norton made
some reply which l do not remember
| Then noticed Norton get up from where
he was sitting on the pile of wood and
so toward the house Attention was
next attracted by call from Storel
| and witness went out of the
shed and saw Knight down in the hole
there, and his elbow come up past his
when Knight got up and got onto his
team and drove off. He said: "If YOU
want any pie here you can have it
Norton was helped up and to the stable.
hrnt how Of,
| titled that he was with his brother at the
time when he found the but of the whip
IN the sewer and saw him pick it up.
Had heard defendant call his brother
| he would do him up. Heard that quite
often. nearly every time defendant went
down through there. The watering
trough was on the land of witness and he
| and his brother maintained it together.
DIR. o. w. Turner testified that he was
called to the plaintiff about 3 o'clock on
the afternoon of March sd. and found
able blood on different parts of his face.
both eyes badly swollen a cut over the
left eye. the upper lip cut and bruised, a
cut on the scalp and bunch on the left
side of head above the ear. The bone of
the nose was cut through so that witness
passed probe through into the cavity
of the nose The cut over the left eye
was on inch long and into the bone. Left
eye was entirely closed and the right near
ly son from the swelling. The wounds
over the eye and nose might have been
caused by the fist or blunt instrument
possibly by sharp instrument. but he
rather doubted that. A blow from the
whip-butt produced here might have
caused the cuts. The man was in the
mental condition in which witness found
him in consequence of conclusion of the
brain arising from blows.
Drs. l.. J. Crooker and l.. J. Croker.
Jr.. We're called and testified that they
saw plaintiff subsequently to the injury.
Il bod 1st,
they found him. corroborating substan-
TALLY the last witness.
William A. LovejOy testified that he
was at work in the shed when Knight
in question and went to the watering
trough. While he was there witness
asked him who sawed off his snkspout.
He was then unchecking his horse. Knight
says: what is the matter with you.
John L.? You act as though something
was chewing YOU" Norton said Go
along Saw Norton get up from where
he was sitting and go toward the house.
StOrer and witness went out and ,Saw
knight getting out of the sewer hole. lie
got onto his team and started off. saying:
IF you want any pie you can have It,
Went to the hole and found Norton ly-
ing on his back and unconscious. We took
him into the stable and from there into
the house. Previous to this time Knight
had frequently driven through the pass
age way, and one time he had heard him
say to Norton that he didn't earn the
clothes that he had on. -.
Parker S. Smith testified that during
the last winter he worked for Knight who
was in the wood and hay business, dfiv-
ing a team, and that when they had an
order for the northern part of the city
they always went through the passage
way. He had been through there with
Knight and on one occasion, a month or
six weeks before this affair, had heard
plaintiff forbid Knight going through
there. Knight went through after that.
as before.
Witness had seen the whip produced in
court. knight had light-colored whip
that he used on his sled that winter. but
the last part of the winter he used
black one. Had talked with Knight about
the affair of March %. and Knight said he
laid him out in about two minutes. The
only time he heard plaintiff forbid de-
PENDANT going through there, Knight
spoke to Norton and called him John L.
Good morning. John L. And Norton
turned quickly and came back and forbid
our going through. He said Knight did it
to make trouble and he didn't want him
on the premises.
Knight told him he didn't own the land.
shirt he stood in. He told him if he would
come out where he was he would do him
up in just two minutes. They called each
other hard names. Have heard knight
say he would do Norton up. about as
many times as they met, almost every
time we went through there. In a con-
versation after it happened, Knight said
he did it in self-defence. that Mr. Norton
came at him with a knife.
On crosS-eXamination witness stated
that the light-colored whip was lost. the