The Portland daily press., 1898-04-16

| taken. The witness testified to a conyer
sation in which he told the marshal that
he should not take his wife to the sta-
| tion against her consent. The marshal
said that he often took them against their
will. Then the witness said that he should
take means to get his wife back if she
was taken TO Augusta, to which the
m arshal replied that he didn't give a
damn If he only got her down there.
On redirect examination the witness
said that the only thing he did in the
| twenty -four hour following the meeting
of the aldermen to make his house more
secure was to lock the back door. The
windows had previously been fastened
| in order to keep his wife from getting
out. He had never seen any paper signed
by his daughter asking that his wife's
sanity be inquired into, but he had been
| informed that she had signed such pa
per.
Mrs. Daniel Brett of Deering was the
next witness. She testified that Marshal
Clark had asked her to sign a paper to the
effect that she was afraid Of Mrs. Prince
and asking that Mrs. Prince be re-
strained. She signed the paper yesterday
morning. Mr.. Clark asked the witness
that Mrs. Prince should be taken care OF,
and the witness told him she did.
On cross examination the witness said
that before she signed the paper she COM
planned to the marshal that she was
afraid of Mrs Prince.
Mrs. T. G. Ramsdell testified that she
had told Marshal Clark that she thought
Mrs. Prince should be taken care of and
that Mrs. Prince had threatened her.
The day after this the marshal called at
the house OF the witness and inquired
about Mrs. Prince. The witness told him
that something should be done, Hnd the
marshal replied that there was good
\ I-G s,,+ +1x1n nr~I hot
he would not force Mrs. Prince out of
the house if her husband could take care
of her. Later, Mrs. r Ramsdell signed a
paper asking that Mrs. Prince be sent to
an asylum. Since these occurrences. Mrs.
Ramsdell has talked with Mr.. Clark on
one occasion, when Mr.. Clark told her
that he did not remember hearing Prince
Iat the meeting in the city government
make that remark about his dead body.
Frank FL. Mountfort, who was Deer
ing policeman last April was at the sta.
tion on the night of the tenth after the
arrest of Prince. He had previously been
to Princes with Officer Brown on the
orders of Marshal Clark to find Prince
and tell him to GO to the station. Prince
was not at home On his return to the
station Mountfort said Prince was in the
CELL Prince was talking to the marshal.
| Both were excited. The witness thought
he would remember hearing the marshal
ask Prince it he would have Mrs. Prince
at the railroad station Monday morning.
The witness stayed in the station only
about four minutes Prince was asking
to be let out.
Mrs. Sarah Turner of Portland, a
nurse, who last April had the care of
Mrs. Prince, was the next witness. She
had charge of Mrs. Prince from March
20 until Mrs. Prince was taken to the
asylum. Marshal Clark called at the
| ton, hafo tho 1,,f
Prince. He had paper for Mrs. Princes
daughter to sign. She signed it. When
Mrs. Turner went to Princes house the
windows, except one in the sitting room.
were secured so that they could not be
opened. The witness thought that the
marshal had visited the house with ply
sicians. One was DR.. Topliff.
At the afternoon session, Chauncey R.
Berry of Deering, testified to hearing
parts Of the conversation between Prince
and Clark, while Prince was in custody.
Gen. Mattocks put in copies of the ac-
tion of the Deering aldermen and called
| City Clerk Jones of Deering to testify
as to the petition of the justice of the
| peace which appeared as part of the rec
ords. Mr.. Jones said that as justice of
! the peace he had signed petition to the
| aldermen asking that Mrs. Prince be sent
to an asylum. This petition was signed
on Saturday the 10th Of April, but it was
dated on the 9th.
tGen. Mattocks then asked
sssUnder what circumstances"
The fact that she couldn't be COM
mitted to the insane asylum without the
complaint of justice of the peace"
"How did you learn that fact?''
I'VE knew it from the revised statutes F"
"Did you sign that of yoU2 own motion
the next morningr
"No, :. sir; I was asked to by the
Mayor after the hearing"
'Did Mr.. Clark have anything to do
with it?''
"No, sir.
Arthur M. Soule, a reporter, testified
to conversation he had with Marshal
Clark in reference to the Prince case in
which Mr.. Clark said that he had lost a
note he had received from Prince in which
Prince agreed to bring his wife to the
railway station. Mr.. Clark said that he
should write out a copy of the note.
The plaintiff rested here
In opening the case for the defence, Mr..
Seiders said that 1t would be shown that
the marshal had acted on complaint of
citizens and in obedience to the orders of
the city government in his course in rela-
tion to Mrs. Prince; and that in the mat
ter Of the arrest, Prince had justified the
marshal by threats he made in the police
station itself and that the agreement to
was made in consequence of an offer from
Prince.
Mr.. Clark, the defendant, was the first
witness. The first questions as to the off.
ces held by the defendant weres objected
to, Gen. Mattocks announcing that he
should demand strict proof as to the ap-
pointment of the defendant to the city
offices. The questions were admitted and
exceptions noted.
Mr.. Clark described the scene in the
police station when Mr.. Prince was ar
rested. The witness said that Prince was
excited and walked back and forth. Then
he said TO the witness who was sitting by
the table 81 came down here to tell you
that you can't take my wife to Augusta. :"
The witness told Prince that the papers
were made out and that Mrs. Prince
would go to Augusta unless the orders
were countermanded. Then Prince said
that his wife could not be taken except
over his dead body. Mr.. Clark said that
he then put Prince in the cell, using no
unnecessary force. He denied that he
threw Prince across the cell. Prince then
said that he did not want his wife sent