The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-27
COOK STILL ON THE STAND.
SHARP GROSS EXAMINATION By
JOSEPH L. BARBOUR.

court auJourned at oclock yesterday
afternoon Frederick Cook was still on
the stand in the Hodgdon arson trial.
State Attorney Williams finished the
direct examination Of Cook at 10:45 yes
terday morning and turned him over
to Mr.. Barbour Of the defense for cross
examination. In the course Of this not
many new facts were brought out, the
witness sticking to the story he told
Tuesday afternoon. About A O'clock IN
the afternoon while Mr.. Barbour was
firing questions thick and fast at Cook
Mr.. Williams suddenly leaned over and
held whispered consultation with Mr.,
Barbour and then asked that Cook ba
excused for the time being. Mr.. Bar
bour said he would agree to excuse
Cook for the time being for accommo-
dation. DR.. Bacon, who appears at the
trial to watch Cook in the interests OF
the state, was obliged to go to TESTIFY
in civil case in the other side OF the
superior cort and Mr.. Williams desired
Cook excused during Dr. Bacon's alb
sence
Just before this Vail, the detective
who procured much valuable evidence
for Mr.. Chase in the Sachse trial, was
sitting at the end of the attorneys table
looking intently at Cook, who sat In
the witness chair directly opposite and
facing him at the other end of the table
Mr. Barbour had just asked the wit
ness If Captain Hodgdon had given him
anything in connection with the fire I'm
til he gave him the $50 on December
25, when State Attorney Williams sud
denly interrupted and asked Cook IL ii
annoyed him to have "that gentleman
over there" pointing to Vail, stare him
in the face. Cook replied that it did
not annoy him. but Vail then moved
back behind the jury box, where he
could not see the witness
When Cook left the stand, Alonzo
Hall, night clerk at the Tontine hotel
since last June, was called as q wits
ness. He said that he was on duty ait
the hotel on the night Of October 2 last
and saw Cook that night in the Office
Of the Tontine. Mr.. Williams produced
the Tontine register and witness identi-
fed the entry Harry Locke, Newark
N. j., as having been written there dn
the night in question by the man
Cook. Mr.. Williams offered the register
as evidence and Mr.. Chase Objected
strongly. He said that the defense aid
not dispute that Cook came to New Ha-
ven and set the fire. but did dispute the
part Cook says Hodgdon had with Hin.
He objected to the register being of
fered as evidence on the ground that 1t
did not confirm Cooks story in any par
ticular or show his relations with Cap
Joi ~, Nv. lin, iv, rv1n D.
ing in support of offering the register
as evidence, said that the credibility OF
the accomplice as witness was in
volved in the trial and that evidence
would go to prove his credibility. The
evidence was admitted and the excep-
tion was noted, 1t being only one Ut
afternoon and noted. Hall then stated
that he thought it was about 8 o'clock
when Cook went to bed on the night OF
October 2, and that he saw him again
about / o'clock that same night. Mr..
Williams then asked If the house was
well filled with guests on the night of
October Q. Mr.. Chase objected to this
question and it was withdrawn. The
cross examination Of Hall Tasted only M
few moments. nothing new being
brought out.
franklin NJ Barnes was the next
witness put on He is clerk in the
grocery store of e. o. Clark in Spring
field, the store where Cook is alleged
to have purchased the five-gallon can
Of kerosene on December "a. Barnes
stated that the grocery store was on
Main street, Springfield, between the
depot and the Haines hotel. He testi-
fled that on December "a last he saw
Cookdn Clark's store between and s
O'Clock p. m. and sold to him tive-gaa-
lon can Of kerosene and made a merno-
randum of the sale as is the custom in
the store. This memorandum slip of
the sale was offered as evidence by Mr..
Williams and was marked exhibit II.
Witness said further that Cook rendered
81 bill in payment for the oil. u
In the cross examination Of Barnes
Mr.. Barbour brought out the fact that
there was vacant lot In the rear OF
Clark's grocery store and that man
might go from the store to this lot and
then to the depot on side street with
out going by way Of Main street and
past the Haines house.
Maggie Bolan, a chambermaid en-5
ployed by Captain Hodgdon in tho
Haines house, was the next witness
called She said that she had known
Cook since she had been in the hotel.
She knew him as Fired" and did not
know his last name until recently. She
told of seeing Cook and Captain Hodg-
don in the Haines house on the eve-s
ming Of December "a and said that she
saw Cook that evening in the corridor
before she saw the captain about
o'clock Cook asked her when she first
saw him If she had seen Captain Hodg-
don She said that she did not see
Cook and Captain Hodgdon together
that evening. Asked how she remeIn-
bered seeing the men on Christmas day.
she replied: Because it was remarka-
BILE day."
Mr.. Williams-"Do you know where
the paint shop in the hotel is?"
at is on the top floor"
ibid you ever see cans about the
hotel similar to the two on the table
before?"
mo. I never saw any like those
about the house, except in the paint
shop when the door was open. I was
never in the paint shop"
Where is the kerosene for the hotel
kept?"
Down in the storeroom on the first
floor. 1t is kept in can which holds
about five gallons"