The Portland daily press., 1898-04-07
TIE BRaM TRIAL.
Evidence Introduced In Behalf of Mate
of the Fuller.

Boston, A pril 6.-The jury in the Bran
murder trial will defer view of the bark
Herbert Fuller until several important
witnesses for the defense have been ex-
amined at the request of Mr.. Cotter.
Henry Perdoc of the Fuller crew was
called and questioned in regard to state
ment made by WATSON to the effect that
victed they would each get two years.
Perdoc said that the first time he ever
heard that remark was when WATSON
asked him if he remembered hearing Bran
say it.
Jonathan Spencer, steward of the Fuller
was called and asked if he ever haa mace
any experiments in regard 10 ioohihg
through the window in the after mouse OF
the Fuller. He said he had ana descrlpeu
the attempt saying that with everything
on board the vessel placed as nearly 10
possible in the same condition as ne
found them when he entered the after
house and found the dead body of Captain
Nash, and holding the wheel with one
hand he could see the form OF man
moving around in the chart room, but
could not recognize him or even tell
whether he was black or white
In the T0u1IcCU b1pSiSSt
said that standing in the forward com
pan1onway he could plainly see the face
Of the clock and tell the time.
John ii. Watson of Beverly Farms,
Mass, S. A. futile of Hyde Park, jerome
W. Fogerty of Roxbury, e. j. Brown OF
Boston, and Timothy Donovanlof Lynn
all testified to being present on this occa-
81 N and making observations With SUP,
stantially the same results as those reclted
by Spencer.
Ca plain Albert f. Sprague OF Marsh
field, described the experiments IN the
same way as previous witnesses. In the
cross-examination. Mr.. Jones pressed the
witness very closely for measurements or
estimates of distances IN
several instances and Captain Sprague
acknowledged that he did not take par
ticular notice OF tie exact distance pc
tween any two points and could give no
accurate estimate. He said he understood
he was only to testify for the defense as
an expert in steering sailing vessels and
did not expect to be called upon to give
an account of these experiments from the
witness stand. The cross-examination
served to somewhat arouse the Ire OF the
witness but did not succeed in altering
his testimony to any extent. Hugh g..
Messenger of East Boston, ship wright
testified that he went to Halifax in
August, 1856, and made some measure
ments on the Herbert Fuller. He later
went to Brooklyn, N. Y. and was present
at the time the experiments were made.
His story was the same as Spencer's,. with
the exception that he could distinguish a
hat npon the head of a person standing in
the cabin. He thought every member OF
the party wore hats of dark material.
Lewis Cook OF South Weymouth, clerk
of court of Norfolk county, did not have
SO good success in seeing objects in the
chart room on the evening of March u as
did some of the other witnesses. HIS
story was different inasmuch as he said
he could see the object in the cabin very
indistinctIy. The moving lath he could
see only when standing with his face
close against the window.
Captain Henry 6. Billings grocer OF
Hyde Park was called and had not COM
pleted his story when adjournment was
taken at five O'Clock.