Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-31
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fired $50 and be confined five days in
iail. Mr. Smith is at present in New
York, but if he comes to Connecticut
he will be taken into custody and the
sentence of the court will be carried
out.
Police CAPTAIN Arnold was the first
witness of the day. his cross-eXamina-
ton being resumed at the point ADAM
doned, yesterday. This testimony con-
cerned chiefly the examination by the
police of the ashes in the furnace at
the house of DR.. Nancy Guilford, the
only point of interest brought out be-
ing the witness admission that one
of the buckles found was rusty when
discovered. The defence chung tena-
ciously to the Importance OF TINS point,
claiming that it gave rise to the theory
that the buckle had been in the fur
mace for some time and was too Old
TO permit of its connection with gar
ments worn by Emma Gill.
Some liveliness was lent to the exam
nation when on the re-crosS question
ing the state attorney asked Captain
Arnold concerning the Gulford bath
ROOM The witness stated that in the
room he detected a pronounced odor,
The prosecutors inquiry as to the ma
ture brought forth perfect storm of
objection from the defence.
The court sustained the objection and
this evidence was ruled out. For some
minutes at this point the lawyers for
the defence bombarded the court with
nd NnintS held
to be we'll taken.
The second witness was George A
Deal, manager of the Postal Tele-
graph Company. He identified the
telegram sent from Boston by Oxley
to Mrs Guilford. 1t read: Friend is
away: let me know what you have
done" He also identified the receipt
signed by Mrs. Guilford upon the de-
livery of the message. On cross-eXam-
nation he admitted that in August he
was not connected with the Bridge
port Postal office as manager and thus
knows nothing personally of the tram
saction.
The Postal manager was followed by
Que of the telegraph company's mes
Esanger boys, who identified Mrs. Gull
tford as the woman to whom he deliv-
Cred the telegram.
Funeral Director John Cullanune Of
this city. was next called as witness.
He described the action of embalmlng
fluids used by him and asserted that
its only effects was to harden the re-
mains. He said that he handled the
remains of Emma Gill: that he used
on these remains this fluid, and that
it so hardened the head that lit could
be thrown over building without sus-
tanning damages. He asserted that
this fluid could not change the color
of the hair.
The cruss-examination of this witness
produced the first sensation Of the day
when for the first time in the course
of the trial the Identification of the
victims body as that of Grace Perkins
of Middleboro. Mass, was brought out.
Cullinane was asked by counsel for
/ Mrs. Guilford to give the marks by
which the head was identified. Among
other things the witness mentioned a
| burn on the head which. apparently,
| had been made by a curling IRON. lie
| had discovered this mark when the
head was first placed in his care at the
morgue and later when his attention
| was called to it by Frank Perkins of
| Middleboro.
| At this point tle state fought bitter
" for the exclusion of any testimony
| involving the Perkins identificatlon'
| but the defence succeeded in securing
the admission of testimony by the wit
| ness TO the effect that Cullinane had
upon the positive identification of the
body by Frank Perkins as that of his
daughter. shipped the remains to Mass
achusetts.
| BENJAMIN Wright, a driver Tor the
| Adams Express Company in Bridge
port. rehearsed the shipment OF TWO
| bills of money. $50 and $40, from Plants
| VILE to Mrs Guilford and stated that
| Mrs Guilford receipted for the money
personally.
| Richard W. Cogswell. q clerk in the
| CITY Savings Bank of Bridgeport, was
| the next witness. He stated that MIS-
| Guilford had deposited in the BANK I'M
dor the name of n. Alice Guilford and
| identified her signature. The deposl-
| tory book and deposit cards when
were signed by Mrs. Guilford We're
submitted in evidence. The witness
identified Mrs. Guilford's signature.
charles c. Woodruff. receiving teller
for the Bridgeport National Bank tes-
tilted in the same line. r. {. Betts' the
photographer who had previously tes-
tilted in the case, identified photos that
he had taken of the residence OF Mrs
C,uilford and the interior of the same
The most important witness during
the early hours of the afternoon SEES
sion was Howard c. Guernsey. the
Southington druggist and the friend OF
Harry Oxley. This witness stated thai
on the morning on which there ap'
reared in the newspapers the announce
,nent of the finding of portions OF the
body Oxley gave to him bundle o.
letters. and that he destroyed those
: letters on the day on which Oxley wa:
arrested. He did not know what thu
letters contained, by whom they were
) written or to whom they were ad
| dressed
> J. +. Shelley. the bridgeport mana
, ger of the Western Union Telegraph
t Co. identified a telegram which wa
sent by DR.. Guilford from Bridgeport
to Oxley. at Bridgeport. in which Oxle.
was advised that nothing had beel
= done and urged him to write, not tele
' graph,
hoy nn,ly