Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-18
| SELF-CONFESSED PERJURER
Cupidity rTerr, Caused Late Sen.
sntional Testimony.

|
Bucksport, Me, March l6.-Before
Recorder Remick of the Western Han.
| cock municipal court. Joseph A. Fogg,
Jr., was arraigned on the charge of per-
jury, pleaded guilty, and was sent 10
Ellsworth Jail. in default of $4,000 bonds.
Fogg had confessed that his testimony
| in the hearing Of w. 7. Treworgy. ar
rested on the charge of the murder OF
| Sarah Ware, was false in every par
ticuar.
The writ specified the offence as hav-
ing been committed upon the 10th in
! slant in certain testimony uttered by
| Fogg. in the hearing of l.. y. Treworgy
| charged with the murder of Sarah Ware
on or about Sept. Il. 1t was solely on
| Foggs testimony that probable cause
| was found against TreWOrey. and he
was held for the grand jury, and is now
| in Ellsworth Jail. Foggs testimony at
the hearing was sensational in the eX-
| treme. and was in substance that Il
few nights after the disappearance of
Sarah Ware he was asked by Treworsy y
| to help do job, and he accompanied
Treworgy on u jigger to a certain spot
in the Miles lane and helped Treworgy
the body was found Oct. .. Fogg's
statement was not shaken to any extent
by rigid cross examination.
On Tuesday Fogg confessed to Chair
man Hall of the board of selectmen that
he had testified falsely and that his
whole story was Il lie from beginning to
end. and repeated the same in the pres
ence of Detective Odlin. County At
torney Bunker was notified and at once
ordered Fogg's arrest. At the hearing
Fogg declined counsel, and was allowed
to tell his own story.
He said that he was seen by S. l..
Haywood. l.. F.. Tapley of Bucksport, and
Detective Tracey of Bangor. who told
him that they knew that he knew all
about the murder Of Sarah Ware and
wanted him to tell them what they knew
he had told his wife, mother and another
party. He had seen them number of
times, and they told him he would have
70 go to state prison IL he did not tell
what he knew; that Tracey told him that
he had u writ for his arrest, and would
send him to state prison if he did not tell;
that Tracey said he had $500 in his
possession, and half of it would go to him
if he would tell.
Fogg then created sensation by say
ing that Tracey and Tapley went out
10 the Miles lane to see If there was
stone wall there, and also told him he
found the body at the place where the
bit of cloth was found, which, at one
time, was thought to have had some
connection with the case but which af-
terwards was disproved. Fogg said that
he was scared into telling the story, and
was ignorant enough to believe it would
come out all right. After the hearing he
thought of what he had done, and could
keep 1t no longer, and told some of his
folks that he had lied, and afterwards
told Hall and Odlin. He had seen Tap
ley since the hearing, but none of the
others. He said that Tapley had told
him to stick to his story, and Treworgy
would look through the crates. Fogg
nearly broke down several times.
The Mr.. Haywood referred to has been
very prominent in the Investigations
independent of the regular authorities,
and made the complaint for the arrest
of Treworgy. He. with Tapley and
Tracey, traced to Fogg a report which
was said to be in circulation that Sarah
Ware was murdered before her body
was found, or 1t was generally known
that she was murdered.
The charges Fogg has made have add.
cd to the intense interest in the case,
especially as Fogg. at the Treworgy
hearing, was as mistaken in cross ex-
animation us he was in his, latest re-
cital. The people of this town, as
rule, do not know what to think of
Fogg. 1t is believed that application
for Treworgy's release on habeas cor
pus writ will be made.