Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-01
NOT GUILTY.
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over a table and fell heavily to the floor;
She denied taking medicine of any kind
during the evening.
j. +. Slattery, counsel for John anern.
then questioned the witness and she ad-
mitted TO him she had talked with the
deputy sheriff after the dance--quite y
lengthy general conversation--but hau
said nothing to him about the affair
DR. f.. L. Conant. the next witness, S;lid
he was called at !. u \. NJ, Sunday, NOV.
H. and went 10 the ear station. where ne
found Miss Whitney in a senii-conS,ciou aS
condition. She was unable to stand ana
seemed To be almost in a IaintinS cohoi-
ton. Her pulse ana temperature were
normal. y carriage was procured anu
the young woman was taken TO her home
Witness called at the Whitney home, sun
day afternoon, and found the girl IN
about the same condition as nc ieft ner.
He tried to make her swallow tablet
in some water, bat the girl pushed the
glass away, saying: Il won't eat the ice
cream" All the time she called Tor
Leon and asked 10 be taken home
In cross-examination witness said he
did not feel qualified to say that u person
might awake after deliriunl ana feel. pos,
lively, that things she had INA sihso
when defirions were real. He said he
found no evidence that the girls condi-
lion was due IL the administration or a
drug. He said he knew OF no drug which
would Gauss. such condition.. but he
added that il was not Impossible tnat
slch a drug existed and that il might
have been used i'm this case.
IT,
was called to see Miss Whitney. but did
not find her in 4 dangerous condition. Tic
admitted that her condition might have
been due 10 Il drug, but IL was his opih-
ion that il came about from natural
causes. Mr.. McGillicuddy asked If attend
ing three dances on consecutive nights
falling from bicycle and falling on me
induce these symptoms. Witness replied
that il might. but he would not look Tor
il in everybody.
Were. called at the afternoon session, teS-
lifted that they were called Ia attend Miss
Whitney. They described her condition In
about The same manner AS had previous
witnesses. and both said that while her
condition might have been due to 4 drug
they could not state positively that Such
was the case. They also state s, tnat 81, on
gained consciousness. she told them or
occurrences at Sabattus on SATURDAY
right. This story, they said. also differed
SLIGHTLY from the one told by ner in court
Miss Whitney'S mother. Lena w Whitney,
was called and testified as to her daugh.
ter's condition when she was brought
home. Sunday morning. Previous 10 that
ttme. witness said The young woman had
been in good health. At this point County
Attorney Skelton said that while he hau
several other witnesses. he teit mat theS
could add nothing To the testimony al,
ready given by the other witnesses, ano
the state would rest It's case NJ 10
o'clock Mr.. McCiillicuddy opened for the
prisoners.
Mr.. McGinicuddy stated in his opening
that Daniel Roache of lower Lincoln
street Lewiston, the man accused by
Miss Whitney of being her principal as
sailant. had Just been liberated from Au-
burn JAIL where he had been serving Il
;;0-days sentence, and Where he was con-
fined at the time the alleged drggginS AZ az
as his first witness Herbert Hitchcock
one of the young men charged with beng
implicated III the case Hitchcock saiu ne
81 I,a,ya I Ivy 1
company with Edward j. Bewley ana
John Ahearn. arriving at Sabattus after
the dance had begun. He went lmneol-
ately to the hall and did not leave 1t I'M
til intermission, at which time he Wen'
down stairs for few moments. i'll com
pany with Bewley and Ahearn. IheE
dining room and Hitchcock then returned
to the hall and did not leave it until the
dance was over. He told with whom ne
danced and exhibited a dance ord .,,t ts S.i
was not down stairs more than Inree
minutes at internssion. Edward }. Dew
ley and John Ahearil: the other responu-
ents, then testified substantially the same
as Hitchcock. explaining their movements
during the evening.
Several young ladies then offered cor
roborative testimony. They Were followed
Tx Hattie Lowell. with whom Miss Nhlt-
ney attended the dance on NOV. 10. MISS
Lowell said she Went down 10 Inc SINK
room with Miss Whitney and Stella ttice
shortly before the ntermisson. Abbie
whitney took n drink of water from the
faucet and finding it unfit for drinking
purposes went to the door To spit II our;
She did not shut the door behind her anu
returned Immediately to the sink room.
Then the girls Went up stairs. On cross,
cxamina ton Miss Lowell said she had
seen the man known as Dan Roche on
the street several times within the past
few weeks. A.
Deputy Sheriff Jordan of Sabattus, tes-
tilted briefly regarding the location OF tia
hall and the methods of lighting the
PREMISES, He said the yard in which the
assault was alleged to have occurred was
lighted by five windows i'll the hall ana
was directly in sight of the house occu-
uied by Mr.. Lombard. proprietor OF the
establishment James c. Marshall 4 mo,
1Orman on the Sabattus electrtcS, tcsnlied
that on Nov. 10. at 1929, he arrived at the
lombard dance hall. In the sink room
he saw Abbie Whitney drinking some red
COlored liquor from q half-pint flask She
drank freely of this liquor and afterwlrd
placed the bottle in her dress. At TINS
I,oint Miss Whitney who was sitting pc
side. her mother at one side OF the naii'
burst into tears and wept bitterly.
The defence here rested its case ana
after deIiberation Judge Mitchell an
no,lnccd that he failed to iind prOpapis
cause against the three young men anu
they were accordingly discharged.
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