Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-17
INSANITY HIS PLEA.
tASTWOOD'S DEFENCE FOR KILLING
FRANKLIN FEM.

state Rests Its Case and Defence Develops
Its Line by Testimony Tending to show
Lack of Responsibility Experts on the
Stand for Both Sides.
The REGISTERS report of the Eastwood
trial closed at noon on Thursday of last
week, with the state still introducing
testimony. When court convened for
the afternoon session, DR.. NJ. H.. Eddy
was called to the stand. He attended
Mrs. Eastwood and her mother. Mrs.
Brown, in East Middlebury the morning
after the shooting. He said the wound
of the younger woman was in the left
side and he extracted the bullet from
Just under the right shoulder blade. The
older woman was shot in the right wrist,
and the left side, the bullet passing
through near the chest.
c. F. Rich testified to finding a whip
in East Middlebury near the scene of the
shooting
Mrs. W II. Cobb, wife of Deputy
Sheriff Cobb, testified that Eastwood
came to the jail at 2:l0 o'clock on the
morning following the shooting. She
met him in the hall and he said he had
come to give himself up to her. He
handed her a revolver, asked for some
water, and drank two glasses; told her
he wanted to be locked up, and not TO
tell any Que but the officers that he was
there. Eastwood pulled his vest open,
and showing her stains on his shirt,
asked if he could have medical attend
ance. She locked him up and hid the
keys and revolver until her husbands
return.
Sheriff Chapman was recalled to testify
concerning the revolver handed over by
Mrs. Cobb. He said when he received it
four chambers were loaded and one con-
tanned an empty shell.
DR.. f. p. Russell one of the phvsi-
clans who examined Eastwood in Jail the
morning after he gave himself up, testi-
fled that there was n bullet wound two
or three inches below the left nipple. the
bullet passing downwards and lodging
in the leshy parts. The bullet was
not removed. Thought from the burned
spots on Eastwood's shirt and small
piece of cloth taken from the wound that
the revolver was held at close range
when the shot was fired. DR.. Russell
was at the Addison House on the night
Of the shooting. He heard shot and
ran in the direction. Met Frank Shepard,
who told him man had been shot.
When he got to the scene he found Fem
&
Noble the next dav to make an autops Y
on Fem, and he described the wound.
Dr. W. II. Sheldon the next witness
testified TO weighing three bullets handed
him blythe states attorney. One of the
Alllcts, he vas Informed, was taken from
the body of Franklin Fem, another from
the decreasing of the Brown house ir
East Middlebury, and the third wa:
found in the Holmes house. TheiI
weights witness found to be practically
alike and the same as bullets in cartridges
taken from EastwOod'S clothing at the
Jail and from his trunk.
George Goyett of the undertaking firm
of Piper Il Govett identified clothing
taken by him from the body Of Franklin
Fem. The court adjourned for the day
at 3 30 clock, aS the examination had
progressed so rapidly that no more wit
nesses were on hand.
The first witness on the stand Friday
morning when court convened for the
fourth dav of the trial was Rev. jerome
Wood of Jamaica Plains, Mass, pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church OF
that place ard formerly of Greenfield
He testified that he knew Eastwood
when in Greenfield in 1896 and that Mrs
Eastwood Joined the witness church anG
| Sunday school in December of that wear
Mrs. Eastwood left her husband anC
went to Shirley 60 miles away In Jan.
uary, 1897, ana Eastwood came tC
witness house and showed much emo
ton and wanted Mrs. Wood, to whose
Sunday school class Mrs. Eastwood be
longed, 10 go to Shirley and induce the
latter to return. After getting East
wood TO sign the pledge for one year, the
witness allowed his wife 10 go and tall
with Mrs. Eastwood and have her com,
back, but not TO go and live with he
husband until April. She came back bu
stayed with other families. Eastwood
occasionally went to see her. The wit
ness had heard respondent use angry
words to his wife on two or three oc
casiOns.
The state next called Ida l.. Brown
until her divorce last week the wife o.
the defendant. She was not allowed t
testify, however, as her competency as
witness was questioned by the defence
and this objection was later sustained By
the court
After some further testimony b,
Sheriff Chapman as to the size of tn
bullets fitting Eastwood's revolver, tn
state rested its case at 10 80 o'clock.
The defence was not prepared to go ol
with its case, and after waiting TO
about an hour, the court took reces
until o'clock in the afternoon.
When court was called after the recess
the defence opened by bringing to tn,
stand the defendants step-mother, Mrs
Cherilla Eastwood, who previously ha
been called by the state She testifie
that Fred had not been so cheerful an,
full of life since he met with railroad
accident three years ago. She knew o
his having had another severe acciden
several years before his marriage, an
that he did not fully recover from III
same for several years. He had inure
his back and spine. She knew he ha
occasionally abused his wife with hi
tongue but not otherwise. One of Fred
aunts was built like him and looked lik
him. She died of an apoplectic shock
having had three of them. Fred's fathe
was blind for about five years precedin
his death and had had fits on man
occasions. In these fits he would frot
at the mouth, his head and arms woul