The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15

Attorney W. s. Matthews, and Officer
Frank Matthews of Pennington, N. H.,
were waiting. Officer Frank Matthews
had with him the bag containing the
shirt which is believed to be the strong
est evidence against Champion.
The shirt was found at the Pennington
railway station Monday, but as 1t was
rolled up In q bundle, its identity was not
ascertained until this morning. After
Champion had been introduced to Coun-
ty Attorney Matthews and both had
shaken hands, Champion was taken into
the wash room Of the jail and given an
entire change OF clothing. 1t was thought
that he would be arraigned tonight, but
by the time he had dressed, himself, he
was almost in state OF collapse. Ar
raignment was necessarily postponed un-
til eight O'Clock tomorrow morning.
After light supper he was taken into
cell nineteen on the first tier in the jail.
He will be arraigned tomorrow before
Trial Justice Drew in the local court
house and he Is likely to waive examina-
ton.
No attempt will be made to take him
to Newfield. The feeling at the place Of
the murder has become more intense In
,, the last day or two and although 1t Is
believed that no attempt would be made
to interfere with the prisoner, there
might be some disegreeable scenes con-
nected with his presence here.
Champion Is not accompan led by his
wife. He talked a great deal with the
reporters on the road from Boston, but
said nothing at all about the crime.
The strongest evidence against Cham
pion is the blue shirt which was found In
| the waiting room at Pennington, N. III.
Cham pion's movements have been
| traced thoroughly, and 1t has been seer
tained that he arrived In Farnington
bstween six and seven o'clock Monday
M CT In n tnSa his train
He1 was very .mu ch chagrined over this
Incident.
AS soon as the clothing store in the vii
lage opened, he went there and purchased
a shirt. Taking his purchase into a
nearby saloon, he removed his old one
in a side room for : he new. The shirt
which he purchased was wrapped up In
bag such as Is usually found In country
stores. and into this he placed the dis
cared garment, which he carried to the
railroad station. For want Of better
place. he rid himself of his bundle by
throwing IL into the box used for holding
time tables. Half an hour afterwards 1t
was found there by boy and shortly af'
| ter the attention of the station agent,
George Wood, was called to it. Thinking
nothing of the incident, Wood took the
bundle fro m the box and threw II upor
a shelf in his Office. This morning two
officers came from Pennington in search
OF going down to the river bank, but
concluded first TO try the lavatory at the
railroad station. Wood now remembered
the bundle he had carelessly thrown upon
the shelf. 1t was found to BIS covered
with blood. Under one arm 1t looked as
II the owner had tried to wash q spot
from 1t. The blood was scattered up the
shirt from the lower part OF the bosom to
the right shoulder. Champion maintains
| to account for the presence of the spots,
that he had had the nosebleed, but the
way the blood Is scattered on the shirt
shows conclusiyely that the fluid was
| thrown up on the garment rather than
down upon 1t. The shirt was given t.
Officer Matthews.
Champion left Newfleld between twelve
and one o'clock In the morning after the
fire had been set TO the house OF Mr..
Goodwin. He then walked to Union, N
H., and arriving there about five O'Clock,
he hired an outfit and drove to Farming
ton, N. II. 1t was at farmington that
he purchased the shirt about eight O'Clock
and some time later caught the train for
Boston.
Once in Boston, he went directly to a
house where he met his wife. His trunk
was removed TO the South Union station
during the course of the afternoon and
both Champion and his wife left at seven
O'Clock in the evening for Milford. Thei !
actions had been traced from place to
place so that their visit In Milford was
soon to be interrupted, for on "Wednesday
| evening the officers had satisfied them.
selves OF the identity of Champion and hs
was placed under arrest by Boston officers
after New England had been alarmed
and searched over.