The sun., 1901-07-23

man 90 not nAVo nle susponcAs ovet hs
shouldars, but that they hung down In loops
about his hips. In the course OF his'tee
mony Mr. Fosburgh touched upon this
: ~ saying that he had noticed that Detective
Chapnan, In his testimony. had described
how HE suspenders hung on that night,
wh~sa1, - matter OF fact. he had mol haa
There was another point where Mr.. Fos-
burgh's and Detective Chapmans testi-
mony touched upon the same subJ bJsct
Under The questions OF the counsel Tor
the persecution Detective Chapman said
that he DID not know Of any burned matches
having been found lying about the foors
Of the rooms In the Forburgh house after
the tragedy: he might have heard some
thing to that effect but he did not know
anything about 1t, personally. But In
his own house burned matches had been
found lying about the floor on the morn
ing following the tragedy and Mrs Chap
man, hs WIFE told him she believed that
burGhrs had been in the house. He said
he aAthsred them up and turned them
over 70 the chief Of police. lust TO ease
his vifes mind. He denied positively
buroh tragedy that this was case OF i
told yov so and had In that connection
referred 10 ths finding OF matches in his
Colnsa for ths prosecution. whose
EtnsS sas sa,n. NJ ro'sSSrss BURG, Tss ths o0S, dlc
0Mk MN oGU0hI8 oAuus HtV iIhh-
Se %ba@ed 1atghss lying about the floor
As fsS6ursh. house. Counsel
for Tie d1fsnss. Mr.. Jeyner. in cross-eI-
aminStsm ID M reply to Mr. Joyners
Ques1onA NJ. Ie6bYrSh said that burned
n,atohas ysre found On On the h,a moor o., OF ths fs
on The hoors q ssvssal other rooms. These
matches. be said. weFs found by. some
OF the policemen. whlts he had found
othGs. An were taken charge OF by the
police and BE- presumed they were in the
S:s a., Of TIE vSss nS ~nsss as mSsr Seq
matohes'-thAt II, matches made on .
stiak. something nks comb. and are
He further totthed hat there were no
suoh matches In hi home. The family using
the Diamond Or parlor match exclusively;
in evidence these bFns4 matches found
house on the morning following the tragedy.
A pscuharity OF He kind OF match the
xitnsss losbursh described ;s a.nS tnep to .S be
no noise whom tAsy are struck, and 80.
presumably. would be useful article
Of Q burglars equipment.
80 far as the SPECTATORS In the court room
wesy concerned this testimony OF Mr.. james
oSenrgn va. az s .ss'S59s, &c shsHSs 70 me
the State that has been introduced. The
STATE has. even up 10 to-day concealed its
oass against Mr.. Fosburgh with 40 much
sltu that the spectators who did not know
what plan Of action the prosecution had
most, II not all. OF the testimony thus far
introduced meant a. bearing upon the
guilt Of Mr.. Robert Stewart Fosburgh.
the defendant.
When questions have been asked about
this testimony and how II pointed toward
ka haar avv,lainal IN NJ
II was only to LAY n foundation for
the structure OF overwhelming evidence
against the defendant which the Chief OF
Police has been rearing and cementtng
together during nearly year past. People
groping in the dark and asking IN their
bewihered. unillumined way. when the
case for tho State was going TO begin. have
been put Off by those supposed TO know
the prosecutors secrets. with such mys-
terfous erpressions as: just you wait"
''the Chief knows what he Is about Never
you mind. all this s mere foundation work.
out all In due time and then you'll open
your eyes.
Up his flowing necromanosrs sleeves
and under his peaked wizards hat there
are, metaphoricalfy speaking. all sorts
Of rsSets wts ,Sins mice ana on Stns. surprising
denos that he Is liable b let loose just when
you least expect It They all call him
1The Chief here, There is. Of course,
but one chief, and he Is It.. So why put
police to the titlet II d narrowing
il there is anything Pittsiield loathes It
There was even futter to-day about
the great surprise Ii was coming In the
testimony OF DR.. Sconeld. people said,
They said last week II was coming in the
testimony Of DR.. Paddock, When Dr.
Paddock failed to produce II they said:
sNevsr mind. wait till DR. scofeld is called
DR.. Soofisld was the first physician to get
to the house after the tragedy.
Mr.. James Fosburgh testified to-day
that after telephoning TO number OF phy-
eicians. none Of whom could or would come
he at last got DR.. Soofeld
Just what the nature Of the sacrifice was
which DR.. Sooned had up his sleeve nobody
undsrs90s S.. 70 g,Sss,, raege W. vas ,.a pretty
q huttsr in tho court room followed by a
general diAsPpointmont, DR. sconsid ..i did DID
and did not appear until after a witness. or
two had been examined Then hs was called
for tho eeoond time This time he appeared
Again there was bum and hutter In tho
People settled themselves in their seats
and leaned forward exoectsntly. At last
some testimony with grip In II was TO come.
But here again there was a dlsappointment,
DIR. Soofleld's evidence was Of the old struc-
tural. Fundamental kind People knew this
Just as soon a. they began to think his bssti-
mOny leaned toward the defence.
They knew then II WAS structural. and
much Of the structural evidence. when un-
ilumined by what the state has up Its
sleeve, sounds az though II really were
evidence for the defence.
Mr.. A. A. Fobes. very tedious witness,
who made the plans Of the Fosburgh house
and grounds. and " whom IL seems there il
never to b. an end during the trial. was the
frst witness called and there was good
deal of time consumed In questioning him
on particularly arid technicalres.
Then came two young men named Hall
an Hayes, very greatly embarrassed and
apparently incapable. under either nersua-
sion or menace OF replying 10 questions In
! other way save In rumbles and WINS
efs. Tney testified to finding about lOo
ytrus from the FOsburgh house, at about
O'Clock on the morning of the tragedy a
pair OF blue. whlte-strped socks
Then came Mr.. William Dunn, a member
OF the Pittstield Fire Department, who tes-
tifPd that at the same date and nj about
the same hour he found pair OF trousers
gn1 pillow case on the road, about four or
n ~ blocks from The Fosburgh house. Hill
lnd Hayes testified that in the dust of tho
read near where they found the socks there
were inprnts OF bare feet--the bare feet
appar,ntly OF a single person, footprints
that were broad ana about ten inches long.
Two more witnesses testified TO being
with Dunn when tho trousers were found.
The State dwelt at some length on the
statement that those trousers when he
found them were hanging on the fence.
On CrOss-RXainluatiou II was eliCited that