Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-25
SHOOK HER HAND.
Greeting By Fosburgh Family
 For Miss Sheldon.
PLEASED WITH HER TESTIMONY

Cross-examination of the Several
 Witnesses Was Conducted by MT
 Crosby
 Pittsfeld, Mass, July 25.-With the government case over with the excep- ton of the rebuttal testimony. WHICH it is. understood will be conslueraple and with the defense case well start- ed, in fact more than half or II gwen to the jury, the sixth day in the trlal of Robert Stewart Fosburgh on the charge of manslaughter, for causing tho death of his sister, May, was De- gun to-day with the interest in the case more evident than heretofore.
 This was so in spite of the fact that the morning opened with drizZl1ng rain, which served to make more dls- agreeable a leaden atmosphere and an uncomfortably chill wind.
 A large crowd besieged the court room door, the great magnet to draw them being the problem which con- fronts the government of the necessity of breaking down the story to be told by to-day's witnesses if 1t would strengthen the prosecutions case. The effort to bring about collapse Of the burglar story, which was made yester- day, was continued even more yigor- ously and more relentlessly, so the in- terest came in whether Mrs Fosburgh, the defendant, and NHs Sheldon. would testify in any way which would in part or in whole disturb the story of the Fosburghs that burglars en- tered their home on August 20, 1900. and murdered their eldest daughter. Berkshire county people who came to the trial were gratified to hear that Medical Examiner Paddock, an lm- portant witness at the trial for the government and one of the best be loved sons of Berkshire, had improy- ed in condition. so that there was slight hope of his recovery from the attack of heart disease which he suf- fered last night.
 The first witness of the day was Miss M Estelle Chapin, sister of Mrs Shepardson. who testified that she was a singer in the Congregational church at Dalton. On the Sunday night that the shooting occurred she reached her home at 10 minutes of S. Her friend Mir Scoyille accompanied her to the house. and he left at 10 minutes to Il. She remained up till 12:30, at which hour she finished a book that she was reading. Her room was on the side of the house toward the Fosburghs's residence. She re- membered that she heard singing at the FoSburgh house. After she went to sleep she was awakened by the 1n- cessant ringing of the doorbell and soon she heard mems voices crying Murder, police, help"
 Her sister came into the room and together they kneeled at a window and listened. They heard woman say "She is gone, then the witness, her sister and her sisters husband went to the Fosburgh house, where they were met by James Fosburgh and where they saw Mrs Robert $. Fosburgh on the landing and MT Lund in the parlor. Robert S. Fosburgh, Beatrice and Miss Sheldon came down stairs and the visitors were told what had happened. The witness remained until o'clock She saw both of the doctors.
 On the cross examination by NIT Crosby the witness said she had never spoken to any of the Fosburgh family about the tragedy since the night it occurred. She did not recall that she saw Officer Flynn when he came to the Fosburgh house. She thought that Dr Paddock did not arrive until about 2:40 o'clock.
 The next witness called was Harry
 Plumb, one of the neighbOrs.
 MT Plumb testified that he was a hotel clerk at the Wendell house dur ing last August On the 18th of that month he worked until 10:40 p. m. when he went to his home, which is opposite the Fosburgh house, and the nearest to the Fosburgh house in the neighborhood. It was quiet at Il o'clock and everything was da3k when he went to bed. although it was star light night He was asleep at the time he was awakened by screams. which seemed to be muffied. Then he heard a pistol shot, followed in a few moments by another shot, and then by screams All these seemed to be muf- fled as if coming from an enclosure. His wife screamed and then he heard a voice which seemed to come from the Fosburgh house, calling: ".POlice, murder. burglars" He thought at the time that the first calling was from a person very much scared. He dressed and ran over to the Fosburgh house. Mir Fosburgh. ST. came to the win dow over the front door, then came down stairs and opened the front door. He made a statement to the witness at that time as to what had happened. , Judge Stevens excluded the statement made by MT Fosburgh to the witness and the fact that he said something was admitted
 Continuing. MT Plumb said that he was outside the house when Dr Scho- field came. The first time he saw MT Fosburgh. ST, he had on a nightshirt and trousers Shortly after the wit ness entered the Fosburgh house with lTr Chapman he saw the defendant. who came down stairs with his broth CT James. Robert was dressed. Witt ness then went to procure a nurse Dr Paddock came to the F0sburgh house three-quarters of an hour after Dr Schofeld. and the nurse arrived about o'clock. Witness was certain that he noticed the footprints, which seemed to be those made by two men who had dropped down from the pi- azza roof One of the men was ap- Dnrently without shoes The govern menf counsel objected to this last bit of testimony. and the witness was cautioned not 10 draw conclusions. Asked as to additional footprints NIT Plumb tesfiiled that he saw others I'D tile road. the footprints being. very
 On the croes-ex1mInatIon witness e1I6 he had introduced MT Chapman f6 NIT Fosfn'rr| <F aHI '|e hoord the