Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-07
ARGUMENTS, TODAY.
Evidence Finished in Brainerd
Murder Trial at Portland,
Nine. Schumann-Heink Wins New
Laare's at Music Festival.
Splendid Deer Hunting Near Bingham Drown.
ing Accident at Salisbury Cove


was taken up in receiving testimony
from the Telephone Co.'S xvorkmen who
were associated with Brainerd prior t,
the shooting.
Arthur McGili. who was On the stand
at adjournment, Friday night. d.
sclihcd a conversation that he and AIR
Due had with the respondent in the
police station. the morning after the
murder. Mr.. Due said that the officials
were in town. Brainerd: We'll, it is
all passed now" Witness told him
that he had shot Buxton. and Brain
erd said: 1t is all past now: | am
sorry
Francis r. Fitzgerald Of Salem
Mass, testified tina; he told Hrainerd
ti.at Mr.. Farnham had been in the
Ciiice the previous evening and had
asked where Brainerd lived. Witness
remarked to Brainerd that everything
WIS quiet in the office. Brainerd re-
piled. You will hear from that later"
He considered Rrainerd a hard drinker
saying, He was a hard drinker in Lo-
Weil" Brainerd had spoken to him
about the home company and said that
his services We're not appreciated
Alvah G.. Reynolds. Boston. who
worked with Brainerd in the Portland
Office until the incident of dropping
the hammer on Brainerd, testified that
when the hammer hit Brainerd he was
angry. and said: IF that thing hap
pens again, there will be a funeral in
somebody's family"
George X. Manson, an electrician and
engineer in the Boston office at the
time Of the shooting, who succeeded
the late l.. II. Farnham as chief cleo
trician. was examined at length in re-
gard to interviews he had with Brain
erd from time to time before the shoot
ing, and about Brainerd's complaints
of not receiving sufficient compensa-
ton for his responsible duties. To this
witness Brainerd had telephoned the
Friday before the shooting, reporting
| that some of the men of his crew We're
liking trouble. Witness was sent to
| Portland to investigate the trouble.
| Rranerd related to him the incident of
| the hammer and said Reynolds did it
purpOsely.
lie told me that Reynolds was the
ringleader and that McGill appeared
considerably pleased because the ham
mer fell" Mr.. Manson testified that
he had always considered Branerd a
steady drinker, had seen him the
worse for liquor" and had seen him
| for a very short time useless for work
on account of indulgence in intoXi-
cantS.
Deputy Marshal Willard Firth. who
was shot through the side by Brainerd,
was the first witness to testify at the
afternoon session. He said that he had
conversation with Brainerd in the
cell room. during which he said You
nearly got me that time, didn't you
Brainerd replied: 4 am sorry that |
did"
on cross examination, Judge Foster
made a point that when Braincrd came
down the stairs he took Firth by the
hand and told him to go up stairs.
Deputy Firth testified that Brainerd
did shake hands with him and made
some remark about up stairs, but he
did not know what it was.
Inspector Henderson also had con-
versation with Brainerd in the cell
room. when Brainerd told him he was
sorry he had shot Deputy FIRTH. In
spector Pickett testified that while
ia king Brainerd from he police station
to the jail Brainerd had said To him
that some people thought he CBrainerd)
did not know what he was doing, but
that he did He said he was sorry for
if. and that he had a long and rocky
road to travel Upon cross-eXamlna-
ton Pickett said that he did not know
nj that time that Brainerd had been
pronounced by the doctors as insane.
Deputy Firth was recalled by the
State and asked if he had any other
communication with Brainerd. He re-
piled that Brainerd had said to nm
that the woman was partly RESPONSE
bIe" and by the woman he meant the
one known as his wife.
Mrs. Smith. with whom Brainefd ana
his wife boarded on Cumberland street
gave testimony that was quite import
ant relative to Brainerd drinking
while working in this city. she SAID
that the two had stopped at her houSe
beween eight and twelve weeks. Nhen
they left she found two dozen empty
quart whisky bottles in their room
| She had never seen him but once IN
der the influence of liquor.
Court adjourned to Monday morning.
when the arguments will be submitted
and the case will go to the jury, Mon
day afternoon.
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