Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-09
the STATE RESTS.
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lHc pace was 'i'e'i '''''NNNN
excessive use of Intoxicating liquor
and he feared least he might lose II all
II is true that he borrowed of Edit
Willard $50 for which he gave nj:
promissory note. but this $50 was NOR
than offset by loans that he had befor'
this made to Mrs Willard. her fathe
and her husband. VINO had recent!
died He took this way of securing HI:
pay as a portion of the claim was out
lawed.
The defence will show that the none,
was sometimes kept Dy him IN on
place and sometimes in another, bu
that during all these years he CAREFUL!
maintained the little amount that III
had gathered together in Madison ant
Greenvile.
Sunday before the murder. he saw
Matthias Pare under the influence of
liquor and spoke "A few words 10 him
in salutation. shook hands and passed
ON. He did not know that he had any
money with him. that he had a check
or that he had cashed it. nor did he
know that Pare was starting for his
h.me in Canada at all.
We shall invite your sharp attention
to the contrast between 1eIflb tollul-
lion on that Sunday afternoon and his
relations with Pare. To those of Pooler,
ana Murray and Nigue. who We're en-
Gagged i'll u drunken carousal and braWl
II the house of Silvare Gaudet. Terrio
has not taken 50 much as drop of
liGuor for nine years. The other young
men from drinking to brawls passed
the hours Of Sunday until late into the
night.
1t was during this day that Pare eX-
iibited his money to these four young
men who We're gathered at his house.
II was this day that Murray and
pcol.r. after Pare was We'll under the
Influence of liquor. came down with
more liquor. They knew that on the
morrow early he was TO go to Canada
and early in the morning. Pare. realiZ-
ing what he had passed through the
night before. believed that he was in
danger of losing his money. for he
stopped at Mrs. Parents and put part
of his money in the envelope and leav-
ing the remainder in his wallet. Did
h. fear violence? If not. why did he
divide his money?
4 little before he started in the morn
ing, Joe Murray left his home in n
binding snow storm to go l. miles for
the sole purpose of getting few fish
that he had caught more than 4 month
before and left in the snow on the west
shore Of Brassau pond. Why did he
take a rifle with him to bring back
those fish 1t is a significant fact that
while H. stopped at one or two places
IN his return, no one has testified to
Seeing any fish nor has his brother-in-
law. Joe Mcdonald. appeared in this
case
This very Sunday before the murder
was committed. Sunday. Joe Murray
ANA Mcdonald went to Asquith to get
some rum at MINISTERS and it is quite
significant~that this lonely spot in the
road was selected by somebody to com
nit this crime. Murray says that he
saw some snowshoe tracks coming
down from the north and by inference
the State would have you believe that
Terro made circuit OF several miles
before he got to the trail of Murray.
Now the only object can be that if
these tracks were Terrio's. that he
made this long circuit to escape detec
tlon. but there was no eye there. 1t
was already in the heart of the forest
and if his object was to avoid seeing
anybody or leaving behind any traces
Of himself. why did he when he struck
this trail of Joe Murray's. follow the
trail for two miles? Remember it was
showing hard. it was blowing. and yet
Murray has the hardihood to assert
that Notwithstanding this he knew the
tracks We're Terrios. No possibility of
error.
He says that Wednesday following
he saw tracks returning that crossed
his trail going due north. but a mile
10 the west of where the ycrossed two
days before. But now he doesn't at
tempt to identify the returning tracks
as those of TerriO. 1t will be borne in
mind that he was from s in the morn
ing till II in reaching his camp but
tnat it only took him an hour and a
half To go back down to Felix Butlers
Where WAS he the other hour and a
half or two hours that morning?
There is now another phase of the
case that proves interesting. Simeon
Newton who with one Patrick Murphy.
had teen on a drunken debauch for two
days. going back and forth over the
road from Asquith station to Moose
river. claims that on the day of the
murder he was at the spot where Pare
was murdered saw the snow in the
road trampled down by snowshoes.
blood in the road and a grip by the side
"f the road and the form of a man
about 10 or y rods distant. hurrying
from the scene on his snowShoes with
q rifle on his shoulder. going due north.
The map shows that course would lead
duect TO the camp of Joe Murray.
lie claims that he did not see the
face of the man and how could he in
Il binding snow storm. at the distance
"f ~" feet. But he says that he noticed
the mans walk. the man going on
SnowSh"es. and that month or 50
later he met this man in the woods at
Inc camp of John Holden and from his
walk he thought that il was the re-
*Iondent at the bar. Alexander Terrio
ana positively Identifies him from his
walk.
This same Simeon Newton mat loo
Murray at the house of Felix Putla,
Nlice taeE were engaged in converse
'lJa 20" *'nle little time. and ,.at we
"hail h" abe to show that Sin,a>, i, =
~" mat ne never saw Joe Murray in
n'n 'ht "htii the month of September
iJSt. when he was MAKING n =,