Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-26

field came.
HE said ! must leave my daughter
as she was. ] remember little after
that. ] did not speak to the officers.
did not zee Dr. Paddock. He made u
mistake IN saying that saw him that
night. ! saw him at breakfast only.
helped to get breakfast that morning
and when DR. Paddock came l said to
him: Doctor have you a daughter oi
your own and he answered.. Yes.
said: My girl was good: my girl was
pure; you will treat her as II she were
your own He replied to me: Mrs
Fosburgh. | VIII
Il knew that the autopsy had TO be
performed and ] thanked him. 1t was
later that the nurse told me that had
a stin neck. on examination i fpund
that IT was bruised. The nurse told me
that they must have tried to choke me.
When saw my child lying there. what
! did see impressed itself so indelibly
upon my mimi that ! did not rea iZe
my own injury. | did not see my boy
Robert until he came into that room
ana fell"
IN response 10 n question Mrs. Eos
burgh said that Il was not Robert who
| was ma sked. There were two men. she
said
Continuing. the witness said that she
remembered that Dr. Paddock told her
at the Chaplin house that ii was his
opinion that Il slung shot was what
had hurt hei.
| Mrs. Fosburgh's testimony was Civ
en- with dramatic effect and II had the
| court room spelbound. Many Of the
| women in the court room were In
| tears.
The last bit ~ direct testimony Mrs
| Fosburgh gave was to the erect that
| she never said that she did not see the
| lntrtders. The scene was so impressed
upon her mind that She could never for
| get Il.
| District Attorney Hammond in cross
examination read many questions which
had been propounded at the inquest re,a
tive Ia Dr Paddocks first call. about
which she testified Hast week. Mrs Eos
burgh reiterated tina, she dld not see ~
| Paddock on his first call
| ''Yol say your husband overpowercI
the burglars ana that th"y were "a The
ioarr" asked Mr. Hammond
! The witness answered. Yes ana
1
do not know. Il was more than human
Speaking about the light IN the room.
Mrs. Fosburgh thought that II must have
been the light made by matches.
when surang al thr man il ~ posi-
hle that | tor" hiS pillow case The hat
was found jus; where had that struggle
| with him.
| The witness denied that she hld madt
| answt r. At tn" inquest such were reau
to her ~ Mr.. Hammond relative to the
struggle with the men. she wolid ga y
that It wa the third man behind the
Two who had the light. She did not know
that any claim Was made that burglar
had been IN the house b, fore James got
! back.
/ Didn't VIVID ten Dr Paddo, what In,
trouble was between him and hi wife
| There was No trouble
| Did You nut tell Or Paddock that
Robert itnd married below his station
| No. answered Mrs. Fosburgh
| The judge secluded this question ana
| the answer
The witness heard nothing about May
| nightgown being torn. II vas her own
| nightgown. The washwoman WAS mis-
| taken. Asked whether she did not tel.
| Or. Paddock their relations Were unhap-
~. witness answered thnt she Jold Dr..
| Paddock that Nav was nervous and
| wanted to gn To her mother
The defence rested At sra o'ctock ana
| IN frbuItal the stat. called six wituesse :
! The first was Major Mckay Of the state
| police. who stated that Beatrice had stat
| ed i'll his presence that she saw no ON.
| in the Fosburgh house but members ui
| the family AZ the time of the shooting.
Patrick Pakrr. superintendent pf trteC.
! tiNtS al Providence. X l.. testified tina,
| ne knew Hiss sheldon ana v!s.ted her IL
| COMPANY with col. Whitney. about Sept
| - Whitney did the most Of the. talking
| Miss Sheldon described tile event. N IN,
| night and sand she retired about Il
| - clock. The next she knew she hear
| through lh- dunr into Nav room sh,
| saw MAY wing ON the floor with hel
mother beside herr, Snc heard no shoot
ing ami saw u" unc hut members of tn,
| .amliy.
| capt. " nItc If The PittsGeld police. ties
| titled that officer Daniel FLYNN did NOS
call back To him from the hear stairway
that the side door was unlocked He ito
not sax that the single shoe that Flynt
| found was wet and he did not get Ian
tern from Mr.. Sharardson.
| officer chairman was called hut his ties
| timony was hrIct.
officer Flynn said that he went to Mrs
billiards. house and rang the door bell.
She came To the window and ne was al
| told her a burglary had been committed
ut the Fosbursh house and asked her il
she had seen any strange men about heI
house that night She said she had not.
| Miss Mary \. Bristol. who took the
stenographic notes at the inquest upon
the body Of May Foshurgh. read from
those notes. Beatrice testified at that
time She did not think il was the first
shot which killed her sister. She had nC
idea when the first shot was fired. Ike
| ferr.n5 20 the testimony Of II. u. Eos
burch at ,hc inquest Miss Bristol said:
lie stated tnat the first Shot was fred IN
his room and the second before the bur
glars ltft the room
Josenh ". hoIlister Of the Eagle. saiG
that * l.. Fusburgh told him that night
that he saw light in the hallway which
evidently came from lantern. There
was no portable light in the hall ana tn,
light was too steady to have come from
| a match. He also stated that the bur
glar held 4 revolver in his left hand.
| The only witness mt on by the defence
in rebuttal was Mrs. Billiard She denied
that officer Flynn asked her if she SAW
any strange men ahout her house that
night This completed the testimony
and adjournment was taken ,ntil 9.ll y.
NJ. tomorrow.