Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-08
BAD FOR TERRIO.
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were at work in the woods iua'.e'
.rosa and Theriault expressed desire
ro whip Pare and threatened TO choht
,,;n, Thasa witnesses testified that az
another time they he'ro
Pare vile names. ,. :.
Caorpe LeBlanche The Marine
testified that while he was
rrisonar with Theriault in the Jaii. ne
wrote number of letters ior ."e -,
10, The letters We're shown l" VII
ness and identified. but theif con
were not made known.
Sheriff F. B. Pennell testlheu t""' "'
had tried the cartridge louno '",
Pares body in Theriaults rihe' an"
that il fitted perfectly. After iueh'iiH
nc. n pair of snowshoes as thoSe ne
found at the Therault house the WIZ.
ness related a conversation Which '"'h
nIace between himself ana lheriau'
when he went to the house to MAKE 'i.e
arrest. in which he quoted lheIiaui'
nc saving: That's all right, 40 your
duty. | suppose you've got TO arrest
mo hut | hope you won't prove the
crime against me-.
yIa then identified a statement SiShec
nv Theriault at the time of MS arrest
which was read to the jury. In th'
y,otamcnt the respondent claimed that
,bo last time he saw Pare was sunday
..fternoon when he talked with him
,.u minutes Monday forenoon, ne
,,.,s AZ work in the wood lot at the rear
,f his house and that afternoon ne
worked until dark laying a moor III Il
chamber in his house
>bout . or > o'clock in the afternoon,
. stranger came to the house ana DOR
,ovpd his snowShoes He described the
stranger as tall. light complexion, Win
=, light moustache and wearing req
rrock. He did not see the snoWShoes
,,ntu nearly a week later, when thtN
,,.rn found sticking up in the snow
near the house.
At the opening Of the afternoon session,
D,putv Sheriff Haskell was recalled an"
tnld of conversations he had with Theri-
ault at the county Jail ON on" occasion
when he was iii charg, Of the Jail during
IN. TEMPORARY absence Of Sherif ftnh.i;
witness told Theriault ne was saIislt"
that the s. and SO bills found nj lnerl-
ault's house had come from Nineo.
'rhcriault asked what time they wrr" Is
: Ird ana upon being told about the TIM
The murder was committed hrok" dowA
and began to cry. ana exclaimed: AN
cod ! was afraid ! thought an"
then said no more. Again some time lat
,r the prisoner said: II II tell N"l nov
it WIS. \ man came by my house on
dav ana changed So bill "a me. Ihat
where GOT those small bills.
ON cross-examinati0n witness admitted
that his purpose in questioning Ineriaul
was to secure evidence to he used at tn
trial He said the prisoner had bee
willing To- answer dll questions ana talktA
freely up to the time Of the preliminary
hearing.
During the remainder Of the afternoon
Dr. Frank A. Whittier. professor "i hd'-
ArinlogV at BuWdoiu Coilc@t. ntCupl,
Inc stand. pr. Whittier testified in th'
capacity rt the expert in the use of mn
cr"scope and his testimony was suppl
mentcd by photographs showing the re-
suit OF his Investigations.
Tn" cartridge shell found near thu bod
"f Pare he had carefully examined w4tI
the the microscope and had fnInd mlrh~
invisible, to the naked eye i'm the c.ntI.
of the primer Inside the, ring there IS /,
small 1.-shared figure. VI On. end y.
this figure tncrc is another shaped like
claw. ana outside there is a third. r.
stmhlin2 a star in SHAPE. Various "thcr
marks Wcrr noted but there thrc" Were
the most prominent.
The firing pin "f Thcribauit rifle next
was examined ana upon this figures c"r
responding tu those on thu cartridges
Nerr found. except that thu marks WI,
al tn" opposite side. ana those which
We're depressions on the shell Were ridges
on the ilrlnS PIN.
The witness further testified that II,
tired several cartridges in Thvriaul: III
tie and all upon examination showed sim
liar marks. He also tNaniu"d the firing
pins of Other .m-." rifles and shell tired
in them. but found no marks on ANY ot
them similar to thuS, on Thcriault'S Iiil.
In every cas-" tho shcf bore marks cor
responding to those on thy. rifle in whiCh
they Were fired
The second cartridge which w;t- s,-nt
him for cXamilatinn-th. one found j.
MaN-waS 50 badly ruSt"d that the mark
could not bc accurately traced. rE,.
"roSs-"Xaminatinn nf this witness wa
brief and without important result.
The letters written for Theriault y,
George Icl'lanChc while both W.r. in III,
county JAIL which was offered in .vidcnc.
by the STATE AT the fore noon session. were.
excluded.
NJ tn" clos" Of today : sessions only on.
Witness Tor IN" prosecution remained t.
bt heard, and il is expected that thu. d,..
fence viii open, tomorrow.