Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-05
BEFORE THE COURT.
edward GRAHAM Arraigned in
Portland Municipal Court.
Court Room and Corridors Thronged
With Dense Crowd.
Mother OF Victim Will Go On the Witness
Stand. Today.

IL,
Edward GRAHAM was arraigned on the
charge of numbering Clifford Mosher of
Gorham. Saturday. Jan. Y. He was
cool and collected and his position did
not seem TO cause him much uneas-
mess. The court room was crowded
with people, every seat being occupied
and every available spot of standing
room being taken.
Witnesses We're introduced tracing
the negro Hands, who is held as one
OF the principles in the crime. from
Hopedale, Mass. to South Farmjneton
Boston, Saco, Portland and Westbro,k
where the pair We're seen on the night
of the crime.
The witnesses agreed on the general
description OF the two men and MANY
though not all of the identitications
were positive. one of the chief witness
SEES Tor the state was Joe Kelly. a
state prison convict, who testified that
GRAHAM outlined to him the plan of a
robbery such as occurred at the
MoSher house. The States case dis
closed little that was very new.
The hearing will be continued. to-
morrow morning, when Mrs Mosher.
the mother of the victim and who was
present when the attack was made on
her son, will go on the stand The
defense will probab bly, introduce no tes-
timony.
County Attorney Whitehouse opened
for the prosecution outlining the MUIR
der with which the respondent is
charged; the story of Mrs. Rufus
Mosher. the only eye witness to the
crime; the arrest and alleged confess
sion of Bill Hands, the negro: and
of the search for GRAHAM and his sub
sequent arrest. He said he would have
no difficulty in presenting sufficient
evidence to hold GRAHAM for the grand
jury.
The first witness for the prosecution
was Arthur f. Richardson of Gorham,
neighbor of the Moshers. He de-
scribed Mrs. Mosher's visit to his house
about midnight, Jan. Il. She told him
of the assault made upon her son. and
after visiting the Mosher house, learn
ing the condition of affairs, witness no
titled the Westbrook authorities. Rich
ardson told of the condition of the
house and the finding of Clifford
MosherS body, and the tracks of two
men leading away from the house. The
tracks led by his house to a tree, upon
which blood stains We're found. Just
beyond the tree the tracks separated.
1t looked here as if the fugitives had
turned and walked backwards.
DR.. John F. Thompson. who per
formed the autopsy on the murdered
man, described in detail the wounds
on the body The head was literally
covered with cuts and bruises and the
skull was fractured in several places
The frontal bone was cruched. The
brain was lacerated at the temple ana
the tissues had been penetrated by
piece of bone. Any one of the blows
an the front of the skull would have
caused death.
Deputy Sheriff Dunn described the ar
rest of pill Hands and the finding of
nroperty belonging to Mosher in the peck
cts of his bloodStained clothing.
.Joe" Kelley, the State prison convict
who testified before the coroners jury
was called. He said that while both he
and GRAHAM were in prison, Graham had
proposed to him that after they were re-
leased they do "JoD. lie SAID ne hneW '
where there was a young man not FeiS
bright with a deaf mother, and IN an,
sver TO Kelley's questions, said he had
seen the Young man put money away anu
knew where ne kept 1t In ms room " "
stairs GRAHAM said they could go 10 t',s
house when the son was out ana me o,t
woman would never know about H. II
the son was In Ii would De cas-! " 81
him and get the money heieH WIZ Ia
not agree to take part III the lop am
thought no more of II until he heard OF
the Gorham murder, lhtn ufdhai" -
story came back to him. -,
Deputy Sheriff Plummer then to,n 81
the arrest of GRAHAM at H1pedale' Masn,;
the Investigation of Graffams aiieSe1
aIibi. and OF tracing the movements OF
GRAHAM through Massachusetts. IN com
pany with Bit Hands. Sherlii itaLSoi
and GRAHAM made Il statement 10 nun,
soon after coming to the jail, after beIhs
todi he would not be Obliged to do so. Inc
statement signed by GRAHAM was ADMIT
ted as evidence. ,;, ,don
titied some trinkets taken from HANDS ~
The iail and a pockctbook taken from
GRAHAM at the Jail This pocketbooK' II
is claimed. was owned by Mosner,, ,,onv
James Bradford. 2 Boston * ,a aiIanJ
that he saw Hands and Graham pass nis
house together. late In the AFTERNOON ~.
Jan O. He was cross-eXamlheu pu' w.
testimony was not shaken. 1904 .oLor
At this point adjournment was taken
to 2 O'Clock. o, r, In
At the afternoon session, charles T. ~,
stein. pawnbroker. whose place VI p W.
ness Is at % Pleasant street, boh'o'' nu
titled that GRAHAM and coloieu ' in;i
whom he saw, today. In the county 'Ih
called at the pawn shop, Jan H. UNI -" -,
colored man pawned an undercoat Iot
cents. The pawn ticket FOUND Oh ii'
was identified by the witne S.
Mrs. Annie Schuman, wife OF the Pc
prietor of the Eimwcod House AT OF
Washington street. snid That tne d,,n
time she saw GRAHAM was y o ciotk 9 ~
dav morning Jan. I3. She toiu nuT
GRAHAM came to the holIse az ~ r"n
and said he wanted Il room tor NV
DAYS. GRAHAM gave her 81 Dill iiia -, s
went upstairs to get the change: re 'I IL
her that he had just come by .poa';
had a roll of bills but she did not h"o"
how much money. he had in all. aavs
GRAHAM stayed at her house Two she
she saw him twice in that time, e he
heard him washing himself as SCOT % ~ 70
GOT i'm the room. There Is plhre
sTnpty Stops near the door of thls rot tha
Sha lost three towels and the key 10 SIC .,
room when GRAHAM went away
he'd never seen those towels since: Tor at
Edwin w. Kelly. q carriage phiI.'f roc
Saco. said that he first saw Gran IN, gam
:. on this occasion he said that orraaaenh
=, me 10 bring n message from 'o'N
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