The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-25
FOSBURCH'S TRIAL
PRESERVATION OF TESTIMONY IN
BEHALF OF THE DEFENSE.
Father and Sister of the Murdered
Girl on the Witness Stand
Most of Yesterday.
STORY OF TRAGEDY RET0LD
TWO BURGLARS CHARGED WITH
COMMITTING THE CRIME.
Wore Pillows as Masks and Left n
Muddy Shoe Evidence of Their
! Visit TO the House.
FOSBURGH, SR., SANDBAGGED
By ONE OF THE MEN WHO FATALLY
SHOT HIS DAUGHTER.
| Effort to show that Some of the En-
! pIOyes of the Contractor Were Dam
SerOus-SensatiOnal Incidents.
Wore Pillows Masks and Left n
Muddy Shoe as Evidence of Their
Visit to the House.
F0SBURGH, sR., SANDBAGGED
By ONE OF THE MEN WHO FATALLY
SHOT HIS DAUGHTER.
Effort to show that Some of the EN-
gerOus-Sensational Incidents.

PITTSFIELD, Mass, July 2--The at
tendance at to-day's session of the Fos
burgh trial was many times larger than
the courtroom could accommodate, and
nine-tenths of those present We're women.
number of sensational incidents occurred
to-day, the first coming after Mr.. Joyner
for the defense, had concluded his presenta-
tion of what he claimed he could prove,
when Frederick w. Lund, the bookkeeper
and paymaster of the Fosburgh firm, in tes-
tifying, declared that he felt some OF the
men who were employed by the firm were
dangerous and said he knew they carried
weapons.
Another came during the testimony of
the father of the dead girl, when he said:
Then May went In and sang several Sc
lections, while Miss Sheldon played. The
last song she sang Plains or Peace. ."
The father had been describing the manner
in which the family had spent the evening
of Sunday preceding the tragedy When
he came to the reference to Mays singing
his emotion for a few seconds made him
unable to continue. Otherwise Mr.. Fos-
burghs testimony was given in clear-cut
and distinct voice. His narrative of the
discovery OF the burglars and of his en-
counter with them was told with rapid
ulStnctneSS.
Little Beatrice Fosburgh, called by the
government, but not used that side of
the case, was on the stand to-day for the
defense and was the first one TO break into
tears while telling the story of the death
OF her sister. Her description of her
glimpse of the intruder who killed her sis
ter was very dramatic. IT saw pillow
case standing IN the doorway, she said
with holes cut in IL for eyes. Then L saw
the fash. AS my brother rushed by me
turned on the light and cried out: Hurry
up; there are burglars in the house F"
In regard to a reported conversation be-
tween herself and DR.. Paddock just after
the shooting, the young girl stated posi-
lively that she had no conversation on the
second floor with DR.. Paddock. She went
still further and said she never had talked
TO him except at the window after they had
gone there. She saw him while the family
were at breakfast on the morning of the
tragedy. but had no conversation with him.
The witness denied that she had testified
at the inquest that she turned on the light
after her sister fell and that she heard a
shot before her sister fell to the floor
She said further that she did not see her
brother Robert before she saw the flash
from the pistol which caused her sister s
death. He was coming from his room when
this shot was fired. The days proceedings
were concluded with the testimony or sew
eral neighbors of the Fosburghs, and court
adjourned.