Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-08
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friends after he had tried Intellectually to
close conversation with witness, that IL
was hard to get rid of him" or something
to that effect.
When Fannie Sprague's son was Dort.
witness said. she was AT her s!ste .,
house. but her home was at the AuS Hn
house His daughter had worked at Eu-
win II. knights house frequentiy, ~.
two or three weeks during November,
1899 The Austin and Knight houses were
about p rods apart Judge ro"ers
warned the audience that the least eH
preston of approval or dlsapproNal ""'iu
merit expulsion from the nan.
Characterization of witness as 70 tne
report of the daughter departure, io n re
ssuonJent's house was begun ana dWett
somewhat searchngly on the detaliS COIL
nected with her departure:
Witness denied that cyrus GOODWIN
,,n.nt A night during the last part OF
hnru in company with his daughter at
HE Craigen house. Cyrus Goodwin lett
tho Craigen house where Fannie SpraSue
and her father lived, about O'Clock on
IN, morning previous to the murder. At
,hi,, time witness daughter was in the
.mplov Of Samuel Locke. Further exam
nation revealed the fact that on another
ui.,ht in APRIL Cyrus Goodwin was
.slcst AT the apartment of witness daugh-
ter ,
1laved a great deal OF tact for a miss
hardly 10 wears old. She testified that on
The day of the burial of one Mr.. Warren.
she accompanied Fannie SpraSue TO the
locke house and there saw Edwin
Knight ana Fannie Sprague's son Fred
lie Returning home. witness was ac-
COMMANDED by 4 reddie Sprague.
dissemination revealed that Mr..
Locke and Edwin Knight were in con-
Vtrsation when witness arrived;
VIM J. Dorr Of South Berwick. teSti-
lied that on April y he found pair of
nveralIS which witness said resembled
the ones found on staump in the wood
lot where Ed Locke was at work. May /.
'rhe uverals We're turned over to Deputy
Fred \. Spencer, May ..
Fred \. spencer deputy sheriff in
York county the next witness. testified
as To his disposal of the overalls. the
ucncils found in the pockets. and the re
turn of the garment to witness few
,laVs ago
Thr testimony Of the next witness.
Charles d. Perkins of South Berwick.
WAS To the effect that on the morning OF
Nav / he was narrowing in the field To
rnr rear Of his house and could see a
norton 81 the road in the direction of the
Thompson house. Saw Edwin j. Knight
when he leaned ont of his window to
speak to Mr.. Lynch. who was taking, or
,lrrs for groceries. Later saw respondent
al Mr.. Goodwins house. where he asked
witness for the use of bride. This was
III 90 one hour later he went to the
Florence knight place on being Informed
by Mrs. Edwin Knight of the murder.
Alice Mckay of Rochester, \. H.. was
the next witness. She was Il resident of
South Berwick about the time Of the
crime. and kept a boarding house. a sort
Of shanty. for men who We're in the
woods. Samuel Locke was one of the
hoarders Witness saw latter on the
Inorning of May /. The road near which
the shanty was situated extends III the
direction Of Mr.. Nowel's house.
Cross-examined, witness was asked by
Everett Goodwin whether she saw Locke
pass. to which she answered in the
affirmative.
In redirect examination she said both
Goodwin and Novel; passed the shanty
together. engaged in conversation.
Deputy Sheriff James II. Miles. the at
torney general stated. was called next
+.1,, ti11aC of
clothfng Witness testified that on June
- at Edwin II. knights place, there was
delivered to witness the clothing respond
cnt wore on the day the latter went to
tht. pond pasture. He produced only the
trousers and a jackknife found in the
pocket but promised TO deliver the other
articles later. The trousers were given to
Chemist f.. K. Angel of Derry, n. H., for
examination Respondent delivered the
articles freely. almost without hesitation
When the name of Mr.. Angel was an
noInc,d there was some hesitation, and
after conference between counsel.
chemist was procured who was to be
present with respondents counsel during
the expert testimony.
Prof Angel was then called and stated
his occupation was that of a chemist but
that his principal interest was that of an
analytical chemist. He was asked to eN-
anime the trousers delivered to him by
D4uutv Miles to see whether certain
stains the garment We're from blood.
IN the right-hand pocket witness found a
stain which had the appearance of blood.
II" testified that the jackknife delivered
with the other articles had stains on the
blades. The knife was free from dirt and
appeared to have been cleaned and wiped
on request he then outlined the method
pursued in his analysis. The piece of
hluodStaned cloth from the pocket which
was subjected to analysis turned blue in
pursuance of the treatment science has
demonstrated determines human blood.
The measurement of the corpuScleS re-
Vpaled that their size was the same as
those of the human blood The blood cor
los IaNE
pocket and those developed from the stain
fnInd the knife We're made. by blood
from the same source.
crusS-eXamined, witness gave the ranS :
IN diameter of the large majority of diff
ferrut specimens of human blood exam
inod-
Attorney Yeaton drew from the witness
the opinion that the ranges in the size of
human and of mammalian blood corpus
Giles were practically the same.
The size of the stain found. witness
said. was about large in diameter as
the cnd Of a lead pencil. He thought the
amnunt of blood necessary to make the
spot in question was small fraction OF
"a drop He did not know the amount
that constituted the UNI. of drop Of
blood. lie again asserted that ne was
were human blood. Witness admitted
that he could not be positive whether the
broken corpuscIes developed from the
stain ON the knife were human blood.
Rust disntcgrates blood corpuscles. Wit
IS thought il was not possible to dter-
mine whether diSinteSrated blood corpus
cIcs came from human being.
Redirect eNamina ton. witness said
that both pockets of the trousers con-
tanned patches.
Nelson Bellamy of South Berwick, ex-
amined the stan and found matches. He
examined the victims stockings and de
tected the odor of kerosene and spot
was on one stocking where blood
stained hand had engaged it. The
matches We're stained by the person who
used them.
David Sarsffeld Of South Berwick. also
found partly burned and boodstained
matches.
Cross-eXamined he thought bIood-satu-
rated clothing might have stained the
mItcheS, for they were 50 close to the
body as To render this theory possible
Mr.. Mcintyre. the coroner. when called
to the stand showed the shoes and one
stocking removed from the body when it
was prepared for burial.
This concluded the day. and court adj
ioUrned until o'clock Friday.
The Edinburgh Castle public house.
situated in the Strand. London. is to be
hauled down. ana the London county
council has 10 pay G22500 as compcnsa-
tion.