Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-23

Government Has Got "D!rty Dick" Quinn
ass witness so Far as
Developed by ProsscutiOn-Most Inn
portant That Pistol was only Eight
inches Away When Giri Was shot.


inches Away When 6iri Was shot.
Toe government won decided vic
tory over the defense early Friday
morning. session when the court an
nounced that it would permit the
Offering of evidence as TO the result
of the test made by theh experts IN
shox the distance at witch marks of
powder from revolver would be de-
posted upon cloth. provided. it was
clearly prcyen by the government that
tie revolver and the cartridges used
in the test vera similar IN every re-
spect to the ones with which it is
argued the fatal shot was fired.
The first bit of testimony of a SEN
sational nBture was the statement of
DR. Paddock, the medical examiner, to
the effect that little Beatrice Eos
bursh, who will he go, eminent
witness. told him that she had seen
no burglars at all, although she was
behind her sister May when the latter
fell.
The other feature WIS the emphatic
statement OF DR. Draper, the gun eX.
pert, to the effect that the shot which
ended the life of May Fosnurgh WAS
lPlu NOV mDEc THAN ClRHbIi IbCoco
from the breast. As be spoke he
held UP, with bis fingers pointing
to the bullet hole il it, the disk col
ored nightdress of the dead girl This
declaration and the displ,y of the
garment which was so closely connect.
ed with their dead daughter death
caused a visible effect on mother and
father, who we're within 10 feet Of the
witness.
The cheap, pine bureau with its
comb box, which thu defeuse claimed
was marked by bullet at the hands
OF one IF the burglars, and the screen
born it is so contended, by one OF
them in his hurried exit from the
room we're brought into the court
room and deposited in front Of the
jury box
The court adjourned over Sunday
until yesterday ana District Attor-
ney Hammond, who handles the case
for government, stated after ard that
he expects to rest his case.
Nire witnesses were examined Fri
day in the Fosburg case at Pittshed,
Mass, and then the court took recess
until yesterday. The state forged
several strong links in the chain Of
circumstartial evidence against
young Fosburgh charged with killing
his sister They may be summarized
thus;
l.-Stswart Fosburgh It'd Pinker-
ton Detective Connors, State Detec.
tive WhitGey and DR. Paddock that
one of the burglars turned while in
nnt.ila tho ct hn
Kitchen bedroom, as be was escaping,
family. The shot vent in to the comb !
box of cheap bureau that stood
against tie door Several witnesses
by lines drawn from
the bullets course in tie bureau
that toe shot coul1 not come from
the wirdoS.
2-Witness Rose, expert in firearms,
testified that the bullet found in the !
comb box was from 32-calibre
similar to the ones young Fosburgh
bought when he bought the pistol
that disappeared on the night of the
Killing.
3-After he qualified as an expert
DR. Draper was allored to show that
jecaose of the powder stains on the
llght dress worn by the murdered
girl, the pistol must have been held
4 thin eight inches of her breast
when it was fired lie vas also al
owed to testify that bullet from a
2 calibre revolver fired at that close
'ang, would not 60 entirely through a
we'll nourishei body. BuG the most
lens itional development is that fact
hat the state has secured Dirty
Dick Quirn, the leader of the
wire garg" that the Fosburgns
lsve claimed to believe committed the
,urlyary and murder AID will pro
luce him as witness to testify that
he wire gang" WAS not in Pittsfield
he night OF tee trsgedy. The secret
las teen wonderfully we'll grounded
While the tosburgbs have been
the country to secure this /;
cry man. {