Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-17
CALM AND COOL.
GRAHAM Stands the Cross
Examination Without a Break,
Mrs. GraiTam Takes Stand and Gives
Evidence for Her Husb5 nd.
testimony Finished. Saturday. and The Arou.
mcnts Will Be Made. Today.

O.'', iitSii anu SpIiIutHt.
is good deal of Il mystery to most of
those who have followed the case. His
mistaken nerve has astonishcd even
the Officials.
Edward Graffam will take the
stand. said Judge Bonney, and Graf
fam assumed the easy pose of the day
before. lie stood facing the attorney
general. and gave. close attention to
every word.
9. Where were you Sunday night,
Jan. Is? \. In my room.
-. Who was in your room Sunday?
y. Mrs. Schulmann was there for a
moment.
Monday? A. At restaurant near the
Boston & Albany station.
He went back to the Elmwood house
and staid for some time. Monday. lie
thought he got three meals. He said
he was on Atlantic avenue the greater
part of the day.
The attorney general made every
possible effort to get him to recall
where he got his meals, but could not.
He bought paper. Monday, and went
back to his room. Tuesday, he got
breakfast at a restaurant near the
South Union station and went to Hope
dale. He thought he might have paid
10 cents for his meals. but not much
more. The crcss-eXamination brought
out strongly the fact that. according
to his story. he spent the greater part
of his time Thursday. Saturday and
wharf.
After getting work at Hopedale. he
secured board at the house of Mrs.
William lockwood. This was Tues
day and Thursday he paid sl.20 for his
board. at the rate of $3.50 a week. He
thought he might have had "a dollar or
so" left.
Q. Did you call the attention of Mrs.
lockwood to a picture. of Hands as
that of the murderer of Mosher? A.
think | showed it to Hugh Mccarthy,
and Mrs. lockwood may have been
there.
c. Did you tell anyone that you had
known Clifford MoSher? a. | did not.
Q. Or that you had lived in the
aMosher house two seasons? n. l did
mot
@. OR that Gorham was your native
place? A. l did not.
@. Why, Mr.. GRAHAM? \. Because
il isn't my native place.
A ripple of laughter ran through the
court room at this rctort.
AT the Jail. when you were con-
fronted with Hands, what did he say?
asked Mr.. Seidcrs.
THAT l was not the man who was
with him.
Did he say anything more than
that
Yes. when he replied to questions
put to him by Sheriff Pearson.
Then you say that the officials gave
false testimony on that point MI
Graffam?'
Judge Bonney-The witness need not
answer that question.
Witness denied that he had any Ill
feeling against Clifford Moshcr. He
said that Mosher was not much of
talker. He denied that he tried to get
work of Henry Buckley in Boston.
He denied that he was in the boston
& Maine freight yard in Boston. lie
said he did not reply to the questions
said to have been put to him by the
men in the Il. & NJ. yard in BOSTON, pe-
cause he wasn't there. He was last III
Biddeford i'm 1896. He said that the IS.
&. NJ. freight men when they saw MN
at the iail showed no sign OF rccoSnl-
ton.
The cross-examination occupied an
hour.
Mrs. Josephine Graffam. wife OF Ed
ward Graffam, was called by Mr. true
She met her husband after MS as
charge. She was with him that night
and the name of T.. r. Mililken' ny
which he was afterward known. was
adopted at her suggestion. She reccN-
cd many letters from her husband ana
he came home to see her. Jan. .. ne
had some money, how much she couiu
not saw. She informed Deputy Sherl1
Charles A. Plummer that her huspahu
was at Hopedale.
Rv agreement the testimony give"
nv THOMAS Gallant at the coroner's IN
o,,est was read by Mr.. True ana ad-
-, o,-;dence Hands was then
said to have had on an overcoat wheh
seen by Mr.. Gallant.
NJ True offered in evidence the pam
falcons worn Dy f1aHus ""o -
ana the blood stained pair Oh uia"
found about the neck of the pooS u
Clifford Mosher
recess was taken at 11.3o at 'he
request of Mr.. True. s
Tbomas II. Cowan of Boston, WAS
called after recess. He keeps d" en-.
nIovment agency He met GRAHAM. ~
% 1900 and sent him to HaVcrhlii u
work on the Electric road.
O. Have you seen him since asNe"
MIR. True. A. / have. IN
a At what time? A. Boston, d. ~
.,1 10 20 on the morning of JAM -.
@. Where was it? A. At my o'''e'
,, Hanover street, Boston.
This evidence created grea. mar,
ton. as tending to show tha' he
was in Boston. not Gorham' on
night of the murder.