The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-03
DISBROF RBGAINING
Ills USUAL DBMBANOR
Nervousness Apparent Ear
lier Departs.
WITNESSES AGAIN TESTIFY
4 Boy Who Saw Fosters Body After It
Was Recovered Said the Face Was
Weunded-Other Evidence to the
Same Effect.

GOOD GROUND. y. y. July 3-Louis
DIsbrow. accused OF the murder Of Clar-
cnce Foster and Sarah Lawrence. who
we're drowned in Tiana Bay last month.
arrived. with his lawyers and Sheriff
Wells. from Birerhead some time before
the hour for the re-opening OF the pre-
iiminaIy hearing this morning Mrs
Clarence Foster also arrived early at
Union Hall At 10 O'Clock Justice Fos-
ter called the court to order, and the
district attorney called for Waiter King.
a boy fifteen years old. who was the first
witness Of the day.
Saw Fosters Dead Body.
King testified that he had seen the
body Of Clarence Foster after it had
been removed from the water. and that
be had noticed wound. about an inch
and half long. extending horizontally
over the right eye. He had not noticed
any blood directly about the wound.
Appearance of the Accused.
Louis Dfsbrow's condition. which, in
view OF his apparent iII-hcaIth and the
strain under which he has beer labor
Ing, has been of considerable interest,
was a surprise to those who saw him
early this morning. Yesterday morning
the prisoner was apparently holding
himself in restraint. and ne was appar-
emily nervous. his face set In mask Of
Immobflity. with only the nervous roam
ing Of his eyes to show his alertness
and quick attention TO all that was going
on. As the afternoon progressed he be-
came less constrained, the lines OF his
face softened, his poise became more
easy. At uightfail he was seen to look
with more unguarded interest on the
scene which he had come TO realize was
not altogether hostile, and this morn
ing. fresh from his cell and immaculate
as though just from his own home, he
was very much the old Disbrow Of the
days before the tragedy.
Evidence Of a Local Carpenter.
George AIdrieh. a earpenter Of Good
Ground. who saw Clarence Fosters body
on June Il. described the appearance OF
the body at that time and testified that
he had seen a place on the forehead
where the skin was Of. "as though one
had taken harness punch and cut the
skin The abrasion was, according 20
the witness, such as might have been
made by a ten-penny nail, a1i was
ABOUT one aud one-quarter inches long.
The witness did not distinguish any IN
usual swelling about the wound There
was a bIackish discoIoration, said Aid
rich. on the top OF the head. beneath the
hair There was also, he said, an in
cision over the eve On being examined
BY Miles. who asked whether he had any
difficulty IN seeing the abrasions, the
witness said that anyone should have
been able to see them
4 Reporter on the Stacd.
Byron Newton. New York newspaper
reporter was the next witness. Newton
said that he had been IN Good Ground
on June Il when he had seen the body
Of Clarence Foster on the beach and ex-
amined it. Newton said that he had
seen a wound about an inch long over
the right eye, filed With blood to such
an extent that the depth OF the wound
could not be asCeTtained without prob
ing Newton described for the District
Attorney the condition Of Sarah Law
Tence's body, as ne had seen II shortly
after it had been brought to shore. The
I face. he said, was not much swollen
and there were no marks. bIemishes or
smears of anv kiDG