Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-22
TREWORGY TRIAL.
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had always made witness house her
home. ,..
On the night when Sarah Ware dlsap-
peared Mrs. Miles said that she had peen
down to the village and returned noinc
about 7.30 o'clock. 1t was a very cark
night and the attorney for the de1ence
emphasized the statement by maKihg inc
witness repeat it several times. Inc red
son for this was evident, as several VII
nesses nave testified during the tf1ai tnat
they could see people passing very ols-
tinctly.
Mrs. Miles testified that when Saran
went out on the night in question, she
retired and in the morning When she
found that Sarah had not come nome she
felt no uneasiness about her, because the
woman was accustomed TO go away suu-
denly and remain away for two weeks
or more After a week had passed, now
ever, and the witness had heard notnihs
from Sarah Ware she made inquiries
about the village, telling everyone that
she wanted Sarah to come home as she
had some work she wanted her to 90.
Witness said she asked IreWorSy 70 tel
Mr. Bulduc that she wanted Sarah TO re-
turn home.
Treworgv was a frequent caller at the
home of Mrs. Miles. He was sometimes
ACCOMPANIED by his daughter and II was
on the second Sunday aIter oardn " are
disappearance that witness asked Ire
worry to tell Mr.. Bulduc to have Sarah
come home. TreworSy came TO the mouse
the next day after the body was found
was found, Treworgy stayed at the Miles
house with his daughter four or possibly
five nights.
ceding the Monday when the body was
found man who represented himself TO
be a detective and said his name was
George Eiles came to her house and re-
uained an hour. He asked all kinds of
uuestions Mrs Boland, a nelghbor, was
at the house at the time and when leav-
ing the man said he was going over to see
Mr.. Boland and question nm a little.
Mrs. Miles said that there was something
about the mans appearance that awax-
ened her suspicious regarding nm ana
| she went upstairs and watched him. IN
stead of turning towards Mr. Boland 8
house witness said the man went in the
opposite direction. She saw him turn up
| the Miles lane, jump over the stone wal!
and walk some distance into the Nlchoi-
| son field where the body was later dis-
covered. Then he came out, after bein;s
| in the field for a few minutes and went
away towards the village.
/ Mrs Miles said that she knew Trevor
gv and Sarah Ware We're on good terms.
Cross-examned by the attorney general,
the witness said that the reason she did
ask after Sarah Ware after she had been
gene week, though ordinarily she would
not have thought much about the matter,
| was because she wanted her to do some
| work and in addition. Captain Griffin hau
| told her that Sarah had left Bulduc'S store
and had been seen to go across the heid i
| towards home. Witness would not admit
| that she had told the attorney general,
! last Saturday, that there had been trouble
between Treworgy and Sarah Ware. ami
| though the attorney general questioned
her sharply as to this and other state
ments she stuck to them tenaciously.
Francis CHM of Bucksport, testified
! that he cared for the fence bordering on
| the Miles land and had done so for 81
| years. At O'Clock on the day the body
| was found. witness said that he went up
| the lane and found the fence in its usual
| condition and there was no portion of it,
| excepting where there were bars. Vine re
| a jig,er could have been driven across 1T,
CHM further testified that Joe Fogg cam
into his store one day and seeing Ire
| Worgy's picture on bill head asked what
the witness kept that thing for.
'To look down on such fellows as you
are. joe said the witness.
| Then the witness said: what is the
use, Joe. of trying to make people believe
| that you drove down into that pasture
with Sarah Wares body when you know
a wagon never was in that field?' Wit
ness testified that Joe replied:
Il shall tell the story l can get the most
| money out Of.
A number of witnesses were called to
| testify that TreworSy was at the North
OrIand and Bluehill fairs, Sept. 20, q and
Edward Jones of Bucksport, and half a
| dozen others from the same section OF
| the town testified that between midnight
and o'clock on the morning of the 17th
of September they had heard a light wag-
on drive rapidly down Plum street across
| the bridge
| William #. Wortheley of Bucksport, a
butcher. testified that he had frequently
| hired of Treworgy a jgger in which to
haul slaughtered hogs and had also Dor
| rowed from Treworgy a piece of canvass
i to cover them with. These articles he
| had returned and put in Treworgys barn
| Selectman Hall Of Bucksport. was on
the stand a long time and was undergo
ing rigid cross-examination when court
nd inlrnpl for the daV
| He told on direct examination of tie
search for Sarah Wares body and the
finding of it. Finally he got down to the
confession of Fogg and said that Foga
| came into his store and said to witness
Mr. Hall. came down here to tell you
| lied when | told you had helped IRE
worry move that body"
Witness said Fogg told him he was
| frightened into telling this story by Sew
Tracey They had promised Fogg, so the
latter told the witness, half the reward
if he told that story about Treworgy and
had said if he did not tell it they would
have him arrested.
| Tracey told me- said Fogg to the
witness. that he had warrant in his
pocket to arrest me at that time if
did not tell the story.
| The witness said that when Fogg told
him this he had said to Fogg that the
latter had got into a bad fix Witness
said to him: you know what perjury
is. don't you?"
| Per1urN, perJury-Wnat IS perjury
asked Fogg. Hall took down the statutes
and read to Fogg the section relating to
perjury.
| On crosS-eXamination Hall denied that
he had made any promises to get Fogg
to retract his story about Treworgy. The
| attorney general tried to get the witness
to admit that he had read the statute to
| Fogg before the latter made the state
| ment, but Hall would not do 50. He was
| still being sharply questioned by the at
| torney general when Inc court adjourned.
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