Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-03
THE BLONDIN JURY
Visit Chelmsford Places Where
the Body Was Found.
Also Boston Green Street House
Where Murder Is Located.
Work of Fixing the Crime on BIondin
Then Begins.

| Boston, Dec. "A trip to Chelmsford,
| Mass, by the jury chosen, yesterday.
tutry j. Wilfred BlOndin ON the charge
! of wife murder, today. took the place
| of the forenoon session of the superior
| criminal court. After the return to
| this city, the house on Green street in
| which the murder is alleged to have
| been committed was visited and the L.
men We're ready to begin the considera-
4 ton Of evidence at the opening of the
afternoon sitting. The jury was taken
| to Chelmsford by consent of the court
/ upon the request of the lawyers for the
1 accused man.
/ The party in charge of court officers
| left the city at $50 A. NJ, proceeding
| to Lowell by train. = Lowell, a spec
| ial electric car was taken for Chelms-
ford. The locality connected with the
| murder was traversed. counsel explain
ing and describing the various features
! of the case The spot where the head
| less body of Mrs Blondin was found
| under a brush heap and the place, a
quarter Of mile away where the head
was found in the bed of a brook were
pointed out and their exact position in
l
will be used i'm the court proceedings.
| When a comprehensive ideA of the
surroundings had been gained the jury
| returned to Lowell and to Boston.
| Then they went over the lodging house
on Green street in which it is claimed
| the murder was committed and from
| which. it is charged, the body was re-
| moVec, in Il trunk and taken to ChelmS-
| ford in a wagon, where the parts were
hidden as the jury had seen indicated.
The inspection of the Green street
premises and places in this city which
| in one way OF another have connection
| with the case kept the jury busy until
| after l o'clock and another hour was
required for lunch ana it was go
| O'Clock when the court opened for the
| day.
Elondin preceded the court by less
than a minute but in that brief inter-
val he found time to greet several
friends among them being his brother
| in-iaw Israel Claude.
| Immediately after the opening of
| court Frank A. Kendall, a civil engi-
neer was called as the first witness for
| the prosecution. Kendall testified
| merely to the accuracy OF several maps
and plans of the territory where the
| murdered womans body was found.
| Lowell, Mass, Dec. THE jury Sc
Iected to decide the fate of j. Wilfred
| BlOndin in the charge of numbering his
| wife in Boston, came to Lowell, this
1morning, on a special car attached to
the $50 train. They We're accompanied
| by Sheriff Seavey, Deputy Sheriff
| ,,ornin and Court Officers Trying,
| Campbell and Rurns. On the tram al
so were Attorney General Parker and
| Assistant District Attorney McLaugh-
| lin Of Suffolk county.
| At the MiddieseX street station We're
1 the end Of the route in Chelmsford
| Hon. John II. Morrison and James j.
Owens OF the counsel for Blondin.
| Special electric cars We're provided to
| Center for the jury and the court Off
| GERS The attorneys found their way
| 10 the North Billerica road in Chelms-
| ford in "A carriage. At the junction of
| Boston road and the roads leading
easterly from Chelmsford to North Bill
lprica the first stop was made. Ihe
| geography of the section was given TO
the Jurors by the counsel. The brook
| where the head was found and the field
where the Chelmsford town officials To-
Gated the body We're shown the Jurors.
| Where the body was found was for
merly wood pile and underbrush.
| This has been removed and sapling
| with a white rag twisted about it indi-
| Gated. today. where the body was
| found in June of last year.
| Some of the jurymen went to the
bank of the brook and peered under
| the small foot bridge. The depth of
| thc water. today. was lower than in
June of last year.
The Jurors and counsel went almost
| to the Boston, turn pike before return
| ing. The back road leading from
| North BiIlerica road northerly was al
80 called to the attention of the jurors.
| Returning. Mr.. Morrison was at
| tempting 10 make an explanation on
some point when the attorney general
objected and Sheriff Seavey said ne
| could not allow it under directions of
| the Judge.
| The last stop was made at the resi-
denca Of J. &. Osterbout in Chelmsford.
| where Rlondin was employed for some
| time before he left Chelmsford. Dur
ing the visit in Chelmsford the attor-
ney general. Mr. Mclaughlin. the as
| sistant to the district attorney and Mr.
| Morrison and Mr.. owens called atten-
| tion tn pIaccs which will be mentioned
in the testimony.
The return to Boston was made on a
train az noon.
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