The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-08
MAN LOOKED LIKE DlSBROW
WITNESS FAILS TO M4KELDENTI-
 HCATION POSITIVE.
He Saw the Sender of Telegram to "DImpie" Lawrence's Mother, but Was Not Sure 1t Was the Prisoner.

was Not sure 1t Was the Prisoner. Good Ground. L. l., July 7.-Louis Disbrow reached Union Hall in com pany with Sheriff Wells several min utes before his counsel, and chatted with the sheriff while he waited.
 The district attorney called Erastus w. Futile to the stand Futile is the station agent at Eastport who, it is claimed, sent a telegram from that place firm Disbrow to Mrs. Lawrence. The telegram was produced in evidence. It read,
 " 'Dirhpy' and Clarence Foster are together. I will not rest until I find them.'
 Futile said that Will Walton was with Disbrow when the message was sent. He did not see Disbrow leave Eastport on any train. He heard no conversation between Walton and Dis brow while they were in the station. Futile would not positively identify Disbrow as the man who sent the tele- gram.
 Doesn't he look like the man?" ask ed the district attorney, pointing at Dis brow.
 The witness looked the prisoner over from head to foot and then answered ina doubtful way, "Yes-a little."
 While Futile was testifying Lawyer Miles leaned over toward Disbrow and handed him a. sealed envelope. The young man hurriedly tore it open. It was a typewriter letter from his fa- ther.
 As the boy read the few lines he frightened up perceptibly and then hurriedly put the letter into an inside pocket of his coat.
 Mrs. Adelaide Ternell, wife of the Tianas Bay hotel proprietor, was the second witness.
 Louis Disbrow," said Mrs. Ternell, ''boarded at my husbands hotel for three weeks just preceding the death of Foster and Dimpy' Lawrence. never knew him before he came there"
 Witness said that she did not know Sarah Lawrence personally, but saw her in the hotel at o'clock on the evening of June s.
 Tt was the only time, to my knowl- edge, that Miss Lawrence was in my house." continued Mrs. Ternen. "She, with Clarence Foster and Disbrow, took supper there on that day. I do not know when she went away"
 Have YOU seen her since that even- ing?" asked the district attorney.
 Only dead" was the reply.
 Mrs. Ternell said that she went to bed at Il o'clock on the night of June g.
 Was MT. Disbrow at home them? asked MT. Smith.
 T don't know was the reply.
 District Attorney Smith spent much time questioning Mrs Ternell about the appearance of the knotted stick which she had seen about Miss Lawrence's neck when her body was taken from the water It was evident that the district attorney was attempting to show that the girl was strangled. but the testi- nnony of the witness did not establish the point.
 '.Was this knot close up to her chin?' asked MT. Smith.
 Yes" was the reply.
 Did it press into the flesh?''
 .No."
 Mrs. Ternell said that after supper or June 8 she did not see Disbrow agair until between and o'clock the fol. lowing morning, when she saw hin leave by the front door.
 If Disbrow. Foster and Miss Law. renee were in my house that night { didn't know it," witness added.
 Did you have an unoccupied room or the second floor that night?'
 .sYes."
 After Mrs. Ternell left the stand hel husband, John E. Ternell, was sworn { He did not add anything important tc what is already known, and went so fal as to say he had never seen Foster Disbrow and Miss Lawrence together He was not cross-examined.
 Nelson A. Squires, owner of the boa taken without leave and used by Foster and the girl, testified that it was an old and leaky affair, and that any one talk ing it in the dark would not notice its leakiness., Disbrow's defense is trying to show that the drowning was an ac' cident caused by the use of an unsafe boat.
 The taking of the testimony will bt resumed in the morning.
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