Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-24

At the afternoon session Mrs. Shee-
han was called by the State and said
that William Worthley told her that
he did not borrow a piece of canvas
from Treworgy but that Treworgy had
come to him and asked him to SO state
and say that he had used the canvas
to cover slaughtered hogs.
Worthley being called by the defence
in rebuttal, stated that this was a
falsehood.
Mrs. Maud Hall testified that at the
preliminary examination of Treworgy
she had been seated by the side of Mrs.
Fogg and she said that when Fogg had
told his story about helping Treworgy
move the body of Mrs. Ware witness
had heard Mrs. Fogg say that it was a
lie.
Selectman S. E. Hall testified in sur
rebuttal that when Frank Ducatr
called at his office on the occasion re-
ferred to by Ducatt, yesterday, that the
latter was intoxicated and did not
know what he said or what had hap
pened there.
John f. Bunker, former county at
torney, said that Dennis Tracey, the
Bangor detective. had told him to be-
lieve that he had threatened and that
was why Fogg told the story he did.
Witness said that when Mrs. Fogg said
she had not seen him at GEMS house
and talked with him she lied. Witness
testified that while jeremiah Mink was
in Ellsworth Jail on another charge he
had told witness that he knew nothing
about the Treworgy case.
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why he had not called Fogg before the
grand jury in 1898. The ex-county at
torney stated to the court that he
would like to explain this matter, as he
had been much criticised for not doing
this. The court told Mr.. Bunker he
could proceed. Then Bunker said that
he had never considered Fogg very
bright and he did not call him before
the grand jury because he did not
think it would be good Judgment to do
so. He said he had not prosecuted the
man because he did not believe It
would have been good policy to punish
a man of his mental condition and one
who might become an important wit
ness FOR the State.
Mrs. Miles. the woman with whom
the murdered Sarah Ware lived, was
called and denied that she ever told
Samuel Connors. the Bangor newspa-
per reporter that Sarah Ware feared
Treworgy. She said she had never told
Mrs. Thompson that she was worrying
about Sarah Ware. This ended the
testimony and Mr.. Fellows began his
closing argument.
In opening Mr.. Fellows confined him.
self for a long time to the story told by
Joe Fogg and to the evidence that wit
ness had seen man named George
Viles. who is now in South Africa, go
into the Nicholson pasture where
Sarah Wares body was afterward dis
covered Mr.. Fellows characterized
Fogg as a monumental prevaricator-
He pointed out where the story of
Fogg told at this trial. varied radi-
cally with that told at the preliminary
hearing.
Attention was called to the appear
ance Treworgy had made in court, to
his bearing as that of an innocent man
and to his character as that of a sober.
industrious citizen who attended church
regularly.
In opposition to that, Mr.. Fellows
spoke of Fogg. whom he said was a
degenerate in every way, a man coming
from a poor and ignorant family, a
liar by his own confession and a de-
cendant of a family of liars. He said
he would rather live in a community