Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-01

Invent over to lockwood and returned
on March 8. He left MINISTER'S on
March II, and Newton left a little
ahead of him and went toward Rock
wood. Newton carried no gun.
On cross-examination. the witness
said that Newton wore light rubers
when he left, Monday. There was no
gun on the team they had. They had
some liquor and stopped at the piers
and treated the men working there. He
didn't know whether Newton wore nit
tens He didn't see Newton again I'M
til, last winter.
| Simeon Newton. one of the States
principal witnesses, was then called
and some of his testimony, to saw the
least, was rather disconcerting. He
said that he left MINISTER'S. 1910 or IL
O'Clock, on Monday, March II. He had
a pint of whiskey and carried a pair of
rubbers over his back. He started for
the camp of John Holden over the
Misery tote road. 1t was showing hard
| When near the burned land he noticed
some snow shoe tracks and that the
snow was all trampled down in the
road. Ten or 10 rods further he again
saw tracks crossing the road and going
| toward Brasway pond The second
! tracks were similar to the first ones he
saw. Where he saw the first tracks
| the snow was discolored and he
| thought this had been caused by q
| horse. He stopped at Felix Buffers
about 1890 or l o'clock. Joe Murray
| was there and left five or 10 minutes
| before he did. He stopped at John
| Holden's that night. He worked for
Holden on the drive and was paid
some $50 or $40 by him.
One day man came to the camp
and ne recognized him as the same
man he had seen on the tote road
The witness said that he left the State
because he did not wish to testify in
| the case. The man he saw on the tote
| road was walking as fast as he could
When the witness got near the piers
he passed Mr.. and Mrs. Baker. He
recognized the man at camp as the
one he had seen on the tote road by
his form and the way he walked.
On cross-examnation the witness said
that he wore mittens the day he passed
| over the road. The tracks in the road
| We're plain and covered distance on the
| road of six or eight feet. The disco,ora.
ton was in the horse path. He noticed
several of the tracks and that the shoes
making them evidently We're not mates.
He was six or eight rods away from the
man when he saw him disappear from the
road into the woods When asked If he
had ever been asked about seeing d man
near the open place on the road he replied
in the negative.
Then came enc of the most sensational
features OF the whole trial thus far. for
the witness admitted that he had Led to
everyone about what he saw on that day
fMarch IL except in the court room.
Jie said again that he left the State be-
asked if he ever told Mr. Cover right
there in the court house that the reason
he left the State was to crafty his own
passions and that Mr.. Cover told him
that reason. the witness replied that he
didn't remember anything ike that. He
never said that he left Pat Murphy in
the night
The witness was then questioned re-
eai'ding his movements while. out OF the
State. ard he said that he first went to
Megantic: From there ne, went e Man
He said he told the sheriff there why he
left the State but denied that he ever
told anyone else there. From Manches-
ter he went to Boston and stayed one
day; Then he went to Portland and
walked from there to Lewiston so that no
one would see him. In Lewiston he got a
job through an employment agency. out
in West Minot with man named Claud
Sawyer. The witness said that he told
Mr. Sawyer something about what he
saw. March IL. but admitted that he liei
to, him.
The witness denied that he ever told An
ME Miller that the man who killed Pare
suffered more than Terrio or that he
hoped to God Terrio would die before the
trial. He had given MeSSrS, Cover and
Pennell written statement of what he
knew regarding the case previous to the
former trial, but he admitted that it was
not all true. He sad he took oath to the
statement, realizing it wasn't all true He
denied that at the last trial he had said he
did not recognize Terro until he came
into the court room
On redirect examination the witness
stated that he had told part Of the truth
all of the time. On cross eXaminati ton
again he denied that he ever told the cap
tain of a steamer on Moosehead LAKE that
he couldn't hold in any longer; that the
man he saw on the road that day was
Joe Murray
George Richards. who was loading rocks
in lockwood at the time of the murder,
testified regarding the grip, and that Will
lie Rutler had left it at his house
DIR. Frank NJ. Whittier of Bowdon. was
hen called. He is the expert microscopes
who discovered the distinguishing marks
on the shells. He again told in full how
he found that the firing pin of Terrios
rifle made a different mark from the 9TH
ers ard that each rifle had it's own distin-
gushing mark, and explained in detail
the peculiar marks he found on the shells
fired a large number of shells in his ex-
perimentS.
The direct examination of DR. Whittier
had not been completed at adjournment
and. with the cross examination, will lie
finished, Tuesday.