Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-13

lneTt. Olnef important ones were tile
quarterly appropriations for the
Penobscot Indians, the East Maine In
sane Hospital, the Maine Industrial
school, the Maine School for the Deaf
and the Bath Military and Naval Or
| phan Asylum. A request from Louis
b. Goodall, chairman of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition commission, for
an appropriation of $4,000 WAS also
passed.
| Shortly after II the executive session
was called and lasted about half an
hour, when adjournment was made un-
| til ! z. NJ.
| The session was resumed at $50 p.
NJ. After some routine business, the
| hearing on the case of Clara Emma
Getchell was called. County Attorney
| Leigh appeared and requested {, con-
| tinuance. of the hearing. He had re-
ceiVed notice of this hearing on Sept.
p, but had been so busly engaged in
| county business ever since that he had
had no time to make preparation for
| the case. The case was printed in four
volumes, one of which he had read.
| This, and what he had heard. was
about all he knew concerning the mat
| ter. He was aware OF the fact that Mr..
Glidden had come from Michigan, was
| a poor man and deserved cOnSidcrat ton
| The citizens of that state had rights
but so also did the citizens of Maine.
The case was Il murder case The
prisoner had been tried and convicted
under the laws of Maine. and had been
| rafncaI u mi, Il Inv, I, IF
He felt it his duty to appear against
the petition for pardon and strenuously
objected to the counsel for prisoner Of
ferinG evidence or making plea until
such time as the counsel for the county
| was prepared for a hearing.
| Mr. Heath, counsel for the prisoner,
and petitioner, stated that he had re-
ceiVed a letter from County Attorney
Leigh asking for continuation of the
hearing, and had explained that cir
cumstanceS made it imperative for Mr.
Glidden to return to Michigan. He
stated that the State was supposed TO
be ready at any time.
MI. Leigh asked when he could have
had time to prepare for the case, and
the two. INDUCED in. some sharp sar-
casn.
I Councillor Haines asked Mr.. Leigh if he
could not allow the evidence to be pre-
sented and the opening plea made, so
that Glidden might go home, while the
hearing could be resumed later. Mr..
Leigh assented and the petitioner and
counsel held Il conference.
Meanwhile 10 minutes was allowed
L. A. Barker of Bangor, attorney for
L
gor to present the evidence of DR.. Asa
A. Hanson of Bangor, who was obliged
to leave on the early train. Dr. Hanson
| testified that he had practiced medicine
E36 years had known William A. Withee
from childhood, had been family ply
stefan IL years. Withee had been feeble
as IL boy. but. the doctor had
known little about his personal
health until he was called to
examine him in Jail. oct. 6.
DR.. Hanson then read his notes, taken
at the time. The notes We're very
full. The most important facts
brought out were: That the pris-
oner had lost some 80 pounds: that his
pulse was some II beats below the nor
mad. his respiration 90 under normal.
his temperature degrees under nor
NAL. that the apex of his heart was in
the sixth interspace instead of in the
fifth. a displacement of about an inch
that he apparently had hypertrophy of
the heart. diabetes and consumption:
that he had had within five years both
pneumonia and typhoid fever.
Asked if these last two diseases
would account for the prisoners condi-
ton, DR.. Hanson replied that he
thought it would Also thought that
the nervous excitement from which
prisoner was suffering aggravated his
condition. He was uncertain how long
the prisoner might live, but it could be
only II few years at most. He thought
it imperative that the prisoner should
have open air and sunlight. imprson-
ment was likely to result fatally.
Mr.. Haines inquired if Withee was Il
hard drinker. The doctor did not know.
but his condition was not the result of
alcoholic intemperance. Mr.. Barker
stated that prisoner never drank Il drop
in his life. The doctor testified that he
was summoned by the prisoners sister,
Oct. 6. Had not known that he was a
rumscller until the conviction.
Mr.. Haines asked if prisoner had not
been under cover. away from open air
and sunlight, while he was selling rum,
and if the doctor would advise return
to such business. The doctor would not
advise anyone to enter such business, no
matter what his health was. Several
questions were asked the doctor, with a
view to proving that there was much
difference in various individuals as to
pulse, respiration. etc. and that symf-
toms of disease could be found upon
almost any person. The doctor then
left the stand, and the Getchell case
was resumed.
County Attorney Leigh thought he
could be ready for Me case within
eight or 10 days and Mr.. Glidden could
remain that length of time. but 1t was
found that some OF the councillors couiu
not be present at that time, so II was
decided that Mr.. Glidden should give
his evidence and the hearing be resumed
at the next regular session OF the Gov
ernor and Council, the last week IN
November. Mr.. Heath. counsel Tor the
petitioner. made statement or the
facts iii the case. on request OF the
Council.