Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-30

c0lOred pocketbook-ones of the kind tina
Is made OF leather and encircled with q
strap. Inc witness had heard that a dead
man had been found that morning on the
tote road. After the trade had baen made
the witness asked Terrio if he had heard
about q man being found, and Terrio said
ne had. and that he had been shot. muir.
dered and robbed. The witness suggested
that it might have been accidental. hut
Terrio said in a high voice that he had
been shot, and that his head looked as II
rife. The witness stated that Terrio
appeared very nervous and that his voice
was pitched in a high key. After the hay
had been loaded. witness asked Terrio
to stop for dinner, but he declined. as il
looked like a storm. He asked for some
eggs, however. and was given half
dozen and some doughnuts. On cross-ex-
animation, the witness admitted that he
had said nothing about the wallet in the
FIRST trial. and nothing about Terrio talk
ing about man being shot, nor about his
condition at the. time. On redirect. he
told him about the finding of the body on
the afternoon before.
G. l.. Masternlan. son of =. G. Master
man man. was called next, and was q new
We're saving wood when Terrio came out
from the house to see about the hay.
Keith, he said, asked Terrio about the
about it. Terrio said it happened some
time before. The witness had not heard
it before. Terrio said the head of the
dead man had been stove in; He said
the body being found. The witness said
Terrio talked very loud and seemed
nervous when telling about the body being
found. On cross-eXamination the witness
(witness) some feeling and when asked in
redirect, what he meant by this, he stated
that it gave him the impression that Ter
rio might know something about the case.
ART Lnit fhn~ ttv,xat
the hired man of Mr.. Masterman, was
called next. He had seen Terrio once,
some 20 years before, but he did not rec,
ognize him the day he came to the barn,
SO he asked him his name and was told
what it was. He also asked him who it
was who had been killed the night before,
and Terrio said the name was Pare.
When he asked how he had been killed
was stove in, and his throat cut. He had
been dead some time. Terrio said Syvere
Gaudet had told him about it. The wit
ness said Terrio had talked very lond, but
did not know but that this was natural
with him. He seemed somewhat nervous
The witness had not talked with Terrio
since.
On cross-examination, the witness stat
ed that he first heard of the murder at
Moosehead. where the overseer of schools
bad told him about it, but had not given
the particulars.
John 6. Calder, saw Terrio April 8, when
'rerrio paid her for a pair of moccasins he
had bought of her son. and some toba eco
$3.50. When he took the money from his
pocketbook, she said he turned his back
to her, so that she could not see. He
gave her a S. bill, which she changed.
She noticed later that the wallet was new,
a strap around it. She saw some money
in it, but could not tell how much She
had not testified at the former trial
On croSs-eXamination. she stated that
,1,N II
She admitted that she had made a state
ment. Friday something like this: 81
was down before and paid my own eX-
neases but ". vas called IA down this time,
Newton, she said, stayed at her home the
night she sold the moccasins. She ad
mitted with some embarrassment that he
was paying attention to one of her daugh-
suspected of having had something to do
with the case.
Edith Willer testified to lending Terrio
S. at one time, and then SIS at another.
rhc second time she took his note for the
full arnount-$30. She said that Murray
had given her brother a rifle in the March
that Pare was murdered. 1t was a %
calibre: On cross-examination, she ex-
planned that her brother was a cripple
and could not speak very plainly. He
took great care of the rifle and used to
target with it. He. never went hunting.
There had been no blood on the rifle, to her
knowledge, and nothing had been rubbed
of it with any hard substance like sand
oil and a rag. When Terrio lived in
Creenville. the witness saw her aunt
Mrs. Ierrio, open the draw of the sew
ing machine and saw money there, There
was q considerable amount. she thought,
but she did not know how much.
Joseph Mcdonald was then called. He
is a brother-in-law of Joe Murray, and
the man for whom Murray said he went
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lives on the Connor farm, about II miles
from Asuith. He was in lockwood,
March TO- and got to Sylvere Gaudets.
where he put up the horses. about l1.45
in the forenoon. He spent Sunday night
at Lewis Murray's, his father-in-law. anG
the father of Joe Murray. He said. Joe
left the house, about 7.30 or O'Clock,
Monday. morning, to go to his camp. He
got back TO the house about or 2.30 in
the afternoon. and brought with him 1T74
pounds of fsh-lakers. He carried these
in bag. He took snow shoes with him.
On cross examination he said that he
did not think it could have been much
before 8 o'clock when Joe left the house.
He carried 22-rif1e and snow shoes.
return. but could not say whether he had
snow shoes or rifle with him then. He
said that Joe Murray's father may have
had half-dozen snow shoes about the
house. He was accustomed to pick up
all the cid odd ones he could find, and
had miSmated ones.
On his way from the farm to lockwood,
the witness stated that he had stopped
about Is minutes at Martin MINISTER'S,
because his wife wanted to go in and
see Mrs. Munster. Mr.. McGillicudny had
considerable difficulty in getting him to
state just what he did while there. and
had a lively tilt with him over the point
The witness at first refused to answer
unless ne was told what the attorney was
driving at, and asked some questions him
self Judge Powers did not interfere in
this. and the matter finally righted itself
and the witness and Mr.. McGil!icuddy
were soon moving along we'll together
again. The witness finally admitted that
he bought eight pints of whiskey-four Tor
his father-in-law and four for his brother
in-law. When asked if it wasn't gin, the
witness said 1t was, but that he called it
all whiskey, as 1t vas colored.
This concluded the forenoon session, and
court adjourned until in the afternoon.
Octave Clair was the first witness in the
afternoon. Heis the man to whom Terrio
gave several notes. The witness stated
he was in the house when Terrio bor-
rowed the money of Edith Willer to pay
one OF these notes. One note was paid.
April s. 1901, in Fred Parent shouse. The
witness thought this had been paid a lit
tie while before the body of Pare had
oeen found. The amount was Sj7.5o. The
note given for the Raspberry farm was not
yet paid.