Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-01
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| The bullet wounds We're first discovered
| at .Iackman when the clothes were re-
| moved. There had been nothing TO indi-
| cate any wounds under the clothes He
| believes the throat wounds were first no
ticed at Asquith or Jackman.
The witness thought that there was no
! money nor anything of value discovered
on Pare's dead body. There was no hat
on the body when found. The witness
was shown the steel jacket and he ex-
planned the markings on it as caused by
the rifiing, or growing, of the gun.
! He stated that he went through the
| nelghborhood at lockwood. looking for
1870 rifles. Four, besides Terrio's, were
found These together with Mr.. Cover s
| rifle and one belonging to the witness,
| We're sent to Prof. Whittier at Bowdoin
| College
| The attorney general at this point Of
fered the snow shoes in evidence.
The written statement which Sheriff
Pencil took from Terrio at Soccatin
stream was read. In it Terrio states that
he last saw Matthias Pare on Moose river
or Sunday. March 10. That on Monday
forenoon, March II. he was cutting wood
|
was stormy he did not go out in the after
noon, but remained at home and laid his
chamber floor He never loaned his snow
shoes but once and that was OH March
| IL, when 4 stranger came along and
wished to borrow them to go to kineo
with. He let the man have them and that
was the last he saw of the snow shoes
| for about q week, when he found them
| sticking up in the snow some little dis
| lance from his house. The SHOW shoes
were not mates. The stranger had ne,
gun. to his knowledge.
| The witness was then shown several ri
files, the most OF which he was able to
identify as guns taken from certain
houses at lockwood He stated that he
received the rifles back from Prof. Whit
tier TO whom they We're sent
! On croSs-eN2mination the wtness stated
that he had first heard Of the body being
found on April 13, about 10 A. NJ. He
started for the spot ard reached there
early Sunday morning.
The body was not examined at that time
to find whether or not there We're wounds
upon it. The body was carried to Asquth
and then to Jackman, where the inquest
was held. At AsGuith he first heard OF
Joe Murray in connection with the crime.
A man was sent to get Joe Murray to
meet him at AsQuith or Greenville. After
meeting Murray he went to kineo.
Ex-SheriH Pencil was subjected to
very rigid cross-ex animation regarding all
the particulars of his investigation of the
case by Mr.. McGilicuddy. A ride was
handed the witness and he called it his
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which had previously been shown HIM and
which he had called 300, in the rifle
and he found that ii did not fit easily. He
was asked to close the lever to force it
up in After many questions the witness
admitted that he did not know whether
or not he had snapped the hammer of any
of the rifles that he had just hesn exam
lining in court. He stated he had thought
of the distinctive marke that might be
found on the shells before he got back
from lockwood.
He would not swear that others beside
Mr.. Cover and himself ever fitted The
crushed shell but thought that perhaps
they might have He did not know of any
particular reasons for trying it SO many
times. When asked about the Perry shell
the witness said he had seen Mr. Cover
, ivy it in Terrios rifle in the court room
at the former trial and that it fitted the
same way as the one he had Just tried
failed to go clear in by about an eighth
of an inch. He admitted that Mr.. Cover
showed it in with his thumb and pushed
/ the lever up and then threw the shell
out onto the floor. He stated there were
I several bright rings about the shell i'm
medately after it came out of the rifle
and that only one could be seen now.
On redirect the witness said that the
Perry shell had always been taken out of
was his recollection that the rings on the
shell had been noticed before Mr. Cover
tried it in the rifle.
Charles B. Haskell. who was deputy
,, sheriff in 1901 and who went with Nh
pcnnell to lockwood when the body was
found, was called next. He said tie shot
wounds were first discovered when the
body was stripped at Jackman. lie
thought the wound in the throat was no.
ticed at Asquith or Jackman, but not
when the body was found. He had tired
the crushed shell in the Terrio rifle and
that it fitted bafore it had been crushed,
Tho witness identified several rifles pail
OF snow shoes and two pocket knives
which had been secured in lockwood and
Asquith Two of the rifles were obtained
at Martin MINISTER'S in Asquith. the snow
shoes and one knife at Terrio's house and
the other knife in Terrios possession
when he was arrested. The witness was
I closely examined as to the investigation
OF the case he assisted in and as to the
conversation he had with Terro.
Mr.. Haskell was on the stand at the
hour of adjournment so his examination
, was continued in the afternoon. When
Terrio was asked if he had been at Bras
sua during that winter he said he had
not. "'Spose we can prove you have been
there?" the witness said was asked, and
that Terrio replied: IF you can prove
that YOU can convict me Of the crime"
William Butler was the next witness
and testified regarding the finding of
the grip in practically the same way
as he had before.
Patrick Murphy stated that he had
been with Newton before the murder
He came out of the woods where he
had been working OH March {, and
went to Martin MINISTER'S. On the next
day he and Newton hired team and