Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-07
Mabel Pages Case Be-
tore the Grand Jury.
Government Aiming to duplicate
Tucker With Crime.
Jury Concludes Its Deliberations AFTER
Session of Six Hours-F'ndinss NOT
Vet Made Public.


March 81, was revived, today, by the
annearance of a large number of wit
nesses before the grand jury for Mid
dlesex county court which came in
here. District Attorney Sanderson has
been busy in conjunction with the dis
trict police for more than a week In
preparing the evidence against Charles
L. Tucker Of Auburndale, the young
man who is charged with stabbing MISS
Page.
Among the witnesses summoned are
members of the fuckers own 1amlly'
members Of the Page household, Pro1.
Wood of Harvard College, who made
a chemical examination OF Iuckers
clothing and a large corps OF helsh-
bOrs of the two families.
Miss Mabel Walker of DamariscOtta,
Me-, who 1t is said was with IucKer
part of the time on the afternoon of
the murder. will not give evidence be-
fore the grand jury. fuckers attOr-
neys are busy preparing defence and
they expect to present several new
facts should their client be called to
stand trial.
The grand jury came in at 10 O'Clock,
before Judge Harris and as 1t was the
second session of the year, the court
said he would not give them any in
structions, but ordered them out under
the charge of District Attorney Sander
son. Before the jury came in, District
Attorney Sanderson said he could not
make public list of the witnesses
called, but said the Tucker case would
be he first one to be taken up. He did
not expect any report to be made on
any one of the cases before Friday or
Saturday.
Shortly before 10 o'clock Gen. Joph-
anus III. Whitney of the State police,
who has been in charge of the case
arrived accompanied by Prof. +. G..
Wood of the Harvard Medical school,
an expert i'm criminology. Prof. Wood
carried a large leather bag with him.
a number of articles, especially cloth
ing found i'm fuckers house, were sent
to Prof. Wood for examination i'm
mediatcy after the arrest. Among
other witnesses was the stenOgrapher
of Chief Tarbox of the Newton police
who took down fuckers testimony to
the officers on the night when he was
first detained and also when he was
arrested.
The grand jury met in the large
court room and as soon as the judge
had retired all the witnesses to the
number of 80 or 60 were ordered into
the antcroom and went in sinSly. One
of the four things carried in was n
large map of Weston and Auburndale,
the scene of the tragedy.
The first witness who testified was
Prof. Wood, who presented the re-
suits of his microscopic examination
of the clothing taken from fuckers
home and of the knife sheath which 1t
is alleged figured in the murder of Miss
Page. The next witness was DIR. Julian
a. Mead OF Watertown. the medical
examiner who performed an autopsy
upon the body OF Miss Page. DIR. Mead
was one of the prominent figures dur
ing the investigation of Miss Pages
death because of his report to the po-
lice that the woman had committed
suicide. The medical examiner gave to
the grand jury, today, the report of
the autopsy which indicated that Miss
Page had been killed but which has
been carefully withheld from the pub
lie.
Patrick j. Connolly of Auburndale,
was called to testify with reference to
pedestrian near the Page house on
the day of the murder.
Howard +. Page, the father of the
murdered woman. next was summoned
into the grand jury room. He was sub
jectcd to long inquiry by the district
attorney with reference to his move
ments on the day of the tragedy and to
his discovery of his daughters body.
.h.~ al, n
procession of witnesses, so rapidly did
they enter and leave the jury room.
Amy Roberts, the Pages housekeeper;
Henry $. Maynard. the laundryman.
the last person known to have seen
Miss Page alive: Constable ]. McAuliffe
of Weston, who investigated the Tuck
err clue. and Fannie Fitzgerald. stenog-
rapher at the West Newton police sta
ton. We're called in succession and then
Edgar Frost Joseph Connolly. John j.
Connolly and Henry b. Bourse. neigh
bors of the Page family were admitted.
Arthur j. Woodward. in whose wagon
Tucker is said to have ridden. and who
afterward found the suspicious knife
sheath in the vehicle. followed those
living near the Pages.
The remaining witnesses to testify
were John A. Bruce, the conductor, VINO
discovered the wounds on Miss Pages
body, which indicated that she had
been stabbed: Mary Maloney, Dennis
Doyle. George Doyle. John f. Doyle
and Daniel c. Connolley, all residents
of the Newtons and some of them
neighbors of the Page family. In re-
Spouse to subpoenas fuckers father
mother and brother were present in the
court building. but the district attorney
decided that he would not call upon
them for testimony before the grand
jury. The presentation Of the govern.
ment's case to the grand Jury occupied
less than six hours. After fuckers rel.
atives had been dismissed from attend
ance at the grand jury, they visited the
defendant in the county Jail just acros:
\ the street from the court buildings
[ When leaving. Mr.. Tucker. the father
said he had found his son in a mos
cheerful attitude of mind.
After the grand jury had finished
with the Page case, it was learned tina
the three witnesses named Doyle, wht
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