Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-01-21

the light W bile the doctor dressed the
wounds OF Root. Witness examined the
Root barn; the first or second horse near
the door was lying down when witness
looked in and a lantern was on the floor as
though tipped over. Also saw foot tracks
of man near the barn, and two tracks in
the highway.
Paul G. Tinkham, deputy sheriff, >was
the principal witness called Saturday
| morning His testimony has been the
most important thus far as to its incrimi-
mating nature against the respondent.
At O'Clock in the morning after the
night on which Root was killed, Tink-
ham was called upon by DR.. w. ID. Hunt
| ington, who had just come from Green's
house, the place where the dead man
was. On account of information he,
Tinkham, received from the doctor, he
took the first selectman of Rochester
and went straight 10 the residence of
Frank Hubbard, where they found the
respondent. They got there about 8
O'Clock in the morning. Tinkham asked
the respondent where he had been the
night before, and he replied that he had
been out in the pasture looking for some
bulls that belonged to Mr.. Hubbard, and
that he got home before Hubbard went
to bed. Tinkham said that his story
did not agree with Hubbard's, and the
respondent said that Hubbard must be
mistaken. The examination OF the bed
in which the respondent had slept
showed that the sheets and pillow cases
were stained. The respondent wore
thick blue flannel shirt. The sheets and
pillow cases were damp. He found some
beggar lice in the bed, and on the respon- |
dents trousers similar to those which |
were growing outside the window at the |
Green house.
The witness then went to Green's and |
found tracks on the way there. They were /
similar to the tracks that were found near
the barn where Root was discovered. The /
measurements of the tracks agreed with I
the shoes worn by the respondent and |
when the shoes were tried they fitted the
tracks almost exactly.
The witness took the respondents knife
from him and found it stained with blood.
One OF the wounds on Roots head as de-
scribed by the doctor had been with a
knife. The witness identified the under
clothes of the respondent. The under
shirt was originally white, but was very
much stained with blue from the heavy
blue flannel overshirt.
On DISCRIMINATION the witness adj
mitted that he had taken great deal OF
interest in the case, hunting up evidence,
etc. He also admitted that he had a law
suit pending against Bean and Green, in
volving the title TO some land worth few
hundred dollars.
D1NNAdi NAAntenEn MtIN ihlltu WHO GOT~ l..
the testimony OF Tinkham as to
the finding OF the tracks and the fitting OF
the shoes
Court adjourned at II: 80 O'Clock until 2
o'clock Monday.
Monday afternoons session opened with
DR.. M. ]. Wiltse, director OF the State :
Laboratory at Burlington, on the stand.
He made an examination OF the clothing
)f Bean, but found no blood on any OF the ,
also made an examination of the
club" that has been referred to in the
also of the s'sliyer" off from the I
,lub; saw nothing that he could say was
blood made many examinations of the
,lub; only few OF the silver, as he had !
not had il long. Examination OF respond I
'nt's knife showed blood stains on the 5
arge blade, three small spots, one as large \
IS pin head, one smaller and one larger.
Two OF the spots showed to be blood !,
'ould not say II was human blood so as to !
De certain Of ii because 1t was dried blood !
tain. Had not examined the largest !
tain of all before the knife was before the :
rand jury. When the knife was returned !,
be stain was gone. Examination OF =
kull showed such injuries as indicated I,
more than one impact. On cross exami-
lation, witness said il there was one inn :
,act ON subject having two surfaces at !,
light angles, it might cause such a condi- !,
ion as the skull showed. y
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