Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-13

IONS normal the question OF Cost aloHt
could not and would not be taken into
account III dealing out justice but
since the case is over forever
it is perhaps not out of place
to say that this case has
cost the county probably between $12,.
0O1 and $4,000. In many respects tn,
case has been unique The sudden i'll
ness Of both the county attorney and
the foreman of the jury was some
thing unheard of before in the history
of the trial of our criminal cases. A
former county officer told "a Journal re-
porter that while he was not in tn,
least SuDerStitiOuS he cOnld but take
notice Of the number Of times the num-
Der Is" had made its appearance ii
connection with the case, and he emu
merated at least half a dozen such in
stances. TerriO babe farewell to SOM
erset county Jail shortly after P. NJ.
yesterday, and started for his train. AT
the station he was surrounded by a
crowd Of the most curious. who We're
anxious to hear some statement from
his lips. With his counsel he took the
train for Lewiston, as it was afterward
learned. He told Il reporter that he
any man. He said he had known all
the time that it would all come out
right sometime and that he would
again be free. He was very pale OF
countenance as would be expecte td
from his long confinement. but said he
should get work soon and
that would give him back
his usual strength. Many Of his friends
came to congratulate him and 10 al he
SAID it had come out just rs he expected.
The news If his discharge ana release
lad reached the down river towns ahead
of the train aud on its arrival there were
friends at Shawmut, Fairfield ana Wa
ttrvllc who got aboard 70 shake his hand
in congratulation.
Alexander Tcrrio in connection with the
murder of Matthias Pare is now Il thing
of the past. So, too. in all probability
VIII the murder of the young Canada
j." dropped forever And thus ends III,
| most peculiar. interesting and uniouo
cases within the annals of Names Grim
iral history.
Alexander TerriO was convicted at
the september term of the supreme
Judicial court for Somerset county in
1901, upon an Indictment against him
for the murder of Matthias Pare on
March ii of that year. Counsel for the
defendant moved to have the verdict
set aside on the ground of newly dis
covered evidence and the case was
argued before the law court at Au-
gusla, in December, 1902.
On April II, 1901, the dead body OF
Pare. a young French Canadian who
mad for several Years been accustomed
to work rs woodsman in the forests
of Maine during the winter season. was
found by the side of a tote road on the
banks of Misery stream between
'rassau lake and the Canadian Paci-
tic Railway, about a mile and half
from Asquth sttion. The body was
fully clothed and nearly covered with
brush and snow. Pare met his death
by shooting and the motive was rob
berry
AT the trial DR.. F. n. Whittier testi-
fled that he made microscopic eXami-
nations which showed that the shell
found by the body of Pare must have
been fired from Terrio's rifle claiming
that the indcntatiOns of the firing pin
OF the rifle left individual characteris-
ties in the primer OF the shell.
The new evidence introduced was
that OF Prof. Q. w. Knight, another
expert, who claims that certain eXper-
iments which he has made show con-
clusively that the shell exposed as it
was by the body of Pare could not
have retained any distinguishing marks
by which it could be identified
At the trial he State Was represent
ed by Hon. George w. Grower. county
attorney of Somerset. AMI lion. =, orc,
VI. Seiders of Portland. attorney gen
cr;}l of Maine. Terrio was Il f,n,i..i by
Hon. Daniel J. McGiilioud''. and /! ~.
Frank \. Morey of Lewiston.
Last July, the full bench handed
down an opinion granting Terrio new
tri1l, which is said to be the first case
where q new trial has been granted in
a murder trial in the history of juris-
prudence in this State. The opinion
was drawn by Justice Whitehouse.
The second trial was held at Show
hogan in December, Justice Powers
presiding. After part of the evidence
for the government had been adduced,
the foreman, Burnham Fox, became
i'll. County Attorney Cover was also
Ill. being Threatened with pneumonia
Judge Powers therefore discharged the
jurors.
Ira w. Gushing, proprietor of The |
Forks hotel, was brought before the
court, today, for sentence on two
indictments for selling liquor, returned |
at the September term. At that term |
the respondent filed Il demurrer to the |
indictments and the case Went to the |
law court. The verdict of that tribu- |!
nal sustained the former verdict. His |
sentence today, was a fine of $500 and |
costs, amounting to $143.21. making n |
total of 343.27 and four months i'll Jail |
and in default of payment four months |
additional. He was committed.
\ dispatch to the Chicago Record |
Herald from SigOurney. Iowa, says. |
that htc II, NJ. ..oplJ p,f ,naa+ |