The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15

! than five minutes past ~ be was in Fied's
/ barn, with the door closed so that he could
not have been seen from the street, eating
his dinner.
Tucker was also quoted "a Having said
that while up at the top OF the hill, head
ing toward Cutters corner he saw man
digging in the street The man is suppqSed
TO have been Edward Dooley. who Was
repairing some water pipes. Dooley sald
he Knocked on work in the street at about
ten minutes past IL and not later than
1915.
In fuckers statement to Chief Shaw
and Gen. Whitney he said that II was
about 1905 when he left his house TO start
on his walk; that he worked about his yard
oil the morning from shortly after O'Clock
I'll about five minutes OF H. whcn ne
vent into the house. washed up, had his
dinner and a smoke, and then started down
/ toward the bridge, his purpose, as he ex-
/ planned il. being TO go TO the b. A. A grounds
, to see If there WIS any shooting at the traps
, As fuckers house il some minutes Walk
I distant from the Weston bridge, and on
[ the Auburndele side Of it, there Il dtner-
I enoa between this statement and the testi-
mony OF the other witnesses.
/ No, one has thus far been introduced by
I the Government who saw Tucker walking
I down East Newton street, but two railroad
/ men, 1owelman Murphy, at Riverside,
I and Foreman Cilley. who is employed at
| the riverside yards, saw hun on his way
| down the tracks toward ms nome
/ The former saw him passing the tower
/ at between t2.45 and 12.5d He could not
/ be certain of the minute. Foreman CilIey
met Tucker in the subway of the Auburn
Z dale station as Tucker was still heading
I homeward and Villey was on nus way 70
/ the Riverside yards. Mr. Ciley lett ms
I home at i245. and said II could not have
| been later than 1852 when he met Tucker
As the distance from Weston bridge TO
/ Cutters corner and back to the Tucker
house via East Newton street and the ran
road is nearly thref miles, even on tie
/ statements OF the Government witnesses;
I he must have traVersed this distance ana
/ have done the murder, il the Government S
I theory is correct, within fifty to hty-hVe
minutes
The experts, who took the stand as Gov
eminent Witnesses testified that in their
opinion the same hand that wrote the sales
slips with fuckers name on them, seleoted
! from number made wrile he was employ eu
Is a salesman for the firm OF lhorP MAT
| tin, wrote the address j. l.. Morton,
! Charlestown Mass. on the slip OF paper
/ found beside the dead body Of habe Page.
Great attention, both IN direct eHamina :
| ton and oross-eNamlnauon. mas been ue
/ voted to inquiries regarding the habits ana
movements of an old fashioned tan Clock
/ that stood in the living room OF the rage
| house. These inquiries we're particularly
/ directed to Judge Samuel {, Bennett 10
I Mrs. Bennett who was the first neighbor
1 TO reach the house after the murderl ana 10
/ Miss Susan f. Cutter
Tho point of this inquiry was partly
\ indicated by District Attorney Sanders0n =
/ opening, although it will probably inquire
! more particularly in the final argument il
bears in one sense upon an Interpretation
/ of the note left by Mabel Page for ier father
/ on the day OF the murder.
/ She wrote that she had been informed
! that Harold was hurt and was at the Masra-
/ chusetts Hospital. Then she added Have
gone in, and Immediately iolo"lhg u''s
statement appears IL o'clock.
II il meant that she went to take tram
/ or a car at II o'clock She would have been
out Of the house before noon. according TO
one Interpretation OF the note as she would
! have had more than mile TO travel ,
/ If on the other hand she meant 10 inGl-
| cafe that at the moment Of writing she
| glanced at the clock and noted that 1t was
/ n O'clock II places her in the house writ
! ing the note, at that 1nament. u sine then
went TO her ChRmber TO change Fer house
| dress for a street dress. the time OF the
! murder must necessarily have been after
I that hour, and. perhaps. OF some afHu-
mentative interest In connection wlth
| Tuckers statement that ii was two minutes
| after u when he passed over weston
/ bridge on his walk up 10 cutter corner
| on the day of the murder.
II WIS testified by Mrs. Bennett and Miss
| Cutter that on the afternoon OF the muir
| der they noticed, while at the Page house,
/ that this old fashioned cIoch hdu slvEl'eu
/ and that Mr. Page started IL going. They
| did not notice the hour ut which IL mad
! stopped. but Of the fact itself they were
! quite confident.
If appeared from the testimony OF Mr..
Page a few days ago that the clock was
not an accurate unekeeper ana IoSt
minute or two each day and Judge Ben
nett testified to an eccentricity in TINS
respect when be stated that Oh the day
of me funeral il was eight or ten minutes
ast ? O'Clock when the clock struck the
hour. ,n.,-
Of The clock hears upon the importance
10 be attached to the correctness Of the
time. ~ o'clock, appearing upon mabel
Pages note 10 her father.