The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15
DID He STAY MABEL PAGE?
.(tSF THE STATE mas MADE OUT
AGAINST lOi No TUCKER.
riood,tains on Il kuife and Clothing He
longing 20 lin Ills contradictory
statements handwriting EXPERTS Tes-
uN-Tlme an Element I'm the Case.


mo state hn, been endeayorng to prove to
,he ABSTRACTION Of twelve men that Charles
Tucker OF Auburndale murdered Miss
usrei Page at her home in Weston on March
a inst and during that time many wit
rc,s- have given testimony in the court
r,ou II East Cambridge where the trial Is
lenc conducted.
N,oa-e since the trial OF Lizzie Borden
b.. been followed with greater interest by
no ro3plc of Massachusetts,. Many bets
haze hecu recorded on what the verdict OF
u..Hrv will be, and on very hand one hears
thctrill di-cussedamon men ndwomen.
r iiu- STATE the courts are very strict
ra,l,1g comment by the newspapers
,p,n tine evidence submitted in cases oil
-fi,, Importance as the one being heard 10y
tdre sherman end sheldon Publishers
~ rcw papers have already had several
,ar.ug- from Ntorney-General Parlter'
.rt one newspaper was fined $500 for oon-
s-sr. of court because Of an article printed
.,, week., before the trial Of Tucker
began
because Of this siriclness the papers have
ln va.y cautious in printing accounts OF
ti. trial No color has been used IN the
headlines and each sentence Of the reports
las been carefully edited before being sent
g., thc COMPOSING rooms. The public has
iecn allowed to draw It's own conclusions
from reports q the testimony verbatim IN
soma ca -es and the editors have in every
way cndcavored 70 conform to the ideas OF
ro Attorney General. who believes IN
alloging people to think what they please
after reading plain, ACCOMPLISHMENTS
of ,yha, is said and done in the court room.
The State has presented its case in just
nrc days The taking Of testimony began
week ago Wednesday, and yesterday
d. Edward S. Wood, the famous Harvard
chemist, told the jury what he had dis
covered from his examination Of the clothing
and other things submitted TO him by the
st1te detectives.
Dr.. Wood has beon termed the star wit
ness for the prosecution. He testified that
lie had discovered blood on the back OF the
broken knife which Che State witnesses
sid they found in an overcoat hanging IN
fuckers room.
Prof Wood made chemical analyses OF
stains found on fuckers coat and trousers
a. well as on the knife blade He found
blood in one of the pockets Of pair OF
trousers belonging to Tucker but these
stains were so old that he did not consider
that they could be connected with the
present case and thought them accidental
stains. He said the same thing Of blood
stain on the lining Of one sleeve OF a blue
coat belonging to Tucker.
Prof. Wood found nothing suspicious on
eighteen og another lot of twenty-one pieces
Of clothing delivered to him. On an OYER
coat on the right front near the bottom
e. Ji.ttt,nF blood uulnalpl
the right lapel Of the coat was smudge
of blood and distinct blood spot was
found on the back Of the top button.
Biological tests showed that the spots
we're human blood. The chemist was un-
able to say whether the spots were such
as might have been made from blood thrown
from a knife held in the right hand of
person # was his opinion that they might
come from anything.
The trousers said TO have been VOTE by
Tucker on the day OF the murder We're
found 10 have blood spots on the right
hand side. showing on the inner part and
outside There were indications that tie
blood might have been q wOman's.
Prof Wood examined q reddish brown
substance received from Glen. Whitney, OF
the State police. which was scTaped from
the front door Of the Page house. He found
i' wis not blood. He also examined
spread from Mabel Pages led and found
hood stains on IL, but said Il might have
come from the autopsy
lnay were small spots. He received some
pecc- Of straw mating from the hallway
and ting room but found no stains upon
th,m.
Ha listed the Page house ON Jan. J, 1905,
aud -cfaped some stains from The doors Of
Mabel Pages room and the moulding Of
ih' voOGwork. lie found that the Stains
were not blood stains, but were evidently
from the stuff used to stain the floor.
Gre II tiie interesting features Of the
testimony given on Thursday was the state
n-nt ol fuckers chum. Henry G Bourne
70 Tie Eject that Tucker was in the habit of
@-7rng u hi5 cap, 40 far back as 1902
canadian pin Of the design introduced by
fra Government. and alleged TO have been
en irom the Page house. Amy Roberts.
'n' Page servant. had previously testified
illi canadian pin Of the same design had
~en sven by her IN cushion in Mabel
Pages room shortly before the murder
smother feature OF the trial was the test-
Wpay OF Chief Of Police Joseph Shaw and
STATE officer v hitney a. to the admissions
made hy Tucker ON the night Of his arrest.
Ii0 ti--' asserted that he did not own a knife,
se That offered m evidence. subsequently,
admitted ihat he mad owned such a knife
flt haH lost IL a wear before while ont camp
ing. and then said he had broken the knife,
-P mat the police officers should not ind
J. and y means Of it connect him 18th the
Hlga murder
IN connection with the knife sheath
Young Arthur Woodward, who was driv-
i1g d a-h wagon in Auburndale on the
oay Of the murder, testified to giving Tucker
ana Henry Bourne a ride on the fan wagon,
30 company with himself and Mabel Walker.
Alter Fucker got OF the wagon he found
sheath on the scat at the point whore
lNoter had been sitting and kept II until
Toe .atter part Of the following week. when
D., father turned Il over to Gen. Whitney
% i'e state police
On the night Of fuckers arrest. which
vas ten days after the murder when Chief
NAaw produced the sheath and showed It
10 Tucker. the latter admitted ownership
:" lle article and in explaining where IL
iad teeu since the murder said he took
out ~ his bureau the previous sunday
ana pm II ia his pocket, where it had been
ever since.
he further stated that he didn't have the
Sheath on his percon on the day Of the
murder and that the overooat from which
hr apparently supposed Chief Shaw had
aken the l,nife-fOr the Chief Vas eKamin-
ing one Of fuckers oyerooats when he
aItd The latier's attention 10 the article
was not the one he had worn on the day Of
h' murder. He said that Oh that day
no wore his satin lined oyercoat and Il
rug1 brown coat.
To question Of the time when Tucker
crossed The Weston bridge on his walk up
90 Her . Corner on the day OF the murder
'a' p.ayed a prominent part in the inquiry.
Cen hlngsbury said the noon whistles
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