Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-04
For Mabel Pages Murder
Begins at Cambridge.
District Attorney Says Motive
for Crime Was Robbery.
Sure He Can Convict His Man-Jurv
Visits the Scene.

dHlDlldSe, Mass. Jan. 3.-The out
line of the government case was. TO-
day, presented by District Attorney
George a. SandersOn to the jury. which
will decide The guilt or innocence o.
Charles l.. Tucker, the Auburndale
young man. who is charged with the
murder of Miss Mabel Page. who,
March 81, 1904. was found dead on the
floor of her bedroom in her fathers
house in Weston. The district attorney
said that the motive for the crime was
robbery, and he declared that the COM
moEWea.th was prepared to prove that
III addition to committing murder
Tucker had stolen money and jrWelry
from the Page house
To connect Tucker with the crime anC
prove his presence in the Page house
on the day the murder was committed.
Mr.. S:ndcrson said that the govern
nent would attempt to show that a
piece OF Paper which WIS found in one
of the rooms of the Page house bearing
the address u. l.. Morton, Charles
town. Mass" was written by Tucker
and forgotten by him. Mr.. SInderson
also declared that a knife which Tuck
~ admitted to be his fitted the wounds
in Miss Pages body, which caused ner
death. According to the district at
torncy the accused man also admitted
directly after his arrest that he tied
TO destroy the knife in order that Sus-
niciOn should not be directed towards
him.
Mr.. Sanderson's opening Argument
was il calm. logical dispassonate
or, ,i,.l,
ment claims to possess and although
the prisoner is asserted by the district
attorney to be the murderer of Miss
Page. at 10 time did Mr.. Sanderson
become denunciatory.
The entire forenoon was devoted to
Il visit by the jury to fuckers home in
Auburndale. the Page house in Weston
and an inspection of the surrounding
country. especial attention being paid
to the location Of important land marks
AMI the topography and contour of the
country.
Tucker YVES brought into the court
room at So. TIL jury entered Il mo-
ment later and al }.25 Judges Sherman
and Sheldon took their places Oh the
bench and court was declared open.
i'!St! a. Ivy Sfll 1T oliCt'
gan his opening argument.
An atrocious murder has been COM
mittrd, he said. An unprotected
woman has been struck down by a
knit" in The hands Of cOwardly as
saSSn. The defendant has been ndiCt-
~ rs til" author Of tniS crime. This
crime Is in Il particular sense an at
tack upon ;h. home. This woman was
in hey home ana the worst of all crimes
ar. those directed against the home
The district attorney then recited the
facts concerning III" domestic life of
the Page family.
THE murdered woman" he said
was II years old. weighed about rs
pounds. was beautiful in character and
was of remarkably symmetrical figure"
District Attorney Sanderson then de
scrihrd the conditions of the Page
house on the day of the murder, March
81. iol. as follows:
Harold Page the brother. left HON"
about s o'clock and the father went
away ar hour and a half later. This
loft Miss Flge and Amy Roberts the
houSeke"pcr. the only ones III the house.
During thar forenoon. Miss Roberts
saw Miss Page take from the drawer
of a desk Il wallet containing Il sum of
money. Miss Page also had another
purse. From that she took one dollar.
which she gave to Miss Roberts. There
was left in the purse Il sum exceeding
S12.
Amy Roberts lcft the house a little
later :tnd Went to W"tertown ana Boston.
ra> sing nn the road between in. Page
house and the end Of the street car line,
in Auhurndalc. Il man named booley and
a laundry man named Maynard. Maynard
called al he Page house to deliver l,un-
dry. at about II O'Clock. and he is the
last person known to have seen Miss Page
aliva."
The movement of Mr.. Page. the father.
on the c;tv of Rhe murder We're Described
by MI S1ndcrson.
Mir Pagn returned home. about 2in
O'Clock in III" afternoon. There was no
reply to his knock and hc hal to let HIM