Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-07
KNEW TUCKER.
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duced skirt which the witness ident-
flied as that he had seen in Miss Pages
room. This was admitted as an eXhib-
it and SHOWN to the jurors.
Witness said that it was not until a
few days later that he noticed that the
hooks and eyes on the placquet of the
skirt had been pulled nearly out. 1t
was then in the possession of the au-
thoritics.
DIR. Frost then gave a detail recital
of the manner in which the autopsy was
performed and n long technical eXamin-
alton of the wounds in Miss Pages
body were made. This testimony was
mainly in confederation of DR.. Meade,
Thursday.
While DR. Frost was testifying Tuck
| er did not appear 20 be listening His
attitude of decided interest. Thursday.
was changed into absolute inattention.
| Edward Page, the fathe~ of the muir
| dcred woman. entered the room Will"
DR.. Frost was on the stand and took
scat iii an unused jury toX.
DIR. Frost said he was OF the opinion
that Miss Page lived about two min
utes after receiving the first wound the
stab in the back. The longest he be-
| lievcd TO be five minutes. He corrobor-
| ated Dr. Meale'S statement on the
stand. Thursday. that the knife intro
| duced by the prosecution might have
| inflicted all the wounds on the woman :
body.
The district attorney asked the wit
ness a few Hypothetical questions con-
corning digestion. The principal ques-
ton was: IN case the digestion of
bread or starchy fool had been in pro-
gross for i minutes before death. how
much of the process would be carried
on after death, assuming death to be
sudGen?"
The witness replied that in such a
case practically the whole process of
digestion would occur after death.
This ended the direct examination
and Attorney las. H. Valley proceeded
to cross-examine the witness.
In response to -Jr. Valleys questions
DR. Frost state positively that DR..
| Meade did not say that Miss Pages
death was clear case of suicide and
that DR.. Meade made no such state
m"nt to Mr.. Page.
| -lr. NHHtE tlt'il ib'Ith 10 Tl'dtl ITo'H
the testimony given by Edward Page.
| father Of Mabel, at the preliminary
hearing in the lower court at Waltham.
This testimony WAS % the effect thai
DIR. Meade said to Mr. Page when he
first examined the holy:
| 1T is a clear case of suicide. That's
the way they always DO. smash them
selves up and then do the fatal work
| lower down."
Tho testimony went on to say that
Mr. Page then asked the medical eX-
| aminer to max" a moro thorough eX-
| animation Of the body. At this point
| Attorney Gen. Parker objected.
| The court ruled that the Introduction
of this testimony was competent.
Mr.. Valley proceeded to read about
200 words more of Mr.. Pages lower
court testimony when Re was inter-
| r,lptcd by the court. It was explained
| that it was supposed the attorney was
| reading from the testimony of DIR.
| Men,ie and that it was on that teSti
| mony that the ruling was made. Tn"
| court then ruled out all the testimony
| which had bcon read by Mr.. Valley. de-
claring that it was not competent for
this witness to talk about anything Mr..
Page might have said III his testimony.
The skeleton with which DR.. Meade
illustrated his description of the
wounds. Thursday. was brought into
court again and was used by DR.. Foss
for the same purpose.
Rcplving to further Questions by Mr.
Valley Dr. Frost stated that he did not
believe that a two-cired knife could
| I,.,.- go i,t ,I IN tll..t1 4
the breast
| During the recess Tucker held an ami
mated whispered consultation with At
torney Philip Mansfield. who is assn-
ciatcd with the Mcssrs. Nahoy and At
torncy lines. counsel for the defence
When the court resumed. the wife and
daughter Of Judge SHELDON entered tn"
court room and took seats just behind
Edward Page.
Mr. Valley concluded his crnss-ox-
animation of DR.. Frost and District At
torney Sandcrson asked a few techni-
cal questions in redirect examination.
The witness was then excused.
Judge Sherman then asked counsel
: not to prolong their exairination Of wit
neSSeS unnecessarily.
, DR.. Henry A. Wood a Waltham ply
sician testified that he was called to
the Page house on the day of the muir
1 der He corroborated the statements ~
Drs. Mead and Frost that all the
wounds could have boon inflicted with
. the knife exhibit I'd by the government
On cross-eXamination DIR. Wood said
that if Miss Page hal teen killed in
e some room other than that where he1
! body was found and the body had beer
! dragged to the latter place. there would
n not have been any escape OF blood suf-
s ficlent to stain through hey clothing.
John w. Bruce of West Newton. ar
e undertaker's assistant. who Went to tbs
: Page house to secure the body fol
: burial was the next witness.
s The witness called at the Page house
< at midnight He dpSpriheJ tho ,pa,1De