Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-21
CLAIMS HE never Saw knife.
Paid RadCliffe's Insurance With ExpeCta=
ton OF Being Observation-Disclosures Him
Money and Had No lll=feeling.

South Paris, Me. Oct 20.-Wal.lce
G.. Everett, ON trial in the supreme
court charged with the murder Of Ed
gar l.. Radcliffe at the Crockcr Hill
l!iitn on June l.. took the stand in his
OWE defence ut Saturday aft>rioGn'S
session If court and gave 4 graphic ami
the dynamite house and other incidents
of that night.
Everett appeared very sclt-posaeseed
and answered questions clearly and
promptly. both III direct examination
by his attorney John G.. .Wazey and
III the searching cross-cxlminatiGr
which Warren c. Phlbrocl1, the assist
ant State attorney, alterwdr,i began.
Everett WAS still on tie stand when
tho court adjourned.
Other witnesses OF the Afternoon SeS-
sio.i We're DR.. Charles Thto Icnnig, 4
metallurgical expert. VIII" also gave
testimony during the morning, and
Ferrie fiVCiC 1t. son ii tie respondent.
DR. Henni;; was called as an expert on
dynamite ana its explosive force.
When he was recalled t. the stand
Saturday afternoon he said in direct
examination that in his opinion the
fuse found near tho scene Of the tx
plosion ana exhibited by the State had
been exposed to TIE clements for sen
crai months.
In the cross-examination Of the Nit-
n"S5. Assistant Attorney General Phil
brook went into technical questions r.
fgariing the composition OF dynamite
ana it's explosive powers. DR.. lf"nnig
said dynamite could be exploded by II
lighted match il il had been prcVi"!!e-
ly frozen ana thawed out or if il had
been left in the sun.
torre E.N crett, son of the respondent,
followed DR.. Iennig on the stand. The
young man said that his father drank
whisky as Il medicine for seven years.
never taking more than a t"asnnonfnl
It time. The witness said l." hal
taken whisky to Everett at the county
Jail
In beginning his testimony. IN" r7-
spcndcnt, Wallace G. Everett, $"id that
he was born in Paris. that liz VAS %
years Oh and 4 farmer by "ccUration.
He said he had known T;aIriit" from
the time the latter was 10 years Old.
Radcliffe worked for him fou" months
during the summer of 1905 AMI AZ that
time had his life insured
X As Radcliffe was not able t. }av The
premiums, Everett paid them. taking
IAN assignment of The policies ~ So
sctIrity. The witness said that all his
interest in the matter was to gtt out
|.wllat he had paid in. IL had raid al
efke premftns even to the filst one
e5RSIlnliffe 'SSmuthcr told the witness that
PSbeswanted him to sec ;iiat thr ircmi-
Tfhsswere Paid.
Everett testified that he went 10 work
for Mr. Brown. til" wealthy Cracker
Hill mine owner. in May. 1876, and
worked at the mine continuously until
his arrest. He had performed all kinds
OF work at the mine. finally holding III"
most i.nport2nt jon. that sc Watchman.
He then to!i of the Various breaks
that were made ut the mine. and said
that the first one occurred after he l,o-
|camc Watchnan. The witness said th3t
on the night of the explosion there We're
seven sticks of 60 per cent. dynamite
and fly" sticks of 81 per cent. dynamite"
in the building where the explosion TOOK
place. One-half OF a stick of 81 per