Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-24
FUNERAL OF LATE MRS,
WOODBURY. AT MILO,
Remains In Charge Of Officers and
Taken to Dover and Woodbury.
Hard at Work on Their Cases,

is. working up the case for the county,
is away looking up clews in other
parts of the State, and in his absence
there are no new developments being
produced by the prosecution, while
anything that the accused mans coun-
sci is finding is being carefully guard
ed against the day of the trial.
There is much Of rumor and gossip
on the streets, but little to be verified
and everybod" is looking forward to
the hearing on Tuesday, anticipating
thatn an effort will be made at that
time to secure Woodbury's freedom
His counsel, Calvin W. Brown, is
saying nothing about the case, but it
is reported on good authority that eX-
perts from out of the State will be
called into the case to determine more
definitely the cause or death. which
the defence believes was suicide.
Dover and FoXcroft have not been
SO shaken since the famous defalca-
ton and suicide of Judge Male a few
years ago.
1t develops that Woodbury. was once
indicted by the grand jury for the Sep
TENDER term of the supreme judicial
court in 1905 as common railer and
brawler, ard one of the very few like
indictments ever brought in this State.
Woodbury. had wished to be deputy
sheriff and because certain men re-
fused to support him he had rallied
against them in the streets This case
was continued and then placed on the
special docket.
case is that Woodbury's father who,
at the age of 81. is bedridden, and
hardly able to move. He asks every
day fer his son but the truth of the
natter has not been told him.
Woodbury.. the accused, is in a bad
way with rheumatism and goes about
his cell and about the corridors of his
cell On crutches he talks with nobody
but his counsel. but is seemingly cheer
ful ana confident of his acouittal.
The case has a hearing Tuesday and
there is, it is understood, to be a grist
of State evidence. 1t is thought that the
defence will put nobody on the stand at
the bearing but will ask that the case be
dismissed on the ground that the State
has not shown probable cause. The case
will, if continued, lie set ahead to the
September term.
Friends of Mrs. Matte e. Landers)
Woodbury., the second wife Of the accus-
ed man. are much incersed at the rumors
going the rounds ABOUT her connections
with Mr.. Woodbury. since their divorce
and derry that she had anything to do
with it. In an unguarded moment she
made a statement which 2 reporter con-
strued into meaning that she was close
to Woodbury. and thus the stories got
their start.
Woodbury. was married number of
years ago to wife No. 1. and later secured
a divorce himself. At that time his sis
ter was keeping house for Mr.. Landers
and NJ. Landers had a 19-year-old
daughter who had had legacy left her
by grandfather. 1t was said at the
time that the sister influenced Miss Ian
ders to marry Woodbury., for they were
married soon after the divorce of the
first wife. At the time that Woodbury.
married wife No. 2, wife-to-be No. was
keeping house for him, and it was said
that wife No. never took her place in
the home. At least she was soon forced
to go back to her home and soon after
ward secured n divorce. A child was
born and it is this child that the stories
have claimed visited her father after he
had been taken to prison.
joe Goodroe, boy of about IA or Is
who was employed at the stable on the
morning that Woodbury. claims lie drove
up from Pangor. is ready to go on the
stand and testify that he drove up from
Bangor and that he helped wipe down
the horse, which was overheated.
Barbour, the man who drove Woodbury.
over the road from Bangor. is supposed
to be somewhere near Cambridge, Mass.
him.