Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-04

tflc direction of tire wettfftf and said
| that all the blood must have poured
| out of the organ within Thirty or fifty
} seconds.
l>r. stone said that lie saw re-
Nolver il! the room, hut did not eNahr-
&, inc it,
| A rigid REORGANIZATION failed to
shake his testimony.
Dr. Stone said that he found no ev-
idenee that Heath rad been drinking
The direction of the bullet and the po-
sition Of the body on the floor. led him
to the opinion that Heath was paint
ing the Dashboard of the room and
that the shot was fred from the door
way leading to the front room.
| Mrs. Allen s. Bowker, one of those
who rushed to the Dodge house after
the murder and who cav AIRS. Dodge
was the next witness. She could re
call nothing that Mrs. Dodge sail at
! the time.
Cne of the first public officials to
| reach the Dodge house. Policeman
Harley Powers testified that he found
everything in the room as other wit,
nesses had described. He received the
revolver shortly after his arrival and
examined the cartridge shells. three icf
which were loaded and two empty.
| The loaded shells were encrusted with
green and white substance. while
the bottoms Of the empty shells were
moist He turned the revolver over
to the states attorney the next day.
lie was questioned closely rs 10 any
| paint brush near the body. but could
remember. none. neither did he notice
whether the door to the back setting
room VAS closed.
At the opening of the afternoon So
| sion Fred Powers was recalled by tho
defence. Powers. who was one of the
! first persons To reach the Dodge home
after the alleged murder had been
committed, testified that in addition to
| the pool IF blood in which he saw
Hoaths body lying. he also noticed a
spot of blood some distance away.
The position in which Heath's body
was lying, the bedroom and its con-
| tents were described by Guy GarV.n
| Tie hcdv. he said. was lying in a pool
| of blood with the head pointing to-
wards the sitting room door. He sail
| the right hand was outstretched to-
ward the door leading To the hall and
| that the revolver was lying between
| the right hand and that door. Garvia
| said :hat lie picked up the weapon
| aud then went to the telephone in the
| hall. but after trying two or three
times was unable to make Central"
| answer. This testimony bears out the
| statement that Mrs. Dodge IS said to
! have made statement that she tried
! a number OF times to telephone for help
after she had found Heath dead with
/ out BENG able to get Central
! When he Lad anally decided that he
/ coald not Use the telephone. Garvin
/ said he examined the revolver and
i found that three Shells had been dis
charged and that the two others lad
not been fred. At this point he was
shown five revolver shells. ami he
identified them as the cartridges he
| had removed from the weapon.
The witness stated that he went INTO
another room and there met DIR. ]. c.
| Breitling. local physician. who had
been summoned, and handed the re-
volver and contents to the doctor. who
replaced the cartridges in the cylinder.
The cross examination of Garyin
brought out what is considered as a
possible indication that the defence
will try 70 show that Heath committed
suicide He was particularly questioned
as TO where the revolver lay in rela-
ton % the position of Heath's body.
Garvin tllereupon stated that the
| weapon was lying in the direction of
the extended right hand. and that in
his opinion indicated that possibly the
revolver had fallen from the out
| stretched hand. He was asked If ne
had naticed a spot Of blood on the bed
room floor. in addition to the pool of
blood, and replied that he had not.
Dr.. stone was again called 10 the
stand after the cross examination OF
Garvin had been concluded, and by
means of diagrams and experiments
demonstrated the difference in the size
of powder marks from different cali
bre revolyers and the effects the pow
der has upon an object when the per-
son shootings stands at various dis
tanees from the object.
| During the course of his examina
ton of Dr. Stone. Attorney Hows of
the defence asked that-the official rec
ord OF DR. Stones autopsy be intro
duced as an exhibit and the request
was granted. When DIR. Stone pro-
duced the preserved portion of Heath's
back, where the bullet entered, Mrs.
Dodge made no show of feeling. A
careful examination Of Heath's cloth
ing. punctured by the bullet-Was made
by the jury. but no powder marks
lcould be distinguished.
Or. Breitling testified that the second
Iof the two blood pools discovered in
the bedroom, was caused by turning
the body over.
DR.. Charles f. Dalton of Burlington,
who assisted at the autopsy. corro-
borated the testimony of DIR. Stone re-
garding the cause of Heath's death.
On REORGANIZATION, DIR. Dalton
lstated that he could not remember
seeing anything on the clothing worn
BY Heath that looked like powder
marks.