Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

scatter about the bed that you
washed Fred's foot with?"
II had some more water brought in
and fixed some more to scatter about ,,
the ted.''
when you saw the bottle of the
acid after the baby's death how much
was there in it?''
Il couldn't tell
How much was there in the bottle
when you took it from Graeie?"
Il am not certain but l think there
must have been spoonful"
Witness testified that she saw
Oracle standing over the baby with
the bottle in her hand, holding it over
the baby's face.
Did YOU look to see if there was
any acid on the baby's face"
Il didn't. / didn't think to look.
The baby was quiet and l didn't
look"
You couldn't help seeing the babys
face, could your
witness admitted she heard the
faby choke when she turned over To
look at Oracle. but said sire was faint
and didn't do anything but put the
bottle in the drawer
How long was it after you and
Stenhen saw the white spots on the
baby's face?'
"a few minutes afterwards
"Didn't it occur to you that the
white spots were made by the carbolic
acid?'
u didn't think of it being that.
How long after Stephen and you
locked at il did YOU find that the BABY
WAS dead?'
Just little while after he left"
How did you find out that the baby
was dead? p ;.
at choked a little more and then 1t
was quiet" said the respondent, SOD
bling between the words.
lyon didn't tell the nurse or MI.
Plummer, when he came the next DAY
that you saw Oracle standing over the
baby with the bottle
Il didn't think of it.
wasn't all you said at the coroners
inquest that Oracle stood over by tle
baby with the bottle Now you ADD
that she had the bottle right down 10
the baby's face"
Witness was asked why she didn't
give the letter she wrote in Jail to the
turnkey instead of to Mrs. Gordon.
y
ct was getting late and / was
afraid that the mail man had gone.
Did Stephen Norris administer the
poison to the baby
II don't think he did. l don't think
he could without my knowing it.
DO YOU know of no ether way OF
accounting for it than by what you
have explained about Oracle?
That is the only way | can think
Of
when did you learn that carboiic
acid might have caused the death OF
the baby?''
Not until Sunday
How did you first learn of it,
Il asked Mr.. Norris what they were
taking the baby to Augusta to fix 1t
up for and he told me that they
srnelled earbolie acid on its clothes.
replied. 'Oh,~yes. l sprinkled some
carbolic acid about the bed y
How many children have you had
die in infancy"
"Three. One lived about a month.
the ether died within few hours and
the third-died out to Mr. Norris.
WAS the child a natural appearing
chld?'
1T appeared all right, but it was al
WAYS cold"
What was stephen Norris doing
when Oracle held the bottle over the
haby's face2a
He was not in the room. He had
stepped out
octavia Ferris was called by the
State IN rebuttal.
10 you remember that your broth
er Fred cut his foot with saw
asked the attorney general.
.I can't tell whether I bandaged it
or not. but think / helped do 1t up
His foot was bathed in carbolic acid
who prepared the water for the
bathing?"
Il don't remember
WAS it after the baby died or be-
fore?'
Il think it was after the baby died
This closed the testimony and court
adjourned until $50 A. NJ, Thursday,
when the closing arguments of coun-
sci will he presented.