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

to leave the house, he said, and he
did so.
When cross examined bv Attorney
Howe Of Mrs. Doages counsel. SiIsbv
said that lie went to Mrs. Dodge's
house on the day of the shooting OUT
of curiosity. he said thai he had
told Mrs Henry Warren Of what W. nj
on ut the house, but had not talked
about 1t with either Mrs. Bowler or
Mrs. Howard.
Mrs Howard, VINO was q witness
yesterday, was recalled today and
questioned regarding the statement
which she made to DIR. Rreitlfng on
the day of the shooting
Il told Dr. Brel!ling. sac testified
to take my statement just as / then
remembered it. He then wrote it
down as told him and 1 signed it
myself"
Mrs. Howard was given the state
ment to read after locking carefully
through it, she said that she could
remember the details better now than
she could then because she was not
SO excited now as she vas at the
time tho statement vas made.
Just before the luncheon recess was
taken the casts u the iudentations
made in the iloor ty the bullets were
given to the jury.
The opening of the afternoon ses-
sion vas delayed somewhat ly a con
ference of counsel in the case. Then
a conference was Eeld between Mrs
Dodge and her attorneys ia the judges
reoln. When court finally convened
fIfG =.
Ernest Palmer Of Brooklyn y. Y.
who was present At the autopsy. had
refused to attend the trial that he
IS out % the state and cannet be pre- o..
duced as n witness.
The prosecuting attorneys, in begin
ming the afternoon session. ATTEMPTED
tc fix tine exact time of The shooting.
Janles Wainwright. Of South Iunen-
burg testified that at the time of the
shooting. he was digging potatoes in
a lieId hack Of The house He was
.tcn acres" distant from tie house.
h said, and ii was explained TO the
court that ten acres is Il Canadian
expression and signifies distance be-
tween - aud 100 rods. He l.eard three
shots he said. The second shot was
about one second after the first, while
there Was IN interval of four or five
seconds betw, en- the second and third
Tie first shot, the witness said. came
about a quarter of minute after he
had heard the Whistle Of the noon
tram as it was pulling out of the
Dalton, n. H., station for Lancaster
The train was little Iafe that day.
The securing of the neighborhood for
any possible suspicious person or per
sons after being informed of the shoot
Ing of Heath, was testified to by FL
bridge Cardee. a painter, who lives
about % rods from Mrs Dodge's resi-
dence. He said that he saw no one
Mrs. Edna Hurlburt of Dalton y.
H, sister of Mrs. Heath, the widow
OF the dead man, stated that, accom-
panied by the Rev. James Richmond,
pastor of the Dalton Congregational
church, she went to Mrs Dodge's resi-
denee when informed of Heath's death
and net Mrs. Dodge. She stated that
during her conversation with Mrs.
Dodge, the defendant, said that the
revolver Which caused Heaths death
was her property. Alfred Morrow, who
assisted the undertaken in preparing
Heath's body, testified that While
working on the body of the dead man,
lie noticed that Heath's hands We're
stained with paint and varnish.
The attention OF every person in
the court room was then centered up
or Mrs. Heath, the widow, who was
called to the stand. The tick, tack, tick,
took of the old-fashioned clock was
distinctly heard as the woman, clothed
/. ion,
from the attorney for the government.
Mrs. Heath said that she lived in Dali
ton. n. H., and was the widow of the
man for whose death Mrs. Dodge is be-
ing tried for murder. She testified that
she was at home on Sept II last. the
day of the shooting, and that when she
received word of the affair over the
telephone she drove to Lunenburg, ar
irving there some time between l
o'clock and 80 o'clock in the after
noon.
After saying this, Mrs. Heath's voice
broke. 1t was feared for a moment that
she would be unable to continue her
testimony, but she wiped her eyes and
again secured control of her voice. The
widow said that she did not see the de-
PENDANT that day but that on the fol-
lowing day she visited Mrs. Dodge's
home and had long conversation with
her about the shooting.
Mrs. Heath said that she asked Mrs.
Dodge who owned the revolver which
had caused her husbands death, to
which question, the witness testified,
Mrs. Dodge replied that it belonged to
her. Mrs. Dodge also said that there
was no one in the house at the time
IF the shooting besides Heath and her
self Mrs. Heath also testified that
Mrs. Dodge stated that all the outside
doors of the house were fastened.
The time of day that Heath met his
death was determined approximately
by the testimony of NJ. J. Mann, q
Boston q Maine Railroad conductor. A
train passed the Dalton station, said
Main. at 11.49 \. NJ. 1t was the whistle
of the engine of this train that James
wainwright testified earlier in the day
that he heard at almost the same time
that he heard three shots fired. Mann
the time that the train
passed the station and whistled from
train dispatchers sheet, which he ex-