Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-11

Of bis flesh and making various meas
urements, but when quarter of an
hour had passed and he had not de
termned the bullets point of entrance.
Attorney General Sargent, visibly i'm
patient, requested DIR. Leith to step
down from the stand. DR. b. II. Stone
Of burlington, the state pathologist,
WIS then called.
DR.. Stone without any hesitation in
dicated on the body of DR.. Breitling
the point corresponding to the spot on
Heaths body where the bullet entered.
DR.. Leith was again recalled, and was
asked 10 place Or Breitling on his
hands and knees in Tho position Heath
IS supposed to have been when he was
killed.
Again Or. Leth was exceedingly care
full and it took him sometime to get Or
Breitling into what the witness consd
cred the proper position. The position.
however, WAS declared by the living mod
81 To be very uncomfortable The rest
Of the forenoon session up to adjourn
ment, was spent in measurements of tho
various angles at which the bullet might
have entered and left the body and the
probable distances of entrance and exit
Of the bullet from various points in the
bedroom Of thu Dodge house
Just before tie afternoon session open
ed States Attorney Amev was asked
if the case Of the prosecution was nearly
ended
we have just begun was his reply.
The court room was not large enough
to hold fore than half the crowd-most of
thtem women-that tried to get inside
for the afternoon session. Dr. b. II. Stone,
the pathologist, was recalled for a brief
eross-eXamination which was of a tech
meal anatomical nature. After Heath's
own revolver had been identified, it was
entered as an exhibit and then Horace
". Shaylor, for ~ years supervisor of
writing in the public schools of Portland.
Ne. was called to the stand and quail
fled as an expert on handwriting. He
Was shown the books of the Moman's
Relief Corps, which were introduced yes
terday and which contain entries made
by Mrs. Dodge. He said he had anal
wed the peculiarities of her handwriting
as determined by those standards He
had also examined he said. a letter that
had been shown to him By Attorney Cen
efal Sargent
Mr. Shaylor was then shown two let
ters one, the letter written by Mrs.
Dodge on the stand this afternoon and
the other, the text of which was Identical
with the other. This second letter. coun
sci for Mrs. Dodge said, was not written
by Mrs. Dodge. 1t is understood that
II IS not the same as that identified by
Mrs. Dodge this forenoon as having been
written by herself.
Mr.. Shaylor compared the two letters
with the entries in the books of the
Noman's Relief Corps and said that in
his opinion all were written by the same
person. The letter which Mrs Dodgess
counsel claims was not the work of Mrs
Dodge, was written in hand. which.
according To Mr. Shaylor appeared to
be an attempt at a disguised hand on
the part of the person who made the
entries in the book of the Woman's Re
lief Corps
\ severe cross examination brought
no contradictory statements from Mr..
SiaElor. who stated that he was Ger
tain that the handwriting in the Re
lief Corps books and the two letters
were all written by the same person.
Exceptions were taken by the defence
to allowing the books and letters be-
ing put in as evidence, bu. the court
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