Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-20
1.-THE MATTE HACKETT CASE OPENS WITH A RUSH.

this condition Matte Haekett came to
work in the Elmwood Hotel, and re-
manned there several weeks. Bert Ray
mond was employed there as hostler,
and ate most of his meals there, oc-
casonaly however. taking supper with
his wife In July Matte was taken i'll,
and her sister Ethel came to take her
place.
Now, Notwithstanding Mrs. Ray
monu condition, she was extremely
vigorous and often took long walks,
usually in the evening when her con-
dition would be less noticeable. Her
gait was naturally very quick and ac-
tive and did not seem in the least dim
lnished by her condition. About the
middle of July, the State will show, she
started from her home at about the
same time that her husband, who was
driving Matte and her sister to their
home left the hotel. Her husband
drove at once to the Hackett place,
stayed there but a few minutes and
had gone but a short distance on his
return when he tried to hug Ethel
Hackett. Almost at the moment his
wife appeared at the side of the road.
On August Is, two days before Matte
was killed, Bert Raymond drove her
home alone from the village, and his
wife followed them up the Niekerson
Hill road.
On Aug. 16, the day before the muir
del, Mrs. Raymond walked to the
Dead stream. where her husband was
fishing, and back, a distance Of more
than a mile and the quickness and
elasticity of her step were remarked.
1t will appear that on the evening of
q 4. i.
IL. Bert Raymond went home for his
supper, that he quarreled with his wife.
and returned to the hotel after a short
absence.
Mrs. Raymond Disappears.
1t is extremely difficult to deter
mire with absolute accuracyN he time
when many of the events of the even
ing of Aug II, occurred. Before the
news of the murder came there was no
especial reason for noticing the time,
| and after it many were so excited that
| they may have failed TO note it, ac-
| curately, so yoa may have to judge
| of lapse of time rather by the events
| that took place than by the memory
| Of witnesses. II appears, however, from
| certain circumstances that the MILL
! kens mad supper rather early, and that
| Mrs. Raymond was getting her supper
| at the same time. And IL appears
| further that Bert Raymond came home
to supper, remained but short time,
] and that soon after, before darkness
| had fallen, he began to search for his
wife, who had disappeared, and, that
| in such search he went back and forth
along the path which lead from the
stable to his house several times.
After supper DR.. MilIken was called
out on the So. Wayne road, made his
call, had returned, put up his horse
j and gone home for the night when be
received telephone message from
! Arthur Nickerson, neighbor of the
Haeketts. informing him of the MUIR
der, and sunlmoning--->hin2s TO the
| Hackett house. Somewhat later, after
the doctor had gone, Bert Raymond
came into the house, and at his re-
| Quest Mrs. Milliken searched his tene-
nienI thoroughly. but did not find Mrs.
Raymond. (They noticed, however,
hat the supper dishes We're un-
touched, the food not put away, and
the butter upon the table had melted1.
He then procured a team from the
hotel and drove away, returning sew
eral times during the evening.
| :
monG accompanied by his brother en-
tered his house, supporting Mrs, Ray
mend, who was very much agitated.
on inquiry Mrs. Raymond gave an ac-
count of her movements during the
evening which the State will OFFER
evidence tending to prove were in
correct in several particulars. She
claimed that she did not leave the
| rta IF Z url, an.
pears that her husband was search
ing for her long before that time.
/ Upon inquiry she stated positively that
she came in the house before 10
o'clock. This she afterward admitted
to he incorrect.
Upon inquiry, she stated positively
after repeated questions that she was
clad in celored wrapper and had on
no black clothing whatever. This
she afterward admitted TO be incor-
rect.
Upon inquiry she claimed that she
| spent the whole of the evening, exc
cept a few moments that she came to
the back step of her house, in one
spot under an apple tree, but a few
| feet from a path where her husband
passed several times during the eve
ming in the search for her.
Tan Shoes Destroyed.
OF course il soon became known in
| Readfield that woman's tracks had
been found early Friday morning in
the Nickerson cornfield Mrs, Ray
mond at the time had in her posses
sion a pair of tan shoes which she had
| Worn constantly all summer and
! which the State will introduce evil
denee to show that she had upon
her feet the day of the murder.
| Knowing that her unexplained alb
sence and her jealousy of Matte
would direct suspicion toward her,
and that the fitting of the shoes to
her tracks might tend either to con-
Wet or clear her, the State will prove
that she burned her shoes in the kit
chen stove. The State will prove
further that WHOM asked to produce
the shoes she made no mention of the
tan shoes. but produced a pair of high
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