Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

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Did not remember ever making state
ment that his wife wore 81 Evangeline
tan shoe. bought of Mr.. Payson at Hal
lowell.
Witness on ss-examination repeated
his statement that he helped his wife
into the carriage when returning with
Ethel Hackett. Ibid you not say to her
Wait and l will help you, and she re-
piled III get in all right?'" asked the
attorney general. Bert replied In the
| negative.
You had known Matte Hackett two
or three years previous to her death?'
| Yes"
did she appear like a sick girl when
she got back from lewiston
she said she was sick
Witness was delayed in going to sup
per on the night of the murder on ac-
| count of Maddoeks the Standard Oil
man. being late in returning Might
! have been about e15 p NJ when he got
back 1t was nearly o'clock when wit
ness got to supper. When asked why it
| took him so long about the chores he
! replied that he didn't calculate to hur-
| ry" His wife was at home when he got
| there. He came across the field from
| the hotel and went through the North
| street door and up the back stairs. Sup
per was ready when he got to the house
Witness said that it was about s o'clock
when he got back from the hotel the sec
ond time and found that his wife had
gone. Mrs. Milliken told him that she
| had heard Elsie so down the stairs
| about quarter of S.
| The attorney general asked witness il
| he went along the path that led through
the orchard when he was making a
tearch for his wife and going from the
hotel stable to his house. Raymond re-
piled that he went around the road.
why did you not take the path. the
nearest way?" asked the attorney gen.
eral.
Raymond answered that he did not
take the path because 1t was dark. He
admitted that If he had taken the path
it would have brought him past the tree
where his wife had been sitting during
the evening.
! His wife had on loose short jacket
| and skirt when he found her in the or
| chard. Both were dark. Thought she
| had on loose light wrapper with the
skirt over it,
when were those tan shoes burned?"
Mr.. Pattangall asked.
About a week before the murder"
Witness knew that they We're burned
on the day of their burning. 1t was
about the middle of the afternoon. Ger
trude Raymond was not there. Bert de-
MED he ever told Mr. Peacock the shoes
were burned after the murder.
1t was perhaps a week before the muir
der that witness went fishing to Dead
stream with win Greedy. Elsie met him
on that day. Thought it was the Friday
or Saturday before the murder.
Didn't Elsie have on the tan shoes on
that day." the attorney general inquired.
"She did not Bert replied
Were the shoes entirely worn out
when they We're Destroyer"
Entirely So
Had the shoes been tapped that
spring."
II don't know
ELSIE wore rubbers about the house
for a week or two after the officers took
the black Shoes" Bert continued
He learned of Matte Hacketts murder
shortly after the murder from Mrs. Mil
liken. This was between 20 minutes and
a quarter of o'clock
Where did you look for your wife in
that three hours you were looking for
her?'
ION the road in the village and in
Nathan's and Warren's houses" witness
replied Asked two boys that he met on
| the road If they had seen Elsie. Was
alarmed, after he heard of the murder,
for his wifes safety.
Found wife at back end of Sedgley
woodshed. She was about % or 80 feet
| from the path. not under an apple tree
She was sitting on a pillow Did not no.
tice that she was crying. She said she
had been sitting under the tree until the
team drove up. Witness Indicated TIM
| tree on the plan as behind the stable
ing last spring or not.
Intimidation Alleged.
The afternoon recess occupied about A
minutes. The greater part of it was
| taken up with a hearing in chamber
before Chief Justice Whitehouse upon
oral complaint of the counsel for the de-
| fence that a detective in the service oi
the prosecution had been interfering witt
witnesses for defence and had been try.
ing to frighten them,
| The detective and several of the wit
nesses for the defence We're QUESTION:,
by the chief justice in regard TO th'
matter 1t was claimed that the detec
tive had gone into the room provided
for the accommodation of the witnesses
for the defence, which adjoins the coun
! ty attorneys room, and tried to leari
what their testing ony was to be. The de
tective claimed that the conversation
took place while he was standing at tn
entrance to the county attorneys ofiic
and that this conversation was opene'
by the witne sses themselves. and denies
Questioning the witnesses about the ties
timony. Tine counsel for the defenc
were assured that intruders would b
kept away from the witnesses rooms.
Cross Examination Continued.
l Bert Raymond was recalled after reces
: FOR further cross-examination. Did no
tell MIR. Stevens or Hopkins at the hots
about the murder. Witness roomed wit
I Mrs Tibbetts at Readfiefd in 1870
g Didn't know where Matte Hackett wa