Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-21


and butter on the table.
Witness on cross examination said
that she was in the doct6r's office with
her daughter lax when Bert and
Nathan Raymond and Elsie came into
the house. The room could not COM
mand an approach Of the three from
the orchard All three were in the
hall when witness saw them, opposite
the doctors Office, The hall was a
mere entrance about five feet wider
than the witness box
Saw Bert and Matte Together.
George NJ. Lane, farmer, living at
Readfield, on the North Wayne road.
was the next witness He lived about
80 rods from the Hackett road, was
living there at the time of the muir
der.
WinessN drove down the Nickerson
hill to the grist mill a few days before
the murder. This was between and
6 O'Clock. Met Bert Raymond and
Matte Hackett just below Guy Will
liams house, driving together in an
open wagon. Met Mrs Raymond far
Their ON towards the grist mill, she
was going in the same direction as
Bert and Matte.
Witness first learned of the murder
about o'clock the same night that it
occurred Was at the spot where. Mat
tie was murdered before sunrise the
next morning, Found prints of wo-
mans shoe at the end of the Nicker-
son cornfield. Saw there tracks in the
southeast corner and followed them
into the gutter and then back and up
towards the Nickerson house and lost
them going into the road again. Later
picked them up between the Nicker-
son turn and the turn leading To his
house. eight or 10 footprints.
Where did the footprints begin
with reference to the corndeld?"
"They were on The lower edge of the
oornfleld and followed parallel to the
wall for about is or Is rods"
Tracks of a Woman.
Witness measured the tracks with a
two~foet rule at the time but had for
gotten the measurements. They were
the tracks of a woman, he thought OF
a number six shoe.
Witness on cross examination said
that it was two days before the MUIR
der that he saw Matte Hackett and
Il.
There was nothing peculiar about
their acting TO attract attention.
People had begun to accumulate
about the Hackett house when witness
arrived there on the same night of the
murder. A crowd had gathered. Was
there in all some two hours. Came
down the next moraing at sunrise to
look for tracks, had heard Of the
tramp theory. Didn't notice if there
were tracks leading to the Hackett
house. There was a heavy dew on
that morning, saw no tracks on the
grass Witness found no tracks go
ing down the hill in the direction Of
The Raymond house. they were going
towards his house.
The Afternoon Session.
The Kennebee county courtroom wa:
| crowded - suffocation long before 2.S0
the time set for the opening of tn,
afternoon session. Many who were an
able to make their way through tn,
| crowds At the front stairways sough
to obtain entrance at the stairways a
tbs rear \ number of ladies wer,
Sp1ted inside the bar rail and with the
the table reserved for the press only Z
few chairs We're left available for
members of the bar. Mrs. Raymond
and her counsel arrived in the court
lbom few minutes before the opening
of court
George n Lane was recalled at the
opening afternoon session. Witness
stated that the tracks were fresh
tracks, they We're all parallel to tbs
road or in the road. Witness couldn't
say whether or not he called the at
tention of Deputy Sheriff Brown ia
these tracks
Mysterious Woman.
Leon r. Hawkes. of Vassalboro
farmer stated that he lived on the
Nickerson hill road in Readfeld, on
what WAS called the Dudley Haines
place, He was seated ON the piazza
smoking. on the night of the crime,
Saw a lady passing ~ very quickly
so quickly that ne spoke to his wife
about it. She had on a dark long gar
ment. Couldn't tell whether or not
she had a hat on. Had not seen Mrs
Raymond then to know her. 1t was
between 80 and O'Clock Couldn't
say whether it was the respondent on
not.
Bert Davis and Marcelle Williams
afterwards came to witness place and
they drove 10 Davis home On tbs
South Wayne road. on his return saw
DR. Milliken going by running his
horse This WAS about an hour after
he saw the woman so by his house.
Witness on CROSS examination by
Atty. McGillieuddy said that it was
quite duskish when the woman Went
by and he had no means of fixing the
time. There was a lively tilt in cross
examination between counsel and the
witness rs to whether the garment the
woman Wore was a long flowing cute,
garment Witness did not know who
the woman was.
Marcellus G. Williams, farmer, OF
Readfield, living on the road leading to
North Wayne, stated that at the time
of the crime he lived at the home of
his father, Emmons Williams, on the
iNiclerson hill road. Witness met a
woman on way down to the Hawkes.
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