Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-24
ELBR|DGE JONES
HELD FOR JANUARY
Term SUPERIOR COURT
On Charge of Wilfully and Ma
liciously Killing a Thorough
bred Jersey Heifer Belonging
to B. L. Moody of Windsor
Animal Found Dead in Pas
ture with Shotgun Wound in
Face

THURSDAY afternoon with q COW case
which was brought about through the
efforts of Deputy Sheriff Bullock and
the object of which was to ascertain
who was responsible for the death of a
three-year-old thoroughbred Jersey
heifer owned by B. L. Moody Of Wind
sor. which was shot Thursday. Nov. g..
and the lifeless remains of which were
found the following morning in the
Moody pasture. AS far as was brought
out at the hearing Thursday afternoon
there were no witnesses to the shoot
ing.
AS to the case itself, Deputy Sheriff
Bullock of Windsor. who had been look
ing up the matter since shortly after
| the heifer was killed, arrested Wednes-
day Elbridge Jones of this city on the
charge of having willfully and ma
| llclously killed the heifer in question.
and 1t was on this charge that Jones
was arraigned at $50 Thursday after
noon before Judge Lancaster. Jones
was represented by Herbert Locke and
waving reading of the warrant plead
ed not guilty. County Attorney William
H. Fisher appeared for the State.
! b. l.. Moody. owner of the heifer. was
the first witness called and stated that
on his arrival home at $50 on the eve
ming of November his boy told him
| that the heifer did not come up to the
| bars with the other cows; that witness
went out and looked for the animal but
could not find her; that the next morn
ing he resumed the search and at about
$50 found the body of the heifer. In
reply 70 question by the court wit
ness said that she was a three-year-
old thoroughbred Jersey, and worth
about $125.
| continuing. witness said that the body
OF the heifer was lying by a clump OF
bushes in the pasture and that in the face
of the animal and just below the eyes was
a round hole about the size of ones
| thumb. In the hole were three wads sucn
as are used in shotguns. also some shot
which the witness estimated to be of the
/ size known as No. or No. 4. Witness
also told of finding blood spots on birch
trees within rod or two of where the
! heiters body lay. When asked as to how
the heifer was standing when shot, wit
ness thought she was standing with her
head UP in natural position, this opinion
| being based on the appearance of the
wound
I Witness testified to seeing the respon-
dent and another man whom he did not
! know pass his house the morning fol-
lowing the shooting, they being in small
auto track, evidently a Ford, and alsu
saw two dogs in the back part of the
truck. The time at which he saw them
he said was about O'Clock in the morn
ing.
Hattie S. Moody, wife of the> complain
ant testified that she saw the respondent
and another man pass their house at
about S45 Friday morning. going toward
! Coopers Mills and also testified to help
| ing her husband to hunt for the heifer
Thursday night and Friday morning. She
also identified shell from a shotgun
/ cartridge, which she claimed was found
about 135 PAGES from where the body of
the heifer was found.
| Several other witnesses followed
Mrs. Moody, all of whom testified to
seeing the two men with their dogs
pass in Ford truck and also to see
I ing them in the yard of the Jewell
place farther up the road from the
Moody place, and quite bit of tes-
timony was along the line of hearing
the firing of guns in the woods and
also the barking of dogs, and one wit
ness told of seeing three men with
dogs crossing field.
Elbridge Jones, the respondent, took
the stand and at once cleared up the
mystery about the second man in the
Ford truck by saying it was Harry
Flynt of Manchester, and that the
truck belonged to the latter. The re-
spondent's testimony was in effect
that he and Flynt with their dogs went
out to Windsor on the morning of
Nov. 8, and that after their arrival at
the Jewell place they stopped about
rs minutes before going hunting, that
they went into the woods on the south
side of the road, holding their dogs in
leash until we'll into the woods. He
then told how dogs work in hunting
rabbits. and also described their dogs,
saying that they were black and tan.
Regarding the success of the hunt he
said he shot one rabbit and that the
dogs caught it, He further said that
they did not go over on the north side
of the road; that they heard shooting
OSSi Oll lidt SluS hAo dloO hSaiN q
hound.
In regard to the cartridge shell
which had been found in the pasture
where the heifer had been shot, he said
that he did not have any Of that kind
that he was using black powder.
Harry F1ynt's story of the trip to
Windsor was about the same as that
of the respondent. He said they went
cunning on the south side Of the road;
that he never let his dog go until they
were in the woods: that he did not
have any shells like the sample shown
in court. He contradicted what one
witness said about the speed Of his
truck, which testimony was that he
and Jones were going IS miles per
hour, and said that he could not get
over Is miles an hour from it. When
asked why he went over to the south
side of the road. he said it was better
hunting over there, but that he had
also shot rabbits on the north side Of
the road.
1t was nearly o'clock when the ar
guments were made and at their con-
clusion the court found probable cause
to hold the respondent in the sum Of
$500 for appearance at the January
term of the superior court for kenne-
bee county