The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-27
FELCH DEFENSE
NOW BEING MADE
Continued from frs. page)

sion of happenings in the Felch HON
on the night the farmer was slain. Sh
said she saw him take off some of hi
outer garments after coming in aroun,
supper time. She thought he put OF
overalls and wasn't sure whether the,
were new or not Nor was she certain
whether a red sweater worn by him wa
his own garment or sweater of simila
shade owned by Anna Felch.
A sweater taken from box brough
in by Deputy Dearborn was identified BY
the witness as being one which resembleC
| Annals sweater 1t was marked fol
| Identification The witness distinguished
| between two red sweaters in the FelcI
family by saying that Felch's sweater
didn't have any collar Asked if she re-
membered the last time she saw Mrs
! Felch's sweater, the witness said she
couldn't recall whether Joe or Anna wore
it on that occasion. The witness was
asked If the murdered man wore frock
indicated as one of the respondents ex.
hibits when he left the house at $3.50
o'clock on the night of the murder, and
pressed for an answer, she replied that
she couldn't tell although she said il
was the one indicated or another brown
one. Witness identified overalls worn by
Felch, but could not recall the style of
boots worn by him.
''When you went to bed, where did you
undress?" was the next question. To
which the witness replied that she UNI
dressed with Anna Felch in her room.
Witness couldn't remember where she
placed her clothes and was asked if she
put on her night robe before going out
of the room to her own room. Witness
indicated that she did not don her night
robe. Mrs Mccormack testified that a
light which burned in the kitchen shone
into the room occupied by her, and said
lamp in her own room was burning for
time after she retired.
Asked if she carried light when Anna
called to her later in the night. the wit
ness replied in the affirmative and added
the information that she might have left
the lamp on the table in the kitchen be-
fore proceeding TO Mrs. Felch's room,
where she slept with her until morning
Asked concerning the dress worn by Mrs.
Felch in the afternoon, witness described
it as a plaid affair, trimmed with light
blue. Witness was under the impression
that the accused also wore an apron which
buttoned up the back. Continuing her
answers, the witness said she was uncer-
tain as to the dress worn by Mrs. Felch
on the morning after the murder, bit
thought she had donned clean" apron,
a gray apron. On awakening in the
the witness said, she went into
her own room, got her clothes, and re-
turned to Mrs. Felch's room 20 dress.
Constable Dickerman, as the first wit
ness TO be improved by the defense, told
Of receiving Felch's clothes from Dr. b.
H, Stone, the state pathologist, after the
autopsy in the sehoolhouse at Waits
River. He testified that he placed them
N box and kept them at his home until
July, 1915, when he took them to the
Jury room in the county courthouse. The
constable also told of seeing the clothes
or the first time since last year when
he box was opened in the courthouse
toreroom Monday by Deputy Dearborn
md others. Attorney Fay was question
ng the witness as to Identification of the
lothes and had indicated newsprint
laper found in the box as respondents |
Exhibit when the Judge ruled that further |
was unnecessary, AS the |
tate had conceded the Identification Of |
he articles. Recess for the day found |
lr. Dickerman completing his testimony !
or the defense,
For a brief period Immediately after
he trial was resumed at 2 o'clock, Mrs. /
vxrtfa rs 10
yas recalled to the stand. Her principal |
mission, as it developed, was to answer
question in redirect examination in 1
'hch she said that Mrs. Felch, she De. L
eyed, was expecting her TO attend Joe
elch's funeral. The next witness, Dep Il
ty Sheriff Lawrence Welch of Topshaiu,
sstified briefly and was not eross-exsm-
led at length. He was asked concern.
~ the Waits River sociable in Octo-
er, 1915, about which Alfred Follansbee
ad testified in the forenoon. The wit
ess said he remembered of seeing Otis
Villains and the accused at the socia
lie and noticed that they seemed to be
Milling at each other.
George Cook, the postmaster at East
orinth, described in detail the scene at
he sugarhouse as it impressed him on
le morning of Easter Sunday, when he
-st heard of the farmers death. As il
V previous arrangement, the witness
i'd he looked through the crack al
ged by the state to have been used
7 the murderer OF Fetch as an opening
trough which the mruzzle of the gun
light be poked The postmaster said
} saw Robert Hodge sitting on the
inch where Fetch is believed to have