The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-28
THE UNION DRY GOODS COMPANY

said, and with the Pero girl and Bernice
! went to the sugar woods. As they neared
the sugarhouse they saw smoke or steam
emanating from the building and she re.
marked to Josie about it, The Pero girl
was ahead, she went on, and when they
reached the sugarhouse she told her to
20 ahead. Josie opened the door and
went in, while the accused stood on the
Threshold
Witness said she saw Joe lying on the
floor with blood near by. She called to
him three times, but he did not reply.
Witness told OF being transfixed with
horror and fright and added that she
could neither speak nor move for a few
moments Afterward, Josie ran out of
the sugarhouse, the witness closed the
door and put block of wood against it,
and the three started across the field to
the home OF Mrs. Felch's uncle, Tom
Smith, where the witness said she tried
/ to explain what she had seen. All three
were crying at one time or another, she
continued. Witness said she didn't see
any gun at the sugar house and added
| that she couldn't remember any talk
about gun until they reached Smiths.
From Tom Smiths the trio returned
to the Felch house, where they saw Will
liam Cunningham and Otis Williams
talking in the yard She asked Otis If
he took the gun home the night before
and received negative reply. Where
upon the witness went on, she went into
the house, looked for the gun, but did
not find it, and examined q cartridge
Iy.,. ,x,a L. l1v% - aar hos
en- cartridges appeared to be missing.
By that time, she continued, Mr.. and
Mrs John Feleh and Tom Smith had ar
rived at the house. Tom and John and
viii went to the sugarhouse, she added,
and it was upon their return that she
gained her first intimation that her hus-
band was dead Afterward, she said. she
saw DIR. Rowland and asked him If Jo-
seph had killed himself. His reply in
the negative she said, was the first in |
timation that he had not killed himself. !
Witness said she was in the house when |
the body was taken from the sugarhouse |
to the school building at Waits River, |
and that she did not see her husbands I
body between the time she visited the !
sugarhouse and when she attended the
funeral at John Felch's on the following |
Wednesday.
Mrs. Felch's Brother on the Stand.
Preceding the accused on the stand
was her brother, Fred Smith, whose man
ner and bearing as a witness was the
more readily understood when the de-
Tense brought out the fact that he had
been seriously i'll of pneumonia Smiths
responses were weak, and he hesitated
frequently and at seemingly intermina
bic intervals. He was the object OF sharp
by Attorney General
Barber and seemed rather confused as he
left the stand
Smith testified that he lived four miles
from the Felches and heard of the farm h
er's death Sunday morning, fixing the
time indefinitely Said he knew Tom
Smith and was at his place with VIII !
iams, adding that he went ont OF the
house when Williams came in, although |
he told afterward of helping the farm {
hand in getting in the cows. Witness also !
testified TO seeing Constable Eugene
Dickerman coming up through the fields. q
Continuing, he told OF being in the Fetch l
<itchen on the Monday morning after
he murder, at which time the accused, {
Ter daughter, Bernice, Otis Williams and a
lis wife, and Josie Pero were there. Ad- {
nitted that he heard boot fall and was /
PRETTY sure that Mrs. Williams asked her 5
husband if he wasn't going to pick it up. v
'ressed for another answer, Smith quot Q
d Williams as replying to his wife, in
hese words: mo, l don't want to kill [
nyone else The witness thought he a
emembered of a conversation with Will I
Jams while on the way TO the Payne e
arm on the Tuesday after the murder. b
Did he say that if they tried to do any h
hing to Anna he would plead guilty?" b
vas the next question, but the state in n
exposed an objection and the examina- g
ion continued.
Smith said he was present at the Felch =
ouse when Williams was arrested and
hat he heard the young man say: Il
m Just the same as in the electric
hair"
In the cross examination the witness
aid he didn't know why he and Williams ]
.alked to the Wright place after leaving
ne PAYNE farm, as he told in direct exami-
alton. Did anyone did Anna ask what I
It's meant when he said he didn't want
, kill anyone elseyp was the next ques-
on. and the witness indicated that no 4
ne seemed to take any notice of VIII
ans statement after the boot incident. 4
sked as 10 whom he first told about
he electric chair statement credited to
-illiams. witness said he told Attorney \
oar last summer Witness couldn't re-
ember when he first told about the boot
cident. He was also asked if men
lmed Morgan and Arlene questioned
m at his home Witness denied seeing
Re men It first. but later Acknowledged q
at he met them in the yard, although
had no talk with them, admitting aft
ward that there was talk about thsl =