The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-26
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a Felches in Waits River Cunningham ties
titled to being in the Felch house on tn
: morning after the murder and quoted tn
accused as saying that she was so scarce
a that she couldn't go into the sugarhouse
, Witness testified that this remark wa
made during a recital and discussion O
the sugarhouse affair and that Mrs. Felcl
: told, in addition, that she started to e
in, but saw blood as it had run along
the ground from the body. In his pres
ence, the witness went on Mrs. Felcf
talked with Otis Williams, asking him il
he carried his rife home on the night
! previous. On receiving negative reply
from Williams, the witness continued
Mrs. Felch said she would go and look
for it. Witness said he took Otis Will
lams to Bradford in 1915 at the re-
quest of Mrs. Felch, but in the cross
examination of Cunningham's wife, who
followed him on the stand, it was
brought out that both Felch and his
wife made arrangements for Williams
trip to Bradford.
In the direct examination Mrs. Cum
ningham quoted Mrs. Felch as saying
on the day after her husbands death
that Joe shot himself. The witness also
testified to being at the Felch farm one
day in the fall of 1915 and to overhear-
| ing Mrs. Felch call the postmaster's of
flee by telephone.
There was suspicion of listening in"
| in the testimony of the states next wit.
ness. 1t was the town constable, Eugene
Dickerman, and before telling of his trip
to the sugarhouse to aid in the investi-
CATION he said that he heard Mrs. Felch
calling DIR. Rowland ON the telephone and
that she said something about Joe lying
unconscious on the sugarhouse floor, this,
according to the witness, being the first
knowledge he had of the sugarhouse
tragedy. Continuing his testimony after
describing what he saw at the sugar
house, the witness said he overheard a
conversation between the Cunninghams
and the Felches relative to the departure
of Otis Williams from Waits River The
conversation took place in the fall Of
1915, the witness said Here the defense
asked leave to question Constable Dick
erman in regard to a box of clothing said
to have been delivered TO him by DR..
Stone, the state pathologist, but the
court ruled that the matter could be
brought up in the defense.
Much of the artillery used by the de
Tense yesterday was brought TO bear on
f. Warren Currier, who, like Otis Will
liams, was employed at times as a hired
man on the Fetch farm. After the pre-
liminary questions, Currier was shown
two photographs and much OF the testi-
mony for few moments centered around !
the Identification of a box which is said |
TO have appeared in the pictures, an eff
fort being made TO show that the same |
box was not necessarily shown in both |
pictures.
Witness, in the course of his stay on |
the stand, said he asked Mrs Fetch one
day, he thought it was on the day that |
Otis Williams went away, if she thought |
they had the right person. and that
the accused answered at first in the neg
ative, only to change her reply to the
affirmative. Witness was asked if he /
anything about the relations
between Williams and Mrs. Felch, but
the defense objected, and the question
was withdrawn, only to be put in anoth-
err form. Asked If he had ever noticed
anything between the respondent and
witness replied he had seen
them when they were very laxative,
Currier said he knew when Williams be-
gan work at the Felches' and that he,
himself, had worked there at different in
Lervals for three or four years prior to
the spring of 1916. The defense objected
repeatedly to the line of inquiry pursued
by States Attorney Sherburne, and ex
,eptions were noted, hut the direct exam
nation proceeded.
Before Williams came to the farm, the
witness continued, he had marked the
,ordial relations between Mrs. Felch and
Ter husband, adding that he used to see I
hem holding hands as they came from
he barn After Williams came, the wit
less said, he noticed that they didn't
lold hands.
In the cross-examination, Attorney
Ioar asked the witness how many times
he had testified covering his knowledge
# the case, the witness replying that he 5
lad been witness at Bradford and in
he Williams trial. Asked If he had {
alked with the attorney-general, the
witness replied in the affirmative and
lso told of talking with the states at
orney. Asked if his attention had ever
een called to box in the photograph, |
he witness replied in the affirmative c
nd added that it was, in the Williams d
rial. q
$50 far as you have observed Mrs. +
'elch was an open and free.heafted c
roman, wasn't shel" was the next ques- L
ion, to which the state objected, the
uestion being stricken out. Witness d
hen told of seeing Mrs. Fetch help peo- r
lie who came into her yard, help them
18th the horses. etc, and knew that she
ad worked in the bayfield, Currier said O
e didn't remember of any testimony in a
he Williams case about the Felches hold
~ hands, and said he had talked with h
ttorney General Barber about it last 4
uesday night in the presence OF the
.ate's attorney. Witness further testi v
ed that he didn't see anybody move the
fe in the sugarhouse until it was
owed by the states attorney, +. c. VIII -,
ans. Asked about two boards in the =
de of the sugarhouse, Currier, after y
.ating that he began work for the :.
elches around March 30, said that the
1ards were removed when they began :,
lgaring in order TO extend a sap trough W
with a vat some distance
ON the sugarhouse Asked if he saw 2
ma Felch on the Friday before the
urder, the witness testified that Mrs.
elch and Josie Pero, the hired girl,
me to the sugarhouse that day with
nner for Fetch and him and that they
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