Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-02

drove Is miles and when they came
back they saw Burke and BARLEY,
everything that occurred between
Burke and BARLEY occurred between
SD and $40 0 clock The State at
temprs TO set that time py Crook. by
Murrha ann by DR.. Whittier. Crook
TESTIMONY WAS taken up first.
Questions Crooks Testimony
Take the time and distances gen
1smen. and you've got Grace Eag-
gan and Mason in the Sugar Berth
woods when Perley Crook says he
heard the shot. When they say they
didn't hear those shots they stamp
Perley Crooks testimony as a mere
Pigment Of the imagination. When
was Crooks story frgt devoived?
Not Until TWO days after ne had re-
turned from Canada. I ask you To
test thar evidence. Without Crook
there is nothing IL the States evi-
dence Lc tx the time except by DR..
Whit-is-
Gets After Or. Whittier
DIR. Whittier Vent on the stand
and he gave his opinion that from .
60 hours after Nelson BARLEY ate
his supper ne had been killed. An
opinion is no better than the reason
back Of II. I am going 10 answer
Whittier with Whittier" and ne pro
caeded I'd fay the testimony Of the
BowdoIn pathnlogist. "You'u come 70
the opinion that there IS no hard and
fast rule VIII govern the process or
digestion.
When that testimony came out
felt bad, not for john Burke. NOT for
myself, but for Frank Whittier nf
Bowdoin." SAID MIR ParVangan il
abiding TO alleged withheld informa-
non before preliminary hearing
Except FOR Crook who is wrong
and Whittier who is biased" said
PaTcangaIl. there is no time which
places the death Of Nelson Barley"
The testimony Of Mrs williams,
tc whom Mr. aat-aneall paid tribute
he would hank ug;4inst evidence Of
fe-ed oy girls whose testimony
might be gw1yed back and forth.
Manchester Moore's testimony Of
seeing an Aat0mobile. was next
brought W, and Mr.. PattangaIl dem
anstrated possible scope of light on
street by bringing into play tns
shade and the light on me spot in
front Of ChC Moore place.
Evolution ~ Blood Stains
Testimony OF blood stains around
ne cave Was Mr. Par.anga.Ts next
poln, OF attack First they were
spots then tney We're srnears. then
-hey We're neutrality-suspicious. Of
ne blood stains. Nj. Henderson
-cld Of me par around the cave
and Sheriff Mooers was taere. The
blood and water wiIlc:: was oailed
our was thrown out.
Not Possible That Burke COMM tt:ea
Crime
There ls~'- an~ way under neav-
en- thar he Burke, could do tlls
,rtlne II ne way il WIS done and
the time j, WIS done" said I9atran-
gall lie could not question the tes-
t.murv Of III Boothbv The tastl-
nonv Of Dr TYSON and Dr. Thonp-
son. who ra1c as experts il IS true
has the srarnn ~ approval Of ne
~tate, h"caus- thev az srale on
r!a.a. Dr Bnuthbv IS appointed
sonerzet r1adica. examiner ny tA-
Stale.
Met Enough Time
Ali IN - minutes Burke would
have had ca Kill the man waited
white the blood ebbed our. luggeo
the BODY into me cave, got IN HIM
self placed The body. run Is Yards
10 the Ford. cranked the CIT went
and lett IRE CIR on the Boothrn4n
road, shot himself.
States Theory Exploded
RlEor morris was mex. brought in
10 the attack. Z NTH the State takes
out The fact Of DR. Boothbv testify
ing thut something held that arm.
then their theory is gone. One sin
gle fart Will smash century of
1heorv Dr. Tyson tried on dead
bodies ana live ones to find a coat
could hold an arm ~ as was Bart
eys. Burke not only did not MUIR
der Nelson Barley bu; he could
not. With thai fact before them.
THAT dead body Of Nelson Barley
with that arm N q position SO that
when danger threatened a man vino
had been his frienI and whom he
mad wronged offers mute testimony
Of the innocence Of Holm Burke"
Burke Not tsonest
Jack story next. Il know he WASN'T
honest Those men VINO reaIiZeI Jack
Burke was poor. might prove a 1901 If
he was IN public office. L was a cum
ming scheme when Nelson BARLEY went
on his bnnd. When the liquor men got
II him ne fell. Jack Burke did things
officially ne should not have done. Time
came when he was about To 70 out Of
Office. Nelson Barley came 10 him. not
because ne wanted jack money. but
because ne wanted the then deputy
sheriff in with him on the deals I'm
rotten. crooked. illegal deal men trust
each other much more than they 40 n
fair deals" said Mr. Partangail, ne
cause the other side questioned because
Burke did not know me price. Of tile
rum. Oh" they say 4" five or SIX thou
sand dollars worth OF rum in that
barn." Burke said he saw the rum.
Chris said they hauled hay and Ael-
son didn't haul his hay. The State
could have saved more money than thew
paid the fare Of an expert from New
York than 70 call every man who haul
ed hay from that barn. They would snv
that rum was there and Nielsen said
he would move that rum and say II was
stolen. And he could say the rum had
been stolen. The time came when the
boy must settle for the towns nouev