Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-10

i've 4SxO09 tuO TOA0 0A0 . $500
north" from where John Burke lived.
Around o'clock on the evening OF
Oct. is he was at home.
At exactly 10 minutes past o'clock
he heard q shot. He drove q public
car and had to have his watch acc
curate. He was in the garage and
was winding his watch when he
heard the shot, which he thought was
in the near vicinity.
| About six minutes later Burke
came.
.That, has shot me-
Burke told Buimer
| And Burke also told Bulmer that
BARLEY hasn't got me yet" Burke
asked Bulmer to get DR.. Boothby.
| The Burke house was not lighted
up Bulmer said, as he went to get
DR.. Boothby. He went over the
Moose River bridge tos the moving
picture theatre because Burke had
told him the doctor might be there.
The doctor was not there. Bulmer
went back to Boothby's house. Burke.
when Bulmer went back was still in
Bulmer's door yard. Then after go
ing back the second time he found
| Burke in the kitchen of the Burke
l house.
"Did Mr.. Burke make any state
ment to your"
| YES SIR
Burke told Bulmer he and Barley
had come to settle up a matter OF
notes against Mr.. BARLEY. They had
| chewing match; had hard words
| came to no agreement and Burke had
received a hundred dollars on the
notes. They started out of the house
He stopped to light a cigarette
BARLEY hit him in the leg. The shot
deafened Burke in one ear but he
didn't lose his hat.
Clothing was removed from Burke
1 by Bulner after he was shot. Bull
mer described the gun shot wound
Bulmer upon cross -examina ton
said that about 1915 that night he
saw a car going swiftly towards the
north.
! Amelia Chamberlain of Jackman
lives across Piper street from John
Burke's house. She heard the shot
around o'clock.
| LII SCOISC oui SECS mag dull iiCo
ical examiner for Suffolk county
Massachusetts, is a medical expert
for the State.
I DR.. Magrath is Harvard college
graduate. "a; Harvard medica
school '98. In January 1898 assumed
pathological service at Boston City
hospital and was in that capacity un-
til October; then appointed assistant
at Harvard pathological school, be.
ing there up to 1905; was appointed
assistant secretary of the State
Board of Health in 1905: in 1907 wa!
tappointed medical examiner for SUI
folk county and still holds that posi-
ton: member American Medical AS.
ISOLATION. Massachusetts, Legal So
ciety and other associations. He is
the author of a book on post NOR
TENS. accepted as authority by med
ical examiners all over the country
c. Vey Holman of Rockland, the
well known geologist and former
State assayer. was a visitor in court
Tuesday. He greeted his former as
sociate, DR.. Magrath. the two mer
having worked together on the
Caroline Brown case in Rockland.
Judge Gerrish of Greenville wa!
also in court Tuesday morning and
sat within the bar. watching pro.
ceedipgs.
Mrs. William Elliott twin sister O
the slain Nelson BARLEY. was at the
trial Tuesday morning for the frs
time. She sat close beside her broth.
ter's widow. It will be remembered
that Mrs. Elliott received a spirit
message from her twin brother fully
30 miles away, on the night the State
claims Nelson BARLEY was killed.
II DR.. Whittier is not recalled the
trial will be lessened. 1t was during
the days of the previous trial thai
much time was passed in the max
ing Of slides by Dr. Whittier
W. c. Turner Of Boston and H. e
Hamilton of Auburn, N. Y. hand
writing experts for the defense, .ap.
peared Tuesday in court.
County Attorney Merrill requested
a deputy sheriff to tell all witnese.
down stairs to be in the court room
at all times court is in session. This
Is to alleviate delays in summonine
witnesses to the court room.
-. Afternoon Session
Frank L.. epson of Bingham testi.
fled to having gone to the Burke
house October IS. the morning the
body was found. Deputies Tuscan
Croker and Gipson went there to.
gether. Gipson shook hands with
Burke and said that they were there
on unpleasant business. He told
Burke the body had been found and
that Burke. having been the last man
seen with BARLEY. was under suspi-
cicn. Gipson testified he did not tell
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