Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-15


for your liver and bowels and wake
up clear, energetic and cheerful. No
griping-no inconvenience. Children
love Cascarets too. 10, 25. so cents.
ADV, .
Boothby said il depended upon diff
ferent individuals. In we'll, normal
man r;gor mortis would not set in UNI
til an hour after death. If that is the
case then the body could not have been
placed in the cave by the prisoner be-
cause testimony says Burke was at
home by little after 0.
The evidence. of Dr. Whittier of
Bowdoin College, the governments ex-
pert, who testifies that as a result of
his analysis of Nelson Bartley's
stomach. Nelson BARLEY was killed
from two to three hours from the
time he ate his supper-is doubt. I'm
der that evidence they wouldn't give
any ieeway of time in a case of this
Importance when a man is on trial
for his life. This expert would give
sideration and reflection as you men
may regard IL. =
Left at $50
Another element of time: We claim
our evidence will show that Nelson
BARLEY and Mr.. Burke left the Moose
River Inn at about $50. That time
will be fixed by three witnesses who
were in the bar room.
Grace Haggan and James Mason left
fl1n MO0Sa Piuar Inn Nd
Long Pond road about 73O and came
back and were at the Barney drug
store and they saw this automobile
going north. They drove ND to the
Dennistown schoolhouse. ANYBODY
else on this road between those limits
OF time but Grace Haggan and James
Mason? James Murtha and Perley
crook. Let's analyZe it. Grace Hag-
gan and James Mason left Moose River
about $50. If it was true Burke and
Barley would have arrived at Arm.
strong bars at S.S7. walked an eighth
OF a mile to the cave. James Mason
| and Grace Haggan must have been
! in Sugar Berth woods when Perley
Crook said he heard two shots. Crook
is the fellow who heard that Burke
had been shot and heard those shots
and went away to Canada and didn't
tell of the three shots until approach.
ed by Piper
Literary Gentleman
And Manchester Moore in the eve
ming, literary gentlemen Of the gov.
ernments case. sat reading maya
zine called Top Notch, very close to
the window with the curtain I'D and
the room lighted by a chandelier in
the center. And he peered into the
! darkness and under the electric light
saw Ford going south, but he
couldn't see VINO drove. We will show
that tree was in his direct line of
vision
So many feet, a hundred or so awav
| from the road, a fellow in the travail,
or pain. comes into court and saws he
heard rapidly moving Ford going
| south that night.
Hall Boys Testimony
The testimony of the Hall bow. TT
true. II believable, if it will stand
the test of fair minded inquiry, he
didn't tell it oil the stand as he had
told it to Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Piper
as 1t was written down as the time
it was told. He saw car going up.
heard one going down. Between the
gong and the coming he heard two
shots. He was recalled. He was ask
cd what he told the sheriff. He had
been off the stand several hours Ha
said he told the sheriff he had heard
Two shots or two muffler reports
brother Merrill asked him IL the ton
was up. In the written Testimony
given in March he said II Thought the
top was up"
Moreney Boy
we snail present the Morency bow.
fe VIII tell you that he has no recoI-
lection of that boy being there on
that night. He will tell You that tho
boy did come up there at times and
they played in an out house. He will
tell you that the Hall boy had never
toid MIN anything about the two shots.
lie VIII say he never heard ANYTHING
about it until Sheriff Mooers and Mr.
Piper came to- the Colby place and
called in the Hall boy.
II that happened wouldn't that bov
have told his mother? The bows
mother is close to his heart. Could
ne have helped telling his mother and
his father?
we will present Mr.. and Mrs. TAYLOR.
who were on the Canadian road when
this so-called death carr was there.
from two or three minutes to seven
or eight minutes. They were on the
road between the hrid~a o,1 81, :
Boothman road
We will present evidence of a man
who lives just south of the theatre
and was out on his piazza for 10 min.
utes and saw no car. Mr.. Bedean
heard no shot. until after 0. when he
had gone up stairs.
We shall have further evidence of
others on the Canadian highway that
II that car had gone along they would
have seen it.
Car at Piper Street
We shall present the evidence of
Miss Irma Williams. She was at
Piper street with another young girl
at SIS. She went south towards the
station: left the little girl then. went
on to the Strand theatre She return
ed to her home, it was about 20 min
utes to and she will state positively
she saw a car at the Boothman road
and she will state that she looked
across the road and saw lights in the
Burke house. Her testimony will be
corroborated by her mother, by Mrs.
Boynton and her son, Clifton, on the
question of time.