Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-30

! er jurors and relatives of jurors, all
well acquainted with the details Of
: that crime, which would never leave
their minds. People in the Moshelr
| vicinity were strongly opposed.
Mr.. Robinson also had the news
papers containing the story Of ths
murder and as he lifted the package
from the desk and momentarily held
it 'aloft, every eye rested upon it.
This is the story of that terrible
deed, preserved through her life by
Mrs. Mosher and at her request be-
fore her death, since preserved" said
he.
And the yellowed and frayed
papers were mute evidence of what
the aged woman went through that
fateful night, when she saw her son
murdered and herself was left on the
Z floor, presumably dead.
f, Mr.. Robinson said the jury saw and
heard all the evidence and weighed
it. We cannot. now, They saw it
first hand. We cannot. Not an eN-
, ception was taken to any of the pro-
ceedings against GRAHAM and he had
every possible assistance and all the
favorable rulings. Judge Bonney
presided. r. T. Whitehouse and
Scott Wilson represented theTcounty;
Charles f. Tcue and James Comedian
for the defence. GRAHAM after the
evidence was in told his counsel that
everything possible had been done for
him. that the trial had been fair.
You are now-after 20 years
asked to override that verdict.
Hands mad been 10 years in prison
before he talked and all we have be-
fore You now to change that verdict
is the statement of honest, reliable
and well-meaning FIR. Flynn.
There are many things in behalf of
the States side that were not men,
toned by the petitioners. Graffam
had been in Jail before. for 6 years,
/ for rape Of mis- wife's sister. He was
no white angel. While in PRISON that
time he had told fellow prisoner
that he knew where there was a man
and his mother and they had money
and that when they (the prisoners)
got out, they would go and get it.
| Graffam's signature on the Massa-
chusett hotels Saturday page was
placed there to prove an alibi. be-
cause the proprietor swore it was not
there on Saturday night and that
GRAHAM arrived there on Sunday
morning.
! The State had 81 witnesses who
checked up the man GRAHAM with
Hands. Hands said the man with
him ccmbed his hair to point on
his forehead. Graffam's hair grew
naturally to point in that manner.
When the Two We're placed face to
face in prison, GRAHAM frightened
lands out of recognizing him-even
alter a glance or look of recognition
had passed over Hands face.
GRAHAM had also been suspected Of
completely in other crimes in the
same section, q series of which
stopped after he was arrested.
Many people asked the privilege of
attending this hearing, to voice their
protest against pardon. They knew
of and remember the circumstances
OF that murder. Two or three of
them heard rirs. Mosher's story,
after she, wrapped in sheet to dis
guise her appearance, on the snow,
had crawled to a neighbours house
and given The alarm.
Charles A. Plummer of Portland, 4
deputy sheriff at the time of the
murder. testified to picking out Graf
fam in a factory in Hopedale, Mass.
He found GRAHAM painting. The
witness said: Hello, Ed" GRAHAM
appeared to be excited. Witness
told GRAHAM he was suspected of the
Gorham murder and GRAHAM said he
could prove an alibi, claiming he was
in Boston hotel. A woman clerk at
the hotel said GRAHAM came there on
Il Sunday morning, while the crime
was committed on Saturday night.
Witness asked GRAHAM where he had
his supper on that Saturday night
ant in Boston, but GRAHAM could not
prove that statement.
Arthur F. Richardson of Gorham,
a neighbor of the Moshers, said Mrs.
Mosher gave a very accurate descrip-
ton of GRAHAM. Mrs. Mosher knew
GRAHAM very well. She did not tell
witness that one of the men was
GRAHAM.
| Charles Dunn. Jr., of South Port
land, deputy sheriff at the time,
corroboratcd the testimony Of Dep
uty Plummer in regard to the iden-
tification of GRAHAM at the county
I Jail at Portland.
Harry NJ. Day, a grandson of Mrs.
! Mosher, of Gorham, Eugene C. CARL
of Augusta, formerly of Gorham, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence CARL of Cor
ham said the sentiment of the COM
munity was very much opposed to a
pardon for GRAHAM.
Arthur +. Richardson of Gorham
| told the Council that the sentiment
in his vicinity is that GRAHAM also
murdered a farmer by the name of
! Colburn.
Attorney General Guy H. Sturgis
of Portland. appearing as a .citizen
of Cumberland county, opposed the
granting of a pardon. Questioned by
Attorney Littlefield, Mr.. Sturgis said
he did not think that GRAHAM could
be convicted without the testimony
of the negro, Hands.
| Samuel NJ. Dinoiey Pardon
William J. Knowiton Of Portland
appeared in behalf of Samuel NJ
| Dingley of Portland, who is serving
from 2 to years in the State prison
for larceny from the Maine Savings
Bank of Portland. The amount in
| the indictment was specified at $740.
Mr.. Knowlton argued that Dingley
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