The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-02-19

Canada road to the place where the
tragedy was enacted. He remained
on the stand until about four o'clock
going over the distances from various
points in a very careful manner for
both the State and the respondents
attorneys.
Phillip Blair. Jackman hotel man
was the second witness. He testified
as to the time of appearance of Bart
ley at his place for the purpose of Dor
rowing his automobile the night of
the murder giving the time from Z
o'clock to 7.30. Under cross examina-
ton he said that BARLEY said he was
going to his brother-in-law' Willie
Elliotts that night, Elliott living Two
or three miles away. David Matthew
of Jackman was Blair's chauffeur who
drove the ear over to the BARLEY hotel
ard left it the night of the tragedy
Later he saw the car go by while in
Loubiers restaurant about o'clock.
He saw the car the next morning and
noted that when he cranked tRe car
that the lights came on, this indicating
that they had not been turned OFF when
the car stopped the night before. VIM
House when BARLEY was killed testi-
fled to Bartleys ordering his supper
of yenison steak, and Of his sending
for a second order. He ate his supper
earlier than usual he said and fixed
the time at about 6.15. Mrs Elsie Hall
the waitress who served Mr. Bartley's
supper offered similar testimony as to
what her employer had eaten for his
supper and the time. She thought he
had left the dining room by $50. w
L. Barney a Jackman druggist testi-
fed that BARLEY had purchased pea
nuts of him the night of the murder,
he thought about o'clock The cross
examination of these various wit
nesses was largely relative to estab-
fishing definitely the exact time at
which the events related had occurred
Mr.. Barney's testimony completed the
second day of the trial, six witnesses
having been heard up to that time
Fred L. Gardiner of Portland, con-
nected with the security department
of the Central Maine Power Company,
was the first witness called Friday
morning He stopped at the Moose
River House on the night of the muir
der. and saw BARLEY and Burke talk
ing on the piazza and the sidewalk.
BARLEY seemed to be making gest-
ures. He told of how he spent the
early part of the evening and twelve
minutes past nine o'clock as he was
winding his watch in his room at the
Moose River House, he heard a pistol
shot. The cross examination showed
that the loud talk between the men
was being made mostly by BARLEY
and not by Burke.
Miss Grace Haggan of Jackman was
the second witness, she and James
Mason were out riding the night of
the murder While stopping at the
Barney drug store in Jackman, she
saw BARLEY on the front seat of a
Ford car going north. His companion
was someone with thick set shoulders,
she thought but she could not see to
tell who it was. She saw Ford car
in the woods as she was on her way
to the Dennistown Schoolhouse in the
progress OF her ride, but did not re-
call seeing the car in the same place
on her return. She later passed the
Boothman road but did not remember
seeing any car. When she went home
before the moving picture show was
over she did not see car at the
Boothman road A ripple of amuse-
ment was awakened in the court room
when Miss Haggan stated that Mr..
Mason had referred to the car at the
Armstrong Bars as a Jews Packard.
Under cross examination, when in
curry was made by Attorney Pattan-
gall as to her car being a Ford, she
replied with considerable spirit that
it was not
James A Mason, an employment
agent for the Hollingsworth Whit
ney Company, who had been riding
with Miss Haggan on the night OF the
tragedy, corroborated her testimony
as to places visited that night and of
seeing a car in the Sugar Berth woods.
A feature of this testimony was that
he had driven the Phillip Blair car,
supposedly the one in which BARLEY
and Burke rode away the night of the
murder. He recognized two spare tires
on the running board He saw the
Ford car later by the Boothman road.
Under cross examination he said he
couldn't recognize the car except for
the two tires.
James Murtha OF Portland left Jack
man where he was then living at 80
p. NJ. on the afternoon preceding the
murder. He and Mrs Murtha went to
st. George. Canada. over the Canada
road. coming back he saw car by
the Armstrong Bars. When he got to
an electric light near the top of the
hill Il looked at his watch and found
il was twenty minutes of nine. lie
went to his home and MIXED his COW
end after his wife had taken care of
the milk about nine o'clock. he went
over to the station section of the town
when he passed the Boothman road
his impression was that he saw a
Ford car there before $40. And upon
his return home he was positive he
saw the car there. He noted that the
Burke home was lighted up as he
went to his home. Considerable inc
was spent in examining this witness,
principally in an effort to obtain the
exact time in the various incidents, to
which he had testified This VAS the
last witness for Friday forenoon
Mrs. James Murtha was the first
witness to take the stand after the
midday recess. She told of the trip
to St George p @. and her return by
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