Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-25

| SiIbiSAI S0SS, poSoSO SIScn
at the culvert. That would put Muir
tina and Crook at the culyert about
$50. From the culvert to the spruce
tree where Crook said he heard three
shot, 1-3 Of a mile. Crook said lie
was going slowly on his bicycle.
He was not going more than five
miles an hour. This would bring
Crook to the spruce tree when be
heard the shots at SAB.
The government has been scary in
| time in connection with certain ma
| terial facts But it fixed the time
when Murtha went under the electric
light and he met Crook at the cul.
Vert. The time has been worked out
as absolutely corset.
No controversy. Mr.. Eulmer heard
that shot at $40. Now then. We say
that everything that happened Re.
tween those two limits Of time hap.
pened. Another time that the State
has fixed. State claims that
rapidly moving car covering from
Sugar Berth woods passed Man.
chester Moorcs. To reach that point
the state must prove that Burke left
the cave at not later than S55.
THIS leaves l. minutes from time
Of shooting from time State claims
Burke is said to have left cave.
Twelve minutes and Or. Boothbv OF
Jackman says. may venture his
name later. that from the quantity
OF blood in the pool back Of the cave
! that 1t took from 6 to minutes apr
tnat bleeding. call it 7 minutes and
omitt!ns rigOr mortis, would leave
thls respondent five minutes to carry
pod% $50 pounds, l3 or IS feet, haul
ing him over the blowdown trees or
hauling him under, getting him into
that cave. first going in himself then
moving him into the casterly side OF
the cave, crawling out himself lie
Is supposed to have done all this in
that time. hardpan. moss, so Mr.. pi.
Pcf said. anyone could get wet feet.
anu appeared to the first viewer
without drop of wet apparent on
lis body. Couldn't have been So
ana there is not guilty No. /.
Rigor Norris Question
Rlgor Mortis. Would that I could
forget any personal criticism" Mr.
Leish saId nc was a prosecuting al.
torneyfor six years. Mr.. Merrill has
ote'l for two years. In almost every.
cfiih!hai investigation case, there
was something, whether it curne
from tcavcn or not, sonethj,y
would come out that would point 70
The star Of truth. Human testimony
is iufallible.
go with me on the morning Of
oct' - INTO the cave. There lies the
pody Ct Nelson Barticy. Tho frat
man authorized under the statutes
u this state to. have anything done
i WIN mat body was DR.. Bootlbv ,ba
Wedicai examiner Of Somerset conn
~ Maine. and not the med;ca, ~.
ainiher Of Suffolk county, sIassac,u-
oe'ts. Dld he tell tho TRUTH M
"o"oeF t'at the great general CONT
e"ahse" me law and medical examj,
h'rs were appointed by the governor
! I've lived long enough in q .r,a,,
Town to love and revere the courtr,.
pl,s stefan. For the people Of Somer.
sct county, did DR.. Boothby make
nno"n the facts observed by him
what did he find? Body on easterlv
side OF cave. head near entrance.
r'sht leg distended and left arm ex.
tehdea ana absolutely nothing "a
sustain the arm. Of which the fingers
did not touch the breast. He did
hot see anything to support it. Then
.poh inquiry, stated under oath thai
III his opinion. it must have becomo
iScd when there was something nm
ger inc arm. And it was his opinion
mat u became fixed while the body
was outside Of the cave. Rigor NOR,
us wouldn't have set in under two
| hours. considering tho conditions.
Dr. Masrath says he wouldn't expect
F, rlgor mortis to set in under 4 Aeurs
tlf tins is true and unbelievable that
Dody remained out of the cave from
10 hours before it was placed in
the cave and it such was the case
me respondent could not have had
anything to do with the killing 1T
Ne'son hartley and the placing Of
the body in that cave.
From what source would tho e.
PLANTATION come? From d.. Mcera,h?
NO. from the eminent country
doctor. From the city OF Eostor |
comes the eminent doctor who solve, !
the question for the county attor-
ney.
You had the practical demoustra-
ton OF the faliacy Of such q reason
that the clothes could hold the arm
and that rigor mortis could have
taken place in the cave "Out Of thia |
case went all theory. the philosophy I
well there. I WON'T and his an. !
dcavors to emulate were greeted viii, !
laughter. Let US analyzc more Of |
tho evidence. We say Bartley was |
not shot at S.43 p. NJ. II there had |,
been fired ut this time the three |
shots Crooker heard then Mason and |
Murthq would have heard them.
AZ this case stands now there 10 |
no evidence as to the ttme Nielsen
BARLEY was shot except BY Pey.ey |
Crook. and he fixes the place whore !
he heard the ehot and not the tins !
except az he met others. II cyeek !
had heard the shots Grace HagRan
and Per!ey Mason would have heard !
them.
Stomach Analysis |
Attorney Leigh said he was sosTy
he had to comment on DR.. Whittiers
testimony. But after he left the
stand I said to myself we're all weak
and all of US waver. There never
will be such a thing as perfect man.
But the State offered to show by his
analysis that Nelson Bartley came to