Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-16
Afternoon Session

Afternoon Session
why didn't you drive the car
into the road at your house?" cross
examined Mr.. Sturgis.
II told you why before" answered
Burke.
Il am asking you again.
The road was poor, was narrow"
Couldn't turn Ford around in
there?"
mo, sir"
Burke said that on that night
! when he and BARLEY reached the
Burke house they both got out.
BARLEY got in again and drove off.
Burke did not notice which way
BARLEY drove the car and was in the
house when BARLEY came back.
BARLEY said he was going to go
after the liquor and Burke said he
was going to the theatre to get his
wife. when they started away from
the Burke house.
Shortly after cross examination
was started Mrs. Burke left the court
room in company with Attorney Pat
/ tangall. She was out only a. few
minutes, not more than three. and
/ MIR. Pattangall returned with her.
Saw Rock
You came along there in the
| dark, saw the rock. stopped down
and scratched the match?''
/ II stopped down as l came to it.
! had habit of using that rock
| Had you lit the match?''
| Il think so.''
| Was BARLEY ahead OF your
| Il presume he was
! do you know where he was?''
| He must have been ahead of me-
! Mr.. Sturgis stopped over. assum-
ing the posture Burke says he took
when shoot by BARLEY
I What did you do when that
/ came?"
| Couldn't tell you"
Did you fall down."
+ mo. sir
What did you say
! Nothing
| Have you been q guide, u river
driver, trapper? What else?''
> Constable, deputy sheriff, tax COL
lector"
| And you didn't say anything?
! Never called out to him?''
! NO. SIR
| why didn't you foil him? ~
! Couldn't
| What did you do after you went
/ home from Bulmer's ?"
/ Il think 1 put some water in the
/ tea kettle. / think l sat down in tic
chair"
| Did DR.. Boothby dress the
/ burns?'
/ What burns?'
! around the wound"
! Il didn't see no burns"
/ He did not tell Ida Moore, Leo
! at the house the night he was shot
anything concerning it.
/ \ year or nine months before May,
1919, Burke borrowed $500 from
BARLEY
You and BARLEY We're in friend
~ attitude that night you started
from the hotel?"
Yes"
He offered you some peanuts?"
Yes"
| Burke said he was very sure he
took the form from Mr. Mills blank.
| Attorney General Sturgis read pre-
Vious testimony in which Burke said
he used the Business Guide Then
! Burke said he didn't know why he
said that unless it was 10 refer to it
Il little.
| Burke left the stand at $40 P NJ
1
! lowed Mr.. Burke on the witness stand.
! A freehand drawing OF the ground
room Hoop of the Burke bungalow had
! been executed on the blackboard by
/ Mr.. Pattangall. Mr.. Young corrected
/ his plan: for instance moving over
| the bath tub
| Mr.. foung had built the Burke house.
! Annie Mcdonald, who lives in Jack
, man on the side road that runs off the
Canada highway.
|. on the evening OF Oct. Is. 1919. she
| left her home between $40 and S.45
ana drove TO Jackman village, going
along lane onto the Romeo road. lust
cerore she went into the drug store
she saw car going north at rapid
rate of speed.
Mrs. Mcdonald was most at ease on
the stand.
What kind OF car was it?" asked
Mr. Sturgis.
Ford"
Have any difficulty in getting
started?" +,
No. have a self-starter. II |
works pretty good"
She couldn't recall what kind of a |,
car she saw or whether the top was |
up.
Waldo c. Taylor said he went to !
Crocke- pond Wednesday, May II. 1919. |
about 3 in the morning. He was in !
company with a Cyr boy. They had !
dinner at the Mckay camps and staid !
until about 4.30 o'clock. They went |
to the pond by automobile as far as !
the garage and walked the>rest of the |
way
'On your way home did you meet !
Nelson BARLEY going on his way to |
Croker pond?''
NO. sir"
Did you see him at Crocker pond ." |
mo. sir /
who did You see?'' !
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