The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-10-13

yelling and screeching.' After
wards Miss Cromwell said she heard
Mrs. Dore and her son, Charles Dore
talking and heard Charles say he
couldn't get the doctor and Mrs. Dore
told him to get another She re-
manned In bed. She went downstairs
about $50 the next morning and saw
Mrs. Dore, but never saw Beatrice
/ again alive. Witness said Mrs. Dore
said she must send Beatrice to the
hospital because she had appendicitis.
Emery Post of Waldoboro, employ
/ ed at Corinna, had come to the Dore
home the night of the alleged trouble
about 10 o'clock and stayed there for
the balance of the night. He awoke
about 4 o'clock In the morning when
he was called by Mrs. Dore in order
that he might return to his days work
at Corinna. Found Mrs. Dore down
stairs and her mother, Mrs. Cromwell
was with her. Said that Mrs. Dore
looked the same as the night before
with her hair up. Henry Richard
son, who lived next door TO the Dore
place. heard loud screeching he said,
during the night in question as tho
some one was In distress. He thot
1t sounded like Beatrice and from her
room. Some days before the night
time episode he had heard Mrs. Dore
talking to Beatrice of the disgrace
and had thought the girl was crying
he testified.
BROTHER OF DEAD GIRL TESTI-
FLED FOR STATE
Charles Dore, the brother of the
dead girl and the respondents son,
gave his age as % years. He was at
his grandfather's the night In ques-
ton. His mother called him to get
the doctor He heard Beatrice cry
out
DR.. l.. n. Ellingwood for 43 years a
practitioner of medicine In Athens was
the first physician to take the stand.
He testified that he was called to the
Dore home at 5 O'Clock in the morning
reaching there about $50. Upon his
arrival he was told by Mrs. Dore he
stated that her daughter was in a fam
| lily way and that unknown to herself
| the girl had been using certain treat
ments. Witness went to see the girl
and after he told her that he could do
nothing for her she told him that what
had been done she had done herself he
| testified. This statement witness said
was made in the presence of her moth
er. He advised taking the patient to
the hospital. The girl claimed accord
ing to the witness, that water had been
used to bring about her condition. DIR.
| l.. A. Dascombe, physician in prac-
! tice for Al years, was the second med
| ical man on the stand. He attended
| the patient after her arrival at the
Somerset Hospital and the girl, ac-
cording to his testimony had stated
to him that she committed the act her
self and that her mother did not help
| her. Witness said girl claimed to
have gotten her ideas from book be-
longing to her mother. Miss Alrueda
| Moore, head nurse at Somerset Hos
pital, stated that the girl was pulse
less when she arrived at the hospital,
T. G. Lord of the undertaking firm Of
Lord & Caswell, Skowhegan, told of
taking the body and of preparing it
| for burial. w. r. Tibbetts of Athens
undertaken and sexton at Mount Rest
cemetery, where Beatrice tDore was
| buried saw the face of the dead girl
| prior to her first interment. recog
| nized the face when the body was ex
| humed, was present at the autopsy
and afterwards replaced 1t in the
! grave.
| DR.. w. S. Stinchfeld. one of the
Somerset County medical examiners,
conducted an autopsy upon the body
| oft i,, 10
| timony stated that he thought the
wound, which was responsible for the
| girls death, was made by a blunt in
strument and not from the use of
water as the girl had stated accord
| ing to the testimony of previous wit
nesses. He thought II improbable
that the girl could have. herself, per
formed the operation. Evidence was
introduced to the effect that Beatrice
Dore had carried a three year old
child up hill prior to her illness and
DR.. Stinchfleld stated 1t was possible
that the rupture might have been oc-
casioned by this effort. Witness said
he coum not say absolutely that the
| condition was due to a criminal OPP
| Grafton.
| fTluay the nTSL Witness called Ut
the forenoon session was Sheriff John
A. Mooers, who was present at part
Of the autopsy and made investiga-
tons In the case. He told of going
to Mrs. Dore's home and of asking her
for all possible information regarding
the sickness and death of Beatrice
telling her of the suspicious circum-
stances disclosed by the autopsy. The
witness stated that Mrs. Dore had
said she knew her daughters preg-
nant condition only day or two be-
fore her sickness that Beatrice had
not been out OF town; that there had
been no one there TO perform an OPP
GRAFTON. She presented syringe to
the sheriff which she had found in the
room occupied by Beatrice. Sheriff
Mooers and Mrs. Dore searched the
room formerly occupied by Beatrice
and found nothing that Beatrice
might have used In bringing about the
condition which caused her death. The
Sheriff left the Dore home, went to
| Cambridge and Mainstream. later re-
turning to the Dore home. Witness
testified he said to Mrs. Dore We be-
hot mil