Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-10


spread and outing flannel blanket. Left
arm rested on chest. Right leg thrown
over left. Body lay east and west.
Prints Of shoes that had stepped into
blood, were seen.
Removing blanket and spread saw
three wounds on skull. which he de-
scribed as ragged.
Assisted in finding evidence. Found
three cotton gloves with leather fac.
Ding, a soiled bloody towel in kitchen.
Saw drawers in cabinet had been pulled
out. s. y
Questioned by County Attorney
Thorne. DR.. Stinchfeld said there were
four distinct pools Of blood. Entrekin.s
clothing was rumpled. with cut on
shoulder of coat.
The next day DR.. Stinchfield took part
in an autopsy at Madison. Entrekin
was man feet inches tall. over 50
years of age, gray. The wound on neck
was one inch long, didn't cut any inn
portant blood vessels.
The wounds on head were described.
One started just above eye, extending
back thre inches. Second wound to
right of median line, and about inches
long. Then there was a T shaped
wound on head. No other scars on
head. Left forearm had both bones
broken and protruding through flesh.
Both tables of skull were broken.
hemorrhage.
Upper teeth were found on station
platform. Cause Of death was the re-
suit of the wounds. Was not instan-
taneous, s to 10 minutes after the blows.
Rigor morris was just beginning.
Judge Cornish interjected Keep rigor
mortis out of this case"
Suspended at 1890. Prisoners were or
dered remanded before any of audience
left court room.
Deputy Sheriffs Elmer S. Adams of
Madison and G. A. Clark Of North An
son were placed in charge of trial jury.
Afternoon Session
The afternoon session opened with
the continuation Of direct testimony
by DR.. w. s. Lynchfield Of Skowhe-
gan, county medical examiner, who
told of conditions found at the sta
ton the night of the murder ano OF
the wounds on the body of Asa Entire
kin from his examination then and at
the autopsy performed at the Bryce
Edward Undertaking rooms at Madi-
son, the day after. He thought three
blows were struck on the skull of En-
trek1n, causing fracture of the skull.
The four foot slender maple sled
stake, party covered with spotted
bark and partly broken off near the
middle was then brought out as an
exhibit for the State and identified by
DR.. Stinchfield as being found on the
platform the night of the murder
There appeared then to be blood on
the stake.
DIR. Warren G. Sawyer of Madison,
another Somerset county medical ex-
aminer, who assisted in the autopsy
and was at the station the night of
the murder, also told of measure
ments taken then to locate places
where glasses, cap, false teeth and
knife of Entrekin were found on the
platform and the location of sled stake
and blood pools. There were blood
tracks on the kitchen and bedroom
floors of the station building where
the agent lived as we'll as worked In
the bedroom, at the foot of the bed
was his agents coat and cap and be-
hind the bed loaded double gauge
shot gun. On the couch was an emp
ty travelling bag that had been riffed
and the small drawer of the bureau
was pulled out. Bank books and 9TH
er papers were scattered. clean cloth
ing in the top drawed was disar-
ranged and blood stained. The third
and bottom drawers were not much
disarranged. In the waiting room the
money drawer was open and empty.
Edward F.. Merrill of Skowhegan,
county attorney at the time of the
murder told of arriving at the scene
OF the murder at S.45 that night and
of helping Fred Ward take, measure
ments which DR.. Sawyer recommend
ed. He identified the bundle of train
orders which then bore fresh blood
spots, the false teeth and glasses, sled
stake and pieces of bark also Entire
kin's watch and chain and small snap
purse with $2S5 in change, the last
two being on the body.
He told of the finding of three white
cotton gloves with leather facing in the
station waiting room, blood smeared
one being under the ticket wicket which
they had been unabel to open as the
key did not fit. The roller towel found
in the wash room of Entrekins' kitchen
then had fresh blood on it and the bed
quilt and blanket which were wrapped
about Entrekins head before he was
dead were also produced as exhibits.
Following the arrest Of the men, Mr..
Merrill interviewed the three respond
ents in Skowhegan jail and found that
a cut on fourth glove found on the
station platform correspondent with a
cut on Spurlock's finger. Testimony as
to what the fellows said then was
stricken from the records as being in
the line of confessions. the attorney,
w. II. Halves Directing in behalf of