Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-04


was there was the first night that
Miss Newton was there as waiter.
Mention was made Of Harry New
toms being there to repair a tele-
phone, and it was stated that Miss
Daisy Newton came out with him.
Mckay stated that the last he saw
of BARLEY on May IA was when he
was out in a canoe fishing. He said
BARLEY made no arrangements for
lodgings and did not register, but he
said that BARLEY often did not regis
ter when he stayed there over night.
Mention was made of other guests,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Sands and Miss
Josephine Miller, who he said were
there the night Of May IA.
In the cross examination by Mr..
Pattangall Mckay was somewhat I'M
certain as to dates. Those which he
gave in the present testimony did not
agree with those he gave in testi-
mony in previous trials. Hudson
asked Mckay several questions in re-
direct examination concerning the
time Of arrival Of his cook, Nettie
Nash, wife Of ex-Deputy Sheriff
George Nash and concerning Bart
iey's custom of not registering when
he visited at his camps.
At 10 minutes after 8 o'clock Mrs.
Nettie Nash was called to the stand.
She said that she was the cook at
Croker Pond camps in May of that
year, and assumed her duties on the
9th. She said she had known Bart
ley for 10 years and that she saw
him on the wharf on May IA and had
a little talk with him, and that she
saw him again after supper, when
she and Miss Newton had finished
their supper work and were sitting
on the piazza. At that time, she said,
BARLEY was going from the wharf
to the ice-house with fish. In cross
examination. Mr.. Pattangall asked
Mrs. Nash if she would state under
oath that she did not tell him (Mr.
PattangalD in the presence Of Attor-
ney Thomas Leigh, at the hotel at
the time of the former trial, that she
did say that she did not see Bart
Nash said that she did not remem-
Der saying it, and reiterated her de-
NAL although Mr.. Pattangal ques-
toned her several times about It. Mr..
Pattangall said to her: Mrs. Nash,
do you want to leave it," and added,
Il did not put you on the stand, did
I, Mrs. Nash?"
John Henderson testified to seeing
BARLEY pass the Henderson place.
which is on the Canada road, towards
Jackman, between 1 and o'clock on
the morning of May 10. Testimony
by Robert Wentworth at the Burke
trial was then read by Attorney Hud-
son, with the purpose of showing that
Wentworth knew that BARLEY was
1t the camps on that day.
George T. Williams Of WatervilIe
testified to going to Moose River with
Wentworth and being one of a party
to go to Supply pond with Went
worth, Barley and others and re-
turning to Watervilie in the early
evening with Wentworth.
James Sands was next called and
stated that he saw the canoe on
Croker pond but he said that he did
not see BARLEY. He said he was at
the pond on May 4, arriving between
10 and II o'clock in the morning, and
that he left about 4.3o on the after
noon Of the 18th. y
Henry 4. Mckinney, one of the
Jackman assessors, related the
events relating to Burke's misappro-
priation of the plantations money.
and the settlement by the bondsmen,
each paying $1153.53. Webster Moore.
another Jackman assessor, was
called. but his testimony was ex-
cluded as it was regarded as unnec-
essary reiteration of that of McK.n-
ney. William Murtha, one of the
bondsmen for John Burke, explained
the settlement between Burke and his
bondsmen. The testimony of Helen
Newton at a former trial was read
by Mr.. Hudson.
Testimony of w. T. Toulouse, man.
ager Of the Jackman branch of the
Kennebec Trust company. at a for
mer trial In regard to Bartley's sig
natures. was read by Attorney Hud-
son. and the cross-examination at
trial was read by Mr.. Pattangall. The
cross-examination dwelt chiefly in
the variation in Bartley's signatures.
The testimony of Christopher
Boyle, given at the former trial. and
the cross examination were read by
the same attorneys. and were also
relative TO the signatures of BARLEY.
Court adjourned to convene at $50
o'clock this morning. Judge Spear
announced that, as much as he would
like to do 1t. he could not adjourn
court Saturday noon.
Attorney Daniel Lewis is critically
ill with pneumonia at his home on