Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-19

ehC o1AH, aHu got my IOOL Wet, tllat
is the first / missed the moccasin.
Q-Then where did you go?
A-And I went in the house and I
sat around a while and got thinking
over the corn and about other things
and about the moccasin and 1 knew we
belonged in there, and / knew he be-
ionged In there, and I was so nervous
that I started back, when ] found that
the moon was out.
Q-When you got back there did
you see these people still there, or
were they gone?
A--After / walked over and | tied
the mule, l looked around because L
was sure my moccasin was, there. 1t
was bright moonlight, but could not
see it because it was close to the
brush and probably in the brush
Q-Underbrush?
A-Underbrush, yes, sir. So I felt
around / held the mule by the bride,
and + felt around, all around the
stump, all around the place, and /
heard what I thought was the screech-
ing of an owl. and l don't think much
of it at the time, but then when 1
heard it again ! listened.
Q-What did you find?
A-Well, then when | heard that
screeching, why, then | stopped and
listened again, and heard it again,
and | said something is the matter
out here" and then l listened and
then i heard the voice of a man. 1t
seemed kind of like a woman hol-
Tered along there or someone, and
then l heard the voice of a man and
the moon was shining down very
bright, and so / heard it again, and
1 looked tight at the cedar and /
crossed over the lane right at the
cedar, and I seen big white haired
woman doing something with her
hand, crying, something
Q-Standing up?
A-No bending down. facing
something
Q-Was she standing up?
A ,ae+S,na kneeling down rxing
Odd you see who it was?
Ayes, the woman i seen In the
lane earlier in the evening
Q-The same woman you say was
Mrs. Hall?
Ayes.
Q-You know the st. John thu.
Evangelist church on George street
in New Brunswick?
Ayes, know where it is.
Q.-Before the night that you have
described, were YOU there at a rum
mage sale?
A.-No, that was years ago.
Q.-Have you seen a man who is
pictured on S-120 for Identification
(showing paper:
Ayes. He is older than that,
though.
Q.--l mean, have you seen that
man?
A.-That is him.
Q-You have seen that man of
whom that is a picture?
Ayes.
Q-You say at the time you saw
him he looked older?
Ayes.
Q-Where did you see him?
Alt my house.
Odd you have any conversation
with him?
Al was watching the cars. The
cars were coming and coming and
coming, and l seen green car COM
ing along the road and slowed I'D by
the lane, then went on and passed
the little house, and all at once I saw
somebody coming around the corner
OF tie little house, right straight
from there to my house The man
stood there. He saws: Us this Mrs
Gibson?"
I said: "Yes."
Q.-What did he say to you?
Ale shook his finger at me right
through the screen.
Q.-Were you in the house:
Al was In the house.
Q-What did he say to you?
Ale said, you had better keep
your mouth shut; it will pay you
better TO keep out of this" and 1
jumped up and L said: who are
you?" So L took the gun and
banged on the floor.
Odd he stay or go away?
A-No, he began to move. / told
him to move. | said: Move, and
move quick" I was afraid of him.
Q-When he said: You had bet
ter keep your mouth shut. and stay
out of this" did he say what he
meant by this?
A-The Hall case.
Q-How long was that after YOU
had made public what you knew?
A-Not long.
CIT was not long?
A-No.
Q-At the time you told the auth
critics what you know, was there a
young boy under arrest named How
ell? Howell. or something of that
kind, charged with the murder
Hayes-Clifford Hayes?
The defense objected and later
Simpson continued with:
Q-Do YOU see the lady In the roome
A-That looks like the lady.
Q-When YOU say that is the lady,
you mean that Is the lady you have
been describing all through your tes-
timonyc
Ayes
Q-Do YOU recognize the gentleman
who sits at the end-not william?
Alright there Gndicating).
Senator Case--I object to pointing
to a man and saying rs that the man"
Q-You say Williams Stevens. Can
you point him out?
Alright there. with the glasses.
Q-Next to the gentleman with the
bald head?
Alright next to Mrs. Hall.
Senator Case-Now -.
Senator Simpson-Do you want her
to get out of bed and go down and put
her hand on him?
Senator Case-I do not want Mr..
Simpson to tell her what to say.
The Court-Let her say whether
he is to the right or left of Mrs.
Hall.
(Which side is he on?
Alright here, looking at me?
Q-At the end of the table?
A-With the brown tie and the
glasses.
Q-And do you see Henry Stew
ems?
Ayes, over there.
Q-Where is he?
Alright there on the end
Q-And these are the men you saw
that night?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Have You any doubt at all