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THE CASE F92 THE DEFENCE, MR. HODUSON'S ADDRESS,

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Monpay, Jan. 39.

The c.we for the defence afternoon. The Courtoma was crowded. | About half-past three oe etock Me. Hodgson} begun his vd tress to tae Jury. In opening, he said that asin afev lays more the d ity would deveive woon hia te again addres

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would be brief. He woul! not now olfer a] single wort of cunuinent ov argument as to the nature of the evs lence ad taced or the} demeanvr of the wiinesses while on the] stand > bu when h next ad russe i them | he woulki discus: all thee thngs. Atter, |

witnesses on the have ti say,

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shall be wy duty to ¢g.vea ecninect dl his

tory of tir: cx Diseit ft shall wot be so

reticent Till tren [ ask you to bear

with me. Te o are tree questions before ou. (1) W murder committed ? (2) When waa it commt»s?? (3) Waa it

committed by William Milmunf Unques

tionably 4 cokd-biond-d = murler has been comin ited Thint you know, The counsei forthe Coown has ad lresied you upon the wttee of che jurisdiction of the Court Chat questi is not one

which will likely require any consideration at yourhanis. [, however, ei] not ask for the pris mer’s acquittal on any technical ground; bit I will ineet the eve exactly upon its merits. The real question for you to decide is:

** DID WILLIAM MILLMAN, THE PRISONER IN

THE DLOCK, KILL MARY TUPLIN?”’

That is the question which you are asked t» consider ; not to enquire as to who did the deed. [a the ecrlence salic ent to teil you that Millman didit?) The counsel fur the Crown inas te.d you tht itis proper to con- vict upyn circumstaatial ey deuce. That is right. Now in civewastantial evi lence there must be a complete chain of evidence. If one link is broken, that ends the matter; and there wiil be but une course for youto pursue. When] nex: address you, you will have all the evi dence groups) together ant the weak links

in the chain pointed oat = One of the links in the chain of civeusistances with which the proseva iou five eodeavorel t» connect the pris mer, is contains! im the evidence vu the girl Dorothy Aco Adams. She says

that on the fuesliy ev ning of the murler a boat cressel the ereck. In the boat was Wai @ man Wwhon to be Millman Now, iu this conaection, time is very im- portant, aad we mist be exceedingly care- ful about it. Muny toe men’s lite has hung uovn tea minutes—-your verdict will depend upon mautes. When ) asked her about te time she siw thi boat ani the wen, she said thit before she went duwn te the fie'd t> milk she looks: at tho clock, anal siw that it was five Minutes past six. She sail that it tovk hei about fiffeen minutes to gather the cows, and when I adl the two together I find that it makes exictly twenty minutes past six. Now, the persoa who crossed in the buat twenty minutes past six WAS NO? WILLIAM MILLMAN. I will put iis father, mother, sisters and brothers on the stan! tu shew that he was at hisuwn home at the time the boat was seencrossing. The statement has been made. and no deact hae rewhel your ears, th:t at the prelimmiry exeninitivon old Mr. Millmaa fainted woils viving his testiinuny., and that after his recovery he again took the stand and swore to chit which was di- rectly opposite tu what he hed previously said. This stvtement is correct. The old man misu iderstuol the question which was put tohim, and thought he was asked about We Inesday instead of Tuesday. He saw his mistake, an-l a° the time corrected it sandexpisined hiserror. When you see him here o« the stand, not one of you wil, think that he went there to perjure himself. It is «4 good man’s case t> mike a mistake. For instence, look at Shreenan’s evidence te-liy. You all know h w he male the mistake ia «dates, antl how he eorrected fins :!f Bus tise case does not rest on che Mi! mums testimony. Wehave other evidence t» offer wo'ch will prove beyond « doubt that the young man’s hand. are clean —that HIS SOCL IS NO? STAINED WITH You heari the witneases fix a certain hour for the firing of the shots. All agree thax it was after teu o'clock. George Profit says it was after ten o’cluck when hs heard them; se does the other man. t wa3 alse after tea whea Woudsile hewd the shots and wae sereaus —which he s» aptly de- scribes as one prvionged shriek. He, how- ever, heard but one snort; the secoud must have come after he had started ap hi- horse, ani tie rittie of the eveisge pre vented his hearing it. Woodside, from his position on the other side of the river, could have heard the shot much better than the others, as sound travels further ano more Cistinctly over an unobstructed water- course. He had, at the outside, but a mile and three-quarters to go to reach his home. fe drove briskly, and he tells you that when he reached there he looked at the clock and saw it was twenty minutes to eleven. Itisa hard thing to remember looking at the time on a clock or watch unless One has done some certain thing, or been at some certain place, by means of which the circumstauce can be tixed in his mind. in Woodside’s case he had been at a lecture, and that ficed the circumsianc: in his mind, Now WHERS WAS MIL“EMiN AT TEN O CLOCK THAT Niche

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We can prove that he was a long distance

frou “is ocene of 1a neatler at that hour. I wil prove that Miiknan = was- a his own house on ihat night at ten ocioet: art that fe was also nt his own house s© che hour when the girl Adams saw

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| meeting that night. This meeting was held in the church at Lrishtown, and was for the | parpose of making arrangemeuts for the | holding of « pic-mic or tea party. After the j heetinyg the place was locked up. Mr. | Reagh saw the prisoner's father and mother leave the church for home---one mile from ithe place. In some five or six minutes jafter they left, Mra. Reagh and Mrs. | Evans drove away. Mr, Reagh then left

the church and walked with Evans ito where the latter livel—between 300 land 400 yards away. There Mr. |Reagh found his horse tied. He un- | tied it and took it tothe well and water-

| ed it. The two together took the horse jout, took it tothe stable and put it up. | After that he went into the house. Mr.

had been regulating Evans’

and on being asked what time it was, said it was seven- teen minutes past ten. Mr. Reagh has since gone over this ground, put up

was opened this | his horse as before, and did it in thirteen

minutes —going more quickly than on the former occasion. When Mr. and Mes. Milimin arrived home from the church Mr. Milman*remarked that it was time to ge tu bed ; but the husbend suggested it would be betier for her to set the bread be- fore she went. Mr. aud Mrs. Miil- man jogged along quietly on the road, and did not look at the clock when they got heme. Mr. Reagh had got his watch from Dr. McKoy and reguiated it every day, g tting the correct time from Mr. Clarke, at the Railway Stationat Kensington, where tis received from Tocouto each morning. Bryenten’s watch was, ou the contrary, a standing joke among the people. It is fesrfully aud wonderiu'ly made, and has been known to gain upwards of three quar- ters of an hour in less than a week. There wis nothing like itin the heavens, on the varth, or under the earth; and Bryenton swore by it. ludeed u he had his way he would have everything regulated by his celebrated Waterbury watch. Then there wre the feotpriuts on the sand on the shore # the Southwest River. These are im- purtant, and Constable McKay, in measur- ing them as he did, showed an amount of detective ability very creditable to him. He took carefal measure of the heel and sole, evan noting the fractions of the inch. Mr. McKay has told you that these tracks were ‘nade some distance from where the tide rises and falls, aud therefore could not easily beeffaced. There wasnotan intelligent inan present but believed THOSE TRACKS WERE MADE MURDERER, We will show you that the tracks in the sand, and which have been so carefully neasured, are about an inch smaller than Mulman’s boot. (Here Mr. Hodgson went to the dock, and obtaining one of the pri- sover's bouts, measured it in front of the jury ; the measurement was just one inch smulerthan the boot.) I shall show also, by measuring the prisoner's bare foot, that ir is louger than the track. This case is wistling with circumstances to which I shall uct reter now, but will deal with later. Just one word, however, about the evidence # the wan Sowers. With regard to his festimomy, we will put members of the Grand Jury on the stand, and they will ‘wear that he told them when examined that he could wot even then swear it was Millmaa = when he saw him. Then, again, the presecution have putin agood Geal of evidence about a wagon whch was met onthe road. They got held of a wagon, but it is the wrong one. Before the case closes I shall put witnesses on the stsad who will tell some- thing about another wagou—who will tell you what they saw that night. When I next address you I shall go through all the letails of the case, but for the present [ refrain froim doing so.

BY THE GIRL’s

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THE EVIDENCE TAKEN.

Rev. Tuomas B. Reaun (swora)—Examined by Mr. Hodgson—Irishtown Church is one of uy mission chnreches. Iwas ata meeting in the Irishto n Church in June last. I remem- ver being there distinctly. It took place on Tuesday, 28th June. The meeting opened about 8 o'clock. I am acquainted with Mr. and Mis. Join Millman, ‘hey are parents of WViliam -iiiman. They were there that aigit. I don't remember when they got there. The meeting wag c3!led for half-pist seven o'clock. lremember the fact of Mr. snd Mra, Millman leaving. Vhey drove, The ‘‘hureh is about a mile from their house. Mrs. Reagh was there—it was a meeting of the ‘adies of the congregation. I had my horse im carriage there. My wifeand Mrs. James vans drove away with my horse snd wagon. Phey started about five or six minutes after Mr. aud Mrs. Millman left. They went to

james Evans’. Mrs. Reasgh and I stayed here all night. Ilett four or five minutes afver my wife and Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Kvans

live; 300 or 499 yardsfrom thet'hureh. After speaking aloyt the prospectsof the tea, I walked to Mr. James Evans’, { walked an

ovdinary@ gait. When I got there my horse was hitched to a post which supported the clothes-line. We unhitched the

horse, took him to the well and gave him a drink. It was a well with a windlass. We had to let the bucket down. We then took the horse tothe barn and got a rope to tie him with. Mr. Evans had to get a line. While he was getting the line I got the har- ness of. Then we fed the horse and some other cattle. Then Mr. Evans went round the barn, and got straw to bed the horse. We started for the house, taking the articles in the wagon with us. We went into the house. and either my wife or Mr. Evans’ wife said it was ate, Sume of them asked what time it was. I ooked at my watch. Jt was between 10.15 wi li7o'ceck. Icant accurately state he time, beeause I oaly had the wateh a fort- night. LI had beew going to the station for 3-veral mornings to yet thetime. I was re- gulating Mr. kvans’ clock at the time. It would take us from fifteen to twenty minutes to walk trom the church and do what we did before we entered the house. On a former vecasion we did t ¢ same thing—in exactly i3 minutes. 1 timed the performance—only shat we rode the tirst time, the horse trotting « little, and walked the last. I remnembe: the cime particularly on account of the after events, I heard that Mary Taplin had disappeared, apd that my — sexton (dryenton) was suspected. I have tried to regulate Bryenton’s watch, and have brought it dowa so that it would not gain over half an nour aday. There was some joke connected with the gextoa’s watch. It is a standing jose with some of the congregation—* Mr. br entoa’s watch.” I don't know what time ‘was when we left the Church, Mrs. Mill- 21 WS at ove time rather melancholy— sonething of a religions melancholy —judzing by couversviions IL aid with her. She absent. ed hevseif irom Church on several oecasions§ -b Was 4 source of great anxiety to the family§ Cross-examined by Mr. Peters.—[{Witness produces nis watch.) ‘This is a little fast now “sie gains a litile. At the time I speak of,

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between local and standard times, Mm, Sudsbury was at the meeting. I think ber husband came for ber. I don’t think he wis at the meeting. I looked at my watch before the meeting broke up. Iam not prepared to say that Bryenton’s watch did not agree with mine on that occasion, I know Mr. Sudsbury, He lives a mile or a mile anda half from the Chureh. ‘The meeting lasted between an hour and a half and two hours. I didn’t begin to calculate the time «f the occurrences on that evening till about a fortnight or thire weeks ago. The idea of the time Ins been in my mind ever since. I began to think sometime afierthe murder came out, Ti might have been Wednesday or Thursday after the murder, The prisoner was the fint to tell me that Mary Tuplin had disappearel. He did s» on the neat day (Wednesday) be- tween eleven and twelve o'clock. I was drir- ing home in company with John N. Evaus and him. He didn't at first tell me that ‘be was charged with causing the disappearanee of the girl; buton the way we met Jon Tuplin, who called him aside, and when the prisoner returned he told me that Jobn Tupin had toll hina that he had agreed to meet the girl on Tuesday evening. He said that Alice Conne!ly had teld Tuplia. Millman saic it wes not‘true, or something to that effect. I then asied Millman where he was last night. He said he was down to the river bathing; that afier he bathed be sat down for a litle while, .then went home. He said. he bathed slone, and that he was at home when his father came back from the mecting, I was at the station sometime after the murder, aud speke to Mr. Reubin Tuptiv. I don't recollect:that £ told him that the piisoner and Na laniel Evans were in the same house as [ was on the night of the murder. I certainly did nt: do so. I was not in the house witn them ou that evening. I might have been with them on another evening. Miilmanis « parishioder of mine, and I had a conversation with him (before the wurder) respecting Mary Tuplin. Tasked him whether he had sny- thing to do with thxt girl. He said ‘* No.” I believed him. That was some few das

before the murder, There were at the meet- ing: Ricuard Paynter and wife, John Profit

and wife; and P think cne of his boys, Mrs. Thomas ‘Miiiman, William Evans and his wife, Mrs Jehn Saudsbury, and John Paynter and wife; I[ eant call to mind any others. I don't remember that any of the Bryenten’s were there except Thomas. James Evansand his wife, Mr. and Mrs, Ives, and William Protit were there. Thomas Bryenton and, I think, Jobn Paynter, produced their watches that evening. We were looking tu see how the time was going. I think it is likely I told them the time by my watch. Thownas Bryenton would have heard what I sail it was. dJotin Millman lives about a mile away. It would take him from fifteen to twenty minutes to go home, Iam quite positive I'm right about the time. At ten o'clock I would be at the Church door—oat in the air. If shots weve fired I would have heard them. It was a clear night. The meeting had been in some fifteen or twenty minutes before we lit the lights. I couldn’t swear whether the blinds were up erdewn, They might have been half up or half down. It was just getting dusk when the lights were lit. Mr Sudsbury lives about a mile or a mile and a half from the Church, The meeting hroke up about ten o'clock. It was a moonlight night. The moon was giving a good light. Millman was in Church the Sunduy after the murder. I did not see him to speak toafter the Wednesday following the murder. He tuld me on that occasion that Thomas Bryenton told him about the girl’s disappearance, I asked him what the girl said when he sw her on the previous Suuday evening. He said she didut blame him. I didn’t ask him where Nathanfel Evans wag _ that evening. I didn’t know at that time where John Nathaniel Evans was on the evening of the murder. After the meeting closed Mr. John Millman and his wife lett for home, in fonr or five minutes. Tt w's a few minutes past ten before they left for home.

Tvespay, Jan. 31.

R. B, Noxron (sworn}—Examined by Mr. Hodgson—I{ am a hardware merchant in Char. lottetown. I sel! piste!s, and ammunition for pistols. I have in stock and on hand ammn- nition for a 32-calibre pistel. (Cartridges pro- duced.) I have oae here marked ‘‘H.” The bullet would show th-se rings. We sell of this kind from 5,000 to 10,000 a year.

Cross-exami.ed by Mr, Peters—We sel! by numbers, (Cartridge produced.) The bail taken from that cartridge would show them rings. They are a!l mace by the Winchester Manufacturing Co. The ball produced is noi exactly the saine as that in the pistol. We have some that have no rings on them—by a different maker. (Cartridge produced.) This is by adifferent maker. I: could be fired out of that pistol. Cartridges from the same maker have different marks,

Joun MILLMAN (Sworn)—Examined by Mr. Hodgson—I am the father of the prisoner. I

remeinber ‘Tuesday, 28th of June, On that evening I was at a meeting at Irishtown Church. I left for the

meeting about seven o'clock. My daughter said before we were ready, it is twenty minutes tv seven, That was before we began to get ready. It would not take us more than twenty minutes to get ready. My son was home when I left. He was at the door when we started with the wagon. He had on his working cloiles no coat. He had a bleck felt hat, When [ dreve away, I left him there. Itica mile to the Church. I didn’t look at my waten when I left the meeting, We stood talking two or three minutes. Then I untied the horse and came right come. | would not take over ten or fifteen minutes to drive home at furthest. I drove on that even- ing just as I usually do. When I got home the gate was open. We drove right on, to where I put the wagon in. My wife went with me, and then wa!ked up to the house.

1 would not be over tive minutes unyoking and putting the horse away. When I went into’ the henze Wiiliam was just going out of the kitchen inty the hall to go to bed. He had bo coat ar boots on, Hé gleeps up steirs. | dun’t remember whether or not the lamp was lit when | came in. My bedroon is down stairs, My wife rent into a room to take of her tuings. When she came out again 1 had to go down to the granary after a bag of flour for my wife to set some bread. Mv granary was not locked. I got the bag, put it on wy shoulder, went into the house and emptieri it into a barrel. After that my wife went to work to set the bread. Then we talked a minute or two and then went into bed. J sat by tie stove and smoked m

pipe. If heard the clock strike eleven while i was smoking. When it struck J had been smoking quite a little while. It was nearly twelve before I went to bed. I felt chilly,and kindled on a little fire, When I left to go to the meeting | left home Mrs. Nelson Evans, (Elizabeth Jane) William, John Bradford, (who is about 17), Mary Eliza-she is about 15; Jobanna about 13, and Maud, about 12, and David Reagh, about six years old. I was examine| hefore the magistrates. At the examination [| made a mistake about the evening. I thong!t the magistrates were asking me .albouc Werlnestay evening. I didn’t notice waca they begaa to ask about Tuesday evening. J] was not strong when the examination was hell, Jam qnice sure that

details of what we did on that evening. John luplin was at our house on Wednesday even: img.

Grice Rancitned by Mr. Petera—Mr, Tuplin came to ask about the girl, and if 1 knew where my son was on Tuesday evening. i told him that I was away at the meeting, and that before I left he had been talking about going to the river to have a wash. I had not heard about the loss of the girl before Luplin came. I don't remember whether I heard about the loss of the girl through the day or not. I told it at the examination as well as I could then enumerate them. I would not remember as well now as I did then. The statement I then made that I yot home between half-past ten and eleven, is, as nearas I can tell, correct. When I got home the children were all in bed, except a little girl (Mary Eliza), who was asleep on a bed, aud William. ‘The first I saw of William on that evening, he was going out of the kitchen into the hall to go to bed. I believe that the rest were all in bed andasleep. William said, “Good night, da,” and went to bed. He was in his shirt sleeves. His punts were dark, aud he had on no boots, Ido not know why William did not go to the Church that even- ing. It wasa ladies’ meeting. I got up next morning about seven o'clock, Ido not know where William went next morning. He ate his breakfast and went to work. don't re- member what he went at. We went to the meeting about seven o'clock, We were there before the meeting went in—quite a little while, I don't remember who was there when we got there. I stayed out afew minutes

talking to William Evans and, 1 think, to William Paynter. It was a small meeting— not many there altoyether. Mr. Richard

Paynter and his missus and Mrs. Thomas Millman and her boy drove from James Evans’ with us. We were all on the road together. The only person that drove with mz was my wife. After the meeting was over we stepped talking to William Fvans and Thomas Beyenton, My son has a brown. ish straw hat. I would not like to say that I would know it if Isawit. (Hat produced ) That looks like the hat. There was a string around it. I don’t know the color of the string. I call that a low-crowned hat with a narrow rim, I know John Nathaniel Evans. Ne lives up at Irishtown, near the Church. I don’t remember that I saw him on Wedues- day. I don’t know that my = son vent to see him on Wednesday. I was not down to the shore on Wednesday. I won't swear that John Nathauiel Evans was at the shore on Wednesday. 1 don't know whether I could see the boat where she was moored or not. I always heard she was moored there. My farm doesn’t run to the

shore. | might have been down to the inarsh. I don’t remember seeing the boat moored, My son said he hada notion of going

down swimming before we went to the church. I con't. know how he came to talk about it. He iiest said he had a notion of going down for a wash that evening. I don't know who was present. He told me afterwards that he had been down tothe shore. I don’t know whether he told that or not. I swore to the truth as I knew it. 1 won't swear that he did uot tell me. My son generally goes to bed about nine or ten o'clock. 1 never asked William why he was up so late that night— he never told me. William did nut come out to help me put the horse away, nor to carry the fiour in, There wasn’t much fire ia th

stove. It wascool that evening, though it was quite a tinue night. I kindled up the fire. There had been fire on; it was down low and | just kindled itup. 1 never asked my son where he wes on the evening the murder was com- mitted, nor hss he ever told me, John Tuplin blamed him when he cameto my house, but i did not ask my son where he was that even- ing. I didn’t ask him, because I didn’t think but what the girl would turn up. I thought my son was not guilty of that. I don’t know tiat I had any particular reason to ask him. Ife was home when I left and was home when I came back, and | thought there was no need toask him. Tuplin said the girl left a little after nine o'clock. J didn’t know that my son had a revolver. He used to have some old hings around. Nelson Evans found a revol- ver up on our granary. I can’t tell whether or not it belonged to William. [ did not kuow that he had another revolver. He did not tell me that he borrowed one from Power. I told the magistrates that my son had a _ toy vevoiver, J] never gaw him with a pistol cartridge, A small revolver was prodyced at the examination. I did vot know whether or not it belonged to Wiliiam. I asked him notaing about the revolver after the examin- ation. I have not talked tomy family as to where William was that night. I did not speak to Joan Bradford, or to any other member at my family, nor to my knowledge, to anyone else, Ido not know that my son put his boots to dry that evening. His boots were off. I don’t remember whether 1 siw them that evening. I think he wore shoes. He generally wore a pair of brogans. I can’t swear whetuer or 1.05 be had on the brogans on thatevening I neverasked my son whether or not he had anything to do with Mary Tup- lin, [never asked him one word about her. i know tho Cousins girls—Lily, Jane and Mary. They were not at iny house on Wed- nesday or Thursday (after the murder) that I know of. 1 don’t Lede where my son went tou on Wednesday or Thursday. knew he went to town on the following Monday. He went to sec about the scandal, he told me. I didn’t ask him anything about it. He asked me if he hadn't better go and see. 1 to!d him i thought he had. He didn’t remember any- thing about the Power boys. I never heard about the Power boys from him. I heard about Patrick Power's evidence at the ex- amination. 1 never asked him whether or not it was true, Will told me that one of the Power boys was with him on that n‘ght, or one night. I don’t rgmember what he said about it. When he said this I was home. This was before the examination and after the girl was missing. I don’t remember whether I asked him or he said it himself. It was out- side. on our own place that he told re. I think it was in the afternoon. I don't re member tue day he was doing his road work. J didn’t know that he and one of the Power boys had a job tegether. 1 remember

the time 1 was at Clifton Court. I was there both before and after nvon, I don’t remember what time I went

It is most likely that I talked the matter of the time we got home from the Charch with my family, I can remember the t.me without talking it over. I don’t remem- ber when I first talked it over with my family. We talked something about it with Mr. Reigh—the diy before yesterday, I don't remember that i talked it over with him tili the other day. Mrs. Nelson was at my house that night—no one else but the members of iny family. I hod no conversation with Mrs. Nelson Evans aout the matter.

doHanna Eyans, (sworn)—Examined by Mr. Hodgsou—I am a sigter of the prisqner, j remember the evening my father and mother went to the meetingin the Church in June last. I was outside and did not see them go. i saw Will about, He had no coat on. 1 dou’t know what sort of a hat he had on. I didn’t see him go away, He said he was gong to have a bath. I went to bed about jaark. I don’t know when jeither father or jinocher or Will came bome, My eldest sis er’s name was Kiizabeth Jane. She woke me up when they came home. Maud and I sleep t getaer. We did not wake up in the night at. all

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house. I thought we got ready in twenty minutes by what we had to do. Mr, Reagh or Mrs. Reagh were not at the church when we got there. I don't know the time we left the Church, nor what time I got home. That's a fact. We live a mile from the Church. Never heard it called two miles. We had no delay when going home from the meeting. I don't remember speaking to vy one in parti- cular, Wo did not drive home very fast. We did not walk the horse all the way home. My husband took charge of the horse when we got home, I saw no one in the kitchen when 1 got home. My daughter and the little boy were inmy room. The boy's name is David Reagh—called after our minister, | know Jobn Sudsbury. I saw his wife at the meet- ing. 1 suppose it was sometime about half- past ten when we got home. My husband heard the clock strike 1! when sitting smoking after [went tobed. He told me so next morn- ing. Wm. was standing in the kitchen when I came out of my bedroom. I was about eight ov ten minutes in my bedroom. He was in his shirt sleeves. There was no light in the AFTER KEUESS. kitchen waea I first weat in. \Wavever says

Jouayna Evans.— Cross-examination re- William was sitiiag at the stove toasting his sumed by the Attovney General—I doa't re- | feet, says what is not true. There was no member hearing any conversation in our house | -ire in the stove. I don't think my husband about Mary Tuplin. I saw Joha Tupiin speak-| put ona fire. I[doa’t know whether he did ing to my father at the bara on Wednesday. |or not. 1 was cold. The night was chilly. lf On Monday my brother was in town for the ;imy husband did not light a fire to warm him- lawyer. This was the day the body was/sell, he did not do it for any other purpose. I found, Jaue Cousins was at our house | didnot warm myself. | have ao recollectioa of a that night. 1 did not see William in conver- | fire in the kitchen on the night of the 28th. The

went away, the other members of the family were about hocws, 1 don't know what time they went away. L went to bed at dark, John Beadford and Mary Uliza were up in the house whea I went to bed. Willian was not there when IT went to bed. I don’t know where William was when my father went away, I did not see William again that night—nor | my lather and mother either. We keep our | flour in the pantry. I doa’t know whether bread was baked or set that night. I don’t remember whether it was made next morning. There was no fresh bread for breakfast. | didn’t see bread baking going on next day--I[ was at school. 1 saw Whilliam next day when | got up. “I saw him in bed asleep, I was in the same room. U don’t know whetier Bradford was there. William was in bed when we had breakfast. Maud went toschoo! with me. Weall usually have breakfast tovether—all but William. I don’t khaow whut kind of clothes William hid on that day. (Hat pro- duced.) That is William’s hat. His was o 16 like it. [ don’t know how long he had it. Court tovk recess,

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sation with the Cousins girl that night. Lucy | water I used to eet the bread was nob waru ; Evans and others were also there. 3radford jit had just the chillout of it. J neticed no

was at Thomas Millman’s weeding potatoes | person ingut the tire while | was setting the

that day, and when he came home he said the |read. AJl the members of the family, girl wasfounl. No one present said anything }excep¢ William, were up to breakfast as

William was‘in bed late; the regular time that morning. Sometimes He was in bed after | William stayed in bed when we "4 not eali

alter he told this, on Wednssday morning.

we all had breakfast. He was there when I/him up. The bread iset on Tuesday night went to school that morning. was eaten that week. I have no distinct

Mrs. Joun MILLMAN (sworn)—Examined | knowledge. 1 saw John Tupim at our house by Mr. Hodgson—Iam the mother of Wm, ,ov the 20th. He w. to my husband Miilrenan, 1 remember the meeting at/at the barn i wont out when I saw them Irishtown church, It was on the 28th|talkisg, When I went out { heard him de. June. it was twentw minutes to seven|scribe about u.s childron sccing aman ia the

woods at six o’clovk the niyht before. He asked where our son had been vue eveuing be- fore. We told him he had spoken scout: going bathing. He also asked if my son had any money. I said I did not think he had 25 cents. He said he had seen him with Mr. Reagh, and asked if he was going after his daughter. I don’t know what time William came home on Wednesday. He had breakfast with us. He did not have bis din- sist us. When we got to the meeting there | ner or supper with us, Some people milk earlier were some people there. Mr. Payaver’s people | than others, I did not have any conversatlon and Mr. Millman’s went aheaa of us. Mr, !about the murder. I heard on Wednesday at Paynter said he thought we ought tv be there. |noon that the girl was miss’ng At four I don’t kuow the time the meeting broke up. | o'clock that afternoon John Tapiin came, I About three or four minutes afterwards |spoke to William about it the day after Tuplin we started home. Ti would not take jleft. He asked what John Tuplin wanted, I ui more thin ten or tifteen minutes |said 1 suppossd he wanted him, He asked to get home. When I got home I went into | wh it he wanted hin for. I told him what my bedroom. My second daughter was lying |Tuplin told me. He said he kaew nothing in bed then, and I woke her up. I took olf;about it, He told me he had been at my things thea. Perhaps I was eight or ten Tup!in’s house—I asked him. Tuplia told me minutes there. When I came out |] saw my it was last winter he was there. My husband son in the kitchen. He was not there when/was present at some of our conversations, Iwentin. ile had his coat off and bootson. ;On Thursday I had another conversation, He took of his black felt hat and hung it up. | Mrs. Evans was not there. The others were, It was the sume hat be had on when he went |i think. I cannot remember the exact words. away. lsaw him take off his boots and put | It was about tiking the Tuplin girl away, and them back against the wall. He then went | about the people blaming him for coaxing her to bed. I then set bread, There wasno flour/away. I never heard Mary Tuplio’s name in the honse. My husband brought it in from | till she was lost. I did not bear Luplin men- an outside building. He set it down on a|tion Alice Cbnnolly’s name. I don't remem- chair and emptied it into a barrel. It would | ber hearing it. Alice Connolly is a first cousin take me about fifteen minutos to set the bread. |} to William. She left for Boston after the ex- After I set the bread I washed my hands ani jamination last summer, [never taiked for a while to my husband | spoke to ber after that. The about the meeting. The clock is in|murder may have been spoken of once or my bedroom I then went to bed, |/twice after that. My husband may have been ‘leaving my husband sitting at the stove. | present. Iasked William where he was that I don’t remember hearing the clock strike | night after I returned home from the meeting. after I went tomy room. I did not notice} He told me he had been down bathing. They that there was anything the matter with my | often went bathing. I asked him next day, son’s boots. I was asleep when my husband | and he told me he had been down bathing, came to bed. I saw my son next morning, |and had come home long before we came, We were done of breakfast when he got up.|It was in the presence of the fam- We had breakfast about 6 o’clock. I was up-lily, probably at the breakfast table. stairs next morning. William's socks were | He told me he had been sitting on the front lying on the side of his bed. They were not/doorstep smoking before we came home from wet. He wore shoes that night. the meeting. He ha? smoked for a year

Cross-examined by the Attorney-General. — | before that. He was not toasting his feet at I remember the 29th June last. It was on the stove that night that I know of. Ona the Tuesday—the day before—that we went to 2%th my son hada grey woolen shirt, black