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PRELIMINARY

EXAMINATION

Refore the Stipendiary Magistrate.

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this letter. scandal.

Si j tation until she had got 1 | The letter gave her warning to i | |

leave hy 12 o'clock next day, or she would be \ ted. The letter referred to the poison- Mrs. Sutherland Mrs. Weeks said

i t} about the

, Lenea

That was the first I heard

She took no account of the

| She made up her mind to go away very suddenly. I suppose that the poison- ing. or at least the scandal about it, caused

er t way. She told me that she wnything about the poisoning of anything but that she

{ saw her

siraid »scandal. She never told me

| heing ‘rested carea rt Deing arrested,

was

| cleaned iservant, but Mr. Sutherland’s.

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I never did take stock in scandal, | Court took recess. | Court resumed at 3.50. Wittram Brown (swora) —Examined by | Mr. M. MecLeod—-I am a servant with Mr. Sutherland. I have been there about five years and six months. Mrs. Weeks has; been living across the street from us about two years. I knew her te see her before she came to live there. IL am_ ac- quainted with her, but I don’t know any- thing about her. I speak to her when | see her. Iseeherin court now. I have at-| tended on her at her own place. 1 have the yard forher, I was not her I had his

sway at midnight, but i did not ask |eonsent to do this work. L also went

her what she was g yaway for. l knew | errands for her and drove her it was to stop the scandal about this poison jabout with Mr. Sutherland's horse r cas Mr. Sutherland was in the house| and waggon. About two years ago

ni there on Saturday wnd Chere » children

Mrs. i under-

vant ana Cw

r clothes. led her to

Sutherland in the e left that night. Mr. Suther-

i ng to me l uk to Mra. Weeks. He

ise her; that ne

heard

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told her that he | stores.

morning ;| Mr. Sutherland told me to do this work for was no one else Mrs. Weeks, and I have been doing it ever

work for her to live. The

He first told me to there

since, when she came up

McKay was one |Sutherlands and Mrs. Weeks were quite l go away | friendly then. c nald Farquharson was | the yard and cut the lawn for Mrs. Weeks

I used to shovel snow, ciean

whenever it was necessary to do so. [ sometimes did the marketing for her. I

him | have also carried parcels for her from the

[carried them for her from the

believed she | London House, James Paton & Co’s., Per-

soceut; and that he did not believe|king & Sterns’ J. D. McLeod’s and

it his wife was poisoned He said that he} John Joy's. Ihave not seen her over at hed never asked her to go away.|Sutherland’s for about 18 months. I con- This wa | to Mrs. Weeks. Mr. Suther-| tinued to work for her and she was kind to tell her not to go. IL knew}]me. Mrs. Sutherland was sick all the fall.

\ Sutherland and Mrs, Weeks were|] did not hear that she was very ill at u quaintances, and that they were neigh-| Christmas. I asked how she was several rs sid moth me about money. | tiraes and was told that she was better. I Poe first L saw of the money, it was lying|/have seen Mr. Sutherland enter Mrs. the table. 1 didn’t hear that night who| Weeks’ house in the daytime, but have » her thet ; ‘irs. Weeks haaded | never seen him come out. I did not watch money to Mr. Sutherland to count, | him, as 1 had something else to do. 1 heard

uldn’t have anything to do with it, so tome. Il got as far as $50 sad lost my count, and didn’t try it again. sidn’t s xy when the money was placed

e handed it

ble lhe valises were packed

»Wwhostalrs. [ cannot say that 1 heard ry word that passed cel Ween Mr. Suther- ind Mrs. Weeks. They would be in lining room together for a few minutes.

lie could have persuaded her not to go if chose He said ihat he didn’t ask her

Mr. Sutherland was there before I As far as I know, Mr. Suther- friend. Mrs. Weeks ld me that she sent for him. I supposed at Mr. Sutherland was there as an executor to her late husband’s will. 1 sup-

rot there.

snd was there asa

| posed that she was making some provision

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i | Icha > ¥ ec ¢ [ iW ‘ X \i : é pr f Friday X ‘ the ¥ 1c 3 j i - : , \\ D va ‘ l I ‘ ne OY M M. McL ‘ Manag ( } | rt La v \ ‘ | | ' se i ‘ i d i Cc Oe + Ww res i ‘ : i la stra ‘ ‘ ru ‘ yay y \ i l rie Da } n ra \ Kl 13 far as | could under- | . i" it i \ ' J OHNSON caLlied Examined |

M. McLeod (here were seven],

knew of hes yoing

lL was at

away. She went on Saturday her house on Friday evening. I went between 8 and 9 o'clock

ana jell Det

ween lland12. Mr. McKay caine for me about midnight—perhaps after midnight He said that Mrs. Weeks wanted me. He didn’t say why. I didn’t expect the message, but I was not alto- rether surprised to get it. I didn’t guess

what 1 was wanted for. My husband went with me. Hecame tothe door with me. Mrs. Weeks told me that she was going away

t understood that she was going off the

Island. She told me that she was going right off that night She had before tuld on different versions that she ‘ going off the Island—going to the Slo Ké p boarding house. She did tell :ae what part of the States she was

, ‘ , ‘ si had no

made up her mind when I left }

n Priday night. 1 .

nk I $41 ie mignt go tostop said that her neighbors were but I did not under- f going that night . ' : : nad ae etter n the GAY Lue adocto: VFere MUlding Be ¢ isuitalion. J react ie

1 3 Ge i+ w ne te \

sy COS Bue received ib Sirs. Vy ecks

ml that she did nvt knuw about the consul

Codd | weak 6

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She told me that there

{[ saw her giving

tor her children.

iS money for im two or three little bills and telling him

them.

; t o cine bottles “ oy~ Eee tir deem 3 pay them. I think one of them was oe ume from 3 Satheriang s house. | Perkins & Sterns. She wished him to pay a " — > or Mrs. renee ene ithem when her money came due. I did not a a ee the first one was sent) | to Mr. Sutherland when the Sheriff came Fas, SE. a. ROS | on Wednesday. She did not take all her is to health. We tested it for! . othing with her. She took just what was ; ne oe eee Che |needful. She had two valises and only was sent on Dec. 23rd. It contained]. oor oi, ugh clothing for her journey, 1 ine. Ididn ton it for arsenic. rhe lunderstood she was going to stay per- veo emt om Dee. 3. i di Wot test | manently. She left me in charge of the i xt was sen 1 Dec. 26th. itt; 7 Plat” eT — eed: Wine l tested i use. lw ‘s to Lake the children down om SOR acon aud Wine. ‘|to old Mrs. Weeks and ask her to take care ee OR. SEO REES wei of them until the sent fot them, “We Gilet D ~~ . : ; — — “po wake the servant t») help to pack the ot vy Was Sent On YA! clothing. She did not know Mrs. Weeks ; ’ - *““ | had gone till next morning. Iremained in ; — sisal ad |the house most of Saturday. Annie Gillis- M K land | Pie_came in I went for her. She lives ! , ‘| by Boyle’s Tannery. Mrs. Weeks told me , _ S ito go for Annie Gillispie because she was a the migat tha nd to the children. The Weeks’ came 5 “ ‘| for the children on Yuesday or Wednesday. ' I called i did not go to them with the message; ir. | 1 McDougali’s and g + hundred \they came and took the children away. rom him. Part of that I gave to| Annie was there till the children were M Weeks. I returnedthe whole amount/;,ken away. Nothing was removed M McDougall next morning rhe | from the house, so far as I know, except returned was myown. I don he children’s clothing and bedding and wel mad uy mind how much! some empty liquor bottles. My husband . = : [ swear that I ok them and put them in our yard. Il 0 inthe till that night. I believe! uid not say how many barrels of bottles was nearly $200. The cash book|there were. They were cleaning up the | yard [ think that Mrs. Weeks asked Mr. McLeod a | witness to produce | },im to take the bottles away. The clothing : ishe left was in twotrunks. The detective 1@ HeXt) jeft them scattered all around the room. . lw IcD ll’s, Me- || was there in the evening and daytime. v that {| Mr, Sutherland came to the house on Sun- ®.!day evening. 1 was there at my tea at the ‘43 time. He stayed there a few minutes. He ‘€ | wanted to hire the girl Effie Munroe. He Monday | me so, and the girltold meso. He {to see Effie Munroe. He did not !' A sik to her inmy presence. She went into L won he hall and spoke to him, and then came not. Before|pack and told me that Mr. Suther- ’ vay, 1 consulted with|jand wanted to hire her. Mrs. Weeks [r. Sutherland's best friends, | jd not tell me where she was going on ‘ Kp l tl willingness tO/the night on which she went away. hey in at easonable amountiShe told me at other times that When [| met she was going tothe States. Mrs. Weeks Mr. Sutherlan u Friday, f ha . sult id not tell me that she expected to see vl is iriencs. ihe} Vr, Sutherlandagain. She did not say i two or three days be-|ihat he was going to her. I never told that : ii Mr, Sutherland that}i9 anybody. | don’t suppose that she . shad been cons ting | vould have gone on that night, in that Weeks away. 1 did|.udden way, if it had not been for the the consultation mer oisoning. 1 gave my husband the order he Island. — lio drive Mrs. Weeks tothe Capes. That : Dr. JoHNSON (recalled) Exarained by | was about midnight. Mr. McKay had call- Mr Mel Seven bottles were PTO-} ed and given me the message, and when , ‘shown the witness.) 1 brought|my husband came home I gave him the 1 Mr. Sutherland's! oyder. J did not know that she had gone : under the name of Mrs. Miller. As far as atic WiLLtAMS (sworn)—Examined by|] knew she was going as Mrs. Weeks. I Mr. M. Mel -L know Mrs. = eeks. [| can’t say that I knew that she was going Known her for about tweive years. ecretly. ; s is living in our neighborhood. We -s have latterly been intimate with her. She} To Mr. Peters—Mrs. Weeks paid no at- was very kind tome when I was ill. []iention to the anonymous letter. She had

no fear whatever about the poisoning. [| slept with her on the night she received the letter, and she slept well. She said that she was afraid that the matter would bring out scandal, which would ruin her father inanew place. That wasthe reason she gave me—the only reason—for her going away. Shesaidthat people hadn’t been charitable about her, and what would they say if they had any ‘‘ sight” totalk. When Mr. Sutherland said that he didn’t ask her to go, Mrs. Weeks told him that she was going to save his reputation,—that he had

won his election, and that Mr. Louis Davies had threatened to dissolve partnership with him; and that, if

it would save his reputation, she would go. She told me that she would go to the States to her brothers, that her brothers and their friends would board with her— ind that she thought she would do very well. Efiie Monroe had been with Mrs. Weeks about three weeks. She had never

been with Mrs. Weeks before. I don’t “3 L. a Mp : i think that Mr. Sutherland said wnything in reply when Mrs. Weeks spoke to him about dissolving th Mr = Davies. Mrs. Weeks said it

dilference—she might as ‘hea as a iew months later,

lo Mr, MeLecd—I tock mo stock in the

that Mrs. Weeks went away on Saturday. | first heard that Mrs. Sutherland was poisoned and paralyzed on the Monday

after the election—not before. I never heard the poisoning mentioned in Mr. Sutherland’s house twice in my life. I heard

no one blamed for it, and I do not know who did it. Idid not do it. There is no ladder against the house—but there are three against the stable. There is a ladder against the house when the double windows are putup. I have seen Mrs. Weeks in the yard when they were putting up Mr. Sutherland’s new house—but not since. Bella Stewart is a servant at Mr. Suther- land’s now. I never talked with her or Mr. Sutherland about the matter. I told Mr Sutherland I was subpcenaed as a witness when I got the summons. I once took a music book from Mrs, Weeks’ house to Mrs. Sutkerland’s. 1] never carried ale to Mrs. Weeks from Mr. Sutherland’s I have had drinks in Mrs. Weeks house this fall. J never carried a bottle over. I never told anyone that Mrs, Weeks treated

me, I drink whiskey when 1 can get it. The drink I got was out of a bottle, I think it was brandy.

| havedrank ale in Mrs. Weeks’ house. I swear positiveiy that 1 did not carry ale from one house to another. I was sent to the doctor's for medicine one Sunday after- noon—it might be a-month ago. Mrs. Sutherland’s daughter Ella sent me for the parcel ordered. The doctor had been up to Mrs. Sutherland’s before, and I went for che parcel he had ordered for her. It was a little bottle done up in paper. 1 don’t know that Mrs. Sutherland was sick in bed then. | had heard she was ailing. I was working for Mrs. Weeks at that time, I never mentioned Mrs. Sutherland’s »ame or business to Mrs. Weeks. I took the medi- cine [ got at the doctor’s into Mr. Suther- land’s, but cannot be sure whether I gave it to old? Mrs. Sutherland or the girl, 1 won't swear that I saw Mrs Weeks on that day, Itwas the horse that hauled the case of whiskey home Mr. Sutherland was in the sleigh with me when the case of whiskey was brought home. It was after dark. 1 think it was after seven before I harnessed the horse. I took the case to the steps, and Mr. Sutherland took it from me there and put it into the house. I saw nothing of it afterwards. From the time the case of whiskey was put into the sleigh until it was taken into the house it was not opened or tampered with. To Mr. Peters—Il have been doing odd jobs for Mrs. Weeks and she was kind to mein return, and gave me a suit of clothes in the bargain. Mrs. Weeks could not have put poison in the bottle of whiskey that 1 carried to Mr. Sutherland’s house.

A Treasured Word. We clip the following interesting reminis- cence of Bishop McIntyre from The Voice, of Montreal] :—

Many years ago the present Bishop of Cha:- luttetown was parish priest of Tignish, an Acadian settlement in the western part of Prince Edward Island. His mission com- prised a large district, which is now divided into many parishes, One of these—the Indian reserve known as Lennox Island—was often visited by Father McIntyre, who offered masa in the little chapel of St. Anne, and, in defanlt of apresbytery, lodged in the home of the Micmac chief, Peter Francis, who was in very comfortable circumstances.

Mrs. Francis, who, like Martha of old, was much engrossed in housewifely duties, and careful for the good Father's comfort, had occasion during one of his visits to punish her little boy Peter, then not much more than a baby. She was very angry and in keen pur- suit of the little fellow, who, teiribly afraid of the coming chastisement, fled to the priest for protection. Father Melntyre opened his cassock antl wrapped it around the trembling baby while he gently reproved the mother for her extreme harshness, saying that she must forgive her son, who would be good henceforth.

‘‘And how do I know he'Jl be good, Father?” asked the mother,

*‘T'll answer for him,” said the priest ; “I'll go security that he will be good.”

And so the little boy was reprieved, and Father McIntyre thought no more of the matter.

Many years efter, when he was paying his first pastoral visit to Lennox Island as Bishop of the diocese, a procession in his horor came to meet him at the shore. From the ranks stepped a tall, handsome young man, who, wing homage to his chief pastor, said smiling- ly that he had come to relieve His Lordship of his bond, and, upon the Bishop wonderingly askiug what he meant, recalled the incident of the threatened whipping, and said that he was the baby boy for whom His Lordship had gohe security so many years before, naively remarking that he had been good ever since.

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Boston Harbor to be Loaded. FRIENDS MAY ENTER SAFELY, BUT MINkLS WILL

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PEDOES TO BE LAID IN CHANNELS,

A Washington despatch says: War Depart-

ing the approaches from the sea with sub- marine mines. An ollicer of the engineer corps, in speaking of the subject, said:

“It would not do for us to make public the location of the mines or the exact location of the casemates for operating them, for if this

fleet with an accurate chart of the harbor, locating the mines and the casemates, and a shpt or two planted in the casemates might deatroy the whole system.”

It is proposed when the system is completed at Boston to have in all 400 mines of fixed torpedoes located in such a way as to make en- trance to the harbor absolutely impossible when the mines are loaded. These mines are all to be of the controllable type, connected by electric wires with operating casemates on Long Island and at Fort Warren. The sys- tem is so controlled that friendly ships can pass over them unharmed, but when a hostile vessel approaches, the operator connects the mines in that part of the channel with a powerful firing battery so that the moment one of them is struck by the hostile vessel it must explode with tremendous force.

When the plant at Boston is completed, powerful electric search lights wiil be pro- vided with which the channels can be swept at night, and rapid fire guns will be mounted so as to command the whole expanse of water under which the mines are planted, and make it impossible for small boats to destroy them or injure the electric wire.

—_—__—- — +02 —____—__ A General Riot Feared. TROUBLE AT A MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN BID- DEFORD, ME.—-SHERIFFS ARRESTED AND RELEASED BY THE CROWD,

A Biddeford, Me., despatch of the 10th Says : the municipal election. One hundred special police oflicers and 25 deputy sheriffs are on duty. The votes of men whose na- turalization papers were issued by the mu- nicipal court, in alleged violation of United States laws, are being challenged in every ward. Inthe first half hour after the polls were opened four arrests were made, Special oflicars are working in sympathy with the men whose right te vote is ques- tioned. Eight sheriffs are arresting men as fast as they are challenged. In one ward two sheriffs arrested a challenged vote, but clubs were drawn and special officers and the crowd liberated the prisoners. In an- other ward Deputy U.S. Marshal Stack- pole drew a revolver when the crowd in- terfered with the arrest of a prisoner. Staokpole succeeded in holding his man, and also caused the arrest of a special of- ticer who interfered. At ten o'clock war- rants were issued for the arrest of sheriffs and ten minutes later the local policemen captured Deputy U. S. Marshal Stackpole and Deputy Sheriff Porker, of North Ber- wick, and hustled them to the police station followed by a howling mob. A_ general riot is feared.

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ImportTaNT. - Owing to the lack of seating accommodation in St. Patrick’s Hall, the lecture to have been delivered there by Dr. Conroy this evening, will be given in the Lyceum instead. Doors open at_half-past seven, lecture will begin at eight o’clock. As a full house is expected, it would be well for those desiring good seats to go early.

—The opening of an office of the Grand Trunk ‘Railway in Halifax is regarded as a hopeful sign, indicative of a change of policy in favor of the Maritime Provinces, on the part of that great corporation. When, during the regime of the Grits, the Grand Trunk sold to the Intercolonial the road from Riviere du Loup to Levis it was a virtual confession that they did not value the trafiic of the Maritime Provinces. But the National Policy has worked a change in the scene, and while there is work for the Intercolonial and the new C. P. R. Short Line, the Grand Trunk sees a chance to enter into the competition for the railway traftic of Eastern Canada. The proposed short line over the Temiscouata Railway, tc complete which the gap between Ed- munston and Moncton has to be construct- ed, will give the Grand Trunk direct con- nection with Halifax by a line somewhat shorter than that of the C. P. R.

Extension Tables and Sideboards are being sacrificed at John Newson’s. Immense bar- gains for cash ia all lines of furniture,

PE ISLAND RAILWAY.

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DAY, 3lst inst., inclusive, for the supply of

Six Thousand Two Hundred (6,200) Tons of the Hest Fresh Mined Round Steam Coal, for Loco- motive use.

Tenders to state the price per ton of 2,240 lbs., delivered as follows :—

Charlottetown............. o++ee 2,900 Tons, NE aig eo cen oe 2,400 * ID oc ahindadledh «seas ence 400“ I ds Gino 5 Vebinen cbinn's v00kub 300 ‘ CE Ns dork 5s Fapen eve wibes — *

At least one-quarter of the whole quantity required at each of the above mentioned Sta- tions to be delivered on or before the 30th day of June next, and delivery of the whole to be completed on or before the first day of October, 1890.

The first payment will be made in July, and monthly thereafter. Ten (10) per cent will be retainec from each payment until the final and satisfactory completion of the contract.

The Department does not bind itself to acespt the lowest or any tender.

J. UNSWORTH, Superintendent. Railway Office, Charlottetown, } pat 2i

March 12, 1890. Westbourne House For Sale,

(>... to purchase this House are in- vited by the undersigned. If it is not soid in a short time, offers to rent it for two years certain, partially furnished, would be entertained, Apply to PALMER & McLEOD, or W. M. RAYDEN.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

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There is great excitement here over |

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