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A. H. MERWIFS TRIAL.!3 — f( THE BASTARDT CA«E OCCIPKESJIDGE CALRP’N ATTENTION.'• lu Continuance Rerorc JokIIcc Calet ^ Thursday Afternoon.Dr. Mathewson was called an 1 testified that he attended the girl on Feb. 29,J 1888, May 1st and June 15th of the same year. He also thought she was at his it house two or three limes and thought she :4 was suffering from weakness aud pre-j scribed for her. He said he never ex-amined her, did not reinemler whether0 he told her what the matter was but referred to it as female weakness, j-._ He said he didn’t remember taking her r home at any time she cal ed at his office, • t but may have done so; had no recollection of doctoring her for what was stated. He said he wanted it put on record that he t e did not know what it was. He said in all e his treatment of the girl he had no reason '• to suppose but what she was a perfectly virtuous girl. He told Mrs. Merwin about j »- the trouble she was suffering from « The next witness was Mrs. Kate Mer j n win, whose examination was resumed. : bhe said Minnie Carey told her the reason j I] she was sent to the Industrial school, but] the question was objected to, but .after a [ 8 lengthy debate was admitted. She said j g she came to this country and lived with I her uncle. Then she went to work in a wrapper factory in New Britain, and! her uncle wanted all of the money she , earned and she did not want to giye it to ; , him, so she ran away and went to New i York with a fellow. He got her work in ! a button shop in New York and she lived I a there with him a month. Her uncle came r to New York, found her, brought her* back and had her placed in the Industrial* school.1 In April Minnie Carey went to the dress makers to have her dress cut and^ fitted. She was to stop at the doctor’s on* the way. She left the house at 3 in the afternoon and did not return until after dark; we wondered where she was-.Frank Newton had finished his chores and.start* ed down street. Minnie came home at 8 o’clock, crying, and sat down in father’ss big rocking chair and she cried and bel- 1 lowed and hollered. Mother Newton , asked her what the trouble was? 1 She said some girls down5 street had been taking about her, saying she did not know enoughi to speak her piece. Mother Merwin asked her if he saw Frank Newton, and she said no. Next day she came into my room c (the witness) and I said, dida’t'-you see }, Frank last night, Minnie? She said yes, he came all the way home with me. The witness then broke down and began crying, and the cross examination was postponed until to morrow morning, Friday. Mrs.* Henry S. Merwin was then called. She said she remembered that W. C. i Hubbard was married Jan. 25, 1888, and, two days before that she and her daughter-in-law drove to Middletown; that was the. only day they ever drove to Middletown-together Annie Bailey and Minnie Carey were left in the house with the children, Annie being in charge of them; I don’t remember telling Minnie she might accept oranges from Frank Newton and I don’t Know of auy other , presents. I think I did know of the B oranges, but am not sure; Minnie did not ask me one Sunday whether she might w’alk in the fields with* Frank Newtow. Frank used to go to the kitchen and wipe the dishes for Minnie; I* requested her not to talk with him; she said she did not know as there would ber any harm in it; I said there might not be any harm, but I request you j for my sake not to do it. Almost always he wouid wipe the dishes when he was around there; Fred Meyers slept in 1 the house all the time she was there; he did not occupy the same room with Frank Newton; F. Newton occupied the west- room in the “D” part and Meyers the east , room, and Minnie the room east of mine.j Proceed!UK* Prld«y.i The case of Deputy Sheriff Merwin still hangs fire before Justice Calef and it s is thought it will occupy another day The cross examination of Mrs. A. K.1 Merwin, wife of the accused, was begun this morning at ten o’clock. The only statements brought out on the cross ex-e amiaation were to the effect that Mrs.0 Merwin came to Middletown in April with her mother, but that her husband accompanied her. Minnie Carey testie fied to that rac: in her testimony; and it was on one occasion when the witness and her mother drove to Middletown that [ she claims Merwin was intimate with her. The major portion of the testimony was unfit for publication this morning and related to private affairs pf the lady why underwent the strict cross examination by *jcttorney Donahoe for the town. Merwin cTafms that he is entirely innocent of the fiL*fge and his attorneys think they have shown sufficient proof to substantiate his statement. As yet he has not been ex-- amined. The object of the testimony of ! Mrs. Merwin was to show that when Min-r nie claimed her husband was intimate1 with her that he was away looking lor a » horse thief and was absent from home fivedays. The case will occupy the attention of the Justice for some time $ret. Court took a recess at noon.The trial was resumed this afternoon at s 2 o’clock, when Mrs. Merwin, Sr., con-r tlnued hey testimony.
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