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YOUTH HELDi aner (Continued from Fage One.) l!i!i e Io\ter B. Wentworth?” raid “I did.” per a F u tr her more, Sheriff Cooper tcsti-; con r ficd, Wellman told how he did it with ' in# e a cluh. hitting Wentworth on the the r head, knocking him down, and then Fn ■- striking him several times. C,t Sheriff Cooper said that Wellman dcd i- told him that Per ley Jones was with twe i- him and that the murder took place tha - Friday night, May 20. and that after ec they left the house he opened a wal- win let which he ahd taken from the hip hut pocket of Wentworth, after he was va dead, and found $12, which he divided with Jones, throwing the wallet away, and that Jones handed him Wentworth’s watch and asked him to dis-pose of it. The watch was offered by • W the state as exhibit A. It had been ; t0 L f und later ?». the home of Mrs. jn Hazel Jackson in West Washington, As where Wellman lived at the time. wh Y New evidence was introduced by Mrs. Hazel Jackscn, mother of three it; children, who was offered as a wit- 1 ness by the state. She is a tall, dark sni woman of about 110, and her answers r ere scarcely audible, frequently t^l b . inking almost to a whisper, and she ,*! appeared to testify very roluctantly. jSho was mueh more affected during J-J* 'the heaving than the respondent, r* who openly smiled when some wit- ov yi’ ness made a remark • that amused , .!him. Mrs. Jackson testified that *: Wcllinan had lived in her home for s.(i three or four years, that he had no ^ !r* special room, sometimes sleeping in ^1.1 the living room on a couch. or,She saw Wellman, she said, the l' Saturday morning after the 20th of C May and also on Sunday, and he P* spent both nights at her home, lie *e left a watch which she supposed was 'K his, and she kept it until the county in attorney came and took it. Wellman ^ P* did not tell her where he got the u. °“ watch, she said. lam She admitted that Wellman’s trou- jc C1‘ sets and jacket were in her soiled p, clothes bag and that she was going to to wash them, hut denied that Woll- i,h Eja man had asked her to do so. _ , frOn cross examination, Mrs. Jack- be he son, when asked if Wellman had ever v. a * appeared queer, admitted th.xt he had th *t at times, that he uomplained of sc- tr cd vere headaches and that she had _ at seen loxe: of pill:; in his room. \ ei y 23 or rcductantly she admitted that maybe she had at times said he was a bit tr- “out” and that he had refused to nd sleep upstairs, as he had “seen K it) things and heard queer noises.” ]:ihe When asked if there had ever been ir11.1 tuik about the village of having him K committed to an insane asylum, she j 1:cd said she “might have heard something H r- like that.” But she denied knowing Ji ar anything about his mother's death, »• he W'hen the respondent’s attorney ask- j* d- ed if she had died in an institution 1 i for the insane. 1on Other witnesses examined were | nd Iiindlcy A. Ivnight and George Thorn- | lv or dike, neighbors of Wentworth, who ( testified as to the finding of the body.Mr. Terrill asked for a continuance M th of the hearing on the grounds that Ci :t0 he wished to summon Cecil Clay, w of the stenographer who took notes * rw when Sheriff Cooper and the county ; to attorney questionod Wellman in the l,r« Knox county jail. To this the county he attorney objected, saying that the j llJ stenographer had not been sworn be-j.‘ fore taking evidence and was not lt;rlt;J there officially. Judge Uoak refused a continuance of the hearing and or- |£ dcrcd Wellman committed without . 1 bail to the Waldo county jail ta await ^ the supreme judicial court, which ^ ‘•’ convenes here cn September 26. e%
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Thu, Jun 23, 1927
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