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YOUTH HE1Da anlt;r (Continued from Tape One.) Hi!c Ooxtor B. Wentworth?” raid “I did.” i'Ct s Futrhcrmorc, Sheriff Cooper testi- lt;or r fied. Wellman told how he did it with in| e a club, hitting Wentworth on the the r head, knocking him down, and then Ft* •- striking him several times. 1it Sheriff Cooper said that Wellman dclt; i- told him that Perley Jones was with tw 1* him and that the murder took place *th: J- Friday night, May 20. and that after clt; they left the house he opened a wal- wa let which he ahd taken from the hip bu pocket of Wentworth, after he was va dead, and found $12, which he divided with Jones, throwing the wallet away, L and that Jones handed him Went-* worth’s watch and asked him to dis-fpose of it. The watch was offered by the state as exhibit A. It had heen found later It; the home of Mrs. jn Ilazcl Jackson in West Washington, \ when Wellman lived at the time. w ' y New evidence was introduced by gt Mrs. Hazel Jackson, mother of three k children, who was offered as a witness by the state. She is a tall, dark Bc woman of about IJO, and her answer.* r ^ were scarcely audible, frequently . inking almost to a whisper, and she appeared to testify very reluctantly. , “ jtthe was much more affected during ’the hea’ing than the respondent.'’ who openly smiled when some wit- e' m‘ ness made a remark • that amused , on 'him. Mrs. Jackson testified that Wellman had livod in her home for ^ three or four years, that he had no o, !r* special room, sometimes sleeping in the living rcom on a couch. 0‘,She saw Wellman, she said, the Saturday morning after the 20lh of lt;.May and also on Sunday, and he *■ P‘ spent both nights at her home. He L,e left a watch which she supposed wa? his, and she kept it until the county -r attorney came and took it. Wellman ^ P did not tell her where he got the (] °* watch, she said.She admitted that Wellman’s trou- it cr sets and jacket were in her soiled p ce clothes bag and that she was going tlt; at to wash them, but denied that Woll- ;j ga man had asked her to do so.On cross examination, Mrs. Jack- b he son, when a^ked if Wellman had ever v, at appeared queer, admitted that he had t! st at times, that he uomplained of sc- ti (‘d vere headaches and that she had _ aft i i*n boxes of pill , in his room. Very or reluctantly she admitted that maybe she had at times said he was a bit ;r- “out” and that he had refused to nd sleep upstairs, as he had “seen } nt things and hoard queer noises.” he When asked if there had ever been i li.i talk about the village of having him 1 committed to an insane asylum, she i 1 cd said she “might have heard something » ?r- like that.” But she denied knowing 1 ar anything about his mother’s death, he when the respondent’s attorney ask- ^ si- ed if she had died in an institution ; for the in.ianc. oh Other witnesses examined were nd liindley A. knight and George Thorn- * or dike, neighbors of Wentworth, who s on testified as to the finding of the body.Mr. Terrill asked for a continuance lh of the hearing on the grounds that c :{0 he wished to summon Cecil Clay, * of the stenographer who took notes * m when Sheriff Cooper and the county to attorney questionod Wellman in the hr. Knox county jail. To this the county he attorney objected, saying that the j11 stenographer had not been sworn be- 1 }.’ fore taking evidence and was not V1 there officially. Judge Doak refused j” a continuance of the hearing and or- j £ dcrcd Wellman committed without ^ bail to the Waldo county jail to await b the supreme judicial court, which y i*4, convenes here cn September 26. he !
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Thu, Jun 23, 1927
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