| Show The Sawtelle Murder Case Special to THE HERALD Examiner Disnatch DOVER N I Dec 12 On the 16th instant the trial of the great Sawtelle murder case will begin I Isaac Sawtelle is found guilty of murder in the first degree in New Hampshire ho will be hanged He wants to plead guilty to murder in the second degree in Maine and thus escape the gallows for capital punishment has been abolished in Maine but the district attorney will not accept that plea and the charge of murder in the first degree in New Hampshire will be pressed backed by the strongest kind circumstantial evidence The defense will be a denial that Hiram Sawtelle is dead That the prosecution should have succeeded in advance in forcing this line of defense demonstrates to the popular mind the absolute lack of faith counsel feel in then ability to save Isaac from the callows The governments evi dence as regards the identification of the body found in tim Berwick woods is despite the absence of the head considered conclusive There is another contention certain to arise on the trial which has not yet been touched upon This is the question ques-tion on which doctoirdUj free and inasmuch inas-much as it is of muclf importance to tho governments theory of the killing tho subject will be exhaustively investigated Tho question is How long had the victim been dead when the head was cut from the body It is believed that upon this question will hinge one of the most interesting interest-ing arguments of the case |
