Courtroom Humor

[augusta]

From the Trial, page 1343 [old page]:

Knowlton is questioning Mrs. Dr. Chagnon about a pounding noise she and her daughter heard the night of August 3, 1892. The Chagnons had a dog house in the corner of the back yard, by the fence they shared with the Bordens. Knowlton is trying to make it sound like it was not a person sneaking over the fence.

Q: All right. Do you remember of seeing the dogs there at that ash barrel at any time afterwards?

A: We have since seen some dogs sometimes taking some bones in the barrels.

Q: And do you remember your husband pounding that dog one time - (correcting himself) or moving that ash barrel at one time?

A: I don't understand.














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