Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-16
Money the Object OF
the Murder.
THE ALLEGED MU2EEE2 ARRESTED
Full Particulars Of ;he Horrible Deed


tihle m4lder comes from b ck,port. A man
named lr n, aged a hi, daup htr, Mrs. Thsyer,
an ltde giil years old, are the supposed VIC
| tins.
| Mr.. Trims house and other buildings were
burned last evening. Mr.. Trims chaned body
was found ia the debris OF the carriage-house
The daughter went out to a neighbors, and start
| ed to return about nine oclcck. but has not been
| seen since.
| Blood WAS found about ten rods from Mr. Trims
house, and the trail fol owed to the rear Of the
ba wueIe II i. supposed the womau's dead body
| was p acld, and the buildings fred, Mr.. Trim and
his little grand child having been pre-, ously MUIR
delcd
The murdered woman was widow. and had
about 500 or $500, the proceeds of the sale #
her farm, and the family had been inquiriug about
lv,sling it, 1t Is supposed that III triple murder
was committed for this money. There is no clue
| 10 the pelpetrators.
LATER.
BANGOR, October 10. Previous report of hor-
rihle ira edy at a farm house On the county road
| four miles from Bucksport, is fully confirmed
Edwin NJ. Smith, Buckspolt, was arrested Satur.
day, on suspicion, and a secret Inquest was he Id
BY the coioner, near the ruins. Examination Of
witnesses will be resumed Monday, at Buckspolt
village.
Yesterday receipt Of the news of the horri-
BILE murder in East BuckspoIt. representative of
| the Wing and Courier visited the scene and gives
| the following account:
| The three persons murdered were Robert T
| Trim, aged "A, his daughter Melissa Thayer, aged
| s. ~ rltlll auat fnnr 81;
tue crime is supposed to have been to gain posses
sion of some $3.50 which it was known in the
| neishborhood the family kept in the house.
Mrs 1hayer's husband died last February and
| this money was the proceeds of his estate. She
had sold the farm on which she lived in Hanpden
| and gone TO her fathers, who was a widower, to
keep his house for h n
On the evening Of the murder Mrs. Thayer
went out to call at Charles Hairman's and ON her
way was Joined by Miss Ada snow. The two
| women went 10 Harrlmsns and the post Office re-
| inning to NJ S SHOWS father Andrew Hartman
sheie the murdered woman remained but few
minutes, starring at hali-past seven for her home
| Instant about forty more rods. This was the
last known OF her alive.
during her absence Two young fellows, Bonner
Sith Mr.. IIim aud the little glrl, having called
| Iiter the mother went out. They remained until
o'clock and gong out the O man asked
tenn see where Melissa was, but they thinking
se was Ia some lei Shoors, went t. their H. Jm,s.
About "A. IN. saturday, Mis- Eneron VINO lives
nicely OPP site where INNS building stood
vas awakened by a blight light, and getting up
| Jaw those buildings wrapped in flames. She
| r used her husband aud boys, who went over to
| he lace, Tut found the buId n1- to far gone to
| c ter. NelghbOr~ were aroused and they con-
| .udeI as none of The family were that they
| must nave per she IN the hines. A horse and
| ow III the tie up of the barn gotten uut,
| ut thing else saved. Tue horse was ar
| talll harues,ed and the carriage was buried out
'de the carriage house, bat no hing thought
f thi, unii the horrible develOpn. which the
rning light brought oct known AT day
| ught IN looking about The premises, party os-
| vered alb out ID rods below Trims house on the
| de of the road which Mrs. 1hsyer must have
ravelled after leaving Harrman's, spot OF blood
| and bloody stone.
AT the fence WAS found a cloud, comb aud pair
| Of rubbers, worn by the murdered woman. The
'ody was shown hy the grass tlGmped down and
occasional spots of blood stoDes, logs, etc,
vas dra- ged from thus place to the BAN. Start
| ag thus, The theory of he murder is this Some
| parties familiar with all the facts above given,
AID in wait for MIs.sIhayer, killed her, aud lesv-
| my her body in a little hollow over the fence,
| awaited the departure OF the young men fiom
| Films house when they completed their deed
| If blood by killing the old man and perhaps the
| il 10 uir and 6ru ,ha
| b .ildlngs. After the discovery of the bloody
nail, the people waited the dying out of the
smouderng fires, when their search revealed in
the ashes of the barn, where the trail stopped. a
| few human bones and q number of hair-pns,
| which supposed to be all that remains of the
woman, Melissa Thayer. In the ruins of the
| carriage house the charred trunk of Mr.. Trims
body found. and in the cellar of the house
few small bones, supposed to be those of the lit
tie girl Josie. The finding of these remains leads
to the suppos ition that the murderer murderers,
after depositing the body of the murdered woman
| behind the fence, and as soon as the boys had
left the old man, run out the carriage, which was
a rlse to attract the old man to the carriage
house, which he could enter from the dwelling
and here he was killed. Some think the little
girl was asleep, and perhaps was not awakened
by the robbers but left to perish in the flames. 1t
is probable that the murderers spent the time
| from 10 to II in searching the house, but whether
they found the money i. not yet known. After
the house was searched they set fire to obliterato
the traces of their crime.
The partial Harvesting of horse and leaving
him in the stable is supposed TO he ruse of the
robbers to give an id,a that the buildings were
accidentally fired BY tramps trying to steal the
| an NAL.
Two Ulcers fom this city were sent for and
went down 10 the scene of the horror. Suspicion