Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-03

cuffs answering the same description, but that
they sold them all in 1877, and do not remem-
Der that Mr.. Barron was purchaser, and if
he had been they wonld not be likely to re-
member the fact.
The bank officials have aseertained that on
the LIST day of January, 1877, Mr. Barron dis
charged a mortgage on his house of $1,000
They also find that he began covering up his
tracks as far back as October, 1876, OF 1877,
by ''doctoring' his books. On that date APP
pears an entry of $1,000, charged off to no spe-
cial account, that sum being necessary to bal
ance the account In the safe an envelope
was found, containing paper on which Mr.
Barron makes an assignment of $1,000, on a
policy of $4,000 in the Berkshire Life Insur-
ance Co.
By his cash book it appears that there ought
to have been $500 in cash on hand, when in
reality, there was no money in the bank, as
has already been stated.
In reference to the $500 bond entered on
the books, the bank has extensively advertis-
ed for information as to who, if any one, sold
such bond to Mr.. Barron, or any one repre-
scnting him, on or about that time, but have
not been successful.
The presumption now is that no $500 bond
was ever purchased by him, and that the en-
try was made to account in part for the $1,000
which should have been on hand at that time.
In addition to the value of the bond, he also
charged off S567 to cash. which, together
with the bond, make an aggregate of sl061
unaccounted for on the other books.
In the drawer, in Barrons desk, was found
a copy of the trial of Scott & Dunlap the
Northampton bank robbers. 1t will be re-
membcred that when that bank was robbed,
the cashier was taken from his house, gagged
| around his neck, in order to compel him to
open the doors of the bank. The SUPPOSE
ton is that Mr.. Barron initiated as nearly as
he could the modus operandi Of these desper-
, ADDE'S.
1t is supposed that the false statement made
by Mr.. Barron to the Bank Examiner, in II,
together with the suspension of the Newport
savings bank the week previous, and the
knowledge in his possession that the Dexter
bank could not stand a rum impelled him in
the commission of the fatal deed.
Mr.. Joseph Murch, Bangor expert ac-
| conutant, was put upon the books last Mon
day, and is now going over all the accounts
of the Deceased treasurer, for the ten. years
that he filled the Office. For further develop
ments the public must await Mr. Murch's re-
port to the bank officers.
Detective Head of Portland, does not
place the least faith in the suicide theory, as
advanced by Detective Dearborn. Soon after
the affair Mr.. Heald was in Dexter, and with
the bank officials and Others examined thor
| oughly into the matter. He thinks that even
| if Mr.. Barron had contemplated suicide, he
! was not the man to elaborate his plans.
The finding of the overturned coal hod, the
false teeth and pen of Mr.. Barron, as they
were, the position of the body and other cir
! cumstances, all go to show, in Mr., Heads
| mind, that Mr.. Barron was murdered He
also states that after the murder the bank was
closed and not again opened until the Bank
Commissioner had thoroughly examined the
books and pronounced them correct. Mr.. II
says the victim was not conversant enough
with criminal matters to enable him to ''put
| up the job" in such finished manner.