Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-04

this Boston detective would have the public
believe that he logged those cigar ashes up
stairs into the Masonic Hall, to make it ap-
pear that some outsiders were encampcd
there. There is good deal of smoke about
such a theory?
But this detective says no strangers had
been seen in Dexter on the evening of that
tragedy. Why, everybody here knows that
the night before Mr.. Barron was killed, he
led prayer meeting, and on his way thither
he INST man he didn't know. On reaching
the steps of the church, he stopped and asked
friend did not know him.
If there was ever woman to be pitied that
woman is Mrs. Barron. IL found her." says
a reporter, with her little boy, living in a
plain way, but quite Frustrated with grief and
brokcn-hearted. Said she Il don't think
anybody who knew my husband. | had almost
said anybody of common sense, would believe
this new theory. The detectives now say 1t
was mysterious that my husband didn't come
back at :; o'clock, but there is no mystery
| ABOUT mat 10 me. lie tOlu me ne Hllgnt DC
back at 3. bnt added, us he often did, i may
stay later Sometimes he staid at the bank
as late az : o'clock without exciting any ap-
prehension On my part
Mrs. Barron says she has repeatedly asked
the bank officers to show her the bank books,
but they don't do it. 4 can't tell for the life
of me why they are so unwilling.
The conductor on the tain said he knew
Mr. Barron well that he never travelled,
and that IF he had sent for handouts through
anybody, don't you think the world would
have known it!'
Detective +. ID. Wiggin, formerly of the
police force in Lewiston, it will be remcm-
bcred, urged that the proof that Mr.. Barron
was murdered, is conclusive. Mr.. Wiggin
assumes that Jack Ferris. alias Worcester
sam. assisted 10y accomplices, did the deed.
The substance of his review is given as
follows
found that Jennie Hope had attempted
to rob the same bank He was also concern
ed in the W inthrop robbery in 1875, and was
in Jail in Deep River, Conn, for another rob-
berry there.
In Connecticut | learned that Hopes
friends had sent to New York to get money
for his counsel. In due time the messenger
returned with word that Hopes friends had
| failed to get money for him, and during the
interval the Dexter bank tragedy had taken
place.
The descriptions of the men seen in Dex-
ter answer well for Hobbs and Sam, who
were partners in the Deep River robbery
with Hope.
| Hoping to get some information, l had
| Hope brought to Maine and tried for the at
tempted robbery of the Dexter savings bank
| in 1875. The facts which have obtained in
addition to those which appear in these cases
convinced me that these men were all famil-
lar with the country around Dexter, and
could easily make their entrance to the town
and escape unnoticed.
afterwards went to New York city, but
the following month the man was looking
for, and who, in my opinion, with the aid of
his pals, did the job, dumped away" to Eu-
rope he having learned of my arrival in the
city and knowing that had papers for him
for being concerned in the Barre, VT, bank
robbery. The man refer to is Sam Ferris,
alias Worcester Sam"
then notified the bank officials, county
attorney and attorney general that it would
be useless to make any further efforts at that
time, because the man had left the country.
The officers were very anxious for me to con-
tinue, but, knowing there was no use, | re-
fused, telling them at the time that if heard
of anything new they would be notified i'm
mcdiatcly.
A great deal of stress is placed upon the
fact that the keys to the handouts, as were
also the other keys. were found in rear
room, hidden behind pile of rubbish, and
Messrs. Dearborn and Chapman saying it is
extremely improbable that professionals
would stop to hide the keys. If Mr.. Barron
had put the handouts on his own hands the
key would undoubtedly have been found in
the safe, and then, again, assuming that pro-
fcs sonas did the job, the first thing they
would think of would be to hide the key. If
one of them should happen to be taken into
custody the finding upon him key to the
handouts would be strong evidence against
him.
1t has been said that professionals do not
go into town to do a job of that kind, unless
they go in with a team and leave a man to
watch the team. When the Winthrop bank
was robbed, they entered the town on foot
broke into blacksmith shop, and after the
job was finished, left ON foot AMI lived in the
woods for three or four days. At the expira-
! ton of that time Il team was procured in
which they made their escape into Canada
The men who robbed the Dexter bank had
as they supposed, from seven o'clock in the
evening until the following morning to es-
cape, and as the nearest railroad station was
only fourteen miles away, it will be seen how
easy it was to escape.
One of the statements upon which the adj
vocatcs of the theory of suicide rely is that