The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-21
ROGER AMERO.
What the Post Reporters Heard of Him
in Portland.

The telegraph Friday night announced that
the Boston Post reporters traced Amero, the
murderer OF Mrs. Carlton in Watertown'
Mass, to Portland, and Saturdays Post gives
what they heard OF him while in this city,
A man resembling him was seen ON the for
ward platform OF car OF passenger train in
the vicinity OF Portland early in the afternoon
Of Monday, March 10 (the murder was commit
ted March 1877 The man was leaning out from
the car, holding on to the railing, and looking
intently at the ground as though intending TO
jump off in soma soft spot. a few moments
later the man was seen picking himself up
from sandbank where he had tumbled when
he took his leap. He climbed up the bank and
accosted man who was watching him, and
asked TO have his wrist examined TO see IL 1t
was broken. The wrist was examined care
fully and 1t was found that no bones were
broken, but the wrist was badly sprained. he
was asked what he jumped oil the train for
and said: "Some one told me that was on
the wrong train and so jumped off" He was
terribly excited and said he was going to New
Brunswick. He called at house near by and
got some liniment for his wrist. He said he
had been TO Boston TO get work on farm. He
soon went away, but the next morning be re-
appeared and walked down the railroad track
towards Portland, and clambered upon the rear
end OF the freight train for Bath, which was
slowly moving up steep grade.
Upon the return home at noon OF the gen
tleman at whose house the man had called in
the morning, be having in the meantime read
an account OF the Carlton murder in the Bos-
ton papers, he became convinced In his own
mind that the ,1an knew something about the
murder. He was so impressed with this
thought that he decided TO notify the authori-
ties IN Boston OF the affair, and the more be
thought Of it the more he became convinced Of
the mans connection with the murder. Final
ly he started TO write letter to the Boston
officials, when the thought OF the notoriety
which it would bring him into flashed across
his mind, and be never finished the letter.
When asked II he could describe the man he
gave description of his general appearance
which corresponds exactly with that of Amero.
He dwelt particularly upon the fact that he
noticed that the man had just shaved off his
moustache, and that he was cleanly shaved
and of a peculiar appearance Of his eyes. After
the arrest OF Amero he says that he became
more than ever convinced that this N an,
whose movements have been thus traced, was
none other than the murderer.
A gentleman residing in the next house says
that esrly Tuesday morning, March 20th, as he
was going to the barn to milk, this stranger
appeared and said he wanted to find the train
for New Brunswick Said he got on the
wrong train and jumped off near Cumberland
Junction. Here he paid man,-Louis Mer-
rill of cumberland Junction, as IL turns OUT
$40 to bring him back TO Portland. He Of
fered this gentleman anything to put him on
The st. John train, and acted 80 qaeerly as TO
excite suspicion. The man afterwards went
with him within sight of the railroad crossing
and told him he could get on the train there.
This was the last seen Of him in Portland.