Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-26


Cora Holmes and Jane, q ca,,..
coping couple Of Oakland in chi, copr,- g. =.
."om the police and SHERIFF. Of Kenn.h.,
county have been making 50 pe,.;,a,, !.
search since the first of May, were .,rs..sd
70 Lewiston at midnight, Sunday nv c..
nanscomb Of the Lewiston night watch AZ
p'.s onerif Hersom of this county. Thew
were In the same team in which thev :. :,
started out. and were on the road n Sah..:-
ana thence to Augusta.
,,, Inc oficers took Miss Holmes to the IA
"N.' Muhday forenoon, where she was a.
"a .u ~, 20 room She is but eighteen wears
sna sa.i, wen Iorme'i,with an Intelligent face
~, nnu o,len. eyes. Collier is stout, thick act
h;' "n ,g evidences IT good breeding and
oh;,, wing he Is married and his wife and
eiiiureh are now living in Oakland. 4 .hnr,
time ago the death of relative nlsced 'h h;.'
IN possession of small sum of monev
golfers story is not long.
he says that he has been peiphbor of hi.
giri. For several months she has been worL.
ing az farm house at Sidney on the road
rom oakland TO Augusta. He has seen he-
grow up from little girl.
on the day on which they went off together
ne was going to Augusta to buy out a barber
shop. He harnessed up his own team and a.
ne went by Holmes house, Cora's mother
asked him to call and see how Cora was. a, he
drove BY where Cora worked; he stopped A
Mrs. Holmes desired and the girl came ont
one asked him where he was going. He said
to Augusta, and she said she also wanted IN
go to Augusta to see some relatives there and
DO some shopping. So they rode in together.
when they tried to find the '.friends,'' thew
were out Of town 90 Cora had to 20 to q hotel.
They stayed to tea and over night at the Far.
mers Hotel. registering in their own names.
properly.
1t began to rain and rained two DAYS and
they couldn't get back. They remained at
the hotel and that looked bad for both of
them. When they drove back, the folks
where the girl worked, said they didn't want
her and that they had written to her folks
about her running off with Jim Collier.
Collier says that Mr.. Holmes is stern and
at times abusive, and that he has threatened
great violence toward bis daughter at previous
times.
She didn't dare to 90 back to her home.
She proposed that he drive her into Augusta.
where perhaps she could get work in the fac
tory. He did so. She didn't get work. Then
they started off-he intending, he says, to get
her work with his mother at Farnham, P. o.
where she keep hotel. They have driven
ever since.
His mother didn't want the girl.
Last week, he wrote back, as he terms it,
''to his woman" that he was coming home.
He got out of money. They have enjoyed
the trip very much but it has cost him about
$500. They went as far as St. Johns, P. O.,
and then turned homeward. The horse is
badly tired. They reached Conway, N. H.,
Saturday. In going away from Oakland they
took the road directly to Portland and thence
into Canada.
Collier does not deny having had intimacy
with the girl
my first intention was, however" he said
"to protect the girl from the results of an un'
| fortunate occurrence"
| The Lewiston Journal says that the pail
left Lewiston, for Augusta, by the P. NJ
train from Lewiston, Monday. They die
not arrive here however. They consulted
legal authority, Monday forenoon. The CIR
told the attorney she was afraid to go home,
and that her home had long been unpleasant