Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-03
PROVIDENCE, Dec 3.

PROVIDENCE, Dec 2.
Doc Wilson, claiming to De the son OF
M0engOf Worcester, Mass, says his adopted
mother and sisters will confirm his story.
whose truth he t-rates. tie says he will
fight the case in court. dis story is contra
dicted by life long residents of Worcester,
who say the first Mrs. Moen was a lovely
woman, who would never have countenaneed
such proceedings as Wilson alleges. The
aged nurse who has nursed both of Moen's
wives at the birth of all his children, also
denies Wilson's story.
! reporter interviewed this evening Mrs.
Geo. NJ. Rice of Uxbridge, who has always
been considered 10 be a sister to d Wilson.
| She feigned ignorance of the whole matter of
the disclosure at first, although subsequent
admissions showed that she was acting pc ri.
ro the query if Wilson's story was true, she
| returned an evasive answer, but, said the re-
porter, Levi repudates you and your mother.
He says you are not his sister. Is that true
Well, don't know what to say. / should
like to have time to think it over.
| But is it true that you and your folks have
received money from Wilson?
Must you have you answer tonight?
Mrs. Rice would not deny that Wilson told
an untruth when he said she was not hs sis
ter. She would not contradict him in the
slight. ST particular, but gave most unsatis.
factory and evasive replies. Nothing could
piN her down to simple yes or no on any
point excepting one, and that was that Will
son hal given her great deal of money
first and last and that from what he said she
deemed that he thought il best she sh ,uld
not talk about his affairs. She remembered
her fathers illness. bur could not tell the
year IN which he died. All efforts to extract
more from her were in vain. Ali she would
admit was that her father was at one time a
church member: that after he was ill he often
spoke to them all on the subject of doing
right, and that Levi Wilson supplied her
mother with money. The reporter saw Mrs.
Young, another sister of Levi Wilson, at
Putnam, Conn. tins afternoon. She stated
that Levi was the son of Jonas Wilson and
that her aunt was present at the time of his
birth. He was named after her first husband
whose name was Levi Fessenden, and her
father and mother knew nothing about Moen
for years after that.
George S. Hobbs of UxbTidge, a prominent
lawyer and at one time counsel for Levi
Wilson, has been placed in rather an un-
pleant position by the latter's statement.
Wilson asserted that Hobbs held papers in
his safe which would. if made use of, send
Phillip l.. Moen behind the bars rs a convic,
"ho 'h't HC as VI
| from Moen to Wilson in which the former
addressed letter as dear Son." Hobbs
was tonight asked what dependence could be
placed on Wilson's story concerning the let
ter and papers in his safe. He said l wholly
deny the whole thing from beginning to end,
1t Is false and on par With the other probable
lies told by Levi Wilson. | hold no such
papers and | never did. The only document
| held or now hold with his name upon them
consists of deeds of properly sold by him to
other parties aud in which transactions /
acted as his attorney and in no other way.
Levi Wilson is an inveterate liar. Hobbs
here gave an alleged secret of Wilson's
successful blackmaiing scheme. Nothing
that Phillip l. Moen had done or said of a
criminal nature was known to Wilson.
Hobbs was led to believe that Wilson elaine ed
to have detected Mems son in the commits.
sion of fl ,grant offense, whose details can
not be published, but the son, when he
| learned OF Wilson's assertion, had denied
that he was guilty and Moen's own declara.
tions under oath would indicate that Wilson
he'd. The same statements in regard to
Wilson and Moen's son were made in this
city year ago BY persons who ought to be
in position to know whereof they affirm
WORCESTER, Mass, Dec 2.
The records of the town of Oxford, Mass
show that Levi Wilson was born there Dec
Let. 1858, eleven months after Mrs. Moer
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