The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-29
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An Alleged swindler Arrested.

BATH, March 27.Detectiye True of Hal
lowell today arrested here Charles Knights,
for the embezzement of $50 and gold
watch from Mrs. L. A. Robinson in Hal
lowell last March. Knights is stove polish
agent and it is alleged that when he boarded
with Mrs Robinson she gave him money to
pay her bills with, and supposed everything
was all right until she received bills which
she claimed were paid and for which she had
the receipt. On searching for the receipts
she could not find them. Knights had forged
the receipts and watched them and then got
them and tore them up. Just before leaving
Hallowell, he obtained her watch to sell, but
she received no money for it. Detective
True discovered where he had pawned the
watch for $1.50.
Recovered His Team.
Walter Brookings, the stable keeper who
tost the horse and sleigh by T. Welch, traced
lhe sleigh to Portland and the horse to Saco,
and recovered BOTH The sleigh was sold
and the horse swal ped. Welch obtained $40
to boot for the horse and left both in Saco.
He proc eeded to Boston.
LAUNDERING on the Dead River.
are returning from the Dead River region.
Five firms report cut of over ten million
feet, and five more have not yet reported.
A Bath SchooIhouse Burned.
BATH, March 2S.-The North Grammar
school, one of the largest in the city, erected
in 1849 was destroyed by fire this morning.
Thebuilding was of brick with a seating ca
oaft of hum
$1,000; no insurance. The fire is supposed
to have been incendiary.
A Maine Indian Killed.
CALAIS, March PA young Indian
named Newell Lacete was run over this af-
ternoon by train on the St. CrOix e. Penob-
scot railroad. He is now dying. He was
was about % years old, and recently mar
ried.
Broke a Leg While Working for
Food,
KENNEBUNK, March 27.-LeVi Vincent,
about 80 years old, called at the house of
John Mitchell today and asked for food. In
removing some dead limbs from the shade
trees to pay for his food, he fell distance
of thirty feet, striking upon a pile of rocks,
breaking one Of his legs in two places and
iniuring his back. He was removed to the
almshouse. He halls from Lawrence, Mass.
The Celebrated Dog Case.
SKowuEGAN, March 27.-The Fitzgerald
Dobson dog case from Pittsfeld has been on
trial since Tuesday morning. The Dobsons
are making vigorous defense Seventeen
witnesses in their behalf have already been
examined, two of whom are women detect
ives from Portland visiting Pittsfeld, one OF
them ostensibly seeking employment IN the
shop in which Fitzgerald the father OF the
little girl worked, and in that way going to
his house as a boarder, the other assuming
the guise of Boston lady setting up in the
millinery business. They testified that once
they saw the girl walk upright without any
swing or halt in her gait One of them saw
her shadow moving regularly. Two doctors
testify that they can see no reason for her
laneness and no connection between the scar
on the hip and the troublein in her gait. At
torney-G General Baker is carrying along two
defenses: Fist, that the trouble she has
arises from scrofulous faint, and second
that her swinging, bowling, halting gait is
assumed for the purpose of getting up case
for damages. They have in attendance
number of doctors as experts who were ex-
amined.