Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-10
BATES NOT BITTEN.
Seine Incidents In the Life n A 2.
Blanchard.

Tbs Lewiston Journal Of Monday af>w
room tn its account Of shs chssss,
brought sgAinst Mr.. A. z. Blancha1a al
Ksnsss City shs vas arrested hoe Ia
week on warrant for tmbezzlemsnt. q.
f.ca of which we're printed In DE Noads,
mosnipgs KEssEBEc JOURNAL. aye:
Blanchard 10 native Of Franklin county
In Msine. graduated ct Bates coileRs il
1856 snd vas principal Of the Nsrh Ansor
Academy during his senior year snd Tor /
year f. lowing his graduation. During hi,
time be also studied hv. Leaving Maine.
be vent wer; prscficed lsv In Ksnsss
City; sb4l d ,ned law for "nasncieYins, in
Sept. 1880, and ofasuized the Maine Bank.
ing Company With capital Of go 200.
As student 8. Bates be 10 semembssed
- tell and big sid had pleasant face snd
bright black eyes. he Ids drawn down,
hovs,erSso as to give general expsession
Of disfsvoE He vas talented speaker,
beloasd to the coilsge Y Il c. A., and
Va frequent lsseer Of the meetings. He
Won several prizes in the course Of his col
legs course, chs fly for defamation.
His las: visit here vas to address one Of
the college societies last summer and to
visit . brother now IN college. He vas &C.
counted very pleasant fellow and vas .
generous contribute. to everything HIS
nstivs place is West Fsinir atoD, altheugh
practically aceiimsrsd in and about Farm
isgson. he vas 8 good companion and
something Of q joker ia college.
They tell q good story OF him q Bates
He 10 said TO have inserted . tube through
the floor to he room Of nervous young
man next above his room, and with . rub
Der mou,hpiece TO have amused himself
nights by sroaning in . graveyard key.
The grosDs imote the nervous youos
man above With grest fear, and his tales Of
the awful haunting sounds the next day
were interesting to Blanchard. Fear set-
tied in the young mans life until In ex.
plors,ion he found the hols In the floor.
He then boash. big tunnel and Dor.
rowed . pail Of water from the college
pump.
The next night Blanchard lay in bed
groanlp z sgain, when the young man above
gently poured bucket Of water into the
tunnel. and B!snchnrd--well he got it and
at 1t all over bimself, his bed snd his
room.
Addison Small, Esq, Of Lewiston, tress-
afer Of Bates College, feels By 70 means
,ure that the college has lost $40 900 BY
the crookedness Of A. Z. Blanchard, As
was reported b. the morning papers.
number Of years ago the college de-
aired to put 500 into real estate loan
in the West. preferring Kansas City. and
one Of the college faculty recommended
Blanchard as a rising young man with
associations in Kansas City. He would do
vel for the college because ii was his alma
mater, 1t was thought. Blsnehsr was
wiling TO negotiate for them. He vas then
in law business and had not then organized
bis Maize Banking Company Of Kansas
City.
The application with description Of the
property came in due form and the lean
"a. made and the papers are now in the
bsnds Of N. " Harris. Eco of Auburn,
attorney for Bates. Mr.. Harris says that
he has every confidence tina. the papers
are ali right and that the mortgage 10 good.
II 10 not generally thought among the
. udcnts and the iiicers Of the college that
Mr.. Blanchard has ever done anything to
ipjure the collsg e financially and msny of
his friends think that the Kansas city re-
ports are exaggerated. Itis expected that
Prs.dens Cheney will be in. Kansas Ci'y
very soon and that be will look into the
matter Of the colleges Investments in that
ity