Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-23
SENSATION no. 2.
Another SkeYhssan Man Leaves
bis VITA and Child.
Thought That lno!Mf Woman Has
Somslhils TO Do Filth The Case.
He Was a Prominent Young Business
Man and Stood Well Socially.
Especial to the KHxrEsxo JOURNAL.


Especial to the kByrEBEo JOURNAL.
SKowHEGAs. March 22-Hs,dly vers
the fsets connected ~ish the Cofin-Lavton
secret msIrisge disclosed to the public bt-
fore runor Of sJsrge conduct of another
vel kto-n and highly respected young
business msn came TO The public ear
For the past six YEAR,, until the 1tsh Of
February Isst, the firm Of Thompson &
Howes, meaI and prov sion dealers, vas a
successful ard entsrp'isipg business house
Both members Of the AIm stood among The
| best in bu-iness circles, with the best of
| characters socially Lsst month the & N
| went out of business, Mr.. 1homHon to g
| into business b. himssif here, and M
Howes vas reported ss going West.
Moed.y sfts raoon February IA b, Mr..
Howss took the train Tor Gardiner, where
| he had said be had secured . situation
That right 8 young woman disappeared
suddeply and then grave runners Of Q forme,
| intimacy bet.een the txo we're floating
| about, together with Sn unpleasant story
1 tuht tu5 Au.bauo lAN oStcttcu SIC Wl1t Al
| an act that would give him some excuse
for acting IS he has.
Mrs Howes makes the following state
ment:
Fred went awsy last NJ ,nday. telling
me he vas going to Gardiner to work for
MIR. Tborne, the refrigerator mar, of ths,
city. He to!d me ,hss he would come
| home Saturday night If possible and
| if he did not C cJme he would wrise to me.
We have bad no quarrel and everything
was pleasant between VI, though have nc
ticed that he has changed some within a
year. He has stayed out more nights than
before, and l began to suspect. for res
sons best known TO myself, that he might
be in the company Of other women. I.sid
notbilg t. him about my suspicious and
everything went sloBg rs before. | have
| been told that . young woman was sup
posed to have gone away with him. l do
| not know that 1t is 60, for letter .tich his
brother received Friday morning and
brought to me, indicates his position pretty
| clearly. lt was great shock 10 me, and
il made me i'll for several days. There il
the letter, you may read it if you want 10,
The letter reads as follows:
BUFFALO, N. Y, March, l5, 1892
Well Lutte, will Try and wfiie you 9
few lines. will be in Duluth Thursday
night. l had to leave on account Of What
| had on ny hsu6s. Tell Say (his wife J
to seI my business settled as soon as she
can and will try and have home for bel
somewhere. | could Lot stay there a.
things were. l had 10 mske . move IL
order to give the outfit the shake that goi
On nv hands trying to play joke on some
one else. got it played on myself but
gusss will cIms out ali right after q
while. Tell Say to have Laia's picture
taken so eau have ono Of them. | tel
you ~hen get out Of this scrape l vii
try and keep out from now out.
Say will think h,rd Of sme for telling hel
What did in order to set s-sy, but it wei
the only way | could do. When you com,
out bring one of Lilia's pictures with you
Don't tell any one but Say where l SIN fol
/ don'f want them TO know, bu. let Ssy
know just As soon as you vet this letter.
will write you when l get settled down
Kiss Lila for me and tell her to be a goot
girl and will come and see her IS soon q,
l cao. Be sure snd see Say IS soon 3.
you can Tell her TO do the best she car
snd if things are so Can come back l vii
try and be q different mao. This is all
Come out ss soon IS you can for it will bt
lonesome all alore, bus l guess i
will be good lessoa for me
am gong to work ard try and make
stake, and tell Say ait get TO work
will seud home ~hst money | have -iil
me. She can pat it in the bank. Wish
could zee them tonight, but i: is impossible
From FRED
Not word TO implicste the wife in any
thug wrong, Notwithstanding the fact tbs
be circulated a vile story shout her, think
ing she would be blamed for his intrigu
and G ght.
Mrs. Hawes said:
Il "Thst story is false, for never CAV
him or any one else any occasion for say
ing such things. He sold the house to Mr.
Thompson, conaeBte to the transfer
have only little money in my purse.
DO not io~ what Fred intends to do, l ar
sure"
The husbands sister and mother have n
word to say sgainst the son and brother
other than he has done wrong and they re
gret il deeply. They believe in the wifi,
and sympsthize with and support her in he
t trouble.
Mrs Howes, agsin addressing the re
porter, said: Before Fred went away. b
told me has Mr.. Goodwin would c,li upo
me every month and give me his portion o
|, the bills Mr. Goodwin would collect for ;h
, firm
J The reporter saw Lawyer Goodwin abou
this and be sal: "Mr. Eoves did not tel
J me to 0ive bis wife his portion Of tn
money | should collect, but on the contrsr
| be told me to keep it for him. l wish 70
his vife's sake that he would instruct me
I give the moreg to her for she will need il.
, Nothing is own Of the whereabouts o
the young woman who disappeared simul
tsneously With tie fight Of Mr.. Ii )wes. bu
; there is no doubt in the minds Of those VII
know the most about the matter that Sd
} ,ined Howes at Ws,erville, that might
Mr.. Thompson, Ho~es' former partner
speaks in excellent terms of him 81 9 bus
ness man aud friend. and at the same tim
he says that the story about mrs. Howe
C c,nnot be true and that H0wes must bsv
been crazy when be told it.
Much sympathy is expressed for th