Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-11
FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
George Siker Arrested for Murder Of
Charles Bienn.
n cieteC by Grad !g'y-sdszr waksheid
Wanted on Same Charge

! GAEDfSEg, Sept. l0.-IAefe was gfsas
exeitemen, in this city las, night on sceaanI
of the grand jury hading an Indictment
sgaias, Edgar c. Wakefield AMI George
Silver for naaslaughter.
II will be remem cred that Charles BE n
met his death, Sunday, July %, a. Horse
: shoe pond. sir miles frGm tiis city, under
, very suspicious circumstances.
Al that time Wakefield ant Silver were
detained by order ef Ju lse Llrrabee, but
, the coroneF's jary falling 10 hni evidence
I enough 70 hold them, they were released
! Tbs lurt's verdi : vas th1t Blsnn came 10
bis death by drOwnipz, BIZ. as 10 how he got
INTO the water tUev were unable 10 deter
mine
Blenns tiativss rot being sa'i 'iel with
lis verdict, engaged Detective D. w. Sui
III ivan of Boston to uuravel the mystery
IS Sullivan arrived here about a week ago,
and hos we'll IA. has succeeded is shown by
the fact that the grand Jury found an in
4 y ictment ag1iast them for ranslauzhter
q Last nisht Detective Sullivan, ASSISTED by
U State Detective Ira VI. rrae OF Nslio~sli
arrested Silver ani placed him in jail.
WakefitIf, although out OF town, will be
apprehendeA BY Monday.
On the 23d Of lass July Wax field ami
SILVER were spending the day, Sunday al
AfWakehelds camp at Horseshoe ponl.
Charles Blenn va. employed ss a farm
hand BY Mr.. Fred B 1bcock, living near the
camp. About O'Clock thai afternoon
Bl-nn started from bahcotk's Ia visit
q, Wakefield aud Silver, with whom he was
acquainted, at camp and was seen blythe Bal :
hcock family to take a small float and paddle
across the stream and land and disappear
into the camp. What happened there can
tonly be surmi.ed. Parties living IN the
vicinity heard eonsi lerable noise coming
sfrom the camp.
Ii is know i that there was some liquor in
the camp, of which it is supposed all par
took freely, sua it is also admitted that
Blenn and Wakefield played cards. Bienn
10 said to have been a winner. BY the ap-
ipearance of the camp il is evident that
| row ensued. When first entered By City
| Marshal Drake of this city there were un-
| mist.ksble signs of a struggle. a chair be
ing broken and things turned upside down
generally. 1t is claimed that Wakefield
went up stairs to bed, after he was through
nlaying cards, Silver claiming thnt he then
started to set Blenn and another man across
.he stream in float.
/ About o CLOCK sNINtE hppthttl " AAit
house Of MI. Potter near by all wet and con-
sideraby excited, and appeared intoxicated
lie told the people that the two men whom
he was setting across the stream from the
Ic,mp were drowned, and said that when
about half way across Blenn stood up and
commenced to rock the boat and he. Silver
told him to set down or he would tip the
boat over Not doing rs requested, the
boat was Suddenly upset, throsing all three
into the water. Silver says that "a soon a.
he came up he struck for the shore, about
30 rods off. Arriving there he looked
around for the others but could see nothing
hut the overturned boat. Silver had cut
on his head and says he supposes he re-
ceived il faoul the rail of the boat when ii
went over.
Harry Dunn, who was al Potter's, went
l to the poud with Silver and saw the boat
bottom up, drifting down stream. The,
Immediately took another boat and searched
| for the other two men but could not nm
them.
Wakefield and Silver returned to town
Sunday night but did not notify ths
authorities till Monday morning, when
Silver notified City Marshal Drake, Tho i'm
mediately started for the scene of the acci-
dent with searching parry and grapplel
for the bodies also using dynamite lie di'
not succeed in finding the body till Wednes
day morning when Benn's body was found
t,oatIng face upwards, opposite the camp,
near the east shore of the pond. 40 yard
from where Silver claimed the boat was
upset. ia.
Coroner Kilbreth, IIalloweli, YVES imme-
i di.tely summoned, and accompanie! by the
doctors, repaired to the place where the
hodg was found. The coroner took the
body from the water and discovered that 1t
was covered with bruises, especially the
head and face. The doctors made an ex-
an nation there and found sufficient water
liz the lgugs to cause death by drowning.
The braises OF tho head and face excited
suspicion of foul play 2nd Wakefield and
Silver we're held by order Of the judge until
after the coroner's inquest,at which the evi-
,lence was rot sufficient TO hold them and
thev were released.
The people here are very anxious as to
the outcome of the case, not knowing the
nature of the evidence the prosecution has
obtained.