Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-07
DAILY KENNEBEc JoURNAI.tFRIDAY, DECEMBER = 1894
THREE MYSTERIES.
Who Murdered Sawyer. and Where IS Fred
Herrick and Charles LittiefieId.

The detectives have thus FAR been
lntlled on the Augustus Sawyer murder
at Monmouth, the disappearance OF Fred
Herrick from this city, and also of
Charles Littlefeld, an Augusta boy, from
Auburn.
First. who murdered Augustus Sawyer,
on the rainy night of May 70, in the little
stall in his barn, covered him with hay
and then went out of the barn. barring
every door on the outsides What was
the object: Did the murderer or muir
dercrs procure money that nobody has
learned Of? Had Sawyer enemies who
would commit such crime for revenge?
As near as can be learned he had been a
peaceable man. For some time it was be-
lieved by the best men working on the
case, that the guilty parties were living
in Monmouth, bat nothing has terni-
mated from any investigation to show
that even the slightest suspicion, Of any
foundation was attached to anybody in
the neighborhood where the dreadful
crime was committed.
Many detectives nocllcd to the scene Of
murder, each filed with the belief that he
would very soon crown himself with
glory, solve the puzzling problem, reap
the bountiful reward, bring to justice a
hcartless villain and add to the State
prisons list of criminals another who
should suffer a life imprisonment but
soon that enthusiastic expectancy died
away and today it is as much a mystery to
the public at least, as on the morning
when the body was found with the bullet
through the head.
The next question, Where is Fred Her
rick? is yet TO be answered, and is one OF
those mysterious eases of disappearance
where rba relatives even know nothing
that would lead to the discovery of the
lost He left here for Portland in July
and from there it is supposed that he
went to Boston, but whether or not he
did or ever reached the Hub" nobody is
to his near relatives and all who knew
him is not to be accounted for. Was he
drowned? Was he murdered? Did he
leave Maine for Il distant land !?
All may be questions applicable to the
case He has gone and the seemingly I'M
fathomable shroud of mystery has covered
his path.
Now to the third case, Where is Charles
Littleiield, the tail young man of dark
complexion, who graduated from the
Dirigo Business College of this city, and
recently disappeared so mysteriously from
the Maine Hotel of Auburn: Maine's best
detectives were employed On this case,
but the result of their investigation un-
folded no threads of the yet unsolved mys.
terry. The best Judgment of this case
seems to be that the boys mind has be
come deranged and he has possibly become
an inmate OF some Massachusetts insane
hospital
The Augusta Teachers Association will
hold meeting at the Grammar school
house. State street, this afternoon, at
o'clock. Subjects to come before the
mcating: "Class Exercise (gymnastics)
by Miss Hanson, discussion Of Books,
Miss Doherty, and Question Box. All
teachers Of the public schools of Augusta
are expected to participate. Parents,
educators, and all other friends of our
schools, are cordially invited to be
present
Il. ". Soulc will hold an auction sale,
Saturday, of the remains of the furniture
in the building where the fire did such
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