Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-09
PLOT THIckEHs.


an attorney or gave it TO him to get him
out Of Jail in Montreal. paid an attor-
ney $500 to go to Kansas and stop the
payment of this mortgage to the Montreal
attorney, SO you see it cost me $500 and
the loss of the interest on the $1,000 to get
it back. He sold my furniture, library
and silverware and got away with the
money.
Mrs. Brockway goes on TO relate fur
Their particulars of her trouble with Ham
mond and gives list of names OF persons
who she says wrote her regarding Ham
monds rascality during her trouble
with him.
The letter is signed N. Z. Brockway,
500 West Madison St, Chicago, Ill.
Ina urcyious letter Of hers dated Oct
% she said of Hammond that his way
of living was marrying, robbing and
killing. If need be, to get their money, so
rcports say and | am positive he tried to
kill me and get all l had. He is the
worst man believe that lives today"
The Journal man was permitted to see
coDies of letters written during the
Franklin Falls sensation. that were quite
interesting. J. ID. Stone wrote from
South Pultney, \. Y, under date OF
April 25. 1886, TO "a man In Franklin
Falls that W. NJ. Hammond was ordained
pastor Of the +. W. b. church in Pultney,
in 1888 and proved to be q very objection
able sort of person.
George T. Piper of Bedford, Mass,
wrote the editor of the Franklin falls
Transcript that he had Investigated the
character Of Hammond and u found hlm
to be "A rascal of the worst kind. Since
my investigation have no doubt that he
caused the death Of his wife at Indian
Village. nine miles from Wolf Lake in
September, 'S4 and was guilty of other
forms OF iniquity.'
J. NJ. Richmond, the postmaster OF
Wolf Lake, Indiana, wrote to the editor
Of the Franklin Transcript in 1886 of
Hammond. HE is without doubt the
meanest man ever knew. never saw
his equal The people here were so glad
when he moved away that they salutcd
him by firing the cannon six or eight
shots"
Accompanying one of the letters re-
ceived from Mrs. Brockway was vol
luminous scrap book, filled with news
paper clippings, business cards etc, of
the supposed Hammond, whom she
married in franklin Falls when he was
an unctuous dispenser of what purported
to be gospel truth And in this book
she has saved newspaper notices of
her wedding, the wedding reception, also
of the texts which Pastor Hammond
was won't apply to the souls of his
Among these 1t is no
ticed that one Sunday he describ-
ed to his flock 1.-THE essential and
moral attributes of God" at another
time he spoke upon physical mental
and spiritual growth" There is also the
report of document endorsing Ham
mond signed by the trustees OF the
Franklin Falls church, date not given;
also one under date of March s. 1884,
signed by the committee of the Union
quarterly meeting at Genessee, n. Y.
Various business cards of the doctor are
found in the book and clerical ticket on
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
r. r.
His business card while practising
medicine in Yreka, CAL, gave the name
ID. w. Hammond, M. %.
Another newspaper clipping tells of the
247th case of cross eyes Strengthened by the
good doctor. y
SoHe VI tIlcSe newspaper CllppiuRS CUu-
tanned portraits of the DR. - or Rev.
Hammond therein referred to, and show
that the urbane medical practitioner late
Of our city, is one and the same individual
Us the frocked and ''sanctified' Ham
mond, who fled from Franklin Falls.
The following introduction to poem
in this scrapbook may be Of
interest:
sour parson has gone to Canada,
TO save the souls of men
The devil seems to prosper him,
For he has a wife again.
He has gone to Montreal, they saw,
The Master called him there
His wife has lost her clothitg,
And all her silver ware
CHORUS:
For the day of vctorys coming,
Ills coming by and bye,
When to the Queens dominion,
All thievish parsons fly.
They scoop up all The wIdors,
They'll steal until they die,
For the day of vctory's coming
by and by.
Tho above was evidently written after