The Portland daily press., 1895-12-09

! Some Little Time-Where is Rose Now?
| Was at One Time the Subject of So
Called Religious Trances-Her Brother
| Detained as Witdess.
| Last evening Sheriff Plummer arrested
at Windham, Mrs. Ellen Dolly on q
charge Of being party to the murder OF
the infant child of her daughter Rose.
Mr.. PluInmer also took into custody Mrs.
Dolly's son Warren, young man of
twenty -one. The son is held as a witness
The arrests are the outcome of the find
| ing of a baby's dress and other articles in
the woods bordering the Windham road,
several miles beyond Pride's bridge
Rose Dolly, who is wanted on the charge
of murder. is missing, and tho officers
have not yet ascertained her whereabouts,
although last night they thought they
might be able to do SO, perhaps by this
morning.
The first chapter Of the story has al
ready been printed. Two weeks ago to-
day, it was stormy, there being quite a
fall of snow. On the evening Of that
stormy Monday, Percy Lawrence, a
young man who lives in the neighbor-
hood, was returning from the house of
Mr.. Pride, who lives several miles beyond
| Pride's bridge. at the edge OF the woods,
when he met woman, walking along
| the road which leads from the main high
way to Mr.. Pride's house. Beyond the
fact that the woman wore a shawl over
her shoulders, young Lawrence is not
| able to describe her. When he reached
home, Lawrence mentioned the fact Of
his strange encounter with the woman
and the next morning, his brother while
| walking along the Windham road,
observed the fo otprints Of woman in
the snow. 1t was also noticed that there
were tracks in the roadway made by a
carriage which had apparently been
driven back and forth, as If waiting for
some one, for it coulo be seen that the
| carriage had been turned around q num-
ber of times. The woman's footprints
| led into the woods. Theae tracks were
| followed through the woods and the
searchers found handkerchief, baby's
hood and blue cord and tassel that
| might have come from a
BABY'S WORSTED JACKET.
| These facts were reported to Sheriff
Plummer, and on Thursday, which was
Thanksgiving day, Deputy Sheriffs
| Firth and Plummer made careful in
vestigation. They found enough to con-
| viDca thoYo that a woman had avidoot1,,
wandered about in the woods, walking q
long distance. The woman must have
plunged at places knee deep in the icy
cold waters of the bog that stormy Mon
day night. She would leave one winding
path and strike into another, according
to her tracks, until she evidently
| f1oundered into the lane near Pride's, fer
the tracks correspond in both places and
all pointed in the same direction The
| following Sunday, the search was re-
newed, about sixty people from the
| nei ghborhood sconering the woods and
swamp. The search WAS not devoid of
results, although the mystery remains as
much mystery as ever. A short
distance beyond the spot where the cord
and tassel were fund, the exploring party
picked up baby's white dress. 1t was
not Of great length, was plainly made
with a little ruffling at the wrists. AT
the back of the neck, in the place where
the name is usually worked, black
thread had been run. There was nothing
to mark the identity Of the owner. There
was large spot on the front, and several
others near the hem of the dress.
These discoveries of course, lead to a
suspicion that an infant had been killed
or abandoned in the woods, but they did
not seem to give any clue to the identity
OF the person guilty of the crime. The
sheriff and his deputies were left pretty
much in the dark, but they did learn that
hose Dolly, young woman, whose
home is in Windham, had been an in
mate of the Temporary Home in Deering,
and while there had given birth to a
child. This was about six weeks before
the night when young Lawrence met the
woman on the edge of the woods border
Ing the Windham road. So the officers
took the articles found in the woods to
the Home, and there the baby's dress was
! identified as one made atithe home. OF