Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-11
ROSE DOLLEY,
ROSE D0LLEY,
Wanted for Murder at Portland,
Found by the Officers.
Strong indications That Body of Muir
dered Child Is In Woods
Where Clothing Was Found-WiIl be Searched
Rose Refuses to Talk

Portland, Dec. 10-Rose Dolley has at
last been found and she is now under ar
rest For several days, Sheriff Plummer
and his deputies have been at work on a
clue and finally located her in Dorchester.
This morning, Sheriff Plummer went to
Boston on the 2 O'Clock train, arriving
there at about o'clock He at once made
himself known to the police and Sergeant
Perry accompanied him to the place indi-
Gated, where sure enough, the missing
girl was found, being employed as q do
nestle.
Sergeant Perry placed her under arrest
and then turned her over to Sheriff Plum
mer, who held warrant for her on the
charge of numbering her infant child.
The crime as is well known, is alleged to
have taken place at Pride's Corner, in the
swamp, but no trace of the body has been
found.
Mrs. Dolley, the mother of Rose, now in
Portland jail charged with being party
to the crime, has not yet been informed
of her daughters arrest, and probably will
not be at present.
Rose is about IS years old or perhaps
little more. She has worked in Portland,
and the child she is charged with murder
ing was about + months old Rose has
always been a girl who has attracted much
attention, from the time she used to go
into frances which lasted hours at time.
After Rose was seen in the woods at
Pride's Corner, it seems that she at once
went to Dorchester. She consented to &C
company Sheriff Plummer to Portland
without demanding requisition papers.
No traces of the child were found in
Dorchester.
When Sheriff Plummer arrived here, to-
night with Rose Dolley in custody, he took
her to his office and later to the lodging
room of the police station, where she will
remain during the night in care of the
police matron. She had long interview
with her brother David, tonight.
The officers have had conversations with
the prisoner which they decline to dis
close. II can, however be stated that the
officers have strong grounds for believing
that the body of Rose Dolley's child Is at
present in the woods where the articles of
clothing which were on the child's person
ut the time of his disappearance, have
been already found. A strong searching
party will search these woods, tomorrow.
1t is understood that Rose and her
mother will be brought before the court
tomorrow morning, when the hearing in
the case will probably be postponed till
Saturday
The officers are reticent about what kind
of statement Rose Dolley has made, but
it is strongly suspected that she has made
a confession and had told as near rs she
can where the babys body can be found
in the woods near Pride's bridge. 1t is
also reported that she has said that she
did not want to murder the child, but
that her mother urged her TO do it, The
officers will not affirm or deny that she
has made this statement.
1t is stated that Sheriff Plummer had
to watch the girl very closely after he
took her in custody in Boston, to prevent
her from committing suicide. Upon the
superstition that the body of the child can
be found in the woods the sheriff and
deputies are, tonight, enlisting large
force of men to go out there, tomorrow,
and search If Rose has confessed, it Is
not probable that she can exactly locate
where she hid the body.