The Portland daily press., 1895-07-10
DEERING.
An Extraordinary Family of Bats.

About 200 Killed in One House During the
Past Week-Something More About
the Man Who Escaped From the Jail.
Ex-Mayor Sawyer of Deering, has had
a remarkable experience at his home in
Deerlng street, Woodfords, recently.
He has been living in the house for
something more than two years. Recent
ly 1t became evident to the family that a
colony of bats had taken up their abode
somewhere in the caves or walls. The
queer little creators made their appear
ance occasionally through the ventilators
of the room Investigation revealed a
hole under the caves, which was appar-
emily the bats place of ingrees and egress
This hole was stopped up The result
was extraordinary. 1t imprisoned in the
walls of the house an enormous family
of the uncanny intruders, and they began
to come out into the bath rooms
through the ventilator and into the
cellar in such numbers that during the
past week over 200 have been killed.
We are informed that in one night alone
drowned in a basin of water. While their
numbers at one time seemed inexhaus-
tible, there is now some hope, we under
stand, that they are not breeding as fast
as killed and that the walls of the house
are not a Fortunatus purse, yielding
bats instead of money.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT KEN
NEDY.
A sequel to the escape of Kennedy from
the Deering JAIL as printed in Mondays
PRESS, was an expedition in hopes of
capturing him. on Sunday night. 1t was
reported to the police that late Sunday
evening man was seen to run across
Forest avenue and into the entrance in
the Smith woods, just beyond which is
the old gate keepers cottage where
Brann lives and where Kennedy was cap
tured
Consequently at about midnight three
of the Deering police and John Morton
of Woodfords, who had volunteered to
accompany them, went to the house in
the woods, quietly surrounded it and then
approached from different sides AS
they neared the house the policemen sud-
denly heard a ker-souse, as if heavy
body had fallen into water, and at the
same time an exclamation of dismay and
disgust. Investigation revealed John
Morton standing up to his middle in an
open cesspool, the contents of which
were of SO vile AN odor that his three
companions avoided the unfortunate
man as if he had had the plague.
They reused the inmates of the house
and searched every nookfand corner of it,
but the much wanted man was not there.
These people are apparently bad lot.
They all came from Rockland within a
few months. Mrs Brann, who is some
what comely woman of about 40 years OF
age, is now living with her third hus-
band Kennedy was her second husband
and she lived with him for five years,
most of the time in Rockland. He is
now only 2S years of age.
Mrs. Brann told the officers that when
she lived with him in Rockland, he al
one time kicked her with so much force
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child, while she herself lay at deaths
i door for 10 weeks. The physician who
attended her advised her to prosecute
her brutal young husband, but she re-
fused to do so, saying that she could not
be the cause of harm coming to him, and
desiring only that she be separated from
him. That was what led to the divorce.
Mrs. Brann has several children by
Kennedy, and by her first husband, who
is dead. The children are all there al
the little house in the woods. A brother
of this Mrs Brann, named Daniel Bax
ter, came from, ,Rockland with the Erest o1
them. A few weeks ago he broke into
this house where Brann lives and stole q
gold watch. Officer Berry found the
watch soon after in pawn shop IL
Portland Mrs. Brann and her mother
pleaded for the young man, who is only
"a or 25 years old, and since he is one OF
the family and the watch was found, he
promising to earn money to redeem it, he
was not arrested.
| Kennedy has a record in Rockland Of
being sent to Jail for drunkenness about
once month for year. 1t seems that
the horseshoe that was hanging on the
wall in the rear of the cage was beyond
reach of his arm. He secured it by the
use of his stylographic pen which was
not taken from him when he was searched
The pen was just about long enough fol
| him to reach it.
Deering Center.