The Portland daily press., 1895-07-08
A HORSE SHOE KEY.
Effected an Easy Escape From Deer
ing Lookup.
A BURGLAR ACCIDENTALLY CAP.
TURED AND CLEYERLY
IDENTIFIED.

Then Carelessly Allowed to Escape-How
the Man Who Stole Leander Leighton's
Watch was Arrested for Attacking the
i. House of His Divorced Wife-His Iden-
tity Obtained From a Drunken Com
panion-His burglary and Escape from
the Lock Up Show That He Is Bold and
Desperate.
At Woodfords, Saturday night, there
was an extraordinary accidental capture
of the burglar who stole Leander Leigh
toms watch out of his trousers in his bed
room on the night before the Fourth. as
reported in the PRESS. This burglar,
who seems to be clever and desperate
fellow, also effected his escape from the
Deerirg lookup Sunday Dlorning in an
extraordinary manner.
. Saturday evening man came down to
the gate keepers round house at the
Maine Genital crossing near the foot of
Pleasant street. He was in an excited
condition and asked the men there where
he could find the police He said that
there was man at his house who was
making trouble. He lives in the little
gate keepers
COTTAGE IN THE FOREST,
just inside the entrace to the old f. o.
j. Smith estate on Forest avenue, short
distance beyond Marsh Bros. coal sheds
This cottage has been deserted for some
years, and this man whose name is
Brann, and who is about 35 or 40 years
old, has come to live there recently.
There were two young men in the
round house, named Hayes and Berry.
They offered to go back with Brann and
assist him, if 1t was necessary, in getting
the troublesome fellow out of the house
Brann, who seemed to be trembling with
fear all the way back, had doubts about
their success in getting rid of the fellow.
However, when they came to the house
he said that he'd go in and try again to
induce the man to leave. He was success
full for soon a young man came out and
those inside locked the door. This an
gered him and he turned and kicked the
door violently and demanded admission
with threats and oaths. Those inside
were too afraid of him to refuse They
unlocked the door and he went in shout
ing something about
HE'D "HAVE THAT WOMAN"
The woman he meant to have was
Brann's wife. She had been married to
Brann but short time. Previous to
that she had been the wife of this same
violent young man and had been divorced
from him. Besides Brann and his wife
there were in the house a man named
Sumner and his wife, sister of Brann's
wife, and an old woman, the mother of
the two sisters.
The violent young mans name is
James Kennedy. He is about thirty
years of age and has been haying recently
for a milkman named Woodman, who
lives above Pride's bridge.
After Kennedy was admitted to the
house a general row, in which the women
took part, occurred inside Meanwhile
some one had gone for Policeman Ward,
who soon after arrived at the house. Mat
ters had quieted down by that time some
what. Officer Ward asked which was the
man who needed to be looked after, and
Brann pointed out Kennedy, and said
that he didn't want him arrested if he'd
only leave the promises Ward told Ken
nedy to come with him, but the latter
REFUSED WITH OATHS.
Ward seized him firmly by the collar and
threatened him with his club and the fell
low yielded. All the way down to the
lock up opposite the City hall, they were
followed by crowd of people and Ken
nedy continually begged that Ward would
loosen his tight grip on his collar, claim
ing that it hurt him. On the way down
he said that he had come down to the
house to get bundle of clothes. This
bundle he had under his arm. He ad-
mitted that he had also come to see his
former wife.
After he had locked Kennedy up, Officer
Ward decided to revisit the little old gate
house in Smiths woods and investigate
as to what kind of people they were who
were living there. On the way up it sud-