The Portland daily press., 1895-08-20

seen a stranger With Edwin K. Allen
Sanford man who has lived and worked
IN Boston as plumber. Mr. Fogg did
not like the looks of Aliens companion
ana thought at the time that he could
pear Watching. After the assault Mr.
fogg found a hat left by. the assailant
and looking like that worn by; the strang-
er with Allen. Later the sheriff lear nei
Inat Allen had been in Somersworth, ~
H., and so there the officer went the re-
suit OF the trip being{the arrest of Elwell,
VINO mas since confessed that it was be
nyI Mho committed the assault and that Leslie
thompson paid him to do it. Elwell is
IN Alfred Jail awaiting the adjourned
nearing next Saturday, Thompson is un-
der Sooo bonds to answer to charge of
consp1rlng to injure Taylor, and Allen is
as large; Meanwhile Sanford has talked
OF little beside the affair. There has
Deen more or less loose talk about fur
Iher violence, but the sentiment of the
laW-apldlng people who form nearly the
Whole OF the community, has been so
aroused that there is not likely to be any
more trouble. Yesterday the pastor of
the Methodist church preached on the
al absorbing topic and in the evening
Ihere was temperance rally in which
Iaylor was one of the speakers and was
applauded to the echo.
thompson who has pleaded not guilty
to the charge that he hired Elwell to
come here and assault Taylor. is man
ABOUT 80 years of age with wife and
children.
1t is now known that Edwin E. Allen,
the young man who was with Elwell
when he made the assault on Harry
Iaylor last Wednesday night, and who
When the officers went to arrest him at a
house in South Sanford, where he was
known to be concealed on Friday last,
took to the woods, was in this village
some time during Friday night. He was
not seen here but his parents, who had
been absent since Thursday, returned
Yesterday and found that he had been in
the house and had exchanged his gray
bicycle suit for suit of dark material.
| lie is now supposed to be wearing black
Derby hat, and has with him long black
ana very heavy ulster, which it is be-
!leyed that he is using for blanket, If be
Is spending his nights in the woods.
Some are inclined to think that he may
have gone to Rochester, n. H., where he
has an aunt, Mrs. George McDuffee.
Others think it possible that he has gone
to Boston, where he used to work at one
time. Certain parties who are supposed
to know where Allen is, have been seen
to drive in the direction of South San
| ford, several times since he was last seen
in that vicinity. The women of this
| section held temperance meeting at the
| Congregational church last night A
citizens meeting is being arranged fol
either Wednesday or Friday evening te
take place at the Opera house.
At the Congregational church this
evening a large majority of the ladies oi
Sanford attacked their signatures to the
following appeal to the county officials:
To the Hon. Nathaniel Hurd, high sher-
| iff of York county:
We, the undersigned, ladies Of Sanford,
respectfully and urgently request you to
use to the utmost extent the great powers
of your high office to free our community
from the evilsgof the liquor traffic, at the
same time expressing our great graft
tude for the great work already done in
that direction.