Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-06
THEY HAVE SETTLED.
Mrs. Morse and Misses Cummings
Feel Very Much Hurt
Over Tho Way Their Departure from Augusta
Mas Been Chronicled.

they have been used by the news
papers and the public. They are tht
three ladies who came here with the
intention of establishing a. boarding
house, and who. after they had arrived
were greeted by an article in Boston
paper to the effect that they were
sharpers, etc, when, as a matter OF
fact, they claim that they We're simply
trying to get an honest living.
.Mr. Odlin of Lewiston, the State de-
tective. saw the article in the Herald,
and began at once to look them up.
He thought that they might be in Lew
jston, as was stated in Saturday
nights Journal, and here he found
them. They had hired tenement on
Lisbon street and got furnishings from
the Atkinson House Furnishing Co. to
the amount, perhaps, of $3.50. having
paid down IS and agreed to pay 50 this
week The Atkinson Co. is perfectly
satisfied with them.
THE widespread notoriety which
greeted them here hurt them in busi-
ness way. to say the least.
A reporter called there, today, and
found everything tidy and ship-shape
An officer was staying in the house
with them having been placed there by
Detective Odlin. One of the women
said to the Journal: THE Boston Her.
aid says of us at Augusta: The trio
found no difficulty in winning the con-
fidence of some of the Water street
merchants and succeeded in buying all
the goods they wanted on credit, in
Guiding all the furniture for their
house. carpets, draperies, curtains. cut
Iery, table linen, bedding cook stove.
dishes-all to be paid for on the INSTALL
ment plan. They ran up a large bill
at the principal dry goods house. and
they patronized the principal dealer in
groceries and provisions literally. TAX
ing the best in the market. Shoe stores
and clothing stores were also drawn
upon, and at a music store they pur-
chased a guitar, a mandolin and
banjo"
II don't know as there is any law
against a persons getting honestly in
debt for any articles that he needs
Most business concerns do. Everything
we bought in Augusta we intended to
pay for and shall.
They also said: Whenever Mrs
Morse was dunned by any of the
tradesmen who had been vctimized,
she would put them off by such a re-
mark as It's all righ; my husband
will be here shortly; he's government
official and when he comes he will set
tie your bill To one firm that dunned
her she paid 81 on account and then
got trusted for about $40 more worth
of goods
Now everyone in Augusta who knew
me knew that my huspand was dead
It's useless to spend time explaining
all that has been said about me. They
said:
"The house the trio lived in became
noisy nights after a while, and dis
turbed the neighbors 1t was also OBJ
served that there were considerable
many gentleman callers.
"Only one man called while we were
in Augusta. and he was a highly re-
spectacle man. known all over the
tate. l wouldn't give his name because
1t would do no good. My little girl
played the piano and some evenings
we would sing. but there was no irreg-
ularity about that, that l can see 1t
was very wrong, to say the least.
Here again they say:
IA week ago, the trio mysteriously
disappeared one night, leaving their
creditors with no knowledge of their
whereabouts. 1t has been ascertained
that on the secondhand furniture and
clothing sent them they raised what
money they could at pawnshop.
where they also effected loans on other
goods. 1t is supposed that such arti-
cles as could be easily transported in
trunks they carried off with them in
their flight
I'VE left the things in the house
there because we intended that the
man Of whom we got them should call
and get them. We had paid enough
to pay him for his trouble If we had
intended to steal q don't like the
Word). we might easily have carried
off $3.50 worth of stuff such as lace cur
tains. etc. But the fact that we came
openly here to Lewiston to settle ought
to disarm suspicion in that regard. We
are from Massachusetts and have lived
In Bangor. We found that Augusta
was no place to do business in and so
came here. I don't know now whether
we shall stay or not We expect to
settle this little difference at Augusta
all right
Monday afternoon. it was learned
that they had settled completely for all
mat they owed.-Lewiston Journal
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