Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-25
LOVE AND WAR.
Wins|ow Has the Very Liv|iest
Kind of a Sensation.
Annis Warren in Serious Condition,
After Row With Harry McCaus|and.
McCausIand. Divorced Wife and Annis Con-
CONDITIONER Held for Developments.

urday night, by the report that wo-
on the hill. A number of men rushed
to the scene and found the unconscious
form of Miss Annis o. Warren lying in
the street, surrounded by a group of
excited people. The woman lay quite
still. 4 hasty examination was made,
showing slight wound high on the left
cheek, and blood was found on the face
and hands. Then the story of assault
WAS told and the details of a domestic
jar came out.
1t appears that Harry McCaHsland
was walking out with his divorced wife,
and. going to his mothers home on
Sand hill" the Warren woman, who
had been following them for some time
about Waterville, approached them
| closely and made an assault upon Nc
Causland. Eye witnesses say that the
Warren woman threw stones at Nc
| Causland and that in an endaavor to
protect himself he had seized her She
| struggled violently in maddencd rage.
and after a while outsiders interfered
and then the woman fell down. Those
| who saw the affair say that McCaus-
1
and that the woman must have been
made unconscious when she fell down.
| Miss Warren was taken to her board
| ing place at No. l Lockwood Corpora
ton. and DR.. Bunker of this city called.
Restoratives of the usual order were
applied but failed to revive the woman
and she lay in an unconscious state all
through the night and Sunday. Nc
| - -loy, "A IA i- A,t..
home on Sand hill. arrested and taken
to the Waterville police station.
| Sunday, the Journal on a tour Of in
vestigation, learned that the affair of
Saturday night was the elimination of
a love affair. McCausland, Who is
spoken of as a steady man. is about 80
years Old has been married and is the
father of three bright children Some
| time ago, Mrs. McCauslaEd secured a
divorce and it is said that the Warren
| woman was to more or less an extent
responsible for the separation. Nc
Causland regretted the separation, as
did Mrs. McCausland. and of la,e the
two have been often in each "ther's
company, much to the displeasu,e of
| Miss Warren.
Saturday evening when McCausiand
was in a barber shop. Miss Warren
spoke to him and asked him if he was
| going TO speak to his former wife. who
was on the street. that evening. He re-
piled that he should do as he thought
best about it. Mrs. McCausland de
| sired TO speak with her former husband
| in order that she might win him back
to her again. and it was for the purpose
of having a long talk and arranging. if
possible, for a happy future. they joined
each other on the street, Saturday
| night.
| They walked about the city some
time, until they found that they were
being followed by Miss Warren. Mrs
| McCausland then proposed that they
go to his mothers home in Wimslow.
where he has been living OF late. Ii
was While going up Sand hill that the
assault by Miss Warren occurred
The above is the story OF the affair
substantially IS told by McCausland
| and those who are familiar with the
| affair. McCausland says ne did not
strike the woman but just took hold OF
her until she was held by others, when
he proceeded on his way to his mothers
home. He was not intoxicated 1T the
time, and knows clearly just what he
did, that night. Mrs. McCausland and
one little boy visited Harry in the po-
lice station. Sunday afternoon.
| At O'Clock. Sunday afternoon, the
| Journal reporter went to the boarding
house where Miss Warren still lay I'M
conscious. Mrs. S. 3. Proctor. who is
| the mistress of the house, informed the
reporter that he might go to the room
where the woman was and he did so.
Several women We're in the room which
is Nc. on the second floor. Miss War
rem was breathing regularly, her pulse
was strong and she had the appearance
of being in a sound sleep.
An examination disclosed a slight |
hr,lise, as though the skin had been |
scraped on the left cheek high; there |
was a disclOration on the right wrist |
as though it had been held in a strong |
grasp the right hand was slightly |
scrared, small pieces of skin being |
rolled up and there was also small |
puncture on the chin The attention OF |
the reporter was called to some color
on the right side of the neck. but it did
not appear to have been caused by
hand in the attempt to choke the
woman Inquiring among those pre-
sent brought out the fact that Miss
Warren had been for a long time sub
ject to hysteric.
DR.. T,unker who was first called.
said. Sunday morning, that he could
not tell at that time whether the
woran's condition was due 10 blow
or that she was in state produced
by hysteric. Dr. Abbott OF thls city.
has attended her several times ior that
trouble and it was the opinion OF the at
tending physicians that hysteric was
more responsible for her condltion that
any injury she had received aithousH
they may possibly be mistaken.
Mics Warren is 90 years old and for
:. lon. time has been employed in the
mill of the Lockwood Co.
In the struggle that occurred on Sand
In aJnCausland sustained blackened
ave and a badly bitten thumb. All
Who l,now him say that he has tried