Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-22
NO BLACKSMITH.
Brother Of Miss Jennie Williams
Dressmaker, Tries His Hand
With No Success Case Against Miss vii
liams Continued Neither Appears.

The trial OF the case or Miss Ida
I.arrabee against Miss Jennie Will
liams, dressmaker. late of Augusta,
was on the docket to come off, Mon
day, before Judge Andrews in the civil
court 1t will be remembered that Miss
Larrabee had bone to pick with Miss
| Williams over a coat which was made
up in an unsatisfactory way, the
pockets being not correctly located.
| The coat is otherwise unsatisfactory,
Miss Larrabee claims
| Miss Williams has as yet made no
| appearance. If she does SO it is not
| Impossible that other suits will be
| brought against her of a similar
| nature. One lady had dress made up
of fine material which cost So or 81
| a yard. 1t looked like a last years
bonnet. friend of hers says. when
| made up into a dress. and if redress
there be for her, she may be among the
clamorers. AT the Cony House there
are four young ladies who would very
| much like to get at Miss Williams
enc, especially, who says her work was
Terrible, terrible. terrible
Another claims that Miss Williams
| went away with some material placed
in her deft hands for converting into
| a cloak. This one is very DESTROYS in
deed of seeing Miss Williams.
1t will be remembered that this
dressmaker had an alleged brother in
! Augusta, who was in the tea and
coffee peddlng business With her. He,
| irg while in this city. 1t came out
this way.
| Mr.. S. A. Thurston, at whose house
the two stayed, had bill against them
! for room and board. He could get no
| satisfaction, and was about to give up
| the case, when friend told him that
| Williams had hired out to a black
| smith. With this. the friend suggested
that Thurston trustee the mans
NHSSS' i'te. hbi otoii say iit
| thought the man was in hard sled
| din and he would give him all the
show in the world to get on to his feet
again. Williams certainly couldn't
have taken up blacksmithing for the
| fun of it. thought Mr. Thurston
| 1t seems that Williams presented
| II Ia /
| workman, an exceptionally fine work
man, who knew the trade, but did not
make it his profession He merely
| wanted to take it up for while to re-
duce his flesh as he was "over weight"
| His fellow workmen soon discovered
that Williams was suffering from what
is vulgarly known as a swelled head
In other words he knew too much.
| They soon fitted to him the name of
from Boston and knew it all He could
not only give the boys points on
blacksmithing but also claimed to
have an extra quality of blue blood
coursing through his veins, being able
| to trace an honorable ancestry back
over distance of 400 years. That was
all right enough, but it didn't cut any
| figure in the blacksmith shop. 1t
didn't make any perceptible difference
| to his fellow workmen whether he
could trace back 400 years. or years
at least so they say.
Mr. Williams was released after
said that his work was not passa BILE
| and it is evident it was as much below
par as his reported sisters was at her
recent dressmaking profession.
Williams is described as a thick-set
| man of perhaps 1856 pounds weight
| being short of stature. His recent en-
| ployer says he wore 6 or a 81 hat.
he doesn't recall which. When he
worked here he had a light moustache
and goatee.
| The case of Miss Larrabee against
| Miss Williams has been continued two
weeks until next court day, which will
| be the last chance for Miss Williams
| to defend herself. Her counsel is
Whitehouse & Fisher. Miss Larrabee's
| is Williamson & Burleigh.