The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-21

l40 pounds L should Judge. When
changed the $40 bill for him gave him
"a Canadian IS in change. An hour afte,
his frat appearance here he came back
and gave him an American SIS bill fol
the Canadian money!
1t would seem from stories told by the
employees of Cummings Brothers, bset
dealers, exactly opposite the cold storage
oompany's place on Commercial street,
that the burglars might have been in
tending to make break there also. A
man believed to be Murray
who is now under arrest
was seen hanging about this place duril. q
Friday afternoon by Llewellyn Withee
and Simon Cummings. He came into
the store several times and after looking
around little went out. again. About
six o'clock Friday afternoon as book
keeper e. G. Robinson WAS getting ready
to lock up the safe and was about put
ting some money away for the night he
happened to look out Of the window onto
Commercial street and saw man peep
ing In the window. When the fellow saw
Mr.. Robinson looking at him he lodged
back out of sight but few minutes later
looked in the window again and was
again seen. When Mr. Cummings and
MIR. Withee were going home they
SAW THIS STRANGE MAN
still hanging about the corner of Union
and Commercial streets. Their descrip-
ton answers to that Of the bookkeeper of
the cold storage company of the man WI O
had the $50 bill changed that same after
noon.
Now comes strange chapter in the
story. If Murray Is the man whom the
narrator Of this chapter believes him to
be, he is connected with series of
peculiar aud Suspicious performances
over on the Cape. Paul Barrie, a con-
duotor on the Cape electrics. tells this
part of the tale.
Mr.. Barrie was seen yesterday by a
PRE- So reporter and told the following
cory "This man Murray whom have
identified this morning al the police
station, first saw on my car Thursday
night on late trip towards Portland
from Willard. He and another man got
on board at the Beach and paid me ten
cents each for their fare into Portland.
When the men got to the ferry village
they got of the car and one said to the
other, "This town seems to be dead at
this time Ct night. Well take the ferry
over to Portland. It will ba quicker
About half past nine O'CLOCK on Fri
day night when my car turned into the
Fort road and was near the willow trees
which line the side of the road, we passed
two men W ing in the road. One of
them looked like this man Murray and
the other was about i've feet eight or
nine inches tall, wore stylish business
suit of some light material, had heavy
light mustaohe and weighed about 14O
pounds. He wore light cap on the back
of his head. Both the man whom I
think was Murray and the other fellow
WORE MASKS
over their faces. had good view of
them as we whizzed past but both of
the men stepped into the shadow of the
trees as soon as the car passed them. |
was rather startled by the masks and so
on my trip into town kept lookout
for the men but could not see them.
"At 10. &c O'Clock / mads another trip
out to Willard. When on Willow street
passed piano box buggy in which this
man and the other fellow were
seated. They were driving rapidly to-
wards the beach and when they got to
Angel avenue. so called, got out of their
team and fastened their horse to t1ee.
They then disappeared into the bushes
and / did not see them again until 10
O'Clock when made my last trip from
Willard and ran my car into the car barn
for the night. AS we came through
Knightville we passed the same buggy
and the same two men driving slowly
towards Portland. I still remem bered
the masked men and believing these to
be the same pair. was extremely nervous
about going across the bridge alone. So
told George Allen, Hiram Hunt and
George Deamon about my suspicious
and said believed the men were around
onoAo AoA Ao SoOu PuI PoS0. All VI tueS6
men are employees of the Cape road and
live in Portland so we started across the
bridge together behind the buggy. We
went along as easily as possible hoping
to catch up with them but as soon as we
were within few feet of the buggy the
men whipped up their horse and drove
up over the CLARK street trestle.'
II Barrie is correct in his belief that
Murray is the man he saw on the Cape,
he must have worked fast If the police
are correct in the suspicious that Muir
ray was one of the men who blew the
safe, for Barrie SAW the men in the buggy
driving into Portland at just about mid
night and the explosion of the safe was
heard only about 45 minutes later. That
would seem hardly time enough for such
a piece of work.
Marine News.
Boston, September 2O.-Ar1ived
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