Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-02

| known of the details, Saturday.nor has
| anything further than a brief account
1 yet been published. The Journal, how
| ever. by sending reporter to the
| scene, Saturday night. is enabled to
| present to its readers a full statement
| of facts as far as can at present be
| given to the public.
| In little one-story white house on
| the Jefferson road. about one mile from
! the North Waldoboro post office. lives
| lothian S. Mink. with his wife and five
| children. Just across the road in a
| still smaller house lived a son. Edwin
| y. Mink. with girl named Cora n.
| Green.
| The Minks are apparently not over
blessed with worldly goods, but SEN
orally speaking We're about average
| people. The father has small farm
| and the boys worked in mill near by.
and by this means earned their living.
As far as could he learned from in
quires about the neighborhood, the
| Minks We're quiet and we'll disposed
people as general thing, but the boys
| were addicted to the use of liquor. and
whenever they would get intoxicated
there was sure to be trouble, more or
less serious.and it is to this source that
the tragedy of Friday afternoon can be
directly traced.
ON that day Mr.. and Mrs. Mink were
away and the children took advantage
of their absence to have a good time
There We're present Orrin, Edwin. Lee
roy and Willie Mink, their sister
Cenia. and young fellow named Simon
Dana Storer. They had plenty of cidar
and there was barrel of cherry wine
in the cellar.
The fun was fast and furious. and as
usual when intoxicated Orrin and Ed
win had fight. and Edwin though
younger than his brother. got the best
of him The scuffie took place in the
kitchen and continued with more or
less violence until Orrin told his brother
that if he did not go home he would
shoot him.
The sister, Cenia. then ran across the
road and told Miss Green to come over
and get Ed home, for Orrin had threat
cncd to shoot him. She did as requested
but was unable to induce him to go
with her and returned across the road.
The trouble continued and she again
went over with no better results than
before.
Meanwhile the boys had got hold of
the gan, and We're struggling for pos
session of it, Orrin threatening to
shoot Ed if he did not go home. Finally
orrin got the gun. and pointing it at
his brother. pulled the trigger.
The entire charge of shot struck Ed |
win in the neck and left side and he
fell on his face on the floor of the porch, |
near the door leading to the kitchen,
expiring almost instantly. The shot cut
the arteries in the neck and broke the |
collar bone and the first rib.
A strange feature of the case is that |
no one saw the deed committed The |
others in the house happened to be |
else at that particular mo-
ment. Hudson L. Frink. a cousin, liv- |
ing near by. said he heard the gun,
like slamming door, and as he knew |
the boys had been raising rumpus at |
the house. he ran over to see what had |
happened and found Edwin lying on
his face in the porch. That he turned |
him over and he gasped once and died. |
DR. A. A. Jackson of Jefferson, and |
DIR. /. w. Sanborn were both sum-
moned to the house, but their services
were of course useless. An examina-
ton of the body was made and the
shot We're founAto be large and nearly |
all received in the left side and neck. |
The heart and large blood vessels re-
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