The Portland daily press., 1896-05-11
sKOWHEGAN TOO SMALL.
Mrs. Green Leaves Her Home Looking
For Wider Fields.

Inquiries For Her Have Been Made in All
Maine Cities without Success-Toid
Some She Was Going to Auburn and
Others to Boston.
Skowhegan, May 10.-Mrs Ida E. Green
has been missing from her home near
Skowhegan for nine weeks, and her
husband has made inquiries in all OF the
cities in Maine without success.
She left her home deliberately. taking
her clothing, but promised either to re-
turn the next day, or write to her hus-
band. She did not keep her word.
On the morning of March, ,Ewhile
her husband was away, Mrs. Green
packed her clothing in trunk and en-
gagged man to take it to the station.
few other small effects she placed in
her two children,a girl Of and boy 5
years old, playing in the road in front OF
| the house.
| Mrs Green intended to walk to the
Skowhegan station, a distance Of four
miles. carrying her valise. but team
the road until she became fearful OF
meeting her husband returning home,
and desired to take another road to
| town.
| When the husband had reached home
his wife had not been gone long, and
upon the neighbors telling him of her
departure he started after her, reaching
Skowhegan il time to learn of her being
driven to Shawmut and to catch the
train.
| AS it happenedfMrs. Green boarded the
same Urain at Shawmut station and sat
in front of her husband, not noticing
| him.
| He spoke to her and asked her where
she was going, ana why she was leaving
home. Her reply was that she was
tired of living on the farm, that she
wanted to go back to work In shoe
shop, and had bought ticket to Au-
burn. She asked her husband if he would
not sell his milk route, move back to
some large town, where he and she could
both work in shop. She told him If he
would do that she would return. He
told her that no would be willing to sell
out IL she wished it, and upon this the
husband was assured by his wife that
she would be home the next day, or else
she would write to him.
When the train reached Waterville Mr..
Green got off to return to Skowhegan.
At this point the trains for Portland,
via the main line, and that which runs
by way of Lewiston meet, and it is the
custom to transfer all through baggage
from the train from Skowhegan to tha.
which runs over the main line.
While Mr.. Green was standing on the
platform at WatervilIe he saw his wife's
trunk on truck with the through bag
gage. but did not think to look for the
check. She, however, remained on board
the Lewiston train.
This circumstance has led to the belief
that she did not have a ticket for Au-
burn, and that she went through to
Portland, and perhaps to Boston. She
had told one person in Skowhegan that
she was going to Portland, and another
to Boston.
She evidently did not go to Auburn,
as when Mr.. Green failed to receive the
promised letter he instituted inquiries
J. Fl. Mitchell, state detective, who
has been assisting Mr.. Green in his search
for his wife, made a canvass of all the
factories in Auburn and Lewiston and
found no trace of Mrs. Green. He had
also visited other Maine cities without
being able to learn anything of the wom-
an.
She is 20 years old, weighs about 100
pounds, is light oomplexioned, with
light hair and light blue eyes. When
she left Skowhegan she wore new
navy blue sailor hats dark dress and
q black Jackets, somewhat worn. The
trunk which she took was an old-fash-
ioned leather affair, strapped with black
iron strips and plentifully studded with
, large brass nails. The valise she carried
] was of old-fashioned black leather.
Mrs. Green had not been well during
the winter, and the only explanation Of
her abandonment of her two children, ot
which she was very fond, is that she wa!
deranged.