The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-30
WHO IS THE THIRD.
Another Arrest Looked for in Parsons
field Case.

SaIu IL WOuld Be-Falmer ana savage
Said to Have Confessed to Several
Burglaries.
Biddeford, October 80 County At
torney Emmons and Sheriff Hurd went
to West Parsonsfeld and Effingham, N.
H.. yesterday to verify the statements of
Frank ]. Palmer and Charles B. Savage
regarding the disposition made of the s4
that both boys said was hidden in
Sayage's barn. The officials were sue
cessful in finding th money.
Savage has changed in his mood today
and Is inclined to be more serious, still
he does not app ear to realize that he is
being held by the authorities as an ac-
cessory before the fact and that he will
have to spend his days behind prison bars
If convicted. 1t is very evident from b is
talk and from his actions that he ex-
pected to get off free by turning states s
evidence and placing the entire respon-
sibility on Palmer. He has admitted that
certain portions of Palmer's story that
differed from his are substantially cor.
rect
Sheriff Hurd intimated that still an
other arrest may be made in few days.
In spite Of the confession of Palmer,
Coroner Bradbury of Saco is of the
opinion that the murder was not pre-
meditated but that it was dons on the
spur of the moment. To him everything
upholds the theory that he has. In the
first place the story that was told by
Savage at the inquest was materially
different from that told when ha made
his alleged confession. From the coroner's
standpoint the confession came at
moment when Savage was unguarded
and fur that reason at time when he
would not have time to make up story
and so told the affair as it actually hap
pened.
Another thing that leads the coroner
to think that Savage was selling the
truth when he broke down at the inquest
IL that had the deed been planned over
night the two boys would not have CON-
sentsd to chop the wood for Mrs Hobbs
and do other kindly acts while at the
same time they had murder in their
hearts. The wood chopping was done
out of doors In full sight of the road at
a time when chill 1ren on their way to
school wonld be likely to be passing. 1t
is reasoned that an older person might
have taken such risk had he had
murder In his heart, but in the case of
young boys we'll acquainted with the
neigh hborhood and the habits of the
people living there, the deed could never
have been SO planned.
There is some speculation by those In
terested insthe case as to who is meant
by Sheriff Hurd in his statement that
another arrest might be made in few
days. Those of the local people who have
followed the matter up believe that no
one else than the younger brother of
Savage ia meant. The only grounds that
have thus far been shown are his being
an accessory after the fact. since he had
been acquainted with the deed from be
ing told b7 his older brother.
County Attorney Emmons has re-
turned after having secured the sigma
lures to the testimony and that is now
in Coroner Brad bury's hands and will be
filed with the clerk of courts in duo
season.
The county attorney has the case all
cleaned up now and ready for final dis
position at the January term. though it
has taken considerable time and travel
to do 1t.
1t is understood that Palmer has con-
fessed that he and Savage were connected
with the burglary of the PaIsonsfield
post office last August and there are rea-
sons to believe that they may have besn
Responsible for other burglaries from
which that town has recently suffered.
County Attorney Emmons has no doubt
that Palmsr's confession Is substantially
trus and that robbery was the motive.
He had worked up good deal of circum-
stantial evidence which might have been
important had Savage rot confessed.
He says that he should not have
dropped the case until definite verdict
had been reached. although it is true
that the coroner had drawn up one to
the effect that parties unknown ad
committed the orime.
The steamer Worsley Hall, placed on
mud flats off South Brooklyn, with fire
in her cargo, has been hauled off and
towed to pier SO, North river, New York.