Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-30
TWO SUSPICIOUS MEN
Arrested at Bangor-Are They Connected With
a Woodstock. N. B.. Break.

On Wednesday night, Patrolman
Reagan arrested a pair of men whom
he picked up on his beat, and brought
them to City hall. Both of them were
intoxicated to a slight degree. One of
them was white and the other was a
,nulatto. They gave the names of
Chas. Mitchell of Massachusetts and
Lorenzo Murphy. who said he came
from Brooklyn. They were at once
put into confinement.
When the headquarters man searched
he pair he found on Mr. Lorenzo Muir
ply some documents that greatly in
terested him. They interested him so
deeply that he put them carefully into
| an envelope and sent them into the
rival in the morning.
| When the chief came he looked over
| the papers. There were two in the en-
| yelope. One of them was clipping
from New Brunswick newspaper.
named The Sentinel" and evidently
published in Woodstock. 1t gave an
account of the robbery of house in
that city.
The Sentinel stated that on a certain
forenoon two men, a white and a negro,
were discovered in dwelling house by
the only persons at home that time, a
couple of young girls. The girls made
some attempt at driving off the house,
breakers, whereupon the white one
made an assault upon her, in the
course of which she was knocked down
and much bruised. The pair went
through some clothing and took there
from $i2. with which they made their
escape. Later, they We're arrested and
at the time at which the Sentinel went
| TO press on the day the clipping was
originally printed, We're brought into
| court to be tried. Unfortunately the
| Sentlnels city editor was not sharp
enough to have his reporters discover
the names of the prisoners. Hence the
difficulty in tracing the relation be-
tween the clippings and the men now
ut Bangor City hall.
This is where the second document
comes in.
This consists of dirty sheet of writ
ing paper. folded many times until it is
creased all out of shape. Upon if are
set of propositions something like
this:
How can the two girls identity use
known the way into that house?'
WI hat did we do with the S12?"
What all this means cannot be told
unless 1t was something of a defence
which the men made up while they
were awaiting trial in Woodstock. TLe
mention of the two girls and of the
exact sum OF money taken from tb4
house. lends color to the belief that q
pair of bard characters is caught. A,
the end of each proposition. ali al
which are numbered into regular list
are the letters Il" or .R." though
what they mean nobody can tell. Prob.
ably they mean nothing. All Of this
writing is scrawled and much is hard
ly legible
. The date of the break in Woodstocl
IS not known. but it must have beer
some time ago by the looks of thf
). CHIPPING from the Sentinel. At tba,
time the two young girls posi,ivel,
Identified the men as the pair which
robbed stheir house. The house he.
ionged to Mr.. Joseph Scribner. VIII,
was absent at the time of the bre,k
The entrance was effected thrm,gb ~.
J cellar-way to the basement and tbenn.
: u the main floor
Mitchell and Murphy have ,ntbi,
!, 10 say about themselves and hay,
ahered no explanation Of the ,,innio,
ara us striking relation to the1neeiycs.