Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-30

North VASE Shore, Aug. (Spaciap.
Thomas Donahue, 81 years old, .
feet ard ) inches or Whereabouts.
weighing about f45 pounds, wearing d
dark SUN OF clothes and without hat.
unless ne has secured one since last
night, is wanted in this town very bad.
II is possible 4hat by the time this
story catches the eye Of the reader,
Donahue may ne wanted for murder.
Al this writing. Thomas Ney, u years
OLD and married, though no one knows
where his family is lies at the point of
de1eh from knife wound received at
tne hands Of the said DOnahue, lasi
ngh;. during general, all round free
fight.
TIE details Of the crime THAI has been
committed in this usually quiet Little
burEh are as follows: Saturday was pay
day In tne VassaIboro wooden mills ana
at once. after indulging in the usual
tea after work hours, a number of the
operatives of the mills SCI out 10 haVa
good time They had the time aaG
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looking for the man qhat stabbed Ney
one Of their number. Several men. all
operatives in the WOODEN mill, went out
upon a spree, ami az about s o'clock,
IL or 20 Of them gathered at the sup
posed TO be grocery store of Albert
Simpson Simpson runs a bar on the
inside ana it is said that the drinks
tiowed freely for a time.
Thomas Ney. Who was one OF the
Jewellers, had sung a song ana was
about % sing another when for some
reason a qOw started. Ney says that
he does moi remember what the row
was about, but that the row became
general ana for few moments about
IS We're in the ring for blood The re-
SUIT; Thomas Ney got what the doe
Jurs say is his death wound, Timothy
Finnegin got a cut on the leg an
breast. ard James Carr0uthers WAS
stabbed in the hand
The widest excitement ensued. there
was struggling and fighting and LOUD
cursing tnat fairly made the Amos
PAere blue. When che smoke of battle
cleared away it was found that Ney
The most seriously injured. had been
stabbed in the abdomen ana on tn
riSht leg back of the thign.
He was removed to his boarding
place by Officers Whitney and Thomas,
who came early upon fhe SEEM. Don
anue was nowhere to be found al
though il is stated that he was seen
around the church at . o'clock and that
ne made the talk that If anyone at
tempted to arrest him he would pa;
the knife into them. Celia Money, age
II, tells the Journal thar She saw Don
ahue at the church at the time specified
above and Miss Carrie Priest corrob-
CRATES that statement as she was VITA
Miss MeNey a., tae time
Or. Hall was called to attend the in |
jured man and he at once saw that the |
wound was bad one. He found thai |
the knife had penetrated the abdomen |
and tle intes'.iGes. making a woun |
that made an operation necessary Dr. |
Hall made the man as comfortable as |
possible ana turned the case over 10 |
the town physician, DR.. Maylbcrry, who |
in turn summoned DR.. F. c. Tnayer Of |
Waterville. DIR. Thayer did not arrive
acre urkn 80 this afternoon, ana Thea
he was accompanied by DR. j. f. HIll
and DR.. Merton Bessey.
DR.. Thayer at once proceeded to PEI
form the necessary operation to deter
mine the extent of The injury and
found tAas one intestine had been
punctured, necessitating two stitches
to close it. DR.. Thayer told the Journal
that The chances against the man arc
nine out of ten.
AT o'clock Ney xegained conscious
ness and seemed to rally considerably,
but DR.. Mayberry, who was called al
once, said That ii was only a question
of a few hours before death would
ensue.
Officer Whitney who says that he
got to the store early after the fight
began tells the Journal:
When | got there the most of the
crowd was on the outside but there
were still some on the inside. / came
upon man named Kalberg, who APP
peared to be verv drunk and / took
hold of his shoulder and told him to go
home. | did this to several in the
as ] got within few feet of the door
Of the store officer Thomas appeared,
and, as he was the oldest officer. / let
him go ahead. He pulled open the
door and went in and l followed him.
BY this time everybody had got out of
the store. We thought that we heard
groans from near the rear of the store
and we went in the direction OF the
sound. We found that Ney had been
stabbed and then thrown out of the
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