Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-23
SHE WAS A HEROINE.
Pretty May Gagne and How Reluctantly She
Accompa panied Lewiston Officer.

| Lewiston. March 23.-Policeman Maxim,
| Bolieu of Lewiston had an exciting tim
in escorting a pretty l5-years-old cir
from a boarding-hoase up at Chisholm.
| Mills this week. a family named Gagnt
| moved from that place TO Lewiston no
| long ago. and the flower of the family
| a girl of womanly stature. but still in hei
teens. decided to stay behind for few
days. and visit friends.
Her mother wrote that she had better
| come, but the girl wrote back that il
that she thought it best to stay. This
alarmed the mother. and she went VI
there. Instead of finding her daughter
at the home of friend she learned that
she had gone to live at a boarding house
She was advised by Rev. Father Horar
to take her daughter home. but it was an
other thing to. get her to go. She would
take neither the advise of her mother OF
the priest. Instead, she hid in the neigh
borhood till her mother had gone away
again. The distracted woman told the
whole story to Policeman Bolieu who
went up there Friday.
He wore citizen clothes and went to the
house early in the forenoon and asked for
lodgings. The boarding mistress told hin,
she had no room for him, then he asked
for dinner. but was advised to go to "a
hotei. and a young man was detailed to
go out with him and find one.
But after talking with the guide for a
while the officer decided to go back into
the house. He sat down in the sitting
room where he could look through into
a young lady rocking in a chair and sew
ing.
us that Mary Gange?" he asked of the
landady.
YES
Il want to talk with her.
And out he went. Mary was alarmed
when he introduced himself as from
Lewiston. and was deadly pale when he
said that he was a policeman. But when
he spoke in her own mothers tongue and
said that he had come to escort her back
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She explained that she was contented
where she was, and was making a living
by assisting in the work about the house
and she preferred to stay.
The officer said: Il cannot help it. I
do not want to make a scene here. l do
not want to drag you to the depot.
Hadn't :as you better come with me?"
Well. shall nave to carry you to the
depot them
This made the girls eyes flash and she
who might take a hand in it. Just then
the men came in from work. There were
one or two who recognized the Lewiston
recognized. But this did not prevent
them from saying that the girl shouldn't
go out of the house unless she wanted
hearty. sat down to dinner and began to
discuss the question. The more they
talked about it the madden they got, and
n ma y one said that the man who car
will should do it in spite of the crowd.
1t began to look squally for the officer
About this time the landlady> began to
grow shaky. She advised her boarders
not to interfere and told the girl that
she had better go. BoIieu told the men
simply that he had come for the girl and
that If they interfered he would take
them one and all. The girl was now wor-
ried ard said she would go. She came
in, last night, on the 4.30 train, and went
to her mothers.
He left her sitting on the floor at her
mothers feet. sobbing, with her face in
her mothers hands in her lap.