Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-15
ARouMrs1s in run
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tuhS' Whit was sOtng to be done and
tricu 10 get an interview with him. and
McNally tells YOU that he turned him n,r
and IL there Is anything that Will make
reporter mad when he wants somethinr
n to ossn nr y + a to tell him to mind his
mad then. icNany tcis S, Nou t mto Wsc =
he ley hin, Mccoac said '.You will hear
from me before YOU die" or words to that
effect: Now McCOne says that is not true.
ana tncre we are again, and, gentlemen. If
the remarkat.e argument of my distin-
SuisnS ,. 9r .ner made the impression up
then the sanity McCone told the truth
aud the wicked Mentally lied,
.'oN nave we any facts here i'm this
car. which will let your minds see who
tot dcnunciation or abuse: facts that will
throw light on this subject as to whether
McCone was angry with Mentally or not?
Let us see what he did. Mentally tells
YOU that from that moment when he left
him with that remark and went to the
hotel to the present time. he never has
spoken to McCone nor has McCone spoken
10 him. and McCone went on the stand
anu he did not say that he had ever
spoken to him since in any way shape or
manner. II is possible that McCone has
been IN the company of others and heard
McNallN speak. but so far as conversation
Is concerned or intercourse there has been
none and the last word that McCone
ever spoke to Mentally was: You will
hear from me before you die, and he
heard from him the very next day. don't
know whether he thought he was going
to die very soon. but he didn't wait long
before he was heard from.
Now let us see what McCone says about
McNally. | don't care gentlemen which
you believe. there is enough in that first
article of onions did it. when you take
Ia TO consideration with it the facts that
ARE settled in this case we so along.
to satisfy you that the whole of these
proceedings. the whole of this effort to
bring Foster Nelson TO Justice. originated
with McNally. You believe that. Vilea
didn't start this and he doesn't claim he
did, For weeks McNally was going
through the work to bring this home to
The Nelson's. and at last he had gone away
up into another county, following this
man there. and at last he had gone to
Mr.. Goodrich's where the onions had been
stolen. And he had gone out into the field
and examined the tracks and he saw one
OF peculiar character. and he tells you
that lie Immediately went home and into
Nelson field where he knew Nelson had
been and examined some tracks there,
and that was the first evidence in this
case that brought these depredations
home to Nelson. Then McNally was sat
listed that he had found the proof that
hc was after No doubt about that He
had done it all. Here was this poor devil
,loing his level best. working night and
day, sick with the rheumatism. making
this discovery. and then McCone pub
lished this article. Now that paper came
out on Saturday morning. About noon OF
Friday. less than "a hours before that.
McCone had said to McNally: You will
near from me before you ule. NOW ie.
us see what he says. Don't you suppose
McCone knew this man did this hunting
up? Nilcs had never SAID 10 Mct one; l
did TINS business. no nor leu nun 10 pc
leve that he was the ORIGINATOR OF II ana
successful dscoverer of the man who had
stolen the onions. although 1t was III ms
county. And this paper comes out and
says: Sheriff Niles does Il good job in
this ii.
does poor McNaily come IN? lie hasn
done anything. But Mentally. as Niies
states on the stand. first wrote to Niles;
not NileS to McNa!lN, telling nm ne h;ld
found out something i'll Somerset. as ne
had in his own county. And then Viies
made an arrangement with McNaliy for
meeting on Tuesday before this. and
their plans were made. Viles was to come
down. At that time they had no proof
against Nelson of anything but the tracks
at. Goodrich's that were examined by
McNaly and so Nilcs came with war
rant for the arrest of course. And the
very hrst word that is given to the com
munity by this kennebec Journal upon
this subject is: sheriff Niles does Il good
job in breaking up this lawless crowd.
Any motive in this man for writing an
article of that kind? But that is the head
line. and you may say it WAS put in by the
editor in the Office Suppose he did. They
tell you ii is his duty to look over articles
that come in. He looked it over in this
case and found what the principal points
ing. and from an examination of the COM
munication that they had from their
agent they drew the conclusion that Ni!es
did this instead of McNally and they
drew the right conclusion. too. because
the article warrants that conclusion.
They say part of this was written before
the thing occurred. But we didn't know
it when we read the article and we put it
in the wit to make the proper connec-
tons. and that portion is this: Deputy
Sheriff McNally of CLIFTON in i<ennebec
county went to work on the case. and to
no little extent is responsible for the re-
suit of today's work. And my brother
says that that is complimentary: that
they wrote ii before the thing occurre d
not then knowing that the result would
be- that he would let him escape; that
they were making him responsible for the
result they thought was to ne brought
about. We didn't know anything about
that Then the article goes on to say:
'lt was necessary fer Sheriff Eilcs to have
the cooperation of Deputy Sheriff Nc
Nally.' not that it was necessary for
Sheriff McNaly to have the cooperation
of Nies. which was the truth. McNally
bad discovered the criminal ard he had
first communicated with Niles and told
him he wanted his cooperation and he
wanted him to bring IL warrant from