Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-27
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Annie X. Patterson has made claim
OF $4,000 damages against Rockland on
| account Of injuries received, May Is,
by reason Of defect in brick side
walk.
from Alfred Jail last December, was
captured at Kennebunk. Tuesday, by
o. F. Stackpole Of Biddeford. and re-
turned to the county institution. ;
Gerry Chase, who until within few
weeks has been employed as brakeman
on Bangor & Aroostook freight train,
was arrested at Dover. Monday, on the
charge of leaving an unpaid board bill
of $40 at Old Town.
The new Congregational church at
Ellsworth Falls was formally dedica-
ted, Tuesday. One of the features of
the exercises was the presentation to
the church of an elegant silver COM
munion set by Mrs. Alice Tapley in
memory of her mother.
Warren Montgomery, who escaped
from the county Jail at Alfred, last
December, recently came to Kenne-
bunk and secured work as a farm
hand. Monday, he was captured by o.
F. StackpOle of Biddeford and today
was transported to the county seat to
| finish out his sentence.
Howard Bunker of West Sullivan,
who escaped from the police station at
Bar Harbor, Sunday. was captured by
Sheriff l.. F. Hooper of Ellsworth,
Tuesday forenoon at a store near West
Trenton. He was brought to Els
worth, where he will be confined in the
county Jail until taken to Bar Harbor
for hearing before Trial Justice Clark.
Capt. Aaron B. Leavitt, who lived at
Saco Ferry. died, Wednesday, after a
few days sickness, aged "a. Although
he was fast nearing the century mark
he usually enjoyed the best of health,
and was as strong and vigorous as a
man of so. He was born in Scarboro
and from boyhood followed the sea.
His wife and seven children survive
him.
Nadeau, the outlaw, who is serving a
sentence at Alfred Jail for his little
trouble with Deputy Marshal Prescott,
is one of the hardest working men at
the Jail. For the past few days he has
been helping the other prisoners haul
lumber, which will be used to repair
the barn. Nadeau is looking well and
since he has been out doors has i'm
proved considerably.
In the North Berwick case of Rhodes
VS.. Varney, an action to recover dam
ages for injuries received while en-
ployed in a sawmill, owing to alleged
carelessness on the part of the defend
ant, the jury at Alfred, returned YER
dict, Wednesday, in the sum of 1920.
The defendants attorney has filed
motion for a new trial on the ground
that the verdict is against the evidence.
The crayon portraits swindlers, who
have been defrauding hotel keepers
and others in different parts Of east
e1n Maine, were reported in Plymouth.
wednesday, and the landlord of the
Robinson house in Bucksport, where
they owe big bill was notified by tele-
graph. A hunt will be made immediate
ly for the crooks who have swindlad
hundreds of people in various parts OF
Maine.
In the United States district court at
Portland, Tuesday, Wallace Wilson of
Braintree Mass, filed bill in equity
against the Wiscasset & Quebec Rail-
road praying the court to decree to
him bonds to the amount of $125,000 in
accordance with an agreement made
by the company with him. A. Nj.
Spear of Gardiner was the counsel
acting for Mr.. Wilson. The court or
dered hearing on request for an in
junction, the hearing to take place
Thursday, the 9th inst.
Perpole Company, No. %. of the
Uniform Rank of the Knights of
Pythias was mustered into the Maine
Brigade, at Pennington, Tuesday even
ing by Col. f. c. Milliken of Portland.
Grand Master of EXchequer of the
Grand Lodge of Maine. The company
numbered 33 men and It's selection o.
officers resulted as follows: Captain,
Charles A. Mahoney; list lieut.. Mellen
Hayes; I'd lieut., Charles E. Dyer of
trong; recorder Enoch w. Whitcomb;
treasurer, Will G. Gagne; guide,
Charles f. Davis; sentinel, Fred l..
Stevens.
Capt. Aaron B. Leavitt, one of Saco's
oldest residents, died at his home at
the Ferry. Tuesday afternoon. He was
Lorn in Scarboro in 1903, moving from
there to Saco when young man. He
followed the sea about 30 years, but
for the last half century has engaged
in farming. He formerly owned most
of the tract of shore property between
Ocean Park and the mouth of the Saco
river He was married three times,
and the father of sixteen children, of
whom seven are living. He was a
thorough Democrat, but took no very
active part in politics.
Sheriff Norton of Waldo county, has
sent out descriptions of VIM. j. Duen,
who is wanted at Belfast very badly,
indeed Duen stopped there for sew
e.al weeks during the spring and rep
resented that he was an insurance
agent. He secured about 20 applicl-
lions for policies in an accident conf
rany, and in each case collected 80 ii
the applicant as an advance fee. The
rolicies never came, nor did Duen.
Furthermore, he obtained $40 from the
bank on a forged draft. 1t is known
that Duen carried over 500 Illegally
gotten money out Of town, and the
sheriff thinks that not unlikely many
others are not advertising their losses.
Duen, it is learned. worked the same
game in other Maine places to some ex-