The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-09-19
Burial Of The Murdered North SacO
Farmer.
THE REMAINS NOT EXPOSED TO
PUBLIC GAZE.
Ivory T. Boothby's Exemplary Life
Praised by tho Omciating CIergym an
Saco Police Officers Still Chasing Clues
-Coroner's Inquest to be Held Today.
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| Saco, September 1S.--All the country
roads leading to North Saoo were much
travelled today. Vehicles of every des-
cription, coming from all points of the
| compass. were headed for the old Boothby
homestead, on the Hearn road, where the
funeral of Ivory EF. Boothby, the victim
of the North Saco murder was to be held.
| When the funeral services began there
were no less than 800 people gathered
about the premises. Not half of them
could get within the sound of the minis
ter's voice. Nearly one hundred horses
were standing within sight of the house,
hitched. to fences and trees. Both sides
ofsthe lane, from the front yard to the
Hern road, were lined with Carriages and
farm wagons, packed as closely as they
| could stand.
Coroner II. G. Bradbury Of Saco, who
is O cousin of the murdered mar, had gen.
eral charge of the funeral and the off1ciat-
| ing Clergyman was Rev. J.EH. Mugridge,
| pastor of the Heath church. A quartette
| from that church was also in attendance.
| Before the services began the relatives
and intimate friends of the family were
accorded the privilege Of viewing the res
mains, but after, the crowd began to
gather the casket was closed and remained
SO till it reached its.fnal resting place in
the family burial lot at Dunstan corner,
Scarboro. The two revolver wounds and
the work of the surgeons knife in the
performance of the atopsy had left the
Il ,fS,l,1 IL
and the two brothers decided not to ex-
pose the remains to the gaze Of everybody
who came.
The pastor dwe1t opon the uncertainty
of life, commented on the method en-
ployed by he..murderer to lure his victim
out into the darkness, and paid high
tribute to the character of the deceased.
Many of those who attended the funeral
drove from tine Boothby homestead to the
scene of the murder. At one time so
many teams and people were standing in
the narrow road near the little bridge
where the dead body had been found that
the thoroughfare was completely blocked,
and City Marshal Burns was Obliged to
open passage through.
While the funeral was in progress some
body brought in word that q man sup
posed to be the murderer of Mr.. Boothby
had been arrested at Clark Mills, Hol-
lis. Marshal Burns and Officer johnson
drove to Clark's Mills but found that the
story was 3 hoax. man wearing
pointed toed shoes had passed through the
village, and his presence IN town was
the basis of the rumor. He ha d no diff
Guilty in satisfying the curious ones that
he was not the person for whom the Off
GERS Of the county are searching.
A Saco man " ho has just gone to work
in the North Saco neighborhood found
himself called upon today to account for
his doings since last Wednesday after
noon. He was able to prove satisfactory
alibi.
Nathan Wade, the wood chopper, who
has been camping out in the Hern woods,
and whom the officers detained the day
after the murder till he had satisfied them
that he was at Frank Dyer's house when
he murder was committed, has abandoned
his camp and gone to Buxton in search
of work. He did not like the attitude of
the Notrh Saco people toward him. He
left word that he should not go SO far
away as to be out of easy reach in case he
is wanted again.
Coroner Bradbury will continue his IN
quest tomorrow. Among the witnesses
summoned is Warren Mason, the Bar
Mills farmer, who gave suspicious look
ing tramp ride to Portland on the
morning after the murder. 1t is desirious
that his testimony should be recorded,
for the benefit of the officers who are
working on the case. .asss t.
Coroner Bradbury believes that only
robbery was intended by the man who
called Mr.. Boothby out into the lonely
road that night, and that not till the at