The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-16
CASE OF ALLEGED MURDER.
NOTORIOUS Rose Carson Charged With
Shooting Her Husband.

Augusta, Juno 15.-There was case O
apparent murder at the Carson brotbel q
mile beyond the National Soldiers Homo
Iogus, and four miles from Augusta TO-
day. The victim is Everett NJ. White
Tuesday Deputy Sheriffs Rollins and
Ames searched the Carson House for
liquor, Selling two bottles of whlskey.
White was intoxicated and he and his
wife, Rose, had a row, she using a stove
hook for weapon. She got him down
in the road, in the melee, both losing a
portion of their clothes
Rose was taken before Judge Stevens
and discharged, as she said the liquor was
her husbands. She returned home, ar
irving at seven O'Clock in the evening. At
eleven O'Clock a messenger was sent to
the home for physician who, on arriv
ing, found White weltering in his own
gore with bullet hole through his left
temple. The man died at two O'Clock
Wednesday morning.
Rose says that White shot himself and
thatathere was no foul play, but the
officersa have another opinion and with
County Attorney George W. Hezalton,
who now is at the Carson house, are
probing the case to the bottom.
Coroner E. NJ. Henderson of Hallowell
was called and W. L. Searles, E. G.
Meader, Eugene Collins, Larkin Trask.
A. P. Gardiner and George Wooster were
impanelled as q coroner's jury. They are
examining witnesses. An autopsy is also
being held.
The woman, Rose, was formerly Rose
Carson. This was her third husband.
Both recently were discharged from jail
| where they had served several months for
rumselling. Tuesday, when the officer
was at the house he tried to quiet White,
who said the only way to keep him still
was to shoot him. The mother of Rose
and a man named John Ryan were at the
place all night, but Rose claims that the
latter was up stairs vixen the shooting
occurred.
Tho section where the tragedy occurred
is one of the most notorious in Kenuebec
county, and this adds one more crime 10
the long list which have made this place
famous
| White was formerly of Hallowell, where
his parents now reside, his father being
employed in the shoe factory.
| MRS. WHITE HELD.
| Hallowell, June 10. Mrs. White is held
pending an investigation by the officials.
A coroner's inquest announced to be held
this noon, was postponed to Thursday
and in the meantime Surgeons Elwell
and Hunt of the National Soldiers home
at Togus, will make post mortem AK
animation. The Whites home is off the
Hallowell road through Togus, situated
| near George Carson's. White and his
W fe traf1icked in liquor and have but re-
GENTLY spent year in Jail upon this ac-
count. The deceased had for number
of years worked in the Hallowell shoe
| factories. leaving this employment and
marrying Rosa Carson Is months ago,
the woman having been married to
Joseph A. Day, from whom she was di
vorced, and Augustus Woods, from whom
| she separated. The household consisted
Of White his wife, Mrs. George Carson,
the wife's mother and John Regain, a
! boarder, who had a room in the second
story.
Yesterday afternoon officers raided
Whites premises and obtained liquor,
and Mrs. White was obliged to go before
Judge Stevens of Chelsea in relation to
the same, returning home between and
| 9 O'Clock in the evening. Mrs. White
| claims that her husband was in the yard
in the rear of the house when she returned
home, that they went into the house to-
gether. her husband going directly into
the bed room, while she commenced get
| ting supper. Within ten minutes, Mrs.
White claims, she heard shot from the
bed room into which she rushed, finding
her husband lying across the centre of the
bed, he having been shot in the left
| temple DR.. Hunt of the National home
was called and dressed the wound, White
dying at about O'Clock this morning.
Regain, the boarder, makes the statement
that he heard loud words between White
and his wife, that he recognized thsir
voices and heard threats of killing from
the woman while the man dared her to
do it. this being followed by pistol shot
or shots.