The Portland daily press., 1898-05-19
Wentworth Hall, State Reform School.

land police, the fact of peculiar
tattooing on the mans arm materially
aiding in his Identification. Here the
matter rested waiting developments.
Several parties had heard pistol shots In
the vicinity of where the man was found
on the Sunday evening prior to the dis
covery Of the body. Mr.. Thomas A.
Cakes, and Mr.. Joseph Carr in charge of
the Grand Trunk draw. claimed to have
seen three men go over the bridge. on
Sunday morning, and one of them re-
turned. This man Mr.. Cakes described
and his description answered Kennedy's.
and he also said the man wore a dirty
white oyereoat
Finally Sheriff Plummer and Deputy
ID arshal Firth got these facts.
About two years ago Kennedy was here
and was on his way to Lewiston. He
reached the Falmouth station, and there
had talk with Mr.. a. N. Stone, who
was then station master, ticket seller and
freight agent of the little station. To
him Kennedy applied for assistance, and
got, according TO the evidence in the
possession of Sheriff Plummer, good adj
vice, an exhortation to do better and an
object lesson in Mr.. Stone himself. who
told him that he had worked up from
nothing, had raised q family and was in
comfortable circumstances. Mr.. Stone
took the wanderer to his house and gave
him some food. 10 reach the house thew
passed down the track short distance
from the. station, and then across the field
about two hundred feet to the cosy home
OF the station agent. That home is very
nicely kept cottage and noticeably hand
some little place. ~
Evidently when Kennedy went ava y
it was with the idea that Mr.. Stone was
well OIL and kept money in the house.
He was gone from Portland some time
and when he returned short time ago
WIN tramp companion, he made the
acquaintance Of several crooks, and from
evidence in the sheriff's possession it is
evident that plan was made to break
and enter Mr.. Stones house in Falmouth.
Mr.. Stone In the meantime had resigned
his Grand Trunk position, fact Ken
nedy could not have known. and if WAC
decided by the gang that Kennedy should
go to Falmouth and locate Stones place
again. Kennedy went to Lewiston. taking
with him, beside his own coat. a reefer
and an overcoat belonging to one of his
companions. That overcoat was rihad
by the sheriff to be dirty white ri WAC
largely by this GOAT that Kennedy's move
ments were traced, and it was donbtyass
the same overcoat that Mr.. Cakes refer,ed
to after Kennedy's dead body was fon,,a
The Lewiston police officers knew Ken.
needy we'll, and his photo was identif,.d
by them as Daniel Kennedy of Lvnn ~
name he registered at the Lewiston no1,oo
station when getting lodging Nav 9TH
and he then had the dirty white oyerco.t
with him AID N. A. Dodge spoke Of ~
He was recognized by several Lewiston
citizens the next morning.
According to the evidence discovered by
Sheriff Plummer and Mr.. Firth, Kennedy
beat his way from Lewiston to a point
about the Falmouth station, where he
dropped off and proceeded to make him.
self familiar with Mr.. Stones cottage.
OF course he tho ught all the time that
Mr.. Stone was living there. Mr.. and Mrs.
g. II. Hill saw him and fix the time as
May oth' Further, Mrs Hill remembers
he had on dirty white overcoat. From
there Messrs Plummer and Mr.. Firth
are certain that he walked to Portland,
arriving Thursday afternoon or evening,
May 9th. From that day until Sunday
he stayed anaut Portland drinking and