The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-04-18
ONE OF VICTIMS DEAD.
The Wateryille Stabbing Affray
a Murder.
auiron said, to Have Been Identined
by His Victim.

waterville, April I7.-At noon today
such excitement was manifest about the
strests and especially in the vicinity oi
the police station as result of the Wiz
slow stabbing ARRAY Saturday night,
that the officers commenced to be some
what alarmed for the safety OF tho two
men who are now In the lookup.
1t was not believed that thsrs would be
any attempt to get at the Quiron brothers
but so much feeling was displayed that IL
was not thought best to take them to the
court room.
SO the warrants were taken to the
station and read to the accused mon whiie
they were securely behind the bars.
At the hour when the warrants were
read. the death of Louis Brassua had not
occurred. The man died shortly after ehe
noon hour. Father Charland Oh 3D.
Patrick DE Sale church was hastily sum
moned when ID was seen that the man
could not live and reached his pensiae
lust In season to administer the sacra-
ment.
At three p. m. Monday 1t was an
nounced by the physicians in attendance
upop Handry Deroseby that he had been
fatally injured by the knife stabs. Inc
man is falling and will probably die In q
short time. With this probability that
the affair will result IN q double murder,
the details of the crime are being dis
cussed eagerly. Developments up to this
time indicate that the aTray was not only
brutal and bloody, but was also unpro-
yoked. 1t is not apparent by anything
that has been revealed up to data that tne
ASSISTANTS we're called upon to protect
themselves. 1t Is thought they were on
the contrary, the aggre sors.
All day several hundred OF the "insiow
residents In the sand Hill territory where
the affray took place have been on the
Streets of Waterville. They massed them
selves around the police station and as az
the time feeling ran especially high IL
WAS evident that it would not take very
much persuasion to set of their inflam-
mable French Canadian natures to some
desperate move in the matter.
1t was thought early in the afternoon
that Frank Quiron the alleged principal
would be given a hearing at Waterv1lie
prior to his committal to the jail at Au-
gusta.
But in view Of the excitement. on the
street and considering the fact that the
condition of the other victim is prsoarious
it was thought best to set the matter over
to Thursday, April 81, at ton o'clock. a.
m. County Attorney Heselton will
probably conduct the hearing at that
time. Frank and Joseph Quiron were
taken to Auguta Jail Monday afternoon
with an immense crowd following and
assembling at the railroad station.
There WAS much loud talk and the ex-
citement was intensified but there were
no overt acts of evidence offered.
1t is interesting to note that the affair
occurred as a direct result Of the attempt
to properly introduce Mrs. Joseph Four
nier into the society of Sand Hill people
in the town of Winslow. Several
thousands of the employees of the Lock
wood mill live here. Mrs. Fournier Is n
new arrival on the hill and her husband
thought that 1t would be a good idea to
have a dance and invite in some of the
neighbors.