Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-02-20
DAILY krNNIlHEC JoURNAIA MONDAY. FEBRUARY 20 1893

which knight repeated "She drove M
!, to it, land asserted that all Of what n
had told was true. the Journal man lef1
| him alone. saying Il will see you Of
i the train and II there's anything else
you wish to tell me. I'll take It down.
IAN right. Good bye. I'll think Y
over"
During the forenonn. Reuben and Al
fred Small. who had come into the VII
! lage to 20 to Gardiner after their sis
| ters remains, were again seen by the
Journal man. On being told thai
Knight had been captured and was
then In the lookup. Reuben said:
| Thank God for that. l hope he will
suffer the penalty. I'm glad he's
| caught, too, because must go back t
| Brunswick, and ] couldn't leave the
family without some protection from
| him. for / believe that il he had not
been found. he would have murdered
some of the rest of US"
| Quinn knight, brother OF Bradford
also came into the village, and had
conferences with his brother and the
| officers. He had little new to tell, be-
yond what has already been said. He
| has the letters to which Bradford
Knight referred. saying that they
| would prove Mamie Small's intimacy
with him and it understood that Quinn
saws his brothers statement Is correct.
They will undoubtedly appear at the
trial.
THE TRIP TO AUGUSTA.
City Marshal Drake of Gardiner, ar
rived on the 1912 train. and was soon
closeted with Sheriff McFadden. The
prisoner was given into his custody, and
was ironed and taken to the depot In
season to take the 11.57 train for Au-
gusta, as it had been decided TO hold
him there until the hearing at least
The usual crowd gathered to see the
prisoner. who unconcernedly bore their
gaze and remarks. At the depot some
200 or 300 people gathered. Knight was
taken to the baggage room until the
train arrived.
A sad incident was that his little IL
years-old daughter Bertha was in the
ladies' room. going on the same train
to Augusta to her mother. The little
girl was nearly ,heartbroken and SOB
bed as though she could not stand the
torture.
A photographer snapped his camera
on knight as he stood with Marshal
Drake in front OF the crowd. just as
the train came in.
Once seated in the smoking car.
knight seemed 10 show a feeling Of re-
lief that he was away from his towns
people The journal man sat beside
l.i ~ = hx. iris. nd
else but the officers did he speak a
word. although he talked freely and al
most all the time. The Journal man
said
rs there anything else that you
would like to say. Mr.. Knight"
Il don't know that there is. I told
you lots and It's all So
Have you any objections to telling me
tow you went home?'
NO. guess not. came down pretty
near South Gardiner on the railroad and
then went out into the country. ! can't
tell just where | left the railroad, but
somewhere there. ! dont know just what
time | got home, but IL was before day
light. 1t was awful hard walking and
sweat my clothes through so that | was
cold for long time.
Where did you go. on reaching home?.'
II went TO Quinn's ths brother,. He
wasn't there and his wife didn't want me
to come In. so | went 10 my own home
but 1t was cold
Did you tell her about what you ha
done?"
Yes. did. They know it,"
The Journal man turned TO Sheriff Me-
Fadden and Marshal Drake sitting oppo-
site in the double seat and told them that
Knight said he had told his brother and
family OF having killed Mamie Small. aud
as he finished. Knight bent his head IN
affirmation
The Journal man then asked: Were
you in the Universalist vestry as the Car
diner people thought
mo, I was not | didn't go into any
building. l left my coat somewhere
don't know where. The snow was deep
and | was tired. so took 1t off and threw
Ii down. Then l went down through Wa
ter street to the railroad and walked
home as fast as | could
Did you meet anyone you knew"
NO. but met some people. No one
spoke to me. l got home just as soon as
| could | wasn't trying to escape.
knew they'd be after me and didn't care
if they did come
Did you think OF suicide?"
"A great many times. I've not cared
to live for the past six months. I've had
much trouble If it hadn't been for
my wife and children, and here his voice
again broke with sobs. 81 should have
killed myself months ago. for don't care
snap for my life
did you intend to kill yourself after
killing Mamie:''
Yes, ! did. l always intended. if l
should kill her. to kill myself. | meant
to after | got home. this morning, and
would If it hadn't been for Quinn. And
then when you fellows drove by l meant
to. and you were lucky not to find me
dead. When your team drove into my
yard. | still meant TO- but / got sort of
illustrated and nervous over the officers
coming and kind of forgot it. | wasn't
afraid. but forgot, sort of. what | was
going to do. The whole thing seems
kinder dreamlike. Lots of it I don't re.
member but | know | did something AMI
am here for it.
did you mean to kill Mamie? Were
you looking for hero
mo. didn't. met her by accident Oh
the street with a boy | tried to talk with