The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-09-19
It Was Primarily an Ac-
cident,
Men Concerned Afterwards
Hired Body Removed.
rsrrclAL TO THE PRESS,

Bangor. Sept 49, Yesterday was tbs
anniversary Of the killing.of Sarah Ware
of Bucksport ont Of The nest perplexirp
murder mysteries that the State has ereI
known, and one which has baffled the
brightest minds in the State, skilled In
the unravelling CT crime Sarah Ware
was a widow living with Mrs william
Miles in a little house en- the outskirts OF
the village Mrs. Miles was also q widow.
On the night of Saturday, September IL,
1898. Sarah Ware told Mrs. Miles she
would go to town to make some purchases
at FogR's store, not more than third Of
miles from the Miles house by TAXI nq
the path through the fields usually fol-
lowed by the woman in visiting that To-
cality. Mrs. Miles says that she noticed
the Intense darkness Of the night and ad.
vised Sarah to remain indoors, but the
latter laughed at all fears and departed
early In the evening.
Sarah called at the house Of John Bull
duo, one of her fast friendss who often
helped her when she needed money.
From there she went to the Fogg store,
200 feet down the road, and bought some
small articles. for which she took money
from her hand satchel, her constant COM
panion and the repository of all her par
ticularly valuable papers, and her funds.
Saying that she was going home
through the fields, Sarah left the store.
So far as is admitted she was never again
seen alive.
house nor was she seen again on the
streets of Buoksport. Mrs. Miles says
she worried about her O little but felt
sure that she had only gone away for
time on one Of her eccentric excursions
such as had happened before. However,
Mrs. Miles said little about the disap-
pearanne of the woman until almost two
weeks later. Then, on Saturday. she
mentioned 1t SO that 1t came to the ears
Of the cfficials On Sunday, Oct. 9, one
OF the searching parties organized In
Bucksport for the purpose, found the de-
composed body of woman on the hilltop
1910 feet from the Miles house In a pas
ture. The remains lay in tiny enclosure
in the midst of an alder growth SO thick
that access to IL could be had through
but a single path, leading from the lare
which led to tie hilltop from the main
road.
The first story was that the woman had
become demented, wandered away and
died of heart failure. 1t didn't take long
to show the atsurdity Of that. and then
the criminal experts were put upon the
case. All their efforts were in vain and
one after another Of the most skilled de-
tectives in Maine gave up the hunt, conn.,
plstsly bafiled at every turn. Still GER
tain citizens OF Bucksport kept on, prob
ing here and probing there, until at last
came the confession of Joseph Fogg, a
weak-minded young man. 1t was found
that he had told several persons before
the body was found that he had helped a
man move corpse In Buoksport three
days after the murder. He also told
whose the body was and who helped him
move 1t. The body was that of Sarah
Ware, the man who helped him was one
William I. Treworgy. Trsworgy was
arrested on the strength of Fogg's evil
dence and committed to jail. Later Fogg
made most remarkable retraction In the
Office Of the first sslectman OF Bucksport.
The retraction was accepted as truth with
remarkable readiness, and Treworgy was
released. Fcgg was sent to jail for per-
jury.
In jail he retracted his retraction and,
when called upon, retracted that. The
outcome of 1t all was that Treworgy was
not indicted. having been released when
Fogg went back on his confession.
The very strength of Rogg's evidence
lay In the fact that he told his story of
moving the body before 1t was discovered.
This the authorities seemed to overlook
In the retraction and re-retraction of FJoe
Fogg.
With the release of Treworgy the case
was apparently dropped. but those prying
Bucksport citizens were not so easily dis
couraged, and 1t Is now said that they
are on the eve Of discoveries which will
shock Bucksport town and all of Eastern
Maine. The fact is Sarah Ware was not
murdered; her death was the result of an
accident. but those concerned In the ac-
cident were men well known in the town
in which she lived.
Sarah Wares morals were not Of the
best and the Miles house was frequently
resorted 10 By men who would not care TO
have their names known In such con.
nection. The night in question there was
a party of such men at the house.
Liquor flowed freely and drunken hilari-
ty reignsd.
During the reyels the Widow Ware
was handled somewhat roughly. The re-
suit of the seuffie that snsusd was that
she was killed. Only half sobersd by
what had happened. the men made their
crime worse by attempting to hide the
body. How the attempt wasmade and by