The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1901-01-24

wait a. Waterfalls quite q number Of
railroad employees and sight seers passed
through the smoking car 10 get . look
ct the prisoner.
A representative Of she PRESS accom-
panied the officers anc prisoner from
Skowhegan 10 Portland, and had O long
chat with MoI.ain, The prisoners man.
ner was feank and he talked freely con-
corning his Acquaintance with the Mos
hers. He described in detail his wander
ings through the numbering towns Of
oxford, Franklin, Androsooggin and
Somerset counties, and gave the rames
Of persons who m he saw and talked with
during the day and evening CT January
IL. His story was precisely the same as
related to the sheriff and county attorney
In Skowhegan Tuesday.
He said he worked about thirteen days
at haying ON the Mosher farm in the
summer of 1898, going therS from the
farm CT Frank johnson by whom he had
bsen employed. In response to questions
admitted that he was somewhat
given to over indulgence In intoxieants,
and had q special fondness for hard cider,
which had been the means of his losing
many JOBS. he expressed sympathy for
Mrs. Mosher, and said he could ask for
no bstter nlace to work than their farm.
Both Mrs. Mosher and Clifford Mosher
were kind to him. Mrs Mosher had re-
preached him far drinking more cider
I, a al In ruf i11, a..
the hay Held, but she spoke only IN
kindly spirit, and there had never been
any hard words between him and any
member of the Mosher hou sehold.
Many questions were asked him by the
reporters, and by Deputies Dunn and
Firth, with a view to finding ont the ex-
tent of his knowledge of the home life of
the Moshsrs. Nothing was learned that
would tend TO discrsdit his declaration
that he never did them harm, or hal or
had anything but kindly feeling to-
ward them.
Besng Shown picture of Bill Hands,
McLain looked at it minute or two,
studie1 the features, ard than handed
back the picture without word or a look
OF recognition. Asked II he ever saw
that negro, ne replied mot to my knowl-
edge Afeer brief hesitation. he
added az never did mix up with mig
ger l prefer OF her company"
81 think" he remarked to the report
or, THAT this affair will teach me n good
lesson. / guess 1t was what L needed o
bring me TO a realization that it will
pay me to keep sober and at work. l
have been too much given TO roaming. l
don know as can blame anyone but
myself for this suspicion. 1t Is fortunate
for me that the night of this mu rder 1
was in the company of reliable parsons,
whose testimony Will prove that oonld
not possibly have been in Gorham.'
At the Lewiston station the reporter
received a telegram stating that the
PRESS correspondent at Rumford Falls
had visited Scribners Mills ana verified
Nolan alibi. This telegram was shown
to Deputies Firth and Dunn. While
they were reading is, ana discussing in
whispers the ACCESSIBILITY Of allowing Nc
Lain to read 1t, his eyes were directed at
the officers, and he scanned to be studying
their every expression. The telegram
was handed to Nolan. who read II with
care. When ne looked up from 1t his
eyes were moistened--ths first evidence
of emotion he had shown since his
departure from Skowhsgsn.
Not wishing to subject him to the
scrutiny Of the crowd that were to be
In the Union station on the arrival Of the
train, the officers left tina train with
t heir prisoner at the Wooufords station,
trolley car rode TO the corner
CT Cumberland ana Prebls streets and
walked the remainder Of the way to the
police station.
The crowd was at the Union station, as
had been anticipated. and the officers and
prisoner attracted little attention as they
made their way by the back route TO the
police station. At the entrance to the
station door quits number of persons
Ioitered, and when the prisoner stepped
inside the door he was facs to face with
half a hundred men who stood on the
city building stairs and in the lower oor-
riQor.
McLain was taken into abe oity mar
shall office, briefly questioned, and then
to the county jail. where q meeting with
the negro was planned.