The Portland daily press., 1901-01-14

end Of the drawers and pulled on 70 until
they shut OH whatever breath the dying
man had left. These drawers were found
wrapped about tbs mans neck and were
dyed In blood from his terrible wounds.
clifford dead, the men started of to
RANSACk THE HOUSE.
They knew where TO go TO find the
money they were after. but first they Get
out to explore the house for food. One of
them Mrs. Mosher saw go down into the
cellar. A panel from this cell ar door
was stove out. Whether IL was done By q
blow aimed at Mosher In the dark when
he was trying to escape from the kitchen,
or whether 10 was done when the men
came to try to 20 down cellar and found
the door was hard to opsn &c Is not GER
tain. At any rate this panel was stove
out by a blow from club. Apparently
the men had forgotten all about Mrs.
Mosher, for the moment, or thought that
the wound she had received was sufficient
to cause her death, They did not search
| for her at this time. she bent over with
her eye at the crack in the bed room ucor.
and watched everything the men did,
fearing that they might come fer her at
any time aud wondering what had be-
come of UIitford all OF this time.
As has been said one OF the men went
down cellar and returned with food.
They also found some in the parlor where
the body Of Clifford Mosher was lying.
The marks Of their bloody hands were
left on every article they touched. They
were TO be seen on ths walls they touched
In passing from one room to another, on
the doors they opened, on the plates they
handled In getting the lunch for them
selves and
BLOODY FINGER MARKS
and bloody stains In the snow followed
them from the house Of the tragedy we'll
on the way into Portland.
The robbers found some cold fricassed
chicken, some bread and other articles OF
food. They paved over all the food they
came across In the house, leaving bloody
suirohes upon IL and standing at the
table in the Kitchen they handled over
the plates, all of which were bloody, and
there ate their supper.
Imagine the situation Of Mrs. Mosher
at this time, with n thin barricade be-
tween herself and the bloody rufiians,
thinking every moment to be her last, be-
lieving that they would come for her
when the bloodyfeast was over. trembling
like leaf from fear, alore in that little
dark bed room from which there was no
possible way of escape.
The eating of the supper did not take
long. These men vera In hurry and had
some work to do. With the lantern, on
which the blood dripped from
THEIR CORY HANDS
until the glass was almost entirely coated
over with 1t, they went out to the kitchen
and up stairs. Again 1t was apparsnt
that they knew the house well otherwise
they would not have been able to walk
straight out into the porch and md the
back stairs to the floor above, since these
stairs are placed in an unusual and
rather blind place.
On the upper floor the robbers found
right at the top OF the back stairs mar
row hail into which opened the door to
the room occupied by Clifford Mosher,
the stairs leading to the attic OF the house
which was unfinished and the door lead
ing into the front chamber. The men
evidently knew where Clifford Mosher 6
room was located, and 1t was here that
they expected to find the money they
were after. Why they should think that
clifford had money 1t Is impossible to
ssy. He has never had the reputation
about Gorham of having much money
about him at any time, but undoubtedly
the robbers believed that they would lind
some there II they hunted for it. Ciiffor d
had two rooms, one In which he slept
which was In the rear of the other and q
larger room the door OF which opened out
into the above mentioned hallway. In
this In tier room was the closet in which
Clifford kept his clothes, bureau and
several wooden boxes and q trunk. The
boxes were made OF hard wood and were
implanted, but they were fastened by
strong padlocks. Somewhere up stairs
the robbers found a
STONE CUTTER'S HAMMER
weighing flve or six pounds, which bad
belonged to one OF the Mosher hoys who
is now dead. The robbers took this, i'm
printing on 1t the marks of their bloody
fingers until 1t looked like an instrument
which might have been used as the
weapon with which the death of Clifford
was accom- piished. With this hammer
they began to break open the wooden
boxes. 1t required some hard knocks to
stAye them open because they were
strongly built, and were evidently In
tended for the storage OF valuahles. With
the big hammer the boxes were all broken
open and then thoroughly oyerhAuled.
Everything they touched had Its mark of
blood showing to he the men themselves
suffering from wounds about the hands
or arms. Mrs Mosher Sin her bed room
bslow, faint from the loss of blood and
expecting death at any time, heard thsse
hard blows on the stout wooden boxes
and knew what was going on. When this
work was finished she expected that the
robbers would come after her but she did