The Portland daily press., 1901-01-14

att O'clock. The tracks which Iointed
away from the house and could be
traced down the road past the Richard
son place were covered with a light layer
OF snow. These tracks had been made
between half past nine and ten O'Clock,
as we shall show.
Mr.. Richardson knew that the thing to
do was to get doctor for Mrs. Mosher
and then police officers to examine the
house and chase up the murderers. He
ran back to his house and harnessed a
horse into a sleigh. He did not know
how much OF a start the murderers had
on him and they were going the sa g
way with him, but he whipped his horse
into a galiop and flew down the road, He
saw no signs Of anyone ahead Of him,
though the foot prints In the snow, GO
ing and coming, could be plainly seen.
1t is two miles and half from the Rich
ardson place to westbrook. MIR. Rich
srdson reached there about . O'Clock. He
went to the police station and found Ofti-
Ger Cousins on duty. 10 him he told the
story and from the westbrook police sta
ton the news was telephoned into Port.
land. Deputy Sheriff Bragdon was routed
out OF bed in hurry ana set of to in
form Sheriff Pearson and Coroner Perry
by telephone.
Then DIR. Horr was called. In a very
abort time the whole party started of as
fast "a horses could haul them towards
the scene of the tragedy.
Mira. Mosher had given a very good de-
scription' of the two men who had done
the awful work in her house. One OF
them, she said,
WAS A BLACK MAN.
She was not sure whether he was a real
negro or whether lie had merely blaoked
his face. She said that she had tried to
see his color by his hands, but found
they were covered with blood SO that the
color could not be told by them. He was
of medium height, had very good feat
ures. wore a soft felt hat and a light
overcoat, she thought. The other man
was white, was about six feet tall with
broad shoulders and very powerful,
bury man. She said that he looked to
her TO be about the same build as John
McLain, who had worked for them about
four years before. She had not been able
to see his face distinctly enough to tell
whether it was Nolan or not.
These descriptions were telsphoned In
to Portland and the police were soon
on ths lookout for the men In this city.
Inside of half an hour half dozen
slsighs were travelling as fast as horses
could haul them towards Gorham.
Reaching the Moshsr place Officer
Cousins and Mr.. Richardson went
through it. On entering tbs kitchen they
saw the confirmation OF Mrs. Moshsr
story. 1hs broken window In one corner,
the pool of blood near the dining table,
this overturned chairs, ths broken lamp,
tbs smashed door into this bed room, all
showed that the tale was true at the very
first glance.
Then thsy went up stairs and found
that Clifford IS room had been thoroughly
ransacked. This broken boxes, contents
strewn over every thing and
THE BLOOD MARKS SHOWED
what had been going on there They
picked up hsre the hammer which had
been used TO open the boxes. This was
covered with blood and then thsy knew
that they would not find Clifford Moshsr
alive. After hunting around up stairs
for Clifford they went down into ths
kitched again. In the parlor the sight
that met their gaze was worse than any
thing they had ever witnessed before.
The overturned furniture, blood on
everything and the general appearance
of the room showed that here was where
the terrible struggle occurred. Looking
a little further they saw CIifford's body.
liz was lying behind some furniture In
one corner OF the room near the hall door.
10 describe the condition OF this body
would be too revolving. 1t was simply
awful, beyond possible description On
the table near at hand was found the
weapon with which the deed was done,
A HORNBEAM SLED STAKE,
peeled, and about five feet long. 1t was
fully three inches through and was COW
cred with blood, some OF which was hard
Iy dry at that time At one end was
mass OF brains and olotted blood with
some hair With this the big man had
smashed In the window in the kitchen
when the entry was made.
In this room they also found the pine
stick, some four feet long with the bark
on IL. IL was bloody, but not SO mach
covered with blood as the other club.