Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-15
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Mathison Pare Fou||y MUIR
dered on Misery Stream.
Shot in Face and Head Horribly
Beaten and Crushed.
Wi tiers Wages. sos. and vaIise Missine..
Robbery the Probable no,i.e.

Greenville Junction, Ne, April Ii
The finding or the body OF Woodsman
Mathison Pare. at Askwith, Me, last
Thur sday. has revealed a most brutal
murder. with robbery as the motive.
The victim. a young man Of u. had
worked during the winter months on
MOosehcad Lake above Eineo for :;yl-
v"ster Gaudct on March 8, when he
had finished his winters work at the
camp. he received his wages. amount
ing to $lGS. and remained ut Gardct's
house on Moose river until the mc:a-
ing of March II. Being anxious to
reach home, he started to walk to Ask
with station. some eight miles. to take
The ira n for his home in Canada. nav
'nG then all but two or three dollar S
OF his winters wages on his person.
About 10 A. NJ. on the morning of
March II. he reached the camp of Fer
cy johnson. two and = half miles from
Askwith. and it was when he hal de-
ed from there for the station that ne
was last seen alive. His folks in Cam
ada, knowing his intention OF return
ing home. were worried over his non
appearance. but no tidings as 10 his
whereabouts We're learned until Thurs
day last, when his lifcless and mutilated
Body was found by n party of wood
cutters lying near the read in Ask
with. His parents have not yet been
informed OF the crime.
County Attorney G.. W. Cover of
Somerset county WAS notified. Satur-
Gay, Of the finding of the body and in
company with Sheriff Penneli and Cor
"Ecr Addition of Skowhesan. reached
the scene of the supposed murder carly
this morning. The place where the
body was found is on a lone winter
wood road on the banks of Misery
stream. about n mile and a half from
Johnson's camp. where Pare was last
seen, and two miles from AskWith sta
ton in Raymond plantation. The body.
which was frozen stiff. lay in the snow
by the roadside and the man had evi-
IDENTIFY been shot from ambush, rifle
ball striking him in the face.
There were Indications that 4 ctrug-
gle must have, taken place and that
the rifle wound had not proved fatal.
as there We're knife cuts on the fnce
and neck. The right side Of the head
was terribly crushed. as II from a blow
with the butt end Of tn" rifle. and The
bones Of the face We've crushed in. The
money and q valisc filled with clothes
which Pare had taken with him Were
missing. and this fact lends color to
the belief that robbery was the motive
for the murder.
The body was taken to the Hollings-
worth & Whitney warehouse. where
Pare's former employer and his wife.
the latter the cook at the camp. iden-
tilted the man. They both spoke in the
highest terms of the good character
and peaceable nature of the dead man.
This afternoon. the body was removed
to Jackman, where an autopsy will be
held.
County Attorney Cover says that
no expense will be spared to discover
the murderer. Thus far the only pos
sible clue obtained is that one Joe Muir
raw. who is at work on n drive some
distance away, but has been sent Tor.
is said to have stated that he could
name the party. Abraham Pare. the
father of the murdered man. lives at
st. Benoit, Canada, and mother ana
a sister are also living.
The parents are poor people and as
vet they are in ignorance OF their son
fate. Deceased was unmarried. Inc
stat. will probably send the body TO
his relatives.