Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-14
The WARE CASE.
Trial of TrewOrgy Will Begin
at Ellsworth, Tomorrow.
Sccused of Numbering Sarah E. Ware
at Bucksport in 1893.
The journal interviews Two Imnorta nj
Witnesses in the Case.

uoWI' SAID Mrs. Robert Miles, as she
opened the door of her small story
and-a-half house, located in the out
skirts of this town, in response to the
tiinld knock Of the Journal. This is
an Old woman's home" she continued.
- she led her caller into the best room
and insisted that he seat himself in an
easy chair beside the open window. II
am 81 years old and 1 can't keep my
house looking so well as | could when
was young. I hope you will excuse
everything you see that isn't right,
And so the Old lady, who figures as
one of the principal characters in the
now famous mystery which surrounds
the death Of Mrs. Sarah Ware in Sep
TENDER, 1898, ramDled on in q some
what incoherent manner for more than
an hour, and yet failed to drop a sim
gle word or make the faintest sign by
which her listener might gain clue to
the information he sought Mrs. Miles
IS old and wrinkled and gray; her limbs
are lettering and her body is weak.
but, today, she tells the same story of
Safah Wares disappearance on that
Hateful Saturday evening, nearly four
years ago. that she has told so many
times since. There isn't a particle of
variation, only now she says in addi-
ton to what she has heretofore said:
II can't tell any more than / have
told before. They want me to, but !
can't. If | only knew what happened
to my darling Sarah, who lived with
me FOR more than 10 years and whom
lT,. =.
and then the tears would flow and the
lips w uld trembe.
THAT Saturday night, which was
Sept. Il, 1898. about o'clock, she got
ready to leave the house." Mrs. Miles
continued. Il asked her where she was
going and she said she was going to
John Bouldoc's house to do some work
for him. She used to work for different
families here in Bucksport. John Boul-
docs wife was dead and he had no ono
to keep house for him. | begged her
not to so. but she said she must. And
she went out of the house and l never
saw her alive again.
did she take the waterproof cape
with herr" was asked
Come right here and I'll show YOU
said Mrs. Miles, and she got up from
che chair in the sitting room and led
the way across the little entry. into the
dining room and the kitchen through to
the shed in the rear of the house.
There" said she. pointing to an old
rusty nail in the wall by the back
door. that's where her waterproof
cape always hung. And that night she
came right here and got it. Then she
nut it on her arm and went away.
When it came 10 O'Clock | thought she
ought to be home and | was worried.
couldn't 80 to bed. but | sat in that
chair there and waited. / thought
whom it got very late that she was go
ing to stay at Bouldoc's all night. And
/ never saw her again until they found
her in the pasture two weeks after
wards.
They have summoned me to go to
Ellsworth. next week. and tell what |
know about moor Sarahs death. but
cant tell anything I don't know, can
II IL only knew I'd tell it all, but
don't know" ana we went back to the
sitting room where she began relating
portions of her life history.
THAT'S my darling husbands picture
over there on the wall. said she. Tie $
been dead lG years and il will only be
= little while before I'll meet him up
there." raising her eyes upwards. we
had II children. There's my boy who
was drowned while fishing on the
Ranks. ana that's myself when was
n GOOD deal younger than | am now.
have five Of the most beautiful
da,lrhters that ever lived and they
know | am telling the truth when
cav that | don't know who killed
Sarah"
Mrs Miles was asked about Ire
worry and his arrest on suspicion OF
having caused the death of Sarah
ware. and whose trial win begin ut
ellsworth. the day after tomorrow IN
answer the old lady SAID:
..r.,o aoin.y to tell you all ! know
about him. Sarah used to keep nous
| ca. rim and his two daughters became
| fond of her. Sundays they would com
her, to see Sarah. after she stopPe"
working for him. and they We're nun
| o,.v and I'd make Sarah get them soiiie-
| thinr TO eat: and then IreWorsy USE"
| IA come to take them nome anu -.
| would also have n little to eat. bul
| ,nx-ar knew that there was ever an!
| thing between Saran anu hiin' ny
| she was a good woman. was never ~
riehts and was neat as wax. ne
crothes were always well kept Hel
| .,,,,.,s ,vsrr never soiled or ripped. ah'
She was always at work doing some
thing or other.
"Did she have gentlemen friends ina
Won know off, 100,
~No. she never did. She was soo'
woman. :.
An sorts of questions were put :
Mrs Miles. but with apparent sineer'''
,,a absolute honesty she answers
tbaa without hesitation Although sh
l. summoned by the government 10 az
near as a witpess against Treworgy'
4 clearly evident that what she mas F.
, +cu will in no wise jeopardize M
chances of acquittal- She either know
nothing at all about the mysteriou
p,urder of Sarah Ware or she Is "
most accomplished prevaricator
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