Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-11
MRS. Finn IS FOUND.
Missing Boston Woman Located il
This City Last Week.
Stopped at Cony House With Her Hus.
band, Thursday Night.

Stopped at cony House With Her Hus.
band, Thursday Night.
On Thursday morning a well-dressed
woman, apparently % to 80 years OF
age, went TO the Cony House in this
city and registered as Margaret Finn
Boston" She was assigned to a room
| Later on she sent for a boy and he
| took telegram to the telegraph office
| About o'clock in the afternoon teIe-
| gram came for her and Mr. Clancy. the
day clerk, sent it to her room. When
the 7.21 train came in, that evening,
a gentleman appeared at the hotel and
asked Mr.. Clancy if woman, answer
the description of Margaret Finn, was
stopping at the hotel. Mr.. Clancy said
| there was and showed the gentleman
| to the room. Afterwards the couple
went out and had supper, returning to
| the hotel and stopping all night. The
next morning the gentleman, who said
he was Stephen Finn, the husband of
the woman, paid the bill and they went
away. They were seen on the street
here Saturday forenoon, but where
| they are now is not known.
| Mr.. Clancy says the woman is fine
appearing and does not look like an
insane person. Mr.. Finn, also, looks
! like a well-to-do man.
| The Boston Herald of Saturday con-
tains the following article, which will
| explain the fore going:
Mrs. Margaret Finn Of 25 C street,
| Sn.1th RnctoY, "a cci,
from her home since July II, and for
whose recovery, dead or alive, her
| brothers, who have been hunting the
woods near Franklin with bloodhounds
for her body, have offered a reward Of
500, is alive and with her husband,
stephen Finn, in town in Maine.
| She went there while her nerves ami
| mind We're in a condition she could not
control, and Thursday morning teie-
| graphed ner husband to join her there
| He was at his work in the establish
ment Of the Hersey manufacturing
Company at the corner Of e and West
Second streets, South Boston, when ne
| got the telegram, and without telling
| his feIlow-workInen or employers where
he was going, hurried for Maine.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Flvnns brothers,
Officer w. H. Marshall Of Pittsfield and
James Marshall of Troy, N. Y, Deputy
| Sheriff Fitzpatrick and Chief of Police
Redpath of Franklin have been work.
| ing on with the idea that the woman
either met with foul play or while tenn
porarily insane wandered into the
| woods around Franklin and persisted.
The brothers have strongly favored
| the murder theory theory since Thurs
day, and yesterday officers were hunt
| ing for threads which the brothers
| thought would substantiate their belief.
| No one in Boston knows what town
| in Maine Mrs. Flynn and her husband
are in, but it is believed they are not
far from Winthrop, where Mr.. Flynn's
mother lives.
Flynn has talked very little about his
wifes disappearance, and did not notify
any one that she was missing until
eight days after she left her home.
The telegram from his wife told him
| that she was i'll, and she begged him
| to hasten to her. Those who know
| Mrs Flynn will say that she is suffer
| ing from mental and nervous trouble,
which probably made her temporarily
irresponsible for her acts. and they
| think that as soon as she realized what
she had done she teleSraphed her hus-
| band.
For some time before her disappear
ance she was i'll and had been under
| the care Of DR.. A. +. Means of South
| Boston. The day before she went away
| she called at the doctors office ard
asked him to plead with her husband
for permission for her to go to the
home of her relatives at Pittsfield. She
had not had any trouble with her hus-
| band she told the doctor, but she was
nervous and i'll, and thought the change
| would do her good. she had then been
in Boston but four days after a vaca-
ton passed at the home of Flynn's
mother at Winthrop, Me.
Later that day Flynn also called at
DR.. Means office and told him he was
willing to have his wife go to Pittsfield,
but he said that he might secure en-
ployrncnt there week later, that he
| would go there then. and he thought il
better that he and his wife should
make the journey together
The rext morning, according to the
story told his shopmates by Flynn
Mrs. Flynn told him before he started
for his work ut 6 o'clock, that she
would remain at home. But at
o'clock she left the house with dress
suit case, telling the people there that
she was going to Pittsfeld to see hel
relatives.
The Boucher children and Mr.. and
Mrs. George Green of Franklin, saw g
J woman almost naked in the woods near
there on July "a, who answered the de-
scription of the missing Mrs. Flynn
and her brothers, assisted by the loca
police, have searched the woods from
, end to end. finally securing the service:
of blood hounds owned by physician
who lives near by.
Thursdays search satisfied everyone
that it was useless to work longer il
the woods with the blood hounds, bu
!, there are few people about Franklin
who do not believe that Mrs. Flynn i.
in the woods, dead or alive.
: Mrs. FLYNN is so years old, and ha
: no children 1t is believed that she an,
/ her husband will return to South Bos
( tor in q day or two.
l A. l.. Gaslin and family have gon,
! to Ocean Point for a few weeks out