Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-02
HE HAS TROUBLE.
Has Almost Enough Of
the State of Maine.
Bound Over on One Case and Another
About to Be Sprung.
Proceedings for Fraudulent Conspiracy
in Obtaining cobb's Property.

If indications count for anything, and
it looks in this particular instance as
if they did. w. N. Langley of Medford.
Mass, who is now prisoner in Kenne-
bee Jail, awaiting the January term of
the supreme court, when he will come
up for trial ON a charge of cheating by
false pretences, will have experience
enough with the Maine laws to last him
for long while. And there is but lit
tie doubt that if he We're to consult a
clairvoyant regarding his immediate
future, she would tell him that a dark
cloud had appeared on his horizon, and
that it foretold troubles.
But Mr.. Langley's troubles are not
of the future-he has them at present,
ard they date from the day Of the
hearing in the Cobb case, when.
through the able efforts of Mr.. God
Gard. Cobb's counsel, he was held on the
charge preferred against him, and
bound over in the sum of $4,000. in de-
fault of which he was committed to
Jail. Mr.. Langley was troubled at being
in Jail. and when he listened to the
reading of the statutes, and ascertained
what was the penalty for such crimes
as that with which he is charged, he
was still further troubled, so it is said
There are also other troubles in store
for him, of which he had not heard
last night, and they came about in this
way. Ever since the hearing, Mr.. God
dard has been at work in the interest
of his client, getting material together
for case which in court should afford
Mr.. Langley food for thought until he
would begin to think that investments
in Maine real estate were seldom profit
able unless conducted on the square.
This matter came to head, yester-
day, when Mr.. Goddard commenced a
bill in equity in favor of Chandler f.
Cobb Of Vassalboro, against DR.. Henry
3. Boynton of Townsend, Mass, w. N.
Langley of Medford, Mass, Mary T..
Norfolk and Elmer D. Powers of Bos-
ton, Mass, for fraudulent conspiracy
in obtaining Cobb's property, real and
personal. In connection with the above.
Mr.. Goddard gives to the Journal the
following details:
Eleven days after the deal bet'v"o~
Cobb and Langley. the latter had d
deed made in Boston. transferring tue
property from Mary f. Norfolk to H.
3. Boynton, and brought it to Augusta,
where he had it recorded. At the same
time Langley had Mary f. Norfolk go
through the form of selling the per-
sonal property to Elmer D. Powers
Then Powers and Langley came down
to Vassalboro, and sold what they
could of the personal property at pri-
vate sale, put the rest up at auction.
and bid in what they did not sell. At
the auction sale Powers pretended to
own the personal property. and Lang
ley pretended to represent the owner
of the real estate, but did not state
who the owner was.
They then put the real estate up at
auction, and Powers bid it in for $250O,
but no deed Of it to him has ever been
recorded, and the farm now stands in
the name of H. 3. Boynton. This farm
was attached, Tuesday, on the bill in
equity, and Deputy Sheriff Morse, who
holds the papers, went to Vassalboro,
Tuesday afternoon, to attach the hay