Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-25
MAKES CONFESSION.
Brown Admits Breaking Into Stores at
Calais and Princeton.

| Ca,aia, Me-, Aug. N.-Vincent Brown,
who broke into the stores Of Todd
Brothers, 6. ;. NELL ana Fred T. Pote,
| Calais and Perry +. Day, Princeton,
and who delivered himself up to Mar
shal Crosman on Monday, was ar
raigned before Recorder Beckett, Tues
| day. He pleaded guilty to complaints
| charging him with breaking and enter
! ing the first named stores, and was
committed to Machils Jail in default
Of $3.50 bail for his appearance at the
$. J. court in October.
Brown made full confession, giving
in detail the manner in which he made
entrance into the different buildings.
He said that i'm each case a window in
the rear of the store was forced up
ward by placing chisel under the
sash. Brown entered each store and
passed the goods through the open win
dow to his accomplice on the outside.
He WAS unable to give the dates of
the different breaks or all the goods
taken.
He claimed that William Elsemore
Of Midtown, n. T., engineered all the
breaks and got all the goods, and he
81 id that F,lsemorc WAS the person who
was with him each time he made a
break.
When questioned about the Princeton
matter he said that he walked and rode
a part of the way to Princeton and con-
cealed himself during the evening, that
Flsemore walked up to Princeton on
the railroad track and joined him and
that they We're both together when
Days store was entered. Brown said
he stole wheel and rode to Midtown
whilst Elsmore walked back the same
way he had gone up. After he had
been arrested and released by the Cal
ais police, Brown returned part of the
stolen goods to Day He says that find
ing a close watch was kept on him. he
and E,lsemOre concluded that the best
thing Brown could do was to return to
Calais, make a clean breast of I'LL he
had done, only concealing what part
Elsemore had in the transactions.
Brown followed out the course mapped
out for him, but when he told his story
to the officers he informed them that
Elsemore was equally guilty with him.
Acting upon information derived from
\. b.. swore out a search warrant and
made a thorough search of Elsemore's
pre- misses. He found rifle two rcvol-
Vers. a cartridge case and jack-knife TAX
en- from Todd Brothers; an umbrella he
longing to G. s. Neil: a skirt. night gown.
three shirt waists and four ladies belts
taken from +. L. PotcS. The rifle, rcvol-
yers and umbrella were found in the front
hall and the shirts, waists, &c. were
hidden III Woodpie in Elsemores yard.
" ion
before Midtown Police Magistrate Rich
ardS"n. The prosecution was represented
by n. Marks Willis. ESD. and the defence
by W. c. II. Grimmcr, Esq. The charge
was bringing goods into Canada that had
been procured in such manner as would
he theft in Canada. The only witness
examined was Marshal Awkward, who
gave the facts above. The boy Brown
heard, the case being continued until to-
day. 1t is understood that Elscnore Do
MES that he had anything at all to do
with the burglarics AMI saws thai he had
no knowledge that the articles were hid
den in the woodpile or that the articles
found in the house We're stolen.
He claims that he induced Brown to
go to Calais and deliver himself up and
that Brown for purposes of his own has
made false charge against him. Else
more is about II wears of age and has a
wife two daughters and sons. all llVinS
in Midtown. He lived at Grand Lake
Stream and Princeton until the spring Of
1916. when he went to Midtown, n. B.,
where he has ever since resided.
In talking with Brown aborri the dan
ger of being discovered while in rhn
stores he said that they had prepared
themselves for such an emergency, thai
they always went w"lt arm"h an" "".',
have shot anyone who interfered with
them. lie has spent about two years in
Minnesota and from his appearance would
give one the impression that he is not
mentally well balanced.-Bangor News.