Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-10
Sadie Brown Wants TO Re-
enter Skowhegan Jail.
Threatens to Kill Somebody to
Make It Possible.
Even Mentions Whom She Might Stay L
Effect Her Purpose.

Skowhegan, Me, Aug. 9.-(SpeciaD.
Mrs. Sadie Brown has made an at
temp: to get into the Skowhegan Jail
and her admission to that institution
being refused she said she is 60
Il ing to kill somebody Sometime ago,
as will be remembered, she was COM
mitted to Jail upon the complaint Of
her mother for threatening to kill her
mother. She was recently bailed out
because Of her physical condition and
Il temporary home was found for her
ut Il farm in COrnville. Liberty is
sweet but life behind the bars is
sweeter, is the opinion of this young
woman.
A few days ago she requested to be
brought back 10 Jail, but for very
good reason her request was not com =
phCd with. Thereupon she threatened
10 Kill somebody 50 that some of the
officers would have to take her TO jail.
An opportunity of escape presented it
self and she ran away from her Gus
todiarS and came t. the Jail door. The
sheriff told her that she could not be
admitted. but reasoning did not alter
her views in the least.
A team was harrcssed to take her
back to Cornville, but she refused to
enter tie carriage and told the sheriff
that he WAS not man enough to put
iIer in. Mr.. Smith was of a different
opinion but persuasion without the
us" of force proved sufficient. The
woman then reiterated her statement
that she would have to kill somebody
in order to get into Jail again and she
mentioned Shelly Beal or some mem
bers of his family as the possible vic
Tins.
Several old persons have at one time
or another tried to force the bars from
the inside, but Mrs. Brown seems TO
be The first to have tried the trick from
the outside.
Sadie Browa has already received the
attention of the newspapers to a con-
siderable extent and ner history has
been read by the public. Looked al
seriously. her request and the methods
she proposes to pursue in order to gain
| her end do not seem staring by those
who know what has been the trials of
her life it can be readily understood,
but t. a person educated and living in
| a civilized community it is ineXplic-
able
The little community of Happy IIol-
| low. Us the settlement at West Athens
is called, is Il burning disgrace to any
town or county in this State. The
| public citizen OF Maine little realizes
| that such community exists within
our fair borders. Ignorance, yes, ignor-
ance ten fold, does not express the con-
dition of Happy Hollow, begotten in
vice, nurtured in filth, raised in ignor-
ance. and surrounded by debauchery,
such is the life and history of the lit :
| tie settlement.
Little can be expected of the pro-
geny of men and women who have
| married and intermarried in the same
| family for generations and generations,
persons with whom the marriage cere-
mony is but an idle farce and often
| not even form, but such are the peo-
pie who have been the associates of
Sadie Brown. 1t will be recalled that
she is the wife of Rufus Brown, who
is now in Jail awaiting trial on a
charge of the murder of William
Knights.
Her threat to kill somebody if nee
cSS Try DOES not mean as much to her
as it would to one coming from a high
CT plane of civilization.
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