Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-17
To Connect Nimon With
Assault Of Mrs. Rowe.
Hints That whole Truth Of A.
fair Has Not Yet Been Told.


Hansor. Me-, May 1S.-The Bangol
Commercial. in today's issue. says:
The various stories and intimatioH
which have been printed about tn
mysterious assault on Mrs. Almon f
Rowe at her home on the road leading
from Glenburn Center to Hudson vii
lagc two weeks ago last Monday hint
ing at mysterious woman and mar
in the case from utterances of Mrs
Rowe since the assault have come
somewhat wide of what the develop
ments of the past few days indicate
The mystery is not solved and SO la
as the public is concerned it VIII iiheiS
remain another Matte Hackett CASE
for there are grave doubts that any
thing more will be heard of the case
after the hearing which VIII De given
Frank, Nirnon, the young Armenian
now out on bail, who was arrestco al
Norcross on Thursday following the a.
legged assault.
THE investigations OF the Objects
siuce the AFFAIR. Il is but fair to say
have not strengthened the case asaihS'
Nimon He admits that he was in inc
vicinity that Monday morning. but de-
MICS all knowledge OF the assault ,o
neighbors living In the vicinity Oh 'ie
Rowe house have their own version vi
the AFFAIR and more recent ueVeiop-
ments tend TO show that they nave
some grounds for thinking as thev 90
a theory which dispels the tramp the
IVY and one in which Nimon is not
considered.
Nimon will be arraigned en- the con-
tinuance Friday. but from the evidence
noy i'm the hands of the prosecuting
,,tI,cers. it is doubtful if they VIII ASK
IN have him held for the grand jury al
the August criminal term. Iney nave
heen unable to connect him with the
rase farther than that he was IN tne
vicinity and in light of more recent de-
ve,onments the evidence would hardly
warrant the presentation OF the case
to the grand jury.
The officers have been looking along
another phase of the case from WHICH
it is doubtful if anything ever results
Hints have been made of some coniiec
ton of Elba Mcguire, the 16-year-olo
daughter of Il neighbor, with the a1alr
but it is certain that with the aetna
occurrences of Monday she had nothing
to do. the officers having established
beyond a doubt her being in another
direction well into Monday of the al
legged assault.
There are a few circumstances sur
rounding the case, however. Whlch iltt't
led the officers to think. after 1nVestl-
cation. that Mrs Rowe was not as
saulted by IN entire stranger and thai
the whole truth of the affair has never
been brought out and that there Is
little likelihood that it ever will.
The family ties of the Rowe family
have been near the Straining point al
times Y thin the past year. 1t is sain
1t was but Il few months ago that ElDa
Mcguire. who has been in the family
of the Rowes, left the home. Whon
questioned along that line by ofhcers
Mr.. Rowe said she was sent away by
Mrs Rowe because she was slack but
from investigations made by the OIL
GERS there are reasons for thinking 1t
was another reason-that her presenc"
in the family was not pleasing TO MIS-.
Rowe and that she had not been
welcome visitor to the house since that
time.
The Saturday night before the affair
oct urred Mrs. Rowe spent with her par
ents who live half mile or more be-
yond the Rowe house on the road 10
Hudson She was also there on Sun
day. During q part of this time the Of
ficers have information that she was
at the Rowe house and from Things
which have been dropped since. her
presence there was not appreciated by
Mrs. Rowe but was because of differ
ences in the family.
This, however, occurred on Sunday
and may not have had any connection
with the happenings Of Monday. Rowe
claims that he left the house around :
o'clock Monday morning for OrOno and
Bangor and was seen along the road to
Orono a half-mile or so from his house
by n well-known Glenburn man in tho
vicinity of 40 o'clock. He did not re-
turn. according to his story. until I
o'clock that evening, being delayed by
broken wheel.
Further than these circumstances
surrounding the case the officers have
not penetrated ana II looks as though it
will always be secret Stories of
those concerned in these attending cir
cumstances differ somewhat and only
add to the puzzle. 1t is probable thai
the officers will offer no opposition 10
the release of Nimon on Friday or at
tempt 10 push the case farther agains,
him on account of being unable to weld
the all-important links In the chain Of
evidence which has little strength and
has not grown since his arrest although
Tor few days the circumstances point.
ed somewhat in his direction.
whether any further development:
VIII arise remains to be seen. but Their,
Nare indications from Glenburn that tn.
dropping Of the case after Friday viii
not be unsatisfactory.