Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-08
Nimon Awaits Recovery
Of Assault Victim.
Investigation Removes All Sus-
.picion From Miss MeGuire.
Ms. Rove slsatIF Improving and Nay
soon 1hfuv New Light o. Case.

Bangor, Me-, may t-I-Sei lillIl6
the Glenburn case remains the same al
on. Saturday SO far as the officers are
concerned Nimon is still in Jail await
Ing the time when he shall be taker
before the victim Of the assault. Mrs
Matte E. Rowe and until such time as
her physical condition will allow him
to be taken before her but little can
be done except efforts to substantiate
the theory which the officers are now
working on.
Deputy Sheriff Sproul went to Glen
burn Saturday and returned Sunday
afternoon, having put in the time look
ing up points brought out by the de-
veloprnents of the latter part of the
week. The ground has been well Gov
cred and the officers think they have
the right man in custody. They are
OF the opinion that the case against
him has grown stronger since the ar
rest rather than weaker.
The officers take little account of the
story connecting E1ba Mcclure, the 10
year-old girl Of a neighbor with the
affair Mrs. Rowe has muttered sew
eral times Don't do 1t Elba' while In
delirium and this gave rise to the story
that Miss Mcguire may have been con-
nected with the affair, but from inVes-
legations along this line by the officers
1t would appear that there was nothing
in 1t.
Miss Mcclure has been located def
nitely up to II o'clock in the forenoon
Of. that day. Sunday night she spent
Nth a family three quarters of a mile
distant from her home, which is beyond
ire Rowe house. She did not leave
until Monday forenoon and was picked
up and carried along to her own home
by a well-known Hudson man who
fixes the time at IL o'clock when she
arrived at her home so the officers
have no idea that she was at all con-
nected with the affair and think Mrs.
Rowes muttering in her delirium due
wholly to her highly nervous condition
and not founded on anything which
happened.
The officers consider the fact we'll es-
tablishetl that NimOn was in the vi
Unity of the Rowe HON eMonday fore
noon. He admits that he had lunch
with the track crew a little way above
the Rowe house and also that he came
up the line looking for work. The men
who saw him above and below the
Rowe house knew him when he work
ed on the road last summer so there
can be little question az to Identified
ton or that he was in that vicinity at
that time.
A point Of difference between Nj
mons story and that of themen en-
pioyed on the section crew above the
Rowe house is that the emn in the
crew stated that Nimon's face was COW
cred with smut when he was there. Nj
mon. on the contrary. insists that his
face was clean with no suggestion of
smut. Whether this might tend to con-
firm that Mrs. Rowe has said that it
was a big. dark man remains to be
seen.
The officers eagerly await the time
for. the attempted Identification of
Nimon by Mrs. Rowe. If Mrs. Rowe
identifies him as her assailant the State
will have plenty of evidence to prove
that he was in that vicinity at the time
although as yet the officers have not
near the house. If Mrs Rowe does not
iueutiiS NfIIloH the Stdte case against
him VIII receive a hard blow.
The officers are not discussing the
case for publication but maintain they
have other evidence against Nimon
than the mere fact that he was seen
in the vicinity Monday forenoon.
Mrs. Rowe Is steadily improving ply
cicially from the nervous shock of the
long weary hours she was tied hand
and foot before being released by her
husband on his return from Bangor
She Is expected to be able to attempt
to identify Nimon in few days and
perhaps may be able to throw some
light on the matter which happened in
the lonely little farm house week
ago.