Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-01


els, the negro desperate, is either In
Bangor or in its immediate vicinity,
perhaps in the neighborhood of Push
aw lake.
It is believed by many of the Ban
gor police that the fugitive is in hid
los 4, ----,an-i.-s s-,IIia tho city pn-
lice are making a careful search FOR
him in the lower part Of the town,
High Sheriff Lindley W. Gilman has
a number of his deputies covering
the roads out Pushaw lake way in the
hope of heading him off II he at
tempts to get into the great north
woods on the far side Of the lake,
where there are numbering, hunting
and trapping camps for distance Of
more than 100 miles toward the New
Brunswick line.
Even the officers who have been
the most optimistic regarding the ul-
innate capture Of the negro are ad-
mitting privately that IL they don't get
Francis very soon their chances for
overtaking him for a long time will
be greatly diminished.
Warden Bernes o. Norton of the
state prison had the good fortune
Tuesday to secure the services OF G.
Z. Whitten of the Rockland police de.
partment to take part in the hunt, for
Whitten had started on his vacation
and the warden enlisted him. Whitten
went from Bangor to Enfield and is
working In toward the Pushaw lake
section with some men from around
Enfield. "A -
In the "a hours ending about IL
o'clock Tuesday night Francis had
done some more of the sensational
and unexpected things that he has
turned off since he escaped from pris-
on two weeks ago. He has been do.
ing the unexpected thing right along,
but the police didn't quite expect he
would drive through the public
streets of Bangor with a stolen horse
and wagon during the early hours OF
the morning, be able to abandon the
rig in the northern part Of the city.
and then to disappear as though he
had been swallowed by the earth
However, these are the things that
Francis did, and the officers are in
doubt as to whether he is hiding In
the negro section of the city, is being
hidden by some other criminal, or
whether he Is hiding about Pushaw
lake, or is making his way into the
almost impenetrable great north
woods.
In Of al
that it is going to be difficult to get
hold of the famous criminal. II he is
being covered up by some of his own
race, the chief reliance Of the police
will be to get some one who Is know
ing to the facts to betray him. II he
is playing a lone hand and making his
way into the woods, the chances Of
getting him for long time are re-
mote, as there are many men In the
woods who are of his same general
stripe, and they would protect him.
Monday night while several armed
men under pay by the state were
guarding vacant house near the
Sears-Littlefield place outside of Mon
roe, and acting on what seemed to be
reliable information that Francis had
been seen there, the negro was about
eight miles away on the shore road In
the town of Prospect, house breaking
and horse-stealing
Some time in the early part of the
night, and 1t Is believed to have been
about 10 o'clock, Francis broke into
the house Of Mrs. Angellne Trevett,
an aged widow, who lives with only q
hired man, Harry Rant, on the prem
ises.
Francis went through every room
in the house except the one in which
Mrs Trevett was sleeping and the
one where the hired man slept, and
he took whatever caught his fancy.
Before he made his search Of the
house, during which neither the old
woman nor the hired man heard a
sound, Francis ate ravenously Of cold
roast pork, cold boiled potatoes and
bread and butter. Then he did up in
a bundle loaf of bread, an apple pie,
a piece of butter, some ginger bread
and lot of crackers and carried
them away.
Sheriff Gilman is taking the liveli-
est interest in the hunt for the negro,
and Marshal White, who had not be-
lieved the negro would come this way,
is also doing what he can to help cap
ture him. Several of his officers have
been detailed to work on the case un-
til such time as Francis is captured
or 1t is proved that he has again es-
capped the officers.
One of the first steps taken by
Sheriff Gilman to assist in the cap.
ture of the negro was to enlist the CO.
operation of Supt. Brown OF the Ban
gor & Aroostook railroad, as 1t Is
feared that Francis will try and get |
away on a freight train. Supt. Brown
sent out an order to all trainmen and |
station agents along the Seaboard |
line to keep close watch for the ne |
gro and to give the officers all the In.
formation and assistance in their DOW |
err The Maine Central and the Ban.
gor & Northern tralnmen have also
been asked to keep lookout for the |
negro