Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-18
BOUNDARY THIEVES
Are Doing No Little Amount Of Work
on Maine Border.

! Lana pirates have been getting in their
Work again in the woods in Northwestern
| Maine after lapse of several wears In
| which they have been inactive. This
Tune IT was farm owned BY the Great
Northern Paper Co on the North Branch
| or the Penobscot which suffered from
| their depredations Il is th. first cas-.
of the kind which has occurred along the
northwest boundary for several wears and
the pirates in this case are still at large
In the forest. though the stolen property
has been recovered
! The Great Northerr's farm on the
North Branch is located about 16 miles
from Tn" northwest boundary line be-
| tween Maine and Canada. During the
summer there are several men there to
look after the farm and the % or 80
horses which the comrany kccps there
during the summer to wait for the be
ginning OF logging operations in the fall.
1T is about three weeks ago that two
French Canadians came over the line
from st. George and madc a raid on the
farm They were evidently not planning
on taking airy more than they could read
lily handle. for they selected two of the
finest horses in the lot and drove them
off through the woods The loss was
not discovered Immediately and the Ca
n,cks had good start with their stolen
horses before the men at the farm awoka
to the fact that the animals had been
stolen.
The men at tho farm notified Fred A.
Gilbert, tho Company'G clerk at Bangor
and he Immediately wired the Boston Of
flee of the Pinkerton detective agency
from there and put on the trail Of the
missing horses. Good horses arc not 50
plentiful in Northwestern Maine that
they are roaming about through the
woods. and consequently 1t was an easy
matter to follow the trail of the animals
The trail led straight to the boundary
line and the Pinkerton man at once
OWNED that the horse thieves were TAX
ing the stolen animals across into Can
ada to be sold. The trail led to littln
settlement known as Raney's near the
boundary and thence through the woods
and across two rivers to st. Joseph, more
than IS miles from the farm where the
horses were stolen.
In st. Joseph it was found that one of
the horses had been sold to old resi-
dent for s210 and the other also sold at
|
selves had decamped several days before,
having learned probably of the coming
of the Pinkerton man. One of them was
found few days aftcrward in more mis-
chief. He had been hired by a man
whose goods and furniture had been at
tached and were about to be sold at auc-
ton to satisfy a judgment to go to the
place where the goods were stored and
cart them away. II was while driving
away from the place with a CARLOAD of
goods that he was apprehended. The
other man is still in the woods. The
horses were returned to the farm from
which they were stolen and "A closer
watch will undoubtedly be kept on them
in the future. 1t used to be a favorite
trick with residents along the Canadian
side of the boundary to come over into
Maine and run horses and other stuff
across the line. but after the State au
thorities had landed q few of the thieves
the cases became less frequent.