Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-11-06
The Seneca Club meets this Monday
evening with Mrs.. Frank Shurtlef. The
study Of Paris will be continued.

/ The Seneca Club meets this Aonda!
evening with Mrs. Frank Shurtleff. Th'
study of Paris will be continued.
BOLSTER DISTRICT.
j. II. Clark is making improvement
on his house.
Miss Matte Pratt is visiting relatives
in Massachusetts,.
The summer home of DR.. King Il
closed for the season.
Fl. w. Clifford of Worcester, Mass, II
the guest of his sister, Mrs. Arthur Tai
bot.
Ed Winslow and Walter Dyer Of Otis
field have been threshing grain fer the
farmers here.
Greenleaf Emery of Shows Falls wal
recently taking orders here for choice
seed potatoes.
Miss Eunice Fobes is taking short
vacation from her school in Wakefield,
Mass, at the home of her sister, Mrs
Walter SWEET.
A Much-wanted Man Captured.
The house on the farm owned by AL.
bert D. Park on the Hebron road, which
Is furnished but unoccupied except as the
Parks 60 there at their convenience, was
entered last Monday night by marauders
who followed the same tactics shown in
several other breaks in this section OF
late. They used an oil stove and made
themselves generally free with things,
but carried off little. They ate some
canned plums, throwing the skins and
stones on the floor, and we're generally
regardless of the trouble they caused, if
indeed they did not try to see how much
they could muss things up. A candle
had been lighted and set under shelf
so close that quite surface on the shelf
was charred, but the visitors were sufi-
GENTLY thoughtful to extinguish the fire
before leaving.
A pair of trousers belonging to Mr..
Park were taken, lighter pair being
left in their place, and an old pair of
rubbers were also taken. These articles
figure in the second chapter of the story.
The same night parties entered the
house of Charles II. George, in Hebron
on the same road, and stole a quantity
of cooked food. They also entered Her
man Georges and carried off some cans
of food.
Tuesday night other breaks of the
same character were made at other places
in Hebron, it being principally food that
was taken at all of them.
A few nights since new house, not yet
finished, on the farm of j. F. Fuller in
East Oxford. was entered by gang who
stole a chicken from Mr.. Fuller's hen
coop and cooked it over one of the fires
burning in the new house to dry out the
To give variety to their
menu, they went to the house occupied
BY Mr.. Fuller, and finding quart of
oysters hung outside the door
to keep cool over night, they car
ried them off and added them to their
feast.
The second chapter of the story be-
gins at Oxford station Thursday night.
Two strange men had been seen around
the station, and when light was seen
about s O'Clock in the house of Mrs.
Lizzie Hall, who was away from home
at the time, it was evident that there
was something wrong. A party of four,
Arvida Poland, Charles Poland, Charles
and Adna Herrick, started to
Going into the house, they
found an oil stove burning full blast in
the middle of the kitchen floor, with a
washtub turned over it.
Putting out the stove, they searched
the premises, and in the hay in the
stable found man, whom they took in
to custody. Jailer Farrar was imme-
diately telephoned, aud instructed them
to bring him to Jail, which was done.
The man, who is about thirty years of
age, and gives his name as Alfred Duffy,
was searched, and in his pockets were
found a gold watch and silver watch,
neither apparently of special value,
silver knife, ajackknife with the point of
the blade broken off, an invitation ad-
dressed to Merton r. Bean, and a minia-
ture grocery store, comprising half a
pound of butter, package OF corn
starch, bags of tea and sugar, three pep
per shakes and package Of pepper, GIN
ger, Jamaica ginger, cascara quinine,
etc. The value OF the whole
lot would be very small.
The invitation addressed to Merton r.
Bean furnished something to work on,
as Mr.. Bean is a family connection of
Charles II. George. Communication
with Mr.. George soon established the
fact that the REFER which the man wore
had been taken from his house.
Mr.. Park was then called in and i'm
mediately spotted the trousers worn by
the prisoner as those taken from his
house. The man had on two pairs of
rubbers, one over the other, and the in
ner pair were identified by Mr.. Park as
his. Some of the articles in his pockets
were later identified by Mrs. Park as
hers.
As the prisoner said when the charges
to be made against him were explained,
that he should plead not guilty, the
hearing was not held Saturday, but was
set for 10 O'Clock Monday, to give time
to summon witnesses.
When the house of Miss May near
Paris Hill was entered few weeks
since, the point of knife blade was
broken off in attempting to take out
cellar window. The finding of broken
bladed knife in the pocket of the prison
er led to the suspicion that he might be
connected with that break, but the
broken point does not fit the blade OF
the knife found on him.