Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-11-20
WAS 1T MURDER I?
FRED BuNKER's FATHER THINKS
SON MET FOUL PLAY.
PIN OVER ON ELECTRIC RAILROAD IN
yEAzrE SEPT. 2-sUsPIcIoUs CIR
cUMsTANCEs.


Although coroner decided that Fred
Bunker, Of West Sullivan, was scci-
dentally killed by a car on Bangor, Orono
= Oldtown railway on the night of last
Labor day, the young mans father, Oak
man Bunker, believes his son was killed
in a fight at or near the road house Of
Mrs. Harriet Foyer iii veazie, and his body
afterwards placed on the railroad track.
On Sept. a last, Bunker, who was about
twenty-seven years OF age, and two young
men. Charles Havey and Wallace Springer,
all of Sullivan, went to Bangor, arriving
there at noon. During the ride from
sullivan they drank considerable. In
Bangor they visited several places where
they had liquor, and at o'clock took an
OIdtown car and went to the Foyer place,
which is just across the Bangor line in
VeaZie.
Up to this point it is easy to trace the
movements Of the trio. Beyond that there
is mass of conflicting statements. The
inmates OF the Foyer place tell one story,
Springer and Havey another, but all agree
on one point there NAs trouble at
the roadhouse.
o'clock from Old Town, reported by tele-
phone that it had struck and killed man
about three quarters Of mile from the
roadhouse.
Coroner Finnigan went to the scene and
secured the statement of the motorman,
decided that death was accidental and
that an inquest was unnecessary. The re-
mains were taken to Sullivan and in
TERED.
DIFFERENT STORIES.
The story OF the motcrman. which led
Coroner Finnegan to decide that an in
quest was unnecessary, was that he saw
the man when but short distance away,
and that apparently the man was drag
ging himself onto the track, using his
hands, which had hold OF the rails, to do
it with.
The motorman now says he was not
sure he saw the mans hands move, and
could not swear but what the body lay
across the track when he first saw it. He
also said that all he saw before the car
struck the man was Q shadow, which he
thought was that OF dog.
Havey and Springer say they all went
up to the Foyer house, that there were
some words and that along about half
past six they sat down to supper. That
suddenly Bunker struck at Springer, who
lodged, and jumped up and ran out of
doors. Bunker followed, striking at him
several times. Bunker then went back
and sat down and went out again and
Havey followed, two other men follow
other Oscar Prouty.
Havey says that they went a short dis
lance and were called back to the house.
Springer was then in the house, and
Frenchie came back very soon. Prouty
did not return for the night. Havey said
that they stayed there for while, and
that a man came in during the evening
and said someone had been killed by the
electric car. Springer got Mrs. Foyer to
telephone to Bangor 10 find out who was
killed, fearing that it might be Bunker.
They could get no information.
Springer and Havey left the house at
$50 the next morning, came to Bangor,
and took 10 o'clock train for home. On
the train they bought paper and there
learned that Bunker had been killed.
Mrs. Foyer says the three men came to
her place that night about 6 o'clock. All
had been drinking, and the three were
quarreling. She would not let Bunker in.
Bunker and his two friends had more
trouble and Bunker went off down the
road toward the highway, the two friends
following him, and later they came back
and brought his hat. She asked them
where he was, and they told her that he
had laid down in the bushes to sleep. She
says that she remarked that he might get
onto the railroad track and be run over.
The two men stayed there all night,
leaving early the next morning, before 5
o'clock. She says that before they left she
received her morning paper, read the &C.
count OF Bunker's death, and notified the
two. She says that they did not eat sup
per there, and that none of them came
lntothe house until after Bunker had dis
appeared.
The man known as Frenchie is still
there, but Oscar Prouty, who is about
eighteen years OF age, went away few
days after the death of Bunker. Mrs.
Foyer thinks he went to Seattle, WASH,
but Inspector Knaide, of Bangor, is posi-