Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-20

the stranger lmagineS Fields has Great
ed domestic disturbance of some de-
gree In some family circle with which
the stranger or Fields or both have
been directly connected.
It appears that some five weeks ago
Fields came to the H. & w mills and
found employment with the general
construction crew. 1t is said that he
came from the village OF Liverrnore
Falls. II Is also intimated. and the
| intima ton comes from some of the
construction crew who recently came
from that village, that the stranger
is a resident OF Livermore Falls.
Something of q stir was naturally
created among the employees of the
great plant when the report was quick
| ly circulated among them that Il man
hunt was going on in their midst.
Sundays developments in certain
ways, make the story more interest
ing. 1t appears that at 5 o'clock or
shortly thereafter a number of en-
ployes Of the Hollingsworth & Whit
ney Co We're going home. Three of
these We're +. w. Grindall, foreman of
the beating room. II. w. Smith, master
millwright and H. w. Bowden, fore
man Of the ground wood mill. Mr..
Grindall had witnessed the scene in
| the mill yard earlier in the afternoon
and was telling his companions about
| it. He had just reached the statement
that Fields had fled to Waterville over
the ice in the Kennebec river, when
he, Grindall. vas accoSted by q
stranger. The latter asked Grindall who
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on the ice. Grindali at once recos-
niZed the stranger as the man who had
! chased Fields into the beater ROOM
why, you are the man who was af-
ter him this afternoon, aren't you?'
asked Grindall.
Yes, 1 am
We'll, you We're doing 4 very fool
ish thing, weren't you?"
BY this time quite a number of en-
ployes had gathered around the two
speakers and, seeing this, the stranger
said:
We'll, l don't want to say too much
before SO many people, but if two or
| three of YOU will step aside here, you
will soon learn whether / have reason
to feel that l nave Just cause for doing
as / did"
AT this suggestion on the part of me
stranger. Grindall nodded to Smith
and Bowden and the three stepped
aside with the stranger. The story the
latter told is not new one to readers
of the daily papers. 1t is the same
strange old story, an alleged happy
home, wife and children. the appear
ance OF a stranger, alienation Of the
wifes affection from the husband,
flight and desertion from the husband
and children, and all Of the bitterness
that generally flows in the channel of
domestic discord. With voice heavy
with emotion, the stranger said:
"She left me, gentlemen. and my
three little ones. babies they are still,
sirs, and came away with that man"
1t appears that some time after the
wife left her husband, business mat
| tiers and transactions on his part made
it necessary that he should secure the
| signature Of the wife to certain legal
| documents. The papers in question
| the stranger had mailed more than
| month ago. addressed to his wife
! whom he then believed to be living in
| Fairfield. He failed to receive the pa
pers in return and as the delay was
| tuSlilic, Iliili SOIllclIiiiS Iteitui dlly
| became much worked up over the mat
ter mentally He determined to come
here. hunt up his wife. secure her sig
nature TO the papers and depart peace
| fully. He went to Fairfield, called at
the postOffice. learned that the papers
which he had mailed to his wife and
which by instructions on the envelope
| should have been returned to him by
| the postofIice department. in case of
| failure to deliver the papers to the
| person to whom they We're addressed,
We're still there.
The stranger hunted around and
finally located the alleged destroyer
of the peace and happiness of his
home, as an employe in the mills of the
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