Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-20
TWO ARRESTS FOR MUIR
DER OF DIR. HARRY STONE,
Raymond PIouffe, Who Drove Doctor to Station,
And Friend Felix Lapoint- Strong Circurn-
stantia| Evidence Is Alleged.

were Saturday night taken into Gus
toGy and Sent to the Jail in Clinton,
where they will he held for an exam
nation next Monday.
Both the lncn were under surycil-
lance all day and We're closely cues
toned by the officers, but they are
SAID TO have stuck to the assertion
chat they knew nothing of the death
of DR.. Stone
Plonffe said that he was busy about
ms chores in the Davis barn Monday
evening wheel, about $50 o'clock. d..
Stone had come cut into the barn and
tolG him to hitch up and take him to
the 9.01 train.
DIR. Stone had with him large
pasteLoard LoX filled with apples,
which he was TO take home with him
to Newburyport. This bcx was placed
between the knees of the men and
Plouite drove to the station. He said
that ne reached the station just as
the train was pulling out and left DR..
Stone at the corner Of the express Of
lice, huirVinS in the direction of the
train.
He could not state definitely that DR.
stone made the train he said, for his
horse became frightened at the engine
and salloped eft in the direction OF
home He returned home at about
9.45 and, stahlng the horse, retired
at 49,
Asked how lie remembered the time
;" exactly, he replied that he had
wound his alarm clock and noticed the
hour at the time. When questioned
,l.,,, rl,,,t
apples, he said that the doctor had
taken them with him when he started
Cor the train.
Plouffe stated that just as he was
Stabling the horse he saw George La
point pass his house whistling and
walking in the direction of Harvard
He places the time at 9.45.
AS he left his house with the doctor
for the train at $40. and made the dis
lance to the train in about % minutes,
while his return journey had taken
him considerably more time, he was
asked by the police to explain the de
lay in his return. To this he replied
that, as he had hurried the horse CO.
ing, he had walked him returning
Plouffe is known to have paid to Mrs.
Davis, who held a mortgage on his milk
business for $500 $50 on Sept 10, so on
the 18th and $35 on the 18th
He was asked how he happened to be
ready to make SO many payments. and
said that on account of many of his GUS
toners returning from their vacations his
payments had been heavy for the past
month He admitted to the police how
ever, That his business was worth but
2tout $i.15 per day.
Stree the report of the finding of DR.
Stones body Plouffe is said by the police
to have been telling stories of holdups
he had experienced on the road home late
at night. He added that it was for his
protection against these that he had pur-
chased his revolver.
Lapoint when questioned by the po
lice as to where he had been Monday
night between the hours of Z and 10.
replied that he had been walking along
the road in the direction of Aver. He
had strolled about for Il couple of hours
and then retired at 10 o'clock. His fam
my would confirm him in what he said
in that statement he declared.
He said he did not remember having
been walking with Ploutfe about three
weeks ago. when Plouffe said he was
showing him his pistol, and fired it Off
three times to show how poor condition
it was in. He denied having been with
Plouffe on any occasion when pistol
was fired by Plouffe.
Told that either he or Plouffe was tell
ing untruths. he offered to face Plouffe
and tell him that he was not with him
at any time when the pistol was fired
When the two men were brought together
their stories became very apparently con-
Trajectory. Both were then placed under
arrest.