Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-04-19

TWO MEN FOUND In ANDREWS STORE
AT BRYANT's POND.

TWO MEN FUND In ANDhEWe SIon
AT BRYANT's POND.
John Mcdonald and Tom Creame
were lodged in the county Jail Wednes
day, on the charge OF breaking and on
tering the store of Edwin Andrews q
Bryant's Pond on the morning OF tina
day. Mcdonald was taken in the act
and Creamer was arrested little later |
the day, q few miles north of that vi
lage. Mcdonald was badly ''stove up,
and showed the marks of rough usage.
About four o'clock in the morning @
that day, Mark Allen, who is clerk i
the store and sleeps up stairs in tn
building, heard noise in the store bs
low. He quietly slipped down stairs an
reused Mr.. Andrews, who lives mex
door to the store. MIR. Andrews jumpe,
out Of bed, without stopping to dress
and together they went to the store
There was lamp lighted in the store
and two men were packing goods into
sack. One of them had on an overcoa
which he had taken from the stock il
the store.
| Andrews and Allen let themselves int,
the store by the front door. Andrew
grabbed sledge hammer handle from
lot which were in q convenient plac
near the door, and Allen an axe handle
The lamp was blown out, and ''rougl
house, began Immediately, In the course
Of which both the burglars got more OF
less blows from the clubs. In the mele
one of them slipped away. The othel
broke through the door, and was follow
ed by Andrews some distance down tn,
street before he decided to obey An
drews' command to stOp-which com
mand was enforced by the hammer
handle with such effect that the young
ster simply couldn't 60 any farther.
Deputy Sheriff James NJ. Day brough,
the burglar to Jail on the early morning
train. He was a hard looking subject
with his head laid open in several
places, and pretty we'll covered with
blood from his wounds. He gives the
name of John Mcdonald, and claims a
home in New Brunswick. He is rather
small in size, and gives his age as 1s
years.
Later in the morning Andrews, &C
companied by Horace Littlefield, learn
ing that q man had been seen travelling
on foot on the Rumford road, started out
with team. Near the forks where the
Rumford stage changes horses, they
overlook Tom Creamer, and insisted
upon his getting in and going back with
them. He was at first disincined to do
so, but on one of the men allowing him
to see that he carried a revolver, he
changed his mind and got in. He was
brought to Jail on the forenoon train.
Mcdonald was so badly cut up about
the head that it was necessary to have a
surgeon sew him up, and ether had to
be administered for the purpose. Cream
err shows no bruises.
A hearing was given in the Norway
Municipal Court Wednesday afternoon
Mcdonald pleaded guilty, and was bound
over in the sum of $780, Creamer plead
ed not guilty, but on Andrews positive
Identification of him as one of the men
whom he saw in the store while the
lamp was burning, Judge Jones also
bound him over in the same sum. Meth
er could give bonds, and both were CON-
United to Jail.
Tom Dreamer served sentence in the
county Jail for intoxication in 1908,
when he was recorded as 81 years of age
He stoutly maintains his innocence, and
declares that he came from Portland on
a freight train which did not reach
Bryant's Pond until daylight Wednes-
day morning. He details his travels
since leaving Rumford about Christmas
time, and says that he was "broke" in
Portland, and jumped the freight to get
to the Pond and make his way across to
Rumford, where he thought he could get
a job He declares that be can show
when he got into the Pond by the brake
men on the train, If he can get hold of
them, and hopes thus to prove his inno-
cence.
Mcdonald says that the man who was
with him "put up the job" telling him
that he had been there and knew the
lay Of the land, and had the job all laid
out. They walked from Littlefields in
Auburn to Mechanic Falls, boarded a
freight and went to West Paris, and
walked from there to Bryant's Pond.
He says that Dreamer is not the man
who was with him in the job, and the
description he gave Of the other man
tally with Creamer's appearance. Nc
Donald says he did not know the other
mans name.
Somewhere between twelve and TWEEN
ty dollars in small change was taken
from the money drawer in Andrews
store. A few dollars in change was
found on McDonald's person when he
was caught, and some small change has
since been found scattered on the street
in Bryant's Pond village.