Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-26
LOIS is AT HOME.
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her father. Pasauale asked the girl
to go with him to the station house,
and told her that he would help her
! find her father.
| AS soon as the girl reached police
headquarters, Chief Dresser 'phoned
I to Mr.. Piper's hotel. A bell boy rap
ped on the door and said Il have
good news for you. Your daughter is
: at the police station.
| Questions concerning her where
abouts and actions during the past
week were of course piled to her by
Mr.. Piper and the police officers, but
still daZed she was able to answer
only With a faint degree of certainty.
In the moving picture theater at
i Waterville on the Monday night, she
was last seen, she met two we'll
dressed men and women, who offer
/ ed her some chocolates and told her
! they would take her for an automo-
, bile ride She had a faint recollec-
ton of being whizzed through the
country for several miles and of being
placed aboard a train. Her senses
were so mixed and confused that she
was not aware of the appearance of
to. She has faint recollection of be-
ing in Portland and of later being in
Boston. Remembrance of the build
ing to which she was taken and con-
F.. fined for a week, cannot be recalled.
| The girl does not know whether ii
was private house or a hotel, and
her consciousness during the inter-
val as so slight that she could not
relate what happened.
; Monday she remembers of hearing a
! conversation in the room adjoining the
one where she was confined. 1t was ap-
parently between the two men and the
woman who had abducted her, and who
now believed that the police and the
I father were too close on the trail to
make it safe to retain her any longer
They consequently decided to release her
on the conditions previously mentioned
to which the girl readily agreed. Imme-
diatey upon being granted her freedom
she followed the directions with the re-
suit that she arrived in Portland the
next morning Beyond that nothing
could be learned either of the abductors
or of what had happened to the girl dur
ing the week
Miss Piper and her father returned to
Waterville on the II. As train. When the
girl reached her home and saw her moth-
er, who had changed greatly under the
strain and worry CT the past week, she
utterly collapsed and was put to bed
All visitors We're denied. The attending
physician was obliged to administer
opiates, and said that he considered the
girls condition very serious.
The family was in a very melancholy
| state, Tuesday evening. Mr. Piper said
to a Journal reporter that his daughter
had absolutely nothing to say, and that
he himself would say very little,
MY daughter is dangerously ill.," said
Mr.. Piper, 'and l am not much better
off myself. l am tired and worn out
No family has ever passed through such
a siege as We have, and we are stagger-
ing under the burden of grief that is now
upon us in finding our dear child In such
a condition.
We are happy in the thought of hav-
ing her with us once again, but the or
deal through which we have been has
completely unnerved us ALL and we have
, very little to say concerning the matter.
Later, however, | will have statement
to make The last sentence Mr. Piper
said with great emphasis.
When questioned as to the reap
pearance of Harry keene who dis
appeared the same night as Miss Piper,
and who returned again, Tuesday
morning, and of the probability of his
daughter being with him. he said: Il
know absolutely nothing about Keene. |
He lives in the next house. If you
want to know anything about him, go |
there. l don't want the matter men,
toned to me again"
Mr.. Piper was asked by the Journal |
reporter whether a story printed in |
one of the Boston papers to the eff |
feet that he had thrown Keene off /
of his porch one day, last January, !
and told him that if he ever had any !.
thing more to do with any members !.
of his family he would kill him, and !.
that to further impress the statement /,
upon the minds of the members of the |
household he had bought a revolver,
he said:
Yes, | did throw Keene off of my
porch, and l told him that if he ever