Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-07
State Takes Hand
In Maiden Mystery.

Boston, Jan. G.-Governor Foss, Sat
urday afternoon, called state detec
tives into the MAIDEN death mystery
case.
Believing that their daughter had
net With foul play Mr. and Mrs Frank
A. Meaard called at the State House.
Saturday noon, and appealed to the
Governor to help solve the mystery.
After hearing Mr.. Menard's story
the Governor called up Chief Whitney.
who dispatched inspectors to confer
with the Maiden police.
The Maiden police are working on
the theory that the woman died from
an epileptic fit. and was deserted by n
man who pulled her body from the
roadside into the bushes
Inspector Edward Greenleaf of NAL
den, with Inspector Siias Smith of the
state police, spent a greater part OF
Saturday in Boston in conferefpe with
Chief Inspector Armstrong.
The Maiden police are basing%heir
theory on the report of Medical Exam n
irer Thomas Durel. N.Y.
Late, Saturday night, DR.. Durell staEvss
ed to the Post that he had been unabes
to find the slightest trace of violence
on the body.
DR.. William F. Whitney of Harvard
who made an examination of several
portions of the body, said, last night
that he had not yet reported on the
matter. He refused to discuss his find
ings in any way.
The Maiden police have established
the fact that kid Carter" left tie
Menard home in Revere with Mrs. Dom
~, To,4
They have traced the couple to I,lElsH
don square from the sMenard hpHles
Here the police belieRe the cnuple
started for the carter rome in Fv6rS
EFT. 8's#
kid Carter is not accounted E41|
until after O'Clock when he was Y
in Chelsea.
The police believe that Mildrs(
ovan while walking down Lynn r.
owing to some excitement, wa oxeTs
come with a At and that she stasge se0k
and fell to the side of the road They
figure it out that If kid Carter WAS
with her. he, knowinsA he Kasf
wanted for assault by the HTfret<&9e
lice. did not dare to giysf the I&6iIi
They believe he drasKed t6e f| X
to the swamp by the&sidc of ~ "a I
to shield himself frgtn passing teams,
where he attempted 10 reViv4 her. TN
able to DO this. shey Believe thaf CAR
ter, fearing to ba held IN the Ff]lice
if he notified them. left Thu Sir y +. VI
The police have ;establis Tie fadk 16Sst
at about . O'Clock on wedne sdays fd 6Fn-
ing. the day. the body was found "a,
Menard received a Telephone from MN
who asked if .Milnfea had got Kill
yet aNts 3':$
MIR. Menard asked who itsssxa -
stating thar she lad not and ii 81 81
on the line iInu3 diatsly ane "A e ~
ceiver sss E 81 ~ }s ' 49,
The police claim I'LL u Mn ziiIlS later
kid Garter pnrdhasxd y raincozf and
cap in a waslilngfon street, Dorchester,
store, and they believe that Carter mad
then heard of Mrs. Donovan's absence
Then they think liquor rot the better
of Carter and that drunken brawl in
the Boston saloon resulted in the staying
of MCPHERSON.
"There is nothing criminal against Car
ter in connection with Mrs Donovan, as
far as we can find out" said one of the
Maiden authorities Saturday, IF he de-
serted her 1t is not criminal
, While playing in the Holy Cross ceme-
terry, yesterday, two boys found wo-
mans handbag just inside the cemetery
fance, not far from the scene of the trag-
edy. The Maiden police found the bag to
be an old affair and they have eliminated
it as being the property of Mrs. Dono-
van.
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