Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-31
NADEAU DECLARES
HE is INNOCENT
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MED that he assaulted Hillman, and
declared that he had no knowledge of
the missing mans whereabouts.
Nadeau did not seem surprised at
the decision. During recess he plan
ned with his daughter and son as to
what they were to do in case be was
not released.
Days Sensation
The sensation of the day came at 1
Tuesday afternoon, when J. j. Gala
han, aged 5s, testified that he saw
Freeman Nadeau in a wagon in Island
Falls early in the evening of Dec, 81.
Callahan, VINO is a veterinary, went
to the lookup out of curiosity when
the officer went to Nadeau to bring
him to court. Great was Callahan's
surprise when he identified Nadeau DIS
the man he saw in front of one of the
stores in Island Falls on the nigh.
that Deputy Hillman disappeared.
He thought the matter carefully
over and finally decided to tell the
county officials. For days they have
been securing the town to find some
one who saw Nadeau on the night in
question.
This witness fills gap in the chain
of circumstances and greatly strength
ems the States case. it is believed.
Callahan testified that he noticed a
gig on the streets and recognized Ma
deau as one of the men in the wag-
on.
Nadeau Shows Strain
Nadeau was unshaven and the strain
of the past week had told on him.
His wife has been just returned
from the hospital where she submit
ted to the amputation of one leg.
The missing deputy, the authorities
believe. is lying dead. covered with
a blanket of snow, somewhere in the
woods about here. 1t is realized that
the search will be difficult one and
the possibility that 1t will not be dis
covered until the warm days of spring
have commenced to melt the snow
banks is fully realized.
The search will be continued. how
ever, and County Attorney Archibald
of Aroostook, who is here from HouI-
ton to conduct the case for the State,
hopes that important discoveries may
hour The fact that the body of the
person alleged to have been killed
has not been found, is a point of
marked similarity with the earlier
stages of the Mildred Sullivan case,
1t is pointed out.
Guilty knowledge
The State is endeayoring to make
much of the alleged fact that Nadeau,
who appeared at the Crystal railroad
station on Tuesday morning, after
Hillman had disappeared, practically
told the station agent of the sheriff.
disappearance. 1t is claimed that this
fact takes a deeper significance be-
cause Mrs. Hillman had not notified
anyone of her husbands disappearance
until Tuesday and that Nadeau could
not possibly have heard the news from
her before he appeared at the little
station at Crystal.
Mrs. Hillman and her six children,
the oldest being IL years old, stlli con-
tinue, hoping against hope, that the
missing husband and father will be
found. But the chances that he is still
alive, they realize, are terribly re-
inpte, Nearby live Hillman's aged
parents, the father i'll in bed with an
incurable disease and the mother
bowed by grief Only three years ago
they were called upon to mourn the
loss of another son, drowned in the
Mattawamkeag river. For II days, too,
his body was missing-just as their
son Harold's is now. But at the END
of that time it was found.