Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-30
MOB APPLIES
TAR TO MONROE
man ALLEGING
he BEAT MOTHER
Guy M. Twombley Held
Under Bonds as One
Of Participants

Belfast. Me, July 29-Alleging that
he had brutally assaulted his S5-year-
old mother, at his farm house, mile
and a half from Monroe village,
Charles L. Fogg was set upon by
mob little after i o'clock Monday
morning and was dragged from his
herne. given a coat of tar and would
have been sprinkled with feathers had
lie not escaped from his assailants.
Mrs Fogg was also knocked down,
but escaped further injury.
Claiming that he recognized Guy
N. Twombley as one of the attacking
party, Twombley was arrested on
F'ogg's complaint and arraigned
Wednesday before Judge Knowlton
in the Belfast municipal court Aft
er hearing the evidence, Twombley
was bound over in 5000 bonds to the
grand jury. He furnished bonds and
was released. His father was one of
tue bondsmen.
Mothers Condition Critical
Mrs. Fogg, the aged mother is in
a critical condition at the home of
one of the neighbors in Monroe, and
because of her extreme age, it is
feared she will not recover.
At the hearing Wednesday Fogg
testified that he and his wife were
awakened between u and 1 o'clock
Monday morning by noise in the
barn. Fogg pulled on his overalls,
shirt and shoes, and lighting a Ian
one of the horses in a highly nervous
condition and he remained in the barn
for some time, trying to quiet the an
iInal
Mrs. Fogg, in the meantime, be-
came alarmed a her husbands long
absence, and started out TO investigate.
She found him all right in the barn
and few minute later they started
back to the house. 1t was their inten-
ton to crawl in through the kitchen
window as the door had just been
painted. 1t was just then. according to
their story, that six or seven men
dashed out from beneath some shrub
berry where they had been hiding, so
Fogg testified, and attacked them
Recognized TwombIey's Voice
IOu "ouIO Dedl your OIu
would you?' said a voice. which Fogg
testified was Twombley's. Mr. and
Mrs. Fogg We're both knocked down.
Fogg was dragged to the roadside and
stripped of his clothing. Then some
tar which was in a becket, was APP
piled to his body Before the men
could get on the feathers, Fogg es-
capped.
In the meantime. Mrs. Fogg had
hurried TO a neighbours Later she re-
turned to find her husband all covered
with tar. This was in substance. the
story Fogg told at the hearing.
Twombley denied that he was
member of the attacking party.
Lived with Fogg 9 Years
1t was further brought out in the
testimony that Fogg's mother had liv-
ed in his home some nine year. Twom-
bley signed a petition with some 9TH
ers asking the selectmen to investi-
gate the stories of brutal treatment of
the aged woman. Twombley further
testified that it was common talk in
the town that Fogg would be treated
to a coat of tar and feathers.
In the course of Fogg's testimony,
he said that the pail containing the
tar was of galvanized iron. Twombley
testified that all his pals were OF
wood. covered with shingle stain.
Fogg positively denies that he has
treated his mother.
The senior Mrs. Fogg is suffering
from bad bruises about her back. She
is too feeble to be questioned The
physician in attendance fears blood
poison may develop.
The town is all stirred up over the
affair.