Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-08
Edward Ross Tells
Of Wanderings

Lewiston. Me, April 1.-Two lights
followed me wherever I went.
could not escape them
Tins is but enc declaration in Ed
ward E. Ross.s first interview with
any newspaper man since Ross, clad
only in his nnderclothes, was found
wandering about the woods and fields
in Turner on April Fools day. His
feet We're frozen and days of expos
ure had deranged his mind. For this
reason he could give no dependable
information regarding his great ad-
venture.
Il thought I was in a tenement
house." began the man Tuesday as
ne lay on his cot 1T was the biggest
/ had even seen. There was room aft
er room. Trees grew right up through
the floor and the snow sifted down
through the roof.
"All the time | was trying to get
out but no sooner would l found a
door and start out but a whole bunch
of women dressed in white would
stand up in front of it and push me
back. I would try another door and
1t would be the same. remember that
/ asked them if they ran a SANTA
rum there-they were all dressed in
white you know and there were so
many rooms
But at last I came to a long cor
riGor and at the end were big fold
ing doors. | thought at once that it
was the entrance to the building and
I rushed for the doors and burst
through them.
When I came to them l was up
to my ears in water"
This must have been on Sunday
night or early Monday morning for
it was between 10 and IL o'clock on
Monday forenoon that c. w. Old
ham, coming from Turner on Tur-
ner Center Creamery cream wagon,
saw a man emerge from the bushes
near the Lake Auburn Fish Hatchery
bridge on the Turner road. The mans
clothes We're soaked with water.
Ross was around Chisholm for all
of 10 days after work closed on the
dam and before he left the place
When he boarded the 1903 train IN
Livermore Falls Saturday afternoon he
told friends that he was going to Ban
gor.
But Ross does not remember of
boarding the train nor of all the days
he spent in and about Chisholm while
out of work. He had taken something
and felt nervous.
II knew I was getting bad and l
tried not to let anyone see it 1t got
onto my nerves"
When told that he had been seen in
Lewiston on Sunday he said, IF 1t
wasn't for that / would think that l
wandered from Livermore. How could
a man live after what 1 went
through"
Il have never quit. Whatever hap
pened was my own fault. / blame no
one else and want to let the AFFAIR
drop What I want to do is save my
feet. IL only save my feet!"
Edward E, Ross has no care for the
roll of money he accumulated at Ri
ley's or his new suit or for the suit
cases full of furnishings. He wants
to recover from the experience with
ability to again go to work at his trade
of master mechanic. While there is
a great possibility that he will be dis
abled as the result of the affair. ply
sicians in charge do not believe that It
| will be necessary to amputate but a
portion of two of the toes. However,
| this is not definite.
Ross is a very rugged man. When
seen Monday he appeared in wonder
| fully good physical condition consid-
ering his experience. He moved free
| ly In his bed. arranged his pillow &C.
casionally, gesticulated