Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-16
there. of the approach of men VINO
were cursing him as they searched
From Two Directions

were cursing him as they searched
From Two Directions
Searching parties entered the woods
from both sides. north and south. Au-
tonobiles rushed scores TO the Jo-
semi Mclean home on Mt. Vernon
avenue where the Lishness girl had
emerged with the first startling mess
age. and with lanterns to light the
way sober and determined men trod
hack and forth between the highway
and the reservoir, covering every inch
of ground as we'll as they could. From
the other side of the woods State mill
itiamen and civilians came through
to Bond brook, then back east and
west in diagonal lines until they again
reached the reservoir. So hour after
hour the search was continued.
Hopes and Fears
And what were those men saying as
they searched? They were of the opinion
that Julian Kittredge would not be seen
in those woods either during the night
or later; that if he were found within
short time he might likely be located at
his camp on the shore of Togus pond
where in the past he had fed to try to
escape the arm Of the law; that if little
Doris Brown were found, she would be
found stunned or dead, for there was not
a sound in the dripping woods save the
voices of men and the breaking of sticks
as the searchers tramped. From time
to time the men carrying lanterns would
stop and listen, but there we're no cries
for help, no means from a sufferer; the
forest was hopelessly silent.
From a point some distance from the
reservoir where the little girl had last
been seen, keen eyes followed a pair of
tracks down through the woods to a
place near a little spring; the tracks
were made by a mans shoes with the
little marks Of child's shoes along be-
side. Before II o'clock three handker-
chiefs had been found, one not far from
the reservoir on the pipe line. and two
others west Of the reservoir in the woods,
but as these woods have been frequented
Of late by gatherers of trailing arbutus
no special significance was attached to
these finds by the calm-minded amongst
the posse.
Sergeant Jesse Lewis, IN charge of the
militiamen, kept his men deploying
through the woods thought most likely
to hide the girls body, but though they
turned aside for neither swamps nor
tangled thorn bushes, up to an early
hour this morning no real clue had been
unearthed.
There were those who suggested that
In escaping from the wods the sus-
pect might have taken the girl with
him and the suggestion would gladly
have been accepted by those who be-
ieved they were searching for her
mutilated body. but it was thought
improbable by the majority that the
man would attempt to make his escape
tramelled as he would be II he tried to
carry or lead the little girl Some sug-
gested that the reservoir be examin
ed, but apparatus with which to make
a proper search in the water was not
at hand.
A Wild Region
All realized as soon as they got well
within the woods that the search
could at best but give up the girl. and
that was the one great hope; there was
no cause for fear Of the man nor any
hope that he would be captured. A
wilder region could hardly be found
within many miles, and covering miles
as do thesesdifficult woods there was
no chance whatever that a man could
be trapped in them. The woods are
full Of hiding places from which a
fugitive might easily creep to and fro
when approached. Frequently when
the possibility Of running down the