Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-07-27
Maine News Notes.

Elmer Shorey, 10 years of age, wa
drowned while bathing at Pressure ISL
Thursday night.
Romero Gagne, five years of age, fel
into q we'll in the yard at his home neal
Lewiston Tuesday and was drowned.
George W. Norton of Portland hal
been elected treasurer of the Republican
State Committee to succeed Henry G
Boyer, Jr.
The body of James Whalen, unmar
ried, so years of age, was found in the
river at Bangor. 1t is thought that hi
stumbled and fell from a wharf.
Nine.year-old Oliver Harrington wal
killed at Madison Thursday when be
climbed tall pole and grasped live
wire carrying load of 900 volts.
Louis Mesbreau, a blacksmith, fatally
shot himself at North Amity Tuesday
The act is said to have followed an alter.
cation between him and his daughter.
Suspicion is said to rest on people OF
''social standing" In connection with the
recent finding OF the nude body of an in
FAINT on the shore of Long Island, Port
land Harbor.
A Pennington man has paid costs of
S4.22 on complaint for running his au.
tomobile without lights. The complain
ant said that this was only one of num-
Der of offenders whom he observed that
same evening.
Robert Boyd, son OF Hon. Byron Boyd
and grandson Of United States Senator
Edwin C. Burleigh, while playing on a
steel tower carrying high tension cleo
trio wires at Augusta Tuesday, came in
contact with the wires and fell to the
ground, being almost instantly killed.
He was IS years of age.
It would seem that pure righteousness
inspired the act of some one who recent
ly drove nails through strips OF wood
and placed them In the road at Phips-
burg. Recently two such sticks were
discovered on the road. Tenpenny nails
we're driven through narrow strips of
wood about 20 inches long. The wood
en- bases we're buried in the sand, but
were discovered before any automobiles
came along. The case was reported to
Sheriff Oliver. Later two more such
contrivances were discovered at the top
of Long Hill. The selectmen have offer
ed a reward of S25 for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction of the
guilty party.
Identification by finger prints had a
good test in this state last week, when q
Negro was discharged who but for the
finger print method would have been put
to serious trouble, even II he did not
suffer the penalty for another's unlaw-
full killing Clarence q. Conway, q Ne
gro, is wanted in New York on the
charge of murder. On Friday q Negro
was arrested in Lewiston. His name
was Clarence q. Conway, and he wrote
his name almost exactly like the sample
on the circular describing the wanted
man. The measurements and other de-
scription were also almost exact, even to
a gold tooth, and the man would un-
doubtedly have been taken to New York
if the circular had not contained finger
prints of the wanted man. Comparison
showed that the man under arrest had
ntirely different prints, and be was dis
charged.
John Il. Grondin, now Of Waterville,
must serve ten years. sentence impos.
ed when he was convicted OF an attempt
to murder bis wife, leila Grondin, who
was the daughter Of George Daviau OF
Waterville. The case was taken to the
law court, which has filed decree over
ruling the exceptions. Grondin and bis
wife were residents of Portland when
the attempt to kill Der was made. Mrs.
Grondin was found in gas-filled room
in January 1913. Nothing was done
about the case until Mrs. Grondin died
under suspicious circumstances at Los
Angeles, Calf, where the family had
moved. Grondin was arrested in con.
nection with her death there, and follow.
ing sensational hearing, was released
when the grand jury failed to find an in
dicfment. Mrs. Grondin was found at
her home in the California city with q
hat box over her head, in which was the
end of pipe from gas jet. Grondiu
exhibited note which he claimed was
written by his wife in which she said
that she had killed herself in order that
he might 90 to the woman he loved.