Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-17
Afraid Of Being Killed

the mother. 'She was lust like that all
the time through the night She went
right where he told her to- no matter
how afraid she was, for she knew he
would Kill her if she called out He ask
cd her if he" father had a revolver and
said he supposed he would have 10 shoot
him the next time he saw him. She saw
the lanterns. but
"He was living on the boards. said
Doris, and I saw the lanterns ali along
the hills away OFF and il looked almost
as if the hills was on fire | didn't say
n word to HIM about 1t: | didn't dare to.
was afraid he would kill me if he
knew anyone was looking for US. He
made mo promise 10 keep still! and no.
tell ANYTHING or he'd Kill me-"
In this the tvs SEEM to have double
crossed each other. Doris. was. Wisely
trying to keep from the devilish tor
mentor all she may have seen or heard
that led her 10 believe help was abroad
but circumstances indicate that he
knew the conditions even better than
She and was trying to keep the fact of
the posse from her. LEST she cry out in
ar effort to make herself heard.
Ibid he help you over the barb,d wire
fen@cs?' asked the mother.
''Some Picnics Later"
mo; he pulled me through or made
me crawl under. He kept hold of my
arm all the time and. twisted il when ha
snarled at me for, anything He said
if we was only in Manchester We would
ride homo on the cars and he said we
would nave to go on some pcnics later.
d. was awful afraid. but | saw he meant
he would kill me II ! made a noise or
ANYTHING. SO | Just Didn't
flow long were YOU walling?" asked
the journal man.
''Oh, don't know! For miles and miles
l guess. l think it was about II or II
O'Clock when we left the place we had
been in and started to walk He pulled
me along until | was so tired | coull
just move and when l would want to ss
on rock to rest he would twist my arm
and make me hurry again. We passed a
farm house and a man was looking at
him. He pushed ME behind him so the
man wouldn't see me- But when we were
getting where / knew we were coming
home, l just made him hurry. and when
he'd sit down I'd say. Come, we must
go along"
Her Victory Complete
And it was thus that the heroic girl of
II years proved her victory by driving
her foe who had prosecuted her for many
hours.
1t is difficult to imagine so young and
so small little girl as Doris Brown
wits with an armed degenerate
who was known as a dead shot. Stun
bling through the woods at his command
out measuring all her speech as cum
ningly as a much older person might
nave. 1t is story of heroism. and
heroism led by very clear little mind.
Dragged IS Miles
1t would appear that Kittredge dragged
the slender child through the woods for
At least Is miles between the time of MS
first assault and her arrival home. Fear
ng to return either with or without the
child. kittredge appears to have struck
OIL to the north soon after dark and
travelled as far as some piles of boards
n the neighborhood of saw mill near
AAHN' ~AAAASAht, iOISs SOHle SIX or
seven miles from Augusta, he formed a
roof over his head by placing boards
across from the top of one pile to an
other. OF course the child Doris does
1ot know where she was taken nor in
What direction. When the lanterns be-
anne so thick upon the distant hills that
Aittredge had new fears, he evidently
made up his mind that he must get the
irl through or around the lines of the |
and home. At any rate. il is
lear that he did circle about until he |
cached some point on Winthrop street
veil out of Augusta, for Doris says she
PASSED many farm houses and barns |
'efore they cut through the woods and
merged upon the muster grounds.
A WeIlbred Child
The child Doris is a thoroughly we'll
red child of a well-respected family.
Ter father and mother are both excel
emf and highly respected residents OF
he neighborhood in which they live.
nd the parents Of a splendid family OF
We children. OF the five children three
re girls: Margaret, age Z; Eva, age II:
nd Doris. age Il. There are two boys:
Walter, age II, helper in his fathers
usiness; and Willis, age 70, employed by