Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-10-25
CHAPTER OF BuRaLARlEs.
Three Of Similar Nature in Hancock
County Last Week.

Three Of Similar Nature in Hancock
/ County Last Week.
Hancock county experienced three
burgiaries last week, all OF the thrilling
"stand and deliver variety, but in
widely-separated parts OF the county, and
apparently not connected one with
another. Two OF them, in fact, occurred
the same night, one on Cranberry island
and the other in Brooksville. In two
cases the burglar forced entrance to q
house at night, awakened the sleeping
occupant, demanded money, and escaped.
AT NORTH sEDawIcK.
The first case reported was at North
Sedgwick Monday evening, when the
house OF Roy Allen was entered. Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen left home early in the evening,
to attend an entertainment in Bluehlll,
leaving the hired girl, Olive Leach, OF
Penobscot, in charge OF the house. Lights
were left burning upstairs and down.
The story as told by Miss Leach is that
she sat up until about 10 o'clock. She says
that before that time she heard noise at
one Of the windows, but thought nothing
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Of it until later.
Shortly after retiring, she says she heard
a noise in the woodshed, and little later
heard chair fall in Mr.. Aliens ''den".
She went down stairs, and entering the
room saw a man at Mr.. Aliens desk, pull
ing over papers and ransacking drawers.
| The burglar, she says, turned, pointed q
revolver at her, and told her to keep still
or be would shoot. Then he resumed his
search of the desk. Miss Leach says she
crept up behind him, and when he laid
down the revolver to open a drawer, she
grabbed it and fired. She says she thinks
the bullet hit the man in the wrist, for she
| saw blood.
The burglar wrenched the revolver away
from her, knocked her down, tied a string
several times around her neck, fastened
her hands behind her and put the desk
chair on her. That, she says, is all she re-
members. Mr.. and Mrs. Allen found her
there, face down and apparently uncon-
scious, when they returned from Bluehill
two hours later.
| Miss Leach describes the man as short
and fat, heavy black moustache, front
teeth gone, and wearing ragged clothes.
Nothing was missing from the house.
| AT BRooKsvILLE.
| The second burglary occurred at Brooks
willie during the storm Thursday night,
when the house Of Nellie l.. Billings,
widow OF Deputy Sheriff Frank II. Bill
| ings, was entered.
| Mrs. Billings and her two small grand
children were the only people in the
house. Mrs. Billings was awakened
shortly before midnight by an automobile
passing. This may have had no connec-
ton with the burglary, but few minutes
later she heard someone enter her room,
and man whispered, "Your money!"
She had a wallet, gold watch and keys to
the store Of her late husband, on the bed
beside her. She passed the man an
envelope containing s13 and check for
S7.99 that was in the wallet.
The man took it, put it in his pocket,
and passed out through the dining
room, kitchen and entry, closing the
doors behind him. He had gained en-
trance by tearing the wire from the
screen door, christening that door and
then pushing the key from the lock OF the
inner door.
Mrs. Billings describes the man as short
and slim, gray eyes and very small mouth,
and wearing q cream colored rain-coat
and gray cap.
AT CRANBERRY IsLEss
During the same stormy night, or in the
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a similar burglary at Cranberry Isles.
Mrs. Mary Stanley, widow of Thomas
Stanley, past seventy years OF age, lives
alone on Great Cranberry island, in q
small clearing in the woods, one-qusrter
Of mile from her nearest neighbor.
She was awakened in the night by q
man coming toward her bed with q fash
light. He demanded her money. In q
small bag beside the bed Mrs. Stanley had
quite q sum OF money, she does not know
how much. She knows there wac more
than 500, but thinks there was not as
much as 500. She gave this to the man,
and he left.
She describes the man as dressed in
fisherman's oilskins and Southwestern.
His face was masked, which leads to the
belief that he may have been someone she
knew by sight. AS soon as the man had
left the house, Mrs. Stanley, scantily
dressed, hurried to her nearest neighbors
and gave the alarm.
In this case an arrest was made OF a
man who had been selling soap on the
island, but there was apparently nothing
to connect him with the burglary, and he
was released. Suspicion has been directed
to another man, a resident OF the island,
but no arrest has been made.