Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-23
BOWD0INHAM
man BEATEN UP,
ROBBED $4,000
Found, Bound, Gagged
and Unconscious Be-
side State Highway
Occupants of Car Bearing
Massachusetts Number, Stop
Him and Inquire Way to Lis
bon Falls-Attack Followed
Believed Work of Profess
SiOnalS\

Bowdoinham, Me-, June 22-Booker
3. Douglas of Bowdoinham was robbed
of $4,000 in money and bonds between
$50 and 0 o'clock on Tuesday night
on lonely section of the State road
between the two Bowdoinham garages.
about half a mile apart.
Mr.. Douglas had been at the Roger
son house making payment for some
/ land he had bought, and was on his
way home. On that part of the State
road between two hills a big car
stopped him and man asked him the
way to Lisbon Falls. Mr.. Douglas
tod the man he would have to turn
around. Then another question was
asked him and Mr.. Douglas stepped
upon the running board of the car as
he answered. The man then knocked
him down. tied rope around his neck
and made him inhale chloroform. That
was the last Mr.. Douglas remembers.
Two BoWdoinham men, Mr.. Crouch
, Or 'Reddy," as he is called, and Bert
temple, driving later along the State
road, noticed hat moving in the
bushes. They got out and found a
man bound, lying face down on the
earth. They at once drove for Justice
OF Feace j. H. Ames and DR.. Irish.
Ihey round that the unconscious man
was one of Bowdoinhams most promi-
nent citizens. They took him to the
, home of his daughter. Mrs. LYLE p
Temple, where they discovered he was
not seriously hurt besides the nervous
shock.
Mr.. Douglas found that he had been
roDped OF nearly everything in the
way OF money and papers that he car
rled with him. He described his as
sailant as large man and thouebt
that there were three men in the car
which bore Massachusetts, nurober
plate. 1t is thought that the work
was that of professionals who had
! been around here long enough To know
! that Mr.. Douglas dealt extensively in
real estate and would have large SIMS
or money about him on this specfaI
night. Mr.. Douglas was in his work.
ing clothes and not dressed in anv
way TO attract particular notice.
| Going back to the place where he
was robbed. he found a heavy fat
iron handle which he supposed u.s
USED IN striking him on the head.
WORD was at once telephoned east
and west to towns near Bowdoinham
but no trace has vet been found of
the robbers.
1t is believed that the highway
men who attacked Mr.. Douglas, have
been in the neighborhood at least for
several hours. A Bowdoinham girl
says she met a Massachusetts car
running very slowly. near the place
OF the hold-up. The car stopped and
one of the men in the car asked her
the way to Lewiston. She answered
the question and went on her Way
She can give no description of the
men to assist in the search.
! The tracks of the automobile
could be traced nearly to Richmond
where the trail was lost AS this is
a state road, the trail was merely a
tire track and as soon as general
traffic began over the road, it was
impossible to distinguish this track
from any other.
Mr. Douglas was found about TO-
30 o'clock in the evening. AS he was
unconscious until $50 o'clock, his
story could not be learned and thus
several hours of valuable time was
necessarily lost.
Mr.. Douglas has had the reputa-
ton locally of carrying considerable
money and bonds on his person He
| is about 60 years old