Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-20

prick up. lay down or CULVER in the
breeze when sights and sounds assail
her. She is the mare behind which
DR.. Hill has ridden for some time,
making his calls. Helen comes from
the Thomas Lawson stables at
DreamWold and she is a trotter of
high blood, having had a mark of
go, land maybe she might go bet
ter" the doctor added as he patted
her, lovingly.
But Helen is camera shy. Thursday
morning when the camera sided up
alongside her, she breathed heavily,
she shook her head in disgust and
showed her disapproval forcefully. The
farther away from her the camera
man went with his camera tho better
it pleased Helen. Then an apple dis
covered on the seat of the sleigh and
offered from the hand Of the doctor
also went a long ways in appeasing
her and causing her to be more willing
to look pleasant"
Albion Spaulding is the doctors
driver and right-hand man.
Everybody has to have a hobby"
and he chuckled as he unlocked the
many-shclved, glass-fronted closet
which stands in his smaller office. The
shelves of the closet are filed with
Indian relics. the like of which can
not be duplicated outside of r,useun.
While DIR. Hill is modest in his prowcss
as relic hunter. nevertheless even
the inexperienced Is brought to realize
thai mis- collection is a very valuable
one.
From others it is learned that Dr.
I'LL is an authority on Indian lore.
Stories of long ago arc at his tongues
end. The romance and the history of
the kennebec are like pages from his
own ancestral records. He belongs 10
the old families of Maine, being a lin
can descendant in the eighth gencr-
alton of Peter Till. who is said to
havr landed on Richmond's Island on
March %, 1852, having com. from
Plymouth, England. Joseph Hill. one
of his progenitors, went to Saco to
help build Fort Mary as a protection
from the Indians
The Tragedy of the Kennebcc Is re-
called and in Norths History, page 7,
there is an account of it. The Tragedy
was in 1884. The story is here quoted
in order to lead up to the subject: I'm
May of this year G634 vessel of
Lords Say ard Brooke from Piscata-
qua. commanded by one Hasllins, ar
rived in the river, intending TO trade
with the Indians. This he was forbid
den to do. but disregarding the COM
mand OF the magistrates to depart. ne
assembled the river, whereupon one
sent three men in a canoe TO cut his
cables. Having cut one, Haskins said.
Touch the other and death is your
at the same time SELLING q
gun to execute his threat. The cable
was cut and the gun discharged, kill
ing one of the men instantly. Has
kins. however received at the same
time a fatal wound. 1t is said this
was at Cushnoc. whic' is highly prob
able, as Haskins. disregarding the
of the Plymouth magistrates
would needs go up the river above
their House towards tive fall Of the
river and intercept the trade which
should come to them Allen was aft
erwards arrested in Massachusetts and
held to answer for the offence, which
excited party feelings, the royalists
enchanting when men cut threats for
beaver it is time to have general 4
Tt was adjudged 'ex-
cusable homicide
This story is quoted at this point
to bring to mind, the Importance of |
the discovery which DR.. Hill and Wal !
ter Stanton made in 1890, when they |
found what DR.. Hill feels certain TO |
be the very graves of these two men
who died in the Tragedy of the Ken |
nebec. The graves were unearthed |
1t Five Mile Island. on the location |
which corroborates with the location I
above described. The bodies were |
buried in one long grave. feet to feet, !
with the heads at either end.
While he was digging in the earth, |
Dr.. Hill first came TO a shell-like sub |
tance in the ground and then came |
lpon what it felt sure to be the |
raves of the two victims of the !
Tragedy. Right there in the earth |
vas seen the imprint of homespun
10th and no Indian would be cloth
d in such. When the air struck the