Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-24
Height of Fiendishness

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Height of Fiendishness
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| Dor were going into Cooper's Mills
| about l o'clock Saturday afternoon
! and as they passed the Brann house
| they observed John Snow going into
the house with his arm over the
| shoulder of his wife, in what they
| assumed to be a friendly. loving at
| titude. AS they went down over the
brow of the hill past the murder
house, they heard a shot. but
| thought nothing more of it, accredit-
| ing 1t to boys rabbit hunting in the
Wopds beyond.
Mrs. SnoW was being led then into
| her death, in all probability, as the
| two women passed the house. The
! SuppoSltlonS entirely govern the
outline of happenings in the Brann
| home. 1t is supposed that the first
. victim of the man in the jefferson
| home, was Mrs. Brann, the woman
! who refused to go bonds for him any
| longer. Her body was found living
| parallel with the outside door of the
| ell. From there he must have gone
| into the bedroom at the rear of the
| house, passing through the middle
| room to do SO. Here was Mrs Eva
| Eaton, in bed, WHO had been i'll for
| about week. Evidences were that
| the sick woman had put UP stiff
| battle for her life. The foot of the
! old fashioned bed was broken off
| and was lying on the tumbled bed
| clothes. At the foot of the bed. as
! if she had fallen off. on her way to
| find refuge under the bed, was the
crumpled up body of the second vic
| tim In the Brann homo. In his in
| sane lust for blood, the murderer
| shot one bullet wild in this room,
| which glanced from the chimney.
hit the wall beyond and bounded
| back at right angles, being found
| on the top of the sewing machine.
! on the opposite side Of the room. In
| the first room, too. where the body
| OF Mrs. Brann was found, bullet
/ had torn its way through 'he door.
mad rlcocheted from the ceiling and
| had lodged in the wall.
Baby Unframed
At this point it may haze been
! that the terror-tiIlcd 1S-ycar-old
wife ran from the house, to escape
with her life. 1t was then that the
| man and his Wife were seen going
into the house He must have drag
ged her into the middle room. where
! their two months Old baby sat.
| playing with tiny bank and a wbis-
tie. which were later found there
on the coyerict. The dead bod,. of
| the wife was found near the Stairc
| leading up into the attic room aS If
she had still struggled and tr;ed 70
get away. About arms Ienotb from
! her Law the body of SNOW forir,r
! her. with the revolver which bad
! snuffed ont five I,ves hearinr ,,1,,tn
testimony that if bad +ina1iu cinSnd
the chau1er as II had startod :. ,..;tt'
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I'D'''e INV tooh matters IN charge
dna,7 '.'i,' MLS' Eugene Bfann' the
"I" 80 Woman son ana Wlle, were also
~ WI H'tho' search was made by
,ll'l,,d' ,i',tl ,; ioI Il oank DOCK and
i n'n,S " l,i'il theE thouEht Mrs.
t '','I.ii i''"' buI nothing could be
| ''"'i'
"'SStery trunk
a curious thing. which for Il time
, threw an all" of miSaDDrchenSion
over the party of searchers was a
mystery trunk in the Brann house.