Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
Burial of JeWetts
Last Chapter in
jefferson Sayings

Whitcfeld, Me, Dec. 29-Lincolu
county's last chapters of its only
great horror and tragedy were read
today at the double funeral service
for Mrs, Frank c. Jewett and her son
Kenneth, victims Of a madmans
fury. A simpler, yet even more pa
thetic incident happened at the State
capital, when Baby" Marion Snow,
the tragedy waif, was buried BY
State officers.
Early today, relatives Of the Jew.
ctts reached Gardiner and drove i'm
mediately TO this village 10 receive
their first details Of the tragedy of
week ago which shocked the couh-
tryside when Mrs. JeWett and her
son, and Mrs. Ida Snow and the lat
ter's aunt and grandmother were
slain by John Snow.
The tragedy of Christmas eve was
followed by the disinterment of the
murdcrer's body and its burning in
the cottage where he committed three
of the murders and then took his own
life with the last shot in his revol-
VCr. Yesterday the baby died, q
victim Of pneumonia.
Three of the victims were buried
nearly a week agO-their murdererS
! body had been removed from the
! house several hours earlier and bur-
! led without religious services in
remote section of the farm-but the
! funeral OF Mrs. Jcwett and her son
was delayed to permit arrival Of
| rela tives. who were on their way
! home from California and who were
! reached by telegraph and informed
! they We're needed here.
| Citizens from all parts of Lincoln
| county came to Whitefield today TO
join with townsmen and neighbors
of Deputy Sheriff Jcwett in his soE'
row.
In the parlor of the Jewett hons
where ncighb0rs often gathered, The
| baskets of mother and son lay side
by side during the services. Ths
| Rev K. l. Skillings of the First Bap'
! fist Church at Gardiner read the
/ prayers and delivered the eulogy. yet
/ no harsh reference was made TO the
/ circumstances under which a whos
! community was saddened in one
! fateful day.
! The burial was ar the village Gene
| terry thrOngs joining the funeral cor
/ tege as it left the Jewett house and
| standing int he snow as with briei
! committal service the bodies were
! lowered into the graves.
| The services had been delayed TO
| await the arrival from Los Angeles
| of Mrs. Eugenia Parker. daughter Of
| the Jewotts, her husband, Forrest
, Parker, and her brother, Donald
! Jewett. Mrs. Parker and Donald left
! at once upon receipt of a telegram
! from a neiChbOr last Saturday which
| merely read:
You are needed at home. Take
first train
| They first learned of the tragedy
! two or three days ago when they pur'
chased q New York newspaper at
station while enroutc. Mr.. Parker,
! being unable to start with them lei!
Los Angeles l. hours later. arriving
here barely in time for the funeral
this afternoon.
Deputy Sheriff Jewett met his son
and daughter at his door when they
| reached here il the early morning
| hours after the 10-mile drive from
Gardiner. Mrs. Parker bore up well
but Donald broke down temporary
under the strain, and gave vent 70
his grief.
The three went to California in
truck with Fred Scott of Gardner
leaving Sept. /, and taking five or 81
| weeks for the trip. They though o.
locating in Los Angeles and MIS
Parker. who had taught school nere
began teaching, but they had a6ou.
decided to return to Maine when IAu /
received the telegram.
To-, -
Marion Snow in the same grave y 1
which her mother was consigned "
Sheppard cemetery at West JeleI'
son, but the town authorihes ~
QueSted that a single grave be pul,
chased and that the body be QUITE.
i'll the cemetery at Augusta, Whe
the baby died while in the care
the state Board Of Charities %s
Corrections. They did not VISA
have local feelings aroused AGAIN
they were after Shows BODY va
dug up and burned in the bra.
home in which most OF his Vicu"
met their fate.
At Augusta there were lune
services for the baby whose lie vs.
sacrificed to her insane fathers w.. =,
1t had been planned to bury ~
child i'll a grave beside her HUE
at Jefferson, but town Officers lea.s
another OutburSt: not that an!vss
blamed the child because CT M
crimes her father committeu. y,
rather dreaded a renewal OF
feeling which prompted the up.I
ing of a small band of avengers,
arrangements were made 10 ~
the interment at Augusta. .sn
y prayer was said for the I'm aa
, The Rev. Ralph T.. Lowe OF ~.
Green Street Methodist church ~
Quoted the funeral service 'iTs
though there were no 'SorIossd
relatives or neighbors to a.
tears dimmed the eyes OF othe' III
the little one was sealed IN heI M M
white casllet, and the TRAGEDY y.
brief life closed. III
No further progress was fepyn, sss
. in the investigation which las s.,,,.
'continued under direction OIL Wv. ~
Atty. Hilton of Damariscot'& az.
| with this afternoons closing n
| dents the people of this secuV, s.
content TO begin to try to Io,s srsa
40 word has been received
I Shows relatives and II Is no" .sH n
Iicycd no effort will be made " 80
the remains removed from tns -
grave to another burial place