Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-09-17

too soft. The plane, losing Roadway
after touching the ground, sank
deeper into the soft earth after run
ming a few Yards, and then stopped
suddenly and stood on it's nose. The
propeller and one wing were broken.
Lieuts. Doolittle and Plank, the oc-
cupants of the plane, were unln-
jured The plane was taken apart
here for shipment to factory IN
Ohio for repairs.
Mary Steffensen, aged four years,
of Roxbury, Mass, was brought to
the Hurley hospital Monday, suffer-
ing from a bad fracture of the right
leg above the knee from being run
over by an automobile. The child
was with it's mother and party OF
friends motoring from Boston TO
Calais. The car was parked beside
the Franklin road short distance
out of Ellsworth while tire was
being repaired, and the child was
plaving about it. She ran from be-
hind the car directly in front of an
automobile, the wheels passing over
her leg. After treatment at the Hur-
ley hospital, she was taken to the
Eastern Maine general hospital in
Bangor yesterday. While it is a
bad fracture, there will be no neces-
SHY of amputation, as reported.
Y Two new permanent silent po-
lcemen," with concrete base and
surmounted by red flashlights, have
been placed in Ellsworth one at
PostofFice square and the other at
the junction of Main and High
streets The one at Postofiice square
is placed nearly in the center of the
square There have been some lively
discussions by autoists and others as
to whether it was properly placed.
This is an awkward square in which
to place a post, as State street and
Water street come into Main street
at different angles, and Main street
itself makes an angle at the square.
The Silent policeman" as located,
necessitates rather a short turn for
an auto coming down State street
and turning up Main, or for one
coming down Main and turning down
Water street, but it is hard to see
how this could be avoided. If the
policeman" results in the slowing
down of cars at this dangerous cor
ner, it will serve its object in avert
ing accidents.
A liquor case, with tragedy as
sidelight, was heard in the Ellsworth
municipal court Monday. Eugene
Ryder, formerly OF Ellsworth, was
the respondent, and he is held for
the grand jury in default of $500
bail, on a charge of illegal trans
portation of intoxicating liquor. Fe-
lix Leroy, who drank some of the
stuff, is dead Ryder was mate of
the schooner Mildred May, which
reached South Gouldsboro Friday
with load of salt from Gloucester,
Mass. Ryder, it is alleged, also
brought down a couple of quarts of
so-called liquor. He invited two or
three men about the wharf at South
Gouldsboro to drink. Leroy was not
there at the time, but he heard
about it, and went to the vessel when
Ryder was not there. He found the
liquor and helped himself. The 9TH
ers,. who had drank the stuff were
made sick, but Leroy didn't hear of
that in time. He died the next day.
DR.. Holt pronounced it acute alco-
holism. Leroy was about thirty
years of age, and had been in Goulds-
boro but short time.
H. C. Austin and family, also the
plumbers, are still trying to solve the
mystery of an explosion that occurred
in the Austin kitchen last Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Austin had just put
fresh coal on the kitchen fire, when
there was an explosion as of a gun
discharged in the room. The room
was quickly filled with steam and hot
water. Later investigation showed
that there were half dozen small
holes in the copper hOt-water tank
near the stove-small holes, as if
jabbed with the point of knife Also
there was a small hole, as if made by
a bullet or small stone, through
window eight feet away across the
room. The mystery is, what caused
the explosion, and whence did it
come? The plumber says the holes in
the tank were made from the outside,
and there were indentationS that did
not pierce the tank. On the other
hand Mrs. Austin had replaced the
lid on the stove, the stove was in no
way disturbed by the explosion, and
no ashes or coal dust were blown out
into the room. The explosion did not
come from outside the house-a shot
through the window, for instance
for there was no hole through the
screen outside the window. There's
the story. What's the answer?
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