Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-15

After a brief preliminary besr,na
at which only one witness fom ths
state offered testimony. held IN Az
gusta municipal court. Wednesiav
morning before Judge Robert
Cony. Frank Andrews Of Gloucester
Mass. ana until recently an emnlove
al the Lake Shore Hotel. ReIeraSe
Lakes, was held for the Kennehec
county Superior court on a charge
or assault with intent to kell. al1eee
ed to have been committed mon
Harry Schryver of Boston az Rel.
grade on the evening Of July i. Bail
was placed at $4,000.
Andrews was represented In court
py Attorney Burleigh Martin of this
clty and the States case was con-
quoted by County Attorney Frank
+: Southland. The respondent waiv-
ed reading Of the warrant and en-
tered a plea Of not guilty.
MISS Helen Currier, who has been
employed as waitress at the Lake
Shore Hotel, and said to be the wo-
man IN the case, was called to the
stances or the assault, in which
Schryver was So seriously cut over
the right ear and head that for sew
eral days he was considered to be
IN most critical condition at the
Augusta General hospital, where he
was taken following the ARRAY.
MISS Curr1er, whom it has been
learned was friendly with both the
victim and the alleged assailant,
told the court that on the night fin
question she had been walking with
Harry Schryver and after her COM
panion had gone to his room in the
Belgrade Hotel, Andrews requested
her to call him out as he desired to
talk with him. She was reluctant
to comply with the request but af-
ter insistence on the part of Andrews
went to Schryvers room after him.
When Schryver came out the two
young men and the girl walked to-
gether toward the Lake Shore Ho-
tel. AS they neared that place Miss
Currfer crossed to the lawn just
ahead of the two men, who APP
preached from a different route.
THE next. thing 1 knew, said
Miss Currier. "Schryver was lying
there on the grass with a cut on
his head.
did you know that Andrews
struck him with a buss scythe
blade" questioned County Attorney
Southland.
mo, 1 did not know what the
weapon was, replied the young wo-
man.
Miss Currier in response to furth-
er brief questioning said that she
did not know whether or not Mr..
Schryver made any attempt to
strike his alleged assailant. Con-
victim of the cutting affair, the girl
said that she had visited him in the
hospital and had learned that
Schryver would probably be allowed
to leave that institution next week.
County Attorney Southland in
formed the court that the Boston
man had suffered a very bad blow
over the right ear and down over
the back of his head. Besides the
laceration caused by the sharp in
strument there had been a racture
of the skull The patient had i'm
proved rapidly under treatment and
providing there was no brain lesion,
he would probably be discharged
from the hospital within a week.
In the matter of the bush scythe
blade, with which the State alleges
Andrews committed the assault, the
county attorney told the court that
the weapon was in his possession
and still bears blood stains and bits
of human hair. The blade was re-
covered from the waters of Long
Pond near the Lake Shore Hotel,
where Andrews admitted to the in
vestigating authorities that ne
threw it. after being located by the
young daughters of Mr.. and Mrs;
Edwin F. Megill of Belgrade. It will
be recalled that on the night of the
assault, Mr.. Megill, who had long
been a deputy sheriff Of Kennebee
county under Sheriff Henry F.
Cummings Of Manchester. did a
very effective piece of work In hold
ing the suspected man until he couio
be taken into custody by the consti-
tuted authorities.
Pending the arrival In this city OF
Andrews father from Massachu,,
setts the Young man was reTlanded
~. county foil to await bonds,