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i Fiir»l i!c Kfem Mhtaffy Bt-IlMt Tkirt^iy. Bath. Me,, AUfir. 10.—Fred R. Cahill, 45•• vears old, a member of the Beard of .Assessors, has been missing since % Thursday morning and, Saturday, more , than 100 men and beys luive been - searching the West Bath woods torhim. hut without avail. The last defi-* . *• nite information about 'Mr. Cahill is r. that, un Thursday evening, about 7»rckn:k. he called at it cottage at Quitkcr Point, on the Xew Meadows river, occupied' by Patruk Fitzgerald and family of* Woburn. Mass. Saturday noon, about M,.Jiov J?coutsrSrpre trans[lt;rtecl to the Berry s Mills district and searched an area a mile• square, but found absolutely no trace;.f the mlggirijg man. ~Mr. Oahlll has been in poor health for a Song time cad was confined to his house the first of the week, when Tt was feared he liad become menially de? ranged. Thursday morning, however, he seemed brlghterr and expressed oi desire to go ' blueberrying. Accompa-j ^nied by his friend. Bant Hanson, he ■^weuL.aver .into. ,Woolwlch^.Bansoa-says. that Mr. Cahlll was unwilling to stfcy^ 'in ahylone^jxTt^ wah-vder'd aheut-frenuently.Mr. Cahill suddenly disappeared near Nequasactt Point and Hanson was unable to* to-'uate-hlm aftw-ihatr*-,— • .!t has since been learned, however, that—iie procured a small skiff and wwed-the Sasanoa river to Arfow'stc;, whence he set across 1 the Kennebec ~~ river into Fhippsburg; - then Janded. at : Bath, a shnrt distance.from his^Jtome . at 68 South stKet Instead of/golnir home, however, he cut through the woods into West Bath and^vent toQuaker Point, where. he was giverv^a drink ct winter at the Fitzgerald cottage. -• . • / * ~Mr. Cahill is married and has two_ -daughters, aged 21 ana 13, also a son, aged UV He has.been_in charge of the electric crane at the Bath Iron Works,Cai- ctVCM 1
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Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine, US
Sun, Aug 10, 1913
Page 10
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