The Portland Daily Press

Robbery of a Brunswick Boy at Conway.—Quite recently three boys, aged about sixteen, started from Brunswick for the White Mountains, intending to walk the whole distance and home again. These were Horace R. Given, James Swett and Edward C. Elliot, son of Hon. David Elliot of Brunswick. On Friday, the 23d instant, as the boys were passing through the woods between Conway Centre and North Conway, they were overtaken by two men in a wagon, one of whom alighted and seizing young Elliot demanded his watch. The fellow stated that he recognized his own chain; that he had left the watch with a jeweler for repairs, and accused the boys of having obtained possession of it by some false pretense. He told Elliott he had a revolver in his pocket and would give him the contents unless he instantly delivered the watch. In the meantime the other man sat in the wagon and expostulated with the robber, appearing to be an unwilling party to the transaction. The watch was given up and the men drove off. At the next village the boys made complaint, and Judge Eastman, with a good horse and sufficient aid, started in pursuit of the robbers, taking the boys along with him. Presently they came in sight of the men who drove at a rapid rate, but Judge Eastman had the better horse and soon overtook them. An officer seized their horse by the bridle and the boys identified the driver as the man who took the watch. He at first resisted, and spoke freely of his revolver, but the officer was resolute, telling him he must go back with them to the village. He then submitted, delivered up the watch and offered the officer five dollars and the team, which he said was his property, but gave it as his opinion that it was entirely unnecessary for him to return to the village. Judge Eastman and the officer were unable to agree with him. Accordingly they all returned to the village where the robber was arraigned before Justice Lamson of Centre Conway, and was committed to jail to be tried at the October term at Ossipee for robbery. His name is John S. Foss. The Conway people extend a very cordial hospitality to strangers, and the affair created a great deal of interest and indignation among them. Col. Elliot, who has just returned from Conway, speaks in high terms of Judge Eastman and the Conway people generally, and says the boys are in high spirits and will continue on their journey.
T.