|
As part of my ongoing investigation, I storyboarded a historical
walk of the route reported to have been taken by Sarah Ware on the night she was murdered. September 17th, the date
was right, but the day was Sunday for us instead of Saturday, 108 years later. I actually filmed the route thinking
it would be neat to see it in motion, in black and white. The windows media was 3 mb, but when I was forced to convert
to mpg, for this website, it escalated a bit, like 14 times. So almost as good, I settled for a unique photo-op.
Needless to say, it is an eery feeling, walking the streets as she
did on that fateful night. Even though, I couldn't clear out half the town, and block the roads, to get solid un-contaminated
evidence, I still think it was worth the trip. Dozens of cars, kids on bikes, kids playing basketball, several pedestrians.
Yet none appear on camera, hmmm somebody was doing something right.
Sarah Ware called on John Bulduc once or twice every 2
weeks. She paid him a short visit, on the night of September 17, 1898 after stopping at the nearby post office.
She left sometime after 8:30 and walked the short distance
to Fogg's Store, arriving around 9:00. We walked an earliar time, by 7 with daylight savings it was pitch black.
Daylight savings wouldn't come around for another 20 years in 1918.
She stopped here
briefly, to purchase 2 cheroot cigars, and left no later then 9:10 declaring she had to get home to check on Mrs. Miles.
She walked out the door, and into the night never to be seen alive again. By any other then the murderer(s) of
course.
It's not a positive, but several along this route, heard
a woman, either call their name, wake them as they slept, or cry out in the night. Hanna Hass for one. The above
bridge area, was reported to have been the hangout for local young man, reported to be there that night, weighing into the
gang of thugs theory.
Some speculate that she made it this far, and was picked
up by someone she knew in a wagon, offered a ride home in the dark. Up past Treworgy's house, and the defence lawyers,
as well as several other key witnesses for both sides of the murder case.
It is now known that the original road that was Miles
Lane veered off across the huge pastures. A crime scene map, shows it going relatively straight. Most will argue
this point. Including my own co-investigator. The facts are 1840 feet from Mrs. Miles House, straight up the Lane,
and 20 yards into the alders off the Lane, Sarah Ware was found. Whether she was put there sometime after
the 17th, or on that night, still remains to be seen. From the newly determined location of the original Miles house,
backed up by deed searchers to the affect. The new spot puts it straight up the current Miles Lane, past the new school,
in the further up ball field.
Either way, a team
and wagon was heard being driven hard down this hill, late that Saturday night. They say the man driving this team was
the murderer of Sarah Ware. At this time I say, Treworgy was this man.
| William T. Treworgy, Sarah Ware's Murderer? |
|
| Newspaper Photo restored from the 4 seam tears, 2 through the face. |
Well that's one mystery solved. It seems the only
house I couldn't find in town, was that of old Bootstrap Bill Treworgy. Sure it didn't help that the deeds only went
back to the 1930's, to the owner that bought it from Treworgy. Suspicious, much? With the people that have owned
the house in the past several decades, you'd think there was a revolving door, built right in. Makes me wonder if I
should get the capital together, buy it, investigate the hell out of the house and then burn it. Now that would be one
hell of an expensive investigation, maybe I could broker a pay-per view cable deal, kinda like Al Capone's Vaults. Where's
Hiraldo when you need him?
These next 2 pics were not taken in the house or the backyard.
What about the cellar or the shed you ask?
SARAH WARE ROUTE PART 2
After waiting 2 weeks we again took to the route, this
time, walking the existing Miles Lane, working EVP Sweeps as well as testing my new camera. Starting on the day, that
the search parties were formed, 108 years later. As we walked, it was almost as if the years were taken back, and
we journeyed back in time.
Sarah Ware was found after search parties were formed 2
weeks after she disappeared. Those 2 weeks in between September 17 and October 2, make for some very strange occurences.
The most strange of them all was the testimony of Joseph Fogg, that stated he was asked by William Treworgy to do a job, sometime
during the 2 week period.
Treworgy picked Fogg up in a Jigger, a small 2 seater wagon, with a
small cargo area. They drove to Miles Lane, just above Mrs. Miles house, at which point Treworgy stopped the wagon,
got out and asked Fogg, to hold the reigns, at which point he climbed over a stone wall and disappeared into the darkness,
quickly returning with something heavy under a canvas tarp. They loaded the body into the wagon, and proceeded up the
Lane, and Treworgy again climbed out and unloaded the body into the alder grove, where she was found on October 2, by a search
party.
Fogg testified in the first hearing, implicating Treworgy, and stated
that he didn't realize it was Mrs. Ware until after he heard she had gone missing. Fogg stated that Treworgy declared,
"If you ever say anything of this, you will get done the same way." Fogg later, under threats of imprisonment,
by several concerned citizens, recanted and confessed to perjury, of which it was predicted by one of the concerned, a day
before he actually did. The testimony and it's retraction served as a perfect distraction for the juries to come, eventually
allowing Treworgy to walk free.
|
