September 1988

Carter Kingsley's Safe Found!

About 7:30 pm. in the evening on Friday, September 19, 1988, an attractive young woman walked up to County Historian Richard Sherer who was officiating at the Crooked Lake Historical Society's booth in the Fair House at the Bath Fair and introduced herself as Mary Carlson. She identified herself as a daughter of J. Victor Faucett who figured in Sherer's account last month of transferring the safe that had formerly belonged to Carter Kingsley, Esq., late of Bath, to Faucett's premises on West Morris Street. Mrs. Carlson informed Mr. Sherer that, at the time she read his story, she thought the safe had gone to St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Bath. Subsequently she questioned her sister as to her recollection of the eventual whereabouts of the safe. Her sister rembered similarly. Mrs. Carlson then contacted the Rector of St. Thomas, the Rt. Reverend Dennis Wienk who confirmed her suppositions that the former Kingsley safe is indeed safe (sic) at St. Thomas.

This should put to rest all concern about the venerable safe. Earlier one person had jumped to the conclusion that a two-door safe in the Agricultural Society's office at the Fairgrounds might be the safe sought because J. Victor Faucett had been a long-time secretary to the Society. Sherer thought the supposition creditable but when he asked the size of the Fair safe, he said that it was not large enough to have been the safe he hauled to Faucett's store in 1958 or 1959.

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