The front page of the August 16th 1930 edition of the Lewiston Evening Journal

was covered with eye-catching headlines. The maiden voyage of a British airship, the sinking of a Norwegian ocean liner in the Cook Islands,

but for Mainers a local headline caught their attention.

Drowning of Portland Police man remains a mystery.

The front-page story gave few answers,

but instead highlighted the question that was on everyone's mind that night.

What happened to Michael T Connolly? Like the waters of Casco Bay, the mystery, and the uncertainty surrounding the death of

Patrolman Michael T Connolly in the early morning hours of August 15, 1930, is just as deep

and open-ended today as it was as a fresh case over 90 years ago.

The list of questions posed has grown over time, and those who know of the incident are now still asking the

same questions that family members and investigators have asked for years.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the death and discovery of patrolman Michael T Connolly on Dark

Down East. The Michael T Connolly was born in Ireland in 1881 to parents Lawrence and Margaret Coyne Connolly.

He had a sister, Mary, and four brothers, John Edward, Patrick, and James.

In 2008, the family of Michael Connolly sat down for a series of interviews with Susan Norton,

a writer for a history blog called Stories of long ago.

In her September 17th post of that year, she published the information, the memories, and

the stories that the Connolly family shared with her about their beloved family member.

According to Norton's post, Edward and James followed their brother Michael to Portland, Maine.

No doubt he and his brothers boarded a steam ship and faced the open ocean together

for a better life in the United States like so many people did at the turn of the

20th century. The journey was tough, brutally deadly in the cases of some, but

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