The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

STRANGE M URDER.

Joseph G. Clark was murdered in Worcester,
Massachusetts, on the 28th February. He was a
professional gambler, and was about to start for
New Hampshire to bat on the election. Although
married, and with a son, it appears that he main-
tained an improper intimacy with Mrs. Eaton, whom
he left after drinking tea at her house that evening.
She followed him to his rooms about seven o'clock,
where she heard sounds which led her to believe he
was at home, although the door was locked. Angry
and jordouo on failing to gain admittance, atic
determined to watch. Shortly after nine o'clock
two men came from the room, and hurried down-
stairs. She at once entered, and, in the sleeping-
room, saw Clark lying on the bed, which was
wrapped in flames. On her alarm the fire was
extinguished, and Coroner Rice and the police sum-
moned. In thQ sitting-room two spats of coagu-
lated blood and brains were discovered, showing
that Clark had been struck down, strangled, carried
to the bed, of which the clothes were saturated with
kerosine oil, and set on fire. A large sum of
money was stolen, together with his watch,
diamond pin, and other jewellery, but $1,400 in
Government Bonds lay untouched in the drawer
of his faro table. Two men of bad reputation,
companions of Clark, were suspected and arrested,
Silas and Charles T. James, the former at the Bos-
ton and Albany depot that night, when he exclaimed
that Joe Clark was the best friend he ever had ;
and the latter in Providence, with $9OO and Clark's
pin and watch upon his person, who confessed he
proposed the plan to his accomplice. While Clark's
attention was attracted by the one for whose main-
tenance he was at the time paying at the hotel, the
other struck him with the axe. Clark was known
for great generosity of disposition, notwithstanding
his gambling propensities. An instance is told of
a young man who had lost his last dollar in Clark's
rooms receiving back from him the full amount,
under a solemn promise never again to enter a
gambling den.

Frank Leslie gives the following extraordinary
story :—The following is well authenticated, and
Mr. Barnum cannot better redeem his burnt-out
fortunes than by the capture and •exhibition of
this feminine Orson : " In the Grand Cane neigh-
bourhood in this country, a short time ago, a
gentleman in the depths of the forest suddenly
came upon a woman as wild and almost as fleet as
an untamed deer. After a brisk chase of some
distance, the gentleman on horseback overtook
the wonderful creature, when she halted, and
he found her to be a medium-sized, middle-
aged, well-formed woman, with long, dark hair, and
clear blue eyes. She was in a state of nudity save
a girdle of grey moss about her loins. Her body
and limbs were covered with a beautiful coat of
hair about four inches in length. She was much
frightened, and seemed unable to talk, but must
have comprehended signs, as in reply to motions
of the gentleman by which he sought to induce
her to accompany him out of the wood, she
constantly pointed to her own forest home. Finally,
the gentleman endeavoured to compel her to go
the way he desired, by getting before her, and
by threatening gestures with his gun, and she
becoming enraged, seized a club, and turned
upon him with the fury of a demon, and it
was only the speed imparted to his steed by
a liberal use of the spurs that he kept out of
her way. After driving off her pursuer, she re-
sumed the direction she had so constantly pointed,
and was soon out of sight. The gentleman fol-
lowed, and after going some distance, came
upon her home. Three trees, standing near
each other, in a triangular form, with the
spaces between them walled up with brush and
moss, made her moss bed between them secure
from the rude blasts of winter, and comparatively
secure from the pitiless rain. The only stores that
were discovered were a few nuts and some four
or five bushels of acorns. Very wild stories
of this wild woman have been rife in the
upper part of the county for some time, but
she was believed to be a myth by all except
those who claimed to have had glimpses of
her. Now, however, her existence, description, and
the vicinity at least of her whereabouts, are esta-
blished beyond controversy. Her early capture
may be regarded as within the range of probabi-
lity, as a concentrated effort is being made to that
end."

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