Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-11-13
HorrlbIe Murder and Arson.

appalling murder, somewhat similar to the Helen
Jewett tragedy which occurred in New York some
years ago. The Boston Mail of Oct. 81, gives the
following particulars:
The of the murder is a small tvvostory brick
house, in Cedar lane between Cedar and Charles streets
occupied by Mr.. Joel Lawrence and wife, who have
lived there something like twenty For
past, understand, the premises have been
used house Of assignatiOn-rooms being kept for
the accommodation OF those in the habit visiting it,
The body, that of young and beautiful female of %
"a, lying the floor covered all but the breast
head and feet, with bloody sheet which had been
thrown it, She lay her back close the CRATE
with the head turned the right side The head
was thrown back, exposing terrible and CHASTITY cut
from ear to ear. The juguar vein and windpipe were
entirely the which the murderer used hav
ing entered TO the bone. Her hair partly consumed
and her FACE chared and backened by the action of The
FIRE.
The door of being unlocked the arrival
the Coroner jury they proceeded up pair OF stairs
10 the room in which the murder committed, and
the view most ENTHUSIASTICALLY to any
one who was not there 10 see it.
The room which was a small sized bedroom, in the
of the house, in the second story, contained ag
ments of burnt clothing stTewed about, and the walls
were spaered with bood-probably done when she was
dragged fiom the bed and thrown upon the floor.
CHAIR standing the head of the bed contained pool
OF blood.
We gathered from a conversation with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence and girl in the house that they awak
ened about FIVE o'clock this morning by SHREK up stairs,
and a heavy fall, which apparently Jared the house
Immediately aer and before they hardly awake,
person down stairs, slipped in the haste, and fell,
but recovered and rushed Of the front door,
The family then smet fire, and going up 10 the room,
found it filled with flame and smoke. The fire set
in three different paces-the bed which the murdered
had occupied-he closet containing her dresses,
and bed in adjoining bedroom. which unoccu-
pied all more or less burnt Against the door of the
front bedroom, occupied BY girl who lives there pile
of bed clothes had been placed and then reit
have been the intention of the murderer bury
all evidence of his 6endsh deed in the conagaton of
the house and death of its occupants. - -
The name of the murdered woman was Maria A. Bick
ford She of slight graceful fgure and very beau
tifu She has been married, but has lived with her
husband for some time past. He is a shoemaker by
trade, aud lately in the employ of Mr.. Smith,
Cambridge He is Bangor, where this ill
iated woman formerly belonged. ~
A letter found in the addressed A. J. T. to
NJ. A. b. Also pair of mems drawers, cane and stock
ings and bunch of keys. Dr. Moriary, who was pre-
the examination, said it was impossible for her To
after she received her death wound, and he must
have dragged her from her bed In the bed under
which she slept, bunch of matches were found nearly
burnt up.
Suspicious almost amounting certainty, fixed
upon Albeit J. Trrel the murderer, though he has
not vet been arrested Tirrel arrested some time
since, New Bedford charge Of adultery, and was
lately discharged, having compromised the matter. lie
is said to be native of Weymouth, in this State
Annexed are further particulars from the same pa
per of the 2Sth:
jury of inquest visited the premises in the forenoon
at half past ii o'clock, and found the ROOM which
/ the second floor, in much confusion. Among other
things trunk oil clothes, IN which matches had oeen
introduced much burnt. The body ofthe murdered
woman much disfgured, and presented horrible
appearance. She lay in her blood the floor and the
articles the room were more or less stained with It.
Some matches and comb we're found in the bed on
which she bad tain. Among the articles IN the room
noticed lines of music, accordion, bottle of
ogne, parasol, gloves, Shoes &c. The Jugular aud
windppe were cut and the throat entirely land open.
1t seemed by the bloody in the wash bowl that
the murderer, after consummatng the EOrnd deed coOly
went to the wasbsand and washed his hands The in-
divdua who passed the night with the deceased and
who 1t is supposed is the murderer went TO the house in
question O'clock Sunday afternoon, stayed half an
hour, and again there at p Nj. We learn further
that when he returned from the room, after the act he
was heard by the inmates of the house TO slip on the
stairs and partially fall down Some of them have recol
lection also TO scream being uttered by some one,
evidently by the woman who murdered. The jury
found among other things IN the letter addressed
as follows "a. J. T., to Nj. A B." The unfortunate
females name Maria A. Dunn She formerly lived
in the vicinity Of Bangor and married TO shoemak
er by the name of Bckord About three years since she
left her husband and this city, where she has
lived life of dissoluteness, and has attracted much at
ention streets The suspicious of our police have
fallen on one Albert J. Tirrel Tirre the individual
who lately indicted The Municipal Court for adul-
terry, avoided the officers but subsequently arrested
with some difficulty New Bedford. The affair has
since been settled. 1t will be remembered that he was
armed at the time. lie is said to be desperate charac-
ter He took meal two at Concert Hall on Sunday
but his stopping place. place where he lett of his
baggage was No. Elm street. But yesterday he did
seek his accustomed resort but escaped early in the
morning from the city. About o'clock in the morning
of Yesterday, after the deed perperated, he
went to the stable of J. + FulIum, in Bowdon Square,
and got person TO take hum out of town Immediately
and in the direction of Weymouth The person convey
ed him out and returned at IL o'clock, A. NJ yesterday
Soon after his return, the required legal process was pro-
vded and four officers fully prepared for any emergency
started in pursuit He scarcely escape an arrest
We learn that he had wife and children at Wey-
mouth 1t has been ascertaned that the key found at the
room of the murdered woman exactly hts the locks oil
some of baggage.