Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-07-07
EXTRAORDINARY WIFE MURDER.
Inquest--Confession of the Husband. Etc
from the Hartford Press Iune 90

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John p. Warren, of Wellington, Connecticut,
who was arrested in Belchertown, Massachu-
sstts, Tor larceny, and was suspected Of muir
dering his wife in Wellington, on the I'd inst, +,
and is now in jailin Northampton, has made
full confession. The evidence was pressed so
closely upon him that he could no longer evade
1T. He says that they went into the water to
bathe, which accounts for her being found
nearly naked. He pushed her over, and held
her down till she drowned. He left the BODY
In the brook until the next day, when finding
that it aOated, he removed it short distance
into the brush, whence on the next Monday.
June q, he removed it to the place whore 1t
was found, just within the town of Ellington.
There be visited il number of times. He i'm
plicstes no one but himself. The confession
was made to Sheriff Longley and 7. III. Eaton,
of Wilmington.
From the Stafford (Conn.) News Letter Extra !
j. Z. Warrcn is young man twenty years
Of age, son Of Ziba Warren, of Mansfield, Conn
lie ran away from home when a boy and hts
not sustained very good character since His
vito was but fifteen years of age when mi married
aud he seventeen. He had been improperly in
innate with her and her sister, and she had him
rested, with view Of forcing him to have her.
Justice Dickinson, Of Belchertown, issued the
warrant, which was served by Sheriff Longley,
at midnight, November 6, 1859. The couple
lived i'll one place and another till last Eebru.
airy, when they went to live with Martin Han
cock, In Wilmington, about three miles and n
bali from Stafford Springs. The Hancock fami-
ly consisted of himself wife and three girls, the
two oldest girls being aged fifteen and eighteen.
Their names were Lorinia and Emily, and ru-
NOR among the neighbors said he was intimate
with the first, and that his wife was Jealous OF
both OF them. Warren was a man Of nervous
temperament, not over -prepossessing in appear
ance, and carrying With him suspicious look.
His wife was under medium size. with full bust,
rosy checks, dark brown hair, blue eyes, and
wIthsl quite pretty
THE INQUEST
About dozen witnesses testified in the case
the substance Of testimony being that Mrs.
Warren left Mr.. Hanccck's house on Thursday
afternoon. June ?, between and 4 O'Clock. for
the purpose Of visiting her husband in a field
about thirty rods distant, but entirely concealed
from vlcw by woods; that sho never returned
and Warren said she had not visited him and
he had not seen her; that Warren, on the Sat
urday after the disappearance of his wife,
made an excuse 10 go to Stafford to advertise
her. but did no such thing; that on Sunday
night his brother came to see him, and they
went away together, saying that they were
going to their fathers, in Mansfield, but did
not go there; that ON Monday he again visited
Stafford and remained with his aunt, the widow
Balcb, till o'clock in the evening, when he
hired horse and buggy of E. p McGregory,
to 60 to Captain Albro's, i'm Wellington, about
two and half miles; that he did not 90 there.
bat was seen going towards his place of resi-
dence by two men, between Q and 10 o'clock.
He did not go there, but the men saw him re-
turn IN fifteen or twenty miles, driving very
fast. They saw a buffalo robe on his seat when
he went down, but il was in the bottom of the
buggy when he returned. They called him to
stop, but he whipped his horse into run, and
passed them without saying a word. On that
road her body was found. Warren reached
Stafford about II O'Clock and stayed at his
Hunts He left dog with her in the evening
charging her not to Let him out in his ab-
sence. -..
The Hancock family were disposed to put
good face en- the matter. They thought they
lived happily together, and didn't think he had
murdered her. Lovinia, the oldest girl, said
that she had rode out with Warren and his
vile several times, and that she was jealous be-
cause he sat between them, and at one time
got down on the bottom Of the wagon when she
spoke to him on the subject. Miss Emily testi-
fed that the girls were in the habit Of going
into the fields were Warren was, TO drop corn
Ter him and assist him in various WAYS, and
that his wife would sometimes appear TO them
suddenly from the brush, where she had been
watching them.
Mrs. Reuben Stanton. Mrs. Aldrich and
her son, neighbOrs of Mr.. Hancock testified that
Warren had said, in their presence, since his
wife disappeared, that "he was fool for marry
ing the, for he might have had Lovinia
Hancock; that she would make him a good
second wife, and il was not too late to have her
yet" Mrs. Aldrich testified that Mrs Warren
came TO her house a day or two before che dis |
appeared, in great distress of mind saying that
Mrs Hancock and Lovinia abused her; that if
che went out to be gone few hours, they would
ask her on her return how much she had earned, |
intimating that she was mean. While she was
relating her troubles, her husband droye by
with Emily in the wagon, and che remark ed
that he would not stop for her 30 long as the
girl was with him.