Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-09-28

ng room and urged has claims for settle
mrnt. The conversation which followed
viii probably never be folly disclosed to the
,mLlc Mrs, Pope However, states that
lb- young man used aggrayatng language
to her husband. The interview ended in
violence. Young Fortler lrfl the dining
room and passed out of the house through
the kitchen and slore-room, followed by
Pope, who exclaimed with an oath, g.
you, I'll settle with with you'' .r
The young man crossed the yard. and
passed through the door Of carriage shed
connected with The barn, into the yard in the
rear, Pope followed close upon him with
his gun, which Ire had seized in passing
through the kitchen, and came up 10 within
a rod of his Vicim. when he raised the dead
" weapon and fired. PORTER who appears
to have been running NJ the time in the
direction Of and with the evident intention
Of returning to DIR, DugcNn's fell upon his
face and instantly expired. Pope isa pros
porous farmer, and raised hogs in large
numbers. He obtained swll from the city
of Dcstsn, and beside feeding his own swine,
he supplied others with swill.
The two boys mentioned as having wit
messed the murder were loading wagon
with swill al the moment, and saw Pope fire
and Fortier fail. The report of the gun
frightened their horse, which ran out of the
yard, and they, Shocked at the sigh; tSey
had witnessed, drove home to Quincy.
The body of the murdered man has been
placed in the receiving tomb TO await the dis
position of his friends.
Pope was arrrstcdion Saturday upon a
warrant issued by John Quincy Adams,
Esq, Trial Justice. lie had however pre-
viously secured the service Of Hon John j.
Clarke and Nathaniel f. Stafford Esq, of
Dorchester as counsel, and gave himself up
to Deputy Sheriff Robe Of Dorchester
He was taken into custody by Consiables
French and Sawtelle of the town.
The gun With which the fatal deed was
committed has not been found.
The inquest was continued on Monday
and the developments made added to state
ments which Pope has made from time to
time, represent the tragic affair in new
and altogether different light from that in
which it has been viewed by the public.
The suspicious of Pope as to the infdelity of
his wife appear 10 have been excited several
weeks before the fatal affray, and according
10 the Statements of the woman, he inform
ed her of having kept watch upon the
movements of herself and young Fortier
every night For three weeks Pope and his
wife have not cohabited during that time,
and an unoccupied apartment, between the
rooms where Mr., and Mrs. Pope and For
tier sererally lodged, bear evidence of his
jealous watchfulness. The plastering of
the walls on three sides of the room is broken
off, and the paper upon the opposite side per-
forated as il with 3 case knife, Attending an
opportunity TO witness from the vacant room
whatever might transpire in the other
apartments. Mr.. Pope Informed his wife
that he had employed his brother and broth
er-in-law, Mr.. Billings, to watch her move
ments. The testimony before the inquest
went to prove that on the day ofthe murder
he charged his wife and Fortier with Grim
inal intimacy which they beth admitted, and
that a letter written by Mrs. Pope to the
deceased, berating for husband and fattering
the young man, was found in the apartment
of the latter.
The father of the victim, Francis Forter,
and his brother Lewis, of Brandon, VT, ar
rived in Quincy last evening, having been
informed by telegraph of his death. They
were, however, in inter ignorance of the
cause of his demise until their arrival, sup
posing that il resulted from natural causes,
and were naturally greatly shocked on
learning the facts They will convey the
body TO Brandon for interment.
The verdict of the jury of inquest is in
accordance with the facts above narrated.