Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-30


about Mr.. Streeter having another wife,
or give US any information whatever, con-
cerning him, please do SO. The circum-
stances are very strong against him. @
20 % Mr.. Streeter is barbar by
trade, and is small man with light hair
and. | think. blue eyes. His mother
came from Vermont, and is living with
her second husband. think he il the
man you referred to. This is all | can
tell you about the man at this time.
Yours respectfully, .,
...... JAMES BURLIsoN.
The following slip from an Ohio pa
per, was also inclosed to us by detective
Burlison
THE MURDER OF THE Coy FAMILY
From gentleman from Medina we have
gathered some particulars concerning
Capt Fred. Streeter, which were devel-
oped in his examination for the murder of
the Coy family, held last week at Medina.
Streeter is native of Chatham, Medina
County, where he has mother and 9TH
er relatives living. He is quite young
man, being only 23 or "a years of age.
About year ago he came to Cleveland
and obtained authority from the military
committee to recruit for one Of the regl-
ments that were being raised here. He
opened recruiting office in Medina, but
was unsuccessful in obtaining recruits.
He afterwards attempted to recruit in Me-
dina, for the lO3d, but failed in that.
Last winter or spring he married daugh-
ter of Joseph Wetmore, well-known and
respectable citizen of Medina. His wife
was hardly l6 years of age when they
were married. 1t is charged that Street
er has wife and two children living in
York State, and had when he married
Miss Wetmore He lived with his father
in-law and had no business at all. Street
er's family was quite intimate with the
Coy family, which brought Streeter there
frequently. In fact he and his wife took
tea at Coy's a couple of days before the
murder. The day before the murder he
borrowed $40 of his father-in-law in
Chatham, and taking satchel went, as he
claims. to Cleveland, returning to Medi-
ma the day following the murder. He
went to Chatham, paid the $40 borrowed
money and also paid about $50 which he
owed in small debts to various persons.
He exhibited considerable money and
claimed that he had won it gambling in
Cleveland. Remaining in Medina a short
time he took his wife and went away.
Suspicion pointing towards him as the
murderer, he was tracked by the officers
and arrested at Kenosha. Wis, as noted.
He told very conflicting stories in attempt
ing to account for his whereabouts during
the "a hours he was away from Medina,
during which the Coys were so brutally
murdered. lie said at first that he rode
to Cleveland in lumber wagon, .rliviDg
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The prose-
cutting attorney reminded him that o.
clock was rather early for teamster to
reach Cleveland from Medina, and then
Steeter said he rode in with man in a
buggy. He could not tell who be rode
with. He said he stopped at no hotel
but got his meals at restaurant He
couldn't tell where be gambled or who he
gambled with. His whole story was both
improbable and contradictory. About 60
dollars were found upon his person and
among the money we're two twenty dollar
greenbacks that had blood on the edges.
When Mr.. Coy got his money from the
bank, it was put in sealed envelope.
The envelope was in the pocket of vest,
which was beneath his pillow at the time
he was killed. The murderer after doing
his bloody work obtained the envelope
tore it open at the lower edge and extracting
the money dropped the envelope in the bed
room. There is the mark Of bloody
thumb on the center of the envelope and
marks Of bloody fingers on the edge,
made evidently by the murderer in taking
out the bills. On the $40 bills referred