Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-02-22


DsNcE.-The Providence Journal has the
following additional particulars relative to
the murder which was committed in that
city on Friday evening, from which it APP
pears that the tragedy was one OF peculiar
atrocity:
"The recent murder of Kate White by
her husband, John White on Tippercanoe
street, was one of the most brutal that we
have for a long time had occasion to re-
cord as occurring in this State. A drunk
en- husband finishes long course of vio-
lent ill-treahnent and shocking brutality
to wife, whose only fault was that she
endured SO long and SO uncomplainingly,
by deliberately choking her TO death be-
cause she would not give him money which
proved really not to have been in her pos
session at the time.
On her body are found the traces of
bruises received from him in previous af-
trays, and the fresh wounds with which he
prefaced the horrible grip, which crushed
the organs of the throat and was the i'm
mediate cause of death. Even in her last
expression she declined asking for his ar
rest, and when inquired of as 10 whether
he had been beating her, said, not much
The jury of inquest, summoned by Coro-
nor Wightman, held piotracted session
Saturday afternoon and evening, taking
the testimony of sixteen witnesses with
great care, and elected all the facts con-
nected with the tragic affair. The fact
that White is the murderer is established
beyond any possible doubt. The ieslimo-
ny showed that he was always abusing and
beating bis victim, and that she was very
often seen with traces of violent blows
upon her face, but would never confess
that they were inflicted by him, invariably
giving some other explanation.
In consequence Of the dispute about the
seventy-fve dollars which White wanted
to get away from her, she went with her
child Tuesday night to stop at Mrs,
Mulvay's on Plane street, and remained
there until her husband came and brought
her away Thursday evening. She told
Mrs. Mulvay when she left that she did
not want to go, and taking her by the
hand, said: { Goodbye; you will hear of
my DEATH Friday morning The quarrel
between White and his wife about the
money was resumed as was evidenced by
the noise which several of the neighbors
heard. She told him that the money was
on Plane street. He went away and did
not return during the forenoon. He OBJ
tanned some liquor on Plane street, but no
money, as it was in the possession of Mrs.
Whites mother. When Mrs. Whites
mother saw her at o'clock P. NJ, she
was uninjured.
White came back about two o'clock, and
then occurred the alteration which result
ed fatally. Between three and four clock,
(there being no one in the room except
White and his wife, several neighbors
and passers-by heard the noise of strus-
gle and cries of murder, from Mrs. White.
Mrs. Mynchon, Mrs. Ashcroft, and after
wards others, obtained admission into the |
room and found the woman in an appa-
ren,ly dying condition, she having been
strangled and her throat crushed by the
clutch of her husbands hand. White was
arrested and complaint lodged against
him for murder.
The jury after SESSION of five hours,
returned verdict that the deceased came
to her death by injuries inflicted by her
husband, John White, producing stagna-
ton. White was arraigned Sunday,
pleaded guilty, and the case was continued
until the 22d inst, for examination