The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-29
xacuIars Of the Terrible Tragedy
nj Auburn. Ne.

x,,cuIars Of the Terrible Tragedy
az Auburn. We.
81 -. Lewiston Journal of Monday con-
,;,s the following additional particulars of
3. 10 blocking tragedy in the village Of West
Il r,arn, Me-, last week, in which the VIC
4 ;r,. we're Mrs. Susannah Kinsley, widow,
4 s-c5 about sixty-four years, and Miss Polly
Sell, a maiden lady aged about sixty.
scven wears, who resided together alone in
SCENE IL THE HOUSE.
8 m the floor, lying across the door stool
Il = an o~n door leading into small entry
4 mating the sitting-room from sleeping
o.,-,mcnt, was stretched the lifeless body
& ;" Polly Caswell-her head and shoulders
y ,sc entry, and her body and lower limbs
!, ne sitting-room. The body was par
,,,, covered with night dress, and on
& ,..,ccding 10 take hold of it, it was found
q er >tjiliy, and giving evidence of having
i m IN that condition for some days. A
q h,-scn chair, covered with blood, lay near,
ding evidence in itself that il had been
! go in aiding in the murder Of Miss Cas-
= hardly had this terrible scene been re-
4 I'D before another still more terrible
their gaze. In the bed in q small bed
rom ten feet square, adjoining the sitting
rom. and connected with it by q door
vr.h was open-was the lifeless and
rr..,,ly body OF the widow kinsley, also
I'm stir, and lying with her night
,raacs on in pool of CONCEALED blood.
~, he'd clothes were matted with blood,
~. arilt and feather tick torn, and
scs,bcrs we're scattered about; and every
,,.r- Indicated that a terrible struggle for
r.. had there taken place, Mrs. kinsley
lc.rc a large and powerful woman.
APPEARANCE or THE BODIES.
The body of Mrs. Kinsley was horribly
/ G., and mangled. The iugular vein was
4 >.r,-ed by deep cash on the side of the
..-at. There were also cuts on the left
,p bone and on the left forehead, cash
4 nearly six inches in length on the left
j .r,and severe bruises on the left shoulder,
-.nmention many minor cuts and bruises.
r. immediate cause of her death was the
scoring of the iugular vein. Appear
.,.a> indicated that the murderer or MUIR
is-eyS had attacked widow kinslcy in her
bel. from which she had not risen.
Miss CaSwell had received several Sc
were blows on her head and face probably
,~ the chair), her skull was fractured, her
..,; wrist broken, her waist and left
15ulder bruised. There was also bruiSe
ser her right eye, cut on heoeft arm
no+c the elbow, and cut on her left
buckles. The immediate cause of her
.sa.h was probably fracture on her skull,
Though it is possible that this might only
ave produced insensibility, and the free
ZIG did the rest.
Blood was found by the side of the stove
the sitting room, near the mantelpiece,
..lcatmg that Miss Caswell had been at
..hcd there first, and pursued towards the
r 10 the entry opening into her room,
era she was stricken down. The sup
.>,ign is that Miss Caswell, who slept in
room in another part OF the house, was
-.akyned by the noise of the struggle in
lrw KinSley'S room, and arose and
zane into the sitting room, and was
-.ach.ug to the mantelpiece for lamp
.ia match to light it, when she was
u.urk by the villain (who probably had
.mpletrd his work with Mrs. kinsley)
With chair. Miss Caswell not being rem
drrei senSeleSs by the blow, probably at
antcd to flee to her room, the villain
owing and beating and cutting her until
Sire fell in the doorway. Her wrist was
igubted}y broken in attempting to ward
OF the blows OF the chair.
4 more horrible scene than was pre-
s.a,rd cannot be imagined. The bodies,
p.r. bruised, and mangled in almost every
part, covered with blood, the hair dishe-
Yelled and bloody, the painful expression
ID The couutenances indicating even in
Death the fearful struggle for life, and
,.cn the bodies and limbs frozen stitf-all
-alc up scene from which we recoiled,
even on the succeeding day, when some of
lie evidences of the struggle had been
:rmoved.