St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-12-27
Reported for the ST. JouNsBrRY CALEDoNIAs.
Great Excitement at Lyndon.

Reported for the ST. JouSsBrRY CALRDONIAs
Great Excitement at Lyndon.
On Saturday last there was rumor
throughout the village that there had
been a murder committed at the Rail-
road village in Lyndon. This naturally
aroused the attention of the citizens and
excitement ran high, as the rela-
tons between the supposed murderer
and her victim were very near and dear.
1t seems that on Wednesday the 18th
instant, little son of Mr.. }. H. Randall,
who works for the Railroad company,
died very suddenly, and as it seemed to
some, who make their own suspicious the
exclusive standard OF probability, very
my.teriously and suspiciously. The lad
was about seven years Of age. Or, the
day previous he attended school, but did
not seem in his usual spirits on the
contrary, the teacher testified that the
child seemed sleepy and stupid. As the
childs death occurred SO suddenly the
rumor began to spread that its step
! mother had either stranglel, poisoned or
made way with the little fellow in some
unlawful manner, This report spread
wider and wider till Saturday last, when
the matter was duly noticed by the
authorities and Mr. and Mrs. Randall
were arrested by Sheriff Ide. Their trial
began on Monday and closed last even
ing. The 10Th. DIR. G.. b. Billiard OF
this town and Drs Cahoon. Smell and
| Copeland of Lyndon, made 4 post norton
examination of the body. According 10
the testimony of all these physicians
there were black and blue spot. on the
hand, elbow and just below points on
left shoulder; there was also mark Oh
right temple, where there was consider
able swelling. There were also some
sno.. ,1.o ,L;rhs ,rho ro,r. ,.,s q
,l,.l. r,1 r,, =, t;r, r.I Inn, r.1l.r thar,
the res, Of body.
The nose Was swollen and eve,
seemed mucl ,,ro:rudol The cxamiui-
ton further Showed that the lungs. liver.
heart stomach and head did not Indicate
4 diseased state but were in the same
cond;tion as ,hnsa Of = healthy rrr,on
From other apnearauce. OF the interior
of the hoJv. which il i unnecessary to
describe, the exsminin. surgeons sal id
in their oni,,ion that death cn>ue,I from
.,r,noul,tioa ur from , want If OXYGEN
which !. aIwavs necessary "a chance the
in,nure blood into a pure state. There
werc neither external nor internal proof
tb,t Lao,h WAS rcrtainl, ca,IseI bv str,n-
gul,t;on. but the testiuopy was that il
mioht have been causcI bv that process.
TIN. oninion Of the SURGEONS who we're
present at the post mortem examination,
that de,tb was probablv caused by ,tran-
pulation. either external or internal, was
denied bv Drs. Browne and STA, who
said that it resulted from menengitis, OF
the disease Of the spinal column
Mr.. and Mrs. Dickinson, who live il
the house with the respondents, say that
Mira. Mrs. Randall has ALWAYS treated
the child kindly, even as IN own mother
would do; has shown mu:h interest in
the welfare Of the little one Mrs Nics
inson was in the room where the child
died not more than two minutes betor,
its death. The child in the morning wa.
quite unweIl-afflicted with a very hare
cold. He wanterl to 20 to school, bu
his mother told him it was hest for hin
to remain at home and she would nurse
him. Accordingly the mother gave hin
a sweat. The little fellow feeling un,
comfortable, wanted to get up. This hi:
mother refused, telling him lie woulC
catch cold, but if he would be a ZOO
boy she would give him some moIasse
candy. which she occasionally did.
The child grew worse. About thu
time, Mrs. Dickinson came in and til,
little boy said he saw little baby. an,
talked of other things, as if out of hi:
mind Mrs. d. said size thought he wa.
having a worm fit, and she went to &c
some turpcnline to relieve him. On heI
rotrr, tho ob;lJ u... doo1 p,or;o ;,
the ch;lTs illness there had bcen som,
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