Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-07-26

formerly of this village, now of Holyoke,
Mass.
Later-More about the Murder.
We gather few more particulars of
the terrible tragedy at Ascutneyville. 1t
appears that Williams had worked for
Gowing tbs season up to the first Of June
last, and was engaged for the season, but
for some reason refused to work longer,
and on settlement they did not agree as
to the amount to be paid, Gowing claim
Ing damages because he was going to leave
at that busy season, and did not pay him
the full amount claimed into ten dollars.
This fired the passions of Williams who
then declared and threatened that he
would be even with him some day. Will
liams admits that he came down on BOWS
train and got off at Sugar River Bridge
that he did not get off at Windsor as there
was no one there he knew, that he went
toward Ascutneyville till he came to the
covered bridge, where he thought he would
stop till daylight and then 60 over to Cow
ing's. If this story had been true, and he
had gone to Gowing's, he would of course
have found the murdered family, instead
of going further off and lettin G himself to
work. The blood on his clothes he ac-
counts for by saying that his nose had
bled. Mr.. Gowing is man who has
dealt considerably in cattle, and kept mon
ey by him for that purpose. This fact
was known to Williams. Mr.. Gowing
was killed at his door as before stated.
Mrs. Gowing was murdered in her bed
with an axe, her head being cut open in
two places. Mr.. G's head was also cut in
two places beside the blow with the lever,
which was cart stake. In one blow the
blade Of the ak went through his head
into the floor. The child, thirteen years
old, who had in her terrible fright entirely
covered herself under the clothes in her
trundle-bed, says the murderer put his
hand on her, that she lay still as though
asleep, and he evidently thought she was
asleep, and doubtless that was all that
saved her life. She went to sleep after
wards, perhaps thinking she had been
through horrible dream, or from exhaus-
ton from her fright.
In seeking for plumber, the murderer
used the same AK with which he had COM
mitted the horrible butchery, to smash
open bureau where he expected to find
money. The blood and hair was spatter-
ed from the ak and left on the bureau.
He ransacked other places, but the money,
some 5000, which he did not find, was
all this while in the bed under the MUIR
dered woman where it has since been
found.
Williams admits that another man got
off with him at Sugar River Bridge, but
claims to know nothing more about him.
The opinion at Ascutneyville prevails
considerably that he had an accomplish.
| 1t appears also that Mr.. Gowing has
had four children, and buried two, and
two are still living, one the girl before
mentioned and the other boy who is a
non compos mentis. This boy slept up
stairs, and reports to his sister that some
one came up stairs in the night, but did
not find him. His way of communication
is understood by his sister, but not by 9TH
ers. While at the State Prison at Wind
sor, Williams was asked twice by Supt
Pollard, are you guilty or not guilty" to
which he made the same reply each time.
81 think / am not guilty.
On Tuesday at some way below AS.
cutneyville, bundle Of clothes of differ.
ent colors was observed floating in the
river. At first it did not attract much at
tention, but woman thought possibly i
might be drowned child floating, and
others thought it might be connected will
the murder, and on Wednesday two parties
separate, of two men each, one in boat
and one in a team, came down the river a
far as this place, in search of the bundle
but it was not found.
The excitement is greater and more in
tense than we first reported. In Glare
mont, N. H., on Tuesday, as soon as tn
news became known, almost the entir'
population visited the scene of the awfu
tragedy, those who could not get team
going on foot.
CuEsTER.-Horace II. Cobb, son Q
r. L. Cobb Esq. of Chester, has been ex
amined and accepted by the faculty as
student at Yale College, and will ente
this fall. C. w. Hall of Athens has en-