The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-07-30

81 Meathersheld. IN this county. on
Tuesday morning. the IA inst The
facts as we learn them arc briefly asfol-
lows
About G o'clock ep the morning OF
Tuesday, the 23diust \ Mf Hitchcock.
llsing "a -Aaeatney. ahout four and a
half miles below Windsor. on the Com
necticut River. hal occasion to - 70
the hansc Of Joshua q GOWNS, 1 far
lner living near him on the river, hut a
short distance below Ascutnoyyille. On
arriving there and seeing no stir about
the house, which was unusual at that
hour Of the morning, Mr. II knocked IL
the door leading into the kitchen aud
receiving no response aud hearing no
noise lac yentured 20 Try the door 70 see
III il was locked The door easily open-
ed aud Mr. Gowing was found lying on
the kitchen floor, and partially dressed
and dead His head was found 20 have
been struck with club, which lay near
by, and cut open with on axe, A large
quantity olblooday beneath aud around
him on the floor. Dir. II. went into 9th
er rooms IN the house, but saw no one.
but on going into the bedroom
where Mr.. Gowiug and his wife slept,
he saw some one covered upin bed lie
spoke and no one replying he went 10
the bedside and raised the bed-clothes
and found Mas. Gowing, wife Of the
murdered man, dead in bed, having
been killed by q blow from an axe, with
which she was struck in the face, the
ak gong nearly through her head, prse-
ing from her eye n little TO The right of
her nose, down through her mouth, kill
ing her probably instantly On looking
further, their dnaghter, a young but
simple minded girl of thirteen years of
age, was found under the bed whore her
murdered mother lay Upon getting
her ont she had no knowledge that her
father and mother had been murdered,
but said that toward morning she
thought she heard some one knock on
the outside door and her father called
Tout to konw WHO was there. A name
Of one of his nssrneighbors was given,
and upon Mr. Gowing asking what he
wanted, he said that he called to tell
/ him there were some cattle in his corn.
Upon this she said her father got up
and partially dressed him and went TO
the door. She then heard some blows
and some one fall, and that she was
scared and went aud got under her
mothers bed in her fright, and lay there
until she went to sleep. and until She
came out as above related She has no
recollection or knowledge Of the MUIR
derous attack upon her mother
I On further inquiry, the girl said she
knew the voice Of the man who came to
1.-THE door and told her father there were
cattle in his corn, and that il WAS the
hired man who worked for her father
and lived at their house last summer,
whose name was Williams, a man oil
4 French descent, as we learn.
i A little later in the day it was dis
covered that Williams came into the
place that morning, and went to tive
places to let himself to work, and at the
last place, which was Mr.. Westons, he
did engage himself, but said that before
going TO work be wished to 20 to Wind
sor to get him a truss on account OF d
breach, with which he WAS troubled, his
old one being broke, and left early te
4 20 to Windsor to get one.
In an hour or two more after be left
after hearing what the girl said, AN Off
Ger, Mr.. Bowen was sent in pursuit
he was followed to Windsor, and int
the stores there, where he inquired fol
a scythe in one store and for truss il
another, and in which he bought truss
and then left, going off in the direction
Of Ascutneyyillei The officers came t.
/ Windsor and after inquiring found h
was last seen going towards Aseutney
vile, not far from the South Churcl
in Windsor village. They soon over
took and arrested him.
| He accounts for himself as follows
that he left the town of Jay in Orleans
County, VT, III the morning on Monday
the ed, TO go to Ascutneyyille to worl
out; that he took the cars and cam,
I down on the second train and got off a
/ the high bridge in Claremont about tvs
|, o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, til,
23d and started for Ascutneyyille, /
] distance of about one mile 0ngettinl
! to the covered bridge that crosses th,
! Connecticut river at that place, it mo-
being daylight. he lay down in Tia,
bridge and fell asleep. When he awok,
it was broad day aud be then be wen
! into Ascntneyyille to find place Il
, work and let himself to Mr. Weston
He then went to Windsor to get trus
when he was arrested.
1t is said there had been some di fl
Guilty between Mr. Gowing and thil
II Williams last year, when lac worked 70
, Mr.. Gowimg, but as to this we are no
fully informed, If the object Of Tia
murder was money he failed. II wa
found that one or more of the bureau
: darwers in the room where Mr. nut
] Mrs Gowing slept had the appearance
Of having been searched, but the mon
ey was not found Dir. Gowing hae
800 in government bonds, which wer
in the straw ticking they occupied, an'
] there was also $3.50 in greenbaek eur
/ rency between the feather and stras
! beds, all Of which was undistubed.
Mr.. Gowing and wife were respecta
bic, well 70 do people, quiet and indus
trious, and aged about so years H
owned the farm where he lived on th'
!, Connecticut river, worth about 81
A tl...aann1.d d..Ilnra and well atncknd an.