Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-29

A BRUTAL Observation-Disclosures
brakemen are not always the politest
men in the world, but we never before
heard of one so thoroughly and outra-
geously brutal, as the one described |
below:
At Mendoza Mimi, awhile since, a
Swede named Sandberg, passenger on
the express train, stepped from the
cars Tor a moment, when the train
moved off without him. He was una
ole to speak word of English, but
managed to make his circumstances
known to the station agent, who ex-
planned them to the conductor of the
freight train which arrived an hour la
ter. The Swede was directed to get
into the caboose car, and the conduct
or went forward to the engine. A
short time after leaving Mendoza a
brakeman named Hugh Owens took
upon himself the duty of conductor
and demanded fare of Sandberg. The
Swede exhibited the check given him
by the conductor of the passenger
train, but Owens refused it, and de-
manded fifty cents. Sandberg at last
gave him twenty-five cents, and as he
did not seem disposed to pay more,
the brakeman attempted to grab his
pocket-book. At this the thoroughly
I frightened Swede seized his carpet
/ bag and blanket and rushed to the
rea. I'D of the car to escape There
was 40 platform Oh the cabooSe, and
attached to IL was a passenger coach,
! SO that as the unfortunate man step
/ Pc: out Of the door he ell between the
cars, and the coach passed over hi
! right HmO, crushing and mangling it
terribly from the knee nearly to the
hip. The train was stopped as soon
as possible, and the poor fellow found
sitting beside the track, having remov-
cd the boot from the injured limb and
bound up the wound as well as posi-
hlv with u belt thus stopping the great
flow of blood. When the train arriv-
ed in the city, he was conveyed to the
Christiana House, but medical assist
ance could not be obtained until about
midnight, four hours after the occur
renee of the accident. DR.. kimball
was summoned and amputation per-
formed, one and a half inches below
the hip joint. 1t was rendered neces-
sary from the fact that the bones were
ground to atoms up to that point, and
had to be performed by the uncertain
light Of couple of candles. Sand
berg says he was robbed on the cars
between New York and Chicago, and
was therefore frightened at what he
believed to be a second attempt, as il
: indeed appears to have been. Owens
; was discharged from the employ of the
railroad company.
MARITAL MURDERS. Mrs. Isabella
Farrar was arreated at Laconia, n
: H., last Wednesday evening, charged
n with poisoning dish of milk which
II she had sent up to her sick husband
+ George L. Farrar, by the hands of
Q nurse, as part of his supper. Th
nurse cautioned him not to touch il
4 as she had seen his wife put something
J. into it. He, however, tasted of it, an
II exclaimed There is the same oil
T. TASTE" he having, as it appears, bee
L. nearly poisoned to death few week
l. ago. The dish OF milk was sent dow
ID to E. P. Jewell, who lives in anothe
y part of the house. He gave some
'e cat, and the animal at once went il
D. to spasms. To make the matter MOI
certain, Jewell administered some
ne another cat, which suffered intense
I'll nearly two hours, and was then kille
ID out of pity. Mrs. Farrar was broug
eS before Justice Lane on Thursda
10 who bound her over in the sum of 5!
90 900 to appear for future examinati'
on the 23d inst.
all There was another "horrible affai
m' at Worcester, Mass, gu Saturday.
W. Mrs Enwright was assaulted, ADO
&c, noon, 0y Luke Tully, in her on
eo house. Three pistol-shots were fir
NV at her; one cutting finger, the 81
ne ond lodging in her wrist, and t
third being fattened against the ba
of her skull. She escaped, and Tu
then stabbed himself in the thro
NE near the right jugular, and fired a b
Fai let into his right temple. He will d
gs' but the woman will recover. 7
years ago, the parties were marri
'ef They lived together two or TIL
Is months, when, because she would /
'o'- give up her property, Tully left, a
ak, was not seen or heard Of till last NJ
'eo day, when he returned to her hou
~ She did not receive him as a wife,
oo let him sleep in the attic with
boarders. He appeared melanch
eo' ana dull. Friday, at dinner, he bu
nut crying at the table, and the n
forenoon he was very downcast &
looked desperate. When he went
J" his wife, he showed his pistol
said, "This is the last of you and n
and fired the shots. A little girl
any in and pulled him off from her, w
arm she ran out of the house, and fell
pom the street. He then went to an
Or joining room and stabbed and S
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