Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-01-29
The next morning Albro Blodgett, act

Jones, as jurors, to appear at the mouse
of the murdered man. They there wit
messed scene which beggars description.
George Woodell was upon the floor, face
down. The floor was covered with
blood for feet around the body; his
watch and money were in his pockets un-
disturbed the supper table was upset
and the food and dishes were covered
with blood; near the body was an AK,
which with the handle was also covered
with blood, and pitch-fork with the
handle broken, giving tho idea that
George had used it in defen ding himself
The stove, bed in the room, the furni-
ture on the walls, and the floorand walls
of narrow entry, were smeared with
blood, showing conclusively that a des-
perate struggle had taken place there,
which was undoubtedly the case, as
George was the stronger of the two.--
The evidence of Mrs. George Woodell,
the old man Woodell, Mrs. Byrnes and
DR.. Tolles was taken, and the jury return
ed a verdict in accordance with the facts.
On the night of the murder kenney
went, as he says, without coat or hat, and
without money, near fourteen miles, to q
barn not far from Cold Pond, on the road
from here to Lempster, arriving there
about twelve o'clock, and secreted him
self in the barn, and remained there un-
til after dark on Thursday night, when
he returned to his grandfather's house,
about IL o'clock, as he went away, with
out coat or hat, and his clothes stiff with
blood. He walked directly into the house
and found there the father of Georges
wife, who did not know him. Kenney
begged to be allowed to warm himself by
the fire. The old gentleman and the son
of young Mrs. Woodell were called.
Kenney was warmed, given some supper
and went to bed, when officers were sent
for, who arrested him.
While in the hands of the officers
Kenney said that he was not sorry for
what he had done; that he intended to
kill the whole family, and came back for
that purpose, but found himself very
much exhausted, and that there were
more people at the house than he expect
ed to see.
As has been stated, Kenney was CON-
, mitted to Jail to await the session of the
. Supreme Judicial Court at Newport next
Tuesday. He will undoubtedly have his
trial during the term. Mrs. Woodell is
still alive and may recover, though it is
, more likely that when Inflammation Gets
: in she will die, in spite of medical skill
Hundreds Of people visited the scene Of
the murder ON Tuesday, and the excite.
!, ment oceasioned by it is far from being
t allayed."
STATEMENT OF MR.. wOoDELL.
The deposition of Mrs. Woodell, wife
? OF the murdered man, given under the
4
, being shockingly mangled, we copy from
the Clarem ont Advocate as follows:
: / am the wife of George Woodell
= William N. Kenney came into our house
on the evening of Monday, Jan. IS
! 1869, about four o'clock. / sat by the
4 table knitting, George sat by the end O
the table holdingth baby. When VIII
:. liam came in he came in whistling and
: dancing. Said 1, Willie don't dance so
: you will have the chest down. Then h
: took chair and sat down near TIL
stove. He addressed his uncle Georg
+, and asked, "whath have you been doing !?
a George said he had been cutting som
! of the limbs from tall tree near th
n privy. Willie went with the chair o.
a one leg, near to the drawers. think
% did it on purpose. He broke the chat
to pieces. / said to him, "Willie yo
have broken that chair, we shan't hav
m chair in the house, you have broke
III almost every chair in the house. II
H. said he did not care G. about tn
tn chairs. Then he got up and was goin
IL out. George asked him what his hurr
er was. He said he was going to milk
d. Then | put the supper on the table, an
IS. George and sat down to eat / too
1g the baby in my arms, l had eaten bu
ID very little when l got up, gave the bah
VS. to George and went and spread down tn
lis bed in the bedroom, l heard the doc
he open and heard William come in,
k, gave kind of a whoop and sprang tt
,g wards George. Then l came out of tn
I'd bedroom went to the board used to max
re baby playhouse. l saw William hol
sft of George and thought he was cuttin
ed his throat with knife that was father
RS. l spoke and said Willie don't you XII
ot George and the baby. The baby was o
in the floor by its fathers knees crying,
Id took the baby up when William struc
he me, l thought with knife The
to George jumped up to defend me and th