Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-03
Brutal Murder at Calais, Maine.

a dastardly murder which took place
there on Saturday night last, about
midnight, by crowd of young vii
lains who have infested the city for
some time, and whose outrages have
been nuperous:
"a sailor named John Lockwood |
Of Dover, New Hampshire, aged about
43, a steward on board the Alexan-
der Milliken of Boston, lying at Waits
wharf, was most brutally murdered
by number ofyoung roughs, between
the hours ofeleven and twelve o'clock.
1t seems there were number of them
congregated on tn e bridge near
Browns Corner, and as this man
came along some of them spoke to
him, when he, in a friendly manner,
stepped up to one of them and held
out his hand to shake hands with him,
and one of the crowd struck him in
the face; several others struck at
him. The man then turned and ran
down the wharf to his vessel, the
crowd pursuing like a pack of hounds
on trail, and thirsting for his blood.
He got aboard his vessel out of their
reach. The crowd then returned up
the wharf to their place of rendezvous
and lay in wait for another victim,
but finding none came, they sent two
of their gang to decoy this man up
the wharf again. They assured him
that they were his friends and no one
should modest him. He then return
ed up the wharf, one of these preten-
ded friends on either side of him. As
he approached the main body of the
crowd-for part of them had secreted |
themselves behind Waite's horse shed, !
between the railroad track and depot
strickland was nearly in front of
Gilbert Drugan's house and about
half way up the hill, they sang out,
"Here he comes p and instantly the
whole gang rushed upon him from be-
hind and before. Finding himself
thus surrounded he drew his knife
and acted on the defensive. His cow
ardly assassins, seeing he was armed,
lodged behind piles of lumber and
the corners of houses, and did not
dare to approach him. At last one
Of them picked up stone, stole up
behind him and struck him on the
back of the head with it and felled
him to the ground. Then the whole
gang fell upon the PROSTATE man
and pounded and kicked him in the
most brutal and outrageous manner
; Imaginable The whole nasal bone
was smashed in, and cut by some
sharp instrument was made near the
left eye over an inch deep-and his
face was otherwise shockingly bruised
and disfgured. The cut on the back
, Of his head, which the doctors in their
post mortem examination say was the
D cause of his death, was over an inch
: and quarter deep. The people liv-
V ing in the houses around and near the
5 scene heard the mans cries of murder,
. and got out of their beds, opened
G their windows and looked out and
= could see and hear the crowd kicking
s the man. One of them, when the man
+ ceased crying out, and some of them
S said he had got enough, and to let
: him alone, turned him over so as to
b get at his face, gave him another kick
= and said he ought to be in-beforc
: this. Some OF the people called 'po-
J. lice! from their windows. and the
q crowd fled in different directions on
} hearing the footsteps Of the police
II coming on the sidewalk, leaving the
:, man lying on the road. The man
- made out, by some means, to get
D aboard his vessel and fell down on
= the deck, where he lay groaning. The
-, captain got up and sent for doctor
DR.. Seymour went to him and exam
=. ined and dressed his wounds and left
70 him. Next morning he called agair
~ and dressed his wounds and left hin
10 in comfortable state. Shortly aftel
ID he tainted, and the captain, by the ai(
e Of some cold water, brought him t.
er again, but finding he was very veal
- and evidently sinking, he sent for ;
IN doctor again, but before he got there
TX the man died. A coroner's jury wa
G. summoned to investigate the matter.