Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-08-06
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ONE--Murders from motives of robbery
or revenge or from the hot haste of an
angry moment, have grown so familiar
in their frequent recital that we almost
forget TO shudder as we hear But such
a dastardly, devilish murder as Calais
(Me.) paper narrates, would shock even
a savage sense, and thrill all humane
hearts with horror. John Lockwood,
steward Of Boston schooner lying at
Calais wharf was going to his vessel at
IL o'clock last Saturday night, when a
crowd of young roughs, without provo
cation or reason, set upon him as he civ
| lily accosted them. The man then
turned and ran down the wharf, the
crowd pursuing like 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 find
ing none came, they sent two of their
gang to decoy this man up to the wharf
again. They assured him that they were
his friends and no one should modest
him. He very strangely walked into
their vile trap and returned up the
wharf, one of these pretended friends on
either side of him. As he approached
the main body of the crowd-for part of
them had secreted themselves behind a
horse shed, and was about half way up
the hill, they sang out, "Here he eomes!"
and Instantly the whole gang rushed up
on him from behind and before. Find
ing himself thus surrounded he drew his
knife and acted on the defensive. His
cowardly 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 pros
trate man and pounded and kicked him
in the most brutal and outrageous man.
ner imaginable. The whole nasal bone
was smashed in, and cut by some sharp
instrument was made near the left eve
over an inch deep-and his face was
otherwise shockingly bruised and disfg-
ured. The cut on the back of his head,
which the doctors in their post mortem
examination say was the cause of his
death, was over an inch and a Quarter
deep, The people living in the houses
around and near the scene heard the
mans cries of murder, and got out of
their beds, opened their windows and
looked out and could see and hear the
crowd kicking the man. One of them,
when the man ceased crying out, and
some OF them said he had got enough,
and to let him alone, turned him over so
as to get at his face, gave him another
kick and said he ought to be in - be- |
fore this Some of the people called
police" from their windows, and the
crowd fled in different directions on hear
ing the footsteps of the police coming on
the sidewalk, leaving the man in the
road. The man made out, by some
means, to get aboard his vessel and fell
down on the deck, where he Law groan-
ing The captain got up and sent for |
doctor. His wounds were dressed. but
he rapidly sank and died on Sunday
lhree OF these incarnate fends, David
rutherford and Patrick and jerry Hick-
ey, were arrested and are in the lock.up,
But if these are hung-and it seems too
long to await the laws slow process for
that event-the justice will be most i'm
perfect, for witnesses prove that twenty
or thirty were dashing the life out of
poor Lockwood, at once. Another fea-
ture of the affair was the pusillanimous
conduct of the scores of men who looked
on from their windows, and merely
screamed police" when they should
have been shooting into the mob of wild
beasts below.