Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

MURDER IN BRIsT0L.-A murder growing
out of quarrel is reported TO have taken
place in Bristol, Vt. on Saturday last
Some Of the details which we copy from the
Burlington Free Press are as follows.
1t appears that two men named Noah
Thompson and John \. Ring. had grudgc
against each other tor a long time, each
threatening 10 whip the other ii ne ever got
chance. Saturday evening Ring hal some
words with Mr. Lewis, the hostler at the
Bristol Hotel. Lewis said TO Ring that he
(Rng) could no. whip everybody Ring
SAID nc could whip any one there. Thomp-
son who was looking on, az this stepped out
and said perhaps YOU can whip me. Ring
said to Thompson = keep away from me. |
don't want anything to do with YOU, and
backed toward his team that was standing
near by, at the same time putting ms hands
in his pocket and taking out his knife
Thompson sand, - know you are armed, IT
you not | would knock you" Ring by
this time had moved back TO mis- horse, and
said to Thompson &" come down here and
will make a hole through you. Thompson
said he guessed be had n right TO wa K
around there IT lie chose 70, and walked
along to within six or eight feet of Ring,
when Ring struck al him and stabbed HIM
twice with the knife. he men then clinch
ed and both fell to the ground, and before
Ring could be got off he had stabbed ThOmp-
son some nine or ten times, INJECTING wounds
OF which Thompson died in about three MN
utes. Ring was at once arrested, but soon
broke away and ran some fifty rods, when he
was caught and placed in irons.
A slip from the Office Of the Middlebury
Register rays
Tba c,,o-r,I b...,,-cov, ~ -. IL -
long standing, arising from Jealousy on the
part OF Thompson OF Kings intimacy with be
wife Some ten years a 20, they had affray,
IN which Ring Knocked Thompson down, and
received severe beating from Thompson.
The KNIFE used by Ring Was Common one
/ bladed pocket knife, the point OF winch had
been broken, and ground down very sharp
The first blow Was the fatal one sevcrlny
the JugulaT vein, yet after II Thompson gave
Ring blow in the face from which ne stag
gered back and Tell, thompson falling upon
him Ring then turned Thompson and
stabbed him again and again, in the back
till Thompson managei To get the knife
away from Ring, when the bystanders seized
the latter and took him off
Thompson never moved after Ring was IA
ken off from him. lie was taken up and
land on the front steps of Dr. Hasseltine 5
drug store. lie gasped two or three times
and was corpse. His last words were 81
have got the knife
Ring has been the terror of the village
from hls quarrelsOme and reckless character.
lie has b. en- twice in Middlebury Jail, once
IN Nergennes Jail, and once IN Burlington the
latter being for carrying a slung Shot
= Ring said, on the examination, he had
told Thompson he would xiii HIM if he did
not keep off but while being taken to Mid
1leburV nv ptfipPr N1Drop he 4
and manifested deep feeling and contrition.
The Register says The prisoner wa
born IN huntington, is thirty-eight years OF
age, has been twice married, and his second
vile and twelve year old son by his first
vile, are still living. Rum was the immedi-
ate cause. Thompson was not in liquor but
sober. Ring had drunk just enough t.
arouse the demon, yet he knew perfectly well
what he was about.