St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-04-21

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There was a murder at Bristol. VI,
Saturday evening. Ii appears that two
men named Noah Thompson and John
\. Ring, had 4 grud"e against each 9th
CT for Iung time, each threatening to
whip the Other if lie ever cot Il chance.
Saturday evening Rim had somc words
with Mr.. Lewis, the hostler at the I'ris-
tol Hotel Lewis said to Ring that he
(Ring) could not whip everybody. Ring
said he could whip any one there.
Thompson who was looking ON, at this
stepped out and said ''pcrhaps you can
whip me" Ring said to Thompson
keep away from me, don't want any
thing to do with you" and backed
toward his team that WAS standing near
by, at the same time putting his hands
in his pocket and taking out his knife.
Thompson said, II know you are armed,
if you was not | would knock yun
IiinL by this time hal moved back to his
horse, and said to Thompson ,rJmc
down here and | VIII make a hole through
YOU" Thompson said he guessed he
had = right 10 walk around there ii lie
chose 10, AMI walked along TO within six
or eight feet OF Ring, VIXEN Ring, struck
at him and stabbed him twice with tie
knife. The mon then cinchcd and both
| fell TO the ground, and before Ring could
he got oil he had stabbed Thompson
some nine or ten times, iniiciing wounds
Of which Thompson died i'll about three
minutes. Ring was at once arrested, but
soon broke away and ran some fifty rods
when he was caught and placed in irons.
Ring Is Il desperate character, and was
unlcr the influence of liquor at the time
OF the affair Thompson, it Is aid, had
not been drinking
Ring was taken to Middlcbury Jail.
After getting sober he seemed to realize
his situation and felt very badly, saying
that if they would take lin ont and
shoot him, and close up the affair. he
would Give thousand dollars
FULLER DETAILS.
Since the above was put in type, we
have received further and fuller details
from correspondents in Bristol and other
sources, including a slip from the Office
Of the Middlcbury HgiSto".
The quarrel between the men lad
been OF long standing arising from ieal-
ousy on the part OF Thompson of Rings
intimacy with his wife. Some ten years
ago they had an atiray, in which Ring
knocked Thompson down, and received
severe beating from Thompson. The
knife used by Ring WAS u common one
bladcd pocket knife, tile point Of which
had bcan broken, and ground down very
sharp The first blow was the fatal one,
sevcring the jugular vein, yet after it
Thompson gave Ring blow in the face
from which he staggered back and fell,
Thompson falling upon him. Ring then
turned Thompson and stabbed him again
and again, in the back, till Thompson
managed to get the knife away from
Ring, when the bystandcrs seized the
latter and took him off
Thompson never moved after Ring
was taken off from him He was taken
up and laid ON the front steps of DIR.
IIaseltinc's drug store. He gasped two
or three times, and was corpse. Ills
last words were 81 have got the knife"
The body as it lay there, a liicless
form that ten minutes before was full of
life and vigor, now covered with blood
and with the clothes almost cut from the
body, was shocking sight.
The doctors, on examination Of the
corpse, found three fingers cut, two of
them badly n cash on one wrist une a
little one side of the left eye, one near
the top of his head, two in his back, one
on his shoulder, and the fatal one. the
knife striking The clavicle or collar bone
on the right side OF the neck, chipping Oft
a small piece, then entering the body on
the upper side of the collar bone, cutting
the subclavian vein.
Bing has been the terror Of the village
from his quarrelsome and reckless cliarac-
ter. He has been twice in Middlebury
Jail, once in Vcrgcnnes Jail and once in
the Jail in this city, the latter being for
carrying 4 slung shot.
A Bristol correspondent writes us as
follows: "Ring said, on the cxamina-