Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-20
Our New England Dispatches.
The Chcisea Murdcr-Fs RESOLUTIONS of the
Boston Board Of Tradc-A Lowell
Tragedy, etc.

| RosToN, Feb. 19.-Azro b. Bartholomew will
be examined tomorrow for the murder of Chas
I. Storcr, in Chelsea, Saturday night. DR.
West and Mrs. Gilbert are held in IS 900 cacl
| as witnesses.
AT IA meeting of the Boston board of trade
| tins afternoon, after a series of seven meetings
held to discuss the present CONDITION of the cur
rcncy and measures now before congress in REF
| erence thereto, the following resolutions were
adopted by a vote of "a to 10:
Resolved, that the Boston board of trade APP
proves the principle of the plan proposed by Mr..
Sumuer,in the senate of the United States for the
gradual withdrawal ofgreenback circulation and
the substitution therefor OF compound interest
notes, in monthly issues Offve millions, bearing
interest ut not less than four per cent per an.
mum,
Resolved, that the notes should be made pay
able at maturity, in coin or bonds, at the option
OF the government, and not at the option Of The
person.
LOWELL, Mass, Feb 19.-About half-past 10
O'Clock last night, n sad and disgraceiul affair
occurred on Mount Vernon street, Centralville,
in this city, in which young man named Chas.
Il. Kimball, resident of this city, and who has
been studying bookkeeping in Boston for a
short time, was shot by jealous lad named
Charles Watts, who was infatuated with a
young girl TO whom Kimhall has of late been
paying his attentions. The circumstances as
near as can he learned, are as follows: The
young persons in the affair, all about the same
age, sixteen years, attended services ut the
John street Congregational church last night,
and as the congregation separated Kimball
waited upon Ella SpoiTord daughter of Dea-
con Abram Spoilord, and upon arriving at her
home remained about an hour. Watts followed
the couple and laid in wait for his rival, who as
he left the house and was opening the gate, was
accosted by Watts, who informed him that he
had carried this thing far enough. Whereupon
he fired two charges from bis pistol at kim
ball, one of the charges taking effect in his left
arm, and the other in one of his lungs KIM
ball was carried into the house he had Just left,
where medical assistance was rendered The
bail has been extracted from his arm; the other
remains. He is in very critical condition. and
but slight hopes are entertained for his recovery.
Watts was found about midnight, and arrest
ed and lodged in the lookup. lie appears but
little concerned, and gives the particulars of
the affair without hesitation. The pistol, which
he borrowed and used on this occasion, has not
been found, aud he refuses TO give information
as TO its whereabouts. The affair has caused
not little excitement here, particularly as the
young people are all respectfully connected
Miss SpofiOrd and Watts have been attending
the high school for about two years, during
which they have been more or less intimate,
Watts is credited with GOOD record az school
latterly, though il Is not long since he was ar.
rested for some slight irregularity at home, in
which he was charged with stealing quite an
amount Of money from his parents. His father
died last fall and a step-nother, with whom he
has Stree been living, resides on the Merrimac
corporation.