The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-11
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From the Hartford fct.) Times, January d
A horrible triple murder took place Tues
day afternoon at a house Of ill-hme known
as "Bull tRun,a situated about two miles
west of Windsor Locks, oi,ithe road leading
to East CRANKY. The decd Is supposed to
have been committed about o'clock in the
afternoon, as two, peddlcrs, named Mycr
Stokart and jacob Newsbomb. who were
passing by on their way from East Granby
to Suffeld, heard faint voice from within
saying Come inlS Hearing this faint call,
stokart laid down his pack and went to the
front door, which he found locked Finding
he could not get in by the front door, he
went around the house to the back door.
Opening this doora little way, he saw what
no supposed to be the body of a woman
stretched ont on the floor. After asking
three or four times what was wanted of him,
and getting no answer, he pushed the door
wide open, and then he discovered the body
Of woman lying lifelcss fn pool of blood
on the floor. Mortified at the sight, he irllne-
diately ran away and told his companion.
The two then picked up their packs and
started in the direction of two mon who
were at work in field near by spreading
tobacco stalks. ~ = t,ssss Is
After telling their story they svere in
formed by.t the men that they had seen two
men leave the house as they (the peddlers)
approached; and that they had disappeared
III the woods near by. -
The reddlcrs, as they Claim, Were terribly
frightened, and started for Suflield. After
circulating the news and delaying three Or
four hours, one Of the parties who had been
at work in the field, Henry c, Baker, started
FOR Windsor Locks to inform the authorities.
The authorities raised an alarm, and within
4 short space Of time double teams, contain
ing t~entyor thirty men, were ON their way
TO tho scene Of the murder. On their arrival
at the house, about $40 =. NJ, (nearls six
hours after the murders were first discoy-
ered) they found Tho doors all locked and
the house On lire! They Immediately broke
in the doors, rushed into the house, and sue
cccdcd in extinguishing the fire. The fire
evidently could not have been long set be-
fore their arrival, not more than fifteen
minutes, Ar:ti clearing the house of smoke
the parties commenced their search.
The first victim found was the man Tim
Billings, proprietor of the house. He was
lying near the door, dead. On the floor near
by was pool of blood. His pockets were
turned inside out, which leads to the belief
that the murder was committed for the ptlr-,
pose OF robbery.
Upon entering the next room Mrs. Billings,
his wife, was found lying dead. Her body
was badly charred by the fire. There was a
great cash cut in her forehead. This was
probably the blow Of IN axe. .
Upon entering the next room Qrom appear
anceS the back kitchen) there lay stretched
upon the floor the lifeless form of a young
woman, with terrible cash cut into her left
shoulder; also, a terrible gnsh, or stab, just
below The left ear, in Her neck. She was dead
and cold.
After searching the house thoroughly and
searching the woods near by, the authorities
were satisfied that two men committed the
crime. At Il point on the Sufficld road half
mile north of the house there were tracks
where two men had apparently iumned from
a wagon and gone into the woods near by.
Cigar stumps and other evidences showed
their track. The two peddlers, Stokart and
NewcoInh, were arrested in Sutfield and are
now held for examination, but there does not
seem TO DE much cause for suspecting them.
But there is cause for believing that the real
murdercrs arc two men, strangers III that
ncighborhood, who had stopped over night
in Warehouse Point and been arrested for
not paving their hotel bill. Constable War
rcn arrested them, and they are said to have
settled the account. Baldwin's livery stable,
in Windsor Locks, furnished wagon Ill OF
der to convey one of these men; and from
another stable lStockwell's) was hired another
wagon by the other man. They did not go
together, but both were left by their own
directions at the house of Billings; and the
lads who drove them out, after receiving their
ply. drove back. leaving the men ut the
house.
The tracks in the snow, beyond tie Bill
Enms house, where the men had apparently
jumped out Of q wagon. were plainly The
tracts Of men Rearing rubber boots.
Billings, the murdered owner OF the house
where the tragedy occurred, WAS man about
forty years Of age. Yesterday, it seems, he
! bad sold to Mr Robert MCGOWAN, one Of the
selectncn Of Windsor Locks, about $50 worth
| Of tobacco, receiving tie money therefor.
| That $50 was missing from the body. II
money ards the object OF the murders, the
murticrcYs did not obtain much besides the
500, for the search made by the authorities
revealed SI2I still in the house, which the
murdcrers had not found. OF this SI2l one
package Of 1921 was found among some old
papers in drawer behind the bar, and in Il
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more.
The Young woman who was so brutally
murdered, and whose body was the one
which the pcdder saw, seems to have been
a stranger in the ncighborhood. She was
apparently about twenty-five years Of age,
and of colnely appearance. She was All i'll
mate of this house Of ill-tame, but probably
had not long been such. The house Hhad
been vile place for many years.
One story is, that two men who stopped
at that house two or three nights previou:
had there been robbed of two OF three hull
drcd dollars, and that the murdercrs are
these two men, who acted out Of vengeance
in killing the inmates. No person, however
seems TO know who the men are.
The Selectmen of Windsor Locks offer q
reward of $500 for information which viii
lead to the detection Of the murdcrers.
Two Hartford detectives went UP to Wind
sor Locks on the q O'Clock train this morn
ing, and are now following up the case.
These dreadful murders have caused in.
tense excitement in Windsor Locks, Wind
sor and Suttield. 1t is believed the nur
derers will be found.
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