Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-25
THE UTICA TRAGEDY.
The Wrong Man Slain.

Milton Fl. Thomsonof this city, accom-
| panied by relative, Henry Fl. Hall of
| 0gdepsburgh, entered the new Hartford
car en- route for the depot, In front of
his residence, No. 321 Genesee street.
| Before the conductor, John Reed, had
| given the starting signal, he was hailed
| by neatly dressed woman, who entered
the car and took a seat in the southwest
corner, opposite Mr.. Thomson and his
| friend. The car started and the conduc-
| tor collected several fares, including the
womans, Mr.. Fhomson's and his friends,
and returned to the platform. By this
| time the car had reached point about
| opposite the residence of Hon. o. B.
Matteson, No. 294 Genesee. street. Just
then the woman arose and. addressed
some words to Mr.. Thomson, which
were unintelligible to the other. persons
in the car. In a few seconds afterward
! Mr.. Thomson was observed to start back,
and the passengers in the car heard
THE SHARP REPORT OF A PISTOL.
Mr.. Thompson fell back and the
blood started from his left cheek and
about the vicinity Of his jaw on the
right side of his face. Mr.. Thomson's
friend, Henry Ii. Hall, was observed to
fall back in his seat and lean toward
Mr.. Thomson. He was
DEAD.
After firing the shot the woman at
tempted to leave the car and jump from
the platform into the road,
Edmund Loughlin who, at the time of
the shooting, was sitting in the north
end of the car, and had been attractedto
the other end by the discharge of the
pistol, took hold of the woman's arm
and told her not to jump off unless she
WANTED TO KILL HERSELF.
At this time Mr.. Loughlin was under
the impression that Mr.. Thomson had
shot himself, and that the woman was
simply alarmed. When the car stopped
the woman got off and was followed by
Isaac Tapping, who accompanied her
down the east side of Genesee street.
The car continued on its way down the
street to the Butterield House, into
which Thomson and his dead friend
were taken. Mr. Thomson was placed
| in chair In the public office, and the
body Of Mr.. Hall was laid upon a shut
ter and placed on the table of the read
ing-rOom in the rear of the bar-room.
Physicians were at once sent for. The
news of this
HORRIBLE AFFAIR
spread like wildfire, and soon an inn
mense concourse of people thronged the
office and halls of the Butterfield House
and gathered about the windows and
doors on the outside of the building.
Drs. WolcOtt, Bissell and James G..
Hunt arrived soon after.
Mr.. THoMsoN's INJURIES.
Upon an examination by the physic-
ians, it was discovered that the ball had
passed into Mr.. Thomson's left cheek,
out again through the right nostril, in
fiicting and ugly but not serious wound.
HOW Mr.. HALL WAS KILLED.
From Mr.. Thomson's right nostril
the ball passed into and through Mr.
Halls clothing and into his left breast,
reaching his heart and killing him in
stantly
THE DEAD VICTIM.
The innocent victim of this tragedy
was, as we have before stated, Heny II.
Hall aged about twenty-eight or thirty
years. who is engaged in the coal bust
ness in the city of Ogdensburg He
married a niece of Mrs. Milton H. Thorn
son. who WAS a Miss Stillwell, and has
one child. Mrs. Hall has been visiting
Mr.. Thomson's family for a few days
Her husband came to Utica after her.
and started down town this morning
with the intention of getting shaved and
preparing to start for home with his
wife at noon to-day.
THE ARREST.
Mr. Tapping continued walking down
the street with the woman who fired the
pistol in the street car until they reached
the walk in front of the Clarendon
Hotel. on the corner of Genesee and
Blandina streets. Chief Engineer Dim
bleby. who had been informed Of the
shooting. pointed the woman out to
Janitor William J. Supple of the City
Hall. as the person who did the shoot
ing. Mr.. Supple Immediately went ac-
ross the street, took the woman under
arrest, and conveyed her to the station
house. She was very excited, and eX-
claimed: "Oh! If you knew how
much suffering that man has caused me,
you would not blame me :"
4 SMITH 4 NELSON'S REVOLVER
was found on the womans person. with
but one charge issuing from it. Shortly
after the prisoners arrival at the station
house Chief Luce took her into Janitor
Supplies apartments in the basement of
the City Hall, and was followed by a
large crowd of persons anxious to see
the woman who has thrust herself for
ward and suddenly gained an unenyiable
notOriety in our quiet city. No person
but an Observer reporter was permitted
to accompany this party. Mrs. Supple
was requested to search the prisoner and
take from her any other weapon or
weapons for causing her own destruc-
ton. Nothing of this character was
found on her person. The prisoner
made no objection to being searched. In
order to avoid the crowd which had
gathered about the City Hall, the Chief
of Police, prisoner and our reporter re-
turned to the station house through the
back Of the Janitor's room, and the yard
about the police station and into the
building, without being observed by any
one. On the way to the station house
the prisoner exclaimed several times,
''Oh my children Oh my children :"
After proceeding to the upper room
of the building, our reporter was intro
duced to the prisoner She acknowledged
the Introduction courteously but excit-
edly, and said that she feared to meet
newspaper men on account of their fire.
quently making misstatements.
THE INTERVIEW
which followed will be fully described
/. in later edition.
THE coRoNER's INQUEST.
Owing to the absence of Coroner Teff
the Chief of Police telegraphed to Cor
oner E. S. Lawton of Rome, who ar
rived at 1890 P. NJ. A jury will be sum-
mOned and the body of the victim will
be viewed at the Butterfeld House, after
which the inquest will be held in the
Court House.
THE PRISONERS NAME Is MISS JOSEPHINE
MO CARTY OF ALBANY.
As the station house the prisoner gave
her name as Miss Josephine McCarty of