Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-08

| While Meyer and Kloph of Adamston, Pa.
We're moving the other day, the latter in
| dulged in the little pleasantly of trying t,
! cut off Meyers legs with his scYthe, but
being unsuccessful in several attempts, h.
at length thrust the implement cleal
through his body. entering at the lef
breast and coming out beneath the shoulder
blade. The lung was pierced and one Of
two arteries were severed, but, strange Il
say, the man Is recovering.
\ stingy hotel proprietor, named Stod-
dard Of Pennington, Mimi, gave Mr..
| Brown, one Of his guests, only about two
inches of candle to 90 to bed by, at which
| Mr.. Brown demonstrated and, being insult
ed by Mr.. Stoddard, instantly shot him
dead, as Is the custom in that section when
hotel proprietOrs get insolent. All this
was perfectly right and proper, but a med
ding chief OF police, thinking to obtain a
little ephemeral glory by the deed, went to
Brown room and shot him through the
heart. The law-abiding citizens OF Farm
ington are highly incensed at this uncalled-
for action on the part Of the chief ofpoliee.
Postmaster Neal Mclean, at Meridith
Village, y. H., l. a deiaulter to the gov
eminent in the money order business to the
amount of Sl0,050. and has been arrested
by the postofhce department.
While Jim Brown, the negro who was
hung in Virginia recently, was still dang
ling, another negro named Tom Brown fell
from tree, where he was seeing the fun.
and broke his neck.
A mystery attends the case of the finding
Of the dead bodies of woman and n five
years old boy, in the East River. New
York. From the appearance of the corpse
it i inferred that the woman killed the
boy by striking him on the head with
heavy, sharp instrument, and then tying
his body fast 10 her person, jumped into
the river and drowned herself The bodies
are still at the morgue awaiting identif-
cation.
The National Police Court Of the District
OF Columbia has tried man for a second
offence In knocking his wife down and
whipping his daughter through the public
streets with heavy coach whip. The
father attempted 10 drag both of his
daughters along by their hair. The only
question was as to whether the street was
the proper place to do it. The Judge dis
charged him with fine of ten dollars in
the case Of each daughter and binding him
over to keep the peace.
Cyrus Mccarthy of Ind annapolis. shot his
ami then shot himself in the forehead,
on Thursday. Domestic infelicity was the
cause.
Undertook, the Goss murderer. is calm
and collected. dresses with care, and is
polite to the last degree with all callers
lettering to the GOss murder, the Baltimore
american says:
I'VE think itmay be safely said that the
Goss n ystery has been solved. The poor
fugitive has been tracked through all his
ieylous wanderings, from the time that he
ned y ON his burning shop until he took
ms 81 at IN carriage with Undertook and |
lr9Fe away from the village of Jenner- |
vie to his death. On the night the fraud |
ipon the insurance companies was consum- |
mated by the burning of dead body pro- |
'ured in New York III the little board shanty |
Il Wayerly which he called his laboratory |
MS brother took hiIa to the President street |
lepot in the buggy hired from Dr. Thorne,
nd he started or his travels northward. |
lie passed through the State of New York, |
nj, Crossing over into Canada, spent two |
mont Us at MOntre al and other towns in the |
ro' inees. Then he went to his old home |
a Tennessee. But the pending case against
Mutual insurance company, like a bale
Al loadstone, drew him back to the vicinity /
- DaltlluOIt- anu the OIiler cOnSplrdlDrs
we're obliged TO provide him hiding place
where they could communicate with him
md prevent him from betraying the secret.
dderzook first obtained a home for him
with an acquaintance in Chester county,
md when he had worn ont his welcome and
Ms credit in that neighborhood, he went
% Newark, n. j., and spent a portion of
ne winter and spring IN that city. When
Judge Bond postponed the hearing of the
notion made by the counsel for the Mutual
Insurance company for a new trial till No
eInber, Undertook become alarmed lest the
not should be discovered, and then poor
IcSs was deeoyed back to Chester county.
no when the dark plot had been fully ma
ured, his handsome body was cut and
aeked into the shape Of the unsightly
runk which he had imported from New
DIRK seTenteen months before, to personate
imseh. He never dreamed that the re-
emblanee would be so striking at last"
lHE SHAH tONDIlNr An Aurprc.~ Curr n