Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-12
A Dreadful Murder in Boston.

A dreadful murder is reported from
Boston by dispatch under date of the
7th inst. as follows
Lewis Wagner, suspected of the dou
bic murder at the Isle Of Shoals, was ar
rested in Boston last night, and commit
ted to await a requisition by the anthori
lies of Maine, within whose Jurisdiction
TIE murder was committed. The murder
which was most brutal in its details, was
: discovered at an early hour on Thursday
morning by the members Of Mr Huntres
family, at whose residence the outrage
was committed. Wagner, who was a
former employee of Mr.. Hun:ress. arriv-
ed in his boat from Star Island at an ear
ly hour on the evening of the murder and
his mission there, to all appearances was
the preparation of the crime he subse-
quently committed.
His sneaking manner on arriving at
the house was such as to give rise to a
suspicion on the part Of Mrs. Huntrsss
that he was intent on some object which
BODIED no good. lie passed the front of
the house and went to The rear, and soon
after entered the house. After a short
conversation he asked Cornela Bhris,en-
son to come into the entry with him as
he had something very important to com
municate. The woman, who suspected
something wrong. involun'ariiy started
to acquiesce in Wagner request
Trembling with fear she approached
the entry where, on arriving. che discov-
cred Wagner with an axe in his hand
With shrieak she started to return to
the kitchen, where she had left Mrs.
Uuntress and another woman named
Annetta Lawson, but before she could
re enter the door she received heavy
blow on the head from wagner, with the
axe. The blow was sufficient to kill
her instantly. The murderer, with the
axe in his hand, entered the room where
| the other two women were, and wit.iou.
word struck Miss Lawson a terrible
blow upon the side The woman fell to
the floor, her agony being such as to
soon occasion lond cries of distress She
was asked by Wagner, where the money
was that was kept in the house, being at
the same time warned, that if she did
not tell he would kill her at once.
She continued to groan, seeming to
pay but little attention to what the brute
was saying. All at once Wagner seem
ed to have become possessed of the spirit
of demon, and heaped blows with an
axe thick and fast upon the head and
body of the unfortunate woman. Miss
Lawson's head was literally crushed to
jelly. Me,nwtl.l. Mrs. Huntres. who had
received severe blow from the murder
er width a chair, was hidden among rocks
on the island. remlning i'll her secure
position until between eight and nine
o'clock on Thursday morning. She then
ventured out and crossed the sea wall to
Malaga island, and Dy her cries succeed
ed in making herself heard by a man
who had house on Appledore island.
lie went to her assistance, and found
her suffering from blow on the shoul
der, and her feet and parts Of her body
badly frozen, she having remained in the
severe cold all those hours with nothing
on but her chimise aud flannel night
dress.
The name of the family in which the
tragedy occurred is Hontyet, not Hunt
ress. Mrs. Hontvct is Norwegian an
industrious and much respected fisherwo-
man. Mrs Hontvet's condition is criti-
cal The murdered women were of ire
proachable character and remarkable for
personal beauty.
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