Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-13

stance might enrage the crowd Deyohla
etan ..o, Il was deemed best to stop the
train of Rockingham street. Inc parry
rot ont and Wagner started for tne sea
T;on honse. wearing an additional par
Of nnanacles. and between Messrs. Jonn-
con and Entwistle. AS soon as the eA-
cited throng saw the train slack up az
Rockingham street, they came rus1iHs
dn,yn fshnpton street ON foot and III
nunos and in sleighs. The prisoner was
abont halfway to the station house,
When cries were raised: xiii him
Chang him !" ''Take him !" go fof
a rome !" and rush was made by about
one hundred excited men. The efflcers
drew their revOlyers and warned the
crowd to keep back. They were not
vet so careless of danger that the warn
inc failed of effect, and there was no
more disturbance till just as the prisoner
reached the entrance to the statlon
honse when the crowd made slmulta-
Moons rash. and with shouts OF Take
him now" s'Kill him, attempted to res
cue him, but were unsuccessful. Inc
detachment of marines, sent over from
the navy yard, met the crowd WIN
bayonets and pressed them back, ana
Wagner was safely lodged IN cell.
THE MURDERER.
Iouis Wagner is a Prussian by birth
and a sailor by occupation, but for the
mast twenty months has been following
the business of fishing in this vicinity
Hehas borne tolerably good reputation,
although he often drank, and when I'M
der the influence of liquor was ugly and
ouarrelsome. His object in committing
the deed was evidently two-fold-re-
yenge and money. There was about
$3.50 in money in the trunk IN one OF
the rooms of the house where the muir
der was committed, of which about SO
only was obtained, the balance being
hidden among some clothing in the bot,
tom of the chest. He had endeayOred
to gain the affections of Miss Karen
Christensen, who invariably repulsed his
advances, and high words frequently
passed between them, growing out OF his
importunities. The murderer after
completing the crime, rowed to Ports
mouth, and appeared at the breakfast
table OF his boarding-place at seven
o'clock. He remained about the city
until noon of yesterday getting MS
wbiskers shaved off in the meantime
when he took the 1890 train for Boston.
ALL QUIET.
The question of jurisdiction, whether
in Maine or in this State, is still unde-
cided 1t is probably Maine. Coroner
Junkin's Jury at Kittery has not report
ed vet. The victims will be buried here.
Mrs. Hontvet is doing well. Karen
Christensen was 25 years of age and un-
married, and Anethe % years old and
married.
THE STORY TOLD BY THE WOMAN WHO
ESCAPED.
The story of Mrs Hontvet, the only
witness of the murder, is this:
| | was in bed. Anethe slept with me.
/ Sister Karen slept on the lounge in the
| kitchen. In the night Karen cried out,
/ John scared me-" thinking the man in
! the room was John Hontyet. | heard
some one pounding her. The door of
the bedroom was fastened by some one
on the kitchen side with a stick. l
! shouted. the stick came out of the door
and | opened it, reached out and got
/ Karen by the arm, and was struck with
chair. l pulled Karen into the bed
room with Anethe and me. Told Ane-
! the to jump out of the window, and she
did so. Told her TO run, but she was
so frightened that she could only get to
/ the corner Of the house. l was holding
the door of the bedroom and the person
in the kitchen was trying to force his
way in. When he could not get in he
went out around the house, and heard
/ Anethe shout, Louis, Louis. He
went back to the door and got the axe,
and | saw him through the bedroom
window strike her three times. | could
not see the face, but could see the figure
of the man. and l knew him TO be Louis
Wagner. l jumped through the win
| dow. taking my skirt, and ran down by
the hen house. I tried to get Karen to
come too, but she said she was too tired.
| ran to the dock but could find no dory
there. | then went out on the island
and hid behind the rocks. We went 10
bed about 10 p. M, and when | hid be-
hind the rocks the moon was just set
ting. | stayed there until after sunrise,
fearing that Louis Wagner was still on
the island / went down to the north
side and swung my skirts as a signal for
help. ] came up on the point and shout
ed and Mr.. InglebretZen heard me and
came over from Appledore and took me
to his house, where | arrived at o'clock
Il. m. We were all good friends. Wag-
ner never made any advances to me OF
the others that / know of. The only
time / saw Wagner was when | was
looking through the window when be
struck Anethe. | saw her lying on the
ground when | jumped out of the win
dow when | was running away / heard
Karen shouting, the voice sounding out
of doors. / did not hear Wagner speak
at all. There was no light in the house.
Mrs. Hontvet, when taken from the
island, was suffering keenly. She had
on little else than her night clothing.
Her toes and the bottom of her feet were
badly frozen and blistered, and she was
chilled through and through.
APPEARANCE OF THE BODIES WHEN
FOUND.
The body of Anethe Christensen wa.
found lying on the floor of the kitchen
of one of the tenements, and that of
Karen Christensen in the bedroom of the
other. The room where the former lay
was i'm great confusion. The crumpled
bed clothes were scattered about, the
furniture was upset and a chair was
broken On table were the remains
of a meal, and just outside Of the door
was a blood stained axe, with the handle
broken and a Ratchet The head of the
body was fearfully mangled and the
face disfgured. There were wounds in
the vicinity of the right ear, one under
the right eye, one on the left ear, one
under the left eye, one on the frontal
bone over the left eye, one on the left
temple and one back of the left ear-all
with the sharp edge of an axe. The
brain could be seen through the wound
at the right ear. One hand was clench-
ed. A shawl was wound tightly around
the neck. probably by the murderer,
that he might drag her into the house
more readily. Karen was found lying
ON her face, clothed only in a chemise.
There was every indication that her suf-
ferings bad been exquisite. The feet
were Strengthened out rigidly, and the
tongue was protruding. Five wounds
were found on the back of her head,
one breaking the skull two on the left
temple, two on the forehead over the
1 right eye and one to the left of the game