Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-12

Judge Boardman has refused the motion
effort has been renewed in the Supreme
G ourt. 1t is said that Stokes has now little
hope of an escape from the sentence of death
and is in a very respondent frame Of mind.
On the 9th of November the body of
man was found floating in Charles River. 1t
had been cut up and packed in two barrels
and was identified as the remains Of Abijah
Ellis of Boston, who disappeared on the
evening Of election day, Tuesday. Wednes-
day morning one of the teams of Mr.. Leavitt
Alley was seen with two barrels in tt wa
gon on its way to Charles River Mr.. Alley
was arrested and his trial began the Sd. 1t
is drawing to a close and brings medical ex-
perts into conflict with each other Blood
was found in Mr.. Alleys stable and upon
his clothing The line of defense is that the
spots came from the blood of a horse bled
there some time before Dr. Jackson testi-
6es that the blood, when dry, of man can
not be distinguished under the microscope,
from that of horse. In this be is at vari-
anee with DR.. Hayes, another celebrated
Boston chemist. The present prospect il
strong for a disagreement of the jury, as
witnesses swear freely to the former good
character of Alley, while on the other hanc
it seems almost impossible TO account for the
cutting up of the man Ellis if Alley is not
the guilty person.
oracle Love, the little girl shot by her
father in Boston, will recover.
FRANKLIN B. EVAN, convicted of the muir
der of the Lowering girl appears to have led
the life of fiend rather than of a man
According ID the confession Of Evans, II
1858 he killed little niece in Derry, n H
aged FIVE years. 10 1861 he assaulted anC
cut the throat of a girl of fourteen years in
Augusta, Me, (for which. by the way
another man died in PRISON. In 1865 h.
} outraged the person of Isabella Joyce Cour
teen years old) and then killed her and he
| brother, John, a boy of twelve, in Bussey''
Woods near Boston. In 1872, June 10, ht
} is charged with similar crime on the per
son of a woman found dead in the wood
near Fitchburgh, Mass, and during tn
! dered Georgiana Lowering, a girl of twelv
years in Northwood, n II. His confession
t IN regard to all the above crimes are brie
; and indefinite, except as to the Joyce chi
t dren, which was made TO Deputy Sher
/ Henry A. Drew who arrested him and ha
| him in charge ten days before he committee
\ him TO Exeter jail, and seven days before h
revealed TO HIM the secret of Georgian
: Lowering. Mr.. Drew SAID that after Evan
e had confessed the murder, he question:
e him as to his whereabouts for the last ittee
years. Finally said Mr. Drew, .
. traced him to Rhode Island. than back t
e Roxburv, Mass. His mention of Roxbur
II and the similarity of the two murders, sus
q gested to me for the first time that he ha
|. perpetrated the murder of the joyce children
e of which | had then but dim recollection
e and of the circumstances of which | hay
t now but little know Wedge [ then int,
: rogated him on the subject, and the que
n tons on my part and the replies on h
;, were deemed by NE of so much important
0 that | Immediately reduced the substance
d the conversation to writing"
e Since his conviction he has attemptt
IL suicide. He pretends to great remorse al
: pIety. He is to be hung February II, 1877
Inc trlal or Mrs. Elizabeth u. W hart'
of Baltimore for the attempted poisoning
Eugene Van Ness in June 1871, closed I'll
Sd at Annapolis, having lasted p day
The jury disagreed. She was year az
/ after trial of 40 days, acquitted on t
D. charge of having murdered Gen. ".
~ Ketchum by poison.
e, Mrs Sherman, the Derby, Conn, mu
-. deress, was taken to the State Prison
: Wethersfe!d on Monday.