Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-10


An old man was recently murdered
near Scion. o., with attending circum-
stances so revolving that the bare recit-
al of them is sickening. The victim
was an old bachelor of 63, George Nc
Conoughey, who had lived all his life
in little hut and carried on farming.
From childhood he had been addicted to
liquor and the habit SO grew upon him
that druggists and saloon keepers came
by common understanding to refuse
him stimulants. Notwithstanding his
fault he had always been frugal, kept
out of debt, and attended to his business
He has been robbed several times, and
other attempts have been made and fail
ed. A few days before his death he was
at his brothers house. near his own, and
expressed fear that he should be kill
ed some night. He was sitting by the
fire on an old broken chair, when some
one about twelve feet from the window.
as the tracks on the snow indicated,
fired two shots which entered his back
passed through his heart, killing him
instantly. He fell forward into the fire,
while the murderer broke through the
door and rifed his pockets of 500, all
he was known to have had. When the
body was discovered it presented dis
gushing spectacle. One arm and a large
portion of the left side had been roasted
away on the hot Goals, but that was not
all. He had been very fond of cats,
and always had five or six of these ami
mails with him. He had educated tn EN-
so that at a given signal they would
range themselves in line to be fed
Tempted by the smell of burning flesh.
these ghouls had gorged themselves on
the old mans body until it was disfg-
ured almost beyond recognition. A
young man named Chamberlin, a neal
neighbor, has been arrested on suspicion
An old Roman method of Furnishing
extreme criminals by hurting them dowr
precipices is still in practice, it seems, il
San Marine. little Italian Rebublic il
the mountain Businesses of the Appeni
mes, which, from its inaccessible position
has maintained its independence, whel
greater powers in more exposed locali
ties were obliged to yield to the grea
centralizing influences now at work il
Southern Europe. For nearly fifty year
no murder has been committed at Sal
Marine until couple of months since
Felicia Pallavicini, beautiful youn
woman of %, was convicted of murder
ing her illegitimate child. She was eal
ly left an orphan, and, more SHINE
against than SHINING, was led astray b
Roman thief and gambler, who, afte
first duplicating her in robbery fo
which she was sent to prison, deserte
her. The police sent her back to Sa
Marine, and soon her child was born t
die by its mothers hand When trie
for her offence she seemed wholly il
different to what was going on, and eve
while the judge was pronouncing ser
tence. until he spoke the word ..Prt
pare for your doom your last hour ha
come" Then she broke into wild scream
and begged for mercy, but the judge
shook their heads and said to the officers
"Take her to the gorge of Feri." Sh
fought desperately and abused the prize.
who sought to administer spiritual col
ISOLATION, until she was bound hand an
foot, and carried Eorror-stricken to I'll
precipice. Then as the priest said the la,
prayer for mercy, two officers lifted ht
and dropped her into the abyss A Sc,
end after her body struck hard again
the bottom of the gorge, and all W;
over.