The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-13
TRIPLE TRAGEDY Al CssAR-
IESTOWN, MASS
\ Nan Strnng cs His wife, Kiiis
His Stcp-Dnughtcr ana Conn
nits suicide.

One OF the most horrifying tragedies We
have been called upon TO record for some
time occurred at Charlestown, Mass, on
Thursday morning last. This is not simply
II murder, but n double murder and that
coupled with suicide, there being in all
three victims. who were between midnight
and daylight Thursday morning. roughly
hurled into eternity by one and the same
hand. The perpstrator was Geo. w.
Kimbal, an old inhabitnnt of Charlcsiown,
who keeps boarding house at the corner
of Park and Common streets. where the
tragedy took place.
The first that was known Of the affair
was at 3 o'clock that morning, when Kim
ball, as is his habit, called his bOardcrs. and
two of them on coming down were met by
him at the sitting room door and with the
blood then spirtng from his throat waved
them back with the razor that he still held
in his hand. The boardcrs at once ran for
an officer who returned with them and
found Kmball in the last agonies of death
lie was too far gone to talk. The officers
soon found Mrs. kimball dead in he'd with
deep finger marks ON her throat. plainly
showing that she had been stranglcd. From
this scene the officers went to the room of
Orinda Wells, n daughter of Mrs kimbal
/ by Il former husband. and there met the
most shocking sight of ALL The poor girl
who was not quite eighteen years old. lay
Ill In.1 ,t.i.I
nearly severed from her body by two cruel
| cuts, one of which extended nearly back to
| the spinal column. There was no cvi,lcn-
ces of a protractcd struggle in either case,
/ the clothing Of each being undsturbcl.
The motive of the murderer is not posi-
/ lively known. Several theories exist in re-
gard to it, one of which is the fact that his
step-daughtcr was to give an engagement
party the next evening. and that kimhall.
not liking the engagement, rcsortcd to muir
der to prevent it, Another and more plaus-
iblc one is that he killed his wife first while
engaged in quarrel with her, and then de-
tcrmncd To kill the stcp-daughtcr and him
self. \ letter was found which ~ubstanti-
atcs this idea, that he wrote before cutting
his own throat. with the fullest evidence of
calm determination and a sane mind
The murderer was man about fifty
wears old. and has several brothers who are
well known in the community. He was
born in CharlcstOwn. and has always lived
there. For several years lie drove a coach
from Charlcstown to Boston, and subsc-
qucntly was conductor of MiddlcscX rail
road horse car For the past ten year, he
has been employed at the organ manufac
tory Of Mason X lIamir at Cambridge.
and having been thrown out OF work there
"A few months since, has done nothing until
within month"; when he obtained work at
the navy yard. He was not, however, in
what might be termed distressed or reduced
circumstances. rs he has always been fru-
cal and Industrious He had no bcsctting
sin of dissipation, and those who have
known him for years aver that they never
saw him under the influence of liquor
kimbal has been married to his victim
about twelve years, hut She is his
second wife. His first wife is supposed
to nav" boon r"isN"ed about thirteen years
ago, and kimball was detained on charge
OF committing the deed. After an invesli-
CATION he was discharged, as no proof
could be obtained 1t was the general
opinion at that time that Kmball commit
ted the deed, and for some time subsequent
he was looked upon with suspicion.
The murdered woman was born in the
town of Mount Vernon. Maine. her father
being well-known farmer named Emcr-
son Stainc.
The tragedy is the cause of great excite
ment in the community where it occurred,
and the coroncr's inquest developed no new
facts in addition to the above