Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-08-05

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by Drs. Fassett and Hall and an inquest
held by Justice Farpsworth, at the in.
stance of selectmen Newton and Swift, as.
sisted by Park Davis, Esq, Of counsel,
We submit the official report as follows -
Body found in thicket of bushes about
Is rods from public highway, in good
state of preservation, lying upon her back,
lower limbs crossed at the aukles-arms
by her side, face and head covered by a
portion of the skirt Of her dress. Her
dress was considerably torn, much soiled
with earth, stains Of grass and leaves, and
with blood. Her hair was loose. unfast-
eued but matted with dirt and dead leaves,
with some dark spots Of blood. Her hands
we're nearly clean, the left ore livid in
color, showing the mark of heavy blow
upon its back, causing fracture of the mid
die bone of the hand ia metacarpal bone)
into small pieces. The face was pale in
its lower portions. eyes and mouth closed.
The head was lying partly upon its right
side. The left side Of the head was dark
ly livid in color. the lividity extending be-
low the ear and around both eyes. A
ragged opening was found by thu side of
the left car, little above it, and the skull
was broken into loose pieces over the
whole of the left side of the head. A cut
upon the top Of the head about 2 inches
length through the SCALP, made with some
sharp corner of stone or some hard sub
stance. Nearly the whole of the right
side of the head was bruised and cut, dark
and blody. A deep cut above the right
eye, 2 inches external to it. The nose
and cheeks show some slight scratches.
After SO much of an examination, the
body was carefully placed upon bed or
matrass and carried to the house OF Il. A.
Page, about half nile distant.
Further examination made by dividing
the scalp showed extrava sation Of blood
between the scalp and tho Uranium over
the entire head, as though the scalp had
been raised from the bone by means OF the
hair in lifting or dragging the body. The
bones were fractrred over the whole left
side of the head /; the temporal and parie-
.al bones we're broken into pieces aud de-
pressed upon the brain some of the su-
ures were forced open SO that almost the
,utire Uranium could be lifted from the
surface of the brain by the fingers alone.
A bruise was found upon thu left forearm
llso one upon the inside of the right thigh.
Bloody stains and other evidences about
Ter person and clathing leave no doubt Of
he brutal outrage, the preparation of
which was the instigatiDg cause of her
leath. The direct cause of death was
Of the brain from the fractured
ranium.
After day light came the ground was
arefuly examined from where the body
ny, back to the road. A trai was dis.
incty traced nearly every foot of the
'ay, by slight disturbance Of the leaves
nd woody soil, as if her feet had been
ragged, and by several bloody places.
o 60 back to the place of the assault now,
'e will trace the appearances as discov-
red by Mr.. Davis early in the morning. ,
efore the hundreds who subseque ntly Wis
ed the place had trampled the earth, to :
ne place where the body was fonnd. In /,
ne soil Of the lower roadside, some four q
r five feet north of the little bridge, a
'ack. evidently made by her, was then
ute distinct. 1t pointed northeast, i,
hlch would indicate that when he sprang .
ON his ambuscade she struck into run, I
as overtaken just before reaching The j..
ridge and then attempted to turn to the :,
IT and make her way back. The rail
nee at that point bore no evidence of his
lvng taken her over it, and the suppo-
ton is that he drew her off the east end !
the bridge, since the gravel of the brook !
lannel there bore evidence of disturbance
I'd shred of carpetng from his mask
as there found. The mask itself was u
uud between the fence and the roadway. =
st north of the bridge. Just over the I"
nee and by the side Of the brook chan ;.
j her hair ribbon was found, ard near il y
stone, weighing some eight or ten pounds, =
J which there appeared TO be spot of :
led blood. That stone was afterward :"
moved by Dr.. Waugh for microscopic .
animation of the stain. The grass and u
ke-weed at that point were broken and u
implied, and this fact, together with the a.
ding Of meet the gravel from the ~
ook channel in the victims clothing, in "
yates TO many that there was the scene :"
the first part Of the crime. al
A few feet below that the brook chan 10
makes turn to the north and Just P'
ross it Justice Farnsworth found ~
all bow that had been part of her ~
IN ribbon or was in some way attached a.
he