Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-24
Murder In Connecticut.
TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED.

A horrible murder is reported this week at
Stonington, CT, on Sunday evening. Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Langworthy, living few miles from
the Rhode Island line, went out to a tend evening
meeting, leaving at home two sons, one 20 and
the other 80 years of age, together with hired
man. When they returned they found the young
est of his sons on the floor in pool of blood and
Efeless The oldest son was also found, nearly
dead in bedroom adjoining.
Another account says that it was nearly nine
O'Clock when Mr., Samuel Ian gworthy, a brother
of Henry, who lives mile away was aroused by
the hired man pounding on the door, and begging
him, for the love Of God, to come over to his
brothers, as there were two men there who were
ransacking the house. He started at once, but
had only gone few steps when he was oyertaken
by his brother and sster-in-law in a carriage, re-
turning home. He told them what had occu rred,
and followed them on. The house was in dark
ness when they reached it. They pressed in, and
they entered the father stumbled over the corpse
of Irving, the youngest son. 1t sat in a chair by
the table, rigid and upright; book lay al its feet
as it had ia len from his hand the head had fall
en- forward and on the crown CHASTITY wound-a
cut four inches in length, penetrating through hair
and scalp, and bone was exposed. A great pool
of blood lay beneath the chair, already clotted and
congealing. The lamp the table was over
turned, the chimney smashed in thousand splin-
tiers, but there was no signs of a struggle. Moth
ing in the room was disarranged the boys face
| was calm and placid, as if he had fallen into a
gentle slumber There was not a mark upon him
save the gaping wound upon his head, and it was
| plain that as he had sat reading, so he had died
/ The other son. Cortlandt, nowhere visible.
The father up stairs to his room, through en-
4 tries and passages stained and splashed by the
mark of the murderers hand, and found his other
/ sons body lying upon his bed, bleeding and an
conscious from a wound near the base of the SIX ulI
4 Nor was there any evidence of a struggle here
| The victim had undressed having retired Tor the
night and was undoubtedly asleep when the dead.
4 ly blow was struck. He had lain there, insensble
for some time, for the pillow little else than
dark revolving elot of gore, and even the mattress
! beneath was saturated through and through.
/ The murder is mystery, nothing is missing
! from the house to indicate robbery as a motive
The hired man has told such contradictory and
different stories that he has been arrested though
no possible motive is yet known that he should
commit such a crime. his relation with the
young men and family were entirely friendly. He
says that he and the boy Irving sat in the kitchen
with their backs to the door. which was closed
They heard the dog growl outside, and then, be
fore they could turn he was knocked down by 8
heavy blow from behind. lie was stunned by i
for a moment but got to his feet again and wa
again knocked down and this time lay insensiblt
for some time. In the brief interval between til,
two blows, he saw two men in the room but onll
by glance and could not describe them. wher
he recovered consciousness he heard them movin!
about on the floor above and ran to the neares
house for assistance