The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-03

quency with which notorious criminals
are settled with and let go
A FIENDISH TRAG EDY
A Windsor County Man Murders His
Wife.
ARREST OF THE MURDERER.
Earticuiars nK the Hgorrid Deed.
a special telegram from Laconii, y. H.,
dated 3lst, to the Boston Journ1l gives
full account rs follows
David L. Dlodgci killed his wife, Almira
BlOdgett, on Water street, in this place,
this afternoon. They had not been living
together for some time. About week ago
he came here from Vermont and was stay
ing with her Just after dinner. while in
the room with her and her two boys, he
suddenly seized her head under his left arm
and struck the blade Of Il large jacli-kn,fe
into the right side Of her neck, cutting the
jugular VEN and windpipc, causing almost
instant death They have several children,
the youngest of which. about one year old.
was in the mothers arms at the time the
blow was struck.
ARREST or THE NrEDEEl;.
Blodgett WAS at once arrested on war
rant issued 10y O. \. j. Vaughan. before
whom he was brought for examination
Upon the hearing it appeared that he came
here Mt noon and committed TIE murder
within very short time after he reached
the house where his wife was stopping
with their son-n-law She came here from
Baltimore, VT, to get away from him, as
he has threatened to kill her. jealousy
was the cause, although it does not appear
that he had any reasons for being jealous.
After his arrest he tried to simulate insan-
ity but it was evident that lie was sham
ming. He was committed to Jail to ans
wcr Tor wilful murder II the supreme .Iu.
dicial Court fer Belknap county at tue
March term.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The prisoner was born at Springfield,
Vermont, and is forty-thrcc years old Mrs
Blodgctt, whose maiden name was Brown,
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