New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-07

There seems to be little doubt that in
Jos0ph La Page, spOW sins durAnces in Com
cord Jail, the New Hampshire authorities
have The psrpetratOr Of the murder of poor
josie. Lsngmaid ~ Pembroke. The evi
dence against La Page ia entirely of cir
culnstantial and inferential character. Sus-
picion was first directed toward him 10 the
following described manner: Shortly be-
fore the murder Mr.. Fowler, chairman of
the board of eelectpen of Pembroke, had
some men at work for him with threshing
machine. Another, whom he had engaged
as tender, had to disappOlnt him, and suR-
gested the employment in his stead of q
Frenchman who was with him. Mr.. Fowler
accepted the Substitute, did not inquire his
| name, and kept him through the day.
When they were all in at tea, Mr.. FOwler's
daughter, q mate of Josie Langlnaid, came
in, and was' observed by the Frenchman.
After tea, when hitching up q horse to 60
to the village, Mr.. Fowlers son was asked
by the FrenchmaD who the girl was, and,
being answered that she was his sister, he
next inquired where she had come from;
the answer was, from school, and the acad-
envy on distant elevation was pointed out.
While passing along the road together to-
ward the village, and when they reached
the new road which branches off toward
the academy, the Frenchman inquired of
young Fowler if his sister went over that or
the old road, and was answered, Hnsus
pectingiy, that the scholars from that direc-
ton usually took tie new road through the
woods.
The bushes alongside this new road are
very thick, and the scholars in passing had
been in the habit of hiding and springing
out to brighten each other. The next day,
or at least soon after, young Fowler had
his talk with the Frenchman, as one of the
school boys was going to school, he caught
an indistinct view of what he supposed to
be one of his mates in the bushes, and
shouted to him that he couldn't brighten
any body, for that was played out" When
he arrived at the academy he was aston
ished to see there the very boy whom he
supposed he had passed in the bushes. The
party he saw is suppos ed to have been La
Page lying in wait for Miss Fowler.
On the day of the murder, which was
almost immediately after this, Miss Fowler,
just before entering the woods, waited for
Josie Langmaid to come along; after wait
ing some time, some neighbOr came along
with q carriage, aud concluding that Josie
had preceded her, she got in and went TO
school, thus probably saving her life. 1t
was not ten minutes after that probably,
that josie met her murderer. When the
murder was discovered, Mr.. Fowler's boy
recited this conversation with the French
man. Suspicion began to run against him,
and an effort was then made to lind him, to
discover who he was and where he belonged.
While this was going on at Suncook, Mr..
w. N. Abel, with whom Miss Ball 1.-THE lady
murdered in st. Albans in July, 1874, board
ed on St. Adams East Hill, read about the
Langmaid murder, and that it was near
Suncook. Knowing that Joseph La Page,
who lived in his neighborhood at the time
of the Ball murder, had removed last spring
to Suncook, he thought the fact of sufficient
Importance to be communicated to the au-
thorities. Accordingly be told Justice Earns.
worth. Who Immediately wrote the select
men of Suncook. The letter was received
by Mr. Fowler just as he and the detec
tives were trying to find the unknown
Frenchman. The latter gave the name of
La Page, and stated that his children were
at WORK in the Suncock factory. To the fac
tory they went, and the overseer was able
to point out La Pages house. They went
there, and Mr.. Fowler instantly recognized
La Page as the man who had worked for
him with the threshers as above described,
and he was taken into custody. From that
moment the officers worked on the assump-
ton that he was the guilty party, and day
by day picked up points of evidence here
aud there. all tending to confirm that
theory boston Herald.