, 1875-06-26

ransacked, avery trunk and drawer heing eponed.
aud Atl tho money taken except Hnme rtecrs Of
Norwegian rilTer-tha total booty NJ tho hard
nighl'a labor and bs'tcl'erg being only nouo SA.
o'clock ia tho morning. but IN Hucil = plight
TINT ovory ono was aatonIbl,od. lis ctotlina
wcro wet and 10y, and his hands, rough and horny
aa lhey wsrn, llihtered no that tl,ay blct1. ONO
of tho family whefe llo waa staying remarked,
"Wy, Louis, niIero f,aye yon boesi7 You look
like Tho doyil. You hayo boen OIL tramp noma-
whctc." Ito ghvo atrailgo nccot'nt of litH
whoroabauts. aud by tho 'fnt train hurried 10
ko,s OH, aud to friond At tho boarding -houBo
whore 1e hRsl becI accustomed 10 stop III Uon-
ton liz gnid llo lad tu,. away from numbering
two hnilora In Now York, and was disgusting
hsmrelf to o'udo tho police.
tfo wAH
ARRESTED At THra 11ouHE THE BAME EVENING
ahd carrled buck 10 Portsmouth, where to was
viii, gEeat difficulty protected from the sioIcnco
Alfred it, june. arl ITO eireuustantial evidence
WAS 30 strongly nsarebn1cd by Attorney Gonoral
plaIBtod NJ TO secure verdict of guilty.
lio had hardly leen convicted weck whom ho,
With two o;!scri prisonern, made lh oBcano from
Tho Aiftsd jail. 1ie had riggod up = dummy by
means Of h.a rrison stool aud other articles
which represented lin lying ID ffA bed with tho
load bid1en In tho bod clothes. over which tho
jail watchnail htood vigilant guard through tho
Al The farmhouso Of ". Il. Tanner At Farming-
ton, N. H., aud begged breakfast, Mr. Tanner,
suspocting llis indcnttty won't to call his neIRh-
bors 10 arrest him. Meantime Wagnor pnt. Tor
tha woods, bit MAS soon captured and cayea in
lie joil In ssco, till committed to tho Slate
Prison. With his usual leyt!y. Wagner said tho
rea8on Of hts ltayng jail was to try hiB legs to
&c what effect confinement had on Ills 'nuhclos,
and hc expressed much satisfaction I'll finding
frnr In EIuH nttt,n m Fecnfynt that "a
people did not regard him ~ = murderer. lie
n|so had much to any about the gtt1s with whom
he enid lie lad carried on fo'ne ltttation during
hia trial
Once or twico after that he escaped from hia
cell, but made no Glfort 10 get 1ut OF tue Jail.
1t is said that several y0a.B ago Wsgntr went
to gca With q Young German Bnilur nasnod Lnd-
wig. Tho latter lad some nonov Ia 1}oston
Lau.-boo1s ut hss nsual bonrdng-honso In Ilos-
ton hut thH Last tflno ho went to s0a vi fth WaE-
ner, at the }attcrs porHuasiou. and against tho
ndvico OF btH 1nndlady. 10 took the I."ok will.
Warnor m was supposed, who. obtaining pos
session Of tho bank-bnok. upon hs 1oturn 70
tD,t attempted 10 draw Ludw!g's fun1s, but
without euccesa.
oonpoNH AWFUL DEED.
Another murder, aud ono which reminded peo-
pie that Wagner WAS still living, occurred during
the very next mouth, OIL tho morning OF tho 10th
OF Juue. It nks IN Thorndke, In Waldo Coun-
ty, John Gordon. WHO latl Two aonB,-Almon
aud Johu Tsuo,-Aad conveyed Lis farm 10 tho
former with provision that ho WAS 10 gyo his
laronts d maintenance. John Trio Gordon was
inceu4cd against his brother. who waa thus pso-
ferred, complained Of being usod roughly in tho
matter, and mado threats agatnst him, TO aomo
declaring tint ''Almolt's 1,fo or mfne Ia damned
short in this world" lie was still more in
cnnutA nrnf,af A1fnhn4o tvif., 1rtn}u hn t,Ia
poctcd OF writing anonymous letters dis
parAH.ng hin chaiacter 10 young lady to
whom ho had beEn paying his addresses, and
who had discarded him. Ho said il l1e found out
that Hhe wrote them, he could murder her. Ho
submitted these letters 10 Mrs. Toward, clair
voyant in Bangor, who described the writer as
hiH brosher's wife, and tho day bofore the trage-
dy Ao Hald he had Bnt.stied himself on that
pnint. On the 18th tho older Gordon and his
wife went to Dnngor to visit some relatives, and
during tue Same night John, who was stopping
In Tho house, armed with an Ak.
MURDERED ~ Tt[Etn SLEEP
hn brother Afsnou aud wife. thor little child In
tue crib. mud inflicted = serere blow upon tho
Acad OF their lttfo b-yesr-old boy, fran which,
however, lo recovered. His Aeudish fcelsnga
againat bis brothers. wlfo was allown by six tor
korossi.e to tie bod and sst it on
lha crime He rouscd two older Children
in smother part Of tho premises, and.
playing tho role Of the rcscucr and hero, w1Appad
quilts shout them aud sent them away. Ward,
another inmnto OF tho horac, AwAkenod by tho
noiso, discovered the llouae on fro, aud ran to
alarm tho neighbors mud obtain kssiatauco, but
MAS called back by john to help get the things
out. He, l,owevor, did alarm tue nelghbors. by
whom tho lire was e1tnguiehed. and tho Lloody
deed brought to light. Johu made no step from
lrst to 1aat toward tho room OF his murdered
hrotllcr's family, be!n9 only anxions to got
1Ran n1an nAc n ~ IN ta mi nj h1t