The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-16
A Murderer's Description Of His
Crime.

In the trial of Samuel j. Frost for the
murder of his brother-in-law, at Petersham,
Mass, at the close of the opening argu-
ment, Frost, the accused, was called as a
witness, and silence fell on the court room
as he stepped forward to the stand and be-
gan to tell his story, which was brought
out by questions. and was an exact repeti-
ton of the facts stated by the counsel. 1t
was q strange sight, a murderer telling the
story of his crime, not alone to a jury, but
to room full of women besides, and get
ting so absorbed in describing the horrible
picture, that he forgot everything but the
ghastly phantom ever before him. Here
is his story in his own words, beginning
with the time when Mr.. Moore finished his
milking and came and stood beside Mr..
Frost, who was milking the red hcifer
TIE MURpERERs STORY
"Then Mr.. Towne came along and stops
beside me and says, q don't like your style
milking 7 well, the heifer does, | said (;
he put his left hand on the pail and his
right hand on my left shoulder; reached
down and took hold Of the box he tried
to pull the pail away | held on TO ii and
tried to keep it from him he pushed me
and fell over and my head struck on the
stupchion, and told him TO let me up and
he said, Let go the pail then.
@ Where were you ? A. | was down.
@. Where was he p? A. lie was down
holding on to me-
Here the prisoner, hesitated and. said ht
would rather not tclIthe exact words thai
followed, but counsel insisted and Eros
went on :
81 said, get off OF me ID quick.
He said, mot till you let 60 the pail
SAID, Il shan't do that until am forced To.
reached tor and got hold of a stick whicl
was in the rack, but let go because coul,
not get it out; then got hold of another
which was called the little boy's bat sick
from the boys using it Tor bat stick
raised my hand up no Gllustrating), and hi
Mr.. Towne in the face /, then brought u,
my hand again and hit him again; the frs
blow l struck him ] brought blood h
| kept hold of the stick and undertook !:
| pull it away from me as he began 10 pGl
| ! began TO pull he was Il hFayier MAJ
| than !, although he wasn't so quick all,
| didn't understand banding himself quite t.
| we'll ; we had it there for some minutes
we were nearly side by side ; we were nea
the side Of the barn; he got his arr
around my neck; | got his head down an'
tried to get hold Of a stick that was there
l held his head down by his chin whisker
and he held my head down with his lief
arm tried to raise myself up and NJ
right hand fell on this piece of iron, and
struck him with it right there (pointin
with his finger to spot over and Just bac
of the right eye. The skull was then pre-
duced and Frost pointed out the exact spc
where the blow FELL
THE FATAL BLOW.
The prisoner then resumed shout
think right on this bone here (pointing);
struck him twice, the first time right o
the back of his head there (pointing); h
sings out, "By gorry;" / had his hea
down there, and had my hand right in h
whiskers, like that; the first blow struc
Towne in the face there (pointing) and tl
last in the back there s(pointing again)
said, "You're satisfied now, are you?' tn
basket (pointing it OUT lay right h
hand all the hold he had of me was hi
left arm right over my neck he was o
his knee and ] was ON my knee then
gets up after he says 'By gorry;" ha
that iron in my hand; pulled that site
out of his hand 1 pulled his hand on
from under his head and he PIT it bac
and stiffened out there, his face flat on IL
floor; walked right out to the door an
threw the iron and bat-stick straight OF
across the road"
| Q. ''Into the wood-pile where it ws
found 2"
A. "Yes, sir; then sat down in I'll
door,"
q. "What did you do?' A. al straigh
ened out my clothes then | went bac
and took this pail (pOinting) and bega
milking didn't know that he was dea
until after got through milking the whit
faced heifer after | got through said
Come, get up and finish milking : IL
milk was spilled from his pail in the scu
ie after got through milking wei
over to him and said For Gods sake, al
you dead p there was no blood there exceI
what came from his nose and mouth
examined him but couldn't see any sign {
life." Here the guilty mans voice lren
| hlad and almost failed him and thp cnl