Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-29
The Langmaid Murder
Evidence against LaPage.---iie is believed
to be guilty of the Ball Murder


to be guilty of the Ball Murder
During the past week, the authorities
at Suncook and St. Adams, have both
been working together and find many
things dark against LaPage, indeed it
looks as if he was among the monster
criminals Of the day 1t has been as
certained that he has chased several
girls in the vicinity Of the Langmaid
murder, and his antecedents appear to
be such that he deserves the punishment
of the murderer, even if not guilty of
either the Ball or Langmaid murders
Within week he has made two desper
ate attempts to break Jail at Concord,
and is now kept in irons The St. AL
bans Messenger says his name is Pa
paize and not LaPage, as the papers gen
orally have it. We copy from the &C.
counts below as given last Saturday:
WHAT LAPAGE's WIFE SAYS.
Friday morning the officers arrested
LaPage's wife, who confessed to them
that she formerly lived with LaPage
about forty miles below Montreal, and
that about five years ago her sister, TWEEN
ty-two years of age, went out one after
noon to get the cows about five o'clock.
As she was putting up the bars to the
pasture she was seized by man who
wore black mask with eye holes in it
During the struggle that ensued, she
pulled the mask off and discovered that
it was LaPage. She was knocked down,
severely beaten, ravished, and left for
dead. LaPage fled the country immedi-
ately. After committing the outrage on
his wife's sister, in Chester, Canada, La
Page was arrested by desperate fighting,
but escaped while the officers were ty-
ing his legs. For some time he lived in
the woods in the daytime, going home to
sleep in the barn at night.
NtINN14h9 Ia IIAIA Eh lILHAEs
H. H. Farnsworth and C. B. Swift of
st. Adams, were at Concord on Friday,
in consultation with the detectives. 1t
is said that about two years ago, while
living in st. Adams, LaPage went fifty
miles away to the house of female
cousin, and that he outraged her and fed
with horse 1t is known that the MUIR
derer of the Ball girl wore moccasins at
the time of the crime, and it is also
known that LaPage wore them that day
A short time previous to the murder, he
inquired Of girl what road Miss Ball
took in returning from school on Friday
nights. On the day following the muir
der he could not be found, but when sub.
sequently arrested as he was trying to
run away, his face was badly scratched,
which he explained by saying he had
been poisoned by ivy.
The mask found near the body of Miss
Ball, is still preserved. 1t was fastened
together with birch withes in such way
as to fit the wearer, making a complete
mask for the head and front of the wear
er, Birch withes were found in the path
leading to the spot where the body of
the Ball girl was found On the day
the discovery of the body of |
the Langmaid girl at Pembroke, birch
withe was found tied around a pine tree
close by where the body lay. LaPage
is said to be an expert in making withes. |
He had been known to chase girls at St.
Adams, 1t is said that he left there to !
60 to Suncook, without any ostensibIe
business.
A HORRIBLE MONSTER.
In her story to the officers to-day, his
wife stated that he had made attempts
to ravish his daughter, Is years old,
since living in Suncook, but was prevent
I'd by her interference. She states that