The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-25
THE LANGMAID AND BALL MURDERS.
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The Evidence Accommodating Against LaPage.

On the day LaPage was arrested at Sun
cook Detective Dearborn and Officer Hill
dreth searched his house and found two "a
zors and knife, all very sharp. The latter
had blade three and half inches long,
They also found piece of cloth covered
with blood. rs If bloody hands had been
wiped upon it. Three young girls have
stated to them that they were chased in the
woods by LaPage previous TO the Penn
broke murder.
II WHAT LApAeE's WIFE SAYS.
Friday morning the officers named ar
rested 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, twenty-five
years of age, went out one afternoon to
get the cows about five o'clock. AS she was
putting up the bars to the pasture she was
selzed by a man who wore a black mask
with eye-hoes 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 coun-
try Immediately. After committing the
outrage on his wife's sister in Chester,
Canada, LaPage was arrested by desperate
| fighting, but escaped while the officers
were tying his legs For some time he
lived in the woods in the day time, going
home to sleep in the barn at night.
70 g CIRoUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
II. II. Farnsworll and G. 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 so miles away to
the house of female cousin, and that he
outraged her and fled with horse. 1t is
known that the murderer of the Ball girl
wore moccasins at the time Of the crime,
and 1t 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
murder he could not be found, but when
subsequently 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 to-
gether with birch wthes in such way as
to fit the head of the wearer, making a
complete mask for the head and front of
the wearer. Birch withes were found in
the path leading to the spot where the
body OF the Ball girl was found. On the
| day following the discovery of the body of
the Langmaid girl at Pembroke a 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. Al
bans 1t is said he left there to go to Sun
cook without any ostensible business.
- "A HORRIBLE MONSTER
In her story told to the officers to-day
his wife stated that he had made attempts
to ravish bis daughter, IS years old, since
living in Suncook, but was prevented by
her interference. She states that they
have all been afraid Of their lives. She
j processes to know nothing that duplicates
1 him Ii the crimes at st. Adams and Penn
/ broke, though. after what has happened she
considers that he was capable of commit
ting both. She says that the shirt which
he wore on the day of the Pembroke MUIR
der is missing; that she washed it, but
noticed nothing about it except that one
sleeve was torn. 1t was taken from the
line, she says The detectives describe
Mrs. Lapag0 as woman heart broken and
worn out by grief and abuse.
LaPage denies all knowledge of the MUIR
ders, and claims that he made no attempt
to escape from jail in Concord. He says
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cell wall before he was placed in it. tie
was heard digging the bricks out, however,
by some persons connected with the Jail.
90. DETECTIVES BUsILY EMPLOYED.
Detectives Sargent, Dearborn, Hidreth,
and City Marshal Council are actively en-
gagged in working up the case. They ex-
press confidence and the belief that La
Page Is the murderer of Josie Langmaid.
1t is said that the officers are in possession
of evidence tending to implicate LaPage
still further in the st. Adams murder, but
it is not made public.
The st. Adams Messenger of Saturday
. Eevening says: ,,anl4 .sis. s9istat.s
T. The fact that Papaize (thc papers per.
sist in calling him LaPaige) has attempted
to break Jail at Concord is considered an.
other evidence of his guilt. Immediately
after, Sheriff Morrill, returned from Con.
% cord, he, in connection with the New
Hampshire authorities, took measures tc
look up Papaize's antecedents in Canada.
A rumor having been current here to
day Saturday that Lapaize had confess.
ed, and no account having come in the reg
ular press dispatches, we telegraphed tc
Concord and received the following reply
CoNcoBD, N. H., Oct. 93-s1S p. m.
81. Adams Messenger: FEB. .ar
Lepaize has confessed nothing. He tore
his bedstead in pieces this noon, secretet
long iron brace beneath his clothing, pu
excelsior in the ventilator of his cell an(
attempted to raise fire alarm and attemp
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