The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-26
The Langmaid and Ball
Murders.

% the day Lepsgc was arrested at
Supcook Detective Dearborn aud Officer
Elildreth searched his house aud found
Two IssoIs and kuiIe, oil very sharp.
The latter had blade three snd a half
inches long. They also found piece Of
cloth covered with blood, Us if bloody
hands had been wiped upon it Three
youug gill, have stated 10 them that they
weie chs-, in the woods by LePage
Previous 10 the Pembroke murder.
Fiidny morning the fii cers named or.
rested IL Pages wife, who confessed to
ii,m that ,Ie formerly lived with IT,.
Page si,ut lon, miles below Nobtiesl,
I'D that sttuI five y,ais rgo her sister.
'wtmti~o Jtsrs u age. went cut ohe
II tiLttu 10 get the cows about five
o'clotk. A. she WAS putting up the bsrs
TO tue pasture she MAS roiE,d by u msu
who wore back mark with eye holts
IN it. During The Struggle that enrucd
he ullt the nstk Fl sid disrovered
that it VAS l., Page. She Yves knocked
down, severely beaten, ruvishtd, aud left
for desd. L. psge a the country i'm.
mtdia,ely. Alter committing the out.
roge 90 his wiie's sister in Chester, eau.
ada, LtPsge was arrested by desperate
lighting, but escaped While the ,fficers
were tying his legs. For some tine he
lived il The woods in the day time, going
home TO sleep it The barn at hight.
II. II. Fsrusworih and Q. d. Swift Of
%st. Albaus we're at Concord on Fiiday
o consultation with the detectives 1t
Is said that about two years ago, While
living IN 1t. Adams. LePage went fity
hilts away 10 the house of female cou
IN, and that he outraged her aud fed
With horse. 1t is known that the muir.
derer OF the Ball girl wore moccasins at
he tine OF the crime, aud it is slso known
that 1T Page wore them that day. A
hort tine previous to the murder he
INQUIRED Of a girl what road Miss Boil
ook in returning from school on Friday
nights. On the day following the mur.
der he could not be found. but when sub.
''queprly arrested as he was trying to
un away, bis face was badly scratched,
which be explained by saying that he
mad been poisoned by ivy.
The musk found nea7 the body Of Miss
Ball il still preserved. 1t was fastened
ogether with birch wiihes 10 such way
as TO 6t the head Of the wearer, making
4, complete mask for the head aud front
If the wester. Birch with,s were found
n the path leading to the + OF where the
oody Of the Ball gill was found On
The DAY following the discovery Of the
Laneuaid girl ut Pembroke birch
@ithe was found tied around pine tree
close by where the body Icy. LePsge
IS said 10 he an expert in making withes /;
he had been known to chase glrls at St
Albaus; it il said he lett there 10 70 to
onncook without any osteusible business.
In her story told to the tficets bis
wife stated TINT he had made attempts
10 iavish his daughter. fifteen years old,
luce living in Suucook, but was prevent.
ID by her interference. She states that
hey have all been afraid Of their lives.
She processes 10 know nothing that ion.
pllcUies him 10 the crimes at St. Albans
I'D Pembroke. though after what has
nsIpertd she considers that he was capa
lie u committing both. She says that
he shit which he woe on the day Of the
P,hb,Uke murder is missing: that she
"u>h, d il. tut Loticcd Uolhrg about it
Except thnt one sleeve was tom, Ii was
akcn from the line. she sa,s Inc dc.
eciives describe Mrs. LePsgc az wo.
man heart broken aud worn our by grief
aud abuse.
LePsge denies ell knowledge of the
murders, aud claims ihat he made 10 a..
tempt to escape from jail in Concord lie
,ays that tho bricks had been taken from
his cell wall before he was placed in il
He was heard digging the brick outflow
ever, by some pers0uo CONNECTED with the
Jail.