Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-05-27
General News.
An Awful Crime.

An Awful Crime.
4 CHILD MURDERED IN oPEN DAY IN hos
TON CHURCH TowER-ARRE>T OF THE SUP
POSED rIFNp.
Another murder, even more horrible in its
details than that of Mrs. Bingham. which 80
shocked and startled the entire community "A
few weeks since. was pcrpetrated in Boston.
sunday afternoon. 4 bright little girl five
wears Of age. was murdered in church and the
bruised and mutilated body carried up into the
tower and thrown upon the Ion, for years the
abode of hundreds of doves and pigeons. The
victim of thi. cruel tragedy was Mabel II.
\ Dung. who with her widowed mother resided
with her grandfather at N East Chester Park.
The latter. Mr.. jas. W. Hobbs j. u well known
and highly respected merchant. senior of the
firm of Hobbs. Pope 4 Co.. the family being of
the highest responsibility.
sunday afternoon. little Mabel in company
with an aunt attended the SUNDAY school ami
N"r>ary exercises of the Warren Avenue Rap
tit Church. ON coming ont of the church at
half past three O'Clock. the aunt remained in
the Nc>tibulc about ten minutes. conycr>ing
with some friends. and on starting To- 20 home
missed the child. who a few minutes before was
al her side At first it was supposed -hc had
gone back into the church. but when she
not found within aud persons outside declared
she had not come out. the aunt became alarmed
aud search was made in every direction.
About four L. ~ some ladies at an open win
dow across the street heard faint cries of a
child apparently from the church tower and
noticed an unusual commution among the doves
that swarmcd in and out the windows. some
Young men who had joined in the search start
ed AT one" To- ascend the tower. They found
the door leading up from the organ loil locked
and on forcing II open were startled al seeing
fresh blood upon the landing. They also found
a "trip of board covered with blood at one end
and soon heard low means from above. A.
ccnding a long steep flight of stair and raising
the >ruttie which required the strength Of
strong man. they found the manglrd body uf
the child living near til" edge Of the -cuttle A.
though it had been carried up the steps and
hl>iil thrown down there.
Carefully they carried her down into the
church Whrr" a large number OF persons had
cuugrrgaicd and into the presence Of her asou-
lied friends. From tn top of her head. which
wa, broken in blood aud brain was slowly
uuzing, Will" the nose wa- broken in and face
terribly mutiiated. She was carried to her
grandlaihcr'> residence. and surgeons at once
summoned. They pronounced the ease hope
l',>, aud her death i question Of but few
hour At the fIrihc-i.
Iho-. Piper. who ha, bcyn sexton Of the
chucch for about year. was soon after arrest
81. and j. now confined Al the chiefs ilirr. lie
Wa engaged al work abou; the church. but hi.
-npcInu, manner and denying that he had
Kew. when the Two kry> iittas tle doors 10
the tower were TAX from hi person. point,
strongly TO him A. the patty. Tie j. dark
heavy -ct III ~. about - years old. aud hi.
once before been under arrr.t on suspicion or
murder. but Wa discharged Tor want of -uih-
cIcnt =, .dencc. MANY IL the pol,ca still b-licyc
him guilty of the muir cr of ypun. grl in
borch ,ster district about fifteen month, since.
This lat affair ha- caused aprufound scu>4-
ton IN III" community, aud intense excitement
prevails.
The very hoidnc>s Of the afair lend. addi-
tion4i horror. scarcely thr,c-quartcrs of AN
hour elapsed from the time the child came out
into the Ve>iipulc Of the church TIL she va.
found IN dying condition. How she wa. en-
trtd away aud 70: what motive has not vet
tran>plrcd.- l. vision journal.
told has gon" up to llG and over. and
hang, there.
Friday was the hottest in New York
since last summer.
Boston la, now twenty four wards. a
new one havn. Just been added
The cpzootic has made it, appearance
in several paris OF OHIO aud number Of
horses have died.
An association i 10 be formed en-
bracng all the railroad conductors in New
England
The taxable wealth OF Texas /, said TO
have been increased thirty three per cent
in four years.
rhe mum Der OF Congregations
churches outside OF New England NV cN-
ceeds those in il by 500.
Forest fires are reported al various
points in New York and Pennsylvania
Vast quantities OF woodland haye been
burned over.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
finally adjourned. after session OF 1856
day, the shortest for ten years with one
exception.
Hon. 4. W. Park of Bennington. Vt,
is SAID to be worth sl1.000,OOO. and the
fourth man IN point of wealth in this coun-
try. His ne. silver mIu"~ ia California
are yielding sI5.6oo p,r diy.
The sale Of postage stamps during
April was the largest ever known in a sin
gle month amounting Ia So 600 900. This
i 20 per cent. above the corresponding
month last year. Postal cards do not seem
to interfere with the business OF letter
writing.
The centennial commission ha, made
it, appointments for tie literary exercises
on the fourth Of July 1876 Iongfellow /,
TO be the poet. and Charles Francis Adams
and Lamar of Mississippi, the orators
during the first 10 IL months of the
current fiscal year. we have made a net
export OF specie amounting To about $50
! 900 900. which is about equal to our aver
age net outflow of the precious metals for
"A whole year,
The town of Osseola. Fem. mas been
almost entirely destroyed by fire On
Thursday of last week, the lumber yard of
| the Shannon Lumber Co. whi,.h at that
time contained over L. $50. 900 fe-t Of lum-
Der caught fire. and a. there was "A stionU
wind, the brands wrIe blown over the
| town l.id ia "A very short time the whole
village Ma IN names. The lire spread to
! the railroad tracks, thus cutting oil com-
mgnication with the other towns, and at
last accounts the Whole village vas nearly
/ destroyed. Over 40 hon>es were burned
md more than 10000 900 feet OF lumber.
200 persons are reportedas homeless The
! tota. loss will exceed $4,000. 900.
1t il related OF Alexander II. Stephens
that he and several other "nnticIneu regent
ly took seats Ia "a railroad car ia Georgia.
, but were soon notified by the conductor
that that ear wa, set apart for the exclu-
siv" use OF coiored people. Mr.. Stephens
thereupon delivered II speech to the colored
| passengers, by saying that il was the
hrst time he was ever called upon to vacate
"A car because he was not considered as
good As > negro. Mr.. Stephens is prone to
protract his remarks. aud when he began
TO be prolix in his argument the conductor
advised him that if he wanted TO make a
speech he had better hire a hall some
where. tor he had got to get out of that car.
Whereupon the ex-Vice-President of the
confederacy and his companions concluded
that they did not want Ia smoke and went
back to the white" car with something
new to think about.
MRS LINCOLN ADJUDGED ISsANE.--In
the County Cou rt at Chicago, Wednesday,
the trial OF the question of the insanity Of
Mrs. Lincoln. widow Of Abraham Lincoln.
came up. The proceedings were based on
petition filed by Robert F. Lincoln. set.
ting forth that his mother, Mary l.. Lin
coin. has property and effect. exceeding
$4,000; that she is non coapos mentis and
Incapable Of managing her estate. ana
praying the Issuance or IN order for war
rant and venire to test the question OF her
sanity. The petition vas accompanied by
certificate Of the family physician, DR..
Isham, to the effect that he had examined