The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-08
THE ST. ALBANS TRAGEDY.

quest---Testimony Of Horny G. Green and
rIiss wilkins.
We find in the St. Adams papers some
additional particulars of the st. Adams
given in the GLOBES special dispatch of
Monday morning.
Weeks had concealed himself in the
straw under a floor in the shed, and must
have lain there while the premises were
searched during the morning. There an
old butcher knife and small pool of fresh
blood were found, indicating that few
minutes before he shot himself he had in
etfectually tried to cause death by cutting
his throat. Leaving that position, he then
went to the eastern opening of the shed, sat
down on a pillow and fired the fatal shots,
having previously reloaded the chambers
of his revolver from cartridges found in his
pocket, which had been emptied by the as
sault on Mr.. Green.
BY this discovery the previous anxiety
and grief of his family was turned to the
deepest sorrow and humiliation, but the
public breathed freer TO think the perpe-
TRAITOR of the crime was discovered and was
at an end.
THE ANTRCRDRNTs OF WEEKS.
A post-mortem examination was made
by Drs. Dunsmore and Fassett. Weeks
was in his thirtieth year, the eldest son of
the late Philo Weeks, was unmarried and
had always lived at home, having carried
on the farm for ten years and been the
only male member of the family living at
home since the death of his father last
winter. A younger brother is a clerk in
the village. He was always quiet, steady,
industrious and perfectly peaceable person.
The family were in good circumstances,
and he seemingly had nothing to trouble
him, except that he was badly afflicted
with salt-rheum. DIR. Clark, the family
physician, who knew the young man we'll
is of the opinion that his disease had affect
ed his brain, had tended to make him retir.
ing and moody, and less able to beal
trouble of any kind, which, when 1t came
with the death of his father and the disap
polntment in his love affair, was too mucl
for him, and drove him mad. Why hi
should have suspected the Greens, no ont
knows, as none of them ever knew tha
there was such lady, had never had tn,
least trouble with him or his family, wer,
near neighbors and warm friends, and die
not know that he was ever intims to with ,
lady in his life.
THE NQUEsT-TRsTIMoNY OF SARAH VIII
KINS.
/, Sarah Wilkins of CRANKY, in the prov
ince of Quebec. on oath depose and say
That am twenty-six years of age an
sojourning in st. Adams, VT, and hav,
been for some two years past. knew
Clifton s. Weeks became acquainted will
him at his fathers house about the last O
June, 1878. / was there sewing and me
him at the table and saw him more or les
in the family. He was very quiet person
and really became but little acquainted
with him at that time. Once while ther,
he drove his sister and myself to the vii
lage and back, and that is about all the &C
quaintance we had. Since that time hav,
sewed there two or three times, the last oc
casion being sometime last fall. AT eacl
of these times he came for me and returned
with me in carriage. On none of thes,
occasions did we become much acquainted
he being out of the house most of his tim
at his work. One evening his brothe
CHARLES Reynolds), his sister, him
self and myself played cards for
short time, but Clifton and became bu
little acquainted. One evening when h,
was bringing me home from there, b,
asked me If / had ever been to the Bay.
said | had not he asked me II / would
like to go, and said would, he replied
that some fine Sunday he would take m,
down there. Sometime after that, say
early in the summer of 1874, he called fo
me one Sunday evening at my boarding