Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-10-06

having gained the consent OF he
physician and although-as she Ell
tered the room and took her seat i
front, and near Bayard--her cheeks
did not wear the same rosy hue tina
had once adorned it, there was yet
ray of resignation that lit up he
countenance, pale as she was, an
made her beautiful in the eyes of thos
d around her.
The States attorney arose and reat
the complaint and briefly opened thu
case.
He said, that three years ago. VIII
f liam Castor, y resident of that city
suddenly and suspiciously disappeared
from those parts. That, being an un
married man, without family ties te
influence him, his disappearance excit
ed but little attention, save for the
moment; the opinion that he hac
quite probably gone to seek his for
tune in some other locality, generally
prevailing. But few months age
two laborers bad, quite accidentally
found the rem9ins of human body,
near Stony Point. An examination
Of these remains. by the proper au-
thorities revealed the fact that death
had evidently been produced by a
stroke on the head, from a heavy bar,
or some other weapon Of that kind.
The body was identified as that of
William Castor, He was prepared
to show that, when last seen, the mur.
dered man vas in company with the
prisoner, near the place where the
body was concealed and subsequently
found that later in the day the pris-
oner was seen, on the very spot where
the body had been found, at work as
ifin the act Of covering something g
with earth. He should furthermore
show that the murdered man had in
bis possession and on his person, on
the day that the murder was commit
ed, some $4,000, in bank notes, and
also a gold watch, in which were en-
grayel the initials Of his name that
the prisoner at the bar, just previous
TO the commission Of the murder, was
puctlnlilly o...r,,....,ocu, ti1 ~.
quired to make certain payment;
that he had made several unsuccessful
attempts to obtainthe desired amount;
that Oh finally the very day OF the
commission of the deed for which he
is now on trial he was heard speaking
with Castor, the murdered man, with
reference to obtaining from the latter
certain loan OF money that the pay
ment which he, Rood, (the prisoner at
the BARI had desired to make and to
obtain the funds for which purpose. he
had for several days previous to the
| Low ,Nt
falIy applied to various parties was
made the very day after Castor had
disappeared. 1t also would be shown,
with reference TO the gold watch to
which he had already called their at
tention, that, few weeks subsequent
to the numbering of Castor, this
watch was left-either by Rood or by
a person acting for him-with a jew
eller residing in a town some thirty
miles distant from this city, for the
purpose of having the initials of Gas
TONS name erased, and other repairs
and alterations made evidently that
he might avoid thepossibility of being
suspected by means ofthe watch that
this watch, after being so repaired and
altered, was offered for sale, by Rood,
to several persons, at different dates,
one of which persons purchased it
about two years ago, and now has it
in his possession. Furthermore it
will be established that Rood, about
eight months, ago, while under the
influence Of chloroiorm, divu| |ged to a
Doctor, resident in this city, and OF
late employed in Rood's family, and
who had been summoned to Rood's
Office to extract a tooth, the fact that
he he'd murdered this Castor, and
gave the details, which have now
been confirmed by the subsequent de-
yelopments, and much to the conster-
nation of this Doctor, who at the time
thought nothing Of the declaration
very naturally regarding the words Of
his patient as only the wild fancies at
tendant upon the use Of chloroform.
These points the attorney Tor the
State claimed his ability abundantly
to establish by proof positive and II
, resistible.
The points, having been severally
l. 49, l....- Z. L --.-- - -