Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29
Lapaize, the Pembroke and St Adams
. Murderer.


The st Adams Messenger gives the fol-
lowing account of his capture and the cir
cumstances which seem to prove that he is
guilty of both murders. 1t says his name
is not La Page but Lapaizo:
Shortly before the murder, Mr. Fowler,
chairman of the board Of selectmen of Penn.
broke, had some men ut work for him with
q threshing machine. Another, whom be
had engaged as tender, had to disappoint
him, and suggested the employment, in his
stead, Of q Frenchman who was along with
him. Mr. Fowler accepted the substitute,
but did not inquire his name, and kept him
through the day. When they were all in at
tea, Mr. Fowlers daughter, a mate Of Josie
Langmaid, came 10 and was observed by the
Frenchman, After tea, when hitching up
horse to 60 to the village, Mr. Fowl0r's son
was asked by the Frenchman who the girl
was, and being answered that she was his
sister, he next inquired where she had come
from the answer was, from school, and the
academy on distant elevation was pointed
out Passing along the road together
towards the village, when they reached the
new road which branches off towards the
academy, the Frenchman inquired of young
Fowler if she went over that or the old road
and was answered, unsuspectingly. that the
scholars from that direction usually took the
new road, through the woods.
The bushes alongside this new road are
very thick, and the scholars in passing had
been 10 the habit Of hiding aud springing
out to Brighten each other. The next day
or at least soon after young Fowler had his
talk with the Frenchman, as he or some
other lad four informant is not quite GER
tain whol was going to school, he caught an
indistinct view Of what he supposed to be one
Of his mates in the bushes, and shouted to
him that he couldn't Brighten anybody, for
that was "played out" When he arrived
at the academy he was astonished to see
there the very boy whom he supposed he
had passed in the bushes.
Ga the day Of the murder, which was
almost Immediately after this, Miss Fowler,
Just before entering the woods, waited for
Josie to come along after waiting some
time, some neighbor came along with car
riage, and concluding that Josie had pre-
ceded her, she got in aud went to school,
thus, probably, saving her life. II was not
ten minutes after that, probably, before the
fatal deed was committed. .....
| OF course, when Mr. Fowlers boy had
recalled his conversation with the French
man, suspicion began to run agaiDst him and
the effort then was to find him, to discover
who he was and where he belonged To
this end the "stil hunt" was deemed advis-
able, and though detectives aud people were
then working up the case against Drew, and
he was hardly safe for a moment, from
lynching. as soon as detective Sargent, who
had been sent for by the governor. arrived
from Boston, Mr. Fowler went to him and
impaired the foregoing information.
| While this was going on down there, Mr.
| W. N. Abel, with whom Miss Ball boarded
on St Albans East Hill. read about the
Lagmaid murder and that it was near Sun
cook. Knowing that Joseph Lapaize, who
lived in his neighbOrhOOd at the time Of thu