The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-28

in Concord Jail is accumulating every day,
tending to prove him guilty of the murder
of Josie Langmaid and Marietta Ball. Our
best lawyers, on hearing the testimony de.
tailed, agree in the opinion that he com
mtted both deeds If he did either, and
think that little proof is lacking to carry
of his guilt beyond reasonable
doubt. Hitherto, prudential reasons have
required that some of the circums' ances
against him should be withheld from the
public, but there seems to be no good rea.
son now why they should longer be kept
secret, hence we will briefly state how he
came to be suspected, and the main facts
that have since been discovered, having
bearing on the case.
Shortly before the murder, Mr.. Fowler,
chairman of the board Of selectmen of
Pembroke, had some men at work for bin
with threshing machine Another. whom
he had engaged as tender, had to disappoint
him, and suggested the employment, IN
his stead, of Frenchman who was along
with him. Mr.. Fowler accepted the SUBJ
stitute, did not inquire his name, and kept
him through the day. When they were
all in at tea, Mr.. Fower's daughter, a mate
of Josie Langmaid, came in and was OBJ
served by the Frenchman. After tea,
when hitching up horse to go to the VII
lage, Mr.. Fowler'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 acatemy
on q 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. tie Frencbman inquired Of young
Fowler if she went over that or the old
road, and was answered, unsuspectiDgly,
that the scholars from that direction USUAL
ly took the new road, through the wobds.
The bushes alongside this new road are
very thick, and the scholars in passing had
been In the habit of hiding and spripging
out to brighten each other. The next day,
or at least soon after young Fowler had his
talk with the FIepchmah, as he or some
other lad (our informant Is not quite GER
tain who) was going TO school. he caught
an indistinct view of what he supposed to
be one Of his fmates In the bushes, and
shouted to him that he couldn't brighten
anybody, for that was ''played out" When
he arrived at the academy lie wns astbnish-
ed to see there the very boy whom he sup
posed he had rassed. in the bushes.
On the day Of ne murder, which was
almost immediately after this, Miss Eow.
Ter, just before entering the woods, waited
for Josie to come along after waiting
some time, some neighbor came along with
| a carriage, and concluding that Josie had
preceded her, she got in and went to
school, thus, probably, saving her life. 1t
was not ten minutes after that, probably,
before the fatal deed was committed.
OF course, when Mr.. Fowler's boy had
recalled his conversation with the French-
man, suspicion began to run against him
and the effort then was to find him, to dis.
cover who he was and where he belonged
To this end the s'sill hunt" was deemed
advisable, and though detectives and peo
pie were then working up the case against
Drew. and he was hardly safe for a mo
ment from lynching, M soon as Detective
| Sargent, who had been sent for by thu
governor, arrived from Boston, Mr. Fo@e
went to him and impaired the foregoin.
information. ..,4 q
While this was going on down there, Mr.
w. N. Abel, with whom Miss Ball board
ed on St. Adams East Hill, read about th,
Langmaid murder and that 1t was nea
SunCook. Knowing that Joseph Lapaize
who lived in bis neighborhood Mt the tim,
of the Ball murder had removed last sprinl
to Suncook, he thought the fact of sIflici
ent importance to re communicated to tn,
authorities. Accordingly he came dow
and told Justice FarnswOrth, who imlnedi
ately wrote the seectmen at Suncook Tn,
letter was received by Mr. Fowler, just a
he and Detective Sargent were trying I,
find the unknown Frenchman. The lette
gave the name OF, IIapaize and stated tina
his children were at work in the factory
TO the factory They went and the oversee
was able to point out Lapaize's hbuse
They went there and Mr.. Fowler Instant,
recognized him as the man rho had work
ed for him with the threshers. Detectiv
Sargent took him into custody. He mani
tested no surprise, made no inquiry wha
it was for, and voluntarily handed the de
tective his small pocket knite-a circum
stance that is considered suspicious
With some things that have transpire
since his arrest the public are familiar, as
for instance. the fact that he WAS arrcste,
here last year at the instance of Mr.. Lang
because he had IA scratched face, but wa
discharged for want of proof to conneC
him with the murder; the tact that sine
I his commencement ut Concord he has mad
two desperate attempts to break Jail th
fact that he lis II hard, cruel husband an
father the fact that his wife has testifie
that he outraged and left for dead her sis
ter. % years old, at ,Chesley. ip .Canads
just before coming to st. Adams, and tn
fact that on the day of the Langmaid mul
! der he was roaming through, the woods 9
Pembroke, and that the attempt TO, prov
that he was. at another place, FIVE mile
from the scene has proved complete fai
ure. His wife and daughter have now tel
titled that some time since their residenc
at Suncook, he has undertaken to outrag
the latter, and was prevented only by thei
united strength. 'Ha ma,
Here follows the dispatch published a
Mondays GioBE, relative 10 the Identifies
ton of Lapaize. The Messengers accoun
then continues as follows II has bee
ascertained here that his house on the cas-
hill was so situated that he could go to tn
scene of the murder without being in sigh
of any house or road for more than tire
rods. 1t will be recolected that searchn
parties just after the murder found ira
in the wood, and some twigs broken fror
a stump; that trail ran towards his house
The mask was fastened with withes !; he
found to have been expert in maxim
them. The witnesses who testified las
year that they had noticed the scratche
ON his face before the murder, have now
by more searching inquiry, been found /
have been mistaken or false. 1t has bee
learned, too, that he chased two women. G
girls, on the East hill, whose names an
withheld, but who will testify II occasio
arises. All this looks bad, but II Is not tb
worst .r..