Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29

Ball murder had removed Last sprino 10
Suncook, he thought the fact Of sufficient
Importance to be communicated 10 the author.
tiles. Accordingly he came down and told |
ustice Farnsworth, who Immediately wrote
the selectmen at Suncook The letter was
received by Mr. Fowler, just as he and de-
tectlve Sargent were trying 10 find the
unknown Frenchman. The letter gave the
name Of Lapaize and stated that his chill.
dren we're at work in thu factory. To the
factory they went and the overseer was able
TO point out Lapaize's house. They went
there and Mr. Fowler instantly recognized
him as the man who bad worked for him
with the threshers. Detective Sargent took
him into custody. He manifested no sur
prise, made no inquiry what il was for, and
voluntarily handed the detective his small
pocket knife--a circumstance that Is Consid.
cred suspicious. ,s ,.. .i.. r-
With some things that have transpired
since his arrest the public arc familiar, as
for instance, the fact that he was arrested
here last year, at the instance Of Mr. Lang,
because he had scratched his face, but was
discharged for want Of proof to connect him
with the murder the fact that since his
confinement at Concord he has made two dos.
perate attempts to break Jail the fact that
he is hard. cruel husband and father the
fact that his wife has testified that he out.
ragged and left for dead her sister, % years
old, at Chesley, in Canada, just before com.
ing to st Adams, aud the fact that on the
day Of the Langmaid murder be was roam.
ing through the woods in Pembroke,
and that the attempt to prove that
he was at another place, five miles
from the scene. has proved complete fail.
ure. His wife and daughter have now ties.
tilted that some time since their residence at
Suncook. he has undertaken to outrage the
latter, and was prevented only by their united
strength. Other proof against him is indi.
Gated by the following dispatch from Con.
cord
..., Concord, N. H., Oct "a.
Detective Sargent, Dearborn and Hildrcth
and City Marshall Council have been with
Lapaize nearly all day, taking his statement
through nm interpreter from Snncook. The
| detectives are very retcent as to what evil
| dencV WIS obtained, but 1t is understood thai
tlIoy have in their possession facts 1T u most
important character to implicats him in the
| Pembroke murder.
| Detective Sargent stated this evening that
| he had made some sort of n confession, bnI
he declined to state what it WIS. Tire,
| girls from Sunoook were taken to the Jail
to-day. where they positively identified La
| paize ms the man who had chased them IL
| the night on several occasions.
On the Saturday before the murder wa.
committed Mr. and Mrs Hiram Towle of
| Pembroke were riding along about fifty rods
| from where the murder occurred, when they
met man carrying club OF sawed wooC
about three and one-half feet long and At
inch square, such AS was found noar the
scene Of the murder, and which they thought
| might be the same one, thought they coulC
not tell positively, as they noticed the man
more than the stick. He carried tho sticI
behind him in both hands. They visited the
jail this morning and identified IGtpalze u,
the man they met, and picked the coat III
wore out from number of Others
1t has been ascertained here that hi
house on the East hill was so situated tina
he colud 20 to the scene Of the murder with
out being 10 sight Of any house or road fol
more than three rods. 1t will be recollecteC
that searching parties just after the murder
found trail in the woods, and some twigi
broken from stump; that trail ran towards
his house. The mask was fastened will
withes he is found to have been expert il
making them. The witnesses who testified
last year that they had noticed the scratches
on his face before the murder, bavO now, By
a more searching inquiry, been found to hav
been mistaken or false. 1t has been learned
too, that he chased two girls, on the Eas
bill, whose names are withheld, but who vii
testify If occasion arises. All this look
bad, but il is not the worst.
John Real says that when Lapaize was a
work for him one day, in field aIougsid
the road leading from Miss Balls boarding.
place to her school-house, he saw her passinI
and remarked that she 4" looked good enougl
TO hug" or words 10 that effect 1.-THE beast!
aud Mr. Reals daughter will testify that som
time before the murder, Lapaize went :
their house, and remarking that he did no
see the school teacher go to her boarding plac
Friday nights, inquired where she did g
whether over by Mr. RevOr's or out toward
Mr. Pages. Learning that she went to NJ
Pages he evidently had all the information
that he desired.
Nothing beyond these circumstances, O
any material importance, has been DISCOVERIES
here, but many little things, tending to cor
roborate these and to disprove some Of tn
testimony Of Lapaze aud his friends give
last year, are constantly accunulating
Justice ParDsworth says that instead of al
clues running out, as they have 10 al
former inquiries, all seem to run in toward
one objective point, and that is LapaEs'
guilt. People will put together the fact
and Judge for themselves.