Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-02-09
Double Murder and Suicide at Lyndon.

Double Murder and Suicide at Lyndon.
\ most shocking tragedy occurred in the
g. = part of Lyndon on Tuesday morning
,h'i- week. The scene of this dreadful
.NF- j. Il farm house some two miles east
IIyr.lon Corner, and nearly a mile be
,.o,,d what i known rs " Red VILLAGE =
one p,,-c, east from Red village on the
k-,i,- road. some half a mile, a road turns
.l,r1, 20 the right, leading to Titus Hutch
;,.o,.-.!I,nry Perry VIM. p. llouehton'S,
Very near Henry Pclry's house is Il
o.,,o on The right of the highway, and n
I,,,,.c way lead, up TO a small wood col
,,-.I f.irn house on the slope of the hill,
-.,,c tifty rods away. In this house Levi
Wilder and wife have lived for many years,
..,J .rared a family of six or seven child
..u all of whom have grown up. and all
II home but one son, Silas III. Wilder, the
,,.n.ip4I actor in this fearful scene.
\I.holl"h the e, er Wilder and his wife
vc.. not destitute of temper, which
showed itself occasionally, they were not
ul--ionatc people, and were kind neigh
..ore and GOOD itizens-peaccablc and in
Dn.u-Ilr. The flthcr WAS eighty years
old. and the mother scve enty-three. AL
-I.ouoh agcd. white headed and past the
allotted are of mon, they were yet what
j-rtIcd smart and active.
The son ~llas WAS thirty-threc Years old,
and h.iI been formerly rather the flvorite
wiki the old folks. Aside from year or
~. when away under a ply >icians care.
he had AWAY, lived at home.
Some time AGO the elder Wilder made
over the ftrm and property, valued at
: uuU to Silas, receiving u mortgage back
1ui life lease. This arrangement did not
v-.r, with the utmost harmony. vet we
tnuot learn Il there was any particular
,roub,r on that score, and the old folks and
,uu 20, along without any serious falling
,tt. Vet there WAS Il growing disposition
,n the rart of the sou to find fault and
N,u threaten. The fact that the father
r.-crvcd some personal property for the
.th,rchidrcn maddenea him ;pnd from the
,..uc the property was made over, his ug-
..g.-, increased. and he was especially bit
,.rtuv.trd- Il sister who by right should
have 20 home there.
\ wear 400 last October, SiIaS married
ll.rv France, Laduccr, a girl ten years
t, ui,iur. who St parents live ut Red viii
.,.r. and took her home with the old folks.
JI., ArrIurcm, Mt did not please hi, moth
,r.and ~he lost no favorable opportunity
,,,!y sharp things about the young woman
uo-n 10 her face and before her husband.
We cannot learn rs the young woman did
..,.,lr hut what Il faithful wife and dau1h-
t,r-m-l:lw should do; but the young man
Na- more like his mother, and they had
,ecurut spats." The youn. man grew
.uolc ugly, giving loose rein to his pas
o,- tnd using the most untilial language
2. his parents. and ut times, we learn,
,.e.,tcninr their lives At one time he
attempted to shoot u cat in the door yard,
WIru the eat run into the kitchen. Sllas
followed and shot it there, before his father
.ui mother. Upon being demonstrated
with by the father, the son threatened to
1--WE him in the same way.
hu- matters stood mp to one day last
week. when Slas complained that the
craps to his ovcralls were too long, and
IS wife cut them off. On Tuesday morn
NJ thry arose us usual. Slns remarked
tlt his su>pendcrs were now too short.
III, wife replied that she could put on
again the pieces she had cut off The
uluhcr spoke up and said that she was
cad that she did not fix them, for if she
Lad there would have been II row; or
words to that effect. Sila, made reply.
A.!t his wife thinks not in special anger,
.nl then went out to the barn to DO the
chores His wife made ready the break
I,,,. and the old people were in the room
vh.u >ilas returned and sat down to eat
- morning meal.
>l.'. wife now saws she noticed Il
Strange and wild look about her hus-
HuIecv,s as lie ate his breakfast; and that
wu.u size passed him his tea, his hand
..ml'cd very much. He did not eat
lis. and when ne had finished he arose
hum lh. table with the remark. = Now
i-mttcr will be settled and pa sscd
uI uto tn, she'd Hi, wife thought his
tuu- peculiar, and followed him, meet
a.L him On the steps. returning. with an
a> Ir his hand She asked him what he
A.- !-o.ng t. DO, and seized hold OF the
\ handle.
uuu. this struggle. the father came
... an1 attempted with the Young woman
- - thr IN away from Sllas: Holding
{, h. Ak with his left hand, Silas put his
r-A, Land into III. pocket. drew ont a
1...rt knife. and opened Il blade with the
Au4 which held the AK, and stluc Xii,
w.c I'm the left breast She still clung to
.h a>. when he repeated the blow, hitting
O. ...hove the RIGHT eye She par
N..y stunned and terribly frightened, of
'A-N'N'- '''''N
'auurucI for a few minutes. Very soon
>." ~'utcd to run to Henry Perrys, Il
D. -uiur who lives some scvcnty-flve rods
aa,Y, and III plain sight ofthc house. Be
tJ.r lowing the door steps, she remembers
u. >,a- passing her and saying. Good
ltoI. Fan. | have not killed YOU, have
AuI while running down the hill towards
VI. FcuV'> ~hr heard him shout after
l.r. ''it~ ajl settled now That is all the
u'.E rlc-Witucs- of these fearful scenes
-.W go r,lncmhcr. From other parties and
-Jr.u Indications, the murderer ; work
W'- undoubtedly done us follows: After
.'-. .oud blow upon his witc's temple,
>r .mgIi-hcl her holl upon the AK,
".'N ~.lt~ turned and struck his father
"tl either the knife or the AK.
Nli.r lhi, Struggle between the three
'1. '.cu .ong on by the wood-shed door
''c Ola .aliy had sized thcl cldinner. norman
posing oui ut the side door to the corner
. t..c house. in plain sight of Mr.. Perry'>,
,.r W several blasts Mr.. Pelly heard
..aum. and cong to the door was just
-4 season - soc Sllas come up to his
H .r ..t the corner of the house, and
':a" be-. several blow, with the AK, and
l. . b. u r\railn, " There, damn you. lie
U'.' Mr.. r'rry ran out and met Silas'
VII. aa' va> fleeing towards his house.
'' soon Mrssr.. Hutchinson, llouehton,
.'."'."r noiglbors came to the lltcc OF
-. tragedy. There WIS no one in sight
j.; the aged mother, who lay dead on
"' >u'W 1T the corner of the house, with
.-flu wounds upon the sides of her
',.'i 'hr neck almost severed from
'aA by It blow from the AK. the bit
N-- IA went entirely through it.
l-' ArIgh5trs who had gathered around,
j The murderer to be in the house,
-i.'" IL. that he had a gun, they did
a-. duc - enter. Finally II physi
'' ''.Ae from the Corner, and the doors
"'." opened. when another ghastly spec
".. their gnze. Lying upon his
0A .4o Kitchen floor, was the aged
N.l Il wound in his throat, and
--.., wounds in the head the bit OF
Is. - buried in the brain, and re-