Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-02-09
THE LYNDON TRAGEDY.
A Vermont Fiend---Double Murder
and Suicide---A Monster Murders
His Father and Mother---He At
tempts to Kill HIMSELF Commits
Suicide, Etc, Etc.

and Suicide---A Monster Murders
I His Father and Mother---He At
tempts to Kill Himself---Commits
Suicide, Etc, Etc.
, From 4 special dispatch to the Bos-
ton Jou,mal, we gather the following
particulars Of the terrible tragedy
which was enacted at Lyndon, last
, Tuesday, in which young man killed
his father, aged 80, his, mother, aged
73, and then killed himself. The
scene of the murder was near Red
village, about two miles east of Lyn
don village.
Levi H. Wilder and his wife, the
aged couple, who were murdered have
long resided IN Lyndon, and have
borne q good reputation. AT the
time of the murder the family consist.
ed of these old people, their son Silas,
aged 33, and his wife, aged about %.
Tuesday morning when the family
arose, the young man made some re-
mark to his wife about the straps on
his overalls, which she had shortened
a few days before. She replied that it
could be easily remediej, whereupon
!, the mother, overhearing the remark,
said she was glad that she did not fix
the straps. If she had, there would
have been fuss. He replied that she
need not trouble herself as she did
not do it. He then went to the barn
to do his chores, and his wife prepared
their breakfast. On his return he sat
down to breakfast alone, the old peo
pie and his wife not being in readi
ness, He ate very little, and his wife,
as she was pouring his tea, noticed
that his hand trembed and that his
eyes had Il strange, Wild appearance.
After drinking his tea he remarked
that "This thing has got to be set
tled," and went out into the shed. His
wife, thinking his actions peculiar,
followed him and met him returning
with an AK. She caught hold Of the
ak and asked him what he was intend
ing to do. He replied, You get out
Of the way or | will fix you |" The
father then appeared and said "What
are YOU about 2 and took hold of the
AK also.
The young man then took knife
from his pocket and opened the small
blade, saying "Ifyou will not let me
use the axe, I'll use my knife, and
struck his wife in the right breast,
causing slight wound, and then
struck her again over the right eye,
inhicting wound which, though not
serious, partially stunned her, so that
she did not realize what was going on
for little time. The mother becom,
inc alarmed seized the dinner horn,
rushed ont of doors and sounded 1T to
alarm the neighbors.
1t is supposed that the young man
after stabbing his wife attacked his
father and cut his throat with the
knife, then hearing the horn, picked
up the ak, rushed out to the corner OF
the house where his mother was and
killed her with the Ak that he then
came back, found his father in the
kitchen and killed him with the aX.
Mr.. Henry Perry, the nearest neigh
Dor, upon hearing the horn looked out
from his barn toward the Wilders,
saw the young man strike his mother
with the ak and heard him exclaim,
'There, lie there, e,--!.' After killing
his father young Wilder went up to
the shed, where his wife was just re-
covering consciousness, and excaim-
ed, "for Gods sake, Fan; | havn't
killed you have | ?" lie then ran
from her toward Mr.. Perry's, and
he heard him say, ''lt's all settled
now
Several neighbors soon arrived and
found the mother dead by the corner
of the house. Supposing that the
murderer was in the house, and know
ing that he had weapons to defend
himself with, they were afraid to en-
ter. About 10 a. IN. DR.. Cahoon ar
rived, who with Mr.. VIM. Houghton
went boldly into the house and found
the old father upon the door, Gead,
with the AK imbeded 50 firmly into his
head that it required vigorous effort
by Mr.. Houghton to remove it.
Search was then made for the young
man. AT lergth he was found in the
barn, dead, hanging from the beams.
He had evidently gone upon the
high scatfold, tied the rope to a beam
and around his neck, and then jumped
| off