Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-04
STATE NEWS.


mont Odd Fellows was held at Rutland on
Tuesday. There was a good attendance.
The fences of Vermont, it is said, cost
S4,700,000, and $4,000 are required to
keep them In repair.
The forward trucks of a sleeping car OF
the night express train on the Central, last
Tuesday morning, got off the track and ran
some two miles before the engineer could be
signaled. The car was kept near the rails
by the Miller coupling. No one was hurt.
The mixed train north, near Rutland, on
Tuesday morning, was thrown from the
track by broken rail. Horace Todd, hotel
keeper at Cuttingsvlle, was seriously if not
fatally injured. There were twenty persons
10 the passenger car at the time, and the
escape Of the majority of them from severe
injury was miraculous. The bottom was
nearly all ripped out of the car, the pieces
thrown inside and the seats torn from their
fastening
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Theodore Hutchinson OF East Hardwick
man about forty years old was arrested on
Monday on charge Of incest with his daugh-
ter, q girl fourteen years old, and tried on
Tuesday before Justice l.. ID. LeaVitt. The
girls testimony showed that the crime com.
menced over two years ago and had been
repeated several times since that he KEEP,
her from exposing him by telling her that il
would send them both to state prison, until
finally the girls mother found something wa;
wrong aud demanded to know the occasion
of it. He was found guilty and held to bal
iu the SUM of 5000. Wouldn't so 900 hav,
been more like it2
Double Murder and Suicide at East Lyndon
A most shocking destruction of life by
mailman occurred near East Lyndon on Tues
day morning. Silas Wilder killed his fathe
aud mother in a most brutal manner, wounde,
his wife, and thea hung himself. We &c
our information mostly from Sheriff PRESTO
who got It from Mrs Wilder who was for
tunate enough to escape from the demon
wrath. Sas was subject to fits and was tn
possessor Of an ungovernable temper. The
lived on farm about three-quarters of
mile northeasterly from the Red Village a
it is called. When the family were abou
sitting down to breakfast little trouble arc.
about mendlng the straps on young Wilder
overals. His wife had undertaken /
shorten them and got them too short, abor
which he was muttering. Mrs Wilder, ii
elder, said she was glad she didn't fix thel
for if she had there would have been trouble
Upon this young Wilder got up saying the
would settle that matter, went into the she
and got an ak. His wife and father wei
out and tried to have him lay down the a.
which he did and then struck his wife tW
blows. one in the breast and the other ov,
the right eye. That stunned her so that 81
was insensible for short time The nei
she remembers is of hearing the horn whiC
the elder Mrs Wilder blew from the corn
of the house towards Mr. Perry's. 1t is su
posed the frenzied creature after stabbing h
wife undertook to cut his fathers throat wi
the knife but did not cut it sufficiently to k
him, then hearing the horn he went for |
mother with the ak, and the mangled boz
shows that he drove the bit Of it into h
head across the LETT ear which felled her, Al
he then gave her a blow across her ne
almost cutting it off. Then it is believed
went for his father and struck him two bio
on his head, one of the gashcs reaching fro
the right eye to the top of his head, I
other from top Of the head to the left ei
The Ak was found sticking n the head so
to require considerable strength to remove
Then hearing his wife he exclaimed, Go
God, Fan, haven't killed you yet, aud 8
ran for the neighbors. 1t seems he then I
dertook to cut his own throat, but not 81
ceeding he went to the barn. took a rol
tied both ends to a stick lying across the hi
beams, made slipping moose stuck his he
into it and swung of. This successful
terminated his mad career. The young la
TO whom Silas was married less thana y,
ago will undoubtedly recover. Her ma
was Fanny LadGcer aud her parents res
at East Lyndon. An inquest was held
JVhial Powers, justice Of the peace. I
examination showed that Sias died Of str
gulation. His fathers name was Levi
Wilder aud he was about 80 years old,
mother was 10, and himself alb
33. The old folks were quiet aud peaceaI
and the young man though subject to
had never been known TO do harm in th
but probably this case had nothing to
with fits. The primary cause may b
been the fact that the young wife was
very warmly welcomed to the home of
old folks. That little troubles grew |
larger ones, over which Silas kept brood
until wrought into state OF frenzy in WI
he could have no control over his passi'
10 any case it is fortunate for himself,
for the community that he took his exc
tion into his own hands.
The old gentleman owned farm w
$4,000 or $4,000 but had decided il to S
taking life lease back. He had so ,00l
$4,000 besides, at interest. There arc h
or four other sons aud daughters, none
whnm tgara al hama