The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-02
A STARTLING TRAGEDY.
A Hotel Keeper Shoots His Wife and Her
Brother-in-Law-Tho Woman not Expected
to Livo-Tbe Would-be Murderer Arrested.

Brother-in-Law-Tho Woman not Expeoted
to Livo-Tbe Would-be Murderer Arrested.
DERBY LINE, VT, Aug 81.
A terrible shooting affair has just &C.
Cured at the Derby Line hotel. +. G.
Hayden, formerly of Boston, shot his wife |
in the abdomen twice with revolver. One |
bullet, which passed through the left kid |
ney, has been taken out at the back. The |
other has not been found. Hayden also |
shot her brother-in-law, G. o. Brigham, a |
lawyer of this place, in the breast The
physicians think now that the woman can
not possibly recover. Hayden has been ar
ested.
lie had not been living with his wife for
about ten months, she having left him be-
cause of his abuse of her and his dissipatcd
habits. lie has been clerking the past
summer at the St. Leon house, st. Leon
springs, and came here yesterday after
noon, and now admits having come for the
express purpose of killing his wife If she
would not agree to live with him. The re-
volver with which he COR mitted the deed
he borrowed from Messrs. Parsons & Car
penter, druggists, Rich Island, Z. O.,
saying that he wanted 10 kill dog that
had bitten him. Hayden then went to the
Derby Line hotel, and few minutes be-
fore the shooting he was talking with his
wife and her sister, Mrs. Brigham, in the
presence of Mr.. Brigham, and not conduct
ing himself properly, Brigham threatened
to have him arrested, and suggested that
the ladies go into another room.
TIE SHOOTING.
Hayden then went down stairs, saying,
"I'll 90 down and get a drink and come
back and settle with you" A few minutes
later he went up, found Brigham guarding
the door, ald without word shot him in
the right breast. The ball, which is 80
calibre long, passed into the lungs. Brig
ham staggered TO the veranda, when Hay
den sprang into the room, the door of
which had at this moment been opened by
Mrs. Brigham. lie pointed the revolver at
her head and she sprang behind the door
into the corner, drawing the door back to
shield herself from the assassin. He then
pointed the revolver at his wite's head
For Gods sake, Ned, think what you are
doing" she exclaimed. at the same time
striking his extended arm down, but too
late. At this instant he fired, the bullet
entering the abdomen. She partly turned,
and AS she was falling he fred second
| time, hitting her In the left side of the
small OF the back By this time Brigham
| had rallied sufficiently to rush in and Crap
| pie with Hay den, throwing him to the floor
| md holding him there. This was tae posi-
| ton in which they were when the people
below, he lring the shots AMI shrieks, ran
up and found them.
| TIE MrRDERERs FERMENTATION.
That the attack was premedita,ed is
shown by the assassin's admission when
being taken down stairs by the officer, 81
have doRe what came for" and as he was
being taken through the street he said 4
the assembled crowd, "The fun's all over,
boys An examination was had of the
prisoner Thursday afternoon before II. ID
Holmes. He pleaded guilty, said he came
for the express purpose OF Killing" Gerty,
his wife, but was sorry he had to shoo
Brigham to get at her, and that he hac
thought of all this for months. His bonds
were set at $4,000 in each case, and he IL
on hs way to Iiasburg jail. The physi
cOvery, and of Mr.. Brigham it is doubtful
Hayden had been drinking, but was per
fcctly rational.
LATER ADVICES
report that the victims OF the fearful TRACE
dy remain in about the came condition
Hardly any hopes are entertained by the
physicians of their recovery. The bal
which passed into Mr.. Brigham's left sid;
passed through the ribs and cannot be ex
tracted Mrs. Hayden's condition is con
sidered very precarous, and we fear tha
ere the morrow 1t will be our sad duty Il
chronicle her death.
TIE PRISONER IN JAIL.
Edwin G. Hayden, the would-be muir
dercr, has btca committed TO the count,
Jail ia Irasburgh to await trial at the petty
September term Of the Orleans county
court. He maintains the same bravadt
which characterized his appearance sine,
the shooting and expresses no regret fo
the deed. The people of this town are ter
ribly insensed, and had they had th,
chance would have lynched him ere he LEFT
town. Hayden was formerly proprietor
Of the Russell house, Stanstead, P. O., ant
was at one time worth nearly, if not quite
a hundred thousand dollars, all of wnlcl
he squandered in dissipation.
SOME FAMILY HISTORY.
Mrs. Hayden was the youngest daughte
of the late Levi spaulding of Derby Line
Mr.. Sralding died few years since, leay
ing large property, to tc divided amonl
his two SONS and five daughters. One o
the daughters married Charles o. Brigham
a son OF Rev. Elijah Brigham of Newton
vile, Mass, and he with his wife wer
boarding at the hotel here.
Hayden has led the life of a prohigate
and had equandered nearly all his hand
some estate. He had also treated his wifi
with such neglect and cruelty, providn
no means Of sustenance, that Mrs. Hayde
some months since thought it her duty t
decline to live longer with him. This wa
last fall, and Mrs. Hayden went to Bosto
and passed the winter with her sister, Mrs
BiXby, and Hayden went to st. Leol
Springs, p. @, where be has been assist
ing Capt. j. X. Gilman in his hotel. Mrs
Hayden returned to this place few week
since, and was spending few days wit
her sister, Mrs. Brigham.
HAYDEN UTTERs THREATS.
Wednesday afternoon Hayden made hi
appearances in the village, sought an inter
view with his wife, and it now appear
that he told her she must prepare to die
for he would kill her it she did not liy
with him. 1t also appears, from his ow
statement, that he left st. Leon Spring
with the intention of killing her unless sill
complied with his wishes.
THE FiEND sURRRNDERs.
A third marty came into the room who