Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-09
startling Conse..se. or Piper.

TIE nuRDKR IN THE BKLFkY OF THE
BosToS CHURCH AND THAT OF BSIDGkT
COUNSEL.
A special dispatch 20 the New York Times
rom Boston, May Ith. says; Thomas w.
Piper, Tie sexton OF the Warren Avenue
TIE murder Of the ave year old child, Mabel
Young, n The oelfry Of the church, TO day, ft
Is reportf 4, startled his counsel. Edward p.
Brown, who was In consultation with him
regarding The motion FOR q new trial, which
was 20 be arguedsn the supreme court To-
norrCw. by letting out by degrees a confess
he vas the murderer Of Bridget Isndrefin,
Al Dorchester, on the night OF December 5th.
lSsS, OF which crime he has been long under
tospicion, aud that he was principal Ia the
Mary Tyner, In Oxford street, IN this city,
heeIy lwo years aeo. Piper declares that
larry tie murder OF the chiid srd csnnot
understand how he came TO commit them,
~ ~ assumed that he was acuated only by n
neholsb love OF eloocshed, like Tie boy Jesse
fomeroy, who siill lies IN iail. Piper saws
ihat be has hitherto nti about the matter
10 olind bis counsel, knowing that he could
lieved In his guilt he has az late been
rapidly breaking down I'm strength aud
health, through his great mental agony. and
10 is thought that az allowed 20 escape the
eallows, be conld rot live six weeks. His
execution Is set down for The 25th OF this
month.
The Bridget Laudregin case has heen
warped in the deepest mystery. The girl
was domestic OF good repute. ana while
returning 20 her mistress home at about
O'Clock at night, from visit 20 some friends,
vas assaulted and hrutally clubbed 20 death
AT a Pa { OF Dorches ter known as Uphams
corner. Several arrests were made, Piper's
belrg one OF them, but sufficient evidence
could Lot be obtained against any OF me
pfisoners, and each wss discharged sOon
after examination: It was FOR this murder
that Thomas Cehill, who went soon AFTER the
murder 10 Ireland, was extradited aid
brought 20 this country by the deiectiveS
de was former sweetheart of the girl, but
no case whatever could be made against him.
and he was discharged only 20 return 10
Ireland To lie himself murdered there Mary
Tyner was girl OF the town, and was found
mangled. She was taken 20 the hospital sud
managed TO live through. A lover OF hers
named Colby was arrested for this assault.
but she refusedfo tell what she knew OF the
case, and be was discharged.
THE MURDERER's STATEMENT.
,,fiPer; In his confession OF toe murder OF
toob the bat from the lower room before
or ABOUT the commencement OF school, 70
XII somebody AT that time carried IL up
INTO The auditor um, but during the session
OF Sunday school took 70 from the auditorium
and carried IL 10 The belfry. After tue close
OF school came down stairs and opened the
a uesc, tneh ! went up again. AT the q me
Nestibule. Amer tue boys had gone out and
was still In the vestibule, when the little
gin I'D ana INDUCED her 10
with me into the belfry. There I struck her
with the club two or three times. and She
fell where the blood was found. Then 4
picked her up and carried the body TO, the
place where IL was discovered.
His confession OF the murder OF Bridget
Landregin on December 5th, 1873, was equal
ly explicit. He was under the influence OF
whisky and opium, and deliberately pre-
pared club To Kill some one. He saw Brd-
get on the street and followed close behind
her. he says:-"I struck her; Immediately
she fell down, and / struck her again; while
i was ste optng over the body I saw a man
coming, so started mp and ran away; 1 got
over the fence and went along towards the
railroads while i was at the railroad some
body called ont 10 me aud 4 then turned
back, took roundabout course and cot
home; on the way home it occurred % me
that had knife In my pocket, which
mleht be recC gnized in some manner, and so
i threw IL away"
The Boston Herald says: "There Is a feel
Ing abroad among lawyers, detectives and
The public generally, that the contradictory
statements now put out by Piper are the re-
suit OF cool reasoning on his part, and OF
such ingenuity as he is possessed OF IN order
TO throw doubt upon his sanity In general.
or else TO show that he has "a uncomfortable
mania for blood, for which he is not respon-
sible, and change in his statement. either
An the confession OF more murders or the de-
NAL OF all, would not al this moment aston
iSh the community