The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-28
Reported for the GLOBE.
The HYdepark nape Case.


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weeds, ,Je7 '7r, aolIc hga, ., ou Sac
border Of the fence nou Il. -.. 7Hli '.a
wild raspberry bushes batc crown 10.
About a quarter before $50 o'tioc' On
Saturday, Mrs. Perry said ste would 70
out and pick some berries for supper, and
| told her daughter Rosa where she you'd
find her in case any thing was wrong. Two
suspicious mon, Cuc large and the other
| small, had been seen lurking around nCaI
the hodsesinCe WelnosdaY evening 1ney
! had slept IN Perry'S burn on Friday night
but mad not been seen by any of the family
up 10 the time the mother went out on
! Saturday, and they began to hope the men
bad disappeared, though they had still
some apprehension. Enough, nj Ill events,
10 induce the father TO 60 a mile or So over
TO a Mr.. Caiklna, where n second daughter
was ot work, 10 warn her not TO come
/ home, as she wac accustomed 10 do Oh
Saturday nights, through lhe.wooA. 1t wa
during bis absence upon this GRAND, that
Mrs Perry went berrying. Hertwo daugb-
ters, Rosa sixteen years Of age, and Lille
II years, remained in the house. Rosa
laid down on the lounge and Lille sat be-
side her to prevent her going to sleep.
Mrs. Perry had fastened all the doors in
the house except the front door out Of
which she went, and told the girls she
would 90 down to the road and pick Der
ries along by the road. It seems she was
picking on the inside of the fence, intend
iug, as she now says, to pick down to the
angles of the fence on the inside,
and then pick back on the out, or road
side. Mr.. Elbridge Sherwin, his wife and
their niece passed by 70 their hay field, the
enhance to which is right opposite Of
PerTy's house and garden, and saw der
there soon after she went ont. She hal
| been gone about a half hour when her
| daughters heard her scream. Listening, In
| a minute they heard a socord scream aud
ran down to the border where their mother
told them che was gong. On their way
they heard third scream, and though il
seemed to come from the direction oppo-
site TO which they were going, they keep
on to the road, much alslmel, Int, Ct
course, not knowing from whence Of Whoa,
the screams they had heard proceeded.
Mr.. Sherwin and his wife had heard .hs
screams in their hay field, between that
part Of which in which they were then at
work, and the house and garden Of Perry,
hop yard interviewed, entirely shutting
out the view, and came up to the road
nearly at the same moment the two Perry
| girls arrived there. Mutual inquiries and
explanations were exchanged, and a search
along the road borders rs far to the east as
Miller's house-about fourth mile-rnade,
and calls made by Rosa for "IGothe7,' and
by Mr.. Sherwia for "Mre. Perry" but no
auswor was received. The time now was
about quarter to three. Soon Mr. Perry
was seen coming OYER the lodges On his &c
/ turn from III. Cabins DC above stated.
| Nor search was made Tor Mrs. Perry in
earnest. Perry led mt inc garden and
6herw.a followed. Quite number Of
! women, nlGniy excited, of course, had
getherel Dy This time. Soon the alarming
cry came from Perry "Eere ahc is
murdered Quick messengers came to
the y.lleGa with the startling report inst
Mrs Perry had been found brutslly mur-
dered, and Immediately tho road 10 Peryy's
was throngod with au eager, and highly ev-
cited crowd, most Of whom, however, were
informed before they reacho3 tho scene
that she was not murdered but, probably,
had been outraged.
When found, AIrs. Perry was lying under
an apple tree in tho orchard, in which corn
was growing, about ten rods distant from
where Sborwin and wife had seen her pick
| ing berries rot much more than thirty min
ute9 before, She was lying on her back
with her right arm under her body, the left
hand extended beside her. Her head vas
twisted over to one side, her mouth filled
with gravel, one stone beng one and -
half inches long by an inch wide and Ave
eIghtbs Of An inch in thickness, and sec
ond one nearly half as large. These stonea
and lot OF fine gravel were tied into her
mouth by yard long of apron string, torn
from the apron she wore, which was passed
twice through her mouth and around her
neck, and 80 tightly drawn as to leave IL
red line extending from the corners OF her
mouth all around her neck, and so lightly
tied that it had 10 be cut. Her head was
nearly covered up with gravel, and her
mouth forced open, so that Mr.. Sherwin
says she presented the most CHASTITY appear
ance he ever saw. Her ankles were tied
together with strong hemp cord. She
was insensble, and Mr.. Sherwin, who ac-
knowledges himself 10 have been highly
excited, thiaks there was no pulse until
some time after they carried her to the
house. After lying her upon the bed she
soon vomited.
Mrs. Perry's story is as follows
She was stopping down to pick somt
berries which hung under the bushes, whe,
she was seized by the shoulders or arms
and rapidly forced along the grass border
by the fence dividing the garden from tho
pasture, and running at a right angle will
the road. She was at first so petrifed tina
. she could not epeak, and she thinks tina
3 she must haye been taken half the distancr
D from the road to where she was found be
. fore she could scream. When she began t
scream the rufllan who had her, kicked he
@ in the back and gave her profane com
D mand to "Stop that" which she says sh
/ did not obey as long as she could disobey
. A potato patch occupies the front o
o the garden extending back abou
% I've rods to the corn patch. When he
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