The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-21

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rode rapidly to Highgate and brought back
q physician ard officer, where he was i'm
mediately taken into custody. He was
nearly crazy with excitement, sobbipg and
crying, but stoutly denying any guilt A
coroner's jury was called by Justice Lewis
| Christian, who found a verdict that deceased
was murdered by Tatro. Subsequently
there was a further examination, at High
gate Center, where large concourse as-
sembled, and there we're threats of lynching
the prisoner. His mother, an old lady of
sixty, and sister, a very pretty looking girl
| OF about eighteen, sat in n corner through
the examination crying bitterly. Tho pris-
oner sat by his counsel, Mr.. L. E. Pelton,
heavily ironed and seeming quite cool and
unconcerned, only betraying his nervous
ness by restless movements of his hands,
with which he occasionally covered his
face. He plead "Not Guilty"
THEORY OF THE PROSECUTION.
=. Mr.. q. G. Austin, for the government
stated the theory of the prosecution, which
was, in substance, that the murdered lady
went up stairs and laid down the bed, only
removing her dress skirt, probably at about
nine o'clock, intending to thus await her
husbands return; that the prisoner took
| off his pantaloons down stairs, went up 10
his own room, where he turned the bed
| clothes down as they were found, and
| thence to Mrs. Buffers bed, where he at
| tackled her upon the bed, his object being
most probably rape. The lady resisted
| him, and sprin ging from the bed started to
run down stairs, but Tatro, seizing the
| chair-that stood,at the head of the bed ,,,per-
| ssrved and overlook her iu the unoccupied
room outside, where the fearful blows with
the chair and stick of wood were dealt. In
the struggle the stove pipe was knocked
down, as above stated. The victim having
still strength enough to get down stairs and
endeavor to escape from the house, was
| followed by the murderer through the din
| ing room and into the kitchen where the
| flendish work vas finished. 1t seems pro-
| bable that the victim succeeded in getting
outside the door leading from the kitchen
| to the shed, as blood stains were found on
both sides of that door, but was dragged
back and the final blows administered with
| the flat of the axe head as she lay near the
door where she was found. The prisoners
shirt was torn in the struggle, and he rush.
ed away to the neighbors TO alay suspicion
| by giving the fire alarm.
FULLY COMMITTED.
Four witnesses testified, and the exami-
nation resulted in Tatro's committal for
trial. An examination of the premises de-
veloped the fact that a hole had been dug
or bored through the lath and plaster part-
tion separating Tatro's sleeping room from
that occupied by NJ. and Mrs. Butler, in
such position that Though it, from Ia
tro's room there was a full view OF the bed
and space in front of it iu Buffers room.
The natural inference was that the prisoner
cut this hole and through it, watched Mrs.
Butler at her toilet or bath, thus feeding the
brutal lust which finally prompted his crime.
Tatro's story at the time of the murder,
was that two or three men had entered But
ler's house. called for money, and then
murdered Mrs. Butler. On the Wednesday
after his committal to Jail his mother visi.
ted him, and urged him TO tel the whole
Truth and free his mind. This he did and
of the counsel for tho state at the prelim-
mary examination -
TATR's STORY.
cut the hole in the bedroom wall be-
tween my room and Mrs. Butlers, the day
we sowed the plaster, think that was the
day before the murder. After the boy For
tune left, the night of the murder, Mrs.
down stairs. | went in there and eat down
| in a chair near the bed. was feeling sick
| at my stomach from the effects of some
| liquor had drank that afternoon. She got
| up and gave me some salerstus and water.
| After taking it went up stairs to my room.
| | turned down the quilts of my bed, but did
not take off my pants. Mrs. Butler soon
came up stairs and went into her room. |
went in there. She was sitting on the eide
| of the bed. We talked few minutes, and
sat down beside her and pulled her over
on the bed. She jumped up and ran out
| into the other room, "a large unoecuped
room at the head of the stairs.) She picked
up q chair standing near the stove-pipe
and threw it at me. ] threw it
back at her, and she threw it at me again.
/ took it and struck her, knocking her
down. broke the chair all to pieces, but
do not remember striking her with it, but
once think it must have broken by hit
ting the floor, as it was dark. She got up
and went to the head OF the stairs, and
theH we had a tussle, and we both fell
heels over head into the dining room, and
against the stove. She got up and ran
| through the kitchen into the woodshed, and
got the AK stood by the kitchen stove
and told her TO behave herself and would.
She threw the AK at me and l threw it
back. 1t struck near the water pail where
she was. She then threw 1t at me again,
and left it where 1t fell. She then ran to
the wood box and got stick of wood and
threw that at me, and in warding off the
blow it struck my hand and hit me over the
eve. then struck her with the same stick
of wood and knocked her down. Then l
picked up the AK and went for her. struck
her with that while she was down. l then
went and got the gun which was in the
kitchen stairway, and laid 1t on the flooI
near the front door. did this for blind.
| went out the front door and ran to Mr..
Fortunes.
Question-Did you hear Charlie, (mean-
ing Mr.. Butler.) when you went out
Answer-I did not hear Charlie coming
when | went out.
Odd you mean to kill her
A-No l did not mean to kill her when
struck her with the ak.
Q-What did she say, If anything, during
the affray, TO you
A-She did not say word that remem-
Der of after pulled her on the bed.
Oiled you been drinking?
Al had been drinking some that night.
Q-How came your pants on the floor
by the kitchen stairs?
Al don't remember how my pants got
into the kitchen. don't know when
took them off. They were on when | came
down stairs.-St. Adams Advertiser.