Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-12-01
TRAGEDIES.

al small amounts, was yesterday ar
ranged, found guilty, and sentenced
TO four years Imprisonment. Ills case
has ELECTED much sympathy.
Attire night before last in New Ips.
wich, n. ii. destroyed the building oc.
cupied G. A. Burton printer. The
loss on the building and stock is 50,
600.
Ira I. Carter Of Pesque Isle Me,
has been arranged and bound over iu
$4,000 on three separate complaints
for rape and incest with his two dau-
ghters. about IA years old. He will be
tried in Houlton at the February
term.
Charles f. Height Of 5000 Me, was
bound over by the United States Com
missioner to day in $500 for trial
for passing counterfeit money.
The safe in the grocery store of
Smith, Morse & Co, of Lewiston Me,
was found open last Friday morning,
and 500 deposited last night were
missing. The safe was unlocked.
On Thursday afternoon l.. Atwood
Of West Minot Me, in moveing trees
to make a new road, was instantly
killed by the falling Of u large limb.
The convicts taken from the Ken
ebec Jail on the BIRD were sentenced
to the States Prison as follows John
G. Johnson, to five years; l.. w.
Cochran. five years W. A Thomson
three years; Alexander Trask, one
year and six months.
Mrs. Lois Thompson Of Lowell,
Mass, AZ years OF age, committed SUI
icide by hanging on Saturday last.
Mental dcspondency is the supposed
cause, She wos a sister of Umtcd
States Senator Sargent Of California.
1t is just discovered that George
F.eissner, formerly bookkeeper Tor
Theodore Rumiller, who made an as
s gnment last spring, cmbazzled over
S25, eco. Fleissner has disappeared.
A man was taken from the Consta-
b OF Middetteld. Georgia county,O,,
Oh Tuesday night aud lynched, but
WIS taken down and resust.cated
His name is Luther Scott. The
supposed object OF the ynchers was 20
prevent him from revealing the do
lugs Of gang of despera,ioes, Of
which he is Il memE er.
III the Burr case at Aubern, the ju-
rey rendered Il verdict Of murder in
the second degree, and he was senten-
cel to life Imprisonment. lie killed
Keeper CasleI in FEBRUARY last.
William Cunningham, Il native OF
WMtetield, n Ii, was killed last Fri
day night wniie running Il freight car
into Baltlet's mill ut Carroll, being
caught between the car and n piece ol
timber aul crushed. He lived about
one hour.
james Fairgrave. brakeman on
the Boston and Lowell Railroad, was
fatally injured last Thursday morning
at Lowell, Mass, while Stacking cars.
A loose spike on the deadwood pene-
traLed his body.
Distractions were placed on the
track below Harrisbourgh, Va, on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ON
Saturday night. which threw train
of the track, killing Thomas ChiJiaw,
engineer, and j. l.. Thomson, fireman.
The passengers were in rear car
and ljared. Isaac Powell was ar
rested and confessed that he stood by
and saw Dewitt Ettinger place the OBJ
structions, and Ettinger was also ar
rested. Plunder was the object.
Henry N. Smith, noted Spectator
and the owner OF Goldsmith Maid and
and other noted horses, ard a former
partner Of Jay Gould, was to-day
black bailed by the New York Stock
Exchange, where he had applied for
admission.
The dead body of Michael Godat,
an Italian, was found lying early on
the morning Of the 22nd III the real
OF yard at AZ Baxter street n, Y,
with deeu wound in the groin, from
which streams of blood issued. A
boy named John Brady, who was
standing in the yard, heard screams
and than saw Godat's body lying on
the ground. Two men ent, red win.
dow in the upper story from fire es-
cape, ahd shortly after four Italians
ran from the house. Two of these
Attendants and Commlnez were ares
ted but the hers escaped. The pc.
lice believe that Godat was fnurderd
and thrown from the window.
John Riggle was fatally stabbed in
a liquor saloon on Park street n. Y,
on the 22nd by Michael Turbine who
was arrested.
The ladies belonging to the Won
ans Temperance League and Reform
Club at Nashua n. ii, have mace Il
lively raid Oh liquor sellers. Nine
arrests have been made one u drug
gist, and more are TO come.
Ned Howe, aged twenty, son of A
p. Howe, Esq, III West Enfield n, II,
was instantly killed on the 20lh, BY
having his head crushed between two
trees, while chopping Ia his fathers
woods.
Thieves operated ia the city Of
Portsmouth n, H. on ,he night OF til
2Oth, getting into the O.li:e OF til
Kedrsarge House by boring hole
tai ougn the window sash and spring