The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-08
THE WEATHERsFIELD TRAGEDY.


IrlGi q henry GraVIIl--AIId Nay,
The moruiog session Of the Windsor
county court At Wocdsiock on Friday, was
principally occup!,d r. Receiving The bal
ance of Tim Uani.u'- 1;r,c ,7idcucc and
hiq cross-examinaior. The rumher &C
spectators was the largest ever assembled
in that court rcom. Hamiin continued his
story as follows: Lowell ard myself on cur
second visi, TO the jail on Friday night,
November 81, posed in To Steiner, through
the hole in tha wall. two G,cs ard some sol
der.
After Gravlin wa removed to the prison
at Windsor / called on him and talked with
him at his cell door asked him for the
balance OF the money lie owed me he said
he must have his Trunk first; the trunk
was taken to hipl ON opening 1t and look
ing the contents over he sald the money
| re wanted Ia see me, / called on him again;
he said he waited me to ger him more
s|irychnine and laGd2num; said I've would
give me 81 to get It, and to go 10 Mrs.
Seavcr in Windsor and get tie money;
finally said he would pay ms when |
brought the tLiCEs in.
Twas born at Winooski, Vt; my father
was born in Ireland; lived alternately at
Winooski and Montpelier until | was about
- years of age thea went to Whitehall
ard worked driving on the tow-path canal:
subsequently myself and three other boys
leGgued together and entered upOn the
work of breaking open stores and taking
goods from the same after breaking into
stores at Mortified, Mass, Claremont, Al
stead, Mill Village, n. H., and Mlontpclier,
Vt, | was arrested Il. Croydon, y. H.,
and placed in Newport jail, from which |
escaped in t~wenty-tour hours after incarce-
ration was arrested again ten days there
after at Bennington, VI, and returned to
Newport jail thence taken 10 Montpelier
Jail, where | remained three months was
then tried, convicted and sen. TO the Yer
mont state prison a. Windsor for six years
from the 20,h Of March, 1869.
Wines proceeded 70 state what induced
him to visit Gravlin in jail 1t Woodstock
and what transpired principally duri0g his
first visit as reported Friday. He further
said Gravlin told me during the first visit
that he was worth S26 goo, but Batchelder
his attorney had just invcntoried the prop
erty at $4,000; took two dollars l took
ten dollars from GrAvlin with the under
standing that | was to return from Rutland
and try to release him from Jail went to
Rutland and 10 Whitehall; obtained no tool
except a meat saw Il Kelley went with
me to Whitehall; | returned to Woodstock
November &; Kelley came tie next day
after; ! had no selfish motives think |
was instigatcd by . desire to serve the ends
of justice; intended to report to he Clicers
OF the law If GTavlin offered II bribc left
Woodstock for Windsor IN company with
Kelley returned TO Woodstock on the
ncxt Saturday with Kelley there saw
bravl!n told him Kelley was to assist me
in l.bcrating him; explained my plan; GRAY
lin then said he would mortgage his farm
TO secure the payment Of the sun he was to
pay me that day | returned 10 Windsor ;
told Deputy Sheriff Amsden Of the plot ;
On Monday he came to Woodstock with me
this was the day | TOOK the tools into the
| jill ; | taeu ARRANGED with Il prisoner
named Campbell to asH.sl u Kelley was
TO have half what ! got for the JOB thi
was on the 18th Of November next morn
ing went TO the outside Of tha jail and
talked with Graylin through the hole in the
wall the suspected jailel, l%lewelt, had
learned something Of our plan.
Witness here reported a conversation be-
tween himself AMI Gravlin ia relation to
killing Carpenter, and subsequent events,
including Lovell's participation as reported
in Fridays papers. Witness added that a
spurious Geographic dispatch suggested by
himself and written by Lowell stating that
Carpenter was dead, was taken in and read
to Gravlin by Lowell, aud Graylin seemed
ela,ed by the news. Tins brother at this
time was fully appriscd Of the whole
scheme,
EZRA H.. LOWELL
was employed by Jailer Hewitt to 60 to
the jail with Tim Hamlin on Monday night,
Nov. 20; went to tao diamond hole on the
east side Of tbs jail tie hole Is 10 10 IS
inches deep, the size, a brick wide the
signal was n hiss made the signal and
Gravlin came Tim and Gravlin shook
hands Tim commenced TO grumb,c about
not getting n horse TO use, az had been pre-
viously agreed between them Gravlin said
he was not to blame Tim said he had been
down 10 Carpenters, and described the
place they then talked of Whites horses (;
Tim said, "what a pity | could not have
had Whites horse, | could have taken 1t
to New York and traded II off /" GTavlln
said, 81 did not know you then as well as
| do now"
Witness here showed signs of indlsposi-
lion and was taken into the anterOom in a
iainting condition. The court took a re-
cess until 2 o'clock p. M.
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