The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-05-18
Murder and Suicide.

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Brassor, q young lad of sixteen years.
taking a rifle belonging to Mr.. G. NJ.
! Winslow, left his father, who was
working for Mr.. Winslow, saying he
was going home past Mr.. Farrington's
barn TO kill q woodchuck, a little after
ten o'clock, A. NJ. Some ten or fifteen
minutes afterwards, Mr.. Brassor heard
the report of three guns, and twenty
minutes later Royal T.. Atwood, of Sud-
bury, anne along with the information
that the boy lay dead in the ditch by
the side of the road. They fastened to
the spot and found the body, but no
gun. His death had evidently resulted
from two bullet wounds, one of the
bullets being found, and corresponding
to the calibre of q Colts revolver
afterwards found with a tramp, who
had committed suicide. The body was
taken home, and Doctors DYER and
Page made a post mortem examination.
During the afternoon various rumors
and suspicious were afloat as to the deed
and its perpetrator. About eight
O'Clock that evening, Mr.. John Pende-
grass, Of Pittsford. section man from
Pittsford station north, met n man
twenty or thirty rods north of Holden's
crossing, with whom he had q tussle,
which he decribcs in his testimony on the
coroner's inquest as follows: Gle said
TO me, Good evening, boss!' replied,
Good evening, SIR lie then asked me
if i was n good rifle shot. | replied, n
pretty good one. lie asked me what
brought me out at that time of night.
| replied i was out on my business. He
then said TO me, "This is no time ofnight
for YOU to be out taking the rifle he
had in his hand and pointing il at my
face. | seized the rifle and knocked
him down. | had a lantern in my hand
at the time. The lantern fell out of my
hand and rolled down the bank. He
then got up and clutched me: we had a
tussle, and we both rolled down to the
fence. In the tussle the rife went oyer
the fence into Mr.. Holden's meadow;
| choked him down against the fence.
when he said, Let me alone, | am no
robber.' | replied, Il do not care what
you are then let him up, and getting
over the fence secured the rife and my
lantern. ] walked ont TO linn and said.
Il will shoot YOU if Won give me any
more of your talk | then held the
rifle in my hand. | then got over the
fence and walked out on the track. lie
walked up on TO the track after me. He
said nothing, but walked along south.
] stood still for a minute or two. and
then walked along north. He went
some fifteen OF twenty rods from where
we had the tussle and then fired n shot.
| heard distinctly the report of a gun in
the direction where he was. Whether
he fired at me or not | cannot say. |
heard no sound or whistle of q bullet.
| turned round, stood still upon the
track and saw the man walk south. |
took my lantern and the rifle and walk
ed OH north. When I got to the Pot
wine bridge I lighted my lantern and
then walked north on the track till |
met the Brandon scction-man at the
shanty q little south o fSmith's crossing.
The man ! met was Thomas Evans;
think it must have been about q Quarter
past nine in the evening, and Just before
the night train or Montreal and New
York train passed south toward Rut-
land. When Evans entered the shanty
he said, You are pretty well armed to-
night ! told Evans how | came by
the rifle; he said IL must he the rifle
belonging to Mr.. Winslow of Brandon,
and then told about the man who had
! been murdered in Brandon in the fore
noon. which was the first information |
had of the murder. The rifle now
shown me is the one | took from the
tramp as above described. The gun
had some cartridge in II, but do not
know how many; Mr.. Evans wanted I
should come to Brandon and see ii the
rifle belonged to Mr.. Winslow; | came
to Brandon with Mr.. Evans and brought
the gun and found 1t belonged 10 Mr..
Winslow; | gave the rife TO Sheriff
Coss; | should think that was about ten
O'Clock; l fired shot from the gun
a little south of the Brandon switch,
while in company with Evans; the man
/ met on the track was a stranger to me
don't know of ever having seen him be-
fore. / got into the wagon with Sheriff
Goss, and went to Mr.. Hawkins Office:
staid AT the office a short time and then
went back 10 Brandon depot. | went
with Levi Bashaw and got a hand car.
and Thomas Evans, Hugh McGarrv,
Oliver Describe and Peter Bushey. ali
went down the track: about half past
ten o'clock we arrived to within about a
half mile oflittsford Quarry: we found
a body on the track. living on his
face and hands, partly on his right side;
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