Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-04

going citizens of Vermont, was based IN
the circumstance that single man, in a
Vermont town, known by the title of dea-
con Though it has been denied that he was
a deacon Of any church,, MT eminent, not
known at all outside of his own village, a
coarse grained, illiterate. unconspicuous IT'LL
this newspaper notoriety) individual is
charged with being party to the poisoning
of his wife. but has not yet been convicted o
any crime Ought there not to be a little bet
ter foundation for charge that State is full
Of murders, always of PARTICULAR y atrocious
character, ard frequently committed by emf
nent Termonters There have been, within
the past two or three years, several other
murders in Vermont-an unusual number
for our generally orderly communi-
ty-but in one case, certainly. if
not in more, the murderer was a Massa-
chusetts man, who had not been twenty
four hours in Vermont. Certainly it is not
MASSACHUSETTS, UT any -h"N7aCuu>tllS man.
that should arraign Vermont, in this matter,
if our State is to be held to account by any
outsider. We copy, from Massachusetts,
paper, the following record of crime in
Massachusetts, for one moHth-a good deal
longer list than the record of Vermont for
the last, OF. any previous. year
On the 18th of November Peter Mahoney,
who is now awaiting trial in the supreme
judicial court. brutally stabbed and murder
cd Bridget +. kenneally at South Boston.
December 3rd, George Ii. Benedict, while
| in stall at Fletcher's hotel on Beach
street, drew a revolver and fired at his wife
three times. His case will come before
the grand Jury at its next session. On the
afternoon Of the 18th, Louis IIeintz, a
Metropolitan ear conductor. shot Joseph
Trickey in the leg. at Bartlett street
! stables, when intending to shoot James
| Garland. On the 10Th Henry Hickey,
| l4-vear-old lad, shot and killed John
| Cronin, three-year-old boy, at No. 20
Ienox street. On the 23d Cornelius Tobin,
while intoxicated. assaulted Mrs Mary L.
Michigan with a burning lamp and inflated
| fatal injuries Tobin is in custody. Last
Sunday night little waif named Emily Z.
Harmon died at No 80 Way street, at the
south end. from the effects of terrible IN
jurles which it is supposed were inflicted by
Ann McCullum, who is under arrest. These
crimes, with the exception of the Kenneally
murder, have been committed during the
present month. Within the same time Liz
zie NJ. Sullivan, for child murder, has tcen
sentenced to the house of correction for five
wears Lucy Ann Mink. for tine murder OF
Charles Kicker, at Lowell, has been SEN
fenced to the same institution for nine years
James Green Bovey, charged with murder,
has been admitted to bail Joanna Morrison,
charged with child murder. has been dis
charged . Thomas Fitzgerald was tried,
convicted and sentenced for manslaughter,
for causing the death of his wife at Fall
River the death sentence OF Albert ID. Joy, |
charged with the murder Of Charles ii.
Gilman at RockpOrt, was committed to I'M
prisonment for life. and Michael Murphy, |
who shot William Appleton at Quincy, Sep |
tember Goth, was sentenced to the State pr |
son for life.
To this list was added, day or two later,
the murder OF man named Michael Doran,
at Methuen, Mass, by a Mrs. Slade, and
shocking double murder in Sheffield, Berk
shire Co, Mass, of an aged farmer and his
wife. In the latter case, mObattempted to
lynch the supposed murderer ; and it was
Massachusetts, paper which accounted for
this outbreak of ''the spirit of lynching,
as consequence of 1.-The frequency of muir
der. and the lack of punishment in that
State. Verify, let Massachusetts clear her
own skirts, before undertaking to hold up
Vermont as a community of murderers.
We can recall nc murder ever committed in
Vermont by an eminent Nermonter hut
we well remember when the eminent DIR.
Webster, of Massachusetts,, was hung for
Aurder We might add that it is no more
true that any railroad ring makes and I'M
makes Governors list of our Governors
for twelve years past shows not one who
could be said to have been made BY the Yer
mont Central Railroad interest, which is, of
course, the rim" meant; no. over one who
had any kind of connection with that inter
est, and two or three who, like our present
were identified with other and
rival railroad enterprises,-or is the "head
and front Of pOlitics action, in the State,
than that murder is the favoritc pastime of
he eminent citizens and Sabbath-school
eachers of Vermont. The man who writes
iuch things, writes himself down as either a
'ery Ignorant or a very reckless slandercr.