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killed Josie. The pantsloons covered with
blood and found sunk in pond at St. Al
bans. were my husbands.

blood and found sunk in a pond at st. Al
bans. were my husbands.
A DISPUTE OVER THE BURIAL OF THE MUIR
| DERER.
There is great excitement in Suncook over
the question of the burial Of LaPage's re-
mains. Rev. Father Hardy has had the
gates of the Catholic cemetery at Suncook
locked. and has forbidden any person to
enter it without permission from him. The
French Catholics say that LaPags was ex-
communicated from the church in Canada
for his outrage upon Julienne Rouse, and
they are determined that his remains shall
not be deposited in consecrated ground.
The body has been temporarily deposited in
tomb at Concord. The authorities ofSun-
cook are spprehensive of a serious disturb
sncc if an attempt is made to bury LaPage
in the Catholic cemetery, and il is reported
that large number of special officers have
been sworn in and directed to hold them
selves in readiness in case their services
should be required.
AsA NV VIZ " VI LIN hkc SHihtss
THE BALL MURDER.
On the cath dsy of July. 1874. over the
bill two miles east Of st. Albans, Mariette
N. Ball, q teacher in that district. in
passing from her school house to the house
of Mr.. Foster A. Page, was set upon and
seized BY some one who had lain in wait
for her, and was dragged into the woods on
the lower side of the road, outraged and
murdered and few rods further on her
body was found by searching party in the
night, two days after the crime. 1t was
evident that she had died bravely in de-
fence of her virtue. The public excitement
became intense and widespread. Suspi-
cion fell upon many different men and the
in quest was kept open for months to allow
the fullest investigation. At one time,
Joseph LsPsge, a French Canadian living
in that district, was arrested in St. Albaus
at the instance of Mr. Geo. NJ. Lang. who
heard him inquiring about the departure of
q train and noticed that his face was very
badly scratched. He was taken before
seleetmen Newton and Swift. Of St. Albans,
who made few Inquiries: but eliciting
nothing and knowing that Boston de-
tective wkom thev had employed had pre-
viously seen LsPage and others in that
part of the neighborhood and satisfied
himself they had no hand in the murder,
they It lsased him and suspicion fell upon
others. Finally, the public nearly settled
down to the conviction that the murderer
would never be known ur less he should con-
Tess in after years. and with this belief Miss
Balls iather and sisters removed to Cali
fornia, where their sons and brothers resid-
ed. and where Mr.. Ball has since died.
THE LAN0NAID MURDER.
On the 4th day of October. 1875, at Penn
broke, N. H., Josie Langmaid, a young lady
attending the academy in that town. was
murdered and horribly mutilated while pass
ing through piece OF woods between her
fathers house and tho school. Not return
ing at night, she was missed and search
undertaken by her father and the neigh
bors. Her poor mutlited remains were
found in the woods, though rot all at one
time, and the strocity Of the crime showed
the besstliness of the perpetrator. The ex-
citement WAS even greater than that follow
ing the murder of Miss Bal and it was
with difficulty that the people who gathered
about the lookup in the neighboring village
of Suncook were restrained from lynching
an innocent man upon whom suspicion at
that time rested. LsPage, who had moved
from st. Adams to the town OF SuncoOk
adjoining Pembroke and obtained work
as a woodchopper, was arrested soon afte.
and was tried in March. 1876. Eviden,s
was introduced showing that he had made
Indecent inquiries in reference to. and had
young girls; that he had been on
the Academy road the day before the murder,
and with q stick in his hand. and upon his
overcoat. vest, psntaloons, overalls and hat
were found spots of blood. His defence was
an alibi. that is. he tried to make out BY
faulty testimony of other French wood |
choppers that he was elsewhere on the morn |
ing in question, but their testimony did not
cover the whole time in which he might |
have perpetrated the deed. Amongst the |
many witnesses against the prisoner was
Julienne Rousss, a sister OF his wife, whom |
he outraged and left for dead at her home in |
Cana1a. He used the mask in this affair as |
in the two others. To her evidence txoep- |
lion was taken and the full bench decided |
it to be another and distinct offence, and so |
remote as to ba incompetent to slow the |
motive ir this case, and a second trial was |
granted. which was held in March, 1877. |
lie was convicted at the second trial as he |
was at tho first, and sentenced the latter
time to be hanged On the l5:h day of
March, 1878.