Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-18
Murder I'm Calais.

lace Murcummock in Calais. The " In
dian " was rowing basket maker who
eked out living by fddling and other
practices and had last spring married a
girl from Lyman, n. ii named Hattie
Kenney. She is about Is years of age,
ladylike and of fair education and says
they were married mt Wells River in May
last. her mother knowing she was to mar.
ry the Indian but without her fathers con-
sent. a strange spart Of the matter is
that she should have taken to such life
with such man.
Royal S. Carr was in August, 1864, SEN
fenced to Windsor prison for ten years for
the killing of Mary L. LOOMS in Worces-
ter year or two before that. He is a
brutal, unidentified fellow who seems to
have taken n fancy to Murcummock's
wife and TO have thought that he might
obtain possession of her if her husband
were once out of the way. Carr is about
forty years old and Murcummock was
about thirty-five.
Chester Carr, a cousin of Royals. had
had the Indian and his wife at his house a
few days before the murder and he and
his wife went up and got them again last
Wednesday. On getting back to Chester's
they found Royal and after dinner Royal
asked the Indian to 90 over to Ira Cars,
where they would have some cider and n
good time. After somess,,persuasion the
Indian started with him. The next day
Royal returned and acted strangely and
finally, according to Chester's story, told
him in substance that he had killed the
Indian and where TO find him. The Muir
cummock woman had become alarmed
and tried Friday to find her husband, not
believing the story that was told her that
he had deserted her.
Friday afternoon Chester got Il couple
of neighbors and they found Murcum-
mock's body and near by that of his dog.
Constable A. A. Bliss arrested Royal S.
Carr and kept him ut Worcester till Mon
day when he was bound up for eXamina-
ton by Justice Horatio Templeton with
whom sat Justice Jas. X. Tobey of Calais
in which town it was determined the MUIR
der was committed near the Worcester
line. The examination was Monday after
ternoon in Worcester aud S. G, Shurteff
appeared for the state and William A
Lord for the respondent. The latter put
in no testimony and aimed simply at get
ting the full story Of the state, hoping evil
IDENTIFY that something would come out to
implicate Chester Carr whose actions are
deemed to have been rather strange, ant
who, some think, knew more Of the muir
der than he tells, though of course he had
nothing to do in the execution of it.
The place of the murder was on II piece
of high hill or mountain on the edge o
Calais, half u mile or so from the house o.
Ira Carr. who is consin of Royals ant
lives in Calais. Ira lives northeast Of
Chester Carr's place (Which is in Worces
ter). and in going over this wooded ridg'
between the houses, and when full half ;
mile from any house it seems that Roya
fired ut the Indian putting q charge o
shot into his shoulder, revolver bulle
into the back of his head and three bullet
into his body. 1t is thought the first sho
was with the shot gun, or perhaps tn
bullet in the head was first. But those i
the body are thought to have been fire
into the man after he was down for tn
revolver was held so close us to burn hi
clothes. The Indian in falling face for
ward graspol his own gun, which wa
found near, so .convulsively as to take u
bits of the forest earth in his fingers. Hi
dog, hound, was found twelve rods from
him killed with charge of shot.
Friday Chester Carr told N. IIersey tht
he thought Royal had shot the Indian an
they with NJ. NJ. Harris went that after
noon and found the body covered wit
brush the back against a hemlock tree
the dog was also so covered. The boo
was not disturbed till Saturday when Wn
White, one of the Calais sclectmen, wit
some forty other men, went and got it an
took it to Worcester.
1t seems that Royal went to Ira Carr
in Calais Wednesday, remained that nigh
got his AK and went back to Chester's Il
next day, going rs the tracks show by ii
same route Of the day before and cutting
small tree for its brush to throw over Il
body, throwing the tree itself, denuded
limbs, over ledge. Both Royal ar
Chester seem to have tried to persua'
the Indians wife that they would do hett
> by her thln the Indian had-but she d
not take to their advances kindly NJ
searched for her husband who accorlr
to their story had deserted her.
Besides the tracks, which Royals DO
fit exactly, his confession to Chester Ca
and talks with the Murcummoci wom5
fix the guilt of the actual murder fully
Royal Carr; aud circumstance in ado
t ton to all these things is that the waddir
: found near the dead hound was compos,
= of pieces of the ArguS, on which the lab
} of the subscribers name appeared. I'll
e name was that of Jed. W, Carr, who tt
t titled that he lives in Calais and lent
0 copy of his Argls to Royal to use {
wadding.
| The murderer WAS hroug 1t to Montp
G lier yesterday and committed to Jail
n Constable A, A. Bliss of Worcester.
It CHELSEA Rev. Franklin Hatch
c Hartford, c., bat formerly Of this tow
has recently been in the town on visit