The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
CHARGED WITH MURDER.

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Mary Adams, was missed from her
home. Her disappearance caused in
tense excitement, and that excitement
ran wild when It was at last announced
that she had been murdered. Her body
had been found on the shore of tribu-
tary of the Hudson river, with bruises
upon her head, which gave ample evil
dence that her death had been violent
one.
Such bruises might have been receiv-
ed by falling upon the rocks above the
spot where. the remains were found, but
there were other circumstances which
pointed In another and more ghastly di-
rection.
A young man named William Clay
pole was arrested under accusation of
the murder of Mary Adams. A pre-
liminary examination before Justice
afforded sufficient evidence to bind him
over to appear before a jury. Claypole
had waited upon Mary Adams for year
or more, and during the two or three
months last past their intercourse had
not been of the happiest kind.
She was proved to have been gay and
laughter-loving, with light, volatile
disposition, heart warm and impulsive
and impatient of restraint. Claypole, It
appeared, had long been exceedingly jeal-
Gus and exacting, prone to fault-findng,
and ready to make his affianced miser-
able and fearful if she dared to look
smilingly upon another man.
1t was proved by several witnesses
that Claypole had threatened Miss
Adams with terrible vengeance if he
ever caught her doing certain trifling
things again and a man of the town
"a man respectable and reliable-had
seen the twain together in angry dis
cussion on the very night of the disap-
pearance.
He had been on his way home on foot
and walking leisurely along by the riv-
er's bank, not hundred yards from
where the dead body had been found.
He had heard Claypole use language of
terrible significance, and one sentence,
spoken loudly and distinctly, he could
repeat word for word and swear to it.
1t was bright moonlight evening,
and he had gained but short distance
from the angry pair when he saw the
man grasp the girl by the arm and
fiercely exclaim
I'D rather kill you and throw your
body into the cold flood than live under
such torture as you've made me suffer
for the last few weeks. Beware l tell
you, woman, lam desperate -
To this the man swore most positive
ly. He remembered the circumstances
and the exact date, and this was the
evening upon which Mary had left her
home not to return. William Claypole
was committed for trial, and in due
time was brought before the jury.
If anything, the evidence before the
jury was even more conclusive than
had been the preliminary evidence
There was more of it, and it all pointed
directly to the accused. In fact, If Mary
Adams had been killed, it was an abso-
lutte impossibility that any one else could
have done it. That she.could have killed
herself was proposition not to be en-
tertained.
William Claypole told his story
Most of the evidence he had heard he
acknowledged to be true.
He had been exceedingly jealous, and
he had threatened the girl, and though
he could not remember all that he might
have said under the influence of strong
passion, yet he would not deny that the
man who had reported his last terrible
speech upon the rivers bank, had re-
ported it correctly.
He said that he had been there with
Mary that evening, and he remembered
that he saw the witness on the road
After seeing witness, he spoke the an
CRY, impulsive word to Mary. He could
only swear to the simple fact that very
shortly after using the language just
presented he had become startled at his
own fierce passions, and had sent the
girl from him-had bade her go to her
home, telling her that he hoped he might
never see her again. With that she had
left him, and he knew no more.
Claypole's story bore the stamp of
truth in everything save the bearing
upon it of the fact already stated No
body believed that William Claypole ev-
er nourished murder in his heart. 1t
had been the creature of dreadful i'm
pulse.
Yet the evidence was all against him