Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-10
NEW ENGLAND.
New Hamnahfre.

Young DIl1ingham,s Crime-Great Ex- l citement Among the People = The Prisoner Lodged i'm Jail-The Crimt-
 naI's Anteccdents.
 MANoHEsrER Feb. 9.-Sherif D. Horace
 Kent and Walter Chairman, county solicitor
 of Rockingham county, to-day arrived at the
 scene of the Londonderry tragedy and made
 themselves acquainted with the details of the
 crime. The excitement continues unabated,
 and the hotels and railroad depots in neigh
 boring towns are crowded with people earnest i ly engaged in discussing the facts as given in
 the newspapers concerning the outrage and
 murder. Soon after the arrival of the county , officials, the whereabouts of the prisoner,
 which had been kept secret, was ascertained
 and this tended to increase the excitement. He
 was confined in the third story of Saunders
 Hotel at Derry village in charge of Sheriff
 Clark, where members of the press were all lowed to see him. He lay upon the bed, wear
 ing dark suit, his coat of and having on @ neat print shirt. The wound made by his at
 tempt upon his own life was bandaged and he appeared very nervous, wildly eyeing every newcomer into the room and constantly glancing at the window as though he would take desperate chances to escape. He is of light weight, very slender, black eyes, black hair, slight moustache, low forehead, disappearance being decidedly animal and brutish. At 5 p. m. he was taken to Exeter and lodged in jail, the time for his hearing not having been de- termined upon. Sarah Dillingham;, his vic- tim, is gradually weakening and her physi- clans announce that there is not the slightest swallow and her breathing is very labored. At no time since the tragedy has she been con scious. The anguish of her husband is inde- scribable, but he talks freely concerning the matter. He says he never wanted the boy, but took him at the earnest solicitations of his father and because he took pity on his desti- tuition. The murderer is reticent, says but little and has made no written statement, as has been reported. His claim that the shoot ing was accidental is regarded as the sheerest nonsense.
 James Francis Dillingham;, the perpetrator Mass, November 26, 1859, and has lived there at several periods of his life. No act of his is recalled by those who knew him there which gave evidence of the stubborn devil in his heart which caused him to commit the horrible crime. His father William B. Dillingham; served in the war as first drum major in the Twelfth Maine Regiment, then in the Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, later in the Fourth Light Artillery. He did not return to his family at the close of the war, and Mrs. Dill lingham, supposingIhim dead, was married to MT. w. D. Smith, with whom she now lives in Lowell. Young Dillingham; attended school In Lowell and worked for some time in the Fremont and Suffolk Mills and for the Coburn Shuttle Company. Several years ago he lived 1 for time with his grandfather, James Deadly, in Lawrence, and in BallardvilIe in January, 1s79 MT. Dillingham;, the boys father, returned and took him to New Hampshire in April. He placed him with his uncle, E. N Dillipg ham, where the boy has since lived Since his residence here he has been to Lowell three times, on each occasion visiting his | mother and speaking well of his treatment | at his home in Londonderry. He is about | five feet four inches in height, rather slender | built, weighs no pounds, has dark, curly hair | and black eyes, His relations and former ac- quaintances in Lowell are naturally much sur prised and shocked, as the boy was @ regular | attandant at ohurch and of good hahita