Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-29

overseerof the poor of Green township, in
 order that he might be provided for as the
 law direets Mir. Nugent applied some reme-
 dies to his frozen feet and did all he could to
 oyerseer, when describing the sufferings of
 Moses, said 'sI never felt so sorry for any
 Y,oor wretch in my life. Justice David c.
 Roe was sent for, and an examination of the
 case was made. Moses was very slow about
 giving information, but stated that he was
 from New Hartford, Conn. and was
 a farmer by occupation. An order of
 removal was made out for him as tramp, and on the same afternoon Mir. Nugent
 removed him to the county poor house. He
 remained at this institution about @ month,
 when lie escaped. Nothing further was heard
 of him until Sunday, February P last when
 his dead body was found short distance
 from the poor house in piece of woods be-
 longing to Mrs. Elizabeth Morris. The
 traeks in the snow indicated that he had
 wandered about in dazed condition until nearly exhausted, when he had made bed of
 twigs and leaves under the top of a fallen tree and laid down to die. When found his
 body was frozen stiff, and was clothed only in pantaloons and boots. Justice S: K. Bray, as coroner, made an examination of the body, when it was delivered to- the poor
 house authorities and buried as pauper on the town farm. The investigation made by
 the detective removed all doubts as to the
 
 escaped from the asylum on the 27th day of la Constable Farley found that Moses had escaped from the asylum just before the mur- der He found the mother of Moses, who said he was very violent, having knocked her down several times and threatened to kill her, and having attacked his father twice one day with chain and threatened to kill him. The detective further thought the job looked like Ernest Moses work, for he knew he attacked an old lady about four years ago, who was partially insane and over TO years old, his nearest neighbor at that time; flung her down in the mud, tore her underclothes, and some thought accomplish ed his purpose Her cries brought assistance and rescued her. Therefore knew he had assaulted an old lady once before, and had heard people say if he got mad he would as lief kill 8 person as not. The morning of the murder, the night freight train on the Canal
 road was late, they met a man, whom they called tramp, about two miles south of Avon at about a. m. The engineer, fire man, conductor and brakeman gave me an exact description of Ernest Moses. A young man by the name of Case saw him leave the railroad track at the lower end of the fill be- low Avon, go across the field in the direction of the house where the murder was commit ted, not half a mile from the house.
 In,the spring of 1865 his parents moved to West Hartford and lived there about a year. During that time and since then Ernest Moses has been back and forth through Avon at Mrs. Avent's and Chidsey's, and had been fed by them. He knew the location of the coun- try in that vicinity. The supposition is that when he left the railroad track it was for the purpose of going across the fields, saving the distance, and stopping at their house for something to eat, and was on his way to New Hartford and Barkhamsted. He was seen by persons that knew him on the following days: On June in the town of Hartford, two days after the murder, out in a pasture; on the 4th of June, in the town of Barkhamsted ; Barkhamsted, June 2S, and on the 3Oth of June in New Hartford, and on the 2d of July in New Hartford. You see he was seen and identified in New Hartford June 1, Barkham- sted June 4, North Canton June ', Barkham- sted June 2S, New Hartford June 30, New Hartford July 2