Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-08
Murdered at Midnight.

New YORK, September IA deliberate
and cold blooded murder was perpeirated in
the hamlet of Kensico, in the town of North
castle, Westminster county, it is supposed, on
Sunday afternoon or evening. The crime
was not known, however, until about s O'Clock
on Monday evening. The victim, Albert
Montfort, sd been doing business in Kensico
as dealer in dry goods, groceries and other
articles usually kept for sale in country
store. He had also filled the Office of Justice
of the peace in the town for one or two terms.
He was man of fine appearance, and was
about sixty years old. Last spring he built
new store and dwelling, and only a lew
months ago took possession of them. They
are situated in the central part of the hamlet
1t seems 10 have been known among his
neighbors and customers that Mr.. Montfort
intended to visit New York on Monday in
order to purchase goods, for the fact that the
store remained closed on that day excited no
surprise. ATT 80 o'clock pm, however, when
several young men had assembled in Archer's
store, one of them remarked that no one APP
peared TO have seen Mr.. Montfort about that
day. 1t was then decided by them to go
TO the store and see what was the mat
ter. Mr.. Wyekoff provided with a
lantern, and on holding it close 10
the windows of the store it was observed that
the money-drawer was open and about half
way out. This fact at once aroused suspicious
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went to a rear door, which was unlocked.
They pushed it open, when a horrid sight
met their gaze. On the floor of small room,
used for kitchen, lay the body of Montfort
in a pool OF blood. His forehead was split
open if by a blow with an ak or Ratchet,
the cash being eight inches in length. The
left ear was cut in two, and the cash extend
ed nearly to the back OF the neck, while an
other blow with the ak or Ratchet had cut a
cash from a point about an inch from the
second cut to within a short distance of the
right ear, thus nearly severing the head from
the body. The walls, doors and windows of
the room were spattered with blood, and the
blood had flowed through the crevices of the
floor into the cellar. Montfort's pockets were
turned inside out, and not a cent of money
could be found anywhere. 1t was stated that
for six or seven years the sisters of DIR.
Fowler's vile lived with Montfort, and when
they departed Montfort wac married to
Emma Reynolds, who was then the mother
of two children. On Thursday last Mary
Reynolds, of Tarrytown, a sister of Mrs.
Montfort, and a man named Haight paid a
visit to Mrs. Montfort at Kensico, and on
Saturday Mrs. Montfort went to larry
town to visit her sister. At noon Mrs.
Montfort was probably still ignorant
of her husbands murder, and an Of
ficer was then sent 10 inform her
of the fact and request her presence before
the coroner. Mrs. Montfort has also a
brother, Charles Reynolds, who has been in
the penitentiary, and on Saturday or Sun
day the deputy-sherf of Tarrytown was
looking for him at Ksnsico, having tracked
him there from TarrytowD, On account of
some new charge against him. The last seen
of Montfort alive was on Sunday about
o'clock p.m.- A party of villsgers, who had
been at camp meeting at White Plains, say
that on passing the dwelling and store about
$40 o'clock pm, they saw light carried
from the store to the rooms upstairs.
LateT.-The brother-in-law of Montfort,
Charles Reynolds, has been arrested, with
all the members of his family. Two bloody
shirts were found in the house, and bloody
ak with gray hairs on it.