Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-27

loudly crying, and the murderer babe
Annie go up and quiet them. Then
directing John to lie down in his
/ mothers bed with one of the twins,
and himself taking the other, he
/ stretched himself on the bunk lately
occupied by his mother, and, with the
lifeless and mutilated bodies of his
victims lying in their blood on the
floor around him, finally composed
himself to sleep and slept till day
| light. There was no sleep for the
eyes of the terrified lad. When the
father awakened he wrapped the body
of his mother in quilt and compell-
ed his son to help remove her to the
cellar, where the wife was thrown in
her night clothes, her body falling
face downwards on the wet cellar bot
tom and lying partially over the body
of the mother. A sheet was thrown
over her, and thus they were left.
With mop the murderer removed
the pools of blood on the bedroom
floor, apparently using ashes to scour
out the st9ins where the brains of the
old lady had been crushed into the
floor Efforts were also made to
clean the blood-bespattered ceilings.
Some pork and potatoes were taken
from the cellar and the cellar door
was nailed up. The little girls came
down at their fathers call in the
morning and Mary childishly inquir-
ed for her mother. Annie besought
decent burial for her mother, which
the father promised; and he enjoined
strict secrecy on pain of death if they
divulged what had been done. Nc
Caffrey asked the little girl to cook
something for breakfast, but she re-
fused, saying: II won't cook for a
man that has murdered my mother"
She could not eat.
No one came near the house till
late Sunday afternoon, when Julius
Griffin, son of a neighbor, was seen
approaching. Before he came up to
the house, Mccartney called out,
"Hold on, there" and sent John out
to tell him, when he came up on the
piazza, that he could not come in.
The father told Griffin "not to be Of
Tended, but come again some other
| time and see Jonnie." McCaffrey
was walking back and forth in the
room with a child in his arms. He
had treated others in this way at 9TH
er times, and so the incident made no
serious impression on the young mans
mind, and he made no mention of it
to his parents. Monday John put
the bride on the horse and was GO
ing to Frank Ladd's, neighbor' S,
but his father ordered him into the
house and threatened to kill him if he
tried again to get away. Asked if
he was afraid of his father, "Afraid
of him? l guess / was p was the re-
ply. Sunday and Monday the faith
er promised the children that he
would take them away, but when the
time came he would put them off.
He kept the butcher knife about his
person and some of the time carried
it in his hand. 1t is generally believ-
ed that during these two days McCaf-
frey was lying in wait for Peter Nc
Cue to return to kill him, and that he
would have murdered him had he re-
turned and entered the house unsus-
pectingly. Tuesday forenoon, hay
ing eaten up the cooked provisions in
the house, he fulfilled his promises to
take his children away from the home
that had become intolerably odious
: to them. A team was hitched up anC
; the murderer with six children set out
for the Center and drove to DAME
, Hopkins where the children were
, warmed and fed. Here the boy JOIN
t informed Mr.. Hopkins of the muir
l der. The information was commun
l icated to parties in the village, who
e Immediately made preparations TO
t the arrest of the murderer, and tn,
d examination of the house where tn,
d deed was committed. McCaffre,
+ was soon put into the charge of al
e officer and taken to Montpelier.
e After the disposal of the McCaff
1 reys, coroner's jury was summon
a ed. About nine O'Clock in the even
IL ing they arrived on the premises
+ By the dim light of lanterns the help
o ers, preceded by DIR. Washburn, de
g scended to the cellar and bore tn
IS stiff and CHASTITY corpses to the room
IS above. Before c.. B. Clark, justic
IL of the peace, an autopsy or the mul
le dered women was made by DR.. Wasf
* burn. His examination disclosed tn
is following injuries: The face of Mrs
q Ann B. Mccartney was horribly MAJ
y gled, the chin fractured, nose an
y cheeks broken and fattened, CT
er with sharp instrument over tt
e. right temple and partly over the for
It head, bone over the eyes crushed
It The temporal bone of the left sic
d. was crushed in with a blunt instr
es ment, so as to expose the brain; tt
c. back part of the head was literal
er crushed to a jelly. There was Ct
h, through the sphenoid bone with
ke sharp instrument which pierced tt
er brain. The bones in the hands al
ad arms were broken in several place
eel The body was more or less bruise
SIS and showed many old bruises. I'll