Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-21
State News.
4 WORTHY MANS SAD FATE.


 The man killed at Stamford the other evening by the cars was Christopher Mo Jauphlin aged 35 years, an industrious man, married and with three children. He started from Wescotts to escort his sister-who is employed as domestic at Mir. $. B. Reeds to her home Setting out on his return he borrowed an umbrella, as the rain was then falling steadily It is supposed that in cross- ing the track, foot of Norton Hill, the rain falling on the umbrella prevented him from hearing train then approaching. At all events he was struck by the locomotive and instantly killed.
 TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY
 DESTROYED.
 series of out buildings consisting of 8 large barn, stable, COW sheds, piggery, etc., on the premises of Wm. Hoyt, Esq, Noroton Hili were totally destroyed by fire which be- gan about daybrcak Thursday morning, July 18th The total loss is estimated at SIC, ,000. The barn, a structure 5Ox50 with 2O-foot posts, cost $6, 900 to build, and could not be replaced now for the money, was covered by policy in the Home Insurance company, of New York, for 5000, Mir. Hoyt could not tell without reference to his office in New York, what insurance, if any, is on the other property destroyed. It is not known how the fire was started.
 The fire first appeared in the shed build ings on the east side. The barn is on the west side of the semi-circular series of build. ings burned. Four horses, several cows swine, etc., were all got out without special difficulty, but there were no means of sav- ing the buildings nor their heavier contents as soon as the fire got a good hold. The barn contained about 60 tons of hay and some 20 tons of rye straw. The unbroken stone wall of grapery faced the buildings on the south. It sustained such intense heat that the fruit was roasted as it hung on q Tho HraE Eholl RFQno alarm the village, but not until the fire was beyond remedy. The steam engine was taken as far as the railroad crossing, but returned with out going into action.
 A colored woman, aged about fifty years, name not ascertained was killed by the milk train east of the New Haven railroad bridge at Norwalk yesterday morning. She had wandered, as is thought, from the poor house, and was in the act Of crossing the track when the train struck her. The body was horribly mangled and the cars had to be uncoupled to extricate it.
 LILLIAN M. FIREMAN OF HARRINGTON RELEASED FROM JAIL.
 Lillian M. Freeman, of Pennington, who killed her sister in that town in March, 1874, and was sentenced to the county jail, Hart ford, for eight. years, was quietly released from confinement Tuesday evening. Her time sentence had expired and she was work
 
 $516, and which, had she not been released, l would have kept her 8 prisoner until Octo- Der 8th, 1884, She was liberated by State Attorney Hamersley on the ground of ill- health, the belief being that she could not live if kept in jail to complete her sentence. Her crime was dark one and prompt ed by jealousy. Her husband, James Freeman, was colored man, and Mrs. Freeman's sis ter, Alvina Allen, lived with them at their home on the New Britain road about a mile from the center of Pennington. On Wednes- day evening, March 25th, 1874, Mrs Free man had quarrel with her sister, during which the Freeman woman accused her sister of being criminally intimate with her husband After the quarrel the Freemans went up stairs to their room, the Allen wo- man remaining in the kitchen to write some letters, and finally falling asleep in her chair. At o'clock that night Mrs. Freeman got up and went down stairs, where she picked up an axe and struck her sleeping sister two blows on the head. either of which was sufficient to cause death. The murder ess then called to her husband, telling him what she had done and that she was anxious to give herself up to the authorities They went together to Constable Hills house and on Thursday forenoon she waived an exam 1 ination before Justice Treadwell and wae bound over to the Superior court. The affair naturally caused great excitement in the usually quiet town of Pennington, and many pre- dicted that the woman would be sent to the galIows. She was indicted for murder in the first degree, but the Superior court jury found her guilty of manslaughter only. Dur ing the time that Mrs. Freeman was in jail the dreadful crime could not be mentioned without visibly affecting her and very often she has been prostrated by extreme nervous ness brought on by references to the awful murder. Before marrying the negro Free man, the woman was divorced from a white ! man whom she married when she was 13 years old.
 On July young woman living in Dan | bury started to visit her husband, who was working for man named Sanford in Weston. Coming down the Danbury road she, by mis- l take, got of the train at Sanford's station l and only discovered her error after the train had left. She then made inquiries as to the l nearest way to Weston and upon receiving directions started to walk to that place. Shortly after a young Irishman who had 1 overheard her inquiries and had followed her made an outrageous assault upon her. The woman made vigorous resistance and suc- ceeded in escaping from her assailant, but not until he had torn most of her clothes of. She made no complaint, fearing publicity, but an arrest is probable.