Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-28

SHOCKING AFFAIR AT CAsTLEToN--A BABY SHOT
DEAD IN ITS BED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
NIGHT-ITs MOTHER SUSPECTED OF THE
CRIME.
The people of Castleton and vicinity
were startled last Saturday morning by the
news that during the night before child on
ly IL months old, had been shot dead in its
bed in house near the head of Lake Bono
seen. The story of the child's mother was
that, her husband being out on the lake fish
ing, she and her baby were in the house
alone, and about one o'clock somebody fired
pistol bullet in through the window. She
aroused the family of her husbands father,
who lived only few rods distant, and they
made an examination of the premises without
finding any one. An hour after, the child
being asleep in her arms, she heard a noise
IN the room followed by a shot and on start
ing up she found that the little child was dead
with bullet wound in its head. The circum
stances all look as though the mother herself
did the deed. She is said to have shown
unnatural excitement, and to have told strange
stories at times through the summer, and is
probably insane. The neighborhood of the
murder has bad reputation in general and
has been a sort of headquarters for unlawful
fishing in the lake. The Rutland Herald
sent reporter to the spot who writes At
the head OF this lake (Bomoseen) for many
years lived the family of Theron Goodwin in
an old-fashioned, rambling, wood .colored
house, that has been made 10 serve as a sort
of inn or headquarters for fishermen. The
family has supported itself partly by farming
and partly by fishing and the keeping of fish
ermen. Thus things went on till two or
three years ago, when Theodore, son of
Theron, got married and went TO live in a
long, two-story house. implanted and but
poorly finished, about ten rods from his
fathers 1t is not known but the family rela-
hons OF all were pleasant. About eleven
months ago the little Clara who was murder
ed, was born. Last Friday night the father
Theodore Goodwin went on the lake fishing
as usual, leaving the mother and the child
alone; at the grandfathers there was Mr.
Theron Goodwin, (who is somewhat deaf.
and his wife, and son some ten years old
and man named Lake, who was threshinR
there another man named Jones' who
worked with Lake, had gone to a party and
got home little after the murder. The
mother says she went to bed with little Clara.
at the usual time, and along somewhere be-
tween one and two O'Clock Saturday morning
she heard noise and got up and looked out
OF the window. While there shot was fired
through the middle pane of glass in the up-
per row on the lower sash of the window.
She Immediately ran to Theron Goodwin's
and gave the alarm, when Mr.. Goodwin and
Mr.. Lake and the boy went over to her house,
hnding the window shattered, but stating
that the glass was blown out, and that there
was smoke on the inside of the glass; show
ing that the shot must have been fired from
within they also found all of Theodore's
STOCK turned loose into the corn. They seour-
ed these aud went back home, sitting down
on the piazza and watching the other house.
the night being light About three O'Clock
another shot was heard, and, although they
saw nobody, the mother almost instantly
rushed out of the house shouting ''AIy baby
Is shot, my baby is shot" They immediate.
" ran to the house and found that il was
true. The little one was shot near the left