Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-09
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Startling Developments i'll the
 Lillie Hoyle Case.
HER SISTERS CONFESSION.
It Alleges That NcOuade Hired Dixon
 Cowie to NIurder the Girl-The Defense Ridicule the Story, but There Are Many COrrOI>9rative Facts.

Cowie to Murder the Girl-The Defense
 Ridicule the Story, but There Are
 Many Corroborative Facts.
 WORCESTER, Mass, May 9.-That poor Lille Hoyle was deliberately drugged and then choked to death in the moment of her recovered consciousness is the latest story of the confession Alice Hoyle is said to have given to the government in explanation of the mysterious murder of her sister in Web ster
 It presents young Tom McQuade before the world in the role of an interruptions villain and Dixon R. Cowie as his paid hireling ill the commission of a foul murder, deliber- ately planned and ingeniously covered up.
 There is nothing in the past lives of either of these men to lead one to believe either was capable of so wicked crime, and McQuade's friends are accusing the government of pub fishing the story to create in the public mind a prejudice against the prisoners
 The story of the confession alleges that Alice Hoyle was in love with Thomas Mo Quade; that the latter had been intimate with Lillie and was responsible for her con- dition. She insisted on marriage, and when McQuade refused her she threatened to ex- pose him. Dixon Cowie, Lilies uncle, it alleges, was hired to assassinate her, and the plan was to use drug. Both men were care full to anticipate a discovery of the crime by being able to account for themselves the night the girl was put to death.
 McQuade went to Oxford with Sherlock, called on several young ladies and returned to Webster late in the evening, and Cowie in vited young Grimley to sleep with him and so testify. That night Cowie drugged the beer which Lillie Hoyle drank in his room, and it made her unconscious. At this point Alice Hoyle unexpectedly entered the room and saw her sisters condition, but was assured by Cowie that nothing was wrong.
 As Lillie revived, he sent Alice into the next room for piece of cotton cloth, which he saturated and held to the gaspng girls mouth. She was soon unconscious Then she was removed from the house to the carriage and borne rapidly out of town. The cool night air revived her and she uttered loud and terrible screams. Ready hands then clutched the struggling girls throat, and a murder was committed. After drive of over two miles the body was secreted Ill the corn crib
 Cowie kept his engagement with Grimley. The commission of the murder, the drive to and from the corn crib and the hiding of the body were accomplished before II o'clock The final chapter in this cold blooded tragedy relates to Alice Hoyle She Shielded Tom McQuade because of her love for him. As he promised to marry her, she lied when the de- tectives interviewed her.
 McQuade pnt off the marriage, which dis couraged the girl, and her conscience told her to speak. McQuade left home to resume his studies in New York, Cowie went to Meriden, and she was left alone to face the officers of the law, the inquiries of friends, and to re- strain the dictates of her conscience. She gave way under the pressure at last, con- | fessed all she saw and knew, and then broke down completely and went into seclusion. This is what the police claim to be the sub stance of Alice Hoyle's confession. The defense ridicule her story, and seemingly honestly. They say that Alice Hoyle did not love Tom McQuade, and that if she did | love him it is not reasonable to suppose she l let her love save from exposure the man who had not only betrayed and deserted hez sister, but who had also villainously conspired to accomplish her murder. The defense also l urge that Cowie, however wicked a man he may been, had not the nerve necessary tc commit so terrible crime upon one of his | own flesh and blood.
 The version of the murder which the gov ernment has offered is, however, in keeping with incidents which are known to have oc
 cured that night.