Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-11
STRUCK DOWN AT HIS POST.
1YHTERI0US MURDER OF A RAILWAY
 POSTAL CLERK ON HIE CAR.

Found Dead on . Pile of Mail Bags
 only . Few Minutes after he was seen
 Alfve-Hfs two Fellow Clerks Arrested
 on Suspicion of Having Killed him
 BANGOR, Me. June I1.-Jere G. Sinclair was murdered in tho mail car on the Boston train last night. He lived in 0ssipee, N. H., and was about sixty years old. He had been a mail clerk fifteen years. Just as the train was pulling out for Boston, Manager ". H Lowell, of the Maine Central restaurant here jumped aboard the postal car to speak to the clerk, and was mortified to find Jere Sinclair lying across a pile of mail bags covered with blood. Head Clerk A. G. Selton, of North East, Mass, and Second Clerk S. Lyman Hayes, of Milton, N. H., were absent from the car.
 Lowell jumped for the bell rope and signal ing the engineer, brought the train to full stop and gave the alarm. At that moment the two other clerks returned. They said that Sinclair had been attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, and they had been into the bag gage car to obtain some liquor for him. The postal car was bloody from end to end, and Selton was covered with blood. This he ex- plained by saying that he had been moving the dying man. Sinclair was dead when found, and after he was taken from the car the train proceeded. The body was removed to an undertaking establishment, and a cor
  close examination of the remains, but after hearing the story decided an inquest unnec- cessary. When the undertakers, about eleven o'clock, were preparing the body for burial, they cut the shirt from the dead clerk, and were startled to see a gaping knife wound just over Sinclair's heart.
 This ended operations at once, and the Cor oner and doctors were again notified. Upon a careful post-mortem, it was found that double edged knife had entered thelbreast to a depth of five inches, severing the carotid artery and causing instant death. Further examination showed oparallel knife cutso on the right side of Sinclair's head, each an inch long, and zigzag cut two inches long on his forehead, so deep that the skull was frae- tured. These discoveries caused sensation. The City Marshal telegraphed to Augusta and caused the arrest of Postal Clerks Sallon and Hayes, and they were brought to this city this morning. Sellon now restsl in the police station, while Hayes is at @ hotel in charge of a keeper.
 Tho investigation causes many people to believe that the two clerks committed the deed, but their friends indignantly deny this, and say that there were no men on the road who worked together soharmoniously. They had been running together eight or mine years, on which account they were supposed
 
 that about i've minutes before the train l started he was standing at his letter rack. Sinclair was at the side door of 3he postal car. opposite the main depot platform, the door being open.
 Suddenly he heard Sinclair exclaim, "No, by God, you don'tl" Just then the locomo- tive began to exhaust steam and..all sounds were drowned. In a moment Sinclair came over to the letter rack and complained of feeling queeriy. He started from the other | end of the car, and fell over upon tLe p.le of bags on which he was found. Clerk Hayes yesterday corroborated this story, and Sai noon they made out so good a case that few believe them guilty.
 Since then damaging evidence has arisen. Transfer Clerk Low. 7, who was at their car l about three minutes before tho train left, ! heard loud talk and the sound of quarrel. Sulfen says that Sinclair was in charge of q registered letter pouch, and thinks that some | one must have been trying to steal it when he l heard the exclamation above quoted, and that the stabbing immediately followed. Tho doctors, however, affirm that pint of blood would haveinstantly spouted from the wound, | and Sellon's story could not be true.