New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-11
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DEATH AT FIRST THOUGHT TO BE FROM
HEMoRRHhGE-Two CLERKS, HIS COM
PANIoNS ARRESTED.
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Boston, juno 10.-A dispatch to " The Journal
from Bangor says that the Maine Central Rail
road depot in that city was the scene on Saturday
evening of mysterious murder the victim being
jerry Sinclair, railway postal clerk and resi-
dent of OsSipee, n II. Mr.. Sinclair was man
about ffty-iive years of age, and had been in the
service of the Government as a postal clerk up
ward Of fifteen years His body was discovered
lying on pile of mail bags just as the train was
leaving for Boston, and the train was stopped
and the body removed, but it was not
discovered that he had been murdered until two
hours later, when the undertaken, Mr. Hunt, was
removing the clothing from the body. Until then
it was supposed that hemorrhage of the lungs
caused death. The undertaken found that the
body had deep cut in the left breast, just above
the heart, which severed the main artery, and that
this had caused death. DR.. Sanger, who eX-
amined the wound, said the man must have died
within a minute after the wound was inflicted
Sinclair had charge of the mail-car attached to
the evening train for Boston, which leaves here
at o'clock. lie left the postoflce on the mail
cart which takes the mail to the depot, shortly
after o'clock, to join the other two clerks, B.
Lyman Hayes, of Osspec, and A. G.. Sellon OF
Methuen Mass. who made the run with him and
had begun work on the mail-car at
o'clock in the evening. lie had changed
his coat for jumper and dOnned
a pair of ovcralls The train had been backed
into position in the depot and the mail put into
the car, when the transfer clerk s. I. Lowry,
stepped up to the main door at the side of the car
and handed Sinclair n package of letters Tho
last gong was sounded three minutes later, anC
the train had begun to move slowly out Of the
depot
William II. Lowell who the restaurant
at the depot and was going aboard as a passenger,
jumped on to the rear platform of
the mail car and looking into the
open door saw Sinclair on q pile of mail bags in
lifeless state. lie pulled the bell-cord connected
with the engine and the train stoppd before
it had cone more than one hundred feet. The
body was removed from the car and the train pro-
cecded
Those who removed Sinclair said that he
breathcd his last while being taken from the car.
A physician was called and the body taken to the
Penobscot Exchange. where an examination was
held and the cause of death pronounced
10 be hemorrhaGe of the lungs. About
10 o'clock in the evening, when
the undertaken removed the clothing from the
body lie found a deep cut extending downward
in the shape of on the left side, just opposite
the left arm This was found to be seven inches
long, and between five and six inches deep, and
the main artery had been severed. Word was
tclegraphcd Immediately to officers at Augusta to
arrest Sellon and Hayes for murder, and the
officers started on visant search for any other
suspicious character.
Scllon and Hayes were brought TO this city on
the return train at early hour this morning
Sellon says that he was in the forward part oil
the car sorting letters Back of him, few feet,
svyo doors opened on each side of the car, ana he
heard Sinclair who was standing. he thinks in
the door opposite the depot platform, say to some
one:
Not by a sight" and then heard him
stumble over a plank in the car. He looked round,
and Sinclair said to him:
-" | feel funny
With that he fell across n pile Of mail-bags
in the middle of the car. He thought he hac
tainted and started into the baggage car for some
thing to bring him out Of the faint.
Hayes says he was in the rear end of the car
and did not hear or anything but soon learned
that Sinclair had tainted. They told the men
who carried the body out of the car to get nm
a Doctor and one of them took his watch and
pocletbool< for safckeeping When Hayes ana
Sellon were brought to this city, they were let
90 after they told their story, but about O'CLOCK
were taken into custody, and Sellon was searched
and locked UP. Hayes was allowed to go to his
hotel, but is still in custody. No trace OF any
sharp weapon was found on the prisoners or about
the station, and two knives found on the BODY
of the dead man were without stain OF blood
The three clerks have been running together tor
three years and were believed to be on friendly
terms.
Sinclair was known TO be good-natured man,
well liked by all WHO knew him, and 1t was not
supposed that he had an enemy in the world. IL
is said that he was married about two months
ago in his home in New-Hampshire. Whether
some one was detected stealing the mail py oih-
clair or whether he was assaulted by anybody IN
the car is a matter of conjecture. Three tramps
have been arrested but it is not thought that they
had any connection with the crime
A DOG DESCRNDS MA CARA FILLS SAfhLL