Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-11
STABBED TO DEATH.
1 Nail Clerk Poully Murdered in His
Car.
His Associates Announce Hemorrhase,
but the Undertaken Discovers the
Wound

Ossipee, n. H., postal clerk on the Bangor
Boston night train. The details of the
crime are yet shrouded in mystery. From
what information that can be gained it seems
that they had just finished piling up the mail
bags in the car. The signal had been given
to start when the conductor was ordered to
stop the train which was done after moving
the length of two cars. 1t was said that q
man on the postal car had been taken with a
hemhorrhage and must be taken off. Persons
rushed into the car and found Sinclair lying
on pile of mail bags in pool of blood. He
was taken into an omnibus and carried to the
| Penobscot Exchange where he boarded aud
found to be dead. He was supposed to have
beeH-deaa- frsm the time he was put into the
omnibus. He was taken to undertaken Hunts
to be prepared for burial when it was found
that instead of hemorrhage death had result
ed from a wound in the breast mode by some
sharp instrument, apparently double edged
knife, cutting through his jumper and shirt,
and penetrating just below the left collar
bone to the depth of four inches and severing
large artery. Death must have ensued al
most Immediately as was shown by the an
topsy held tonight.
The case is shrouded in the deepest mys-
terry, as the only persons known to have
been with the deceased in the car were the
postal clerks, o. u. S.llon of Massachusetts
aud 5. Lyman Hayes of New Hampshire,
who had run fourteen years with Sinclair,
the latter having been on the road some four
teen years. As the train started off directly
taking the postal clerks, nothing was learned
of III ir fist discovery of the fact. The
dispatches sent by Marshal Whitney will
have them returned on the morning train
From the appearance OF the wound 1t might
hav" been inhicted by blow in font OF be-
hind, or might have been self Inflicted.
Some persons believe tina. some trnmp or
other evlly disposed person may have been
concealed in the compartment of the car oc
cupied by Sinclair and dealt the blow aud
escaped before the alarm was given. The
deceased was much liked by all and was not
known to have had an enemy. His assocl-
ates IN the service stand as high as any one
III the community The inquest will be held
as soon as those On the train can be brought
here, and the matter thoroughly investigated.
The deceased was about 60, and leaves
second wife. The community is in the
highest state of excitement over the terrible
and my sterious affair.
Sellon Placed in Cell but Hayes Under
Guard.
A. G. Sellon of North Easton, Mass, and
5. Lyman Hayes of Wilton, n. H., postal
clerks with j. &. Sinclair, who came to his
death SO my steriously, last night, arrived on
the morning Pullman from Augusta, in the
charge of Officer Breen, who arrested them
there in response to dispatch from Marshal
Whitney. After being questioned regarding
the affair, they were allowed to go to the ho-
tel where they stopped, surveillance being
kept ON them by the officers, who in the
meanwhile pursued their investigations.
Their discoveries, whatever their nature, are
kept secret by the officers, but it is known
early this afternoon that Sellon and Hayes
were taken into custody, Sellon locked up in
cell, and Hayes put in charge of the Off
GERS at the station house.
An apparently well authenticated rumor
has it that Hayes has made statements impli-
eating SelOn as the one who perpetrated the
terrible deed, but the officers will neither af-
firm or deny the statement.
The coroner's jury will be empanelled in
the morning, when the postal car will be
here for examination. The inquest will be
private, only the jury, officers and witnesses
being admitted, aud the result will not be
known till the verdict is rendered.
The affair causes great excitement where
the parties are well known and highly es-
teemed by their associates. Sellon and Sim
clair have been in the service Is or l6 years
and Hayes about six years. Sellon is about
so and has a wife at North Easton. This is
the most shocking and mysterious affair
that has ever taken place here, and the COM
menity is in the highest state of excitement.
What sellon Says About the Affair.
Special to the kennebec Journal.
BANGOR, June 10.
When Sellon and Hayes were taken to the