St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Sawteu Murder.


Hardly a week has elapsed since
Hiram Sawtell, respectable store
keeper in Roxbury, Mass, disappear
ed. He had gone to New Hampshire
in response to a despatch from a
brother, Isaac Sawtell, who six
weeks before had been pardoned from
state prison by Gov Ames. He had
been serving Is years upon a 80
years sentence, with another similar
Indictment for the horrible crime of
rape upon young girls hanging over
him. Three days elapsed, and Isaac
Sawtell was arrested in Portland,
the police having accumulated evil
dence that looked to the fact that
Isaac had induced Hiram to join him
at Rochester, n. H., taken him away
in a carriage, killed him and buried
the body by night Friday the body
of Hiram Sawtell was discovered,
headless, where he had been left by
his brother, as it is believed, after
being brutally murdered. The cause
was some long standing feud over
the division of the family estate, the
father and both sons having lived in
Roxbury The murder was COM
mitted just seven weeks after the
release of Isaac Sawtell from prison.
Isaac Sawtell was taken to the
Dover jail and the coroner's inquest
began Saturday. Sawtell was ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty.
Killed by an Electric Car.
George H. Bradford, a wealthy
resident of Beacon street, Boston,
was enjoying a horseback ride on
that street between the Brooklyn
bridge and St. Mary's street Monday
evening when an electric car came up
behind him at rapid rate, frighten-
ing his horse. The horse SHE'D and
when the driver of the car struck his
gong to clear the track, the animal
planted himself squarely on the track
in front of the car, and was run down
by it, both horse and rider being in
stantly killed. Mr. Bradford was a
well-knOwn club man and leaves a
family.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her
10th birthday at Washington Satur-
day night.
The men indicted for attempting
to bride the Cronin jury have plead
guilty and the case will be heard for
mitigating circumstances.
lanes c. and Ann Tomlinson Of
Plainheld, Ind, celebrated their list
wedding anniversary last week. The
husband will be 100 years of age on
the 18th of next July.
Miss SUSANNA Warfeld, who com
posed the Grand Inaugural March
rendered at the inauguration OF
| President William Henry Harrison,
died at Sykesville, Carroll county,
Md, recently in her 95th year.
The members of ST. Patrick 5
Cathedral, Newark, N. J., were
warned Sunday that they must take
their children from the public schools
and send them to parochial schools,
under pain of being refused absolu-
ton in case they did not comply.
Toronto University was totally
destroyed by fire Friday night. The
loss is estimated at over 81 900, 900.
The library, worth 100000, the
museum, with its rare specimens and
curiOsities, the valuable documents
of DR.. Wilson, president of the uni
versity, chemical apparatus, mathe-
NAUTICAL instruments, furniture and
utensils, were all destroyed. One
domestic was severely, but not
fatally, burned in the fire. The loss
of the records and historical and
other documents, and many valuable
papers belonging to the president,
cannot be estimated by dollars and
cents, for they cannot be replaced.