Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

her husband are exposed.
BOSTON, February 15.-0ficer Shields re-
turned to-day from Dover Jail where he had
long talk with Isaac Sawtelle The latter,
when confronted with the proofs OF the
crime, backed down somewhat and made a
partial confession. He denied that he did
the killing and implicated CDR" Blood and
one Ed Russell, a Boston criminal suspected
of completely in the Keene jewelry store
robbery on Washington street. Isaac al so
maintained he did not know where the head
was and that he would, if he could, give the
officers aid IN finding it.
Captain White after hearing the report
expressed the belief that Sawtelle was still
lying. and that though the prisoner was
aided up to the point of committing the
crime, he dId,the deed. Blood's picture has
been shown to many people in Rochester,
but no one recognizes the man as ever
having been there where strangers would be
quickly noticed.
A dispatch from Rochester, N. H., says:
Mrs. Hiram Sawtelle and the Boston officer
arrived here at II A. M. They were met at
the depot BY large crowd of citizens
Deputy Marshal Kent took charge of the
party and they entered carriage and were
driven to South Lebanon where the mu-
tilated body has rested in a schooIhouse
since its discovery. On the road Mrs. Saw
telle was shown the collar buttons, pencils
and keys in the officers possession and
identified them as the property of her hus-
band.
Reaching South Lebanon she was taken
to the schoolhouse, and after a painful scene
first identified the socks as those of her hus-
band, and then by certain marks known to
her identified the body as that of her hus-
band.
THE SEARCH CONTINUED.
Search still continues for the head and
clothes of the murdered Hiram Sawtelle,
but thus far unsuccessfully. The officers
think Isaac put the head in the bag in which
he carried the tools, weighted the same and
threw it in the river, or else carried it to
Portland. The clothes are probably in an
other place.
A coroner's jury was impaneled to-day
and Mrs. Sawtelle's testimony as to the
identity of the body taken. The Jury then
adjourned to Monday.
Seth W. Corson, of East Rochester, in an
interview states that on Wednesday night,
February 3, while on his way home from
work he saw team near the Nutter woods,
II miles from the Rochester depot, toward
East Rochester. Two men were in the
wagon. One was talking excitedly. After
the team had passed by Corson several rods,
he heard pistol shot. He thought nothing
of it at the time and did not recell it until
he learned of the bullet wound in Sawtelle's
body. Corson is certain that the two men
were the Sawtelles.
At the place where the body was disin-
tered. from 30 to rs men were hunting for
the murdered mans head to-day. One of
the searchers found in a wood choppers
shanty, about so yards from the grave of
the murdered man, an old coat with blood
on the back of it, as though the head had
been wrapped in it In stove in the shanty
was found the bones which are thought to
be portions OF the murdered mans skull.
These have been turned over to the medi-
cal men. When Mrs. Sawtelle was on the
way to South Lebanon she described before
she saw them, the socks that were found on
the body. When the body was uncovered
in her presence she tainted away and fell
into an officers arms. When revived she
Immediately recognized some india ink
marks on the hands.
The jury before adjournment viewed the
spot where the body was found. 1t is un-
derstood the physicians will testify that
death was instantaneous from a bullet in
the heart. The examination of the fractured
bones has not been completed, but the seq
ments bear evidence of having been broken
up in small pieces so as to destroy them by
fire.