Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-05
A FOUL MURDER IN FsRRlseuRoH.

Frederick Collette, a French Canadian
aged about 30 years, was shot dead in his
home near Ferrisburgh Center on Sun
day evening. and Alphouse Chaquette,
another Frenchman of about the same
age, is in jail here and will be arraigned
for the crime.
Collette was married October % last to
Mary Margaret Pidgeon, daughter of
AlonZo Pidgeon, whose first wife, the
girls mother, was daughter of Antoine
Ainse. with whom Mrs. Collette has
always lived both before and since her
marriage. Ainses house is northeast of
Ferrisburgh Center and stands with its
side toward a north and south road which
runs along east of the house. On the
west side of the house is the kitchen,
which extends the whole width of the
house from gable to gable, about 20
feet. The room is entered from an out
side door both at the north and south
ends, and these doors are fitted with 7X9
glass in the top half. \ few minutes
before 9 o'clock Sunday evening there
were in this room the murdered man and
his wife, the grandfather, Antoine Ainse,
and Aonzo Pidgeon, Jr., brother of Mrs.
Collette, and his wife and baby. Col
lette. who had been sitting on the arm of
his wife's chair, had just arisen and was
facing the north end of the room, when
shot was heard and he fell, shot through
the head. He lived but a few minutes.
The murderer apparently stood on the
ground by the side of a platform four
feet 10 inches wide which is in front of
the porth door. He fired through the
lower east pane of glass, which was
completely Knocked out. The charge of
buck and No. shot entered Collette's
laf nd thrnnuh hack
of the head above and behind the left
ear.
suspicion pointed to Chaquette as the
murderer and he was arrested at l o'clock
Monday morning at the house of Robert
L. Sattey, where he had worked for 10
months, by Constable ii. =. Fisher and
City sheriff Bates of Nergennes. States
Attorney Wilds and W. II. Bliss, Esq,
of Middlebury went up 70 Ferrisburgh
on Monday TO look over the ground and
be present at the autopsy, which was
made by Drs. Shpman of Nergennes and
Cram of Ferrisburgh. \ hearing was
had at the City hall in Nergennes on
Wednesday before Justice j. +. Roberts,
and Chaquette was held to answer to the
county court. Messrs. Wilds and Bliss
represented the State at the hearing and
Gen. Grandey appeared for the prisoner.
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Jailed yesterday morning.
The facts adduced at the hearing, in
addition TO those given above, were that
Chaquette boarded at Ainse's year and
half ago, and that he had wanted to
marry the girl who became Mrs. Col
lette; that since the marriage he had
been heard to threaten to take the life of
Collette; that he bought gun of Mr..
Sattley about ten days before the shoot
ing; Sunday night, after assisting in the
chores at Sattley's, he left the house;
this was the first evening he had been
out since he lived there; he did not re-
turn till about 10 30; previous to buying
the gun he had been seen practicing with
a revolver out in the lots; when the Off
GERS went to arrest him his trousers were
on chair and were wet to the knees;
Chaquette took his revolver from the
pocket of these trousers and transferred
it to the pocket of pair he got from a
trunk to put on, but the officers dis
armed him; every chamber of the wea-
pom was loaded he told the officers his
gun was in the loft of the pig PEN they
found it there; the right barrel was
moist from recent discharge, and in
the left barrel was load two and half
inches deep; in his trunk were found
caps, powder, buckshot and No. shot;
his shoes were under pile of rubbish in
the kitchen; they were wet; burs were
on the trousers.
Mr.. Sattley's residence is northwest of
| the Center and about mile and half
from the scene of the murder. Between