Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
F'IENDISH PLOT.
ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIS
BROTHER AND NIECE.
GAVE TIE CHILD BLACK DRa s' sss1
Tie First Dose Did Not work. nas
second Was Administered, bus az
Chtid's saspicions Were Arouseds
Searching for the Criminal. 4

Boston. Feb. l2.-The Herald publishes
. story relating facts which it says sserns to d
warrant the statement that oil attempt has /;
been made to make away with two persons. !,
Isaac +. Sawtelle, aged about 10 years, rt-pe
gently pardoaed from state prison Thare Effnl
served a long sentence, lived with lis broth no,
Hiram, who did fruit business in Boz ~;
and owned property left by bis father. u. =
1t is believed by the police that tcS they car
possession of the property L. zwifes
deavored to "remoye" his h,Ss1ssgs- wife syerec @
latter's 7.year-old daughter. About gar 20 ago I.
ago Isaac told Hiram's wife he had thsas
fathers consent to take the little GIL to 4
Lowell. He took the child away, and 1t vas
learned subsequently that her fathers con-
sent had not been obtained. isanc spd the
little girl stayed in Lowell two days and
nights and then Isaac took his niece to
Rochester, n. H., going to the hous, OF
Frank Richardson, friend OF his. (
A Black Dranght.
While there the little girl overheard sonle
talk by her uncle which frightened her, and
she states also that her uncle niode two st
ternpts to poison her wilhelm Rochester;
once by giving her some black mixture that
he forced her to take The dose made. her
very i'll. but she vomited freely endwa TO
bed feeling better.
The same night she says her uncls came TO
her room and gave her some pills TO trake
her feel all right The child made foint
of taking the pills, which she says wer9 big
and bitter, but when her uncle retired she
took then, from her mouth and threw thon
under the bed. The next morning her uncle
asked her IL she had taken the pills, and sho
told him she had swallowed them.
Tho Father Summoned.
On Tuesday. Feb. 4, when these attempts
we're being made upon the child, Isoec son.
dispatch to his brother Hiram, ia Bostoa i
stating that the girl was very i'll ard i,
growing worse, and that ne Hiram) she =.
come at once and that he would be M - IL, ,,s
the DEPOT by his brother. Hiram at
started for Rochester, but whether S,<as 2,
he reached there is not known, as yagesN5
not been heard from since. Isanc5 FEB. is'
niece arrived home on Thursdaysfhx districts
The child had not seen hsf an appalling
nothing could be learned fchin Duyal county
subjectos Hiram,s ,xbsse4 stricken with
last Mrs. SawtelIe bluhs.s
having put her husband out OF tue way.
Isaac would not talk, and soon left the house
and has not yet returned. 1t Is understood
that he was seen in Rochester Monday.
Tracing the ,Criminai.
The police, who are making q searching
investigation, believe that most ciabolicui
plot will be unearthed. Special ofesr
Shields went|to Rochester on Saturday Last
and systematic work was begun on the case.
Monday night Officer Shields telegraphcd
that no trace Of Hiram could be found, but
that Isaac had been There on Saturday and Z
left for Massachusetts, that af,crhoon
The Sawtelles are sons of tho late Hiram
F. Sawtelle, who was known to all Bostoni-
ans as "Yankes DOODLE" from his habits Of
constantly whistling that tune in flute like
notes on the streets