Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-14
SAWIELL CLAIMS
That Dr.. Blood and ConTict Jack Killed
His Brother,
And He Knew It Not Uotil After the
Deed Was Committed.

| BosroS, April lS.-The Boston Gios,
prints what purports to be confession o
1saac B. SAwtell, as TO the untimely end o
his brother, Hiram Sswteil. aud for Who's
murder he 10 now In Jail. awaiting trial. il
New Hampshire.
The confession was furnished from
1saac's original notes and memoranda b,
Lawyer A. Eigerly, who 10 Assiduou.
in his labors With Joseph Worcester. Esq.
Of Rochester, to prove Isaac SAwteil not =
party to the actual killing of his brother
as 10 claimed, in the State of Maine.
Isaac Gays:
Il am guilty Of being . party to = con-
spiracy which. in itself felony, resulted
in my brothers death. II is not true. how
ever. that l committed the deed in per.
son. nor did the murder take place within
the limits or jurisdiction OF the
state Of New Hampshire. |, occurred la
Maine. 1t is not true that murder was in.
tended BY me when executed a plan which
decoyed Hiram to Rochester on the after
noon of Feb. 5, 1890. DR.. Charles Blood
and a man cannot positively identify by
name. but who were convict associates at
Charlestown, are responsible for his death
which occurrri near where the body was
found by Officer Shields of Boston in the
woods of Lebanon.
have had DR.. Blood's own handwriting
for the proof that Hiram was killed in a
struggle, during which more than in
tended violence was used by either he or his
partner to prevent Hiram from gainiug his
liberty. The real conspiracy. by DR.
Blood, assented to by ME, directly furthereG
by his companion aud indirectl, by a friend
in Lowell, was an attempt TO foreibly pro
cure from my brother an acknow wledgmeLt
and full release of all claims against the
estate of our mother. which had been con-
veyed by her to me prior to the time OF the
placing of an attachment upon the same,
bv Hiram.
He then goes on to tell that he hired
Blood for $500 to procure this acknowl-
edgement, aud that Convict Jack" helped
Blood. He insinustes that Hiram's wife
WAS 4 party to the affair, and that the child
Marion was taken to Rochester aud made
sick by medicine furnished by one Richard
son of Lowell, to decoy Hiram to the place
where Blood could get at him. The scheme
worked and Blood kept him posted ss 10
how things were going. He admits buying
the spade and AK, but claims they were for
Blood and Jack" He met them near
where the body was found but did not know
Hiram had been killed till he read the let
ter which he destroy ed in Portland.
lit said: Your brother had to be put
out of the way. Let each look out for HIM
self Isaac then says "As true AS God that
vas my first actual knowledge that Hiram
~as dead. That was the motive that
prompted me to ask Capt White if DIR.
Blood had been arrested As regards the
outcome of the case in New Hamrshire
have no fear, l cannot be tried there be
cause the evidence shows that when the
prosecution claim killed my brother,
vas really above Blaisdell's corner, on the
Springvale road, miles away from the al
eged seat Of crime"
Sawteil Confession Not Believed
In Boston.
BosToN, April l3,-The Herald tomor-
row will publish interviews with the police
lfflcials of this city and lawyer Gale, the
associate counsel in cor duc,iDg the defence
Df Isaac Sawtell, ali of whom express Their
disbelief in the confession of Isaac Saw
ell as published in this mornings Globe.