Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-15
IT Is FRAIRICIDE.
Body Of Hiram SaVtelle Found
in the Woods.
Shot Through The Heart, Deeapitated and
Buried In the Ground.
The Inhuman Brother 10 Arraieued In
Court and Held without Bail.

!. ping paper vas found yesterday In Eas
Lebanon, Me. Twenty yards from ther,
they found new earth turned up. They hat
no to, Is 10 work with and the ground VA
q frozen. They used pocket knives ans
sticks of wood AMI got through the frost il
20 minutes and came upon come clothes
A little below they came upon the d. at
body of . man. The head Was cut of and
, could not be found Turning the bod,
: over. bullet dropped out OF hole in ths
back. The bullet had gone throuS the
heart They found near the body a collar
and shirt button, and . she'll of 80 calibre
revolver cartridge. Coroner Burbark of
Saco was sent for and the body will remain
there until he arrives. No doubt this 10 the
body of Hiram SaStelle.
sawrelle Says His Brother viii
! Appear Alive and Well.
Isasc b Sswtelle. su.pecied Of fratri-
eide. passed a restless night in his cell
guarded BY eight officers. Ia an interview
this morning he asserted that his brother
would be found all right. He will return.
said be. when the proper time arrives. and
! then | will make an explanation. The
question was asked, do you authorize a
sta,e m-nt that he will return and that your
prediction 10 based upon knowledge in
your possessob?' To this. after
moments hesitation he replied in the
Affirmative. At eight o'clock this morn
ing several parties of ci liens, Boston
police and reporters rene wed the search for
Hiram Sawtelie's body.
Between East Rochester and East Leb-
anon, Me a handkerchief ha, been found
totay with hinnr as m md ka 1t
| ter ON the corner IN lndeliible ink Be
tween the house of Isaac Rankin and va
| cant one where he officers searched YES
terday in tn woods, twenty feet from the
road, was found low cut shoe with the
heel worn down, similar to the one that
Hiram Sawtelle wore when he left home
for the last time. The shoe is covered
with blood. About twenty feet from the
shoe was a pool of blood on some ice. Dr
Young Of East Rochester scraped up the
blood and put it in bottle for preservation.
The conductor on the noon train today
says that last Monday Isaac Sawtelle left
his train at East Rochester aud went down
the track toward East Lebanon. An old
farmer \ mile from the aforesaid va
cant house on the way to East Lebanon de
pot says man looking like Isaac Sawtelle
walked by his house t 3 z. N last Mon.
day towards the depot. The general i'm
preston is that the body of the missing
Hiram was first buried in the cellar of the
vacant house where loose dirt wac found,
and later taken away sometime Monday
ald hidden where found.
Sawtelle Auaigned for Murder.
Isaac Sawtelle was srraigned in court at
three O'Clock this afternoon. His counsel
waived reading of the complaint and pleaded
not guilty. The case was adj burned to
March II. Sawtelle was taken to Dover
jail where he will be confined till the time
named.
Further Particulars OF the Horrible
Crime.
ROCHESTER. n. H., Feb. I4-Hiram |
Sawtelle's body was found in the thick un-
wood well off the main carriage road from
Blaisdelfs Corner to Great Falls. on wood |
path used by lumbermeD several years ago. |
When found his toes were but two inches |
under the frozen earth, the rest of his body |
inclinng downward. the shoulders being |
not over sixteen inches below the ground |
His head was cut of by two blows of the |
axe cutting down into the body in "V'
shape. Both arms were cut of at the |
shoulders. He wore stocking on his feet, |
the rest of his body being naked.
Capt White ordered the body moved TO |
Blaisdell Corner school house, three miles
nearer East Rochester Richard Goodwin, |
deputy sheriff from Ber~ick. will watch |
the body tonight. The coroner of York |
county viii visit the scene of the murder |
tomorrow morning.
When Isaac Sswtelle undressed this
morning blood was found on his coatsleeve,
pants, shoes and drawers. The indica ions |
are he had tried 10 wash the stains from
his drawers Isasc was sent to Dover this
afternoon and locked up in jail
VIM. Gale of Boston, Sawtelle' g counsel,
arrived at Dover this evening. aud was
driven at once 10 the jail. He instructed
Iessc to say nothing.
The belief increases that Hiram Sawtale
came to his death soon after leaving Roch-
ester. Wednesday, the h; tina, he wa.
given 10 understand that he was being
driven to see his sick daughter; that v hen
the houses were passed, Isaac killed HIM
by shooting him with a revolver. Whep
the team pssst through East Roc hester it
was noticed that ore man lay back in the
carriage as though sick or sleeping
Rankin. who lives two miles east of there
noticed the same thing The belief is thai
the body was frs laced in Enos Blas1el's
vacant house. but that Monday mornirg
Isaac moved it to where it va, found, re-
turned to Rochester at 8 with the team and |
later in the day walked to the scene from
East Rochester, di-membered the body, |
buried the trunk. carried off the rest Of it,
AMI walked to the East Lebanon depot
where he took the cars for Portland
County Attorney Burbsrk will Take
the Matter IN Hand.
SAco Feb. l4-County Attorney II
Burbank left on the evening train for Port
land ADd will take the first train in the
morning for East Rochester. He received
telegram this afternoon from Sheriff r.
K. Goodwin of West Lebanon stating that
the body of Hiram Savtelle had been found |
there. The county attorney replied b.
wire: Hold the body in q convenien.
place in Lebanon for inquest Notify the
nearest coroner. Curtis Carroll of South |
WATERFORD to hold an irque.t Immediately |
snd will come in the morning train from |
Portland"
6awtelle il Interviewed.
BosroS. Feb. IA Globe corre.pon- |
dent at Dover telegraphs an interview he
had with Isaac B. Sswtele. Sawtelle was
cautioned by his counsel not to say anything |
to pre- iudice his case. Sawtelle denied he |