Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-10-14
DISCOVERED BY A DOG.
How Murdered John Whalen's
Body Was Found.
BE WAS KILLED AND CUT UP BY COY

A Tragedy unearthed six weeks After
Its Occurrence Near Piftsneld. Mass.
The Dead Mans Boast That He Had
Been Intimate with the Murderer'swIfe
PIrTsFIEIp, Mass, Oct. 14.-Murdered
at midnight, cut TO pieces and buried in
the woods on a lonely mountain side was
the fate of John Whalen, whose mangled
and dismembered body was recovered last
night. William Coy is in Pittsfield Jail
charged with the murder, which was com
mitted on the night of Satu rday Aug. %.
in Coy's tumbledown little farmhouse on
a lonely road near Washington depot.
Whalen worked on the Boston and Albany
railroad and boarded with Coy. Coy's
wife favored the attentions OF Whalen and
he became intimate with her.
II Was Fatal Boast.
Whalen boosted Of this to Coy and
Whalen and Mrs. Coy finally arranged an
elopement, the time set being the Friday
before the murder Whalen collected $3.50
due him from the railroad and other
sources and packed his clothes aud hers in
his trunk She left home on Friday
nigh, and then went 20 Albany, where
Whalen was 20 meet her on Monday
Whalen had gone home aud was probably
asleep when Coy arrived 10 Coyis iaal-
ousy had been added a desire TO obtain the
money in Whalens possession He stole
home and about midnight and crushed in
the skull Of the sleeping man. Saturday
night was spent In cutting up the body
and carrying it to the woods
Johns Room Was sight.
On Sunday Coy went to Albany and
found his wife, which leads to the suppo-
sition that Whalen had confessed the pro-
posed elopement 70 him, On Monday
morning Coy and his wife returned home
On Tuesday Mrs Coy called IN Mira Eliza
Geer, a neighbor. to see Johns bedroom. .
She said there had been an awful row
there, aud there had. The walls Of the
little room were spatterrd with blood
That night Coy and his wife went to Mrs.
Geer's house, Mrs. Coy saying that she
could not sleep in her house. They staid
at Mrs Geer's two weeks and then went
to Westtield, where Coy drove a street car
until he was arrested, charged with muir.
der. He pleaded not guilty and was re.
manded for a hearing Nov 2
Discovered by a Dog.
Meanwhile the town OF Washington was
aroused Selectman Pomeroy started the
search, accompanied BY his dog. In thick
growth Of young naples and beeches on
the mountain side, sixty rods south OF
Coy's house, his dog began scratching the
ground. The dog kept on digging aud
soon brought to light a suspender, which
was fastened to something still under the
ground. Several citizens began to dig Al
the spot About two feet below the sur
face the remains were found.
The body lay on its back, aud the sew
cred legs were on top Of the trunk The
remains were laid on a shutter and carried
to the house where the crime was commit
ted. An examination showed that th,
skull had been crushed and that gast
had been cut Ia the throat Mrs 6eel
says thar while Coy was at her house hi
was uneasy and drank heavily. He con
stantly referred to Whalen's absence. say
/ ing be could not understand where Johi
was. When arrested he had Whalen'
watch in his possession. He said Whale
had given him the watch aud 800 TO Il
the matter Of his intimacy with Mrs Co
drop. Coy is about thirty five years oil,
short, Of rather stout build and unintell
( gent looking.