Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-07-20
THE HUNT FOR ALMY
Miss Warden's Murderer is
Still at Large.
HUNDREDS JOIN IN THE SEARCH.
Ii the Assassin is Found He will Prob
ably be Lynched.

Tho Murder Was Carefully Planned-He
Dragged His Victim Into the bushes
and Shot Her to Death-The Girls
Father Determined to Run the MUIR
derer Down-A Reward offered.
HANOVER, N. H, July 2O.-The quiet
steady-going town of Hanover is in a
fever of excitement over the cruel MUIR
der of pretty Christie Warden by her re-
Jected admirer, Frank Almy, on Friday
night.
The funeral of the murdered girl will
be held this afternoon. The services
will be conducted by the Rev. DIR. S. II.
Leeds, pastor of the College (Congre-
gationaD Church, of which Miss Warden
was q member.
Scene OF the Tragedy.
The tragedy occurred at point known
as Vale Tempe, spot disting uished by
the fact that it was there that Daniel
Webster, when an under graduate at
Dartmouth College, rehearsed his recita-
tions. At the lowest point, where the
road crosses the valley, there is small
brook, which is dry except in the early
spring and fall. AS the short, level
stretch across the valley is reached an
ture adjoining. From the bushes near
this opening on Friday evening Almy
sprang into the road and saluted the party
with:
II am Frank Almy. know you, Mrs.
Warden, and you, too, Fannie. want
nothing of either of you. Pass ri ght
along. I have come a thousand miles to
see you, Christie"
AS he uttered the words he seized
ChriSfia nv the nd hauon f0 bor
toward the barway. Fannie and her
mother helped Christie to resist him,
whereupon he drew q revolver and put
ting it within four inches OF Fannies
head he said:
Fanny, l hate you, and I will kill you
II you INTERFERE
The frightened girl released her hold
on Christie. The terrified mother told
Miss Goodell to run to H. P Flint's, a
farmer living near, for assistance. She
herself started back towards the village,
to hurry forward those whom she sup
posed to be close behind her.
Amy in the mean time chung to Chris
tie and in spite of her desperate struR-
giles gradually drew her further in the
field and towards a clump of willows
which grew on the bank of the dried-up
brook. In the struggle her hat and outer
garments were stripped off and when
4o6hkAAS UAG N4LAOWS SnElSGLS CFlSOs uni
Fannie, come and help me; he is tearing
my clothes all off,
All this time Fannie had been follow
ing him up and pleading with him to re-
lease her sister. At this cry tina cour-
ageous girl rushed forward, whereupon
Almy fired at her, the bullet just nissin g
her head.
Two Bullets in Her Body.
This cry of Christie's was the first she
had uttered since Almy's attack, his
grasp on the throat-as the autopsy has
since revealed-having prevented an
earlier cutlery.
A moment more two more shots rang
out from the bushes, and Fannie, sup
posing that the shots were fred at her,
and hearing Amy jump the fence and
run, supposed that her sister was not seri-
ously harmed.
The help that had been SUNNI oned by
her mother had arrived by this time, but
when the newcomers went to the little
clumb of weeping willows they found
Christie lying on her back, with nearly
every article of her clothing torn off, and
two bullet holes in her body. One bullet
had entered near the chin on the left
side, ranging upward to the left eye,
which it had torn out, and to the fore
head, fin (which there was .a1shole two
inches in diameter. The second bullet
had entered low down in the back,
severed the spinal column, and came out
in the hip. Death must have been in
Simultaneous.
Hunting for the Murderer.
Armed men are out in all direc lions
looking for the murderer. Among the
professors who were spending their vaca-
tions at home, they as we'll as all the
others being we'll armed. One of the
professors, touching his revolver signih-
cantly, saidl eff we find this man we
won't stop to argue long with him."
Attorney General Barnard believes that
Almy had carefully laid all his plans for
the crime and had prepared his route of
escape in advance. Theories are abund-
lieving that he made a detour to the
south, and will endeavor to reach some
large city to seek hiding place.
There is a strong suspicion that Almy
Is not the murderer's true name. At one
time he said that he had worked at
Browns mills, Wentworth, and after he
left inquiry revealed the fact that a man
who answered his description but with a
different name, had beeu there about the
time stated by Almy.
Mr.. Warden's Grief.
Mr.. Warden's grief at the terrible fate
of his daughter was piteous to behold,
but he is now experimenting the search
for the murderer. He says:
II have not got such a very great
amount Of money, but one thing is GER
tain, will spend every dollar that have
got to bring that accursed assassin to
justice. He has been smart thus far in
keeping away, but If he is on top of the
earth will run him down.
His offer of $500 has been supplement-
ed with another of equal amount by the
town authorities. The whole State ha-
been aroused, and If the murderer is
alive it seems as though it was impossi-
BILE for him to escape.