The sun., 1891-01-22
TORTURED -ONE HOURS.
.,oHy TOMS TRICED UP BY HIS WRISTS
BIZ TWO ROBBERS.

Qhey Want MS money anu Ihoy AAso ""hs
Rsvsnse-They Get Both-In Constant
AGONY from Saturday Noon Until II.
>. n. Monday-Discovered by Miss Kilpat-
~,eh. who Gets a Man co Cut Him Down.
A.1a o'clock noon on SATURDAY, John Toms.
vho takes caro- OF an unoccupied house near
Nav Brunswick during the winter was attack
"A in the house BY two men. They knocked
Sim down, bound gagged, and robbed him,
And then hung him up by the wrists to hook
n tbe wall, so that his feet barely touched tho
Noor They secured $57, and then fed. At 8
o,clock on Monday afternoon tho daughter Of
tha owner OF the house discovered him hang
Inc there, and cut him down. He was daubed
rIth blood. badly bruised. and both wrists
we're cut through to the bono BY the ropo He
hsd boen hanging flfty-one hours. He was
AHA 10 speak when found, and few hours
later he described his nssailants to tho au-
thorIties. He is very weak now but Il is pretty
certain that no will live. lie is "a years old
and man Of uniformly steady hnbits.
The house where this atrocity was commit
,sd ,s known Us tho "Old Fclter Mansion" It
"A about mile and half from Now Bruns-
WICK and Just over tho line III Somerset
oounty. New Brunswick Ia In Mddlesex
county 1t Is flne old two-story frame
now owned by Mrs. Jana fitzpatrick. rich
widow, who occupies It in summer ard lives in
Nav brunswick during the winter. Directly
spposite the house is another unoccupied
dwelling owned by the Equitable Life Assur-
snce Society and known as tho John Boun-
dey property"
John Toms has been In Mrs. Kilpatrick's en-.
ploy for three years. Previous to that he was
IN one employ for thirty-three years. When
Mr. Kilpatrick moved to town last fall she
left Toms on the place to look after 1t ana feed
tho three cows and the horse which were left
there He used to bring milk to tho family
.svery night About five months ago man
moved into the John Boundey house. across
the way. to look after 1t. He was small. thin
man Of % years. He was John Walker Of New
Brunswick. He made no attempt to be friendly
with his lonely neighbor across tho way. and
Toms made no advances toward him. Toms
didn't like his appearance. A month or two
ago another man joined Walker a powerful
fellow OF less than middle age He WAS notice.
ably tall, broad. and thick. Toms liked tho
now man even less than he did Walker. The
new man went by the name Of Frank. It
wasn't known TIL yesterday that his last name
was Cook. He is stranger In New Brunswick.
Late In December key to the back door Of
way or ohs Toms sat tho
between. them, and Toms reported tho matter
not to make any trouble about it. because he
thought the men not above revenging them-
ss By s fss al
On Jan. 8 Toms got up to find the place had
ns ely o. sTa Sas
vue So Ms vent town and Lodged
butter had been sold in town. That fact would
irrest the thieves there by virtue Of the State
law against carrying property stolen In 3ne
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Ss!snsns ihensolsss Sa upon 20 him Tor informing
rsd the FsieE House and found To TOMS 1P ip he
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from the,oth her house. They spoke to Toms not
unpleasantly He asked them what they wanted
them. Toms does not recall which one. struck
him Violently On the back ofthe head with s9me
e be hn
wrists were !oInel behind his back. and tied SO
srsss pain WIN sHDo 'nas openea as int
S:s x v.f .he .na men o, stood him him w. " against
calmly osether y neantlme. 0s and 0hS DID 'i not
hSsd his 6n. ,IrlgHtensd y demands to be released:
there was money in the house and wanted to
Know riRht Of without any fooling whore 1t was
Toms replied that tn only money or vauables
vf fnO hnu tn,
2at, and found ,s57. This they W pocEeted
IA nsp WfnIsy pointed the revolver again at him.
t 'YIk xd5 me- ,s Sqt,er ut You know It, Outwe
So!ds seiEsd him and dragged him up two
Alehts q stairs to small clothes room under
room IN the house. Toms was then screaming
that, Coos took the towel which Walker had
that 10 could not scream. Then they took the
* inn!ns rons gbR b1GRe and fastened an end Of It 70
HS viii bis BACK s asaihst S the wal Vail S aader
stout hook near the ceiling. they hung
ansss0 ss0s on Ss FL beck e cous9s ss esIssa
K0S%ss bound arms backward and threw his
~ tSSey toswerd. M H They kept on pulling until only
Ss IT, Ups HX o. IN his toes rested on the floor. Then
sy snSy uod the rope and stood 10 one side to ex-
anime their work. Toms describes his situa-
!aa Hon st this time as one OF extreme agony. The
AZ houuCu uuu lelI mo TOOIls 1H0y
snl1 .l1 tne door aud hooked it on the outside.
saa n order to make doubly sure that he
wS,ulan get out II lie should get free, they
sstHhehea ~ togetter great quantity Of furniture
az plea It Up against the door on the outside.
s0nh ,nHt R n9 hunlnn force eXerted from within
Yn Saturday nigh. Mrs. Fitzpatrick was sui
2slsed not 70 see Toms and his milk cans at her
S.or ~ Hamilton street In town. But the
~ W. nad been exceedingly stormy and slip
Es!H ana she supposed that he did not want
Insx inluring the horse by driving in. Sun
hsS passed. and when might came she was q
SMe worried. At noon on Monday she and her
SSsst1.ntsr 49, concluded that some one ought to 20
" sa,S S19 see what was the matter. SO Miss
kssn,s kss8,s ahllpatrick drove out. She went to the
~aoe great noise and acted strangely. She
SSs .n .n,entsned. and hurried into the house;
SoonsW oe Jaw n3pody. She went up stairs and found
al AZ one: oa Thou. thoroughly alarmed. she went
Hovet 6ne mousse again and finally ran up to
sishtso htsop MOOR; There she was terrified at the
~. .et 81 me furniture piled against the door OF
me- MIL M'ue ROOM She was not strong enough to
Eove u. 80 she left the house and got Oliver
f'onson, q farmer, to come back with her,
sa sns man quickly moved the furniture and
Sss Spsaeo the door. Against the opposite wall
~ Sssgtioed above. HIS head was lying forward
NJ onest and no appeared to be dead.
Siess4Son cut away the towel that gagged
Hn. Hnr,.. MISS kilpatrick thought he had hanged