Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-10-14
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I rmer Whaien MurdeIed
and Horribly Mulilated.
Two MOTIVES ASSIGNED
To Show That william Coy t0gi'
milted The Crime.

IIrTarIFLp. Mass. Oot IA murder
Of tac losl revolving Kind WAS uu'arthed
yes, v.uy IN the little town II Washing
ton, Oh tic lJnr of tie Boston and Albany
railroad. abou. twelve nile, east OF here.
| John Wu.cu's b jy was discovered in Il
.ln.y wood 0sfu mi.- south Of the rail
ra.l rue. hy Washington farmer.
Tine a.n, lad b.ca circulated through
F t.. t.vn ~ WISHING Ynl and quitea crowd
/. lHl .a.u.. u4cu the officers arrived.
{ When tho DtrtI wts removed
a Horrible sight
met iH.ry,s of the spectators. The body
A. orJo.u Wuasu was found IA anudp state,
covered simply by "a flannel shirt which
hung to lle wrists, showing that j. had
been pul'rl .G over his head. Medical eX-
umiucr Paddock mace "a examination Of
the body, t.u.I that tie skull lad been
bio,cn ia, cyEcuty with some biu1t
Instrument, probably the back Of an
a.e. The p. w aust have been Il tremyn-
duus ou.,a ,as pieces Of the skull were driyea
into the brain Tie throat was cut in sunh
a manner "a, TO Indicate that it was doIe
with un uXr. as the head was almost sey-
cred from the bpIy The logs had been
cut OH above the knees and the medical
p&1mIucr thought the bones were
Cut Ih' with IA saw.
The lr.s wrg, on t,p of tie body.
Trc uutatpl body WAS taken cut Of
its lonely grave and turned over to the
ru.c.imcu ol Washington, and friends u
the murdered m.u were notified. Il was
dlrA last uiG.t before The body reached
the village aad there WIS great excite.
mrut amoag the citizens Of that little
rural town.
William Coy, who has been arrested,
char-cl with tie murder, las been horse
car driver i'm W,stncll for some weeks,
where hc lives with his wife. There WAS
found upon Coy the watch of Wua,en. lie
went $50 far "a, to tell Detective pease that
MMl.4 r.yy lima the watch and 500 in
money, wa..n nc lal spent
Indicator. pJu5 strongly TO Coy ~ the
murderer
WGaeu was 30 years DID, and single
maa. During tie present summer ho
boarded with Coy aud his wife ut Wash
iuu0n. and worked on tie Boston aud
Albany. H. disappeared on Aug 20 and
his friends have hcca looking fur him
since; {. 'aey, searching parties have been
nll over the country, but found 40 truce Of
hm.
When ao sappoarcd he had 500, and
20. 1aniy u. rc ~ lisp. s-ession lie was
la-t -.gu ai tie ra.lt ud station at Wash
l-.ou tic ai-ut ot AuZ. -, about 3
O'Clock, Ia company with Coy. II is not
I.-. vcly known whether he had been
,rAAing II not, but he probably had rcen.
The star.ugs evidence developed that
Uualcn WAS Murdered in Coy'- uouse
probably af,cr hc had gone TO bel The
. LII, Z. &.
.lep had hdd tie pieces cut out Of it, evil
.G.u.Iy with au axe. Two motives are as
t.s ..d a. show that Coy is the probable
ll.r.a" r. one reason il that he was ieal 0ns
Of Wl4icn, who, il appears, was somewhat
Ultimate with his fr, aad the ,upl, in
AUGUST piarucl au clapcucut. " nalen
collected 500 due him, packed his trunk
with Mrs. Cay', ci thcs and his own. and
nuAuuucei his iutcutiUn OF gDiug to Mica
i-un. Aug 2S Mrs Coy left home, arranC.
ing t. meet Wha.cn in Troy the following
Monday. she spent Friday u ght at West
.l.rkpt, wnuJ t. Albany Saturday. stop
mi 4. at the Globe hotel ultl Monday
morning. when. as size was alb ut to take
the train for Troy, she cane face to face
with her hu-blnd
sac accompanied him home, and found
NlAu ti u iAth III v Hiith y htufhonl.
The walls We're spotterrd with blood
and there wa, blood on the sheets
and waist in ia. room. Two
large pieces were cut from the muttress,
Ia pillow was cut out and u
piece cut from the cuIct On the floor
These she showed TO Mrs. Eliza Gtcr. her
nearest uciEjb-r.
The day u'tcr her return she moved to
Nr- Gccr's house. telling the latter that
she could not sleep in her own. she re-
Waiued there two weeks, then moved to
NC,'leld, wlcrc her husband went to
work driving street ear, aud where lie
was arrested.
The other possible motive is that Coy
Comw.,tya the decd TO obtain Wualpu's
money.
Iti- oao Of the most shock a. murders
that has ever taken place la Berkshire
county, clua''.n- the celgbr led Beck
with traaciy '.a, took place some years
a-u at Aaaler!itA