Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-19
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| New Light Shed by Recent Develop l ments-Confession Of the MurdereS Girls Sfster-How the Young Wom an Was Killed. BOSTON, March 16.-The Herald's Wor
 cester special says the famous LiIla Howl, murder case is about to be revived. thai two arrests in connection herewith are an ticipated, and that one person whose name has heretofore never been connected with
 the affair will be brought into it. The
 other arrest proposed is said to be that of
 man over whose head now hangs a charge
 of causing Llla's death. Recent develope-
 ments arc said to put decidedly new light
 on this case and bring out q large number
 of points never before touched upon.
 Lilla Hoyle and her sister Alice, who were
 orphans, roomed together in Mrs. Taylor's
 house in Webster. On September 1, 1887,
 Lilla disappeared and her sister reporting
 next day that she was lost search was
 made and three weeks later her decom-
 posed remains were found under an old
 crib roof on @ deserted farm, three miles
 from town. Thomas McQuaid, son of a
 wealthy Webster liquor dealer, Dixon R.
 Cowie, an uncle of the girl, who
 lived in the house with them, were
 arrested for the crime but as the story
 previously told by Alice was contra
 evidence against the prisoners was consid-
 cred weak by the government and they
 were allowed to depart on their own rec
 ognizances. Thus the case stands to-day.
 Both men over whom suspicion has hung
 have left their homes. Mrs Andrew
 Hoyle, an aunt, has now made a statement
 which in brief is that Alice con- fessed to her and to her hus-
 band that she herself killed her
 sister Lilla because of her jealousy and her desire to outrank her in the affections of
 young McQuaid. Alice said McQuaid told
 her if Lila was out of the way he would
 marry her, but she never said that Me
 Quaid suggested that Lilla should be killed
 or even intimated such a thing, but she de- cided to get rid of her herself. Cowie and
 NcQuaid had been intimate with Lilla and
 both feared the results. According to the with Cowie and McQuaid to get rid of the
 body of Lila. Alice did not say to the aunt that NcQusid helped her in the crime, but when asked as to where the chloroform was procured which Alice used, she said that the liquor dealer's son gave it to her. Then said that she drugged her sister with chloroform and that she did it with the intention of causing Lilla's death. Her description of this piece of work was most vivid. For time she was alone with the unconscious form of her sister. Then Cowie came in. He was surprised when anticipate that such work would be done, a1f o,,ob h if i,}a anJ was ready for it. Then McQuade came in. Lilla was carefully taken to one of Cowie's rooms and laid on the sofa. The girls uncle took from his pocket a number of pieces of tarred rope and remarked: "We'H tie her up." This was done and Alice helped in the work Afterward waiting an hour the body was carried down stairs and put in a carriage and the party, consist ing of five, drove of to the place where the body was subsequently found. Who the fifth person was Alice did not say. Alice was threatened that she would be hanged if she ever told the facts. The party re- turned after midnight and Alice went home with her uncle, while McQuade and the strange driver went their ways. As to the latter as the matter now stands there is no person so much wanted as this in dividual. As Alice has never told who he was no one else will, probably. Since Alice told this story to her aunt she has told several others to the detectives who say they will not believe anything she might say, but it must be re- however, that this was her first story after the murder when she would be disposed to tell the truth In all her other stories the stranger was never mentioned. Mrs- Hoyle's story as to how the changes in the stories came about are interesting. Andrew Hoyle's first declaration was that "Alice is of my flesh and blood, and I will do all in my power to save her, even to sustaining my own ruin" Later he had another motive in saving her from the officers of the law, either as Q witness or a prisoner and has deserted his family, although supposed to be somewhere in the county. Previous to leaving them the last time he frequently absented himself for several days at time and it is believed that during this time he was in the company of Alice. Up to to-day Mrs. Hoyle is the only one of the family who has told anything of the inside affairs of the case. Alice may have lied when she confessed herself an in tended murderess and also when she asked her aunt to kneel in the psrlor and pray with her that she would be forgiven for what she had done, but it is certain her aunt does not to-day and her uncle did not then think she was telling aught but the truth