Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26

I oSNiNOhoaiy % iC w do dragging MS victim
across the grass. and the revolver. which
was held in the hand that grasped her ankle.
suddenly went off. ''And them saws he
Il killed her in order to put an end to her
terrible sufferines." He killed her BY two
shots IN the left temple, which completely
tore away the skull on that side of the head
and LAID the brain open. The theory of ac-
| cidental shooting in the first instance is.
however, ridiculed by Professor Frost and
the other physicians who examined the
body. and who say that the muzzle of the
pistol was held clos to tho flesh, and that
the underclothing was burned by the
powder.
The report of the two shots that were
fired into the head Of poor Christie Warden
rang out clear and sharp. Instantly the
murderer vas seen to rise up from where
he had bent over the PROSTATE body in the
shadow of the willows. He dashed across
| a space of clear moonlight, ran along a rail
fence Leading up the side of hill and dis
appeared In the darkness in the direction of
Hanover.
THE SEARCH FOR THE sfC"DHRER
For over month nothing was seen of
him. Frank Amy had vanished utterly
into the night, like bird that had flown
through lighted room. For several DAYS
following the murder every stick and stone
IN Grafton county and in all the country
round about was turned over in the effort
to dislodge the murderer of christie War
den.
Dartmouth college students, in baseball
caps and striped tennis jackets, were nu-
merous in the crowd, and the lectures t
the medical school had been suspended in
order that they might Join the chase
Everybody was armed. N A. Frost the
only dealer IN guns in Hanover, had sold
out his entire stock early in the morning
and kept sending out telegraph orders for
more rifles and revolvers during the day.
Frank Amy was actually in the Warden
barn before the body of his victim was
brought to the house that night.
From his hiding place under big pile of
hay he would look out between two boards
where he had made an opening with his
knife, and thus see all that took place in
the Warden house, fifty feet away. Here
he lay the day of the funeral
THE FINAL SPECTACLE.
The final capture of Almy will ever rank
among the most memorable in the annals of
crime. The spectacle presented at the War
den homestead on the Goth of August is
without precedent in American history.
1t was ten hours after Amy was discovered
before he was prisoner III the hands of the
state officials. During part of those ten
hours Almy, desperate but cool, caught like
rat in trap, but resolved to sell his life
dearly, had held at bay an excited armed mob
OF nearly 1000 people, Almy was armed to
the teeth. He had over 400 rounds of am
munition in his cartridge belt and two of
the finest and heaviest revolvers made.
THE FAMILY KNEW.
All the family knew of his love for
Christie Warden and were aware that she
had rejected him. They had become sus-
picious of their handsome and accomplished
farm hand and they hoped when in April
Mr.. Warden drove him into town that they
would never see him again But Almy,
after leaving Hanover. had Christie Warden
n mind o N Nav
port and Salem.
1t must have been in the first week of
July that Amy returned secretly to Han
over. He took up his residence in the
Warden barns, and prepared his hiding
places. Twice man was seen hanging
about the house at night, but none of the
family suspected that it was Almy. IL was
Christie Warden who saw him upon the sec
Oud of these occasions. She was suddenly
awakened from sound sleep by the pres
ence of somebody at her window, which was
on the ground floor. She distinctly heard
the breathing of the man, whose dark
figure could be seen against the moonlight
1t so frightened her that she did not sleep
for the remainder of the night, and the next
morning she informed her father of the fact
and determined thereafter to sleep in
room on an upper floor
NO ONE SUSPECTED.
E,ren after the murder was committed
and it was known that this midnight
prowler had been the girls discarded lover,
nobody suspected that Almy had been hid
ing in the barns.
About one or two weeks after Christie
Warden had been laid in her grave under
the classic walls of old Dartmouth, a series
of small burglaries began in Hanover.
On the afternoon of Monday, the 18th of
August, Mrs. arden, while looking for
some chickens which had strayed away,
NJ tipSG thar a large stone han bppu rpmnye1
from the underpinning of one of the barns,
and when she looked into the opening she
found an empty jelly tumbler which had
been stolen from her house. She also saw
one or two tomato cans, showing that some
body had recently emptied and then tried to
hide them.
a midnight watch was appointed, and
Amy was seen coming out of the barn, TO
which he soon returned again.
Fifty resolute men of Hanover were
aroused. When they had assembled in
front of the hotel, they We're divided into
two parties, which were to approach the
barn from different directions. Mr. Mitch
ell left one or two in Hanover to keep on
rousing the men quietly, and he stationed
4 boy in front of the hotel to direct every
body who came up to go to Warden's at
once
Then the avengers of Christie Warden
started for the barn, where her murderer
H.
day morning: a heavy dew was on the grass
and thick fog had spread on the landsca De
since Amy had been seen. This facilitated
the approach to the barn. At 4:30, just as
the sun was rising, the heavy bank of fog
and mist rolled away and showed the thin,
scattered line of men completely surround
ing the barns. They were ten to twenty |
feet apart, and they kept away from the |
buildings at considerable distance.
BY 6 O'Clock the number of men sur |
rounding the barn had nearly doubled. |
They We're still too weak numerically to do |
anything but guard the premises, and it |
was even feared that if Almy made break |
through the line he could have escaped.
BY o'clobk there were barely one hun !
dred men on the ground. The big Dart |
mouth college bell rang out wild alarm on |
the morning air. Messengers We're dis |
patached from the Wheelock hotel to Nor. |
witch, Lynne, White River Junction, Leba- |
non and all the surrounding towns to arouse |
the populace.
BY 5 o'clock the entire populace in a dis |
trict forty miles square had been aroused |
to 4 pitch of the widest excitement. AT |
o'clock teams were hurrying along all the |
roads leading into Hanover.
HERE THEY SAW HOLE.
The search was then begun.
The hay was piled up thick IN one corner |
close TO the ceiling. Here a farmer saw 4 |
hole running down along the wall and he |
dropped a spade into it. 1t struck some |
thing soft, and instantly man rose up and |
opened fire on the crowd.
1t was Frank G. Amy
The searcherS scattered like a flock of |