The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16
MASSACHUSETTS NEWS.
MURDER WILL OUT.
Carefully Concealed Bptchery Revealed by a
| Dor.

carefully Concealed Bptchery Revealed by q
| Dog
Full particulars Of the murder OF joni
Whaen by William Coy of Beckett. Mnss.,
were brought to light late yesterday after
noon by the finding of the Victims body.
buried on lonely mountain side an eighth of
mile from Coy's house. dilapidated farm
building mile south of Washington depot.
At this house. the night of the 10Th of Aug
ust, Coy crushed Whaens skull while the
| latter was sleeping. Coy also cut his victims
throat, chopped off his legs. doubled them
over the body, and. putting the body In Il
wag0n,went up an old wood road on the
mountain side. He carried the body 100
yards Into the woods and buried 1t two feet
underground after which he carefully re.
moved all traces of his work and returned
home. Whalens body was discovered by
Selectman A. B. Pomer@y of WASH
ington whose dog, attracted by the
finally pulling up a suspender.
Whalen. whose home was In Wes' Beckett,
worked on the railroad and boarded with
Coy and wife. He became intimate with
Mrs. Coy and In August the couple planned
an elopement Whalen collected $3.50 due
him, packed his trunk with Mrs. Coy's
clothes and his own and announced his In
tenton of going TO Michigan. Friday, Au-
gust rs. Mrs. Coy left home, arranging to
meet Whaen in Troy the following Monday,
but her husband discovered the plan and
murdered Whalen In his sleep. Coy Is 80
years old and native of Washington. He
has been engaged In farm work, is of low
order OF intelligence. When arrested he had
Whalen's watch In his possession. He stolld.
" maintains his innocence, claiming that
Wha!en gave him the watch before going
West.
Mrs. Grace Callahan of WOburn, met viO-
lent death In her house Tuesday night, and
the police say there Is evidence of foul play.
She was found lying dead on the floor, at the
bottom of flight of stairs. Her daughters
said their mother had been taken with a fit
and fell down stairs, and died two minutes |
later. But the police found the hall bespat-
tered with blood and there was great pool |
of 1t at the foot of the stairs. The woman's |
clothes were also saturated with blood. In |
closet was found pillow case stained with
blood. 1t Is known that there were four men
IN the house carousing ard drinking.
The Searles will contest has undoubtedly
been compromised, the adopted son Timothy,
gets SS,OOO00 to $4,000, 10000. where he want
ed $l2.000,000
A romantic affair occurred In Boston last
week when Miss Kate Z. Norcross on her
death-bed welded Lewis ?. Rollins, New |
ork commercial traveller, In order to will to |
him her fortune of 100000. They met sew.
eral years ago at a seaside resort, and ere |
engaged to marry this fall, but she was
stricken with pneumonia and when sure hat |
the end was nigh insisted on the marriage. !
me ceremony was performed at 3 o'clock In |
the morning and at 80 In the afternoon |
she was dead.
John Shea of Chicopee Fails, died at the
Springfield hospital early Tuesday evening as
a result of being shot by Marshal L. Slate u
month ago and the assailant was arrested.