The Press., 1891-08-27

whose crime at Hanover, N. H., so re-
 gently startled the people of the country,
 has been found secreted in the barn of
 MT. Warden, the father of his victim.
 Amy was well educated, and surprised
 Dartmouth college students, whose &C.,
 quaintance he made by his knowledge of the classics. He had been receiving let caused the farmer to distrust and dis charge him. He had paid much atten- tion to Christie, Mir. Warden's daughter,
 but his advances were. rejected. This, and his anger at being discharged, are thought to have caused him to shoot the girl dead on the night of July 18th, while she was walking with her sister Fannie.
 Since that time many alleged Almys have been traced and arrested, but, proving to be not the right person, have been dis charged from custody. It now appears
 that the hunted murderer has been hiding near the scene of his crime all the time, while detectives have been securing New England and Canada for him, and even in Connecticut he has been supposed to have been seen in numerous towns, keeping officers on the alert to secure the $5, 900 reward offered for his arrest. It was long ago noted by De Quinoey that the murderer is strangely drawn back to the scene of his. crime. This terrible spell, 1t turns out, rested heavily on Amy. He tried to leave his place in tine Warden barn, where he had taken refuge, but was unaccountably drawn back after proceed ing some distance. Signs were finally noted that some one was in hiding in the Warden outbaildings. People in the wi cinity had had their oellais raided, and provisions stolen. A party watched in the night and saw Almy go to an apple tree, gather fruit, and return to the barn.
 A searching party went into the barn, and a college student poking in. the hay with a shovel handle drew shot from Almy's revolver, which he promptly returned, firing into the hay and exchanging shots until his ammunition was exhausted. AL my then called for local officials, and pro- posed to surrender if guaranteed protec. tion and fair trial. After this had been guaranteed his courage failed, and he re- fused to come forth. Then a corps of men armed with Winchester rifles fired at the barn to cover Almy's supposed ioca- tion, he returning the fire for a time, then asking another barley. During this in- terview he flourished his revolver danger ously, often pointing at those with whom he was talking, and with his own known indifference as to his own life making it quite uncomfortable for his interviewers. Finally he surrendered, and was taken out, being with difficulty gotsafely through had received several wounds in the firing, but, fortunately, no one else was injured., Amy proves to be Geo. H. Abbott, the Vermont highwayman, who is wanted for an unfinished term of fifteen years in the Vermont state prison. He was one time the terror of New Hampshire and Yer mont towns, and was not captured until he had resisted his captors in the same way and been riddled with bullets in the same manner that the murdererof Christie Warden was. Abbott is known as an ex- pert burglar and desperate criminal. In 1888 he escaped from the state prison at Windsor, Vt., and reward of $400 was offered for his capture, but he had never been again arrested. At the time of his escape he was serving out a sent ence of fifteen years, having been convict ed on nine different indictments for break ing and entering, to which he pleaded guilty i'm January. 1881. 5eT was the ringleader of gang of burglars who op- erated in the towns up and down the Con- necticut river, from Ber1aet, Vt, on the north, to Lyme, N. H., on the south. He made his home most of the time that the depredations of the notorious gang were occurring in 1880 and 1881 at the house of his uncle at Ely station. In December, 1880, he was captured in the woods near Ely station by posse of citizens under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff s. K. Berry Stored in the woods were found over 300 different articles which the gang had stolen, and among them was @ rife which he had stolen from his captor, Deputy Sheriff Berry. Four days after he escaped from his captors, and ran over a mile and half with nothing on but his night shirt and a bed spread thrown around him. He concealed himself in 8 railroad culvert, but was soon found.