Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-05
HORRIBLE MURDER.
Man Cuts and Hacks His Wife at Me-
redith, n. IL.

Lsconia, N. H, April 4-Belknsp p
| county Was shocked this morning by cold
| blooded murder which occurred at the
| Meredith passenger station just before the
arrival Of the morning passenger train
south.
The victim was Druscills A. Wiggin Of
Lakeport and the murderer was her hus-
band, George E. Wiggin who has worked
at Meredith and Lakep,rt but did not live
with his wife.
Both parties had been at Lseonia the
past week where her application for divorce
vac to come up in \ few days. Mrs.
Wiggin went to Meredith over Sunday and
her husband went from Lakeport to Mere
dith in the morning paper trsin and waited
at the depot for her to arrive.
He was armed with 4 large dagger, re-
| voIver and knife, and when his wife ap
peared, accompanied by her daughter about
ten years of age, he at once attacked and
horribly butchered her.
The deed was done with q dagger, and as
Mrs. Wiggin laid on the ground covered
with dirt and blood when the accommods-
ton train rolled in, q hasty examination Of
the slready dead woman sho- ed stabs in
the back and breast, q deep cut on the tenn
Pile, and the throat badly hacked and gap
ing open.
Wiggin sat beside the body after doing
the job and gave up the knife and surren-
dered to An officer q few minutes later.
Wiggin is about 45 years Of age. His wife
WAS some years younger.
They had five children and had not lived
together for five years. She claimed he
had threatened at various times to kill her.
The murdered woman had not very good
reputation.
Wiggin was not intoxicated at the time of
the murder and is not hard drinking man
but bad sn ugly disposition. County Solici-
tor Peasee went from Lsconia to Meredith
this noon snd Wiggin will probably be
brought to jail here tonight.
Further Particulars.
Further particulars Of the Meredith mur-
der, show that Drusills A. Wiggin, the
murdered woman, went up from Lakeport
to Meredith on the morning paper train,
accompanied by her ten years old daughter,
to meet her lawyer, james Wilson Of Ash
land, who was coming down on the first
train south.
Her husband, George +. Wiggin, the
murderer, went up on the same train, osten-
sibly 10 procure Witnesses in Meredith to
testify on his side in the divorce case
which was to hsve had a hearing before
the supreme court at Lsconia Tuesday
afternoon. Husband and wife met on the
depot platform at about 80. He wanted
to talk to her. She refused and he at
tempted to draw her aside from the crowd
on the platform.
Mrs. Wiggin screamed for help and the
crowd started to her relief. Wiggin
quickly drew dagger, and before anyone
could reach him. q abbed her in the back
and neck, threw her to the ground and cut
her throst, inserting the blade and prying
the spinal cord snd vertabrae apart, so that
her head hung to the body merely by skin
and fs ssh on the left side.
He made no talk While this was goiug on
and she did not make any outcry except to
proan when the knife went into her. After
completing the butchery Wiggin knelt be
minutes later. He made no resistance to
the arrest and refused to talk.
The officers state that he has not spoken
q word since committing the crime, even
refusing to talk with his counsel.
Wiggin was arraigned today. The IRIS
oDer lay on the bed, apparently uncoD scious
hbt hSitr rbi touh bo III
the proceedings His counsel could not
a'ou.e him enough to plead not guilty.
Wiggin finally shook his head in the
negative to the charge and then relspsed
into apparent tunconsIciousness. The hear
ing brought out no new facts. Judge Rol-
lios decided to hold Wiggin without bail
for the September term of the supreme
court.
The body Of Mrs. Wiggin lies touiGhs in
the rooms of the undertaken, Herbert Moul-
ton, and unless called for by friends will
be buried by the Meredith selectmen.
WigRin was taken tonight to Lsconia. to
Beikusp county jsii, about two miles from
the city. Many Meredith folks take sides
with Wiggin. claiming thst his wife vas a
bad woman and had ruined her own daugb-
ters and broken up the home.
Friends of the prisoner maintain that
domestic troubles rscdcally crszsd him on
the biect. although he was evidently all
right on other matters. He was Of violent
temper and had threatened his wife before.
A few months ago he was put under
bonds to keep the peace on her complaint.
There is little doubt but that the crime was
premeditsted.