Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-01-29
THE PENALTY PAID.
Hanged for Killing
Emma Anderson.
THE STORY OF HIS CRIME
First Execution in Fitchiield County
for Over a Hundred Years.

II.wE,.. Coma. Jan. G0.-This fore.
noon tu3rW Hori,sson was hanged in
Iit,aI.ld it'i iur the murder Of his sweet.
hear. tmna Anderson, in New Milford
or jly morning ot Aug. >. 1870 The oxe-
cuGnn OF Burir-.ou was The fourth that
has taken place i'm I.itchGeld county, the
thiid Icing that OF Thomas Goss, which
occurred May q, l;sj, nearly l0' years ago.
norlrsson's History.
Andrew Boz i,sson was born in Sweden,
Nov. DEB, 1850. He had grown up in ig
noutuot. lie came 10 New Milford In
1885 and hired out as farm hand. He
met pretty Emma Anderson in Sweden,
and when ne came TO America they were
bctruthcd. Ii was understood before they
left Sweden that She was TO be his wife
Wien Emma landed in America, early I'm
1880, she Wa, not rs much taken up with
her lover as was expected. She had seen
more Of thr world and Of men. Other
SWedcS had A.ruu 20 pay her no little at
teutiou, aud Borjesson had become ad.
dictrl to drinking. She hated 10 break
her plightcd promise, and yet she wns I'M
willing To form compact which
Ensured Her IA Life OF Misery.
Thus when Bcrjcsson pleaded with hei
10 name the day, she kept putting him off,
saying there was no hurry. IL was in one
Of his drunken fits, Aug. l. 1890 that he
impurtuucd her at the farmhouse where
abe lived 90 uarry him Iight away, that
she lost her temper She told him that
she would never marry him, and that she
never wanted 80 see him again. Borjesson
had been much annoyed by her treatment
Of Linn l,iDc tii#, and from his actions he
appeared 'a have determined TO kill the
woman
lie Wa ..uuG 20 tac heart by Emma's
conduct WHOM She spurned him at her own
door AMI p, G.- uu' seen again until after
midnight, when hr was staggering along
the streets ot Nrw Milford, drunk. Bor'
lesson wa De-: evil genius, he was the
b3uc OF her .,le;
HIs love Was Her Curse.
She felt that she could not marry drunk
ard, and ouly a short time before, when he
had visited her for the same purpose, she
induced Erg employer To pay her lover $50,
which IT, claimed he expended for her
passage ,o 'iol lie then agreed to
trouble her no further with his attentions
and rcpro0chcs.
Emma Anderson v wsa servant at the
house Of Homer buckingham. She slept
on The second floor in tho back part of the
heard a slight disturbance in Emma's
room at a. IN. Aug. . 1890 They went
up stairs to ascertain the trouble, and upon
entering with a light saw
a Most Horrible sight.
There upon the floor lay the body Of the
unfortunate girl. dressed in her nightrobe.
Her head wac nearly severed from her
body, and the Cd clothing, walls and floors
were saturated with her life blood.
Her face was badly mutilated, some OF
her hair was torn out. and her body was
all hacked 10 pieces The knife had en-.
tered under the left oar and was drawn
around the back Of the neck TO the other
ear, penetrating the bone There were
over eight fcct of gash"~ cut all over her
body.
The iicnd had entered the girls room by
climbing on ;h" roof Of an ell by the means
Of n plank, and Ec accomplished this afro
ciou5 crime by the aid of the lightning
flashes that quiyc,cd at intervals through
the open window.
Tho Capture.
The band Cf in(uriated men, headed by
Mr. Buckingham, with whom the girl
lived, found the murderer in a spot not far
from the house, a trail of blood marking
his pathway TO where he lay. In his reck
less use Of the knife ne had cut cash in
his own thigh, and he bled 80 profuscly
from the wound that he surrcndered
quietly.
Boricsson had btpn drinking, but he was
not very drunk when arrested lie was
taken TO the lookup at New Milford and
when thoroughly sober confessed the
whole story of the crime and what led to
it He was ably defended. but public
sentiment was 50 strongly against Borjcs.
son, and ne having confessed the crime,
there was little hope for him; the jury
soou returned verdict OF murder in the
first degree,
Borjcssou was n swarthy, dark complex.
iancd, dull looking Swede, with n down
east expression and dull eyes. He did not
look like Swcde. He expressed some
SORROW since his confinement for having
killed Emma, and he thought Of her con-