Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-09
THREE MURDERED.
A Horrible Crime Three Miles
from Alburgh Springs.

Deep Mystery Surrounds the Case, but
Robbery is Supposed TO Have Been
the Motive.
Robbery is supposed to have been the motive
for killing three persons in Clarenceville, P. Q.
The victims were Mr.. and Mrs Omri Edy, and
their daughter, Miss Emma Edy. The family
lived on farm three miles north of Alburgh
Springs, this state. John Gilbert lives 800 rods
south of the Edy house. Early Saturday morn
ing, while beginning his days work, he saw
smoke and flames issuing from the Edy house
He went to the kitchen door, but could not enter
on account Of the heat He then broke down the
front door, the smoke soon cleared away, and on
entering he found the body of Miss Edy lying
near the door He lifted it and rushed outside.
Upon a second entrance he discovered Mrs Edy
lying within a few feet of where her daughter
had been found, and the flames disclosed Mr. Edy
sitting in chair near the kitchen door with his
head thrown back. Gilbert says that at first he
thought they were unconscious from suffocation,
but when he dragged the bodies into the open air
he found blood on them, and then the horrible
truth that they were dead and probably murder
ed forced itself upon him, The fire destroyed
the house Authorities were at once summoned
by Gilbert and an autopsy revealed the fact that
Mr.. Edy had been shot in the breast and in the
temple. ball was discovered in the head of
Mrs Edy, but a careful examination failed TO find
one in the body Of the daughter. Both Mrs Edy
and her daughter had cuts in the throat which
appear TO have been made by dull knife. MISS
Edy also had a wound on the bridge of the nose,
as though she had been struck by some heavy
weapon like club or the butt Of a revolver All
three Of the murdered people were completely
dressed. A knife belonging to Mr. Edy was
found with blade open in the ruins of the house.
Mrs Edy when found had a rubber band around
the fingers Of her left hand similar TO the one
she Is supposed to have used around her purse.
The pocket of Mr.. Edy's trousers was found turn
ed inside ont when the body was discovered.
Both of the above circumstances tend to show
that robbery was the motive for the crime. Mr..
H. o. Edy, son of the murdered man. now liv
ing in Montreal. can give no other motive for the
crime than robbery.
The friends Of the Edy family scout the theory
that Mr. Edy killed his wife and daughter while
The home life of the family is said to have been
very pleasant. Frenchman named Ford now
living at Swanton, was once evicted from the
Edy farm and had threatened revenge, but he ac-
counts for his whereabouts at the time the muir
der must have been committed. Outsiders at
tach some suspicion TO Gilbert, but those
quainted with him and the Edy family believe
his story. 1t was known that Mr.. Edy was
customed to keep considerable money in the
house. and 1t is generally believed in the vicinity
of Clarenceville that the family were killed and
the house plundered But the facts that the
house was only partially on fire at O'Clock in the
morning and that the three victims were dressed
deepens the mystery Of the case.
Daniel F. Beatty, the Washington. " Y. orgaf
manufacturer, has been indicted in the courts on
Connecticut for sending through the mails circu-
lars concerning scheme which, it was alleged.
had been devised for obtaining money by false
pretences.
John Dennis, a negro, while drunk, killed his
father and mother at Laurel Del, Friday. He
agreed to surrender, but when the sheriff APP
preached he fired, killing the officer instantly.
Afterward Dennis returned TO his home and was
arrested
The Plankington bank at Milwaukee failed last
week Thursday as a result of the suspension of
the furniture firm of Lappen & Co, who owed
the bank $4,000, Since the bank closed its
doors large amounts in deposits have been with
drawn from all the banks in Milwaukee.
The score or more of leading citizens Of Min
nesota who have robbed the state pine to the
value of over $5,0O00O0 in the past dozen years
are not to escape after all. There is in hand
5000 of the appropriations for the last legisa
ture and this amount will be used in pushing the
prosecutions.
The Domestic Sewing Machine company has APP
piled TO the court of chancery of New Jersey for
the Domestic Sewing Machine company are
placed at about Sl,500,000 and of the Domestic
Manufacturing company at $4,000. The NOM
inal assets are estimated at about $500. Three
national banks in New York hold approximately
$15O,0OO Of the company paper.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World has
given 100000 to the building fund Of Columbia
college. The trustees of the college recently
asked for $1,000, 900 a building fund with which
to erect suitable new home for the college on
the site recently selected on Riverside heights,
overlooking the Hudson river Mr.. Pulitzer s
gift brings the subscriptions up to S55O,0OO.
Twenty-Five men walked into Decatur ILL., a
city of 1900 populption, at O'Clock Saturday
morning, broke down the doors of a Jail with
sledge hammers, dragged out Samuel Bush ne
gro accused of having attacked two white wom-
en-. and hanged him to telegraph pole in the
messed the lynching, but no one offered resistance.
The negro protested his innocence 10 the last,