Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
HE HENNlKER MURDER.
A New Theory as to the Motive For th
 Crime.

New Theory to the Motive For the
 Crime.
 CoNcoRD, N. H., Aug. i6.-Arthur G. Mclean was arraigned in tho Concord po- lice, court before Judge B. r. Badger on charge of the willful and premeditated mufder of Nettie Belle Douglass. Through his counsel, Fred H. Gould, he waived the reading of the compliant and pleaded not guilty.
 County Solicitor Daniel E. Donovan ap- peared for thestate and asked for a contin- uance until Wednesday next at II O. m. in order to allow Attorney General East man to be present and take part in the prosecution. This the court ordered, and | as ball was denied Mclean went back to his cell He appeared absolutely uncon- cerned throughout the proceedings.
 Thus far the case presents many mys- | terious features. The facts known are | given in Q dispatch from Henniker, where | the murder took place. About o'clock | Tuesday evening Arthur Mclean, 2l, em- ployed in the shoe factory here and we'll known in this section, engaged team at | the livery stable of Fitz Courser, and, with Miss Nettio Douglass aged 15, the daugh- | ter of Peter Douglass, farmer, started for a ride in the direction of Contoocook, evil Il dently tho best of friends.
 The team did not return by midnight, and Mir Courser instructed a hostler to stay up and wait for it. The stableman found n comfortable position in the barn | and soon fell asleep. About n. m. Wednes- day morning he was awakened by the noise | of the wagon coming into the stable yard. He wont out and found the carriage turned
 around and tilted partly on one side. On
 the ground nearby lay the dead body of
 Miss Douglass. A ragged bullethole
 pierced her temple, another had crushed
 through the top of her head and third
 through her jaw. Her clothing was GOV
 cred with fresh blood, and it was evident
 that she had been dead but short time.
 The seat of the carriage was saturated
 with blood, which was splattered in every
 direction. From the position of the body
 it was clearly evident that the horse had
 wandered up into the stable yard and
 turned around and that the body had fall
 en out The girls clothing was slightly
 disarranged, and thero were evidences of q
 struggle with her slayer. Tho stablcmar
 at once alarmed the neighborhoOd, and [
 searching party set out on McLean's trail He was found lying face downward by tho } roadside about threc-quarters of mile from the village on the road to Warner but was neither wounded nor unconscious He refused to say anything whatever about the shooting and was taken into custody On Investigating it was found that th' 3 shooting took place near the house O 3 George Sargent, about milo from thi place on the road to Contoocook. in an op
 posite direction from where Mclean wa ) found.
 HENNIKER, \. H.. Aug. 16.-A nev l and startling theory in the Douglass mur . der case developed here. A middle agc' man of this town has bcon very intimat B with the Doulgass family. Of late Netti | Douglass has been much seen in his com - pany and has driven in one of his team | almost every day. When Mclean sho f the girl, he evidently started the hors f homeward and then himself made a brea s directly across the country to the house O V tho elderly Lothario. When discovered - he was lying behind n rock only feN n rods from tke house. The theory is thn f during Tuesday nights drive McLea . tried to make Miss Douglass promise | 2 2 give up the elder man; that she refuse S5 and that Mclean thcreupon shot and kill T cd her and Mclean, after leaving tho gil = in the buggy, made for the other man = house with the intention of killing hir . . also but his courage failed him.
 , An autopsy was mado on tho body (
 Miss Doulgass by Drs. Conn and kimba
 of Concord and Sanborn of HcnnikcI
 The report will not be made public unt
 later, but no sensational developments al .' expected. Mclean was taken to COncor
 in charge of High Sheriff J. H. Fellows v He still preserves an impCnctrable silence