The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-05

rarely sweet and winsome chiid,
Of i,nobinp brown eyes, brown ana
"urIv hair. sunny in disposition, win
n;ng in her heart qualities, whose
dooSlv cxpressive face and queenly
hearing will ever remain in the mem
orv of those who knew her, was mary
niece OF KEY. fr' ~ Dun-
with whom she has spent hcr
sum mcrs for several years, ana mus
became known to many of our people
Her father died two years ago, ana her
home was with her mother al . 10
East Thirty fifth street, New YORK.
inst onnosite ST. Gabriel's Catholic
church. her li'ycar-old brother 1oiln
being at college at Montreal STUDYING
for the priesthood. With the assist .,,
apce ofFathcr Cunningham the 1alnlly
was living comfortably IN the zen,
ement district occupied 10y the oeIler
class of laboring people OF new
York, the mother working as a seam
stress and ianitor Of the building, one
of whose 10 tenements they occupied
and little Mary attending st. Gabriel s
academy besides taking special lessons
in music. in which she showed marked
proiiciency and promise of high ac-
complishment' a. aao !,
one of the most brutal murders on rec
ordSaturday and this singularly beau
tiful girl was the victim.
The crime was committed somewhere
between IL and > O'Clock. The moth
or returning home at the latter hour
found the body of her child on the
floor of her bedroom with her head
RESTING against little white shrine, be
fore which it had been their custom to
pray night and morning IN tne
shrine. which was covered with Whlte
chintz, was a mirror, two canuies
crucifix and an image of the virgin
Mary. Such affairs are found IN most
Roman Catholic houses during the
month of May which is dedicated 10
the Virgin. .
Around her neck was towel sat
urated with blood tightly twisted to-
nether at the ends and clasping her
throat with a strangling pressure.
Around the throat was well. defined
mark showing how tightly the towel
had been drawn. Above this mark
there were dark bruises and the skin
was broken as though by the grip OF
powerful hand. Around her feet ano
fastening them together was another
towel tied at its ends with double
knot. Beside the girls body was {
third to vel also twisted as II to tit
her hands. >,
She had also been bleeding
from the nose. Her face was piack
cued all across the brows as II by ono
or more violent blows and there were
some scratches upon her face ana chlf
and upon her hands which had pied
little. The nose was smashed ane
bleeding. The brown wrapper whlcf
she wore was thrown partly up over
her body. The undertaking was tori
to shreds. The bed was tumbled anl
pillow had been thrown on the fioor'
There was blood on this pillow as !
il had been pressed over the glrl
head after she was wounded to smoth
er her or to stihe her efforts to or!
out. Beside the girl lay the fragments
of her water pitcher which had peei
knocked from the washstand ant
broken and the water was soaked IN
to the carpet. Partly under the phi V
was a kitchen knife with its blad
bent far out from line with the han
die. The knife belonged to Mrs. Gun
ninpham and was in the kitchen whel
| she left home.
What happened before Mrs. Cunning
ham discovered the body of her daugh
ter no one can tell in detail. Inc dis
or der indicated struggle beglnnin!
ipDthe kitchen and followed up through
the two bedrooms to the one where IN
body was found The bed IN IN
mothers room was disordered as II IN
rlrl had been thrown on that and mad
| her escape and that in the next room
indicated repetition of the attemp
there. The supposition is that sh
seized the carving knife in the kitchen
to defend herself and that 1t was ben
by her falling upon it. But a strang
| fact is that 10 one about the hous
heard any cutlery or struggle which
must have been desperate one.
When Mrs. Cunningham entere d tn
kitchen she thought thieves had beef
there, called to her daugh ter and re
ceivinp no answer searched the room
and lighting the gas in the room OF he
daughter, her sight was met by tn
bundle that proved to be that OF he
dead body. Her frantic screams sool
brought crowd to the scene. DIR. )
A. Sinsabourgh who soon arrived eX
amined the body and said the chill
had not been violated but he W as Ger
tain that the man who attacked he
had attempted an outrage lie foun'
bruises such as might be made by IN
strong hand of a man ON the girl
back.
Two men have been arrested on sus
picion. Among the people who Gro wd
| ed into the room of the murder afte
the alarm was given was one tall gaun
and with an air of shabby ap
pearance vino soon left the house am
started to walk very hurriedly toward
the west. Before he had walked .
feet he began to run. Bystander
called to him to stop and n
only ran the faster and
crowd was almost instantly in pursul
until Mccormick was stopped by po
| liceman Badly scared, his story wa
that he had been to the house to Sc
an aunt to get assistance for his wifi
who was diving with consumption ant
remembering how long he had been gon
and how his wife was left alone, he raj
TO reach her He told confused sto
nv about the time he had been con
saving he left the house at IL o'clocl
while his wife said it was 9.
But Mccormack shirt had thre'
distinct and one indistinct spots o
blood. The blood had not soaked
through the cloth. a person will
bloody fingers could have left thos'
marks on the shirt. The shirt was al
so badly torn. Mccormack finge
nails we're scraped and the scraping
were turned over to Chemis
Lederle of the board OF health. He de
! clared after his arrest that he did no