The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-17
NEW WORLD.
Members Of the Malta Caught.

| Justice has at last oycrtahen gang OF ltallan
| assassins who under the direction of the Malta,
| have committed murders and robberics and ter
| roniZed the people of southern Luzerhc county,
/ Pa for the last six months Nine OF the worst
members of the gang are now lnthc county jail
n. Wilkcsbarre four are fugitycs FROM istice
| and one, Michael Spero Is on the Wdl 10 " likes
| barre from Chicago under arrest detectives,
who worked up the eases against these men. LAY
| that there will be 30 or ~ more arrests before
| they have captured all the CRIMINALS. Most
startling of all the discoveries concerning this
band Is the fact that they are all members oi inc
Malta. several OF the prisoners have confessed
that they worked under orders received IRON
the headquarters of the Malta in New York anu
Philadelphia.
Whole Family Killed.
The dead bodies of A IIougaard his wife and
five children, who had been asphyNiated by
gas, were found at his house in Eaglewood, On.
cagu, Monday morning by policemen who went
IN rcspOnce TO Il letter from iougaaru, saying
he was going to commit suscidc. Hougaaru
was a mix dealer and was believed TO he in
comfortable circumstances. The bodies OF
Iiougaard, his wife and ncycar old enid were
found in one room. In an adjoining room was
found the body OF an llycar old girl and IN an
other room the corpscs of the three remaining
children The jets OF every gas MIXTURE IN the
house had been turned ON and the cracks OF 1.-THE
windows and doors had been plugged with cot
ton. Death had evidently OYertaken every
member OF the family except the father While
they slept. Friends OF iiougaard say that IN y
business transaction year ago he took several
notes which have long since fallen due, but
were.nevcr paid, and it is though, that this may
have caused his dispondency.
Athoi Man shot.
Mrs Matte Y Angelicr, wife of Frank Angc,
lier, a cigar dealer and pOOlroom proprietor
shot and Killed Charles + Parker, agent for the
Leaviu machine company OF Atiioi, IN her nus Z
bands store at Baltimore, Me, saturday noon. /
Parker was taken to the city hospital. where he !
died at ! O'Clock. He had TWO bullet wounds IN I
the back of his head and another In his LETT
breast. There were no witnesses 10 the shoot'
ing which the woman says she did III self de 4
Tense. she says Parker came into our place
several days ago and attempted to take liberties
with me My husband WAS not well, and he
knew il. lie grabbed me about the waist ana
after freeing my self ! told him If he attempted
such thing again would murder him, was 4
afraid OF him, and put revolver IN my POCKET .
to defenu myself II he should Interfere with me :
again. "He Jeanne into the store today and APP
preached me again. When he got near me he at
temped to eaten hold OF me. then drew the re
yolyer and shot him. do not regret 1t, for did
i, in defence OF my honor and for the good name
of my husband and our live children farkef
was formerly OF Athoi and orange Mass, and
where he was employed by the LeavitCo, but he
was very disipated and had lost his position
though later employed on the road by the com
pany.
Lee Lewis, A. and his brother Joseph, Il,
were killed atiSt Louis Mo. Tuesday while
playing with small wire which became accl
IDENTITY fastened to an electric light wire.
Friday afternoon. in the town of Ransonville,
\ \, Robert Clapsaddle, 4 farmer, aged g. was
by ms proi'igatc sonin law,Georse II
smith, and three hours later a posse ~ lhe
most prominent farmers OF the section meied
,ut swift jnsticc TO the assassin.
Tamworth y IL is greatly excited over the
discovery that Rev W IL Hammond, pastor OF the
Methodist church there aud very popular as 4 {
preacher has four wives living. The dlseIos-
IRE came through a son of one Of them, az Sat
lie Greek, Mich. who came te IamWoiu! last
october with the expressed dctcruilnat ~ ~ cN-
rose his father. Hammond has disappeared.
samuel Ruff was shot and Killed at Union +,
lille, CT, Friday night and Henry Martin, who :
I'D the shooting, is under arrest. The murder =
yits the result of row in dlsOrtcrIy mouse :,
md both men had been drinking.
Sergeant Timothy Cantlin of Buffalo, y y I
vas shot and killed by Patroman Michael sam /
non at O'Clock sunday morning because ne J
ound the latter of his beat ami intended TO ie-
,ort him therefor II is supposed that sammon
pore some grudge against Cantlin and that after
le had shot HIM believing that ne had hlled nm a
instantly he went direct To the station house To &
iiyert suspicion. But Cantlm blew his whistle, I
ang heip from another policeman, and sam 6
non was promptly arrested. sammoh was cap
ain OF a y ecent for several years and bore a I
rood character, but was reduced to the ranks b
or cause and since then has been cIreics 5 IN j
lis duties. He appeared, however TO have con c
iderable influence with the present police a
aligned on charges. .
When grocery clerk pushed open the door OF :,
heir house at Ogdenshurg, Y, about O'Clock IL
tuesday he discovered VIM 0sweli, aged - and d,
n
N the kitchen lOor IN Il pool OF blood Near ny -
AZ Il revolver which OsSell had purchased
week ago, asking at the time II 1t would XII. r.
The affair is my steriOus as no direct cause can 7
e attributed for the deed. As Il result OF MS :,
epulsive nature he WAS often stunned by ac ~
uaintances, which wounded his sensiiiveness. \
Ie always displayed great love for his mother :
nd it is thought that he killed her simply be, y
ause he expected to take his own life and did !,
ot want her to live and suffer disgrace. They :,
ad lived alone there for several years. William
1as very eccentric and of a morose disposition :,
bout December he was discharged from the a
iiice of the Central Vermont, where he was en- -,
loyed as bookkecper and about two weeks ago -
cyan studying shorthand at Egbert Business h.
ocgc. n
The fishing schooner Fortuna of Gloucester /,
'as run down and sunk by the fruit steamer 81
off Highland, Mass, late Monday
yening. Nine of the isherman's crew were ~
rowned, the others, IA in number, being picked Il
y by the colliding vessel. HI
Allsion u Mason, president OF the Globe in y,
lc hands of q receiver, was arrested at his of
&c saturday morning charged with embezzlc- y
tent Lowell Moore, treasurer of the con "
Arn is already convicted. q
Rev George J Lidder was Tuesday sentenced :,
the superior court at Boston by Judge Bond -
state prison for forgery. lie Is about - hi
ears old, can understand Ia languages and ~
,eaks eight fluently. He is an author, having N,
ritten n book of poems and theological work r.
nd the associate of scholarly men. Last July e.
WAS in charge of the Rescue mission ON -
nceland street and while there forged sew "a,
al checks for small amounts. He pleaded NJ
iilty to the indictment and sought mitigation /,
his sentence on the ground that he committed -
e forgeries while under the influence of NOR an,
nne, to which he was addicted Before going on
Boston he was charged in Nashville, Tenn, ,o
III also In Louisville, Ky, with having obtained ha
ourV by false -.