The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-12
Holden A. Tripp Is Dead
and Jeremiah Manchester
Is Accused Of Murder.
Very Hard Feeling Had Existed
Between the Two Men On
Account of q Woman.
THE LATTER HELD AS A WITNESS
She Kept House For Trip and Manchester
Married Her and Took Her Away-The
Death Dealing Weapon Was Bottle.

FAIL RIVER, MASS, July lZ.-lnTcc uis-
reputable characters figured In an as
sault case that ended in murder early
yesterday morning. One Of the trio was
70 brutally assaulted that he died; sec
ond, with blood spots on his clothes, is
held to answer for the crime, while
third, q woman OF degraded character.
is detained as a witness Of the murder,
OF which she was the cause.
Holder A. Trip Is dead. murdered. the
police claim, by jeremiah Manchester.
and the cause of II all Is Manchesters
wife, who, up to 10 days ago, lived with
Tripp at intervals for 10 years.
The marriage and the removal Of the
woman caused much jealousy and bad
feeling between the two men, but what
passed between them was known
only to themselves and Mrs. Manches-
ter. Saturday night Manchester and
his wife drove into Fall River. and Tripp
also came into the city with his own
team. The two men were drinking to-
gether In Sections saloon In Flint VII
lage. but they are not known to have
quarreied. and nothing 10 known Of their
movements after leaving the saloon, ex-
cept by the statements made by Man
chester after his arrest. About HIP
D. m. the last car on the New Bedford
and Fall River electric line. when ona
mile out of the city on It's last trip. came
across Trips body lying in the middle
OF the road. Mrs. Manchester was sit
ting in the adholding the injured mans
head In her lap, while her husband was
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covered with blood, and he was fearfully
bruised. He was then dying, and ex-
pired before physician could be sum-
moned.
The passengers on the car and such
other citizens as had collected, while
not laying hands upon Manchester.
managed to detain him until Fall River
officers could be notified, when he was
taken into custody and brought to this
city, where he was locked up. He pro-
tested his innocence, and told his story
of the affair, as follows:
He said that he started first from Fall
River for his home In Westport with his
wife in their wagon. They stopped at a
watering trough on Eastern avenue,
Just on the outskirts of the city, to water
their horse, and while stopping there
Tripp drove by alone in his wagon, also
on his way home. After their horse had
finished drinking they followed on after.
When they reached the point in the road
where Tripp's body was found later their
horse SHE'D, but he thought little about
II and kept on to the Sanford road,
where they overlook Tripp's team but
the driver Of the latter was not in sight.
Manchester says he then associated the
shying Of his horse with the fact that
Tripp was missing. and that the latter
had been drinking and fearing that
some accident had befallen the latter he
got into Trips wagon, turned the
horse around, and telling his wife to
follow I'm his own wagon, drove back to
the place where ne found Tripp lying
In the middle Of the road bruised and
. bleeding.
An autopsy held yesterday afternoon
BY Medical Examiner Dolan and other
physicians revealed that fact that death
was caused by fractures Of the skull.
There were several fractures and many
cuts and bruises, indicating that some
blunt instrument had been used upon
him. II Is believed by the police that
the men met and quarrelled about the
woman, and that Tripp was kicked TO
death.
The woman made but few statements,
among them one 10 the effect that both
these men were crazy about me, but l
had no hand In this" She was covered
with blood, there were blood stains on
the prisoners clothes and traces Of blood
were found In both wagons.
1t Is reported on what Is considered
excellent authority that Manchester has
confessed that he had a quarrel with
Tripp Saturday night while the men
were on their way home and struck him
= with a beer bottle causing his death.
At the point OF the road where the body
was found he got out OF his wagon and
went forward TO drink beer I'm Trips
wagon. When they had emptied. few
bottles they INDUCED I'm some angry con-
versation, and Manchester struck Trip
a savage blow between the eyes with a
bottle. knocking him from the wagon.
Then going around the back OF the
wagon Manchester fell on his victims
proetrate form and hammered IL with
his heels. At this his wife sprang from
his wagon and tried to Interfere. and
when she found that Tripp did not rise
from the ground she raised his head and
.tto,,pted to revive him