Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-11
A TRIPLE MURDER.
Three Innocent Lives BIotted
Out at Brookfe|d, Mass.
Brutal Murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. D.
Newton and Adopted Daughter.
Suspicion Strongly Attaches to Farmland
Paul Who Is Missing.


New England took place in the quiet
farm house of Francis -. Newton
about three miles from the center of
this peaceful but now Mortified village.
some time last Friday night
The details Of the crime, the death
Of the father, the mother and the little
girl. all from blows of an axe in the
hands. it is supposed. Of a farm hant.
are as yet subjects only of conjecture
Whether the ficnd who sent all three
| lives into eternity. dealt with the man
first and then with the helpless woman.
| is also a mystery.
If these lips. now cold in death, could
speak. the tale of nightmare hideous
would be unfolded. the mere thought
/ of which blanches the cheek Of every
| man. woman and child in This commu
! nifty.
The entire police force of this state
is, tonight. hard at work. trying to find
| within the limits of civilization one
/ Paul, or Paul Miller. a foreigner. whom
/ they believe slaughtered in cold blood
! Francis Newton. his employer, togeth-
er with the helpless wife and the still
more helpless girl of 10 years.
/ That the bodies Of all three should
/ have lain for two full days without be
! ing discovered can only be accounted
/ for by that distinctive New England
t rural habit Of allowing every one 20
! mind his own. business coupled win
the nmo,eness Of the scene Of the
| crime
! \ full quarter of mile from any
/ other habitatlhm lived the Newtons,
I 2 Ia. Of 70
/ seeing their neighbors but seldom and
/ keeping like many other families. We'll
! within themselves.
I Mr. Newton. a hard working but mo-
+ a rich farmer, kept one servant. the
| man Who - now being searched for.
4 The household tasks We're performed
/ by Mrs. Newton. unaide}.
/ No one who passed INV house. Satur-
day. and There must have been many
Thought il strange that there appeared
I np signs ol life about lhe place. Neither
/ djd the pass rsbs Sunday morning. con-
slider it strange that neither slr. Newton
nor his wife showed themselves at the
windows.
Even Elmer Newcomb who. Sunday
/ afternoon, heard the lowing Of The cattle
in the barn. did not think Of looking into
/ the house for its Inhabitants.
II appears siiIi more strange that VIM
Bems and VIM. Eaton. who were notified
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was AWAY and might possibly have been
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