Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-11


was told to warrant tie arrest of Miller
wherever he may be found. The Off
GERS are in possession of valuable in
formation which may help them in the
apprehension of the supposed murderer.
During the day Chairman e. D. Good
ell of the board Of seleetmen called at
a meeting of the board, and it was
voted to offer reward of $1,000 for the
capture of Paul Miller.
DISCOVERY OF THE CRIME.
It was shortly after half past o'clock
Sunday evening that a party, deter
mined to ascertain exactly the condition
of affairs at the Newton homestead and
either establish or overthrow beyond
the shadow of doubt the idea of foul
play, started out for the Newton farm.
Most of the men belonged to the farms
situated about Rice's corner, only few
hundred yards away. They knew Mr..
Newton personally; they also knew his
family, and they were anxious to assist
him, If it should lay within their power,
But the hour for assistance had long
since passed.
In this party there were William
Bemis, Herbert Doane, William Eaton,
George Pike and Arthur A. Rice. Her.
bert Doane, one of the members, was
the very first one to notice on Saturday
that the Newton farm seemed closed
and that the cattle were believing
more loudly than usual. A representa-
tive of the Spy saw him at the scene
of the murder, Monday morning, and
to the newspaper man young Doane
narrated his story in perfectly
straightforward manner. Here is what
he said:
"Well, after Newcomb and 1 had been
over in the afternoon and given the COWS
and horse something to eat, we still
felt that all was not right. The more
we talked, the more we believed that
perhaps the Newtons were in trouble
We bad known of their going off to visit
friends during the day, but they always
returned at night and this fact, coupled
with the noticed absence of Paul about
the place, led us to have suspicious.
"At any rate it was about 20 minutes
Of 10 last night that we left my house
to come over here. We had couple
of lanterns with us, our plan being to
search the house carefully and see if
we could find any traces of foul play.
Let me tell you that we never for one
moment imagined that we were to find
things so bad as they really are.
Eve tried the front and side doors,
but all Of them were locked. Every
time we would shake a door or win
dow, in the hope of loosening a fasten-
within, and occasionally we could hear
the Newtons cat giving pitiful and
plaintive little NEW. At last we found
window opening upon the veranda to
the left side of the front door that was
not only unlocked, but open a few inches
at the bottom of the sash. We opened it
wide, and the dog sprang toward US as
though he wanted to eat US all up. One
of the fellows managed to get the dog
by his collar and we took him out
Then we all climbed in the window and
looked about. AS soon as we got in the
room, which, believe, Is used as a sit
ting room, terrible stencil filled our
nostrils. We then for the first time
saw that some one must surely have
died, long hours ago.
"By the dim light of the lanterns we
realized that it must be both burglary
and murder, for in the sitting room the
ornaments were strewn about the floor
Nan - al walked through the kitchen
into the bed room leading from that
room and occupied, we knew by Mrs
Newton and her adopted daughter.
shall never forget that scene as / opened
the door and, by the lanterns light, be-
held that sight upon the bed.
Laying with the bed clothes over
their heads and their lower limbs entire
lyr exposed and partially blue. were
Mrs Newton and little Ethel. The bed
posts were covered with blood, there
were spots of blood all over the floor;
and, as if to clinch the whole thing, the
telltale axe that Paul had probably
used, was resting by the bedside. We
knew that 1t was not right to touch the
bodies before they had been looked at
by the medical examiner, so not enc of
US laid hands on either of them. but
went up the stairs into the room that
Mr.. Newton had been accustomed to
use as sleeping quarters.
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