Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-11
4 TRIPLE MURDER
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,nquer were hurrying to the Newton

F'ranquer We're hurrytng to the Newton
farm.
BY the time these men had arrived. the
entire community had been aroused and
farmers were tiocking to the scene Of the
tragedy. Diigent search was at once be-
gun for Miller, but no traceeof him could
be found.
Many persons spent the night going
from one place to another, with Inquiries
after the missing farm hand and the
only clue to his whereabouts came from
the very persons who discovered the
crime.
that when returning from Grange meet
ing at the village, late Friday night, with
his family, Paul, as he is generally
known. was met near Rice's grist mill,
more than :; mile from the Newton house.
He was then walking rapidly toward
Brookiield. Two of the other men, George
Pike and Arthur Rice, also remembered
meeting Paul, that night, on the Brook
field causeway. They both spoke to him,
but Paul turned his head away ana
PASSED on toward the village without
speaking.
1t was with this slight trace of the
much wanted man that the officers of
the state police arrived on the scene, this
morning. and begun to chase for the sup
posed murderer. which every one in Wor-
ccster county hopes will end in his apprc-
tension
Soon after the state officers arrived DR..
Norwood of Spencer, the medical eX-
amincr of the district. together with Or.
Baker of Worcester, the examiner for
that district. appeared and at once be-
gan preparation for an autopsy upon all
three bodies. This was held in one of the
chambers ana after some hours the ply
Sicians made their report to the officers.
All three Of the victims they stated
had met their death through the deep
blows in the head. The instrument was
no doubt the bloody axe. which had been
found in the back room. II WAS this same
weapon which had inflicted the deep
gaSheS in the abdomen of Mrs. Newton
and little Elsie, and no knife had been
used as was first thought.
In the case of Mr. Newton. whom the
physicians ana the police think was
killed first. the murderer had evidently
attacked him in his bed and there his
brains We're beaten out. In fact the whole
top of his head was almost a mass OF
Jelly.
There We're. however, no other wounds
on his body ana death must have come
very soon. The he'd in which lay the
victim did not show the disorder as the
one down stairs
Mrs. Newton. said the physicians. also
r1ct her death by the blows of the axe.
ana both of these We're on top of thu
head, near the forehead Neither. how
ever. was asleep as in the case Of her
husband. but the murderer had for some
reason. turned up the clothes and dealt
w" NOR" blows with the same weapon
on the abdomen.
nat niue Elsie must have been the
laSt 10 u" Killed IS IN" opinion % The doe
torS Tor the reason. that. while both Of
hcr parents had no warning, she must
gave Htiu up heF mana 10 stay the blows.
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broken ana the hahd cut. she, too re-
or'N go "" pio"S on lne mead with tn"
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lhr murderer had confined himself to Kill