The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-15

why Olive Underwood did, not come to
work as usual that morning.
Mrs. Underwood replied, She is dead
and everybody else In the housd is
dead" Mr.. Dawson at once COM
menced search of the house. He first
went into an adjoining room and found
the four dead bodies, all of them being
cold.
He observed that there was a guam
tity Of wood in the stove, but the fire
had become extinguished.
The boy, Guy, ~ years, was conscious,
and had his arms clasped tightly about
the neck of his dead father. The boy
was not wholly unconscious, and Davi-
son asked the boy to go into the kitchen
and get warm. The boy stolidly re-
fused to leave his fathers body saylngi
mo, l don't want to leave papa"
The two-year-old boy, John Clifford,
lay dead in the arms Of Olive Under-
wood, his mother
Previous to going into the room where
the dead bodies were found, Dawson
! lighted the fire.
He then sawed up some bed Stats
and placed in the stove. Some of these
Stats were found by the police at a.
subsequent investigation, which goes to
show that Dawson was In the house
before any smoke could have been dis
covered, as the house and stove were
cold before he started the fire with the
| bed Stats.
Dawson spent about 10 minutes in
the house, and as he was about to leave
! the house asked the man with the
Whiskers,' G. McMullin, what he was
doing there, and McMullin replied:
None of your business" After doing
what he could for the comfort of Mrs.
Underwood, Dawson went to the John
a. FRYE factory and called for the pro-
prietor.
John A. Frye responded and Dawson
told him the story of the Underwood
tragedy long before Policeman Hart
nett made the discovery. Mr.. Frye
called for his son, Walter p Frye, who
in turn notified the police.
Dawson then went upstairs into an
other department and talked with Lulu
Clarke. chum Of Olive Underwood,
and told her the story Of the tragedy,
Lulu would not believe Davisons story.
He then talked with Humphrey Lynch,
an acquaintance.
Among other things the police found
about the desolate house, were innum-
cradle whisky bottles piled away in COR
ners. One of the policemen said to-
night that d crowd had been at the
Underwood home Saturday night, and
that general conviviality reigned until
midnight. This may or may not ac-
tbbilJ lOI iIt pItSclGft OF llt many
liquor bottles. Some are Of tine belief
that some of the bottles may have con-
tanned wood alcohol. If this is fact.
1t will develop at the analysis, to be
performed at Harvard. by Prof. Woods.
1t transpires that the bottle found on
the kitchen table as outlined in The
Spy this morning, contained laudanum.
This was a prescription recently fur
nished Mrs. Underwood by DR. p J..
GerVin Wild stories were afoat that
this laudanum had created the mischief
In the Underwood family. This proved
not to be so, as Dr. Geryin contends
there was not enough of the liquid
used to do serious harm to any indi-
Vidual
The autopses will be continued tomor-
row, and probably the stomachs Will
also be submitted to Prof. Woods for
analysis. The arrangement for the
burial Of the dead bodies has not been
made, and they will probably lie at the
city morgue until Thursday
The condition of the survivors, Mrs,
Edward l.. Underwood, Guy UNDER
wood and Robert McMullin, the sur
viVors of the Underwood household, Ia
improving, and the attending phys-
clans do not apprehend a fatal termi-
nation in any of the cases. These per-
sons are detained in the woman's de-
partment at police headquarters, and
are guarded carefully by the officers.
The developments of the next few
days viii be watched with much inter-
est.