The Republican journal., 1899-02-23
Double f1urder and Suicide,

StepuauShter and Then Takes Paris
Green.
| Albert Hysler of Burkettvile, a wel-to-
do farmer and Civil war veteran, killed his
wife and stepdaughter, at o'clock Saturday
morning, and then followed his horrible deed
| by suicide. The exact cause of the crime is
unknown, but it is openly rumo red among
the townspeople that jealousy was the root
| Of the awful affair.
! The scene of the double murder was a pre-
Jentous looking residence in the little ham
| let Of Burkettvlle, which is situated IN one
OF the remotest corners of the town of Apple
ton, On either side are snow-capped hills,
| thicky wooded, The nearest house IS a
| quarter of a mile around bend in ram
| bling road, and had the feeble cries of the
stepdaughter been raised for help, it is doubt
| ful if any thing human would have heard or
responded.
/ Through % miles of almost impossible
| travelling, with snow drifts often and feet
deep, lntersrersed with stretches of bare,
muddy ground, Sheriff UImer, Coroner Jud
klns, County Attorney johnson and d cor
respondent drove from Rockland in sleighs
. 20 Saturday night, to I'D the northe IN
| part of the county in state of intense ex-
! Cltement.
! Hyser laid upon sofa, breathing heavily
and unconscious OF all that was going
around him. The self-nfiicted cash with a
razor had not been sufficient to produce
DEATH and although he had followed up the
attempt by taking an enormous quantity of
| Paris green, he was still defyng the grim
specter.
Albert Hysler is about 80 years old, thick
set and rugged, He moved from Palmer,
| Me-, to Burkettvile. about years ago
He was shipbluder in former years and
served in the 81 Maine Battery, afterwards
merged into the 1st Maine Heavies, during
the Civil war, He then followed farming
and finally moved TO the John Lermond
| farm i'll Burkettvile. ii e is illiterate, but a
man of strong viii. and is not given to hav-
ing his wold opposed. His family consisted
his wife, daughter and a daughter by a for
mer marriage.
HIS wife was II years old and was born in
| Searsmont. Her maiden name was Isbella
| Campbell, the daughter of John Campbell,
| farmer. She contracted four marriages. The
! flrst was. with John Stevens of Appleton,
but she was divorced from him. The second
husband was Robert Ripley of Union, who
was divorced from her en- the ground of de.
sertion. They had one child, a daughter
named Georgie, who is a teacher IN the
| Rock land public schools The third Eus-
| band was Chas. E. Pnkham Of Appleton
who died some years ago. The fourth hus-
band was Albert Hysler, by whom another
child was born, a daughter named Alice,
now years old.
Hysler's stepdaughter was one of three
| children born to Mrs. Piukham. Hel name
was Mary L.. and at Il she gave promise of
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