The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-23
TEAM In THE BRUSH.
Railroad Man Tells What He Saw Early
One Morning About the First of May
Crossing Tender Corroborates
Tale---Have Teeth That ia
son Sowed Been Found?

Clinton, June pa clue as to the
manner in which the body Of the I'M
known woman found in the Sterling
Lancaster swamp may have been
transported to the spot where IL was
found, and which is the most impor-
tant so far disclosed, was discovered
this afternoon.
1t is important, because there is rea-
son to believe it can be followed to a
conclusion.
A stranger presented himself ia
Crossing Tender Charles T. Osgood at
o'clock this afternoon.
Mr.. Osgood tends the crossing on the
back road between Lancaster and
Sterling and on the edge of the swamp
in which the body was found.
The stranger asked to be shown to
the place where the remains were. He
engaged in talk with Mr.. Osgood and
his wife, Mary F. Osgood, and confided
to them that he had a particular in
terest in the tragedy. He said his in
leTeSL Was uue " d ClICuiAi9l"HSt WIN
he related.
He is a railroad man. His work, as
his story went, calls him out frequent
ly very early in the morning.
One morning, he thinks in the latter
part of April, or very near May /, as
he was coming down the road toward
the crossing, he saw a horse hitched
in the underground beside the road
The time was 3 o'clock in the MORN
ing. The team attracted his attention.
because it appeared to him to be so
placed as to keep it out of sight of the
road.
At any rate, he stopped and peered
into the brush. Nothing happened, and
he heard no sound except the occa-
sional stamping of the horse. Present.
ly he mustered up courage enough to
go further into the bushes.
He saw a horse tied to a tree. Fur
Their back in the bushes was carriage.
The incident struck him as peculiar.
He looked the horse over as closely
as he could at that hour and said to
the Osgoods that he thinks there was
lump on one of the legs, which he
thinks he could easily distinguish If he
could see the horse again.
After satisfying his curiosity, he
moved on.
He was so much impressed with the
idea that this incident was significant
he told Mrs. Osgood that he could not
resist coming down to the scene to see if
Mr.. Osgood remembered such team.
If so, the man was of the opinion that
the incident should be referred to the
police.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osgood related the cir
cumstanoes to the representative of
The Spy at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. Osgood further said: when the
matter was brought to my attention, I
did remember that saw such a turn-
out. I do not remember the day Of the
month, but the time was about 6 in the
morning. 1 saw the horse hitched in
the bushes as 1 came down from my
house to the crossing.
zone would have to look twice to see
the animal 1t attracted my attention
so that l looked at 1t closely. The
horse was hitched to a tree. There was
some oat straw at its feet. but not
large quantity. The buggy was pulled
into the bushes, near the horse.
1T was an old, ramshaokle affair.
1t was time for me to do some work,
and 1 went away
But the team had so excited my Gu
riosity that I returned a little later.
But while I was away the horse had
been hitched to the vehicle, and 1t was
nowhere in sight. 1 did not see any
person in the neighborhood. 1 would
know the horse If 1 saw it again, l
think"
Mr.. Osgood accompanied the reporter
to the place where the horse was
hitched. II is triangle of land be-
tween two roads. the lower main road
between Clinton and Sterling. and the
back road upon which the swamp is
situated.
The location is such that not only
would it excellently conceal team
from casual observation, but it would
permit an easy escape upon either road,
and is an ideal spot for the purpose for
which it may have been selected.
Mr.. osgood cannot remember If this
was the same morning upon which he
found the bars down in the fence at the