The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-15
Mathlsun Pare Killed While on
Way to Railway Station.
Body Found mutiIatst and Frozen stiff.
Money and vaIlss Containing His CIsthIng
Were Missing Investigation Begun.

Greenvllle Junction. Ne, April 15.-The
hnding of the body OF Mathison Pare a
woodsman, at Askwith, Ne, last Thurs
day, has revealed most brutal murder.
with robbery as the motive. The victim,
young man OF q, had worked during
the winter months on Moosehead Lake,
above Kineo, for Sylvester Gaulet.
On March s. when he had finished his
winters work az the camp. he received
his wages, amounting 10 sl0S. and re-
msined IT Gaulets house on Moose river
until the morning of March n. Being
anxious 10 reach home. he started, To
walk 10 Askwith station. some eight
miles. TO take the train for his home In
Canada, having then all but two or three
dollars of his winter wages on his per
son.
About 10 a. IN. on the morning Of March
II, he reached the camp of Percy John
son, two and half miles from Askwith.
and il was when he had departed from
here for the station that he was last
seen alive.
His folks In Canada, knowing his In
tenuon of returning home, were worried
over his nOn-appearance. but no tidings
a. TO HIS Whereabouts were learned until
Thursday last. when his lifeless, mutil-
ated body was found by "A party of wood
cutters lying near the road I'm Askwith
Ills parents have not yet been Informed
OF the crime
County Attorney e.. W Cover of Somer-
set county was notified Saturday OF the
finding OF the body and in company with
Sheriff Penncll and Coroner Addition of
Skowhegan, reached the scene OF the sup
posed murder early yesterday morning
The place where the body was found Is
on q lonely winter road on the banks of
Misery stream, about half a mile from
Johnson's camp, where Pare was last
seen. and two miles from Askwith station
hi Raymond plantation, The body, which
was frozen stiff lay IN the snow bv the
roadside, and the man had evidently been
shot from an ambush, rife ball striking
him in the face.
There We're indications that a struggle
must have taken place and that the rifle
wound had not proved fatal ss there were
knife cuts on the face and neck The
right side OF tho head was terribly crush
ed AS II from a blow with the butt end
of the rife, and the bones in the face
were crushed out
The money and n valise filled with
clothes which Pare had taken with him
were missing. and this Tsct lends color to
the belief that robbery was the motive
for the murder.
The body wss taken 10 the Hollings-
worth 81 whitney storehouse, where
Pares former employer and his wife. the
latter the cook at the camp, identified the
man.
They both spoke In the highest terms
OF the good character and peaoeable ma
ture of the dead man Yesterday after
noon the body WAS removed IN Ia,Lpoa,
where AN autopsy will be held
County Attorney Cover says that no
expense Will be spared TO discover the
murderer Thus far the only possible
clue obtained II that one Joe Murray
VINO is at work on q drive some distance
away, but has been sent for, Is said to
nave stated that he could name the party.
Pare. the father of the mur-
iered man, lives in ST. Benoit, que. and
he mas also a mother and sister living
Ills parents are poor people and az vet |
.hey are I'm ignorance of their sons fate. |
Deceased was unmarried. The state will |
probably send the body TO his relatives.