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| tie. but she was unconscious. Mrs Fos-
burgh her mother, was down on her
knees trying TO assist May and young
Mr.. X. 3. Fosburgh was lying In Mays
room. near the door. and | think was
unconscious; his wife was leaning over
him trying 10 assist him Beatrice was
also trying 10 assist May. Mr.. X. =. l'os-
bursh had been injured one Of his eyes
and one OF his ears were seriously hurt.
BURGLARS KILLED MAY.
"The moment opened the door leading
| from my room into Mays. and saw her
on the floor, l asked what had happened.
Beatrice said: Burglars have entered the
house and killed May. All the family
had on only their night clothes. ] was so
excited that did not talk with the fam
! lily about the matter; the family were In
deep distress We took breakfast togeth-
or about o'clock. l was exceedingly
nervous. and didn't think j could do
anything 10 benefit any one, and thought
that would only be I'm tho way, 30 i
concluded to come home. | took dinner
with the family at noon of that day, and
then bade them good-by. and took the
train for home. Neighbors had come in,
and also people from Adams.
81 have not a shadow OF doubt hut that
burglars got into the house and killed
to think that Il. s. Fosburgh could shoot
his sister l did not see her shot, nor
did 1 see the burglars in the house, but,
knowing the family AS I do. have every
reason TO believe that May Fosburgh
was killed by burglars precisely as the
family state.
II attach TO my affidavit the plat of
the second floor Of the house I'm Pittsheld,
marked Exhibit A.
BERTHA l.. SHELDON"
Subscribed and sworn 10 at Providence
the second day OF February, nineteen
hundred and one. before me.
JOHN c. PEGRAM,
Notary Public State of Rhode Island.
Sunday Mr. Taylor and Mrs Fosburgh
went to Pawtucket and obtained his
tory of the wire gang. This has already
been given in full in the Evening News.
BLY, PLEADS IGNORANCE.
John NJ Bly, was pleaded with by Mrs.
Fosburgh who begged for Information
that would clear the name of her son. but
the murder. He ssid that he and Quinn,
accompanied by Patterson and Hackett,
had been I'm the vicinity. OF Pittsfield that
night. but had gone there 10 rob the
Zylonite works OF brass and copper MI
ings. They were 40 busily engaged In this
work he declared. that IL would have
the Fosburgh house. They were at the
works until eight o'clock that evening,
he said. and were watching the watch,
man until midnight, then were engaged
In preparing and planting their piunder.
had arrived I'm Pittsiield at 1880 o'clock
I'VE passed the Cos sbnrsh house i'm an
'vss~sn car al that hour. said Bly, and
of a wagon standing there" 49,
Pawtucket dispatch OF last night
says: Except for the assurance of a local
policeman, Michael Quinn might bc In
prison, on a charge OF connection with
Fosburgh tragedy I'm pittsneld. Detective
John COnnors OF New York came to this
city about fortnight after the murder
10 Quinn. He brought the hat and shoe
found In the Fosburgh residence. and
many OF the local police readily recalled
having seen Quinn wearing just such a
hat
One policeman. however. was positive
that he had met Quinn on the street on
murder. Satisfied with this statement. the
lecal department dropped the case and
Connors was forced TO be satisfied that
Quinn was not the murderer.
Meantime Quinn was In this city.
With thre others he went TO Pawtucket
morning OF Aug. a He remained here ere
several days and then disappeared. leav-
ing no trace. During his stay I'm that
could have been apprehended at Almost
any moment II the authorities had not
been so confident that an alibi had been
established I'm his case.
PAW IDCkEl POLlCE HAGRlNED.
Now that several members OF the band
OF wire thieves say that they were with
Quinn at Pittsfield at the time of the
murder, the police are chagrined.
Detective Haberl!n of that city,
said he feels certain Quinn was in Pitts
Held at the time of the murder
connors had the description OF one OF
the, men in the band seen in thai city
who Is now said to be playing the part
OF tnformer.
older members of the baud of wire
thieves. who was under an Indictment
and jumped his bail IS now In Canada
Whether Quinn has Joined him there Is "A
question that they will try 10 answer
Statements OF the police of Pittsheld
that the wire thieves were not I'm Pitts
Held at time of the murder are derded
by Haberlin, who says that the band
could get In and out OF Pittsaeld without
the knowledge of the police. Haberlin
says ays members OF the band have, positively
told him they were In Pittsiield on the
night IN question, and he does not doubt
them.
There was sn ihtlmation dropped here
last night that McCeughey AT the time OF
the Fittsiield shooting was m the Brook
line tStD laii for q job done iu Wllh-
mantle This would account FOR his not
being with the ganE In Pittsheld lie has
ncver claimed he was with the men al
that time, but that he met the gang at
smiths house, after Its return from
Pittsfield and Adams.
INSIST UPON QUARREL.
The Pittsheld authorities are gradually
showing their hands. It Is now known
that the state viii contend tina, there vas
a quarrel between young FOsburgh and
his wife and that before ne left his room
TO set his revolver which was I'm the
spare room. the Furniture and articles in
the sleeping room were thrown about in
great confusion.
That az Fosburgh rushed out OF the
spare room. revolver In hand. bent upon
shooting his wife. he caught sight OF a
white-rObed woman. whom he took to be
his wife. and at whom he shot That
when The lights were turned up Fosburgh
discovered that he had shot his sister
and thereupon fell I'm swoon.
That IL was at lhis juncture that Miss
sheldon stepped from her room into May
Fosburghs apartment and saw brother
and sister on the noor.
That there were no burglars IN the house
and that half an hour intervened between
the time the pistol shots were heard by
ncighhors and the arrival OF the medical
examiner. during which interval the bur-
glar story was worked up by the family