Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29
CORNER Mon,pelIer Girl Murdered.

Former Mon, peIier Girl Murdered.
The Philadelphia Ledger gives a de-
tailed account of the murder of Miss
Helen s. Bishop, daughter of Rev. E.
A. Bishop, former principal of Mont
pelier Seminary, which occurred at
Wilmington, Delaware, on June Is
The Ferring industrial school of
which DIR. Bishop lie superintendent
is situated about four miles from Will
mingtop, and Miss Helen, who is spo-
ken of as an extremely pretty girl,
was pupil at the high school in that
city. On the day of the assault Miss
Helen started home by trolley. At
Prices corner she left the car to walk
half q mile to the industrial school.
1t was at lonely spot near the Ferris
school that she was assaulted and it
was about five O'Clock in the after
noon that she was discovered in the
bushes by a farmer named Keene and
George Leech, a court bailiff. Leech
was driving along the road where he
and Keene found the young woman.
She was crawling toward her home on
hands and knees. Blood was stream
| ing from the wound in her neck, her
| clothing was torn to shreds and her
body was bruised. Summoning DR..
| Bishop, Mr.. Leech and the girls father
carried her TO the Ferris scnool, where
she became unconscious, having been
unable to tell anything about the as
sault. At times she rallied and rec
ogniZed her parents and other rel
atives, but was not able to have the
negro, White, who was arrested for
the crime, brought before her as the
police had hoped. She began to sink
toward the middle of the afternoon OF
the day following the assault and her
death soon followed. The police and
detectives declare that they have
fixed White at the place at the time
of the assault; that they can prove he
followed Miss Bishop; and that every
point is covered except the actual
assault.
THE NEGRO LYNCHED.
Several attempts to lynch White
were made, but the mob was not sue
cessful until Monday night. On that
night a mob estimated at 1000 mer
and boys gathered in the neighbor-
hood of Prices Corner. 1t was after
10 O'Clock when the march to the
workhouse, mile away, was taken up
A battery of railroad ties soon carried
away the great outer door of the
workhouse. The second, third anC
fourth doors were battered down BY
the attacking party, amid the yelli
and cheers of the mob. Then the
would-be lynchers were momentarily
halted by hail of bullets from thu
inside. More shooting was heard ant
there was scramble TO get out, bu
the Drawer ones in the attacking party
stood their ground. In the fusilad,
that followed four persons fell, al
members of the mob. 1t was eviden
that the warden did not wish t,
slaughter the mob in the prison cor
ridor. He directed that the fire hos,
be turned on the crowd. This ais,
held the mob for time but not TO
long. There are many negroes con
fined in the prison, but with the al,
of man who knew White, the latte
was found. His cell door was bat
tered open and the man, begging TO
mercy, was dragged from the cell an
, the prison. Resistance on the part O
the negro was useless, but his hand
were tied behind him. Then tn
march to the place of execution wa
: taken up. With torches to lead tn
way and with 1000 people foilowip
the negro, he was led to the road an
I to almost the very spot where the as
sault took place. White was given
( last chance to speak and he confesse
: to the murder of the girl. A stak
8 had been arranged by an advanc
guard. White was quickly chained t
the post and the dry underbrusl
. soaked with oil, was ignited and th
I horrible execution was on. Whit,
:, suffering intense agony, tainted, an
n his body hung limp. SHOTS were fire
L. iuto his BODY and the victim of til
u mob was soon dead. Before tt
d burning White is said to have COZ
D fessed the following: 81 saw TT
Bishop girl and followed her. l seize
her and asked her if she had ar
money she would give me to let b,
go. She gave me so cents. Then
again seized her ana she cried Pleas
don't hurt me- I choked her al
accomplished my purpose. Then
asked her if she was going to tell {
h me. She said she was. lgave her
> hack in the throat with my knife al
~ asked again if she was going TO infor
IL on me. she said she was, and then
f. cut her throat twice more and le
ar her." The negIo's comics sion re
:. dered the already incensed Grow
10 even more desperate and some wan
re ed to tear him limb from limb.
Vermont Crops
ID. G. ]. Bell, or Walden, secretary