The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-09
Arrested and Placed in Montpelier JAIL Murder
ed Man Was Jumper and Was Employed
by Barclay Bros. He Resided in
East Montpelier.

without the slightest suspicion ol the
presence Of a lurking enemy and trudging
along quietly beside his team Peter Kor-
ron was murdered almost within sight Of
Bis little home On the East Montpelier
road last night at 1880 o'clock
Bartholomew Croto, the murdered man
nearest neighbor and with whom the lat
ter was said to have quarreled, was ar
rested this forenoon on suspicion.
The details Of the crime show one Of the
most cold.blooded and apparently premed-
ltated murders ever committed in the
state The murderers act is doaalY des
picable ID that the murdered man leaves d
family 81 eight children, with a vile who
is nearly distracted from grief The
youngest child is only four days old.
The murder was committed in the town
81 East Montpelier Just a little over d mile
from the line dividing that town from
Barre town. A little pool Of blood On the
side Of the road marks the spot where the
murdered man finally fell, pieces Of news.
papers used for waddlng III the gun show
where the fatal shot was fred and a tram.
pied place in the bushes beside the road
tells plainly where the murderer lay in
wait for bis victim. That the motive for
the murder was not robbery Is made quite
positive BY the fact that the murdered
mans money was found In his pocket. In
fact, after firing the fatal shot, the muir
derer turned and hed, as told BY the young
son Of the murdered man, who was the
only witness 70 the fearful tragedy which
rendered him fatherless and brought so
hard burden Of sorrow upon the family.
After going home from bis work IN this
city the elder Yorron started with his son,
Peter to get load of wood from pile,
about four miles away, which the former
had bought recently. 1t seems that 1t had
been their custom each evening to 20 with
small team after part Of the wood,
They started in the early evening" got
their little load Of four foot wood and
started back In the moonlight. They had
nearly reached home when the tragedy oc.
Cured. AS they we're ascending a little
incline the father jumped from the wagon
to make the load lighter while the son re-
maIned on the team.
The father walked on the left side Of the
team with the reins about his neck and
hts hands in his pockets as the night was
quite cold. Part way up the easy ascent
there Is a elump Of raspberry bushes about
little cluster Of elm trees. just before
the team reached this clump Of bushes, al
the father and son we're chatting together
shot rang out. The boy saw his father
put his hand to his left shoulder and then
fall to his knees. Frightened by the re
port of the gun the horse started to run
the reins slipping from the elder Vorron'i
neck as he fell to his knees.
AS soon as possible the boy scrambled
from the load and as he did SO he looked
ia the direction from which the shot came
he saw the murderer running from his hid
ing place towards piece of woods so yardi
away, a gun in his hands. By thi
time the elder Yorron, although fatally ia
iured had arisen 70 his feet and had start
Cd to run He succeeded IN catching III
with the horse which could not go fast 0i
account OF the load behind him, and thei
fell again, having covered a distance o
five rods from the place where he received
the charge from the murderers gun.
He fell forward with one arm under bill
body and the other to one side One whee
passed over his right foot, the marks be
ing easily seen by those who picked up TIL
body. The horse kept on for a little way
but was stopped BY the little boy who theI
went back to where bis father lay fac,
downward in the road He attempted t,
raise his father, but not being able to d,
SO ran to the team and drove home as fas
as possible, distance of a quarter Of
mile. and told his folks.
The agonized wife, not yet recovered
from a recent confinement, got up fron
her bed before she could be stopped an'
started to walk TO the place where her bus