The Washington times., 1904-07-19
PRIM NEW ENGLAND
WILD AS FRONTIER
Fifteen Murders in Month
Of March Alone.
MANY CRIMINALS AT LARGE
Chicago Newspaper Complies List of
Honicides to the Discredit
Of Yankee Police.
MANY CRIMINALS AT LARGE

The Chicago Chronicle" has publish
ed the following on recent crimes in
New England:
The murders Of a month have shown
New England forth TO the world as a
much more dangerous place than the
traditional wild and woolly West FIT
teen shocking murders in one month
most OF them absolutely without visible
motive-have gone far to spoil the rep
utatiOn for quiet and peace which has
always been given to this section. Ii
only seven cases out Of fifteen have the
police made arrests.
The first murder was on March l. On
the morning after that day a brother OF
Mrs. Celia Marshall Smith a woman
slNty-elght years DID, who lived at Lon
donderry. n. H, found her brutality
Killed. Her head had been beaten 10
pieces with a bludgeon and a knife mad
been thrust into her body. Suspicion
felI at first on the brother himself
later upon farmland known as earle
Brigham, who fled almost immediately
and has not been caught. Robbery Was
the apparent motive for this crime tor
II was thought that Mrs. Smith was
wealthy and that she kept her money
IN her sleeping room.
Two days later came another murder,
this time in Beverly. a bartender
named Joseph A. Hastings went over
from salem 10 beverly and shot and
killed Mrs. Dora Trask a woman with
whom he was insanely in love. Hast
lngS himself was married and Mrs
Trask had spurned his attentions. Hast
ings made no effort TO get away and
was caught the same day
y quarrel over girl led to the muir
der OF millworker in Taunton. Mass.
on the Sth. Pantilas CalaVritimas shot
and killed his cousin. Constantine
Chipoura He was taken in Bingham
ton, y. y, few days afteTward.
On March II Esteu Taylor, a cOlored
woman, was shot and killed by Joseph
Seaton, n COlOred man. in Springfield
Mass. Seaton was arrested and did not
deny the murder.
Mystery, Drink, and Avarice
The next, which was discovered on
March II, though it was probably done
several days before. was a sinister mys-
terry. Narcisse Genoin. a Canadian
woOdchopper. who had been working in
Mendon. a little village near the Con
necticut line, was discovered dead in
disused barn. His throat had been cut
and his skull had been beaten in bru-
tally
on that very day a waterfront fight
resulted In the death Of Ernest From
hotter. sailor at Providence, r, ].
There was a fight. a shot was fired.
Fronhoffer fell. That was all but the
sailors. who were about four. were ar
rested and with Joseph Vera of New
was merely a drunken riot
Fifty dollars looks very large IN north
ern New England. and the man who
killed Charles McLane, OF Worcester,
VI. could have got but little more than
that sum. McLane was known 10 have
received shortly before his death $50, and
he bought a suit of clothes and some
household supplies out Of the money. He
lived alone, and when smoke failed 20
appear from his chimney on the morn
ing Of March IA neighbors broke in and
ion
under his own bed with his skull beaten
TO pulp, apparently with a club.
Quarrels Lead to Murder.
It was eight days before New England
had another murder. This time Eman-
uel Burnett. colored. janitor Of a Boston
apartment house. objected 10 his wife
calling on a man. The two quarreled
through the streets Of Boston al mid
night, and Burnett shot his wife in the
doorway Of the house where the man
lived Burnett was arrested.
The very next night three men wan
dered around Lynn all evening, holding
up with revolver the proprietors OF
They at and drank and played pool
When the prOprietOrs asked for money
earnestly the revolver was produced
and the salOOnman backed down. The
astonishing thing IS that none Of them
set the police after the hOldups, who
went on with their game At 100 o'clock
IhSy were Quafre4GnE Win a waiter IN
a restaurant. John J. Tucker, a team
ster. stopped outside on the walk TO see
what was going on through the plate
glass window, and was killed for his
pains.
George F. Eltz. of Providence. did not
approve OF the acquaintance between
Mrs EltZ and James f Tandy and shot
him so that he died. Eltz was ar
rested.
Other Obscure Crimes.
Frank Brown, a scene painter: his
wife, and her son. William Z. Wilson,
lived together IN a fiat in Rosindale, a
suburb Of Boston. The son was sub
Ject 20 epileptic fits, at times having %
be locked up, and always losing memory.
On March q all three were at home
in the fiat Brown and his wife were
killed and II was thought Brown had
shot his wife and then killed himself.
e developed later that he could not have
done this, and the son was arrested
on suspicion.
On this same day, Sunday. two little
boys were left alone In their father 5
home in Randolph, Mass.