Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-18
A MURDER AT WORCESTER
CHARLES MolEAN'S MuTlLATED
BODY FOUND IN HIS HOME.
Three Arrests Made-Big Fire Loss at
9ichmond-coit Prisoners Found
Guilty-State Insurance Business
Mysterious Death,

~ichmond-CoIt PoIsoncrs Found
Guity--State Insurance Business
Mysterious Death.
Charles Mclean about so years of
age. living alone on the Gilmore road.
two miles from Worcester corners,
was found dead Monday afternoon,
March IA, by Isaac Prentiss. who was
the nearest neighbor. Apparently he
had been murdered, The room was
strewn with broken dishes and furni-
ture and the body was found under
The bed In somewhat mutilated con-
iition. There were no bullet wounds.
however.
II is thought the murder was COM
mitted Saturday night. He was last
seen alive by Prentiss, from whom he
borrowed a sled on which to draw
home bag Of meal. People who went
to the house found fresh tracks of
meal over the floor physician who
was called said Mclean had probably
been dead az least "a hours, and that
the body must have been placed UNI
der the bed. after the man was dead.
! Mclean was paid 800 Friday after
/ noon and new suit OF clothes he
I bought that day had never been UNI
done. Only $3.50 were found on his
i person. His head was badly bat
i tered and as the stove was spashed
i with large clots of blood II is sup
4 posed Mclean was standing over the
4 stove when he was attacked The
fblood-covered floor, furniture and bed
clothes gave evidence Of a desperate
/ struggle The body was taken to
Worcester Corner village, where an
autopsy was held Rumors Of neigh
borhood feuds were thick and early
/ Tuesday morning March Is. Willard
| Ainsworth, Hollis Heath and Fred
spencer all residing on the road TO
worcester, were arrested on suspicion
Of causing McLean's death They
were lodged In Montpelier Jail pending
a further Investigation.
Ainsworth and Heath live together
and Spencer some distance away. The I
latter had trouble with Mclean some I
time ago and caused his arrest Aims
worth and Heath We're in Montpelier 4
Saturday and went home later riding
part of the way with Charles Corey. a
farmer who lives near McLean's. Blood |
was found on the collar OF Ainsworth's 4
overeoat and II is known that he did /
not reach home until nearly o'clock 1
Sunday morning
All three We're silent when arrested.
Montpelier license commissioners
have voted to raise the price of first
class licenses from $1,000 to $1,000. and
that Of fifth class or druggists licenses
from so to SIS.
Settlement has been reached in the
Hardwick strike of stone cutters and
the 500 men have returned TO work
The trouble was the outgrowth Of the
failure TO establish bill OF prices,
The Vermont music festival win be
held nj Howard opera house, Burling-
ton, June is and H. Madame Schu-
mann Heink 10 be the star attraction.
Five hundred "a season tickets will
have TO be sold 70 make the affair
success.
William r. Green, a former resident
Of Bennington, lost his life IN the re-
cent collapse of Hotel Darlington In 4
New York. He had charge Of a gang I
of men on the NTH story when the /
collapse came. His body was found {
Saturday, March .. {
Charles Searles. a well known resi- a.,
Dent Of Mortified while walking from :
3ouldsville TO his home Friday even /,
ing. March II, was struck by the local
passenger train and instantly killed
both legs being cut off and his body
mangled.
The Richford School Furniture Co. !
las been chartered TO begin the bust
less Of manufactures Of wood ana Is
Q start with capital stock of 10000 {
rhe company is the successor to Beer Q
wort & Demar and Is exempt from I
axation fer period Of FIVE years 2 :
O. II. Alexander of Charlotte who Il
las won fame as hybridizer has de- g
'eloped 2 new potato called New Re- 4
lance which in the hands of a Phila- b
Ielphia scotsman, is selling at SO a u
,ound or pounds for $40, not more Ct
han 5 pounds being sold to one GUS 4
omer. e;
Gov. j. G. Mccullough has asked the u
tate board of health that a room in :,
he state laboratory Of hygiene be fur =,
ished government chemists to enable !,
hem to make analysis of the water of ~
AXE Champlain. Specimens will be "a
btained through the ice and IL is ex- .,
ected that work will be begun soon. =,
The jury returned a verdict of $4,000
Or the plaintiff in the case of II. b. br
Wedge against the Central Vermont 10
abroad in Washington County court ra
Montpelier Friday. March II. TT
yedge was administrator of the estate he
Israel Gilmont. who was killed In no
ovember 1902, in a grade crossing bu
rcident
Mrs. Mary Mulhearn of West Rut- W
nd died at her home Thursday, at
arch 10, at the age of 101 years. Mrs. HI
ulhearn was born in Roscommon fa1
,unty, Ireland, in 1903. After the ar
cath of her husband 80 years ago she We
me to this country She had never in
orn glasses and had always been re- TIL
arkably healthy. She leaves two in;
ms two daughters, 10 grandchildren gu
I'd seven great grandchildren.
j. e. Eldredge of Randolph the
WHY elected department commander
the Grand Army of Vermont. has
ade public the names of the MEM