Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-06
MURDERER CAUGHT
4 BIG MOB SHOUTS, LYNCH HIM"
Wildly Excited Crowd a Spectacle Never Before Seen There-EkiIl- ang Was In Revenge For Dis-
 charge of Assassin.

sng Was In Revenge For Dis-
 charge of Assassin.
 HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 6.-Henry Osborne, a former police commissioner and one of the leading business men of this city, was murdered by his former negro body servant, Joseph Watson. last night The negro was found in hiding under bed in the basement of the Osborne home after close search for him had been made in all sections of the city. Outside the house at the time the murderer was found were gathered fully thousand persons, and as Watson, heavily manacled, was con- ducted down the steps to the police patrol wagon the air resounded with cries of "KilI him!7 and Lynch him!' from the crowd, which surged in to- take the prisoner.
 As the wagon started toward the pc lice station the crowd, which was rap idly increasing in size, swarmed after 1t, a wildly demonstrative mass of hu- manity presenting a spectacle the like of which has never been seen here be- fore and has hardly been duplicated under like circumstances in New Eng land. At the police station, which is located at the junction of three streets, the scene was even more striking, for people almost fought among them selves to get glimpse of Watson, and it was only by the greatest effort on the part of many officers that the crowd was kept from forcing its way into the guardroom itself.
 Watson is only eighteen years of age and is very unprepossessing in appear ance He did not quail even when face to face with the crowd which seemed so anxious to avenge the mur- der. When brought into the police station he was asked several questions and without hesitancy answered them. He said he killed Mir, Osborne. II had it in for him, and I killed him." said Watson. T am not afraid to die, and am satisfied now that killed him. ," He then described in detail the kill ing, after which he was locked up and a police officer placed as guard over him.
 MT. Osborne was deliberately killed by Watson out of revenge for being discharged as valet He went to the Osborne house to commit the murder and not to rob, as it was first sup posed Mir. Osborne's family were at their summer cottage at Crescent Beach, near New London, but MT. Os- borne slept at home each night. Wat son said that he got into the house by g key.
 AS Watson went upstairs he heard MT. Osborne stirring about and met him at the bathroom door, firing one shot. MT. Osborne, who was in his night robe, ran into his bedroom, leav- ing trail of blood on the floor. The negro followed and twice more shot Mr. Osborne, both bullets taking eff feet.
 The wounded man must have under gone terrible mental agony, as powder marks on his face and body indicate that the negro stood right over him as he fired the second and third shots It was just at this point that the first ink ling of the tragedy reached the neigh bors, for with the pistol shots were heard the words Save me The sound of the shots and the dying words of the victim were heard by several per sons on the street, and some one ran fOr,an officer.
 Sergeant Dietrich was on the street with several officers and on being in formed of the suspicious noise rushed to the house and forced an entrance. MT. Osborne was found stretched full length on the floor of the hall on the second story, pool of blood being at his side. He was faint, but managed to say to the officer that Joe, the negro, had shot him and that there was no cause for it. Dr. E. 0. King, neigh Dor, had arrived and he ordered the removal of the wounded man to the hospital, but MT. Osborne died just after reaching that institution
 The family of Henry. Osborne is among the well known families in this city, where Mir Osborne had been prominent in social and municipal life His death is considered a great loss to the city He is survived by widow 3 son and daughter, tho son being employed in the office of the Dunhan Hosiery company, of which MT. Os borne was secretary.
 Mir. Osborne's family have reached Hartford from Crescent Beach, where they were summering.
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