The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-17
LIVED ALONE TDFO MIL ES
From WORCESTER.
Hollis Heath, Willard Ainsworth
and Fred Spencer of Worcester
Arrested on Suspicion. Condi-
tion of Body. Theory of the
Execution.

and Fred Spencer lie in Washington
county jail, being placed there by
Deputy Sheriffs Martin Fitzgerald.
Asa Dutton and George Lackey, con-
stable in Worcester, under the author
ity of warrants issued by Justice Vail
on information given him by John
H. Senter, State s attorney, charging
the three with the murder of Charles
Mclean.
The crime for which the trio is
under arrest was committed sometime
late Saturday afternoon or early that
evening. On Saturday afternoon Nc
Lean went to the home of Isaac G.
Prentiss, neighbor, living about
half mile from his home, to borrow
handsled on which to draw some feed
for his stock from the store of NJ. P.
Wheeler tn his, Mclean s, home. Sat
urday morning, on his way to the
woods where he was working, Mr..
Prentiss called at Mclean S house and
had quite a little chat with him. At
that time Mclean asked for the hand
sled.
About four O'Clock on Saturday
afternoon Mrs. Charles Corey. who
lives but a very short distance, toward
Worcester, from the Mclean house,
and is Mclean nearest neighbor, saw
the murdered man 60 by the house
with hand.sled, drawing two bags
of grain. This is, according to all re-
ports, the ast time that Mclean was
seen alive by any one except, perhaps,
the three prisoners, or by some one or
two of them.
On Sunday afternoon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Corey drove by McLean's house.
There were no signs of any one about
the house, and Mr.. Corey remarked
to his wife that he thought likely that
Mclean had gone up to Martins to see
the boys, as was sometimes his custom.
On Monday morning. Mr.. Prentiss had
occasion to use the hand sled that he
had loaned to Mclean, so between
nine and ten O'Clock on that morning,
Prentiss went to Mclean S house afser
it. Prentiss found the sled in shed
attached to the front end of the
house, but, seeing no signs of Nc
Lean, he went to the door He found
the door unlocked, with the key ON
the outside.
When Prentiss opened the door a
shocking sight met his gaze. The
! furniture in the room was turned
topsy -turvey, and broken dishes were
strewn about the floor. But these
sights were as nothing to the further
evidences OF the hideous crime that
had been committed in that house.
Flat on his back, with his head half
under the bed, lay Charles Mclean,
the owner of the house and farm.
Blood stains were on the floor and on
the stove. A quilt on the bed and an
empty flour sack on the floor bore
similar gruesome spots
A glance at the body on the floor
assured Mr.. Prentiss that his neighbor
and friend wa, dead. Prentiss then
| hobihcu VIC s6IeCtmSu, WHO are II TaDk
Hutchinson, d. G. K. Hunt, and Ed
win Dugan. These three. accom-
panied by George Lackey, the con.
stable, and Dr. W. E. Turner. went
to the Mclean house, where they
awaited the arrival of John H. Senter,
States attorney, who arrived from
Montpelier about 4.30 on Monday
aftc. noon.
A thorough examination of the
house and surroundings ehofoughly
convinced the States attorney and the
other officials in the party that a
murder had been committed. The
watch of the murdered man lay on the
| floor besiue the body and il had
stopped at ~. 20 o'clock
BY direction of the States attor-
ney, the dead man, together with his
clothes, papers, etc, was removed to
the town hall at Worcester Corners
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