Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-09
SLAIN IN FARMHOUSE.
Bow Finds Woman With Her Throat
Cut.

A dispatch from Stafford Springs. Conn.,,
says: Mrs. Henry Williams, wife Of
farmer two miles and a half south Of this
town, was murdered by a robber this after
noon while alone in the farmhouse, her
head being crushed by a club and her
throat cut. The robber ransacked the
house. smashed open a trunk and got 500
in cash.
The murder suggests the Kulas murder
of q year ago in the same neighborhood.
when a Polish woman was struck down
and killed in almost the same manner. Her
assailant never has been found. There is
no clue to the murderer Of Mrs. Williams,
the only stranger seen in the neighborhood
having been noticed by small boy, who Is
unable to give a description to the state
police.
The nearest house Is an eighth of a mile
away. The neighbors heard no cries. There
are two dogs on the premts es yet neither
gave an alarm of being aroused by a
stranger. The body was found by hired
boy, Charles Bishop. The murdered wom-
ans husband spent the day in Rockville
Edward jacobson, milkman. called at
the house at 1 o'clock, and all was right
at that time An hour later the boy came
in from the fields where he had been tend
ing the cows. He found Mrs. Williams lying
dead on the kitchen floor near the stove
a knife and club lying near by. The body
was still warm, and the terrified boy, be-
lieving her to be alive, ran to the nearest
neighbor for help.
The kitchen gave evidence of fierce
struggle that had preceded the death blow
Neighbors believed that Mrs. Williams
tried to fight off her assailant with the
club and that he overpowered her and fell
ed her with her own weapon. Then as she
lay unconscious he used the knife. A
towel was twisted tightly about the neck
Having accomplished the murder the rob-
Der evidently went about his task Of theft
leisurely. He roamed throughout the big
house, upsetting the contents of drawers In
every room, looking for valuables In Mrs.
Williams's room he overturned the bureau
drawers. Her trunk was broken open with
an ak, and the 500 in bills and silver it
contained was gone. A fifty-cent piece was
found in the front yard near the gate show
ing the direction of the murderer's flight.
The two dogs were about the yard when
the boy entered, and showed no signs Of
excitement. The pockets of the womans
dress were turned inside out, as though the
murderer had sought for money on her
body.
The coroner, constables and members Of
the state police force were at the house
when the husband returned from Rock
vile, ignorant of the tragedy until he en-
tered his home. He was so overcome with
horror that 1t was late in the afternoon be-
fore he could aid the police in their work.
The farm boy who had seen the stranger
on the main road, said the man had appear
ed between and o'clock. General alarms
were sent to the small towns in the neigh
borhood, but with alch meager information
as the police have, the likelihood of an ar
rest now Is small. The police believe that
the murderer was tramp, who are numer-
Gus In the neighborhood.
Mrs. Williams was hfty-one years old.
She and Williams were married only a few
years ago.