Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

Bingham, Me.-Jerry Hayes. a wood
man and laborer, was arrested mere
Wednesday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff Abram Pierce, charged with
the murder of Mabel Page at weston
Mass, March 81, 1904.
Charles l.. Tuckr Is under CON
Vlction for the murder and Is sen
fenced to be electocuted in the week
In Bingham, it is said that Hayes
has also been known as j. Moulton,
Jerry Hale and j. II. Morton. The
names Hayes and Moulton are the
ones which appear in the warrant
under which he is arrested,
Hayes has been in Bingham, off
and on, for nearly two years, part
of the time employed as a laborer on
the extension of the Somerset railway.
He has boarded at times in Bingham
village with Mrs. Margaret Brown.
One day last February he entered
the house with a newspaper and Mrs.
Brown borrowed it to read While
Hayes ate his breakfast.
She says; 81 looked over the
paper to see if | could find anything
about Matte Hackett, the girl who
was strangled to death at Readtield
was about to hand the paper back
to Hayes, and said first | guessed I'd
look to see if there was anything in
1t about Tucker.
Hayes said: You needn't look to
find anything about Tucker. He has
got the chair
"'Oh, no. said I, you must be mis-
taken
''Hayes became angry then and said
Tucker got the chair, tell you. And
would have got the chair if l hadn't
got out of the house before the hue and
cry arose.
Why were you in the Page house
on the day of the murders? | asked.
EYES, he said, 4 called there to get
a glass of water. l was going across
the country to Watertown to look for
work. ] had spent all my money and
had to walk got there late in the
forenoon.
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her boarder, and finally concluded to
write letter to the mother of Charles
l.. Tucker, telling her of Hayes talk.
This she did, and received a reply from
Mrs. Tucker, which was dated March
8. Mrs. Tucker said she had turned
Mrs Browns letter over to Messrs.
Vahey, Innes & Mansfield, i'sr s'e"'a
counsel, VINO would look the matter
up. On March 20 came letter from
| the lawyers to Mrs. Brown asking for
details, and on Auril and April 25
they wrote again.
There was also some correspondence
between the Tucker lawyers and Dan
iel Steward, a Bingham lawyer, who
had become interested in the matter.
Later a messenger came from the
lawyers Office to Bingham. He had
an interview with Mrs. Brown and as
certained that Hayes was in the gang
that was working at the head of the
railroad line and was, therefore,
where he could be found when wanted.
Last Monday Mr. Mansfield of the
firm of Vahey, Innes &c Mansfield,
fuckers counsel, came to Bingham
He again verified the statements made
concerning Hayes, and learning that
he was at work on the Somerset eX-
tension asked Deputy Sheriff Pierce
to arrest him. Deputy Pierce refused,
telling Mr. Mansfield to put the mat
ter in the hands of the sheriff of the
county. Mr. Mansfield accordingly
went TO Skowhegan and swore out
warrant issued by Judge o. r. Bach
ellor of the municipal court, charging
Hayes with the murder of Miss Page.
Armed with this warrant Sheriff
Clyde H. Smith came to Bingham
Monday forenoon. In some way he
missed his man and continued up the
extension of the Somerset to the Ca.
madam Pacific.
Meantime the deputy sheriff re.
mained at Bingham. Wednesday af-
ternoon he was at the Somerset sta.
ton when he was told by two men
who knew Hayes and were aware that
the officers were looking for him that
they had just met him down the track.
Deputy Pierce started in that direc.
ton and met his man on the highway
walking to Bingham from the direc-
ton of Solon. He placed him under
arrest, and he is now in the police sta.
tion at Bingham.