Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-10
Charles Bishop Confesses
to Brutal Murder.
Killed Mrs. Henry Williams Of
Stafford Springs, Conn.
Throat Cut, Head Crushed and
StrangIed With a Towel.

Stafford Springs, Conn, Nov. @
Charles Bishop, the 1S-year-old farm
hand employed on the farm Of Henry
Williams. has confessed that he muir
dered Mrs. Williams, the farmers aged
wife, whose body was found lying in a
pool of blood late yesterday afternoon
| in her house. according to a statement
made tonight by Coroner r. NJ. Fisk.
Bishop, it is understood. has also
| confessed to taking the money from
the trunk in an upper room. The con-
ftssiOn. it is said followed a lengthy
| inquest held this afternoon to inquire
Into he killing Of Mrs, Williams, who
was found dead with her throat cut and
| her head battered and towel twisted
| tightly about her neck.
Earlier in the day Bishop had been
under examination by the town au
| tEorities and afterward by the state
police officers. 1t was while under fire
| Of tn, latter that several discrepancies
are said to have appeared in his story
! and the state police at the end of their
inquiry announced that Bishop had
| been formally arrested. charged with
the murder.
While no details in regard to the
confession are given out it is under
| stood that Bishop has implicated no.
| one else in the affair. He was taken to
the Tolland Jail to await a preliminary
| hearing next Tuesday morning.
BY order of the coroner. Charles
Bishop, the farm hand on the place Of
| Henry Williams. was arrested this noon
on suspicion of knowing the facts
| about the murder of Mrs. Williams.
RishCp had been questioned by officers
| of the state police and finally admitted
that he had expected to have some Of
| the money which was stolen from the
house which amounted in all to 300.
| ThereupOn. he took the police to an old
STUMP behind the house and found the
money for them in hole. Bishop
claims that he did not actually know
about the murder. but he know that
another farm hand on an adjoining
place had planned to rob the house.
bishop had been questioned by the
coroner during the forenoon and had
made a fairly good impression so that
that officer seemed convinced that the
lad did not know who did the murder.
The state officers have been searching
the premises and had reached a conClu-
sion that the murderer had been told
the location Of the trunk upstairs in
which the money was kept. They took
Bishop in hand and questioned him for
Z long time ana keenly followed up cv-
cry slip he made in his talk. Finally
Bishop said he knew where TIL" money
was hidden. and he took til" officers to
the stump and in 4 hole the money was
found intact
Bishop then said that man
named AnGley, who worked near
BY, had only told him that he intended
to rob the house and if he. Bishop.
would not say anything. n part Of the
money would be his. Angley was found
on . farm nearby and he protested that
h knew nothing OF the murder and
that he could prove that he had not left
his employers place at all during yes
terday He was later released and Bis!-
op was held. charged with the murder
of Mrs. Williams. He will be given 4
hearing tomorrow.