The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-09
WOMAN FOUND MURDERED
RURAL TRAGEDY JUST OUTSIDE
 OF STAFFORD tPRINGS.

Victim Mrs. Henry Williams, Aged
 Sixty-Her Throat Cut and Head
 Battered--Robbery ProbaIy the Mo-
 tive--Trunk Broken Open and $1O0
 Taken--Hired Boy Discovers the
 BOdy--No Clue.
 Holland, Nov, S--Mrs. Carrie E. Will liamls, aged about sixty, wife of Henry Williams, a farmer, was found murder ed and lying in a pool of blood in her home about two and a half miles south of Stafford Springs, this afternoon. Robbery is believed to have been the motive
 The circumstances surrounding the crime suggest to some extent the Kulals murder in Soners when a Polish board ing housekeeper was murdered and her house robbed.
 The body of Mrs. Williams was found lying on the kitchen floor near the stove, her throat was cut, her head battered and about her neck a towel had been tightly twisted. Near the body lay a huge butcher knife and a club. From the position of the body when found and the appearance of the room it is believed that Mrs. Williams died only after a struggle with her as- sailant, who is supposed to have struck her down with the club and then cut her throat, finally winding the towel about it.
 She had been alone during the morn- ing and the early part of the afternoon MT. Williams her husband having gone to Rockville. About l o'clock a neighbor called and paid her small sum of money owing to her. Ar eighteen years old boy employed about | the Williams place was also absent being half mile away looking after some cattle. The house is located on g bluff overlooking the tracks of the Cen. tral Vermont railroad tracks and is ir an open plot of ground ut an eighth ot l a mile away from the nearest neigh bor's, so it is believed that even if Mrs Williams had called for help she could not have been heard.
 Following the commission of thc crime the murderer went upstair, ap parently and securing an axe smashed open a trunk and taking out a smal safe from the trunk smashed that als( and obtained about S100 in money. Tht axe was found near the trunk. Int fact that only the trunk and safe wal | broken into and the rest of the house left undisturbed is thought by the au thorities to indicate that the crime may have been committed by some one ia miltar with the premises and the place where Mrs. Williams was accustomed dead womans dress was also cut away Part of the money taken from thu trunk was later found on the lawn il front of the house.
 It is believed by the authorities tha the murder was committed some timt between ? and o'clock in the after noon. About 1 o'clock. Edward Jacob son, a neighbor, called and paid Mrs Williams about S4 to square a milk ac count he had with her. At that timt there had been seen no strangers abou the place nor had the two dogs attach ed 0 the Williams place given any in dication that any one unknown to then was in the neighborhood. Shortly aft CT 1 o'clock the hired boy returned t. the house and on seeing the body lyin. in the kitchen at once went for MT Jacobson, who in turn notified the au thorities. Later Mir. Williams return ed and was almost overcome witt grief. The couple though elderly hat been married but a few years. No clu, has yet been obtained to the murderer The state police have been called in,