The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-04
POSSE is SEARCHING
FOR The MURDERER
Tragedy Took Place Late Last
Night After Pascal Had
Driven His Wife From
Home Through Brutal
Treatment.

South Walden, Aug. Awhile posse
Of fifty men is securing the woods for
Joseph Pascal to-day an autopsy is be-.
ing held on che body of Charles Perkins,
respected resident, who was murdered
by Pascal late last night because he
thought Perkins was harboring Mrs, Pas
cal who had fled in terror from her
drunken husband earlier in the evening
The tragedy took place in Perkins home
Joseph Pascal and his brother Gorliss
had been engaged in carousal for two
days, it is alleged, having gone to Nor.
riseille to secure their liquor They were
both drunk yesterday, and Joe started
ip to abuse his WIFE, as the story goes,
and she fed from the house, taking three
children with her The husband, in his
wrath, followed her and went to the
house of Mr. Perkins, believing that her
tracks led there, and his belief being
strengthened By the fact that ii times
past &hen he had pounded his wife she
had been befriended BY the Perkins peo.
pie.
Reaching the Perkins house shortly
before ten o'clock Pascal demanded his
wife and was told that she was not in
the house. Then he went along to the
house Of Will Bradford, a mile from
the Perkins place and two miles from
the Pascal home. Meanwhile Mr. Per-
kins telephoned the authorities for pro-
lection. Corliss Pascal, having heard
him telephoning. notified Joe that Mr.
Perkins was after the officers, which
increased Joes frenzy Returning to the
Perkins house, he began smashing The
windows and finally crawled through
one window into the Kitchen From
there he went into the sitting room,
where he saw Mr. Perkins. man Of
~ years standing by the telephone
just what took place is not known,
but it IS supposed that Pascal fred at
once, the bullet from the 1856 rifle
penetrating the body through the ribs
The victim did mot bleed profusely. but
died within quarter Of an hour.
After killing MIR Perkins, Pascal vent
ed his fury on the telephone instrument,
smashing it to pieces Then going 20
the bedroom. where Mrs. Perkins lay
sick, he demanded Of hers
Where in ll is my wifeW
On being informed by Mrs. Perkins
that she didn't know where the woman
was, Pascal IL alleged to have saids
You lay there There'll be business
tonight"
But the woman, terribly frightened.
fed from the room and went 70 the hem
house, going later to the shed chamber,
where She was discovered by her son,
Harry Perkins Hiram Smith, the hired
man on the Perkins farm, gave the
alarm that Mr. Perkins had been shot
but Joe Pascal still hung around the
house, defying the neiehboTs who REL
ep0nded and shooting once or twice but
not hitting ANYBODY ii is said that
lie aimed the rifle al George Perkins,
another son Of his victim, but did not
pull the trigger,
Before the arrival Of Sheriff Winch.
who rode thirty miles In his automobile
from his home in McIndoes, stopping ar
ST. JohnsburY to get States Attorney
Smonds and Deputy Sheriff Hartman.
Joe Pascal had escaped into the woods
Corliss his brother, surrendered himself
and is now locked up in the Hardwiek
jail. Sheriff Winch and a posse Of eti-
zens soon started out on a hunt for the
murderer, and it Is expected that they
will get him, although tile woods are
thick and not easily searched
An examination Of the Perkins house
to-day showed that the bullet from the
3S-55 rife bad, after going through Mr..
Perkins body passed through a door
aud into a dining-ro0m table. where it
was located. Pascal has not borne a
good reputation here He has eight
children The Perkins family has often
sided with Mrs Pascal ia her troubles
with her husband
The victim Of the murder was "
years old and one Of the most respected
citizens Of this town. He leaves his
wife and three children, all Of whom
are grown up