The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-11
Beatrice Stewart, CoIored, Died
Early This Morning
AFTER LINGERING HOURS
Clara Washburn, Colored, and Trooper
Andrew c. Fox, Colored, Were the
Other Two Victims of Matthew
Carlyle Late Yesterday.

art, a colored girl, died early this morn
ing, making the third person killed by
Matthew Carlyle, colored of troop A,
10th cavalry, Fort Ethan Allen, when he
ran amuck in murderous frenzy yester-
day afternoon. The three victims Of
Carlyle are;
ANDREW c. FOX, colored, Of troop
G. U. S. cavalry.
CLARA WASHBURN, colored girl, in
mate of Bluefort's house near fort.
BEATRICE STEWART, colored girl,
inmate Of Bluefort's.
Carlyle is now in confinement, having
surrendered after being wounded in the
thigh as he resisted arrest when barri-
caded in Bluefort's place. In the ex-
change of shots between the hunted man
and detail of soldiers sent to arrest
him, horse of Captain Godson was shot
and killed.
The trouble is supposed to have start
ed in the morning when Carlyle, who
had been assigned TO special duty as
painter, failed TO show up and was re-
/
who was in charge of that work. He
was accordingly placed IN arrest in his
quarters late IN the forenoon after he
had returned from a trip to Winooski
/ He and Fox had had trouble before, and
the latter had several times been the
cause of Carlyle's arrest. At noon, he
ate dinner at the mess with his troop,
but appeared to be morose and said
that the last arrest probably meant his
discharge from the army as he had
been arrested so many times before.
After mess nothing more was seen Of
I him until he emerged from behind the
row of non-commissioned officers quar-
tiers armed with the rife and ammuni-
tion.
When Carlyle emerged from behind
the houses near the east end Of the
reservation, Fox was standing in front
Of the paint house, few rods away.
Carlyle said nothing but took deliberate
aim. No one saw Fox at the time, but
il is thought that his back was turned
as the bullet took effect In the back
Of the head, blowing off part Of the
skull. Death must have been instan-
taneous rs be fell in his tracks and
when reached was dead.
The farrier's shop, close at hand, con-
tanned some men, who upon hearing the
shots rushed out, but they fell back
speedily when they met Carlyle's gun
AIMED at them. In other places tie shots
We're heard. and seeing the commotion
and knowing that an armed guard would
soon be at his heels, the man dasLed
down the road.
Carlyle Ran to Bluefort's.
He took the reservation road as far
as the Essex junction highway, and
then followed this for about a quarter
of a mile, until he reached Clarence
Blueforts restaurant, resort frequent
ed by soldiers and other colorel people.
On the way he stopped orce or twice
to take shots at distant pursders, but
these did not take effect.
Carlyle's reputation for viciousness
was we'll known at the restaurant and
soldier named Blodson, seeing that he
was armed, gave the alarm to the women
who were in the house. Two of them
fled into the underbrush and thus es-
capped. The man went directly up the
stairs and into the room where the
Washington girl was lying in bed, i'll
with rheumatism He was not heard to
say a word but fired three shots INTO
her One blew e part of her head off,
another took effect in her right side
and the third took away portion of
her right foot.
Blodson and the Stewart girl, hearing
the shots, started to run from the din
ing room, where they had taken rcsdoe.
and through the hall out of doors. Car
lyle had by this time come into the
hall, and, seeing the woman in the hall
beneath, shot her through the back.
Blodson made his escape through the
back door, and the woman dragged her
self through two rooms out into the
yard. The floor was drenched IN blood
along the course, and the woman bled
profusely in the grass outside.
BY this time the guard in charge of
Captain Suplee, officer of The day, had
come up and surrounded the house. Car
lyle took position in northwest win
dow upstairs, and began shooting at
his mates outside. They exchanged
shots with him and the sound of nus
kerry resembled that of hot sbirmish.
The exchange lasted about ten minutes
and, meanwhile, lumber of other sol
diers had arrived on the scene and as
sisted in the fight. The house was
well riddled with bullets, but no shots
took effect, excepting in the case of
horse, ridden by Catpain Godson. The
animal was shot in the neck and aft
erwards died.
Carlyle was outwitted by an old ruse
which brought matters to climax. A
part of the troops were taken away
to distance in southwesterly direction.
and his fire was thus drawn over their
way While his attention was thus at
tracted,. Lieutenant Blaine, armed with
his rifle, crept up through the under
brush and shot Carlyle through the
thigh, near the groin, as be was ex-
posed in the window.
AS soon as Carlyle felt the lead. he
gave himself up and fairly pleaded for
the men to stop shooting. He yelled
to Bluefort, who had kept in the house
and was uninjured, to come up and take
his gun as he would do no further dam
age. He almost whimpered in his fear.
The room rapidly filled with troopers
who roughly tumbled him into wag-
on and took him with all dispatch to
the post hospital An ambulance took
tbe Stewart virl To the sama nlaca