New-York tribune., 1912-03-08
ATTACKS GIRLS; ENDS
LIFE WITH DYNAMITE
CoaChman on Estate at Brew
ster, Supposedly Insane, Beats
CIerqyman's Daughters.
BODY IS BLOWN TO PIECES
Young Women, Who Were DellV-
ering Keys of House, Are Bare
lv Out of His Reach When
Explosion Wrecks Stable.
1n, relorrsnh 10 The rribuae ]

3anburv. Conn, March I.-GeorSe
Mead coachnan and gardener in charge
NJ the estate of Mrs. Seth B. Howes'
near Brewster, Putnam County ~ y
followed a savage attack upon the TWO
sranddaughters Of his employer Nester-
day afternoon by blowing himself ana
part of the stable to atoms with SUCK
of dynamite The two girls. Miss Amy
and Miss Ruby HEARTFELT, are still SUI
fering from the shock of their experience
and rom numerous scalp wounds n
ficted by a pair of heavy pliers with
which tho supposedly crazy man at
tackled them.
The Howes place. Morningthorpe
faces that of H. II. Vreeland, across
the road in Turks Hill. two miles from
Brewster. and is occupied by the widow
of Seth B. Howes a circus owner whose
daughter married the Rev. Frank Heart
field. Before his retirement Mr.. Heart
field was rector of st. Andrews Prot
estant Episcopal Church in Brewster.
The Heartfelds live in Brewster, and in
the absence of Mrs. Howes, who is now
OnlCdRO,
habit of looking after Morningthorpe.
Mead had been in the employ Of the
Howes family since his boyhood and was
implicitly trusted by every member OF
the family. When he called up MI
HEARTFELT on the telephone yesterday
morning TO report that a window shutter
on the second floor of the house had
been loosened by the wind, and to re-
ouest the keys TO the house that he
might fix it, Mr.. HEARTFELT Immediately
sent his two daughters to him with the
keys.
The girls. one of whom is twenty
wears old and the other twenty-five,
drove over to Morningthorpe IN pony
cart They found the coachman in the
stable and delivered the keys to him.
AS they were about to leave the oulld-
ing the man sprang at them with the
heavy pair Of pliers which he had been
using.
He beat Miss Amy the younger, to
the floor but Miss Ruby succeeded in
dodging most of the blows and fled
screaming out to the road, attracting
the attention Of Daniel Hogan and oscar
Barry. who are employed on the Vree-
land place. AS they ran back with her
to the stable the sister crawled out on
her HANDS and knees. An instant later
a desfening explosion blew the rear half
of the building out
Pieces of Meads body were found
s+rewn about in the wrecka ge-his head
in one place, a part of his left arm IN
another, and so on. He was expert
enced in the use of dynamite, quantity
of which, used for blowing up stumps
on the place, was stored i'm part of the
stable remote from the harness room TO
which the man retired apparently, to
commit suicide.
Near the place where the dynamite
was stored the searchers Of the ruins
came across a bucket of warm, greasy
water in which, it is supposed, Mad
shawed out the stick of dynamite with
which he blew himself into eternity.
Physicians called to attend the Heart
field girls found that Miss Amy Heart
field had thirty-seven scalp wounds, re-
quiring thirty-five stitches to close
them. Miss Ruby HEARTFELT suffered
mostly from shock Both girls had col
lapsed utterly with the explosion.
Hogan and Barry assisted them to the
Vreeland house.
Mead was thirty-one years old, and
had been married only since last No
vember. He had shown no previous i'll
dications of insanity, 1t was said.