Putnam patriot., 1913-08-22

utes either side. Some one was near the window of his bedroom, which is on the ground floor, calling MT. May Mir. May Johnl lie raised the shade and saw Mrs. Lawson. He could not understand what she wanted. His wife called to him and said Mrs. Law son wanted him to go with her. He slipped on part of his clothes and fol- lowed the woman over to the barn. At the barn door lantern was burning. Mrs. Lawson had said nothing. He stepped through the door and there saw MT, Lawson lying on his back in the stall, dead. One arm was folded over his breast and the other out stretched across the stall. Mrs. Law son bent over, took her husbands head in her hands and then put it down again and stood up and grabbed hold of MT. May and began to groan. He had hard time to quiet her and she collapsed. He retufned to his home and called up Byron Eddy, a neighbor, and the medical examiner, and both were soon on the scene. They out wardly decided that the man had been kicked by the horse but after the later developments each has said that in their own minds they believed things were not as they seemed. After day light the trail of blood was found which led to the cellar.
 A PATRIOT reporter called at the several knocks at the front door, Adolph, the 20-year.old boy, answered. He was asked if his mother would be willing to see representative of the press and he said he thought not. When he was requested to ask his mother for an interview he said she was upstairs sick in bed with nerv- ous breakdown. He said he was not at home when the murder occurred but was at nearby pond camping. He is a student in Trinity college and has been at home during the summer helping his father. The young man seems dszed.
 The Lawson house is a two-and-a- half-story white house with a long ell. | It sets back from the road about lb0 | feet and Is about eight or ten feet above the road and commands fine view of the surrounding country. 1t is about I mile from East Woodstock village. | The front porch is over-run with a clinging vine and flowers are in bloom along the whole front giving the air of prosperous.looking farmers home. i In the rear Is the horse barn where the ! body was found. It is dull brown color with wide rolling door on the west end and on the southeast corner | is the door through which the body was dragged Just beyond this Is a large red cattle barn. There are many other outbuildings. The May home is about 300 yards diagonally 10 the rear, the Lawson farm being at one time a portion of the May farm.
 MT Lawson was 50 years old and his wife is about 47. She Is slight, frail, woman weighing about l20 pounds and not in good health. MT. Lawson weighed about ITO. They were mar ried in Brooklyn, N. Y., and removed to Woodstock some fifteen years ago. MT. Lawson was reputed to be worth ten to fifteen thousand dollars.
 MT. and Mrs. Claus Nelson of South Woodstock, have been at the Lawson home looking out for the fam fly. People have come from miles around to view the scene of the tragedy and have wandered over the premises.
 An autopsy was held Sunday about o'clock, just previous to the funeral. The autopsy was performed by pr. Louis [. Mason of Wilimantic and Medical Examiner Joseph Spaulding of Woodstock in the presence of Cor oner Bill of Danielson. The wounds were found practically as previously described.
 Following the autopsy the funeral service was conducted by Rev. Axel Lindquist of the Swedish church and Rev. Mir. Turner of the Congregational church. Mrs. Lawson was able to at- tend. Burial was in the Swedish cemetery. Besides his wife, son, Adolph, 20, and daughter, Florence, Is, survive.
 Coroner A. G. Bill of Danielson held an inquest at the Lawson home in East Woodstock Tuesday.
 The witnesses were examined in the living room in the presence of the cor oner and his stenographer. Those ex- amined were; John May, the neighbor who ,went with Mrs. Lawson when the body was found, Mrs. May, Byron k. Eddy, who was called to the scene shortly after the body was discovered, the son AdoIph, and the daughter Flor ence, Mir. and Mrs. Claus Nelson, Ed. ma Eddy, who was at the party with Florence Lawson, Ben Johnson, 6 neighbor, and Mrs. Lawson herself. Mrs. Nelson Is Mrs. Lawson's sister, and she and her husband have been at | the place since the murder looking out l for things.
 Ben Johnson is the last person | known to have seen Lawson alive. | He was at the Lawson house about 7.30 the night of the murder. He had some business transaction with Mir. | Lawson and may have paid him a sum of money. No suspicion what l ever rests upon him as he is a reputa- l hl. csst~a~ of Nrctafaok