Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-01
Especial to The Bunetin).

Danielson, April 3O.-At their lonely
 home near Cotton's Bridge in the far
 northwest corner of the town of Xiii
 lingly. William Lambert, colored, aged
 60, Wednesday shot, stabbed and club-
 bed his wife Julia, a helf breed. B,
 to death in one of the most brutal
 cases in the history of Windham coun-
 ty. The wreck of the body brought
 to a local undertaker's indicated what
 a terrible passion the man must have
 been in when he committed the crime.
 Broke the News Himself.
 While according to Lambert the
 crime was committed about four or five o'clock Wednesday morning, no
 one outside the tumbledown house in which the family lived learned any thing about the affair until the early afternoon, when the first intimation of what had happened came from Lam bert himself. Moved to compassion by watching the sufferings of the dying woman he finally went to a neighbor' s house some distance away and asked for the privilege of telephoning to Dr.
 S. B. Overlook of Pomfret, saying that 1 his wife was in a critical condition on account of injuries.
 Babe CIineing to Dead Mother. This statement aroused the interest of Mrs. William Darling and Miss Hil- da Hipakka who went to the Lambert home and looked upon a scene that i froze the blood in their veins Lying on the bed in her room they saw the body of the woman with a seven months old babe dripping with blood from its parents wounds, clasping at it's dead mothers breast. The mortified ones could do nothing but give assist ance to the three small children until Dr. Overlook arrived on the scene in his automobile some time later.
 Lambert Did Not Know Wife Was Dead.
 The doctor immediately sensed the situation and driving to the telephone l from which he had received the mes sage, notified Coroner A. G. Bill of ] what had happened. Coroner Bill tel 1 ephoned word to Deputy Sheriff Mich | ael Grimshaw at Attawaugan and that | officer, with his son Michael and Emery l Anderson mmediately set out for the 1 Lambert place. By the time they evidently not fully realizing, at thai 1 time, what had happened, as it is l thought that he did not believe that 1 his wife was dead. He made no re- | Sistance to arrest and eventually was | brought to Danielson and locked up ir the police station here.
 Bought Whisi<ey at DayviIIe. At first he would say little about | the crime. but later talked freely about
 it. From what he said himself and l from what the officers learned from 1 his tiny daughters, aged four and six | fairly we'll connected history of the 1 crime has been obtained. Lambert l says that on Tuesday night he went | to Dayville to buy some groceries. Be- 1 fore he went home he indulged in 2 number of glasses of beer and bought a pint of whiskey, taking this along
 with him.
 1 Lambert Suspicious of His Wife. Arriving at his home he immediately 1 began to quarrel and fearing that he l might do an injury, the children say 1 their mother took them out of the 1 house and across the road into barr l where they spent the night. Lam bert told the Bulletin reporter Wed
 nesday night that they came back 1 about five o'clock Wednesday morning
 He said that it was his opinion thai
 the woman had left the house for the | night to visit with some other mar
 and when she returned he attacked hen
 in the fury that possessed him. He
 says he did not realize she was badly
 hurt until late in the day, about noon