Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-03-26
HOW MURDERED
CHINAMAM WAS
FOUND IS TOLD
Confessions of Youths, Visible
Evidences of Crime and DR..
Stones Findings Feat
ures of Trial.

man, on February D, as told IN court
to-day by Chief of Police Mahoney, made
the day n black one for the respondents.
The State brought most of its heaviest
guns to bear and placed the boys in an
unfavorabe light.
The court room was filed with a curious
crowd. while many. unable to gain adj
mission, swarmed around the entrance to
see the prisoners as they were led in and
out
As soon as court opened, the jury by
agreement of counsel was taken to visit
the scene of the crime and certain points
of interest likely to he referred to.
Constable G. II. Chase was the first
witness called by the state. He told of
being notified by l.. W Neiburg, whose
place of business adioined that of the
murdered man, of suspicious that some
thing was wrong at Chin Kim's place.
with Sheriff Holmes he visited the store
of the Chinaman, said Mr.. Neiburg, and
told of seeing the body laying on the
floor in pool Of blood near which was
a fur coat. He noticed that a glass show
case was broken open; he looked the body
over and was sure the man was dead:
nothing about the place was disturbed
during his visit.
Sheriff Holmes testified that he was
called to Chin <im's place on February
6, going there with Messrs. Chase and
Neiburg about nine O'Clock in the morn
Ing; they found the store locked with
the lights burning both in and outside
the entrance; they entered the store by
forcing the door open, and found the old
Chinaman lying near the stove. dead;
I,, fnI.j e IL to- a..
body as it lay huddled in a pitiful heap
upon the floor; the sheriff noticed that
the glass show case was broken, and
that "A tray, evidently used for holding
watches, lay upon the floor near the
stove; he also saw a large iron coupling
pin which lay upon the floor, and the
fur coat, referred to- on which the dead
man partially lay, when found The fire
was still burning in the stove when the
party arrived on the scene.
The sheriff said he was not in town
when the respondents were first arrested
on February 10. but that when he re-
turned that evening. the Dennis and
Rushlow boys were in jail, in his custody
one being locked in n cell on the ground
floor, while the other was locked in up
stairs. and that they had been thus kept
separate and apart since.
DIR. STONE TESTIFIES.
Dr. B. II. Stone Of Burlington, director
of the State laboratory Of hygiene, was
next called, and told of his connection
with The laboratory during the past Is
years. In which time he had performed
| about one thousand autopsies: he was
called to this city on the afternoon of
Fol Try md 10 Of n.
| Chinaman on the floor of the second hand
| store on Catherine street, where he found
| assembled Mayor Greene, Sheriff Holiness
| Chief Mahoney and several others; his at
tcntion was Immediately called to the
| body of the dead man, as he lay upon the
| floor partially covered with a dark dog
Skin coat, which was bloody; in the pOck-
cts of .he coat he found what appeared to
| be an identification card or ticket; he saw
tray in which were bits of broken glass,
the kind Of a tray usually found in jew
elry store.
] At this time the fur coat was produced
and identified. DR.. Stone was handed an
iron coupling pin by Chief Mahoney while
In the store. and identified the pin which
was here put in as evidence; h. said tho
head of the pin had been freshly painted,
|
wooden hairs Of the Same kind and texture
of the cap that the dead man wore. The
cap was next introduced and identified by
DR.. Stone as one found lying under the
murdered man.
| \ close and critical eXa mination of the
body was made by DR.. Stone. assisted by
Drs. Whitney and Melville; from the eX-
animation he was satisfied that death re-
IgIl tod from int ha h1
skull being badly crushed In two places
and the brain Injured, all leading to a
great loss of blood, sufficient to result IA
tally. At this point the doctor, using an
officer as a dummy. showed the jury just
how and where the blows We're inflicted
that resulted in the murder; he was salts
fed that the crime could have been com
mitted with the coupling pin, and that
at least two blows were struck; after a
minute examination of the vital organs hc
could find no other cause of death and
thought that the victim was never CON
sclous after the assault. He stated that
in his experience, rigor morts generally
set in about two hours after death and
began passing away about 10 hours after.
POLICE CHIEF TESTIFIES.
Chief Of Police Mahoney told of visiting
the scene of the crime and of there seeing
the body of the Chinaman together with
a diamond pin and n pair of gloves. He
told of various events leading up to tn,
detection and arrest Of the respondents
together with a talk he had at the jai
with Rushlow on February 10, the night
,of the arrest, relating to the happenings
of the evening OF February 3, when the
crime was committed the talk in cues
ton was had In the presence of Mr.. Burns
and \. II. George, and was in effect thai
the two boys during visit to the city
dump, looking for scrap, etc, and meetinl
with little or no success, decided to 80 N
to the Chinaman and rob him; they lief
the dump, and started north on the rail
road track. passing on the way, the spul
track leading to Fonda's lumber yards
AS they crossed the spur, Rushlow said
ne took a coupling pin from freight car
taking 1t to Chin KimS place. where Den
mis- took the pin; they entered the China
mans store. where Rushlow turned on
The lipht and then walked over to chin
r Kim and asked to be shown fur coat; al
! chin Kim reached up and took down
coat Dennis struck him from behind Will
= the coupling PIN as the Chinaman ptche,
a forward on his face unconscious. the boy
: smashed in the show case, took tn
( watches and went away and buried tn
= loot,
STORY CONFIRMED.
Mr.. Mahoney said he then told Dennis
that Rushlow had confessed that h
Denns) had killed tho Chinaman. en
= Dennis said. well I might as well tei