Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-09

Mellow, concerning the murder or OS- car and Gustave Olsen, brothers, and William Rhodes, in the old Kingston depot, in which he claims to have kill ed Rhodes in self defence after the other two men had been killed by someone else, does not, according to The Providence Journal, coincide fully with known facts.
 Mellow claimed that he left the shack early in the evening. on the day of the crime, intending to take a freight to Westerly. He said he left the Olsen brothers and Rhores there drinking when he left. Rhodes was not in the shack at that time, for until at least 9.20 he was at the new King ston station. trying to hire a wagon to take him home.
 Mellow claims he got back to the shack after missing his train about 8 in the evening. and found one Swede dead, the other dying, and was at tackled by Rhodes, whom he killed in self defence.
 Mellow says he did not catch his freight and decided to stay over night at the shack Residents of Kingston say that there are several freight trains passing through there, at that time of night, for Westerly. and that there was no real excuse for missing a freight.
 That Rhodes was not then in tho shack is claimed by several witnesses. Rhodes was still trying to hire a team four miles. He called at both stables near the station personally to inquire and also telephoned for two chauffeurs at Kingston without success.
 Mellow admitted taking $10 from the pile of money he claimed Rhodes was counting on the table. But the pockets in Rhodes clothing were turned in side out. Some of them were also torn. indicating clearly that some per- son had ''f1shed" his pockets, with un- usual ferocity and haste.
 Rhores. who has been termed a reqro, is really an almost full blood was full blooded and his father nearly so. Arthur W. Brown, deputy scheriff and keeper of the Kingston jail knew him well, and he says he was a stall wart character, physically and men tally strong, although he illegally sold liquor.
 He was unusually we'll prepared to defend himself being good boxer and an artist at jiu-jitsu- The two Olsens, Mir. Brown says. were hard-working men. willing and industrious, and one of them was soon to be married It was for that he was saving his mon ey.
 The shack does not show the signs of any "fearfuI struggle" "The men apparently died in their tracks" says Mr, Brown. They were killed in their chairs, and, slipping to the fcor. never moved again One of the falling, but there was no sign of strug- E!ing. The we1l-Iaden table was not overturned. and the things on it were standing upright.
 NO blood was Spattered about the room, except for one single drop, ap- parently thrown from the axe. The walls were not in any way disfigured, and the floor showed no signs of a fight. One chair was overturned. One Swede was shot eXactly between the eyes All three were shot in the head. indicating that they were asleep when shot
 In freef for all fight, it is argued, it would take an expert with a revolver 70 hit three men in the head at night. All of the wounds caused by the axe were in the head. indicating that these must have been delivered either while the men were asleep or after they were dead
 Mellow and a man named Maynard arrived at Kingston Wednesday, before the murder which occurred on Satur- cay and got work on the railroad. Mel low ill store. called Maynard his chum and was scolded by Maynard for making such a remark.
 MT. Brown says that this case is not one where two Swedes, in a drunken riot, were murdered by another drunkard. One of them did drink, 2 be said. but the other did not" They were quiet, saving men. and they were killed because of their virtues, not their vices. It was a. coid-blooded well-planned crime, and the state owes 1t to it's good-living. saving and in dustrious citizens, not to let it go un- punished, or be satisfied with an ex- planation for the killing of one man which citizens of Kingston believe an untrue version. because facts disprove some of the claims made by Mellow
 The case of Isaac Ellis against Major Horace Swan, and others, of the