Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-19
CRAZY BROOKLYN FINN REAPS
 HARVEST OF DEATH WITH AXE
of his yard, starting westward to- ward Hampton.

Attacks NelGhbor.
 A third of a mile away was the home of Christian G. Ritter, a farmer neighbor, who lives in a little farm house that sets down in a hollow at the end of a lane that leads off the main highway. Lipponen, on his mis- sion of death, turned his rig into the Jane. Mi. Ritter was inside, en- gagged in picking a chicken, intended for the family's Sunday dinner. With him were his daughter, Ceeelia, aged IA, and his son, Stephen. J., aged 12.
 As Iipponen drove into the yard Mr Ritter and his children went out to meet him. As the children tell the story, Lipponen talked to their fath- CT for minute in a casual way and about matters of no more than pass ing importance, and then reaching back picked up his axe and without dous blow with the weapon full in the face, which was completely crushed in. Mr. Ritter fell to the ground and as he struggled to arise was leaped upon by Lipponen. who rained further blows with the axe up- on him, killing him then. and there.
 Then the frenzied man rushed att the children, but these horror-stricken and nimble-footed young people who dashed away and managed to avoid the slower and more clumsy demon who would end their ive@
 His effort to get the Ritter children availing him nothing, Lipponen drove away from the Ritter phase, from at her work for the Brookhill AIanu- featuring company at Danielson. The murderer left MT. Ritter's body lying in the snow in the yard
 Heading out through the lane and into the highway, Lipponen continu-. ed westward. For some reason that no one can explain, he drove directly past the home of John Stalker, who occupies what is commonly known in Brooklyn as the bricllhouse and which is next westward from the Ritter place.
 Kills Two at Ray Home.
 A little distance farther on, how ever, he turned his horse into the drive way at the home of Charles Ray, who was at his work in Brooklyn and halted the rig outside the kitchen i door. Taking his axe he went to the kitchen door, knocked and went in. He greeted Mrs. Ray, who advanced to meet him, with a cheery Good morning and then, without the i slightest warning, struck her on the head with the axe. As she went down under the awful impact of the heavy instrument Lipponen dealt her more crushing blows, and then turned and attacked her daughter by her i first marriage, Miss Elsie Rose Kim 1 Der, 19, who came rushing to her mothers aid. Powerless to combat the brute human form whom she was | fl 4 yir7aIa +l same fate as her mother and was beaten down. horribly mutilated about the head, her left arm, which | she evidently had raised to shield her ! head, half severed from her body. 1 Charles B. Ray, Il, was also in the kitchen, but, though Lipponen tried to attack him while he was dealing death to the boys mother and sister, managed to elude Lipponen and es- cape out of doors, making his way rapidly toward the Stalker home. The boy furnished the story of the trag- edy at his home, and told how Lip l ponen, having reaped, the harvest of death in the house, went out and set the Ray barn on fire, the structure burn ing to the ground, with two horses and l a COW, all the machinery and tools and hay being lost in the flames NIr
  i The horses were, the property of a MT
 Davis who has been employed by a telephone company in doing teaming.
 As near as can be figured, it was i between one oHd two hours from the time that Lipponen started to kill be- i fore he ended his work at the Ray i place, nearly three-quarters of a mile from his own home, yet none at that time had come to interefere with him.
 Suicide on Abandoned Farm
 ;! Going away from Rays with his rig ihe continued westward, interfering ] with nothing. until he came to the Doyen farm, where he drove into the yseI>t la.ltSu Iog q mInute, then drove
 on again. At q poin where crsss-
 road turns off to the left and south he i selected that route and drove to the DeCarIo farm, which is abandoned I Tor the winter the family staying in Brooklyn. Halting here, he took a rein from his horses harness, went into the we0dshed, fashioned the rein
 self.
 Deputy Sheriff Edwin Bennett and
 Harry Lathrop, both of Brooklyn, who found him while his body was vel warm, life having departed probably
 not more than twenty minutes, were prepared for any emergency and read1
 to act with terrible decision. had Lip.
 ponen been alive and still in fightins mood. The murderer hung there limp, however, his knees resting or the ground, so long was the rein. Sometime after Lipponen had Ief : his own home his wounded wife. ut tefly weak from an of her experience. of the past few days and the attacl upon her, managed somehow to ge | out ef bed, put on pair of boots ant slip on an overcoat over her niesh l dress and make her way on f6o
 through the snow for a half mile t, the Saler home where she eollapsed l He wound is not Serious one an, f does not endanger her life, but tn shock, taken with her general condi e tion, makes her condition serious an, on Surdav e'5o VI ts;, raraeved to in , Day Kimball hospital at Putnam 2 Mrs. Lipponen does not speak Englis r wei s44sy. s-t V.,. .slte As.s been albl p to tell officials Investigating the cas ies that her husband seemed to con I ceive the idea during Saturday fore ] noon that everybody was seekink to lSiL f him and her,
 2 Spread Terror In Neishborhood The kitchen at the Ray home wa ,. a real chamber of horrors. Difficult s was experienced in getting n1edi 3 aid to Mrs, Ray and Miss Kimber. s great was the terror and exeitemer T idn the neighberhood which is we . supplied with telephone. ubt Dr. F. : Todd of Danielson finally was locate and drove his machine at top spec tt to bring aid to the two women, wh r lay on the kitchen floor more tha
 two hours. Both were unconscior