Homicides of Adults in Vermont, 1821-1846
Weapon: with wooden bludgeon Circumstances
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- Newspaper : Census : 1840C: EP GI 369 Isle La Motte M 10,20,40 F 0,5,5,10,10,40 Ag - 2 Genealogy
Weapon: with wooden bludgeon Circumstances: Inquest: Indictment: Term: Court proceedings: Fled. Warrant issued for arrest. Source: Letter from William W. Cadwell, j.p., to Silas H. Jennison, Sept., 1841. A warrant written at John Kelley's Inn at Montpelier to SHJ as sheriff. New York State Library. Newspaper: VT PATRIOT, missing at VtStLib VT WATCHMAN, 8/2 - 10/18/1841. nothing VW 8/5/1885 (W): HOM in VT? SAME FELLOW? WAS: Berlin town notes: Chauncy Nye of Peoria, Ill., is visiting his old home after an absence of nearly 30 yrs. Census:
C. B. Nye WAS 248 Berlin M 10,20 F 30 Ag - 2 Chester Nye WAS 248 Berlin M 10,15,50 F 10,15,20,40,40 Ag - 3 John Smith WAS 259 Moretown M 0,20 F 0,20 Ag - 1 John Smith Jr. WAS 230 Barre M 15,20,50,80 F 20,20,40,70 Ag - 3 Mfg - 1 Genealogy:
Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: Berlin Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Victim: John Smith
Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: Birthplace: b. outside USA "a foreigner" Religion: Organizations: 1841, Sept. 23 Fairfield, FRA CT P Class: certain Crime: HOM MANSL Rela: NONDOM Motive: QUARREL Intox?: yes, prob. both Day of week: Th Holiday?: Time of day: Days to death: 0
Fra. Co. Ct. docket, 4/1842t: 180 J. of Gen. Ass. 1841: 145 Newspaper: Burlington Free Press, 10/1/1841: two Irishmen in an altercation, Q & M. M threatened to kill Q and began to strike with his fists. Q was cutting tobacco with his pocket knife at the time of the first blow. Q struck M in the breast with the knife. d. 1 hr. Rum "has acted its part in this case, as is usual in all such cases." New Hampshire Patriot, 10/7/1841: HOMICIDE in VT: man named Murphey killed in Fairfield, VT, 9/23, in a fight, caused by rum. VT WATCHMAN, 11/4/1841: ditto Census:
HM FRA 295 Fairfield M 5,30 F 0,0,30 Ag - 1 Genealogy:
Race: w
Gender: m Age: 27 67" Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: Fairfield Birthplace: b. Ireland Religion: Organizations: Victim: Hugh Murphy
Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: Birthplace: [b. Ireland] Religion: Organizations: 1841, Nov. 6 Norwich, WDS P HIST Class: certain Crime: HOM Rela: SPOUSE WIFE by HUSBAND Motive: ABUSE Intox?: Day of week: Sat Holiday?: Time of day: night Days to death: 0 HOM: James Sweeney m. Melinda (Cumings) Sweeney (his wife) Weapon: blows to the head [[hys] Circumstances: found dead in the garden of her home Inquest: Indictment: Term: Court proceedings: fled. Captured. NOTE: had been ordered several months earlier to post bond for good behavior toward his wife, but he could not post the bond, & so absconded Source: M. E. Goddard and Henry V. Partridge, A History of Norwich, Vermont (Hanover: The Dartmouth Press, 1905), 152, 267. (mentioned) Newspaper: BFP, 11/19/1831: supposed she was murdered the night before she was found (11/6), by her husband. New Hampshire Patriot: 11/25/1841: MURDER: Haverhill Republican. HORRID MURDER. Murdered in Norwich, Vt, on the night of the 6th inst., Mrs. Sweney. She returned to Norwich from Hanover on Saturday evening, and was discovered in the garden [of an adjoining residence] Sabbath morning with her head mangled in the most brutal manner. The murderer is supposed to be James Sweney, her husband, for whose apprehension a suitable reward will be paid, together with all necessary expenses. His height is about 4 feet 4 to 6 inches, thick set, from 65 to 70 years of age, hair nearly white, dark complexion, cross-eyed, an irishman by birth, and speaks with considerable of a brogue, usually wears a blue frock coat and white hat." Argus Spectator, 11/20/1841: ditto. Vermont CHRONICLE, 11/17/1841: dtl Hanover, 11/8/1841. "Mr. Tracy, - On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 7th, Mrs. Sweeny, who lived four miles north of Norwich . . . on the Thetford road, was found dead in the garden attached to the house, her head horribly beaten in and the bar of the house lying near and bloody - the presumption is that her husband, James Sweeny, an Irishman, was the perpetrator. Some months ago, Sweeny was complained of for abusing his wife, and had to [post] bonds for good behaviour, but unable to give bonds he absconded, threatening at the time vengeance on his wife for testifying against him. On Saturday, Mrs. Sweeny spent the day in Hanover working at the Hotel and returned home at night. A female acquaintance spent the evening with her and went home leaving her alone. Sweeny was seen in Hanover Friday and Saturday. Probably he lurked at the house until his wife was alone and them killed [her]. As yet no track has been obtained of the murderer by the pursuers. Mrs. Sweeny was a native of Norwich. Her husband is understood to be a drinking man. J.R. Compelled by cold and hunger, Sweeny has surrendered himself, having been concealed in the neighborhood. Census:
M 26 F 26,45 Blk-1 Ag-1 1830C: JS WDS 213 Norw. M 5,50 F 20,40,60 1840C: nothing Genealogy: VR-250: m. in Norwich, 9/6/1818, James Sweeny and Melinda Cumings, by a j.p. James Sweeney, Jr. b. to James and Melinda Sweeney in Norwich, 12/11/1820 Accused: James Sweeney Ethnicity: Irish Race: w
Gender: m Age: [67] 65 or 70 64" nearly white hair, thick set, cross-eyed, dark complexion Literate: Marital Status: m. to Melinda (Cumings) Children: yes Occupation: Town: Norwich Birthplace: b. Ireland Religion: Organizations: Victim: Melinda (Cumings) Sweeney (his wife)
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Gender: f Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: m. James Children: yes Occupation: worked at a hotel in Hanover Town: Norwich Birthplace: b. Norwich, VT Religion: Organizations: 1842, Aug. 30 Georgia, FRA INQ
P Class: certain Crime: HOM Rela: MARITAL WIFE by HUSBAND Motive: ABUSE Intox?: probably: JP a heavy drinker Day of week: T Holiday?: Time of day: night Days to death: 0 HOM: James Powell m. Sylvia Powell Weapon: violence, bruises to head Circumstances: [phys] Inquest: Indictment: Term: Court proceedings: Arrested, but insuff. evidence. No indictment. Source: Fra. Co. Ct. v. Q: 155 Newspaper: St. Albans MESSENGER, 9/7/1842: 9/1842 through 12/1842 not at VtStLib. VT PHOENIX, 9/19/1842: SP disappeared T night. Her body was found in the river near her home on Friday morning. JP a farmer "well off in this world's goods" -- owns one of the most beautiful farms on the Lamoille River. "have for several years lived on very peaceable terms" -- suspect that rum played a part "in causing contention and unhappiness." Census:
JP FRA 240 Georgia M 10,20,60 F 0,5,10,20,40 Ag - 1 Genealogy:
Accused: James Powell Ethnicity: [nb English] Race: w
Gender: m Age: [67] Literate: Marital Status: m. Sylvia Children: yes, several Occupation: farmer -- owns large farm Town: Georgia Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Victim: Sylvia Powell
Race: w
Gender: f Age: [47] Literate: yes, several Marital Status: m. to James Children: Occupation: farm wife Town: Georgia Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: 1842, Sept. 19 Windham, WDH P CT HIST Class: certain Crime: HOM Rela: RELATIVE BROTHER by BROTHER Motive: MENTAL ILLNESS / FAMILICIDE Intox?: Day of week: Sun Holiday?: Time of day: morning Days to death: 0 HOM: Charles Spaulding m. Gilman Spaulding Weapon: axe to head. d. few hrs. Circumstances: in a shed Inquest: Indictment: bnf for murder by reason of insanity Term: 5/1843t Court proceedings: arrested. Partially insane. Sent to the asylum. Source: Wdh. Co. Ct. 14: 177-178 Kidder, History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire (1852), 249. Newspaper: BPF, 9/30/1842: from Keene Sentinel: CS has been partially insane the past few yrs. He wandered away a short time ago from his home in New Ipswich to Windham. Last week his brother went to Windham to bring him back. He was found on 9/20 [sic?]. He slyly took out an axe and bludgeoned his brother to death. "On Sunday morning he was standing in a shed with him seemingly peaceable and quiet, when he received on his head a wound inflicted with an axe by the mad man, which caused his death within a few hours." Arrested; in Newfane jail awaiting trial. "appears to be wholly unconcerned, says he is glad that he killed him and intends to kill another brother and sister." VT PHOENIX, 9/23/1842 New Hampshire Patriot, 10/13/1842: HOM in VT: Nashua Telegraph: Mr. Gilman Spaulding of New Ipswich, NH, k. by an insane brother in Windham, VT, last week. Brother in jail in Newfane, "in a most pitable state of insanity." Census:
Isaac 538 James 538 1840C: no Spauldings in New Ipswich 1850C: Spauldings in HIL New Ipswich George 281 Isaac 287 James 281 Josiah W. 287 Mary 273 Sarah B. 278 Genealogy: Accused: Charles Spaulding Ethnicity: [nb English] Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: New Ipswich, NH Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Victim: Gilman Spaulding
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Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: Children: Occupation: Town: New Ipswich, NH Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: 1842, Oct. 16 Fairfield, FRA P CT INQ HIST
Class: probable Crime: HOM: 1 adult & 1 child Rela: SPOUSE WIFE by HUSBAND and RELATIVE INFANT by FATHER Motive: ADULTERY by HUSBAND / INHERITANCE Intox?: Day of week: Sun Holiday?: Time of day: Days to death: 0 HOM: Eugene Clifford m. Elizabeth (Gilmore) Clifford and Mary Ann Clifford Weapon: drowned in Fairfield Pond when boat overturned. Circumstances: the pond was shallow Inquest: lst inq. verdict: acc. drowning. 2nd inq. verdict: willful murder. Indictment: yes, murder Term: 4/1843 Court proceedings: pNG. fG. Death. To hang 4/21/1844. "The execution of the sentence was not ordered by the governor, and the prisoner became a raving maniac, and, in this condition, died." [town history] Declared insane, 1843. d. 3/1847, buried in prison yard. NOTE: Fra. Co. Ct. doc., 4/1843t: 220, 221, 222. Forgery charge agst. EC. Source: Fra. Co. Ct. v. Q: 196, 198. Inq. says that Mary Ann & Eliz. were drowned accidentally by falling out of the boat. L. L. Dutcher, The History of St. Albans, Vt. (St. Albans: Stephen E. Royce, 1872), 300-301: EC & family lived in north part of Fairfield. A deserter from the British army & had come to Fairfield, where he m. Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmore, a widow who owned a 50 ac. farm. "He had been told, and, being an ignorant man probably believed, that if he outlived his wife and child, this farm would be his own, and it is supposed that he then formed the purpose ofbring about their death.* He invited his wife to cross the pond with him in a log-canoe and she was never seen again alive. In the course of an hour or two, he came back to the neighborhood with the report that his wife, in the act of adjusting a shawl around her infant, had fallen out of the canoe and that both were drowned. Mrs. Clifford wore a silk shawl, a valuable one which she had brought over from Ireland, and the infant was wrapped in a woolen blanket shawl. Thebodies were recovered the next day. That of theinfant had floated quite a distance and that of the mother was hooked up in water about 10 feet deep. But the shawls were not upon the bodies nor could they be found. This increased the suspicion, already existing, that Clifford was the murderer." The shawls would have to have floated, but they could not be found after "vigorous search." "Clifford was in the charge of keepers and the search, for the following day, was given up. On the following night the wife of Mr. Stephen Marvin dreamed that she started to look for the shawls, that she crossed the road in front ofher dwelling, got over the fence, then went through a field to a second fence athwart which a large hemlock tree had fallen; that she got over this fence, walked a short distance on the prostrate tree, and into a patch of woods where threes had been overturned by the wind; thence passed to ground, near the shore of the pond, covered by a thick growth of brush; and that there, in a shallow hole in the sand, and but partially covered, she found the shawls." Her husband declined the next morning to follow her to the shawls, because "he thought so lightly of the dream," but a neighbor, named Bailey, agreed to accompany her. Found the shawls "still wet as when the murderer buried them two days before" -- exactly where the dream said they would be. * In an unfinished account of this murder and trial by the late Col. Perley, among his papers for Fairfield, it is stated that Clifford was reputed guilty at the time, of an intimacy with a woman whom he thought he could marry if he could only remove his wife,--Ed." Newspaper: BFP, 11/18/1842: dtl Fairfield, Sun., 10/16: fr. the St. Albans paper: living near Fairfield pond, asked wife to accompany him on a visit to a friend, on opposite side of the pond, saying that they had been specifically invited (they in fact had not been). Cold & unpleasant day. Mrs. C. objected to going, but was prevailed upon. Took along infant. Boat upset. She & infant drowned, EC survived. Suspicious circumstances came to light, so coroner revised lst verdict of "accidental drowning" to "wilful murder." "Clifford's story is that in consequence of a strong wind theboat rocked so violently that his wife and child fell into the water and that in trying to recover them he also fell in, and in falling, upset the boat. He further says, that when he rose to the surface of the water he saw the child and heard its cries, but as he was some distance from the shore, he made no effort to save either the child or mother, and with the assistance of the two oars he swam ashore. When landed safely himself, he made no effort to save them; and instead of going to a house near by, he went about two miles around the pond to a near neighbor and communicated the death of the mother and child." "Some suspicious circumstances fcoming to light a second inquest was called" -- the murder verdict returned. St. Albans paper: issues missing at VtStLib BFP 5/5/1843: EC fG. RH 5/2/1843: ditto. Census:
Betsey Gilmore FRA 293 Fairf. M 0,0,5,10 F 0,5,10,30 Ag - 1 Genealogy:
Accused: Eugene Clifford Ethnicity: English Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: m. Elizabeth Children: yes, infant Occupation: farmer [owned 50 ac. farm with his wife] Town: Fairfield Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: deserter from British Army Victim 1: Elizabeth (Gilmore) Clifford
Race: w
Gender: f Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: m. to Eugene, after being widowed upon the death of her first husband Children: yes, an infant Occupation: farm wife Town: Fairfield Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Victim 2: Mary Ann Clifford
Race: w
Gender: f Age: 0 infant Literate: n Marital Status: s Children: n Occupation: none Town: Fairfield Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: 1844, Apr. 15 Isle La Motte, GI HIST
Crime: HOM / AIK Rela: HHLD HOUSEWIFE/LANDLADY (as a third-party intervening to defend the maid) by PEDDLAR/BOARDER who boarded with the family (who began his assault by attempting to kill the maid) Motive: MENTAL ILLNESS Intox?:
Day of week: Sat Holiday?: Time of day: 11pm Days to death: 60 'two months' after she was stabbed HOM: ___ Pipershine m. Barbara A. (Hill) Pike & aik on Pruda Springer
The March next spring my father was called to court on a jury, and this [was] the time for the Peddler to get in his work, there being only one boy 16 left at home with a hired boy about the same age, a hired girl, Mother and her four little girls, the oldest 14, this was Maria, that were to bed and assleep, but Mother and the maide with Anna (then ten years old). Now I will give you a description of the house, so you can see how it was a little better. On the first floor was a kitchen, two bedrooms, a pnatry and Sellor. The boys slept in one of these bedrooms and the foure girls in the other. A flight of 13 steps took us to the next story where we entered the dining room. On the south of this was the parlor, with two more bedrooms on the west, one of these was where the Pedlar slept. Father and Mother had their bed in the dining room in winter, and it was used also for a sitting roome. Now Mother, the maid, Pruda Springer, with Anna, were sitting waiting for Father's return. Mother told Pruda to step in the Parlor and get her some garments that hung on the bars that needed a little mending. When she came out he followed close behind her. She threw the clothes on the bed and started to go and call the boys from below, but he caught her in the entry at the head of the stairs and he cut her left arm and she called out that he was killing her. Mother caught up the fire shovel and started to go to her assistance. But when she had half way accross the roome he caught her and stabed her, cut one arm to the bone, gave her seven bad wounds, one in the shoulder, one just above the hip, one under the arm, where he broke the point of the knife in her brest bone. There wer seven woundsin all and she still fought him, through him to the floor and got hold of the handle of th eknife and rung it from the blade as he held on to it. The flesh was all of[f] the insaide of his hand where she rung it getting it from him. Sister Ann called the boys, as they came in the room he began to beg for his life. They put him back in the parlor and fastened it, then layed Mother on the bed. Then Sidney with a horse went for father while brother William took his gun and stood guard on the piasa for there was a window in his room that opened and he might make his escape. Well the boy met father on the road, told him to hurry home, there was trouble there, and urred on to let the married children know. . . . this was an awful time . . . . long before daylight the house was crowded with people. They came from all the ajoining towns, such a Tragady was not known in that Town for years, if ever before." [closes with an account of her feelings, her grief, her mother's last two months, & her trust in God. "Sooner or later the end will come. May we too when summoned say with her, our Father's will be done. And go with that calm peicefull expression on our countainance that one feels that the Angles are there to take them home."
M 10,20,40 F 0,5,5,10,10,40 Ag - 2 Genealogy: Ezra Pike, Jr. m. 12/31/1815 to Barbara A. (Hill) (b. 12/31/1797 at Granville, NY). BAH was the daughter of Caleb Hill, who was murdered in 1814. Accused: ___ Pipershine Ethnicity: [nb English] Race: w
Gender: m Age: adult Literate: Marital Status: s Children: no Occupation: peddlar Town: transient; boarding with the Pikes Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Victim 1: Barbara A. (Hill) Pike
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Gender: f Age: 45
Literate: Marital Status: m. Ezra Pike, Jr. in 1815 Children: 13 ch. Occupation: farm wife [she & husband owned a substantial farm & a new stone house; her husband a selectman for 12 terms, lister for 7 terms, & town rep., 1826-1827] Town: Isle La Motte Birthplace: b. Granville, NY Religion: Organizations: Victim 2: Pruda Springer Ethnicity: [nb English] Race: w
Gender: f Age: [18] "the hired girl" Literate: Marital Status: s Children: n Occupation: house servant / maid for the Pike family Town: Isle La Motte Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: 1846, March 13 Hartland, WDS P CT NOTE: denial of entry to a brothel? Hard to tell what happened. Class: certain Crime: HOM / M-2 Rela: NONDOM [not related] Motive: QUARREL over visit to a woman Intox?: yes, assailant Day of week: F Holiday?: Time of day: afternoon or evening ("p.m.") Days to death: 2
VT REPUBLICAN 1846 missing at VtStLib VT CHRONICLE, 3/18/1846: "The Irishman had been on a spree for several days, and was just drunk enough to be brutal. The affair was occasioned, we understand, by an abandoned woman whom the Irishman supposed to be at the house; and the wound was given during a struggle--the Irishman having been ordered away and refusing to go." Jailed. New Hampshire Patriot, 4/30/1846: HOMS in VT: Andrew Rogers, Irishman of Hartland, VT, pG, LIFE, for killing man named Rogers. Census: 1840C: 11 Rogers hhlds in Hartland Stephen Rogers WDS 435 Hartland M 0,0,5,30 F 10,30 Ag - 2 1850C: Andrew Rogers WDS 361 Windsor [at Vt. St. Prison] (39, laborer, b. Ireland -- for mansl.) Genealogy: Accused: Andrew Rogers Ethnicity: Irish Race: w
Gender: m Age: 35 65" Literate: Marital Status: s Children: n Occupation: Town: transient Birthplace: b. Ireland Religion: Organizations: Victim: Stephen Rogers
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Gender: m Age: [41] Literate: Marital Status: m Children: yes, several Occupation: farmer or farm laborer Town: Hartland Birthplace: Religion: Organizations: Yüklə 416 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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