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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-02-05, Page 6MURDEH OF FTH ItNU SON. Terrible Crime of a Farm Hand in Prescott County. Murderer Coolly Confesses the Tragedy, Fuller Particulars of Cruel Doub'e Murder, I Ottawa:, Report —Daniel Ooliigban, aged 52 years, farmer, of Alfred township, Prescott county, and his thirteen -year-old sou were killed shortly after 6 o'clock by the bleed man, Clement Goyette, Wee wa's s,rmed with a broadaxe. i • Mrs. Collighan was also attacked with, a smaller ase, and only tho fact tame the weapon broke prevented her beim and cut hIm with the axe 1111 1 Tli r nu Tu lee fell down. "I :thee went batk to OolligIlan i 'ILL In' 1 11 JI Tried to Bill the Woman. and turned 'htxn over, and as he did fl ' ' 0"� g not move, I took all the money I could find in his pocket and put it in mine. I then left the barn and shut the door 'behind me, and as I was coining out Mrs. Collighan was coming out of the house. She ask- ed me 'where her husibamd was, and I told her to go into the. house. One of the little girls came out itieo. The little girl started for the road. leaned her ibapk, as T knew ehe was going for the neigitrbors. I went into the house and nailed the door, and said, 'I want what money you have here.' Mrs. Collighan said, "I don't think there its any ; but I will show yon. 'I asked her to go up- stairs ahead of me with a lamp. I followed. We found 110 money. We came downstairs, and I told her to come and h;n,v'e a drink. She refueed. I forced her to take a good big drink. I then adlced her if there was no money at all in the house. She said no, and then I tried to kill her.", , , BLOWN TO PIECES. from becoming a third victim. Goy - Otte, who was something of a tramp, made .ties appearance in the locality arbuut two n:oatti,s ago, and engaged with the Colllghans. On eaturday night .he we to Alfred village, where ne purchasedome whiskey, stand sbeer and same candies Tor the ' Oo11.gna.n ch;laren. Ile drank on Sat- urday etenieg and at intervals yes- terda,y. About 6.00 o'clock Coll.gna.n and Guyette went out to the bard to feed the horses. The farmer found fault with the way Guyette was doing tee weric,a.nd the latter resented this, fiad!iog, "I feed the Horses as well as yon do." A Double Murder. A'fety more words were intcrcha.ug- ed, And Guyette picked up a. broadaxe tying cear'by. \Vith it he struck Cold - gnaw twe terrif,c blows on the head, ktjling ltim iestautly. OolligaWe • thirteen year-j1d,, sun entered the stable about tide time, and Goyette ` killed him with a. single blow of tate deatn-deaewe instrument. Leaving ;;the sfit,ble, Layette picked up a smaller axe and rushed into the house, where Mrs. ColLghan and her otner caldron were assembled at the evening meal. Auer searching in vain for money, Le struck at the defence- less w.iman with, the axe, but fortu- nately the wire hoide;,g the handle together broke, and the head of the axe fell to the floor. Goyette did not desist from his attack, but continued . to beat the woman with the axe 'handle. He called for money, and one of the girls gave him fifteen dollars 'lying in a nearby cupboard. A second tread ran to alarm a neighbor, while lthsrottner 0ii.1dren caught up tate baby from ats cradle and berried to a bad- • room, mere they locked 'themselves 1. Nearly fi Nearly Another Tragedy. •When the Colligan girl, 'who ran ' to give tho alarm, arrived at the ,1L0'uso of a neighbor named Wt- `. son, the latter took his rifle from kite wall. llo was examining it. t0 i see whether it was loaded or not, J ;when the weapon was discharged, ,the bullet entering the floor but a few! arches from where Watson's ; w fo stood. The three Niettson bro- thers proceeded to the Colligan I home to arrest Goyette. Their courage failed them, however, when ;,aha' can') the murderer flourishing a knife. They retreated and secured the assistance of a neighbor named Brady, a constable. The quartette proreeetied to the Collighan home, i ,wdxere Brady closed in on Goyette I laud threw ]nim to the floor. Ile , made a full oonfession, stating that tote crime was committed while un- der the influence of liquor. Uolii.ghan, the father, was :53 years of age, and for many years had I een a respected resident of the locality. He is described as a man or quiet habits ,and was well lilted by the neighbors., i Reports from Alfred this after- noon, etated that Mrs. Collighan, Sviifp of the murdered man, is in a very critical condition, and inay not recover from the injuries in- . flitted upon her., and the awful nee- ' ydos cheek winch she sustained. That Explosion Killed Nearly Two I3uudred misters. Pitteeulg, Feb. d.—After a night of suspenso and uncertainity, made heart -breaking by the contradictory reports coming from around the pit - month of the Harwiek Mino, at Ches- wick, where the fatal explosion oc- curred yesterday, the relatives of the 180 entombed miners now know that all of the men were killed, with the exception of the one taken out by the first rescuing Harty yesterday. This afternoon, Michael McQuade, one of the leaders of the rescuers, came up the ellen, and said it would be late to -night before they would be, able to get out any of the 'bodies. "When do you expect to reach the place where most of elle men are?" lee' was asked. "There le no such place," ]ie re- plied. ".Cltey are scattered all over the mine. some of them, poor, fellows, in fragments." Contributions to aid the families of the entombed miner:; are already coming in. There are more than 100 widows, and probably 400 or 500 or- phans. They have been living on the scanty wages of the average coal mircr. That income is now cut off from them, and it is said immediate assistance will be needed to prevent suffering for the necessaries of life, Goeseta's Confession. A special despatch from Alfred gives the following as Goyette's confession : ' On Saturday Colltglran had trouble with his wife and abused her, and I did not like that. On Sunday we played cards—poker—for oealts in the afternoon, and drank n. good deal. I was still uneasy about the way he had alnised his wife the previous day, mail I was not in good humor. In the evening we went to do the chores, and after I had fed the horses in the barn the young boy came in and. said: 'Pa is not to mulad ch ► I cleancause s I di not u feed ]feed the em too mwch, but when his father came en a few- Minutets afterwards, he also said that I was feeding the horses too mucic. I told him also that I'. • was not. and then he saki: 'Well, I am boss, and you will have to do what I say.' I said: ";'7e will see •'w:ho 10 boss,' and jumped at him, I clinched with hint and we both fell on the floor, and I relight him try :the throat and choked him good and ;hard. Then the little 'boy took a stick and out me on the head, and that . glade me good and mad. I jumped over 'the manteer orq try the floor of the baron, looking for something; with which I could bit him. and I saw the broadaxe which we bad been ushers to drive %'pikes. I grabbed It and peeped brick and caught Cole - gime) before ho Duda able •to get up. ,I cot bite }with the axe over the head JOS Fite dill not Move.. Then I ran a1- ; r' the young fellow and grabbed f. iumNs, Miss Justice Tells Why She Seeks $10,000 Damages, , Had the Usual Quarrels, but They Were Made Up Satisfactory to Both, Explains the Fair Plaintiff. Salem, N, lf., Feb. 1.—Twenllty; fisc and very attractive, Wes Agnes C. justice sent waves of nudges through the Salem County Court House this afternoon as she gave some of the details of her courtship by Rev. John W. Davis, her former pastor and lover, at Pedriektown. Mies Justice seeks $10,000 damages from Air. Davis because, she avers, he cruelly forsook her and broke his plighted troth. Site said they were to have wed and lour times the happy day was set and lour times was it broken. For himself the pas- tor claimed that the engagement was broken because he found that the fair one of has flock was not fit - tied to make a suitable wife for the village church, and he felt that he Itad been honorably released from Lire bond. Miss Justice made an excellent witness for jlerself. That much could be seen from the way in which the jurors kept track of all she said in her ,quiet way, with low, winsome voice and demure frankness, once or twice coming perilously near to tears. She was defended by Assem- blyman Scovel and his partner, Mr. Boyle, of Camden, and Attorney Mil- e:red, of this city, while the pastor was defended by former Prosecutor. Acton, of this city. eapreme Court Justieo Hendrick .on guided the des- tinies' of the love tragedy all the apts. Miss Justice told all about how she met the pastor of the church w'he,n he first came to preach in Ped- riektowrn, and when he was a raw land, Pa .Sh said elt Crozer le was press teat d 1n an informal manner, with others of the little flock, after service 0110 Sunday evening in 1899. Immediate- ly thereafter the pastor showed her marked attentions, and those who heard her say, they couldn't blame 'the pastor at that. Sbe Bald in a mouth from the time be had been presented the pastor was talking love and delicately saying that he had matrimonial intentlone. She was not at all displeased, but said that it silted her. Matters went along with smoothness for many moons, through tee leafy Junes and frosty Jaaluar;v till 1001. "Oi course," said Miss Justice, "we had the customary lovers' quarrels, but they were patched up ;n a manner Wholly pleasing to both sides. Four times,' she continued, .'the day for the wedding was fixed, but each time Mr. Davis gave some reason for de- ferring It. "What were hie reasons?" asked Air. Scovel, gently. "Once he c aLd he had not enough fends; another time he rsaid many, members od the oongeegati,on ob- jeetecl." "What did ;you ,say to that 2" "I told trim that I thought the m.embens of cele oon•gregaatlon ought nort to interfere in an affair of the heart," replied JLiss Justice, vainly:. Mese Justice said the pastor came every Saturday night from Chester, and remained till Monday, Mending most of the time, when he was 'lot ran church, in her emlpanye. He wase all that an accepted lover ,should be, and she was happy!. Suddenly, without any] explanation to her or nary one 0100, tee far as she knew, Mr. Davits packed up and Left for Europe and eho dI.d not get ea much as a .scrap of a loiter frenn, him. Hie was tene a ;year, and on les return he wale called formally; to the perman- ent pastorate of the church at Ped- rickt'otvn. Asked if she had ever had an engagement ring from Mr. Davie, Acis Justice said she had net. iehie did think ft eaniew'hat strange, but as Mr. Davies did many things of a.n iodd character, elle did no't consid- er third anything out of the ordin- ary!. "H•ery did tire, minis*ter propose?" ae,ked Mr. eaten, when the fair plain- tiff was turned over to him, for cr es-eX0mination. "I abject," cried Mr. Soovel in- scantly, and the big audience was di,spinoa.ded. "I only wanted to know how be made love," said Air. Acton. "Well, inial way, may be different from lyours," interposed Mr. Soovel, and that incident was cloe *ed. When Gins, Anna Jwsrtige, mother of the 'Plaintiff, ways called to the chair elle Bald she had heard 'Mr. Davie call ber daughter "Honey;" and chided bin for payeng too much at- tention 1.0 other fair ones, Mr. Davis 'meld to her: "ince there bas been a definite engagement between sonar daughter and nityieelf I have not called upon or writlten to one ,young woman." Mas. Justice admitted that lir. Davies had never asked her or her hursba.nd for the band of the al- but � id be was 1 a eau •hUerelle s 6 , weal% the apparently devoted and Loyal lover. A large number of the Members of lee flock, who had come to court as witnesses and spectators, some siding; edit] the pastor and othere with Mies Justloe, sew the peeeer mount, tee DIARY CONVICTED HIM. Strange Manner in Which a Murder Was Unearthed. London, Feb. 1.—A. warder',s taste for gardening and the astoniehing contents of a tramp'e notebook led to a rsonsetional accusation of mur- der being' preferred in Lincoln Pri- son yesterday. Talo tramp, a roan named Feeler, had been arrested for begging. When he was admitted to Lincoln Jail a warder, in ,searching him, found a xocketbook. There was nothing interesting at all about the pocketbook, to a cas- ual inspection, but the warder ob- served the word " firciesus" on one page, and being fornd of gardeninf;, his intereet was aroused. Fisher also professed interest in horticulture. The warder was pro- ceellirng to make e further examin- ation of the notebook, when the tramp ,sarcldonly torn out a leaf and thrust it into his mouth. The warder acted with promptitude. iteallsing that an attempt was be - leg merle to destroy eomething that w.as apparently of importance, he throw himself on fisher, and secured the piece of paper before its ow,ner oauld else:liow it. Even the warder, however, was ,startled to find that what he had rescued was nothing less than a written confeeslon of murder. A woman named 11l':try Swinburne was brutally ldJled on the roadside near Kidderminster about three months ago. The criminal escaped, and tho affair had remained a mys- tery—altnotst been relegated to the 11st of undiecovered crimes. It was to this murder that refer- ence woe made in the piece of paper taken from Fisher. The welting concluded thus: I murdered 11er. God help ,me. Murder will out. The Worcester police have remove,) Metter from Lincoln, and he will be brought up to answer the charge of murder. Why he ;should havo carried &bout with him a notebook containing such entries Is ono of those strange incidents which go to allow that fact is often stranger than fiction. witness edtair in bis own behalf, and suppressed murmurs spread through, the little room. Mr. Davis proceeded toy deny practically all the allegations of leas accuser, save that the had been her lover, and that they had been engaged, put he said that he had con- sidered himself honorably absolved by the fair plaintiff in September, 1901. "We had a heart to lfeart talk," said Mr. Davis, "and, I explained that there were mealy reasons why wo should not continue our relations. I had: found that she was not suited for the wife of a pastor. She asked ane if 1 w,'siied to bo released, and I told her t.het• I did, and it was clearly under- steod,,that I was released. It was felt to (be the best for both," Under cross-exa.mtnation Mr. Scovel produced some burning letters which Mr. Davie had written his sweetheart in those happy days, but to the chagrin of the audience they were turned over to the jury with- out reading. One of them, however, Mr. Sc eel held up for scrutiny, and asked the p astor its meaning. It was addressed `hear Agnes,' and sub- scribed "Yours, lovingly." It merely referred to an ergegement be had had for dinner one night, and asked Wes Justice to excuse him if he failed to appear, at her home. It also asked her if she was "all right." • "That letter was written after the ibeart-to-heart talk, was it not ?" asked, Alr. Scrovel. i "I believe it was," answered the pastor, quietly. "What is meant by `all right' ?" "It was just a pastor's interest in a member pf his flock." "You take a deal of interest in the feminine members, don't you ?" "Yes, and in the male members as well."( Mr. Davis had about finished his testimony when -the court adjourned till morning. DEATH AT SLEIGHING PARTY. seatreeetceeesterereeeeeeteeeirsel NEWS IN BRIEF Z Wheeling, W. Va.—The flood stage has passed, and the Ohio is again within its banks, and falling rapidly. There is still much suffering among the homeless, and sickness is feared. Partage ]a Prairie.—Three town coun- cilors have resigned as a protest against the reinstatement of the Chief of Police, who was discharged two weeks ago. They give no reason for their action. Montreal.—One of the oldest ]rouses in the western section of the Province of Quebec, built at Longueuil in 1612, was destroyed by fire last night, and Mr. Cingmars, the occupant, lost $4,000 as the result. Eine Man read an Ilour 13erore ICE; Friends Rea it. Anoka, Minn., Report—Desats Walks an u.'bi.Uden .41.i ie ..oma t.m.s an 1.11 recognisable, guest at a sleighing party WILLcll was given by a number of young merry -makers here last night. .Among them was Louie kicker, a young farmer, and by his hide, with her arm around him, sat a young; lnoy. were thought he vvtu. flanging his head on his breast to avoid the eold. Even when elm re- marked, "flow cold your hands are,' and received no reply, she thought little of the matter. In this was' the sleigh sped for miles to the ac• companiment of tooting horns and singing. At last F ieker's contintu.al sllenco attracted general attention A. young; doctor in the party declared • that Finker hard been dead over an Hour. Death was due to heart fail- ure. , g PAN IN WAS, ABY INJURE Accident to a Loop -the -Loop Performer. The Crowd Got Angry and Wrecked the Circus, And Manager Had to Flee for His Life. adrid, Feb. 1.—An au'tienaobile i1r welch Mina Alix, a young New 1'�irk girl, was looming telae loop at iatie Parieli Circus yesterday, afteesnoon left trate loop at the apex and; wllftrlee out over the arena. Me unfortunate performer fell to leis ground, fracturing Mer skull. and cru, ling in the, ribs on ber *gat side, while the automobile dvateR L a few feet from Ler and was Oleg - toted into inqumoreal° recces. Tihe cirCuu was crowded, and elle accident caused a tremendous p04 43. Woman fainted and were trampled upon le the rush from the seats. Mere was a jam at the exit/ �n wIa'.ch ,scores were injured. Mer the first storm of panic ha,d pas£led tl1'ose of the audience remain#11g wttl:in the enclosure started la to wreck tufo circus, and almost c- Tokio.—The Jiji Shimpo says that Russia and Corea have agreed that 2,000 Russian soldiers be employed to guard the palace at Seoul, and that these troops will come frons. Port Arthur the middle of February. Victor, Col.—All of the bodies of the victims of yesterday's accident at the Strattons Independence mine hare been recovered. Four, those of John Sebeek, C. C. Staten, Joseph Overy and Harry Cogene, have been identified. New York.—A rate war has begun on steerage business between New York and Mediterranean ports. Thus far, ac- cording to the lines concerned, the cut affects only east -bound traffic, and has made no change in freight charges. Tic;:- ets are now $5 less by Italian lines and $4 less on the German ships. Tangier, Morocco.—Advices rom Fez, dated Jan. 17, say that Gen. Sir Harry MacLean, colonel of the Sultan of Mo- rocco's body guard, who was reported to have been captured by rebels at a spot about a day's journey from Fez, leas arrived at that city. ceeded, 'ate feat of looping the loop .in an automobile was a novelty in Zee circus, and a great audience asseme ble.t to see it. The loop, need lir tee feat was a complete circle. Mie Alix Mid ridden around it scorers ivf times in London, and no flaw were al:parent sv1lizn it was erected tache, but there tva,e a defective spot est tlik toll of the loop where the lam'§p- ,cure, was strongest, and the vekeete left telt grooved track. 1l;e epee:1 .pt which it was movingt was tremendous. It turned over add over. mho girl fell out at ;the eiorfit tenet, anei flew through the air alongside the machine In which tbe 11'x,.1 been riding. Both dropped to the ground together, half the tvk of the arena from She net tv Mel been arranged to catch bee at the finish. For a. moment the ga,t crowd sat in motionless terror, gond tibial. by common impulse, started ao- ware the exits. Men shouted, ieo- n;en ani children shrieked, 1s xoi- dreds stumbled and fell, performers aped attaches lost their heads, and 'acmes on the top seats leaped oat neon talo piles of prostrate bunaae- ity (below. • Wben the pressure had been be- lievo•l at the exits the crowd swerve - et] back witull the intention of wreak - Ing vengmen co upon the manage- ment for allowing thie hazardous feast to tie performed. Tale ring apparatee was wrecked, tate loop was Cor n down, and it was with difficeilty' ilea the unconscious girl was :swe- lled away. '11130 nnana.ger of the 'performance was compelled to flee for bus trip. A2; cxiquiry his been ordered tee the criminal authorities in order Ito place responsibility for the deflec- tive loom. Tine girl is seriously Pee lured. SIM was the first to loop the loop in an automobile, lee: - forming tits feat in London, wheiea it created a sensation. It was tate feature of tIle circus rerform,alrre, and lead been widely advertised: A MURDER TRAGEDY. Stain of 'Twenty -year-old Grime Clings to New lore Man. London, Feb. 1.—Among the passen- gers on board the Atlantic liner from this country to the United States will be a . New York man with a terrible tale of hardship. In the year 1884 he was found guilty of murder in London, though, as he alleges, innocent of the crime, The sentence of death was commuted to twenty yeers' imprisonment. After serving twelve years he was liberated on ticket -of -leave, and then when his term of restrictive liberty had expired under police supervision in the United States, to which country be re- turned, the free leant came to London early in 1003 for the purpose of estab- lishing his innocence. His efforts, how- ever, failed in a strange way. Narrating the story of his arrest and trial, he, recalls that in. 1884 George fishes n, a native of Toronto, Canada, was shot dead in a drunken quarrel. after a night of losses, amounting to £1.,000, in a Piccadilly gambling club. "Graham went ]Donne with me to supper that night," said the man, "but I did not shoot him. I remember nothing of it. They found him lying dead with my gun in the room, and I was charged with killing him." Though defended by the ]ate Lord Mussell of Killowen (then Sir Charles Russell), he ryas found guilty, and long imprisonment and despair of being able to prove a miscarriage of justice have alike broken his health and spirits. After a search of many weary months in London for the solicitor who pre- pared the evidence for Sir Charles Rus- sell, he has been unable to trace him, and new perforce returns to New York, baulked of the satisfaction which he confidently expected from a second trial A SUDDEN FORTUNE. George Ansara inherits b'ifty Thous- and Dollars. , [Window, Feb. 1.— YeisUerdae a homeless vagrant, to -day, the heli' 171 a. fortune of $50,000. Such, is the turn of fortune enjoyed by Geolteel Ansara, who gave his residence :bei elle Windsor police as Toledo, OM. He yesterday received a delayed let- ter, that brought lam the glad news, and lie has gone to Buffalo, *Mee the lawyer wlnu wrote it resides. Au - Fara was born in Arabia, but came to this country about a year age. Tee letter that brought so suddee.a uharnge said that an uncle had died f n• Arabia, leaving his estate to George, George is a clean-shaven., swautay fellow, about 22 years old. Ile says he has lead enough of Canada .and the United 'States.' , DISCONTENT IN SOUTH AFRICA Soldiers Prefer I03prisonment i 1 14Eugland to Lite There. London, Feb. 1.—Tlee maid brings plenty of support for the statement that much discontent is rife in the Sourtlt African garrisons. A very unsatisfactory increase is apparent in the number of eouree- ma,rt ial for breaches of tiiscipllre,• and nearly every homew,ttrd-borend troopship lately has . brought bobi3 men for dreeharge "with ilgnomin ," its "incorrigiiblo and Worthless" br for "Misconduct," or to undergo! Imprisonment, As sentences of any length are generally carried out in 'the Koine prison, many of the crimes aro,pb- viously committed by men Who wil- lingly uucergo intpriyol uont "for the sake of getting away from South Africa. The authorities ere coming wary of thls ruse, and in many eases add to the evil:eretie the. words, "to be carried oatin Sc4ltbi;. ,Airless."