THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.' 'OClXMtilt 15, 1878. RAILROADS. PlTlLADELPHIA and reading r. r AR1UNGKMENTOF PA88ENGEH TRAINS. Mny IsTlT, 1S78. s , , rKAINSLKAVKllAHltlHUUKU AS FOLLOWS. For New York, at 6.20, B.lOa. in. 2.(Hip. m., and 7. p. m. For Philadelphia, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.4ft a.m. 'i(tnd 3.57 p. in. . . Kor Heading, at 5.20, 8.10, 9.48 a.m. and 2.00 3.57 and 7.W. . . For 1'otlHVlllo at 5.20, 8.10 a. in., and 8.67 . in., and via Huhuylklll and Susquehanna Branch at 2.40 p. in. Kor Auburn via H. & 8. Ilr. at 5.30 a. ni. Kor Allentown, at 6.20, B.lOa. in., and at 100, 8.67 and 7.68 p. in. ..... . . The 6.211, 8.10 a.m., and "7.65 p. m., train have through car for Now York. The 6.20, a. in., and li.oo p. in., trains have through cars for Philadelphia. SUNDAYS I For New York, at 6.20 a. in. For Allentown and Way stations at 6.2a. m. Kor Heading, l'hlladelphln and Way rltatloutat 1.48 p. in. TBAlNKv)lt IIAUKIHIIl'llO.LKAVK A8 I OL LOW 8 i Leave New York, ut 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 6.G0und 7.45 p. in. heave Philadelphia, at 11.16 a. in. 4.01, nud 7.20 p. in. Leave ll-adliig, at 1 4.40, 7.40, 11 20 a. in. 1.30. 6,15 and In. i p. m. Leave Poilsvllle, at 6.10, 0.16 a.m. and 4. Ml p. m. And vln Huliuylklll and Susquehanna Biauehtt 4.15 a. in. Leave Aiilmrn viaS. A H. Ilr. lit 12 noon. Leave Aiieuiowu, al RIW 5.60, U.Uaa. in., 12.16 4.30 and U.t p. in. SUNDAYS: Leave New York. at. i.so p. m. Leave Philadelphia, nt 7.20 p. in. Leave Heading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. in. and 10.35 p. m. Leave Allentown. at 2. w a. m., and 9.05 p. m. J. K. WOOTF.N, ien. Manager. C. G.Hancock, General Ticket Agent, tones not run on Mondays. 4 Via Morris aud Essex H. It. Pennsylvania II. 11. Time Table. NEWPORT 8TATION. On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, Fas euger traluswill run as follows: EAST. Mllllliitown Acc. 7.32 a. in., d.illv except Sunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 P. M., dally " Sunday Mail 6.54 P. m., daily exceptSunday Atlautlo Express, 9.51p.m., Hag, dally. WKBT. Way Pass. 9.08 A. m., dally, Mail, 2.43 p. m. dally exceptSuuday. Mllllliitown Acc. 6.55 P. M. datlyexce.pt Sunday . Pittsburgh Express, 11.571". M., (Flag) daily, ex cept Sunday. Pacfllo Express, 5.17 a. m., dally (flag) Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which Is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 1 mlu- ntos slower than Now York time. J.J. BAKOLAY, Agent. DUNCANNON STATION. On and after Monday, June 2"th, 1877,tratus will leave Duiicannon, as follows: K ASTWAKD. Mllllliitown Acc. dally except Sunday nt 8.12a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.53P. M., daily except Sunday. Mail 7.30 P. M " " " Atlantlo Express 10.20 p. M., dally (flag) WESTWARD. Way Passenger, 8.38 a. m., dally Mail, 2.09 p. m, dallyexceptSunday. Milllintown Acc. daily except Sunday at 6.1Kp.m, Pittsburg Ex. daily except Sunday (Hag) 11.33P. M. WM. G. KllNO Agent. Kansas" farms AND FREE HOMES. 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BUSINESS MEN to sell the Excel slor Improved Letter Copyliir Book. No Press. Brush or water used, copies Instantly. Agents uiimii vA.ru. a gem mnse train tioio fin per aav. Address Excelsior Manufacturing Co., 47 l a Halle St.. Chicago, III. Incorporated Feb. llith 1H77. Capital. 1100,100. Exclusive Territory given. 264t A WOMAN'S . CONFESSION. A REMARKABLE STORY. ONE of the most remarkable eases on record is now being Investigated at Bridgeport, Conn. It shows a regular conspiracy to murder for the purpose of gelling the bodies of the victims. Lorena Alexander a few ilnys ago en tered the Ilrldgport police office and cold she had been a witness to a murder committed by Frank Bnssctt, the victim being Frnnk Welnbeeker. The reason she told of It was that Bnssctt, on his return from New Lon don, found that It would go hard with him unless he could prove that on Seteiuber 20th he did not Bteal the pock- eUbook which 1 McKay, Vandulla.Ill., had laid down on a fence In front of Bus sett's house, In East Brldgport. McKay had taken out the book, which contain ed J (18, with a postul-card, and after writing on the card forgot to replace tin1 book in his pocket. Two girls saw this and Btiw Bttssctt pick It up. They In formed the police, and this caused the arrest in New London. Lorena Alex ander was Bassett's mistress. They lived In a room fitted up In an old car riage factory, and the furniture Lorena claimed as hers ; but Bassctt when ar raigned hero for theft, having only" $10 left of McKay's money, sold tho furni ture In order to employ counsel, lie, however, was convicted of theft and locked up, and when Lorenu found their home bereft of all Its scanty comforts she said, " I know something that will put him where he ought to be." City Attorney Holt and Chief of Po lice Marsh closely pressed Lorena, and she Anally told, with many tears, the whole story of the murder. Khe said that Welnbeeker, who was otherwise known as "Stuttering Jack"and "Jack KufUB," an inoil'enslve fellow, whoso only vice was drunkenness, on the night of the 10th of last May came home with Bnssett, at tlie latter's Invitation, to supper. Bassctt hud resolved to kill Welnbeeker solely for the paltry sum of money he was supposed to have about him as pay for one month's services as a deck hand on a coasting vessel, amounting to less than $5, and for tho amount his body would bring when sold to the Faculty of the Yale Medical School In New Haven. The total sum to be realized would not aggregate $50. Welnbeeker after supper was persuaded to lie down on a sofa. He had been drink ing during the duy, and if there wub any eagerness In Bassett's manner which might have awakened alarm he was not In the proper condition to ob serve It. He soon fell asleep. BusBett had previously provided himself with a two-ounce bottle of chloroform. Wet ting a sponge with the liquid, ho placed it aguinst Welnbecker's nostrils, where he held it. Lorena said that she asked Bassett what he was about. "Shut up, or I will serve you in the same way," was the reponse. She was frightened and gave no alarm, though she started once or twice to do so, but was deterred when Bassett swore at her savagely. She contented herself with remonstrating us the gasps of the doomed man grew fainter and fainter. When there was no sign of life, Bassett looked in Weln becker's pocket, but found therein only 75 cents. He then prepared to make some disposition of the body. Lorena Alexander has one child, and In order to provide for Its necessities she went to New Haven some time ago and proposed to Dr. Sanford, of the Medical Faculty, that he should ad vance her some money and have In return her body for dissection when she died. Dr. Sanford would not make any bargain with her, but, according to her story, ottered to purchase the bodies of any of her friends. When she came home she told Bassett of her visit, and he said that they might get hold of a body and " make a stake." There was an empty flour barrel In a corner of the scantily furnished room. Bassett now drew this out and tried to force Into It the body of his victim. But it would not go in with all the clothing on, and Bassett with a pair of scissors cut the coat in two pieces and pulled the garment away, and then took off the shoes. Then the head was pressed against the knees, and the body squeezed into the barrel, the head of which was nailed in securely. The barrel was then rolled to a corner of the room. During the enactment of the tragedy Lorena eald that she had been compelled to wet the sponge, as the chloroform evaporat ed, but she did not touch the body. The next morning Bassett brought a horse and wagon to the door, loaded in the barrel and started for New Haven, tak ing along Lorena and the child, a wan faced little thing of about four years. By the time Dr. Sanford's ofllce in New Haven was reached Bassett evidently had lost courage, aud he ordered the wo man to go in and try to sell the body. Excited and weeping she entered, but Dr. Sanford refused to purchase unlets a proper death certificate was shown him. Turning around, Bassett drove over country roads, through West Ha ven, Derby, Birmingham and Shelton until he came to a wild and dismal place on an unfrequented road In the town of Huntington, four miles from Shelton and cloven miles from Bridgeport. There was uo house nearer than half a mile, and nn otmwus in sight. From tho road the hillside slope abruptly down for sixty feet to a patch of tangled underbrush and luxuriant weeds. The barrel was lifted out of the wagon, plac ed on the edge of the hill and sent bounding down into the brush, being stopped finally by a large stone. In such a place it might have lain for years undiscovered. ' The coat and shoes, Lorena said, were carried out Into the yard and burled un der a chicken-coop. It was easy to de termlne whether this part of the story wus true, though the tale did not have complete credence, for several people in Bridgeport said they had seen Weln beeker later than May 11. The shoes and coat were,, nevertheless, found where she suld on Saturday, the duy the story wus told. Chief Marsh and a po lice officer then took Lorena and her child in a wugon and retraced the road to New Haven. Dr. Sunford hud no dim unity in recollecting the visit, and suld that he lul l not mentioned the oc currence to any one. Leaving the city the woman could not speak with confi dence of the exact route taken to the place where the barrel was disposed of. After some time, however, the spot wub reached and identified. The woman cried when the police ofllcer went down the hill, but made no remark. A dead ly smell assailed the nostrils of the ofllcer. Going carefully along among the underbrush he cume to the barrel. One heud hud been Jolted out when the barrel rolled down the hill, and tho heud of the murdered man wus disclosed. The ofllcer liad to ransack tho neighborhood for some one to help him pluce tho bar rel on poles in the rear of tlie wagon. The barrel head was then replaced and Chief Marsh drove back to Brldgport. Although decomposition had rendered the body unrecognizable there remained certain urtlcles of clothing and a ring which might serve as meaiiB of Identifi cation. A Jury of inquest met next fore noon, Justice Walter Uoddard acting as coroner. Bassett was in Jail, not having served out his full sentence for theft. At noon the Jury adjourned, having heard no testimony outside of the line of identification, except thut Welnbeeker was alive on the twelfth day of July. George F. Hummlston testified thut " them shoes are Jack's to death," and thought a ring taken from the body wus simillur to one worn customarily by Welnbeeker. Two witnesses swore posi tively that he was alive July 4. John Wyncoop left a vessel on which he and Welnbeeker had sailed, on the night of July 12th, In company with Welnbcck er, who had $4 ia his pocket which he had Just been puid, and Wy ncoop drank with him. He identified positively a memorandum-book taken from a pock' et. This being the closing day of the pre sent term of the Superior Court, it was decided by State-Attorney Olmstead to bring Bassett before the Court to secure his commitment, so that he might ap pear at the opening of the next Criminal Term. He did not know that the body had been found until this morning, and when told accused the woman of the murder. The indictment presented in the court this afternoon accused both of murder in the first degree in causing Weinbecker'H death by administering two ounces of chloroform. When the woman came Into Court she bad previ ously been to Bassett's house with the officers and identified the chloroform bottle, which was found under the floor she took a seat outside the dock. Bassett looked at her for a minute and she returned the glance, looking him steadily in the face, and he then dropped his eyes and they did not faoeeach other again. A commitment was granted and they both went to jail. The team has been identified, the place where the chloroform was purchased found, and there is no doubt that the murder occur ed as narrated above, though there seems to be equal grounds for supposing the woman guilty. She concealed her knowledge of the crime for over two months, and it was she who offered the body to Dr. Sanford. On examination of the case some curious facts are shown. Dr. Sanford produced a letter written to him by Mrs. Alexander subsequent to her endeavor to sell her body. It caused a sensation and strengthened the im pression that Bassett's assertion is not Altogether untrue that she is equally responsible for the murder. The first time Mrs. Alexander called on the doc tor she was accompanied by a Mrs. Kelpy or Kelty, of Brldgport. When Dr. Sanford asked her what she wanted to sell her body for, she responded promptly, " for money, of course." He asked her what desperation had driven her to such a course, and she talked of the desertion of her husband, herpover ty and the necessity of supporting her child and mother. Khe Insisted on leav ing her address on a slip of paper, which slip Dr. Sanford preserved for u time. She wanted to assign her body at death, but Dr. Sanford told her that the college authorities could not entertain any such proposition. Then she asked if she could dispose of the, bodies of her friends, and he said that there was nothing to prevent provided the legal and moral requirements were compiled with. She then suld thut she didn't know but that she would have two or three bodies to sell. Dr. Sunford told her that she would get herself into trouble if she violated the laws, and that she had bet ter not take up such a disreputable business. Throe or four days after this Dr. Sanford received a letter which bore the postmark of ' Brldgport, April 8, 1878, 8 P. M.," and which came from the Alexander woman. It was written on one side of a little slip of paper, and he hud Indorsed his reply on the back. He read it aloud very deliberately, as follows : BiuiMiKPOHT, April 8, 1878. l)r. Sanford. Hilt: win you tie so kiiiu as to in form me where I can address a resurrec tionist. I want a man to help me, one that understands himself, that I can trust, for I know where 1 cun rean a harvest if 1 have help, but I dure not trust any one l know witn my secret. Dr. vou will find me reliable, for I told you the truth, I am sorely in need of money, l'leuse ounge me us soon as possible, direct to the full name you have got. L. K. A. (ur 1 cun cet a now if i nave neip, in haste with respect, adieu please answer In luiste and oiillge me. Bridgeport, Conn.. U. X'u. A Dr. Sun ford's reply was as follows: New Haven, April 11, 1878, Mm. Alexander. I cunnot comply with your request to furnlsu you Willi the services or u resurrectionist. We have no deal lues with such people. To rob gruves Is a serious offense nitalnst the luws of the State, and If you undertake anything of the kind you will probably get yourself Into trouble. Wecanuot receive any thing thut has been thus obtained. We shall not violate the law ourselves, nor assist others to do It. L. J. n Undoubtedly Dr. Sanford's statement at the first interview that bodies were worth about $23 each as subjects had In cited Mrs. Alexander's greed. Wlen she received tho above letter she wroto him a most abusive epistle which he de stroyed straightway. Then he heard no more of Mrs. Alexander until she came to his ofllce in July to sell Welnbecker's bodv. This time she wus alone. If Bassctt was outsido in the closely cover ed black wagon he was not soon by Dr. Sanford. The woman handed liim slip of paper on which was written " I have a subject or body to sell for $25," She said that the evening before several men had engaged In a fight in front of her house in Bridgeport. One of them struck another a tremendous blow on the head which killed him and and the others threw the body over the fence into the yard. She immediately put the remains In a barrel, drove the head in herself, and had brought the re mains to New Haven. She had written " Dr. Sanford" on the barrel, she said The doctor told her that it was her duty to confess any crime she might have committed and to take back the body if she had one, to the place from which she took it. He also warned her that knowledge of her participation in or commission of any crime would prompt him to divulge all the information he possessed concerning her. The mention of an expenditure of $5 by her for the team was the only thing which caused her any emotion. He gave her a hint that she had better depart, and she went. When Dr. Sanford came to think this story over he didn't believe the woman could have put the body in a barrel un aided, and concluded that there was nothing in the barrel except enough rubbish of some sort to make up the weight of a human body, and that a fraud bad been defeated. No suspicion that a grave crime bad been committed intruded itself into his mind. The woman's letter to Dr. Sanford has started speculation among the po lice and a thorough examination will be made of her baggage for any letter or anything else tending to show that she may have known of other murders of transactions in bodies. It is rumored that she was suspected of attempting to poison a family some time ago, but the police are reticent about the matter, Detective Arnold had a long interview with her at jail to learn whether others are implicated and more arrests may be made. It has been ascertained that when Bassett went to hire the team, to drive to New Haven some one accom panied him. The woman who was with Mrs. Alexander at the time of the first interview with Dr. Sanford and whose name is Kavanagh, will probably be questioned. The detectives think it singular that the woman should have signed only her initials to the letter to Dr. Sanford, if this was her first com munlcation to him, and equally re markable that he signed his Instead of his full name. Letters have been found written by Mrs. Alexander which though penned about the time of the murder, show no signs of Agitation, though she testified that she could not at first recall the date of the murder with certainty on account of the dls- turlied oondltloti of her mind at the time. This Is sufficient Itself to creato a suspicion that she had Improper knowl edge In May, the first date named. The handwriting of the letters found by the detectives Is slmlllar to that of the letter to Dr. Sanford. A Time for all Things. TIMELINKHH Is as Important as fit ness. The right thing may become wrong unless It Is In the right time. Look well to the time of doing any thing; there Is a time for all things. Choose the right time for saying things. If your wife looks wearied and worn out, be sure It Is not the right time to tell her that the dinner Is not hot, or that the bread is sour. Comfort her cheer her up. Use the ten thousand little stratagems you were wont to bundle so skilly in the old days, to bring out the smiles around her lips. If you ore annoyed or vexed at peo ple, just remember it is not the right, time to speuk. Close your mouth, shut, your teeth together firmly, and it will save you many a useless and unavailing regret, and many a bitter enemy. If you happen to feel a little croBS and who among us does not at some time or other y do not select that sea son for reproving your noisy household Hock, One word spoken in passion will make a scar that a summer of smiles cau hardly heal over. , Ifyouurea wife, never tease your husbund when he comes home, weary,, from Ills day's busluess. It Is not the right time. Do not ask him for expen sive outlays when he has been talking., ubout liurd times', it is most assuredly tho wrong time. If he bus entered upon any under taking aguinst your advice, do not seize on the moment of its failure to say, " I told you so I" In fact, it is never the right time for those four monosyllables' Oh 1 if people only knew enough to. discriminate between tho right time and. the wrong, there would be less- domestic unhapplness, less silent sorrow, and less estrangement of heart 1 The great est calamities that overshadow our lives have sometimes their germ in matters, as apparently slight as this. If you, would only pause, reader, before the stinging taunt or the biting sneer, or the unkind scoff posses your lips, pause just long enough to ask yourself, " Is it the right time for me to speak 'r"' you would shut the door against many u heart-ache. The world hinges on little things, and there are many more trivial than the right time and the wrong. A Story of the Tower. It was during the stormy times in England, when the wars of York and Lancaster were raging, that Sir Thomas Wyatt, a fierce Laucasterian, was con. fined in one of the dismal dungeons of the Tower of London. Sir Thomas was not very comfortable, as you may suppose. He was cold and hungry. One day, as be sat there in his loneliness and misery, a cat made its appearance In his cell. He took the animal and warmed his numb fingers in her soft fur, and laid ber in his breast, where she cuddled, quite delighted with this kind treatment. Next day pussy come again, and wonderful to tell car ried in her mouth a pigeon, which was laid at the prisoner's feet. The next time the Jailer came to visit him Sir Thomas complained of his hard fare, and begged for some meat. His request was gruffly refused. If I pro vide the game will you dress it for me V" inquired the old knight. " That I will," said the jailer, think ing himself quite safe in making the promise. What was his surprise when the pigeon was produced. But be kept his word and brought it to Sir Thomas again nicely cooked. The cat continued to furnish him from time to time with these rare bits. It is needless to say that she stood high in the affections of the prisoner. After some years Sir Thomas was re leased. He ever afterward included all cats in his love and esteem in memory of its benefactress. A portrait of the old knight is still to be seen in South Kensington gallery, with bis faithful cat beside bim, and the pigeon in a pan. Changes of Life. The man who but for revolution would now be Tycoon of Japan is a student in Paris, living quietly as M. Tokugawa. He is small, lithe and well dressed. His income is $200,000 a year, of which, he spends a little on himself and sends the remainder to his followers who were ruined by the revolution. Very few of his tellow-students know who he is. He will learn all he can at the Sorbonne, and will then go to London to continue his studies. Eleven years ago, when the Japanese Embassy went to Loudon, he, then a little boy, headed it, as broth er of the Tycoon, and the Prince of Wales went to Dover to welcome him.
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