Worcester, Vermont, USA
1878 - The Murder Case in Worcester, Vt.

ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED GUILTY PARTY— THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT POINT TO HIS GUILT.

The vicinity of Worcester, a place some ten miles from Montpelier, in a fever of excitement over the murder of a half-breed Canadian Indian named Will Muccurmuck. The circumstances of the case are as follows: Muccurmuck was Jast seen Wednesday last, in company with Royal Carr, a hard character of Calais, who once served o sentence of ten years in State Prison for murder, On Friday, Carr told his cousin, Chester Carr, that Muccurmuck was up in the woods, on so-called Harkins’ Pond Hill, in
Calais, and guessed he would stay there. Chester Carr then notified the neighbors, and they went into the woods and found Muccurmuck dead, and covered with boughs, with three revolver shots in his left side and one in the head and a heavy charge of shot in the right shoulder. The face and
head were somewhat eaten by mice. Some twenty rods fromthe body was Muccurmuck’s dog, dead and covered with boughs. There being several inches of snow on the ground Muccurmuck’s and Carr's tracks were plainly discernible, showing that both were together up to where Muccurmuck’s body was found. Then Carr’s track, which compares perfectly with his boot, went off towards his cousin’s, where he stayed till the next morning, when he took an axe and went back, and covered up the body. He then went back to Chester Carr's, where he started from the day before. A wad found near the Indian's body shows a newspaper label, which has been identified by Jed W. Curr as a wad given Royal Carr by him some days before. A portion of the wad had the name ‘Jed W, Carr” thereon. Muccurmuck was about 35, married and, lived a wandering kind of life. Royal Carr is about 40, unmarried, and is rather below par intellectualjy. When Muccurmuck’s body was shown, Carr exhibited great bravado and never quivered. He denies any knowledge of Muccurmick, and says the last time he saw him was when they separated, Muccurmuck and his dog going into the woods to hunt. Carr persists in saying that he did not go with the Indian, and the last he saw of him he was alive. He refused to say any more without counsel.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
December 20, 1878

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