People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — MET A JUST FATE. [ARTICLE]

MET A JUST FATE.

Frank Almy, the Murderer of Christie ; Warden, Hanged at Concord, N. 11. Concord, N. H., May 17. —George H, Abbott, alias Frank L. Almy, was hanged Tuesday for the brutal murder at Hanover, N. H., on July 17, 1891, of Christie Warden. The execution was a bungling job. Almy’s feet touched the floor when he went through the drop and he was strangled to death, [The story of the crime committed at Hanover July 17, 1891, is one of the most shocking* and exciting in criminal annals. Almy had been employed as a farm hand by Andrew Warden, one of the most substantial citizens of Grafton county. Christie Warden was a teacher in the district school, and had been the object of Almy’s unrequited love. On the Ist of April, 1891, Almy left the Wardens, and a few weeks later reappeared in their neighborhood. On the evening of July 17 Christie, her mother, younger sister Fannie and a lady friend were on their way home from Hanover village to the Warden place about IK miles distant When passing through what is known as Vais Temple Almy suddenly appeared, proclaimed his identity and, grasping .Christie, threatened the others with death if they interfered. This threat overawed the mother and he* friend, but did not frighten Fannie. Almy continued to drag his burden toward the underbrush, which he gained after Christie’s outer clothing had been literally torn from her body. Holding her there in his embrace, he saw tho sister but a few rods away. Taking deliberate aim, he fired, bui tbe girl came on. Again he fired, and she fell the whiz of the bullet at her shoulder. Concealing herself near by, she waited, Another shot was fired. After five minutes passed a neighbor came. The man was Emmett Marshall As they stole on the place where Almy was located two shots were fired in quick succession and a cry followed. The tragedy was over and they saw Almy rush up the hill in the direction of the town. Christie was found dying, her white skirts covered with blood from a wound in her back and another in her head. Almy went to the Warden barn and was looking out when the lifeless body of his victim was carried Into the house. There he remained in concealment for more than a month, ' foraging at night for sustenance and 1 often visiting the grave of Christie. ! Suspicion was finally aroused and he was \ /teen. The barn was surrounded and after a siege of ten hours, during which Almy’s leg was ] broken by a bullet fired by Charles Hewitt, he surrendered on the assurance that ho-should not be lynched. He was identified as Georg* H. Abbott by his relatives.],