People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — ACCUSED MURDERER CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

ACCUSED MURDERER CAUGHT.

Man Charged With Killing Cashier Stlckney Arrested. Joseph E. Kelly, accused of the murder of Joseph A. Stickney, cashier of the Great Falls National Bank at Somersworth, N. H., was captured at Montreal Monday night. On Kelly were found two letters, one to his father, stating that an accomplice, whose name he claimed he did not know, but was an inmate with him in a reformatory somewhere in New Hampshire, had done the deed, and that it was at -the suggestion of the accomplice that Stickney was murdered. The original design was to scare Stickney by showing a revolver, Kelly waiting outside while the accomplice accomplished his work.