AN EGLISHMAN MURDERED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10479, 26 June 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN EGLISHMAN MURDERED.

. a YOUTH EXECUTED AT NEW .T* , jerses. Aij'frenton, New Jersey, on May 12, a youth named Clawson was hanged for (he murder, in August lasb, of an Englishman, a farmer, named Harry Hodgetts. The peculiar circumstances of the case have ';., caused it to receive unusual attention; .';.. Hodgotts, who came from London four i years ago, settled on a farm at Somerville, |- where he was joined in 1895 by hie wife and f,' children. Hodgette employed the young W tain Claweon, but discharged him be--v cause of a theft, and- also refused to pay \ ■ him some money which was due. Glawson, accordingly, determined on revenge. Ho ,•„ rod* up to the farmhouse one morning on a '■; bicycle, and shot HodEettdead on his door. p>, ■ itep, and then rode off. Some carpenters working all a' neighbouring house heard Mm. Hodgette', shrieks, and started after • Dlawson on their bicycles, on which they had only a; little while before ridden; to their work. ' Sheriff. Moore was informed of . . the 'tragedy; and gave chase on hie bicyole I '■-' ulso. After a ran of ten miles, CUwioii: was captured ■by .the carpenter?,; He made; no secret of his crime. He met hie death . with .'oilm'Mlf-poieesßiQri. 1 -; Hii neck wm .' • be died iuetaotly. . •'■■■- '- -.J My, : ■ ,:■:?% ,