Excitment in Granby
Item
- Title
- Excitment in Granby
- Date
- 15-Mar-00
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020358/1900-03-15/ed-1/?sp=1&q=assault&r=0.419,0.302,0.191,0.211,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- servant; assault, wife
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- sentencing
- Location
- In State; Granby
- Length of story
- 409
- Description
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EXCITEMENT IN GRANBY.
"A Deaf Mute Assaults an Aged Woman Then Attempts Suicide"
Granby, March 14. This usually quiet village is in a highly excited condition as the result of a dangerous assault committed by Arthur Farrow, a deaf mute aged about thirty years, upon the wife of Wadsworth Humphrey, a woman of at least three-score, at her home on East street, in North Granby, this afternoon. Mrs. Humphrey managed to escape to a neighbor’s house and then Farrow attempted suicide, but had not succeeded when he was taken into custody. He is in Hartford jail to answer to the charge of assault with intent to kill, though it is probable that a more serious charge will be likewise alleged.
Farrow is a well-known local character who has worked in this vicinity for several years, having come here from a deaf and dumb asylum. He has been working for Mr. Humphrey between two and three years. Early this afternoon he attacked Mrs. Humphrey, as she was alone in the house, with the intention of committing a criminal assault. She resisted so vigorously, however, that he drew a jack-knife and stabbed her several times in the neck and shoulders in his efforts to overpower her. Mrs. Humphrey escaped, however, and reached the house of her nearest neighbor, about a quarter of a mile away, where she narrated her experience and then became unconscious from exhaustion and fright.
Frank Judd, a farm hand, at once hastened to the Humphrey place and found Farrow
hastening to the barn with a rope, with the evident intent of hanging himself. He had previously attempted to end his life by cutting his throat, but although the blade of the jack-knife had penetrated the windpipe the wound was not a dangerous one. Judd succeeded in overpowering the man, and later he was taken into custody by Sheriff Griffin. Dr. Chatfield, who was summoned, found that the several wounds that Mrs. Humphrey sustained were not of an alarming nature, though on account of the shock to her nervous system her condition was serious. Dr. Chatfield then sewed up the wounds in Farrow’s throat, which necessitated a number of stitches.
Later, Farrow was taken before Justice Jewett and pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to kill. He was then bound over to the superior court and taken to Hartford jail immediately afterward.
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