A MURDEROUS MONSTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 157, 24 June 1876, Page 4

A MURDEROUS MONSTER.

Boston, May 9.— Thomas W. Piper, sexton v of Warren-avenue Church, who is under sentence of death for the murder of Mabel Young,- in.the belfry of the church, has confessed that he war the murderer of Bridget Landegan, in 1873, and that he was the principal in. tbe mysterious and nearly fatal assault on Mary Tynet, iri this city, nearly two years ago. Piper said he had •ho motive for these crimes, particularly the murder of the child, and cannot understand how he. came to commit them. It is assumed that he was actuated only by the fiendish love of 'bloodshed, like the boy, Jesse A. Pomroy, who still lingers in jail. Piper says .he has hitherto lied about the matter to blind his counsel, knowing that he could not get their aid if they believed in his guilt. He has of late been rapidly declining in strength and health, through his great mental agony, and it is. thought if allowed to escape the. gallows he could not live six weeks. His -execution is set for May 26. Concerning tbe murder of Mabel Young, he.says: "I took a bat from the lower room before or about the commencements of school, with which to kill somebody. At that time I carried it up into the auditorium, but during the aesiion of the Sunday-school I took it from the auditorium, and carried it up to the' belfry. After the close of school I came down stairs and opened the doors, then I Went up again. I sent; away some boys who were playing in the vestibule. After the boys had goner 'out, and I was still in the vestibule; the little girl came up stairs, and I induced her to go with me into the belfry. There I: struck her with "the club two or three times, and she fell wbere the blood was found. Then I picket her up and carried her body to the f place where it was discovered." His confeßßibn of the murder of Bridget Landegan in 1873, was equally explicit. He was under tbe influence of whisky and opium, and deliberately prepared the club to kill someone, and she ..was the. first person he happened, to meet. In addition to his confession of murders, Piper declares that he had a .mania for burning buildings, and that on the 16th December, 1873, he fired' Concord Hall, and also attempted to burn a store on the night of the Landegan murder. He also confesses that he made a murderous assault upon a girl named Sullivan.