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- The Newton family
Francis Newton was born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1853. He moved to Brookfield, MA, as a young man where he got a job as a milkman. Later on, he managed a bakery in Hartford, Connecticut, and married a woman named Sarah. Together, the two adopted a baby girl from Sweden, whom they named Ethel and whose nickname was "Elsie". They continued to live in Hartford until 1896, when they moved into a dilapidated home on Sturbridge Road in a rural area of Brookfield. Francis worked hard to fix up their new home and barn, and made their property into "a very fair farm".
Paul Mueller, a German immigrant, arrived at the Point of Pines resort, north of Sturbridge, MA, in 1897. He was poor and looking for work. The man who ran the resort, Captain H. D. Hodgson, offered to allow Mueller to stay at his resort for free in exchange for doing carpentry (at which Mueller was said to be very skilled) and repair work. During his time there, Mueller even built a brace (something he claimed to have learned in the German army) for a horse's leg, saving the horse's life.
In October, 1897, Mueller and Hodgson had a falling out, the reason for which is unknown, and Mueller left the Point of Pines resort. In need of a new living arrangement, Mueller sought employment from Francis Newton, whose farmhouse was only a few miles from the Point of Pines resort. Newton agreed to hire him and in addition to paying him for his work (something that Hodgson never did), he also allowed Mueller to live with him and his family, giving him his own room to stay in. Newton was reportedly pleased with Mueller's work and Mueller himself was described as being generally "efficient and agreeable", though he was known to have a bad temper at times.
The last time any member of the Newton family had been seen alive was on January 7th, 1898. Their neighbors, Elmer Newcomb, William Bemis, and William Eaton started to become concerned when they noticed that the Newtons' cows were lowing loudly and desperately and found, upon investigation, that they were unfed and that they hadn't been milked in a couple of days. It was not at all like Francis Newton to neglect his livestock, but his neighbors didn't assume the worst just yet. Their best guess at this point was that the family had decided to leave for the weekend and just didn't tell anyone. After another day went by with no sign of the Newton family, Eaton and Newcomb decided to form a search party and the group went ov
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