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THE LITTLE NECK MURDERERS. !Green Recognized as the Villain WhoShot and Robbed Mr. Wash at Westport, Conn., In March Last.Boston, Sept. 30, 1873.The confession of John Green, alias John McDonald, now confined in the Massachusetts State Prison, that he accompanied Michael Lynch from New York city to Little Neck, L. L, in February last, and there murdered James Graham, a bootmaker, has furnished a clew which connects these villains with the highway robbery and attempted murder of Mr. F. 11. Nash, then editor of the South Norwalk (Conn.) Sentinel, at Westport, on the night of March 10 last. Green, In hisconfession, stated that, after waiting in New York till the excitement which attended the Graham murder had blowu over, he and Lynch started East, and when about forty-five miles east of New York robbed a man of his watch and a sum of money. Mr. Nash read Green’s confession in the Herald of Saturday last, and wua led to the benef that these were rhe same men who had attacked and roibedlnra. and he immediately came on here to identifytMttblie visited the State Trison for that purpose today, and the consequence was that Mr. Nash fully recognized Green as the man. Lynch, too, he thinks was aware of the robbery, but both he and Green deny all knowledge of it. Mr. Nash returnedto Connecticut this noon. Me intends to cause a thorough search of Lynch’s l ouse in New York to be made to see ii he cannot find his watch, which he particularly desires tlt;» obtain, neither Green nor Lynch having it when arrested lor the Srmg-fleld robbery, for which th»y are now serving outa term of twenty years each. It is a question for the lawyers to decide whether Lynch and Green can be taken to New York before their present sentence of twenty years expires and be put to trial for the murder of James Graham, to which deed ureeti confesses he was accessory. II. however, the Governor of New York ls-ues a requisition and the Supreme Court grants a writ of habeas corpus Governor Wash burn will, doubtless, permit Lynch and Green to be taken to New York to be tried lor the murder.Officers are expected from New York with the requisite documents this week. The prisoners manifest no concern about ttieir probable late, but go quietly about their work as usual. It ts supposed that Green made his confession thinking that, by turning state's evidence against Lynch, who, he claims, committed the Gralmtn murder, he will save his own neck from the gallows: but even ii this is the case the Westport affair, together with his present term of twenty \ears, will doubtless be sufficient to keep him behind prison bars tor the remainder of his earthly existence.
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