Murder in the Great North Woods

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Hinds was described as one of the wealthiest settlers in the area, well-liked and successful. Cloutman hailed from Rochester, N. He was living on his own in the North Country because his wife declined to join him. She preferred the comforts of civilization.

Robbins, on the other hand, was from an established, if somewhat frightening, family. Originally from Beverly, Mass.

Robbins was a skilled hunter and trapper, but also the subject of unsavory rumors. One story holds that he had killed a child and used him as bait. The three men proceeded along the Androscoggin River, deep into the north woods. There they laid out a line of traps 20 miles long and proceeded to have a successful summer.

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As the first snow flew, Cloutman and Hinds made one last trip to check their traps, leaving Robbins behind at their base camp to guard over the furs. When they returned, they would all proceed 60 miles back to civilization in Lancaster, N. When Cloutman and Hinds returned to the camp, they found it completely burned. Robbins had loaded up the furs and left them with no supplies in the freezing late autumn. When they got back down to Lancaster, they sued Robbins and prevailed. In , Robbins made a proposition.

He would go trapping and hunting again with the men and use the proceeds of the trip to pay his debts. The University Press of Kentucky. Murder in East Anglia: A New Look at Notorious Cases.

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