Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

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Salisbury, who has an agent in Lon.
don looking after the Brown estates in
England.
The CASE OF MAJOR CHARLES BUxToS.
The case of the late Major Charles
Buxton, of Bellows Falls, which has
been wrapped in mystery by the sending
of bogus letter to Adjutant General
Wells, is fully settled by the following
facts which we clip from the last Bel
lows Falls Times
When we went TO press last week, &C
tive measures were being taken to &C
count for the strange letter purporting
to be from &c. Buxton" and thought by
many to be the late Maj Charles Bux
ton. On Friday Gen. Wells received a
dispatch from Col. Wilcox at Lynch
burg in answer to one he had sent, that
the person calling himself @. Buxton
had left about ten days previous saying
that be was going to Worcester, Mass
Capt. Taylor was dispatched early Sat
urday morning for Worcester, where he
found at the dwelling Of Capt. Patrick
Diggins, formerly OF this village, one
Callihan half brother Of Diggin's wife,
who had arrived from Lynchburg about
ten days before, and who reported that
there was a person calling himself g.
Buxton, at Lynchburg. Diggins wife
had previously, at Callihan's request,
sent genuine photograph of Maj Bux-
ton to Callihsn, who was going to use it
to identify Buxton. Capt. Taylor came
home and thus there was apparently
two witnesses TO the fact that there was
a person at Lynchburg, calling himself
Q. Buxton, and Col. o. B. Wilcox had
telegraphed that he was person of
weak mind, and en- Saturday evening
DOUBTLESS, majority Of our village
would have voted that Maj Charles
Buxton was alive, notwithstanding the
constant receipt or letters from soldiers
in a, joining towns that they positively
knew that Maj. Buxton was killed dead,
his remains sent home, and were living
witnesses to the fact.
1t appears, however, that the letter
sent from Worcester containing Bux.
tons photograph, and written by Mrs.
D.ggips, was addressed to Capt. c. Bux-
ton and on its arrival at Lynchburg, Col.
| Wilcox took it out and forwarded it to
| the Adjutant Generals office, at Mont
| peller from where it was Immediately
sest to this pace early this week, and
| which threw food of light on the
whole affair and entirely solved the
mystery.
! Mrs. Diggins letter containing the
| - Of MaS
Buxton, that he enlis ed at Bellows
| Falls, was supposed 10 have been killed,
his remains sent home, and his child
| died in few weeks after ne was killed,
&c, all Of which was correct, and evil
dently written in good faith in response
| to inquiries made by CallIhsn. Here
| we will correct an preston prevailing
in our village that Mrs. Diggins wrote
this letter pretending to personate Mrs.
| Buxton, aud 1t has even been r. ported
that she signed it as Mrs. G. Buxton"
which is not true. After this develop
ment Gen. Bradley went to Worcester to
see CallihsD, but he had fed to parts
unknown Immediately after Capt. Tay-
lor left on Saturday. But 1t appears
that Callihsn enlisted into the regular
army AZ Worcester last August under
the name OF G. Buxton. His excuse for
this is that being minor he feared his
mother wonld not permit him to enlist
His performance at Lynchburg, how
ever, he has not yet accounted for, and
that is left TO COZ cture. He may have
thought be was getting up scheme by
which he could get discharged from the
army, draw back pay, or get free trans
poTtatiOn, doubtless an attempt at sOrnt
, kind Of fraud.
An incident has also been brought tC
light which may indicate that he has
been in the SCENE for some months
Some time last Summer, a stranger
called upon Mrs. Buxton saying that C
B. Eddy wanted her pension papers aDC
wished him 10 lake them over TO his
(Edey'sl Office. Mrs. B very properly
and CURLY responded that as ne was s
stranger, she would keep the papers her
self, and if MIR. Eddy wanted them b,
would doubtless call fer them himself
Mr. Eddy knew nothing OF this man snc
that was the last of it.
Thus has ended cruel piece ri fraus
and imposition, which has so wickedly
created snxieties and stirred up the feel
. ipgs of the friends and relatives Of Msj
| Charles Buxton. Gov. Dillingham; auC
| Gems. Wells and Bradley have beef
thorough and persevering In The iDves
ugalOn. Il was apparently work o
humanity when begun, and thty are en-
: titled to MS much cndit, In uufaveliD.
and expoAng the fraad. as thougi