Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-30
A sad ana Shocking Affair.
CRIMINAL PRACTICE RESULTING IN DEATF

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RESULTING IN DEATH.
The people of this town have been
considerably excited for few days past
over the death of girl named Anna
Follen, whose widowed mother lives at
the western extremity of the village on
the Lake road. As nearly as we can
learn the facts (Which public policy de-
mands should no longer be kept secret
she left home a week ago last Friday,
saying she was going to Montpelier, to
find work as a tailoress girl. Instead
thereof she went to p. Hauyer's hotel,
at Stanbridge station, P. O., and put up
under the name of Miss Smith, Of Bur
lington. Report says Though we DO
not vouch for it) that either that night
or the next, she was visited by DIR.
Bradley, of st. Armand Station. Report
also says that guests at the hotel heard
groans and screams in her room during
the night A day or two afterwards she
rode out with the hotel-keeper's family
but was soon taken i'll after her return
and they proposed to call in their family
physician; but she preferred DR.. Brad
lev and he was sent for. She died and
he or they telegraphed to Burlington to
ascertain if she had friends. By letters
found in her possession from certain
men in st. Adams they learned her real
name and then, as is claimed, the hotel
family realized that horrible crime had
been committed. Dr. Bradley at once
came over here and informed her family
that she had died there and it is reported
that he had named brain fever as the
cause of her death. Report also says
that he stated in ST. Armand that he
found that she had attempted to commit
| abortion by the use of an instrument and
| that it resulted in death.
! At all events the circumstances were
| so suspicious that the Selectmen here or
dered an inquest and a post mortem
| examination was held by several of our
principal physicians. They came to the
! unanimous conclusion that an abortion
| was produced upon her and that from its
! effects she died. She was buried yester-
| day in the Protestant ground. Justice
| FarnswOrth has pursued the investigation
| to some extent, but we are not atliberty
/ to name any of the several men in this
| town whom the testimony, or at least
whom rumOr tends to implicate, and be-
sides, the question has been raised as to
! the authority of our officials to investi-
/ gate a crime which was committed in
/ Canada-eyen though it may have been
plotted here. In this connection wemay
! say that we understand that Dr. Brad
ley, being on this side the line, was ar
rested yesterday and is now in jail at
this place, but whether or not this is
true the authorities do not at this
time choose to state.
The young woman was known here
for her great personal beauty, and as
she industriouslY pursued her trade nc
suspicious rested upon her character un-
less possibly from the fact of her aC-
/ quaintance with one or two men here OF
questionable repute 1t is a very sad
and shocking affair, and as her mother is
! a poor widow and the girl, though TWEEN
ty or more years old, was undoubtedly
circumvented and preyed upon by vii
/ lains who make the art of seduction even
/ a public boast, we trust that the authori-
/ ties on both sides the line will pursue 9
most srigid and searching investigation
and that the guilty, whoever they may
be, will be exposed and punished. Mean
| while, if the authorities do their duty, il
/ is obviously fair that the public iudg-
ment should be withheld.-St. ADany
Messenger, THursday.