St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-10-17


selves batfied, sent kilograms about to
certain railroad stations. describing
their man and ordering his detention
when found. The next forenoon
patch from sheriff Bean of Newport
that Wilson had taken the early morn
ing train over the South Eastern rail
way for Burlington. Mr.. May ut once
tclegraphed officers ut Burlington and
st. Adams, and Sheriff Weeks diStlibu-
ted bills offering fifty dollars for his
arrest. But no Wilson has been found
up to the present writing, and it is be
Heved he went from the Works woods
directly to Victory. as Il man answering
his description was seen beyond West
Concord early Saturday morning, go
ing III that direction. Wilson formerly
worked in the mills in Victory, and
has many acquaintance there who
it is believed would help Sccrctc him.
Wilson formerly belonged to the
pIltlSl army tillllt ilpil 'dhdhd Spih'
three years ago. After working two
Years i'll Victory, he came to this place.
He has Il wife. and Il child about one
and a-half years old. He has dark
complexion, heavy moustache. is
rather above medium hight. down
cast look, and had Il bad wound in
right hand made the day before his
flight.
After the escape of Wilson, his wife
time the peculations of her husband
have been developing, in which, it
would seem. she was more or less in
volved. Mrs. Wilson has sold quite Il
large quantity of ladies goods to differ
ent parties here i'll the place. The fol
lowing are some of the articles already
found: \ Japanese silk dress pattern
sold to c. Il. Brigham's domestic, one
to one of Day u Mays girls. and one
on herself Two black alpaca dress
patterns were found. one sold to Me
Nay girl at st. Johnshury House. and
one on herself She had sold twenty
yards of Empress cloth to il cheeseman's
cr in the Arlington building. and
kept Il pattern of same. She sold two
SlIawls to il girl III Stcvcnscs tailors
shop. y set of icwclry was f"nnd on
her person which Mr.. johnson rccog-
niZed as similar To one he lost. Will
sons room was carpeted with Il portion
of Il roll of carpeting of fortyfour
yards which johnson had missed. and
the remainder was found rolled up in
the house. \ web of cotton cloth WAS
found in the house without mark. and
in the raghag was discovered the torn
end of the web with JnhnSon'S private
found on the premises which were tax
en- 10y johnson. In all. Mr.. johnson
finds some three or four hundred dol
lars worth of property about this
place, or disposed of 10y Mrs. Wilson,
and the question naturally arises. how
WAS all this taken out of his store with
ont his knowledge. or without much OF
it being even missed. 1t is not gcnrr-
ally believed that Wilson did il alone,
but 81 far his cnntcdcrates have not
/ been taken.
Mrs. Wilson has not had an cNamina-
ton Vet, but it is believed 10y some
that She is not as guilty as appcaIan-
ccS would seem to Indicate. We hope
an investigation will 81 prove it.
/ Now that the ra>cality of Wilson has
been disclosed, some people remember
/ that he WAS in the same hou>r where
the widow Tugman'> money was stolen
Il year ago or more. Mrs. Tugmau had
laid hN about so of her hard earning,
as WaShcrWoman. and one day when
she WAS away from home. her room,
were broken into and ii WAS taken. II
losing it the widow lost her all.
There are many stories II wing about
respecting Wilson his operations here
and his present whereabouts. as wei
as the names of others implicated. hu
We withhold them until something
more tangible i known.
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