Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-29
A Mysterious Affair.
A Man supposed TO be Drowned.

prevailed as 10 whether any one had
been drowned. More especially did the
mystery increase as the companion of Il
the drowned man left during the eve Il
ming. During Wednesday forenoon the n
companion returned for the search for
the body or any evidence as to whether
he was drowned by the finding OF his
hat or otherwise. From him we OBJ !
tanned the following particulars
He gave his name as ID. IL. Perry of a
Bridgewater The name of the man
drowned was Wallace Stewart Mr. and
Mrs. Perry came to Springfield near Bar
louisville visiting at his fathers, James
S. Perry Stewart was there and Tues
day he, Perry, took his team and they
come together to this place, strangers,
simply to see the place, AT about 81
o'clock they were walking by the side of
the river at the lower end of the rail-
r, ad yard, near the small Cheshire rail
road repair shop, when Stewart saw
something, or claimed to have seen it,
floating in the river, at the narrows OF
the rapids above the Falls, and thereupon
went out and down on the rocks project
ing at that place 1t was very cloudy
and quite dark, but Mr.. Perry, who re-
NAMED upon the bank says he saw Stew
art near the water, and looked away for
a moment only, and on looking again at
the point of rocks Stewart was not to be
seen. This startled him and he Instant
ly changed his position so as to look on
each side of the rock, but saw or heard
nothing of Stewart. He called for him
in vain, and then gave the alarm to 9TH
f ers, but it was not possible to render him
any aid. He went back to Springfield
and returned for further search Wednes-
day morning accompanied by Tyler Put
nam, and the two spent the entire fore
noon in trying to discover some trace OF
5 Stewards body but none was found. Mr.
e Perry supposes he slipped into the water
n by accident, but it may have been sui
4 eide; he thinks of nothing that would
have caused him to commit suicide.
Some two years ago Stewart had broth
err killed on the railroad near Brockway s
: mills, being struck by bridge. Perry
! saws he spoke of it when they arrived at
that place, and after that appeared more
= sober and said but little, but he attribut-
!. ed it simply to the thought of the death
of his brother 1t was possible, he SAID
~ that Stewart had played game or trick
AZ on him, and slipped him in that way
- but he knew of no reason why he shoulC
Vi do so and did not think he had.
'n In reply to questions Mr.. Perry fur
" Their informed US that Stewards tathe
ef lived in Clarendon, that he had a wifi
" and one or two children, with whom h
"e had not lived for some years, and VIII
'' were living in the West; that Stewal
had formerly beeen a practicing phys
III clan at Rutland that be had also TO
'ys merly lived in Bridgewater; that in tn
nj last place Stewart had been charged wit
ap having been concerned in a tar an
ON feathering affair which occurred son
Mt time ago that the constable of Bridg
'od water had shot at him two or three tim
OF in trying to arrest him and that trlen'
n.y. at Rutland were aiding him in prosecu
nm ing the constable for having so used ii
out arms and that be, Perry, had know
him for some twenty years
the On inquiry if Stewart was or cou
eek have been under the influence of into1
t to eating liquor, Mr.. Perry said no; tn
ex- he was not aware that he had drank a
est that day or that there had been any c
ieo. portunity for him to have obtained a
has liquor after arriving in this place.
with Suspicious of foul play, or of foolil
the have been expressed in the street, We
eda- naturally, as the parties are all strang
sher here, but there is nothing to indicate
bur such thing. Mr.. Perry appears Xix
Val hard working and truthful man,
after gave his story to us with much teeli
him, At about nine o'clock, Tuesday e
osed ming, Mr.. Buss, who keeps the toll g
at the bridge, says man called tn
an d made some unusual noise in I
!, about the bridge and also made rat
~ incoherent inquiries if man had b
e. 90 there, and on being informed that tt
9 ~" had not, said he must have gone d.
the river On calling Mr.. Perry's at
n,ns' ton to this, he said he had been al
nm town during the evening, to see if 81
~, , = art might not be found; that he was
Wv, ~ der great state of excitement
> '''e :, hardly knew what he did say.
a'"'l This seems to be all that is know
" y the affair here now, and should VIII
stated above as having occurred at
49, land and Bridgwater prove true, 1t
so far confirm Mr.. Perry's statemen
w. which we shall be likely to hear
week.
lamp FURTHER.
siueil' Since writing the above we learn
sv' =. Perry has been identified as the man
ebury was with Stewart in E. A. Turner's