St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-27

GERS and sub-counsel who worked up
the case and of the desire of certain in
t1uehtial parties to have the crime
brought home to his door, and with as
little noise as possible. We have caus-
ed the Vergennes matter to be investi-
gated on our own account, and can say
without hesitation that the facts set
forth in this dispatch are true, and more
too. We have no doubt they can be
proven by respectable and reliable wit
nesses, and mOTe of them even than are
named, among others Aurelia BrOOks's
mother, who now lives there. 1t will
further be found that the denial sent
from Vergennes to the Rutland Globe
came directly or indirectly from parties
there and these parties are neither few
nor of low social rank-whO have a de-
cided objection to seeing either Dora
Wilson or Aurelia Brooks very closely
investigated. The bundle of clothes is
no "fiction," as can be proved by at
least five witnesses, and John Gravel
will not swear that he didn't deliver it,
while Mrs. Mclaughlin will swear that
he did, and that she paid him twenty
five cents for it, and five others will
swear to knowledge of its delivery. The
reasons for its not appearing on the eX-
press books can be developed by inves-
tigation. This Vergennes evidence is
unquestionably important, aud would
open clue, probably to the parties,
and all the parties, connected with this
crime. Nothing was ever done about it
except that Dora Wilson, the least i'm
pOrtant of all these witnesses, was su-
perfcially examined, and she swOre that
she never knew Phair. A dozen unim-
peachable witnesses, at least, can be
found in Vergennes to-day who have
seen them together Why wasn't this
matter looked up and sifted Was it
because there were too many strings
leading to Dora and Aue ella at one end
There are good many, that's certain.
The assertions of the Globes PrOVi-
dence despatch we have at present no
means of ascertaining particularly about,
but it was prepared by the same hand
and we have no doubt of its truth. If
its assertions can be substantiated there
Is such Il strong probability of Phair's
innocence, and, even if it cannot, there
are SO many facts hat can he proven,
tending to show Phair guilty, if guilty
do for Vermont to hang him until this
matter is sifted to the bottom. Steps
must be taken to examine all these new
witnesses thoroughly. They must be
gathered together, and they can he, all
Of them, unless we except Sargent, the
photographers, who disappeared from
Rutland Oh the morning of the murder,
and Aurelia Brooks. Sargent is in
China. Aurelia Brooks, we apprehemd,
thanks to the inetficienGy of the officers
Of the law in Rutland, may be little
difficult to find, but can probably be
traced out if she is wanted. She was.
last week, in Il house of ill-fame in AL
bany, but where she may he now is I'M
certain. just after Phail's reprieve, she
met an acquaintance in the street and
besought him not to tell where she was,
because, she said, she was wanted for
Il murder case up in Vermont" With
i'll the next three weeks she changed
her place of abode three times, going
from one house of ill-fame to another.
and leaving each place suddenly and
without giving any reason. She has
lost flesh, grown pale and haggard, does
not go out of the house at all, and has Il
chronic dread of ''detectiveS." She will
bear investigating aud should be found
at once and arrested. Dora Wilson
(nOw married) is in Middlebury. The
Other witnesses are in NergenneS, Rut-
land, Boston and Providence, and should
be brought TO the stand as soon as feast
bic. We trust that Governor Fairbanks
will extend Phair's reprieve, put this
case i'll able and vigilant hands, and see
that it is sitted to the bottom. The
States Attorney of Rutland County is
of no account, and it is desirable that
counsel entirely outside of that county
he entrusted with the case There are
II great many influential men in Rutland
and Nergennes who don't want the mat
ter stirred up, for reasons sufficiently
obvious, and the people and press of
Rutland county are manifestin9 very
cenSurable haste to have Phair execut-
ed, and are pooh pooling at testimony
and facts that are too well grounded
and TOO important to be treated in that
way. This State is being terribly scorch-
ell from without for its conduct III this
case, and unless these things are ferret
ed out we shall get more and hotter,
and deserve it, too.