The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-25
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left things for the baby said he had seen
lawyer, Mr.. Pitkin, who said he had done
right; seemed more calm.
BELLE DILLON, q near neighbor had
known respondent all her life. Met him on
the ODD of August carrying the baby in
wagon; he looked excited; his eyes were
glazing. He was an average scholar when
they went to school.
Mrs. Ed. JACK saw respondent on the
22d of August. He appeared sober and sad.
His wife was at Mrs. Jacks residence about
half an hour that night. She said: "They
(Sanders and wife) quarreled, and l asked
them to go out of my house, as | did
not wish TO hear any more of it. He was
very much excited. She went away first.
After she left he took out his diary and said
he would write down something before he
forgoti it, or while he could remember. He
came to my house on Sunday, August 10th,
running; had on neither hat nor coat. He
said: For Gods sake, come over to my
house and talk to my wife For Gods sake,
comet did not dare to do otherwise than
CO. He and his wife were having trouble
about the baby's clothes. He said when he
came over, that he did not know what he
was about"
CHARLES JONES, also a neighbor, had
known respondent for many years. Once
respondent was prudential committee OF
the school district. The teacher sent word
for him, at the close of the winter school, to
come to my house and give her an order for
her wages. He did not come, and / carried
her to his fathers house TO see him. He
had gone on to the mountain; went after
him and asked him why he did So He said
there was no money in the treasury. / told
him that made no difference, whereupon he
came down and wrote an order. He APP
peared gloomy and odd: at times he was
pale and would not talk; at such times he
was in my opinion insane; he was quick
tempered, sullen and set"
CHARLES JACK stated: az saw respond
ent on the ODD of August He drove by
very fast; 1 called to him; he did not an
swer; he was very pale and very much ex-
cited. He slept with me that night; he did
not sleep very well the fore-part of the
night. Once we were Telling trees in the
woods; he was chopping on tree and l
was about to fall another, which l thought
would strike where he was spoke to him
to get out of the way, but he did not and
the tree fell very near him. Can't say that l
think him insane"
WILLIAM JACK said he was well acquainted
with respondent, and testified to about the
same as other members of the Jack family.
The respondent was, in his opinion, insane.
DIR. C. N. HUNT testified that he had been
called to attend respondents wife in Feb
ruary, 1884. That he was called once to
dress his horses wounds, made on barbed
wire fence respondent thought that the
doctor could sew up the wounds with the
horse standing up; the wounds were very
muCn lnHdneu, anu respondent Sdlu Ho
sewed them up before without casting the
horse. The doctor tried to sew up the
wounds and the horse would not stand; they
got help and cast the horse. Respondent
was excited, and found fault because they
famed the horse. DR.. Hunt further tes-
tilted: ION August 14th he came to
my house with his wife; he did not go
into the house; his wife went into the house
and he went into the office. After had
seen to his wife l went to the Office, and re-
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quite rig about him when he was there
last winter. / answered that she said some
thing. He said: heard she did, and she
can to-day if she wants to; / am ready for
it, / thought he was insane" On cross
examination, the doctor said that it was true
that respondents wife did tell him some
things when she was there in the winter;
that because he asked him about a fact that
did exist he thought him insane, and that
was the only reason.
M. V. B. HoLLIsTER said he had known
respondent fifteen years. Wouldn't say he
was insane, but queer; had noticed a differ
ence in the sides of his face. Saw him, on
the 23d of August go by Putnam & Mar
wins store, in charge of Smith and Lull; he
looked blank wild in his eyes; never knew
that he was blind in the left eve.
ID. r. GRAY said that Joshua Sanders was
insane. Orlena Hoyt never was, to his
knowledge, insane.
MRS. ABBIE TICHoUT (she was a modest
witness, doing some simpering on the stand,
said she had worked for Sanders. Her
daughter came there visiting, and Sanders
seemed to experience a case of " love at first
sight " of her. He asked her to go to meet
ing with him, and she told him that she had
no dress Sanders bought her a new one
She afterward went to Cabot with one Sui.
ham. Sanders didn't want her to go and
said she shouldn't take the dress, but he
finally told her she could do as she chose
He went to Cabot after her the night she
went; he came back without her. few
nights after he brought her Mrs. Tichout) 6
letter from the postoffice; the letter was
from her daughter; she read to him from il
the following: "Tell Clark the next time he
sees me my name will not be Tichout." Al
this Sanders was excited and insisted on hei
going to Cabot with him that night they
went, but the girl was obdurate and would
not return, though Clark threatened to take
the dress; finally, he got down on his knees
and asked her forgiveness. Afterwards she
came back and stayed there four or five
weeks, and then worked awhile for re
spondent's father. One time Sanders wen
to Waterbury to see some one in answer tC
an advertisement for housekeeper; wher
he came back (here the witness had mod
est streak) he said the woman was " nasty
greasy thing" Witness didn't think Sand
ers was in his right mind. On cross-exami
nation, she said one time he " mauled" the
COW, because she was breechy," and BROKE
off her horn. One time Jacks turkeys cam,
into the dooryard Sanders had told then
to keep their turkeys at home; he went on
and killed one of them. Witness did no
think Sanders was man of temper; though
he was man without mind.
A. j. HOWE said that Sanders came int
his store, August 18th, and found faul
about their trusting his wife. He had for
hidden the former firm trusting her. III
told him of his trouble with his wife, ant
appeared so odd that they spoke of it afte
he went out. Fred Carter corroborate'
Mr. Howe.
ASA AVERY stated that Sanders one
claimed he ought to fix his fence, and whel
they were talking he appeared mad at him
had an axe and jumped over the fence; sal
there was something unusual about him.
JAMES HILL saw Sanders, August odd o
the road from Montpelier; talked with him
he seemed gloomy. l.. j. Pierce, Georg
Lane, Timothy Davis and Fred Dodge eac
testified to oddities in the respondent an
gave it as their opinion that he was insane
GEORGE S. HUBBARD testified that Orlen
Hoyt was, in his opinion, insane; also ths
Emma Hoyt was insane.
GEORGE w. SANDERS, brother of the r,
spondent, said that when he Clark wa
about eight years old he hit him with
stick of wood on the head; that Clark was
bright as ordinary children about his book,
was always sckly; when three years old h
had typhus and brain fevers; when fifteen, Il
hurt his eye with percussion cap and lo'
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