News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-21
STOWE.
Wilbur BigeloW and bride are in town.

Wilbur BigeloW and bride are in town.
Potatoes are said to be rottng very badly.
DR.. Church and wife started for Chicago last
week.
Mt. Mansfield Creamery drew first prize on
print butter at the State Fair.
The highest points of Mt Mansfield were
covered with snow Monday morning.
Ira Henderson is again under close medical
care, with but few chances of recovery.
p. D. Pike is building a new dam on the
East branch of the river near his sawmilL
There will be teachers meeting held at
the village school hall on Saturday. Sept. %.
The descendants of Josephine Mum met
! with Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Sallies on Saturday
| last.
Walter J. Bigelow, of the Free Press staff
was at home on Saturday to meet his
! brother
Clyde Owen, only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ora
L. Wrisley, died Sept 18th, aged two weeks
and four days.
| Mr. and Mrs. c. l.. Mcmahon, Mr. and Mrs.
A. I. Raymond, Mrs. Mary Jenney and Miss
Mary Straw started for the Worlds Fair on
Monday.
Mr., and Mrs S. NJ. Stafford of Cambridge
and Miss Mary Stafford of Minneapolis, were
in Stowe last week visiting friends. They also
went upon the mountain.
Wilbur B. Bigelow, formerly of this town,
was married on the 18th instant to Miss
Elizabeth b. Meade of Salem, Mass. After
spending few days with relatives here they
VIII return to Salem, where they will reside.
Mr. BlgelOw has for several years been in the
employ of Almy, BigelOw & Washburn, of
that city.
The Evolutionary entertainment given at
the town hall Sept. 18th by Miss Ethelynd
Gould, recently graduated from the Emerson
college OF OratOTy, was well attended. The
audience indicated by their close attention
and happy expression that they were much
Pleased Miss Gould has fine voice and her
recltals were well rendered, going from grave
to gay in natural and graceful manner.
we predict for her bright future.
DARING BURGLARY.
A very sensational report came to the vii
lage on Monday afternoon of the commission
of a bold and daring robbery at the residence
OF Mr.. Samuel A. Mansfield in the lower part
OF the town. A careful investigation OF the
facts reveals the following gathered from
Mr.. and Mrs. Mansfield: MIR. Mansfield was
not present, but at the barn a few rods away,
during its occurrence. About IL O'Clock in
the forenoon a man appeared at the kitchen
door and alter being admitted by Mrs.
Mansfield commenced conversation about
borrowing money of them, of which they
had about 5000, recently taken out
of the Hyde Park bank for safe keeping.
Mrs. Mansfield unwittingly disclosed the
presence of about that amount of money in |
the house to the inquiring stranger, who after
talking briefly, left, going up the road. In |
about an hour two other men appeared at |
the kitchen door and entered without cere- |
mony, stating that they had come on rather
rough business. She, in astonishment, in
quired "What?" They then said that they |
had heard that she had eight hundred dollars |
in the house, and they had come to divide |
with her. Signifying their fear that she might |
elude them or give an alarm, one drew from q |
pocket small rope or cord about two and a |
half feet long, placed it about her neck and |
twisted it in the back to suit the necessities |
of the case. The other robber was in the |
meantime searching beds, bureaus, cup
boards, &c, for the much-wanted money. |
tightening of the cord sufficiently soon |
compelled Mrs. Mansfield to disclose where |
part of it was kept, which she reached and |
got under a bureau then recently pillaged. |
Satisfied with this the thieves left, going |
towards the pasture and mountains beyond.
Mrs. Mansfield was very much excited and it |
was some time before an alarm could be
given. 1t is said by those who saw her that
she bore the mark of the rope about her neck
until night. As near as can be ascertained
by Mrs. Mansfield about S475 were taken in
the package carried away. She is unable to
give clear description of the men, though
thinks they were youngerly men. They
made use of no firearms though had some
by belt under their coats, and
frequently threatened her life if she made any
cutlery. Nothing, we believe. has yet been
done to discover these midday villains.