Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-01-17


| G. A. williams is now following MS
trade as blacksmith in the Hastings snop'
opposite the gristmill.
ED. Strong, prominent merchant o.
Jamestown, North Dakota, and mis- wire,
| who is q sister OF Mr.. w. b. Wall, are Wis
iting their old friends and acquaintances
in Randolph, after an absence OF nearly
fifteen years.
The new block to be erected the COM
inc summer on the vacant lot between
the Thurston block and DR.. r. g. NOR
toms residence, is to be brick STRUCTURE,
seventy-two feet front. running DacK
ninety feet on the south side and seventy
on the north, with piazza across tne
rear. The center OF the block, on the hrst
fioor, will be occupied by the Savings bank !;
on the north side DR.. r. G. Morton's drug
store will be located, and on the south,the
hardware business OF j. H. Lamson.
Wednesday OF last week, Joseph p.
] Stoughton, travelling salesman for Tine
| large grocery firm OF 3 s. Pierce & Company
Of Boston, arrived on the afternoon mail
train and registered at the Red Lion Inn
as being from Plymouth, N. H. He COM
planned OF having a sick headache but 9th
erwise seemed to be in good health, ana
nothing at all peculiar was remarked in
either his appearance or manner. he was
sho yn to a room and probably spent the
evening in writing; for number OF let
tiers stamped and directed ready Tor the
mail were found in his apartment the next
morning. No disturbance was heard DUR
ing the night by those who occupied the
adjoining chambers; but when morning
came, it was found to be impossible to
arouse him. An empty eighth-of-an-
ounce vial, labeled morphine, stood near
the bed and solved the mystery OF his
strange condition. Drs. nj. l.. and u. w.
Scott were quickly summoned and en-
deavored by every means in their power
to resuscitate the dying man. but each
effort proved unavailing, and he breathed
his last about four o'clock in the after
noon. His sister, Mrs Currier OF West
Lebanon, was summoned and arrived
here about an hour before he died. his
father, VIM. Stoughton OF South Royalton,
and his brother, Dan Stoughton, OF Beth
ell, did not reach here until several hours
later, no one knowing to whom to tele-
graph until after Mrs. Currier came
The deceased was young man twenty
seven years of age and was said by his ac-
quaintances to be person OF pleasing ad-
dress and favorite with his employers,
for whom he had travelled seven years, his
route the past year bringing him in this
vicinity. II in the letters which he wrote
that night to members Of his family, he
gave any reason why he should be anxious
to ssshufile off this mortal coil,n they have
discreetly refrained from mai Ing it pub
lie. The remains, in accordance with his
written request, were taken to South Roy
alton Friday to be laid beside those OF his
mother.
Last week, the startling news was re-
! l.nt 4 tu,rx rrf,
proprietor OF Ryder's hotel in West RAN
| dolph, was arrested Friday, the 18th, in
Hornellsville, N. Y, on the charge OF hav-
ing murdered the infant child of woman
| by the name of Smith, in the town OF
Rochester. Early in the week the district
attorney of Windsor county, j. G. Enright.
| held an official inquest in that place and
secured sufficient evidence to warrant the
arrest of Ryder, who was taken at the
home of his brother-i in law, Frank New
ELL and lodged in the police station to
await hearing. The crime was COM
mitted sometime in October and the doc
tor has lately been living in Hornellsville,
whittier he went, as he claims, in the hope
that the change would benefit his wife's
health, which was delicate. He bought a
farm OF his brother-in-law and conducted
himself in way to win the favorable re-
gard OF his neighbors, who were taken
greatly by surprise when the arrest was
made. While living in Randolph, the
doctor was chiefly remarkable for the per-
sistency with which misfortune in the
shape OF fire logged his footsteps. Wher.
ever he and his family moved, they were
sooner or later burned out Of house and
home, the last confiagration occurring a
little over year ago in the Smith block in
the upper part OF which Ryder's hotel
was located. After this fire, the doctor
went to Barre to reside, but there he bore
an unsavory reputation, and the officers
were about to arrest him when he dis
appeared. During the past summer,
Ryder has been living in
Rochester Hollow. District Attorney En-
right secured extradition papers, and Con-
Stable Paul Tinkham was sent to escort
the prisoner to Vermont. Monday, Ry
der was given bearing in Hornellsville
taken to Rutla nd for safe keeping by Of
ficer Tinkham. who was obliged to 60 at
once to Albany, N. ", to testify in the
case OF the pcstoffice robbers captured at
Rochester on Thanksgiving day. His ex-
animation will probably take place to-day
In the town where the crime was commit
ted.
A fortnight ago, a stranger, who claimed
to be in quest OF work, appeared at the
home OF r. r. Slack, who lives on farm
about two miles out of the village, on the
road to the Center, and who gave him an OPP
portunity to work for week with the un-
Outstanding that II he did well, he might
perhaps be employed on the farm the rest
of the winter. Last week Tuesday af-
ternoon, about one O'CLOCK, Mr.Slack came
down to the village, leaving the man at
work cutting up meat in the cellar. Ms.
SLACK was busy about her household tasks
and paid but little attention to the man
downstairs, but thought she heard him
overhead in his room once and she noticed
twice when she went into the sitting room
that the bedroom door was open and
closed it both times. But as she could
hear from time to time sounds in the cell
lar that seemed to betoken labor, it never
occurred to her that the man was ransack-
ing the house in vain search for money.
About three O'Clock, wishing him to
do some chores at the barn, she went to
the cellar door and called to him but re-
ceived no response, and going down the
stairs found that he was not there. She
then went to the barn and searched the
premises generally without discovering
any trace OF him, and finally decided that
he must have left the house nearly an
hour before she called him. When Mr..
Slack came home at four O'Clock in the af-
ternoon, he went to a trunk in his bed
room closet to deposit check in small
tin trunk that he kept there, and found
the large trunk open and the tin trunk
gone. Nearly every room in the house
had been entered by the tramp, who left