The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09
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| d. l.. Miller Il Co.. of New York
have delivered their new Brattlebort
map, this week and it is fine piece
of work
Rev. d. J. Clark of East Haven,
Conn, preached in the Congregation
al church last Sunday morning and
evening. Rev. c. o. Day will occupy
the pulpit next Sunday as he leaves
for muster Monday being chaplain of
the LIST Regiment of V. n. q. The
Sunday school will be held in
the church until the repairs in the
chapel are completed.
Miss wilkins prize detective story
1.-THE Long Arm has been running
in the daily PAPERS this week, and
the last instalment appears in them to-
day, while it is also to run in some
weeklies and one magazine. 1t is a
tale founded on the Borden mystery,
in which the daughter, her lover and
cousin are all thrown under suspi-
cion by the circumstances and it fin
ally turns out that the crime is com
mitted by an old maid neighboro
jealous because the old man is about
to marry her sister, love of his
youth. between whom she had once
before broken the match. The style is
strangely unlike anything Miss Will
kins ever before produced. leading to
the suspicion that il must be more
largely the work of her collaborateur
In the whole story there are hardly
dozen flashes of that fleecy beauty that
characteriZes Miss wilkins pen and
but few of those character touches for
which she has become famous. The
chief merit of the story is the plot
and the skill with which the mystery
is tangled and untangled and in this
respect and in the general style it
much resembles Hugh Conroy's work
Testimony was taken this week
before Judge l., NJ. Read, master in
chancery in the case of A. NJ. Carlton
V. Elijah and Otis NJ. Reed When
Mrs. Carlton died last year it was
found that all the property, which Mr..
Carlton claimed to be their Joint accu
mutation. stood in her name SO that
good share of it would:go TO her broth
ers AS her heirs. The property consist
ed of the Cobble stone house on Canal
street. worth some $500 and $500 in
Savings bank deposits. So Mr.. Carl !
ton brought a petition in chancery
claiming that his money paid for the !
house and that quite a portion of the |
savings bank deposits represented his
asserting that when he re- |
ceived his pay at Esteys he always
took it home and handed to his wife,
who paid the house bills out of it and
deposited the rest, as he supposed un-
til after her death in his name or
theirs Jointly. Therefore he asked the
court to decree that she held the
in trust for him The evi
icnce was very meagre, because under
he law, she being dead, he couldn't
estify. 1t was shown that the cobble
stone house was bought mainly with
he proceeds of the sale of their former
home now owned by Edmund Carey:
he very check was: traced: and the
irst house stood in Mr.. Cartoons
lame. 1t was shown by Capt J. G..
sstey that for % years his wages there
lad averaged nearly $50 month, and
" neighbors estimates that the
amily expenses wouldn't exceed SO
month. 1t was also fairly will shown
hat he had no other property except
THAT stood in her name. The defense
roved that at the time of the death
+ her father Newton Reed. leaving an
state of SIS. 600, she was one of the
tx heirs and got $1,000. and it was
that portion of this went
nto the home. The case was adj
burned day for argument an in the I
leantlme a compromise was affected
hereby Mr.. Carlton gets the house
nd about $1,000 of the savings bank
eposts, the remaining $500 to her
eirs. Mr. Carlton thus gets about !
1000 more than he would have taken
V the law of inheritance.