The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18


son appeared yesterday afternoon.
FIX Gov. Fuller presided over tn
Good Roads Convention at Atlant
yesterday.
The election of officers for Go.
will be held this evening at the Y. NJ
| c. \. rooms at & 40.
The Congregational societies o
Windham county have this week con
tributed ST. to home missions.
Geo. Goodell of Westminster Yves
will sell at auctin Oct. % one of tn,
best dairy farms in southern Yer
mont
The Windsor Pc st office robbcr!
whom Judge Wheeler sentenced to Sins
Sing recently, We're taken 10 that place
yesterday TO serve their sentence.
Granite corner stones are being
| placed for the new porch to the town
hall. The general expectation is that
like everything else that has been done
| it will be further Disagreement t.
this once handsome structure. But il
it should happen to be an artistic
piece of work, ii will compare about
like silkcr hat over il ragged and
greasy calico wrapper.
Michael O'Brien. ii big stalwart
plasterer from Fairhaven who had
been working here for few months,
went violently insane Tuesday after
noon, taking stand in front of the
High school house with club in hand
and pockets full of stones and threat
ening everybody that passed. Officer
Mcclure was sent for, but before he
arrived the man had called al Gov.
Holbrook' $ for water. and Judge W.
c. Holbrook had taken him in charge
and by protesting to be Il sheriff had
got him down to the Brooks house
where Mcclure took him in chargeland
led him round to the engine house
whittier Drs. Webster and Conland
were called and made out the certifi-
cate to commit him to the asylum.
where he is reported 10 have become
even worse O'Brien boarded at Mrs.
Stone s on Reed hill and she reports
him as having acted queerly for several
weeks. He had been at work AT his
trade with Deyo and DeLude and was
last employed on the Holden Il Martin
house but left there about a fortnight
ago and went to Fairhaven for few
days. What he was talking about in
his rawlings was some estate and his
desire to kill them all. "
There is still another development,
besides those noted the past two
weeks. in the b. 4. Clark case and
one which renders it altogether prob
able that the insurance companies will
give up. conccde his death to have
been due to accident and pay the $40.
600 of policies. The most decisive
evidence of accidental death and Zone
that had been overlooked by everybody
else, was discovered by Hon. j. l..
Martin when he went up to examine
the ground several days after the
death. Doing il with his accustomed
he found what had been
taken to be clump of earth about
two and a half.inchcs higher than the
rest of the ground To be really stone
covered with dirt. as appeared when
the dirt came to bc brushed away
Exact measurements had been taken
from Il tree to where the body
was found and by comparing
these it was found that the stone
would be just D., inches from
tHc lpJ tl TIC Htdti Vi tAuCllN ul,itt lIt
neck below the brain whore the blood
was found. 1t is easy 10 see
now, if one wheel of the heavily load |
at wagon passed over his face and I
across the mouth, of which three diff /
'erent witnesses will swear they saw
the marks as fully as stated last week. ,
.he pressure on the arteries, especially /
f the wagon stopped at all. would cause /
congestion of blood in the head and /
he bursting of blood vessels. and every .
hing that was found. including even /
he softening of the cerebellum as
shown by the autopsy two days later. !
n fact Mr.. Martin S examination and /
analysis has removed the case from
mere con lecture to one Of strong prob
ability that the death was accidental.
It is easy now, as usual after thing
S explained, to say it was simple
,nough and to wonder that no one else
Jaw it before. But the fact remains
hat but for that visit and eXamina
ion on his part it is very doubtful if
ir Clark s family could ever have re
covered the insurance,
1t may be set down as certain that
he s.. 600 voted Monday is not the end
II later on the town house" bust.
Tess If nothing else comes up. such
N eyesore az the appearance ON the
lorth side with the windowless. over
opping opera house addition. bare
nd ungainly to the view as it possibly
an be. will arouse Il demand for an
ther expenditure. 1t can never be
lade to look right, but some false
yindows. and an extension of an i'm
tation of the granite base and the
and stone belt course out TO the end
,ould help and the expense would
ot be very heavy. though present ap
are SO far exhausted that
here is no money for them now, 1t
ill have to come later and with the ;
%. 600 already appropriated and the
4. 600 for the vault. we shall finally
ct invested well towards the so, coo ,
hitch the opponents of the scheme
Every change that has {
cen made. even to the ''yaller' paint '
ow being put on. has resulted in ]
amage to the looks of d structure I
nat once had architectural beauty. I
s,regards the interior we shall have to {
ait until the opera house part is fin {
he'd to form an opinion. But per-
APPS the world will come To an end .
rst SO that we shall never know. BY /
he way. how does the windowlessness q
! the addition. in regular theatre T
,shion. fit with the claim that it is I
for town purposes 1t is /
] this pretense only that the enter
Use has any legal standing and the n
,etense is not strengthened by the h
ct that if a town meeting. which,
WAYS comes in the day time. were to
, held there. il would have to he 10y
,slipht. The chief argument for Il