The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-09
I Population Of Saunders
vile and Its Division.
What TwO-FifthS of Village
Think of the Others.
Interesting Situation Discovered by
a Reporter Looking for News.

A man walked into Chief Child's ONCE
yesterday and said that john W. hossi'r
OF Saundersville had been murdered er
committed suicide and said that the mai
ter had better be looked into, as IL W"s
more than probable that the man hAd
been m,rdered. A representative or
THE NEWS drove out 10 investigate.
Saundersville is a very SINAI town, put
Just at the present time those that 1--we
there are about evenly divided as to how
John w. Rossler died. some are positive
that he committed suicide, ana some are
lust as positive that he was murdered,
but the latter is quite improbable. In the
town are five or six families, the Ross
lers. the Walkers, the teaches and the
Angels. The Angels, the Walkers ana
the Rossler families are on the most
friendly terms, while the Leaches ana
the fuckers are at war with the rest ana
they have no kind word for the Leaches
ana fuckers. Upon arriving in tho viii
lage THE NEWS man met one OF the enc
miles OF the Rosslers, Walkers and An
CELLS and from what that family told MN
the old German must have been murdered
and by one OF his own family. The Ross
Ter house was visited, but none OF the
Rosslers came 10 the door, but one OF the
Angels did, and when asked IL Mrs. hoss-
Ter could be seen replied no, "ano," con-
tinued the Angel woman, "lf you are a
Exporter you will go and see Dr. smith,
az he mad left word to refer all reporters
TO him." The Angel woman was told
that it would be some trouble TO ma
the man of medicine and II would be 100
late for the afternoon paper.
swell, / can't help that, said she.
swell, will you tell me when IL hap
pened,n asked THE NEWS man.
tNo; / can't said the Angel woman.
al am only working here for the day and
don't know much more about the AFFAIR
than you do"
Her inquirer asked how long Mr.. Ross
Ter had been dead, but got no reply, so
finding that no information could be
CLEANED at the house where the dead man
was he went to the next house.
Upon knocking at the door TO the house
there was a hustle inside and after a wait
OF aboutlthree minutes an old lady opened
ssCould you tell me anything about the
death of Mr.. Rosslerg"
..No; you'E a reporter, hain't your"
swell come in and take a chair II you
can find one.o
AT this I lime an old grey-bearded patri-
arch walked into the sitting room from
the kitchen and addressing the reporter
said: "You want to know the whole story,
don't you?
swell, I'll tell you.
"Mr. itossler shot himself THURSDAY
morning at $3.50 and was the first man
in the house after he did II. He was
warm when i got there, he wasn't MUIR
dered by any means and don't you let
anyone make you believe so.'
Here the old lady wanted to say some
thing, but the patriarch said "Now, old
woman, you Just let me talk to this re-
porter, for you don't know anything
about 1t and / TO-"
The old gentleman continued his story,
and said that the medical examiner said
that Rossler had committed suicide for
the bullet entered the right temple, took
= downward course n stopped at the
lower jaw bone.
The old lady broke in again and said,
"Wasn't you talking to the fuckers be-
fore you went up to the Rossler house?"
The reporter said that he was.
"Well,n said the old lady, ''don't you
believe a word they say, for they don't
know how to tell the truth. They told
you that Clara murdered her father,
didn't they?"
When told that the fuckers did not say
right ont that such was the case, but
came very near it-for the fuckers did
say that old Rossler had told them that
the girl had threatened to shoot him and
that he had showed them scars on his
left leg that had been made by his daugh-
ter.
"'Well," said the old lady, "I'll tell
you again not to believe HEM"
The old man and the old woman forgot