The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25

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maudery, knights Templar, will be- held at
its asylum next Friday evening. TIT order
of the Red Cross will be worked and the
commandery will act on the petite re-
ceived at the stated conclave. January 81
last, from twenty-three Sir knights resi-
dent Of Barre and members Of Mount Zion
CommandBry, No. 9, asking for the ass mt
and that a certificate Of recommendation be
granted for the establishment of a new
commandery at Barre.
Mrs. j. w. HowEs has recently given to
the Kellogg. Hubbard Library a book OF
special interest to Sunday school workers.
1t was bought in London by the late Joseph
w. Howes, who was for many years superin-
tendent of the Congregational Sunday
school in this place. The volume is a life of
Robert Raikes, often called the founder of
the Sunday-school movement, and its bind
ing is in part composed of wood from the
door Of the room first occupied by Raikes
for his school in 1881.
A QUIET nome wedding occurred last
Thursday evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Baker, No. 9 Summer street,
when Miss Ellen A Baker, their daughter,
and Edward s. Sawyer were united in mar
riage by Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver. Only
the immediate friends and relatives Of the
contrac ing parties were present. A large
and valuable array of wedding gifts testified
somewhat to the esteem in which this esti-
mable young couple are held, They went
that evening to their new home in Kent
DlOCk on Eth SJTbbJ.
CHARLES G. BALDWIN and Miss Emily p.
Stebbins we're married at Mortified last
Wednesday evening and intended to take
the nj sht express south. After the wedding
reception that followed the ceremony at the
church they attempted to elude their fun
loving friends by riding to Montpelier in a
hack, intending to take the train from there.
Scarcely were they registered and assigned
to a room al the Pavilion before a four-horse
team of young people from Mortified drove
up, and the W of rice, Old shoes, slip
pers, etc, which they fondly imagined they
eluded came upon them in a most unex-
pected manner This episode made them
miss the train south, and they remained at
the Pavili n until morning.
JOSEPH S. WHEELER, one of the petit
jurors from Waterbury, dropped dead in the
court house last Thursday evening. Mr..
Wheeler was foreman of the jury in the
case of Fred Fuller against Jesse Laundry,
tried that forenoon, and the jury had been
out since eleven o'clock, unable to agree.
He had appeared in his usual health during
the day and evening and, at the time of his
death, was attempting TO reconcile some
conflicting opinions among his fello v jurors
} and secure an agreement. DR.. IL. s. Board
man was hastily summoned but death, from
heart failure, had been instantaneous
, Judge Ross Immediately went to the court
house and excused the other jurors from
| further service in the case, Mr.. Wheeler's
l family at Waterbury was notified and the
body, after Mayor Stratton had viewed it,
| was prepared for burial by Undertaken
: Gleason and was taken to Waterbury the
| next morning. When the body was taken
: from the court house, Friday morning, the
Z court took a recess and the judges and Of
ticers OF the court escorted the remains to
3 the hearse. Mr.. Wheeler was one of Water
3 burN's substantial citizens. A more eX-
3 tended sketch of his life may be found in
the Waterbury items.
THE hearing in the sensational alleged
, Marsh poisoning case came to an end at
Northfield last Friday afternoon. Mrs
= George Marsh and William Buzzell, the re-
= spondents, were bound over, without bail,
to the September term of Washington
a County Court, when the case will come be-
!, fore the grand jury. They were brought to
: Montpelier and lodged in Jail by Constable
' w. w. Holden. During the four days oc-
7 cupied by the hearing a mass of testimony
: of a sensational nature was introduced,
, much OF it unfit for publication. 1t clearly
. tended to show the guilt Of Mrs. Marsh and
!, Buzzell. At the close of the hearing ex-
Governor Dillingham;, counsel for the re.
spondents, asked thai Buzzell be dis.
a charged, as no evidence had been intro
4 duced tending to implicate him, but the
court considered the evidence ample to
. warrant binding both parties over to county
court. A pathetic feature of the case oc-
; Cured last Wednesday when the young
children of Mrs. Marsh were compelled to
testify against their mother. The case has
, created a profound sensation in Mortified,
a and in fact all over the county, and the at
tendance at the hearing taxed to its utmost
the capacity of the fowl hall. 1t is possible
> that the respondents may be taken to
Windsor for safe keeping, but they prob.
ably will remain in Jail at Montpelier until
September.
In company with Carl G. Fletcher, local
I editor of the St. Adams Messenger, a re-
porter for the WATCHMAN called on Mrs
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day. The newspaper men were courteously
g received by Tailor Dudley, and Mrs. Marsh,
who was doing her washing in the base
s ment, was sent to her room, where she re-
Z ceived her visitors. A bed covered with q
!. snowy spread, a box-stove, in which a wood
o fire was cracking, two chairs, a %settee, and
a dresser, Uttered with various feminine
toilet articles, and on which a tiny clock
d. licked, gave the room a CHEEKY aspect, and
but for the heavily barred windows there
was little suggestive of prison confinement,
K Mrs. Marsh met the newspaper men, who
introduced themselves, with a defiant and
somewhat hunted look, but when the object
of their visit was stated she softened per-
ceptibly, and, sitting on the side of the bed,
2 chatted for a half hour. She was told that
: nearly all OF the newspaper reports sent out
in regard to the crime with which she stands
!. charged had been from the standpoint OF
[ the case as viewed by the state, and she
was asked if she wished to say anything in
her own behalf. She promptly replied
o Nothing. Let them have their own way
for the present. God knows and l know
. that 1 am u~njustly accused, and when the
s right time comes / expect to be proved in
r nocent." She enQuired Of the reporters II
they were married men, and to the one who
! answered in the affirmative she said
9 Would you carry your wife's picture on
your breast for nine years and then kill her?
That is what 1 have done with my hus-
bands picture" and she produced it in evil
dence. On being asked how she felt over
o the prospect of her long confinement before
2 the case can come before the grand jury,
!, she replied that she anticipated the rest she
would get this summer, that she had al
2 ways worked hard on a farm, and that the
prospect of a summer without hard work
was not unpleasant. Pointing to a web of
: cotton cloth that lay on the bed she said
81 nave enough here to keep me out OF
mischief for the present." Smiles and
a tears chased each other over her face as she
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