Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-20
LATE AND IMPORTANT NEWS
Looks Like Murder.
Daughter OF the village Doctor Of Linz
coin Found Dead by the BrOoksIde---
Young Man Suspected of the Crime


Young Man Suspected of the Crime
Runs Away,
The mysterious death Of Dora +. Cushman, H.
daughter Of DR.. A. }. Cushmau Of Lincoln, on
Saturday last leads TO the belief that she was
murdered, and Smith Davis is suspected Of the
crime. He is young man who has been employ
ed by the Lincoln Lumber company and he has
paid the girl some attention. Miss Cushman lett
home Saturday afternoon TO pick hach berries.
and was never seen again by her friends. Her
al senCe caused alarm ana searching parties were
out curing -aturday night.
The body found sunday morning by Ar
thur +. Cush uan, the girls brother. 1t was m
some bushes on the ba of brook not over 100
rods from the Cushman home The grl lay with
her hat over her face, one arm partly under her
side and one leg bent around bush. There were
no marks ON the body Indicating foul play. but
blood was found on the leaves near by states
Attorney Fish Of Nergtunes was summoned, and
after consultation with the local authorities he
decided to hold an autopsy and sent a message
to Dr. j. II Lnsiey Of Burlington.
Il is reported that Smith Davis played cards at
the Lincoln hotel saturday afternoon but disap.
peared about O'Clock, and soon afterward was
seen coming from the spot where the body was
found, and started toward Bristal; that he met
Willie Morgan with team aud gave him - to
take him to Bristol to catch the train; that he
missed the tram, but drove on to New Haven
junction and there bought a ticket to Rutland;
that he was drunk and had a bottle OF liquor in
ms pocket. and that he finally tried to swap his
ticket Tor one TO either Boston or New Ork.
Later developments show that Davis was In
Rutland SATURDAY evening. He went to a BARRIERS
shop and had his mustanhe cut of. He exchanged
his hat for a cap and bought a ticket 10 Manches-
ter, n. II. He went to the home OF his uncle, G.
W. Butterfield, at Bedford, near Manchester. He
told his uncle he had been intimate with the < ~,
and that he found recently that she was IN a deli
cate condition. He said he wished to marry her,
but she SAID there need 70 worry about
her condition. Acting under her direction he
bought surgical instruments She sent word to
Z
when she attempted to use the instruments she
fell back dead He said he was frightened and
htd at once. His uncle advised him to 90 back
10 Lincoln to make confession and TO face the
consequences Davis left the house promising to
obey TINS advice.
Davis has not been seen since he left Bedford
and il * now believed that the story told TO his
uncle was false IN every particular Ii was said
that Davis bought ticket g. East Berkshire. IN
Franklin county, and Il was thought that he had
gone 20 his old home IN Montgomery, but state :
Attorney FISH ana Sheriff Lawrence OF Bristol.
who went there Tuesday, could get no trace OF
MIN DAVIS is about 70 years OLD. feet 10 inches
/ IN height ana weighs about 80 His father and
mother are cousins. and two of his brothers are
/ weak minded Davis has been "a hard dunKer.
VIM. Brittell Davis chum. who worked with
him AT the Lincoln Lumber company shop. is
/ under arrest to await developments He says
/ Davis told him of the girls condition month
ago, and last saturday be said. i have something
10 my pocket which wIl DO the lob. Brittrl shy 5
| that something was probably cedar oil. BrtteI
boarded with DR.. Cushmau family. ana at
/ Davis request he told Dora Saturday afternoon
that Dayi, would meet her iu the pastur-.
Brittel says that two week, ago. when he car
rcd Dora sister. Mrs Vivian Barrett. 90 Warren.
I Henry Polian ~ that town gave him dark bot
/ Tie containing d fluid. 10 give e. Davis with IN
struciiaus how Co use o.
All the circumstances 20 10 show that the girl
/ went 90 meet her lover 10 the pasture showing
nothing hut affection and the buudest confidence
/ 10 his ability 10 help her Following him into the
little copSe 81 spruces she sat down at his bidding
and drank from the cup which he held out. They
/ we're alone and that the draught was an excrucI
atlugly painful one t. her Their, is no doubt
II r. the belief Of thu doctors and those who
! amiurd the spot where the body was found III at
Smith Davis witnessed one ui the most heart reud
/ ing sights a man could b- called upon 10 view
I the agonlziuE death struggles Of an Innocent girl
J whose life was being burned out by the drug be-
I had induced her 70 take Yet when her brother
found the body next day it lay in "A comfortable
I and natural position, AS n death had come most
/ peacefully. All the evidence OF the doctors Is
against DaVis's statement that he was Mortified
I at hsz-a-'t and red without touching the body.
Il Is the belief Of the doctors who performed
! the autopsy that no surgical Instruments were
used. stated 10y Davis, but that the girls death
/ was caused ny poison The stomach and other
organs have been sent 10 Dartmouth college for
/ chemical examination.
A report is current In Bristol that II can be
I shown hy Witnesses that Davis came from where
the body was found, went TO his employer and
settled up with him. receiving a check for 50,
and again returning 10 the woods, after which he
/ came out second time and started for Bristol.
/ On his way he stopped al West Lincoln AM got
/ cash for his check at the store Of q a. Sargent.
Iater--~smith Davis Caught and Others
Arrested.
Smith Davis was arrested late Tuesday night al
the home of his father IN Montgomery DAVIS
claims that he was not cvadIng the officers, but
that he intended TO return 10 Lincoln. he say 5
! that when h. left Manchester he intended 10 20
first TO his old home but that he became So
I dreAdtuy frightened on reading an account OF
/ the case in paper aLl-sseX junction that he
/ went 20 Cambridge and walked from there Ia
] Montgomery.
His fathers house was being watched when he
arrived and in a short tiu- Deputy Sheriff Hugh
I Martin arrived and arrested him. Davis was
/ brought To Nergennes Wednesday ana lodged IN
/ jan. de talked freely Of the death OF Miss Cush
! man. but seemed 10 be- IA a highly nervous coudi-
} ton He SAID he consulted with Or. smith. a
I guest al the Lincoln hotel, about Miss Cushmau.
I and that he procured an instrun ent OF Or Joce-
I Ign Of Lincoln, He claimed that the story told 10
! ms uncle WAS mainly true
Dr. y. 5. Jucrlyn and Norman Henry of Lin
I coin were arrested yesterday, charged with com
/ phclty m the tragedy. The charge against Davis,
J it Is understood viii be- murder in the first de
gree, and Jocelyn and Henry are held as acces
sories.
Joceyu is a dentist about 30 years Of age.
| Henry is painter His home is IN Rutland, but
I he has been doing work in Bristol for some time
/ past. Neither prisoner VIII say anything about
! the case. Henry 5 connection with the case sn {
very clear and tie current belief IS that he has
J been arrested merely Oh suspicion.
/ Davis is still, In Nergennes lall and II Is under
stool that he will he kept there until the hearing
Z which Will ne held AT ellher Bristol or Lincoln.
Herbert Poland was arrested at White River
/ Junction last night He is the young man who is
/ said 10 have sent the medicine 10 Davis by Brit
/ tell. He has been at work al White River juno
tiou under the name OF Il. smith