Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-30
Important Events in Windham County
Which Occurred in the IL Months Ending Dec. 81
Classification Departments, Chrome
logical Order.
Criminal and Sensational.

Criminal and Sensational.
There has been noticeable decrease in
crime in Windham county the past year.
John F. Livingston, an agent for the
American WriDger company, was arrested
Jan. II for stealing $50 worth of goods in
Brattleboro from the company. A gang of
thieves stole horse from Charles Barrett
of Marlboro and a sleigh from w. E. King
of the same town, Jan. %, traded them
with neighbors of their victims and then
left the state. Leon Burke, proprietor of
the Crescent Hosiery mandatory of Brat
tleboro, left town Feb. 10, leaving unpaid
bills amounting to about $500. c. E..
Haynes of West Dover, a jobber, disap-
peared Feb. 2S, owing, it is said, nearly
$4,000
Watson S. French of Brattleboro, fire.
quenty before the public eye, was con-
victed in March of selling Intoxicating
liquor and was sentenced to serve year
in the house of correction in Rutland.
Earle A Con bett, a Brattleboro school boy,
stole watch and rifles in Northampton,
Mass, in April, for which he was arrested
and fined S25. Brattleboro creditors
mourned the disappearance, in April, of b.
L. Ingalls,, proprietor of the Flat street
bowling alley. Henry L. Wood, a Brattle-
boro boy. was sentenced, May 2S, to one
year in the reform school for setting a fire
in the watercure building in Brattleboro
and for other mischievous acts.
Thomas Connors of Medford, Mass, es-
capped from Newfane jail, June 3, and has
not been recaptured. He was serving SEN
tence for stealing a valise. The theft of
5000 pounds of wool from an unOccupied
house in Grafton was made public in June.
The wool was owned by w. G. Townsend.
The store of Brown & Ryder in West
Wardsboro, in which was located United
States post office, was burglarized June
"a. Arthur Baybrook of Stratton was
convicted of the crime at the October term
of the United States court and was SEN
fenced to term of eight months in the
house of correction. Baybrook escaped
from the officers after his first arrest, and
his second arrest was effected in Jamaica
after desperate struggle.
Mrs. Michael Smith of Bellows Falls dis
appeared July 16, taking with her 5000 of
her husbands hard earned cash. Leslie
Fuller of Springfield, Mass, went to the
home of his divorced wife in West Dover,
July 20, and got possession of two chill
dren whom the court had given into Mrs.
Fuller's custody. Omer Labounty was ar
rested in Bernardston, Mass, Aug. II, on
a warrant charging him with the theft of
horse from Erastus Howard of Guilford.
He was sentenced by the county court to
serve three years ia state prison. A gen.
eral rum raid was made in Wilmington,
Aug. Is, and George Wheeler was con-
victed and sentenced to pay fine of SIS
and serve 80 days in the house of correo-
ton. Several other sellers were fined.
Numerous rum raids have been made in
other parts of the county. and hundreds of
dollars have been paid in fines by liquor
sellers.
Unknown culprits placed mixture of
Paris green and salt in the pasture of Ly-
man Huntley in Guilford, Aug. "a. Three
of Mr.. Hnntley's cows and one owned by
Samuel Boyden partook Of the mixture
and died. Harry Wilcox, a 17-year-old
Westminster lad, confessed, in September,
having stolen $115 from Mr.. and Mrs. Ru-
fus Leonard of Westminster. With part
of the money he bought team in Saxtons
River after which he drove to Walpole, N.
H., where he was arrested. Burglars
followers of a circus-entered the house of
G. B. Parks of Brattleboro, Sept. II, and
sneak thieves operated in Gulford in Sep
stable Houghton, Sept. 16, and they were
frightened so that they left the state.
A horse owned by Frank Willard of
South Deerfeld, Mass, and a buggy and
harness owned by John Taft of West Dunn
merston were stolen on the night of Sept.
13, the horse being in Williamsville at the
time. Delaney Sleeves, who was after
ward arrested in Worcester, Mass, con-
fessed the crime, and the property was re-
covered. Pickpockets succeeded in sepa-
rating many pocket-books and valuable
papers from their owners at the Valley
Fair Sept. rs and 20.
Fatalities.
Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Pray of Bellows Falls
was fatally burned Jan. IL. Her clothing
caught fire from lamp. Thomas Nc
Green was struck by snow plow while
standing on the railroad at Bellows Falls
Jan. II, and was thrown into a canal
His body was badly mutilated A two
year-old son of Mr.. johnson of Towns
bend drew bean into its wind-pipe by in
halation April 0, death resulting instantly
Norman E. Winchester, II, was killed
at South Londonderry April q by being
struck behind the ear with a ball with
which he and some companions were play
ing. Warren Robbins of West Brattle-
boro met death instantly in PutneY May
81, limb of tree striking him. Michael
Kennedy was in chemical pulp digester
in Bellows Falls May 20, when gases and
steam from another digester rushed in up
on him. He was burned so that he died
May 81.
A horrible fatality occurred in Whining
ton May 81, when a locomotive boiler on
the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington rail-
road exploded. Zephron Douglass, an en-
gineer, and Ernest Faulkner, a fireman,
were instantly killed, parts of their man
gled bodies being thrown 800 feet David
Wood Brattleboro painter, fell June II
while performing an athletic feat in Hotel
Brattleboro, breaking his third cervical
vertebra. He died on the following day.
Freddie Cass of Bellows Falls accidentally
drew head of herds grass into one of his
bronchial tubes by inhalation during the
latter part of June. The head worked its
way into his lungs, causing his death July
2. W. G. JENNIE of Rutland was instantly
killed July 21 by being struck by light
ming while driving in Londonderry.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Dimick of Wind
ham were burned Sept. in a fire which
destroyed their house and barn. Fred
Robbins, 10, of West Brattleboro fell into
a brook in West Townshend Oct. 4, while
looking after hooks set for fish, and was
drowned. A Vestibule door frame fell up
on Samuel Lyman Hunt, five, son of f. L.
Hunt of BrattlebOro, Oct. %. Andrew,
19-year-old son of Luke Ferriter of Brat
tleboro, fell through scuttle in the livery