The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-09

Victoria BurReron, wife of Victor
Burgeron, a machinist employed at
Curtis & Marbles shop, and living on
Webster street in Leesville, is said to
have eloped with Joseph st. Germaine,
a machinist employed at Prespy Peros
foundry, on Southbridge street. Jan. 70
of this year, and her husband thinks
that the bones found in the Sterling
swamp are those of his wife.
The description he gives of her con-
forms with the description of the wom-
an found in the swamp as given by
the authorities.
He was shown pieces of clothing
found on the dead woman and thinks
that a piece of the dress the dead
woman had on is very similar to one
his wife had, but does not know what
kind of clothes his wife had on when
she left home, and says she had large
wardrobe, which she took with her.
He has given the matter considerable
thought since he first saw the story
of the discovery of the body, in The
Spy, and yesterday came into iWorces-
ter to. see State Detective Murray to
WHOM ne IOlQ MS story
He says he was married to the wom-
an six years ago. at Ste. Helene,
Canada, when she was II years of age.
He had been married to her almost
six years when, as he says, she ran
away with ST. Germaine. She would
have been % years old April Is.
ST. Germaine, he says, had always
shown considerable regard for his
wife, and once, about three years ago.
he followed fhn pOII1ln IN ri in
Canada, and in Mr.. Burgerons house
threatened to take her life. He waved
a knife around his head several times,
and people near by at the time thought
the man would carry out his threat.
At the time Mr.. Burgeron and his
wife were visiting at his brothers in
Actonvale, Germaine stayed around
there until they returned to Worcester,
when he came back with them.
He used to call at the house occa-
sionally, and always had a pleasant
word for Mrs. Burgeron. He never
seemed to care for her husband, and
several times took occasion to make
the fact public.
Relations between his wife and Ger
maine became unbearable, as far as the
husband was concerned. but he never
said q word.
Thursday morning, Jan. IL, Burgeron
went to work, after bidding his wife
goodby, and when he returned for sup
per he was told that his wife had dis
appeared. He went to her room and
found note wrapped around a photo
graph, which read:
From Victoria to Victor:
4 have gone from you forever, and
do not want you to bother me any
more"
Victor set his brains to thinking and
he started for Worcester to make in
quiries about st. Germaine and dis
covered that he, too, was missing.
He hunted around and located a hack
man who took the couple to the Union
station, and there learned that they
had taken the $40 train for Michigan
He has not heard from either his wife
or st. Germaine since, although he ad-
vertised in the Worcester papers for
80 days, but could get no trace of the
missing couple. He notified the police,
and they could not get the slightest
trace of the missing couple.
In telling the story to a Spy man
last night, Bourgeron said that he felt
sure his wife was in the hands of bad
man when she went away with st.
Germaine, and he would rot live with
her more than three weeks before he
would forsake her and allow her to &c
where she wished. If she did not dc
as he wanted her to she would be used
diolilyt anu the result WOulu De DdC
for her.
Il always liked my wife," he said
and know that she would never hav,
forsaken me but for the doings of thi
man st. Germaine. He followed he
around and put thoughts into her heat
about leaving me, and she went away
She is Just as tall as the description
printed of the dead woman, and sh
wears a No shoe"
When ch ate nf Ill l.
The Spy man, he examined them care
fully, but he did not see anything h
remembered but a piece of the dres
which he thought was similar to on
MS wife wore when she had a pictui
taken.
He brought the picture down put
MS room where he keeps 1t hanging q
the wall and. although the dress locke
IN the picture to be of heavier ms
terial than that found on the dead w
man in Sterling swamp, 1t showed
check that bore some resemblance. /
aiso lays she had a black straw hi
similar to the one described in II
spy, although her best straw at w
OF different material.
During their six years of married Ii
Mrs' Burgeron appeared to be conten
go until st. Germaine appeared on Il
scene. Burgeron says he would like
ma out where his wife Is, II she Is n
.ne woman found In the SteriI
swamp, and II she would promise
uo right he would take her back al
SnSe e more install her in his hous
IT she does not do right" he So