Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-04-20

REAL ESTATE DEALS
/ VIM. +. Davis has bought back Of c. A
! Thavgr the large steam sawmill with about
+ 400 acres oitimbered land iu the west part
of Barnard This is one OF tie best poi T.
/ Tor numbering in Windsor county and
should be run 10 its foil extent Mr.Thay
/ or intends returning to Brooklyn, n. Y,
John n. Bradley OF Woodstock has
/ bought Of w. w Dearborn the well known
/ Warren farm, situated and lying near La
J kota park. We hope John will become a
permanent resident Of Barnard, but pre-
/ dict that the farm will eventually add 200
acres 10 Lakota's large tract.
/ Mrs. Marion Bent has bought Of Mrs.
| Sarah +. Churchhill the Porter place stu.
VIM. Unwin Of POmtret has sold all the
real estate he owned in Barnard to Edwin
). Bradley Of East Barnard.
u. P.Churchill has sold his place in East
Barnard 70 Addie b. Crowell, wife OF Ed
Rai Crowell.
TWO TOWN FARM TRAGEDIES,
Seldom has the quiet and peaceful town
OF Barnard been thrown into such a state
OF excitement as on Sunday IN ,rning,
April 9, when the news spread tnaI Luther
Parker, aged y, and Mrs. Macia's young
est child, aged weeks, both inmates OF
the towns pauper institution, had died
suddenly from the effects Of poison.
Luther Parker was born in POmfret in
/ 1926 and came to Barnard prooanly 40
years ago. he married Maria Buckman,a
Barnard girl. daughter was born to
them, " no was adopted into a good iami-
~ and well brought up. She followed her
foster parents to Massachusetts,, where
she married a good man. Three years ago
she died, leaving a husband and two chill
dren.
Lite going hard with MI. Parker, he and
his wife went to the town farm, where for
/ twenty years they became fixtures, He
was well known thrOug hout the town as a
quiet, well-dispOsed citizen without an
enemy i'm the world and being religious
" inclined, vas a constant attendant at
the NJ. Il. church in his village. lie was
always a consistent voter at the town
meetings, from which he was seldom alb
sent. Luther had been so long at the
town farm that he had q great interest 10
the work, both in the house and on The
farm, and instead OF a pauper he seemed
to be part owner. No overseer or keeper
could find any fault with Luther Parker
or his wife and the town of Barnard could
hardly complain OF being in debt for their
UppOrt. A bout two years ago Mrs. Par.
krr died. This, " ith the loss OF his daugh-
Ter, was such sorrow and grief to Luther
that his troubles 50 wore upon a not
strung tOlNt LUTON NlAl nc frequently
told his many friends that il mattered
not how soon God called him to Join those
he loved. But the summons came not and
he took the matter into his own hands
with Paris green. After a few days sui
iering, closely attended by Or. Hubbard
and the family at the farm, Luther passed
to % quiet rest at 8 o'clock on the morning
otApril 9th. No blame is attached to any
other person.
At o'clock on the same morning, Mrs.
Myrtle Macia, another inmate at the farm,
came down stairs with her youngest child,
baby seven weeks old, in commissions.
She, With the assistance OF others, gave il
% hot hath, but the child died in her arms
This baby was born Feb. 10, weighing
- pounds, strong and healthy, but the
mother not being bile to nurse the child
lived on cons milk and seemed to DC
well until two weeks before its death,
when it began 20 iaae away. The overseer,
also Mrs. Trudo, the matron, noticed the
change and spoke about il. When the
child died suspicion was aroused and the
motherWas charged with wrong treatment,
which aitrr awhile she admitted saving
that the Friday before she gave the baby
and The girl, two years old, and took her
self lRudanum, enough she supposed TO be
the death % all three, but no harm came
TO her or the little girl. The overseer no.
thcd the states attorney Monday, who
came TO barnard the same dav, bringing
Sheriff Sp8ifoTd with him and after an in
yc-tiEatiou ordered an autopsy and the
mother arrested. Drs. Grerne OF Bethel
and Hubbard ot Barnard made the post
norton, taking out the ST mach. lungs
ind heart, which they sent 90 Burlington
tar analysis. No report ha. been made AZ
yet. The shert e arrested Mrs MaCia on
the charge Of murder. She was brought
/ 10 tine village late Tuesday night, waived
8u examination, desiring 90 go 10 jail
wit hnut delay. She was committed 20
await the action OF Windsor county court.
Mrs. Myrtle MBCis Is the wife Of Ed
ward Nacia and together they were the
keepers % this same town farm two years,
and but for a new overseer coming there,
would have stayed longer. They moved
+ hack TO their own farm i'm Barnard but
soon after sold out and came to the viii
/ lage. A serious trouble broke out between
them In regard TO some money they had
d posted in a savings bank. lie claimed
he drew IL out and spent the same IN
known 10 him, which, With some other
offences, caused Ed MaCis 10 desert bis
wife last summer. Left without money
or other means OF support she was Obliged
to call on the town Tor help in Novem her
and has since been at the poor house. No
doubt she was Low spirited, dependent,
broken hearted and perhaps insane With
the future in prospect, and when she
sta uns before the great Judge Of all from
whom there is no appeal, this poor mis-
guided woman may not be alone in guilt.