Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-25
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.
i All the fingers on Frank Evans
! right hand We're cut of by a circula
saw in Bennington mill last weel
| Tuesday.
While riding his bicycle, Lorenzo
! Cassellini OF Barre collided with a team
and received injuries which made hin
unconscious for several hours.
| Dexter J. Knapp, a native of Dunn
merston, committed suicide the 18th al
his real estate office i'm Sioux Falls. So
Oak. by shooting through the head
with a revolver.
Guy Parker of Middletown Springs,
had a narrow escape from serious in
! jury last week. While at work in his
mill his clothes caught in the machin-
cry and every bit OF clothing was torn
from MS body.
At Maidstone, recently. Leslie Tay-
lor, p years old, was killed by the ae-
cidental discharge OF gun. He went
out to shoot crows and did not return
at night. His family started out next
morning to search for him and found
his body lying not far from home, with
a bullet through the heart. He was
employed by the Maine Central rail
road as a section hand.
W. +. Kinney, a former well-known
lumberman in Castleton, Hubbardton
and Rutland. died at Lake Placid n.
Y. the 10th, the result of injuries re-
ceived BY being struck in the head a
few days before with a piece OF iron
weighing three pounds, scattered by a
bed plate being broken. The body
was brought to CastletOn for inter
ment He leaves a wife, father and
a mother
4. A. Davis of Rutland, foreman of
the bridge gang OF the Rutland rail-
road, fell from a pile driver, a distance
OF So feet, near Gassetts July l6 and
received injuries which may result in
his death His lett thigh was broken,
his left shoulder dislocated and his
left ankle sprained. \ cash five inches
long was cut across his right knee. Be-
sides these injuries he was cut and
bruised in many places and was MUIR
ed internally. The accident was eaus-
ed by the breaking OF a guy rope which
held the driver.
The hot weather was responsible for
a serious accident at Quechee last week
Tuesday night. Miss Flossie Owens,
Is years old, retired to her room IN the
third story of her house end moved her
bed close to the open window, the bed
being even with the SILL About ! o.
clock in the morning the passing of a
heavy team aroused her and she rolled
out. falling on the roof of the ell Is IT.
below and from there fell to the ground,
distance of about 10 IT., striking on
lot of flower pots. No bones were
broken. but some internal injury, how
ever, resulted in peritonitis.
DR.. Francis Truth, "divine healer,
was arrested at Denver, Col. last week
and bound over TOR trial. The charges
were practicing medicine without a
license and obtaining money under
false pretensions. A woman patient
claims he subjected her to various in
dignities in the "laying on of hands,
and then clasped her in his arms and
kissed her as part of his treatment.
Last year Truth was arrested in Boston
and convicted on five charges of using
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Truth was formerly known as DIR,
Bemis, an eye specialist of this sec
ton.
John L. Ray OF Brattleboro, who was
widely known as n successful livery |
man and dealer in horses, was found
dead in his bed in the Brooks House,
Brattleboro, about eight O'Clock sun
day morning, the 14th. Death was due
to asphyxiation and it is apparent that
Mr.. Ray turned on the gas with the
of suicide He often had at
lacks of meiancholia in which he said
he would sometime end his lie. The
door Of his room was locked and all
the windows were tightly closed. De-
ceased was eighty-two years old and
had been in active business for ten
years.