Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-26
DEPUTY SHERIFF ELoPED.
Left His Bride Of Six Weeks to Go
With Sister of His First Wife.

WITT SlSIeT OF tbs ? lTSI WHSs
Edward |. Ray, constable and road
commissioner in Hinesburg and deputy
sheriff of Chittenden county. has left
his bride Of six weeks and eloped with
Mrs Charles w. Hardness of Burling
ton. a sister of his first wife, who died
II months ago. Rays second wife
was Dolly Shattuck of Monkton.
daughter of Curtis Shattuck. Ray
kissed his wife good bye. gave her
$40. told her the doctor had ordered
him to 20 to the Adirondacks on &C
count of his health, and left for Essex
Junction in company with Hiram Rus
sell his first wifes father. Later
Mrs Ray found her husband had sold
everything he owned and taken $500
with him. Mrs. Hardness went to
the home of relatives in Auburn. Me.
accompanied by Rays nine years old
daughter. Ray joined them there and
it is supposed that they left that city
en- route for the Pacific coast.
Charles Van Horn saw herd of %
deer in North Pownal recently, and
was near enough to the animals so
that he took snap shot picture Of
them.
John Henessey, Il. who was arrest
ed at Wells River recently, confessed
to having stolen $93 at various times.
besides a watch and other articles
from NJ. II. Gibson's store in South
Ryegatc
The log drive of the International
Paper company, 100000 feet has
passed down the White river and is
now collected in the boom at Sharon
waiting the passing Of the drive in
the Connecticut river.
William T. Miner of East Richford
has been fined $500 for starving his
cattle. Twelve COWS died and DR..
Ward, the state veterinary who made
the examination, found that the ami
mails were in healthy condition, but
had not been fed.
Eugene Wicker, A., who was clean
ing the wheel at the pumping station
in Middlebury Friday night, made a
misstep, fell into the whcelpit and was
| drowned, the men who were assisting
| him being unable to rescue him. The
body was recovered the next morning
Frank Stanford. "A, father OF Judge
| W. +. Stafford OF st. Johnsbury, died
| in Burlington early Monday morning
| He was a native of Haverhill, y. IL.
and was formerly an agricultural tool
manufacturer in Barre. For the last
| ten years he had been clerk and book.
| keeper in his sons office.
| The railway station at North Derby
| in which was tenement occupied by
a Lucas family, was burned Friday
and the fire also destroyed a shed OF
| the Stanstead Granite company, con
| tanning monuments valued at $500
| Several residences We're damaged
| The total loss exceeds $4,000.
John, two years old son of Antonio
| jacob of Barre, disappeared Thurs
| day. 1t is supposed that he fell into
| the river and was carried down by
| the swift current. The river banks
| have been searched for miles and the
deep waters have been dragged, but
the body has not been found.
Bert Rickert of Forestdale has been
| bound over to the June term of the
| Addison county court in $1,000 bonds
| under charge Of perjury. Rickert
] alleged a few weeks ago that he had
been shot in Middlebury by Jealous
| rival, but the officers believe that the
wound was self-inficted, and there
| IOlS SSSulSu HIS arrest lOI perjury
His father furnished bail.
The dispatches from Vancouver
Wash, in noting the shortage of $S1,
600 in the First National bank of that
place and of the suicide of the presi
dent and cashier state that the heav
lest stakeholder is Col. Stephen Joce
Ign Of the regular army, a member OF
Gen. Skaters staff. Col. JocelyI
was stationed at Vancouver when the
bank was organized Is years ago. He
is a VermOnter and was on duty in
this state three years ago and mus
tered in the volunteer regiment which
spent the summer at Chickamauga.