St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-01-09
NEW ENGL AND NEWS
T,Ost on WI. Washington.

Anadventure, which suggest the proba,
5ility that it was designed for the
purpose of making a good story,
and which recalls the sad occur
renee OF last July 4th, when two mem.
hes of the Appalachian Club lost their
lives on Mt. Washing on, was exp rienced
bv William H. Bodwell, newspaper ar
tist of HYDE Park, Mass. He went to
the noun ain region on Dec. 20, in COM
oary with Chester s les of Cambridge,
Mass to make a story of mid-winter
scenes upon Mt Washington. The two
engaged a local guide, Ray Evans OF Ber
lin and at 10 a IN , the three started to
make the ascent. distance from Berlin
oftw,n,v miles When the party reached
the Hall Way House on Sunday even
at shutdown. Bodwel seemed fatigued
and his companions thought he b I'd bet.
ter not try to press on. Accordingly he
was ltft with sufficient provisions for a
day and told to remain until Stills and
Evans made the ascent and returned to
him. He was warned that bl zzard
was in the air and that it would be dam
perous to stray from the house. Stiles
and Evans completed their journey early
on Monday. They then began their de-
scent and reaching thu Hall Way House,
found that Bodwell was not there and
that the embers in The old fireplace had
lorg been without warmth. At once
they began search in the binding storm
with the mercury Is degrees below zero.
They found Bodwell's tin dipper and a
can of condensed milk that he had
dropped in the snOwnOt lar distant from
the building where they had lett him.
The guide and Stiles searched long with
out getting trace or track OF Bodwell
and tried to ascend the mountain, but
the storm kept THIN back and they re.
turned to Berlin, reaching there at 3
O'Clock Monday afternoon, when the
news of Bodwell's disappearance was
first known to the outside world An hour
later party made up OF three Berlin,
men, H. { Rowell, Oscar Cole and A. VI,
Ely. started out in search OIL Bodwell.
At Gorham they were joined by five other
searchers, and the plan was to have part
OF the party go half way and rest as a
relief detachment, in case the Others did
not return in a reasonable time. The
storm, developing into a binding biz
zard, kept all St archers from reaching
the summit, except Rowell and Cole.
They reached the Summit House be ore
morning and found Bodwell in the coach
house, which is ore OF the structures be-
longing to the summit group. The de-
scent OF the three men was made on the
east side OF the mountain, and Bod we'll
was very much far'gued by he Journey,
as he had been without sufficient TODD
for eighteen hours. He was surprised to
find that his rescuers had been ANXIOUS
tor his safety. He was ie>lug well, but
the Journey down convinced h IN that he
had not stood the strain as we'll as he
thought. In descrn ing The mountain it
was discovered by the tracks which could
be clearly seen that as Bo iwel assembled
the mountain on Monday he passed
within a lew rods OF Stiles and Evans
descending, the blizzard being so thick at
the time that one cJulj not see ten feet
ahead of him.
stain and Cromwell Free.
The governor OF Maine announced on
Jan 1 Il at pardon had been granted
David L Stain and OliverCr ,mw,ll alias
Smith, who were convicted alter a long
trial in the supreme judicial court TOR Pc
nobscot county on a charge OF numbering
John Wilson Barron, cashier OF the DIX
ter Ne Savings Bank, and robblng the
institution on Feb %. 1873. and were
sentenced to serve the remainder Of their
lives in the state prison at Thomaston
For some time alter the murder OF cash
Ter Barron there was diversity OF opin
ion among the people and the bank off.
ials whether the cashier had been muir
dered or had committed suicide, and
although the case attracted wide attn
ton throughout the country, no arrests
were made until about ten years later
when STAN and Cromwell were charged
with the crime. The arrest followed {
story stold by David l.. Stains son
Charles, most sens tional narrative
which charged his father and Cromwell
with having COMMITTEE the crime.
Death of n New Hampshire Soldier.
In the passing away Of o. II. Richard N
BatcheIder, formerly quartermaster-gen
eral of the army. who died in Washing
ton Friday, New Hampshire loses one o
her distinguished soldier sons. He wa!
born in Laconia, and entered the volun
teer army in 1861 as first lieutenant o
the First New Hampshire regiment, being
transferred within few months to thu
quarlermaster' department with thu
rank of captain. He served throughout
the war in that department, and Will,
quartermasttr.g ger eral of the Army o
the Potomac received a medal oil homo
for his work in supplying the army dur
ing the campaign which ended at Gettys
burg. He was present at the battles o
Balls Bluff. Fair Oaks, Seven Days Fight
Anietam, Fredericksburg. Chancellors
vile, Gettysburg the Wilderness, SIP ut
sylvania, Cold Harbor, the siege Of Pc
tersburg and the surrender of Appomat
tox. After the war he entered the regu
lar army as capt lin and assistant quar-
ter-master, retiring in 1896 as quarter
masler-general win the rank OF briga
der-general S nee Gen. Batchelder's re
tlrement he had made his home in Man
chester. He was in the habit Of spend
ing his winters in Washington, and al
ways liked to be there when the socia
season was on and official lif. was act
i've. He was member OF the Metropolis
tan and Army and Navy clubs. Th
funeral was held at Washington Mon
day. The burial was at Arlington.
Railroad sheds Burn.
1ncendiaries who began their work c
destroying the Boston & Maine railroa
freight sheds in CharleStown, Mass
last March and who succeeded in burr
ING two Of them resumed their NUOr