Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-28
Bellows Falls Times
THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1901.
STATE NEWS.
AAAAAAAAAAMAAI
THE VERMONT FOsBURGH CASE.
Further Developments in Case Vondette
Released-New Clew being Followed.

In the Shoreham Fosburgh murder
case, an unexpected development was
the release of Aldace Vondette from AID
Olson county Jail on his own recogni-
zance.
Vondette took the sleeper for his
home in Rutland. He talked with the
newspaper men very freely after his re-
lease and said he did not want the mat
ter dropped and that he would insist up
on a hearing in court and a formal re-
lease by the judge and thought that if it
was not done that it would leave a tarn-
iSh on his name and that he wanted a
complete vindication.
DIR. Berry of Waterbury has reported
that there is undoubted evidence of
poison in the girls organs which were
sent for examination, but what the poi
son is can be learned only bv a series of
tests. 1t is also learned that the poison
was very violent one and caused an al
most instant paralysis of the heart and
breathing centerS. But there was no
congestion of the heart and lungs
1t has been learned that Saturday,
March 2, ten days before her death, Miss
FoSburgh was in town and in, company
with Nelson Jones of Orwell, visited
several different places among them the
old Pierce house now kept by Edward
III. Train, where she remained over night
and registered as Miss Clark of Ticonde-
roga. Jones departed and it is under
stood that she went to Pittsford the next
day and consulted doctor.
When Miss Fosburgh came to Middle
bury with Nelson Jones, the son of her
employer, she stopped at the Allen house
and walked into the Office. The young
woman recognized Carl Newell, the
clerk, as an old friend and appeared very
agitated at the discovery. ''Why Carl, -"
she said, II have not seen you for long
time. l thought if 1 wanted to see you
again | must call at the HOTEL She said
very little more and went away shortly
afterward without explanation of her
visit.
Mr.. Train, proprietor of the Pierce
house, recognized the photograph and
said Miss Fosburgh had no callers at the
hotel and that she took her meals in her
room and in the morning took the bus
for the depot, stopping at drug store
to buy some toilet articles and it was sup
posed that she left for Shoreham.
The discovery of the circumstances at
tending Miss Fosburgh's last visit to
Middlebury had much to do with turn
ing the suspicious of the officers from AL
dace Vondette to another man.
If everything was open and above
board, the officers are asking one anoth-
er, why did Miss Fosburgh register at
the Pierce house under an assumed name?
Was there not an attempt made at this
time to carry outa plot which for some
reason fell through, but was successful
II days later? Upon the answers to
these questions hang, perhaps, the life
and liberty of man who was a few
days ago declared by everybody to be
above suspicion. Some man in or near
Shoreham wanted to get Ida Fosburgh
out of the way, and attempted to cover
up his tracks with fictitious clews which
would point to suicide. - t4as@
One of these blind clews is in the pos
session of Druggist Spooner, of Brandon.
1t is letter written in masculine hand,
signed Ida Fosburgh, Shoreham, VT"
asking for strychnine to kill sparrows. 1t
was mailed at Shoreham, March 6, the
day before Vondette arrived home from
Colorado. Mr.. Spooner sent Is grains of
the poison to Miss Fosburgh in an en-
velope marked with his name. 1t is the
theory of the officers that the package
was intercepted and the poison sent to the
girl in another envelope five days. later.