Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-10-18
VERMONT NEWS.
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
Music Teacher Alleged to Have Had
wife in Germany and One in Bur

lneton.
rudolph Felix Liebch. known in Bur
HnBtoh as Baron Won Iiebich, was
| arrested Sunday by officer l.. w. Ballou
az his home in Winooski. charged with
bgamy. He was brought at once to tbe
| jail in Burlington.
Leblch's arrest was caused by the ar
| rival i'm New York of a woman who
GAINS to be his wife, having married
MN IN London ten years ago Eight
years ago she went to her parents home
in Sweden and he came to America Last
June he married a Mrs Hale in Burlinr-
ton.
lie came to Burlington in September
lS99, and was for a time resident at the
nome of Prof. John II. Parker. His mus
ical ablllty soon attracted attention and
his free concerts were largely attended
lie organized a class of pupils and his
reputation as teacher spread to sur
rounding towns, where he also secured
classes. After a time he interested
musical people in Burlington and the
Won Liebich Conservatory of Music was
established in the Burrows block on
Church street
While the conservatory was in opera
ton Prof. Won Liebich became acquainted
with Mrs Frona r. Hale and when the
institution was closed he went to her
| nome on Pearl street to board and CON
Quoted his classes there. On June 2S last
marriage license was secured and Prof
Won Liebich and Mrs. Hale were married
For some time past Prof. Won Iiebich
has been interested in music in Spring
field, Mass, where he has classes. He
came to Burlington Sunday morning to
attend the musical festival. Liebich
claims that only mock ceremony was
performed at the first marriage.
instantly killed by freight train on the
Canadian Pacific railroad at North Troy
Saturday.
The body of Nelson Narcotic of Leb-
anon, n. H.. was forwarded to that
place from Windsor Monday. Narcotic
| fell so feet from the railroad bridge over
the Connecticut river and was instantly
killed. lie leaves a wife and five chill
dren.
Henry Donnelly, 13, who was hunting
Saturday with another boy in Cambridge.
stumbled and fell and his gun was dis
! charged, the charge passing through the
| left leg and into the right leg. He will
probably recover although he may be
crippled.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles Morgan of Hart
wellville declare emphatiCaly that there
was no foundation for the stories pub
lished last week to the effect that their
l
guised as a boy in the employ of a mer-
camille concern in New York.
The hearing in the case of DR.. j. A.
Dow charged with arson, was held at
West Topsham Monday before Justice
| Horace White. DIR. Dow was bound over
to await the action of the Orange county
grand jury, which does not meet again
until next June. DR.. Dow furnished
$1,000 bail.
Ten new cases of small pox We're re-
| ported to the health officer at Burling-
| ton Monday all being children who have
ATTENDED the Lawrence Barnes school.
Mayor Hawley issued an order to close
all schools in the city for a period of two
weeks All of the earlier cases are re-
ported doing well.
| Angus Mcleod of Graniteville has
| brought civil suit against DR.. G. l..
| Hayes for alleged malpractice in treat
ing his Malcolm Mcleod about two
| years ago. Young Mcleod was struck by
| the doctors team. DR.. Hayes attended
| the boy and now Mcleod brings 10000
suit for actual expenses incurred in the
| treatment
The Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge
held it's 18th annual convention in Ben
nington oct. TO- The report showed %
| subordinate lodges with membership
| of 1851 a net gain of 81 during the year.
| The grand treasury has 800. The grand
officers chosen are: Chancellor, S. G.
| Lewis. Barton Landing; secretary, c. f.
| O. Tinker, St Johnsbury; treasurer, :.
| w. Booth, Essex Junction. The next
meeting will be at Burlington in October
of next year.
John H. George % son of Albert
| George of Cabot, committed suicide at
the home of his mother in Barre Tues
day by blowing off the top of his head
with a Winchester rifle. He had been
student at Dartmouth college and had
worked in Clark's photograph studio in
Barre and in a studio in Hanover to earn
money to pay for his education. Close
attention to his work and studies caused
i'll health and dependency.
William Baker, formerly of Pownal, cut
his throat from ear to ear in his cell in
Jail at Troy, n. Y, Monday, severing the
wind pipe but not touching the jugular
vein. He also hacked his wrists with the
razor. He was found lying on the floor,
covered with blood His recovery is
doubtful Baker has been in Jail five
months Sheriff Meyers attempted to
arrest him in Hoosick Falls, N. Y, for
minor offence. Baker ran, then turned
| and fired. the bullet from his revolver
passing through the sherins hat, Later
| Baker was arrested in Williamstown,
| Mass, charged with assaultihs 'he oiil-
Ger.
A rear-end collision, resulting in the
| death of b. l.. Corey, "a, of Littleton, n.
| H.. occurred near Passumpsic Monday
| afternoon. regular freight north
| STONED with the rear car on bridge,
and an extra freight train following came
| into collision with it.. Engineer Eastman
| of the extra jumped into the river ana
received slight injuries. Fireman Ryther
| also Jumped, breaking an arm and was
| otherwise severely injured. Three cars
! on the regular were destroyed, the ca
| boose. in which Corey was riding as
messenger was burned The locomotive
! Of the extra was badly damaged and one
| car loaded with figs was burned. Trains
were delayed about four hours,
Most Gets a Year.
Johann Most, the New York anarchist
was sentenced in the Court of Special
| Sessions in New York city Monday to
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
| for a seditious article published in his
| naper the day after President Mckinley
was shot. This article was entitled
Murder against Murder" Mosts de-
| fence was the claim that the article was
nrinted and circulated the day before the
| assassination Most also claimed that
| this article was. a quotation from an
| article first published so years ago and
| republished by him Is years ago. In i'm
| nosing sentence the judge said III is not
| necessary to trace any connection In TINS
| article with the assassination OF the late
| In