Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-26
AS TO LIGHT IN WINDOW
AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS.
IN THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SHOOTING
TRAGEDY.

A Witness Who Saw One at II45-Ex.
psriments Wtih Regard 10 Those who
| C'"im 20 Have ss-n 1t During shs
SbO0ttng-h Grave Feasure In the Mtss-
Ing Money and VaIuabies illuminated
All Found in Boston a fer Three Day. y
Hunt-The Pest Three nays and Wns
They Have shown in Brattleboro's Mos,
Mysterious Case.
A good deal of eHergy has heen px-
pended by the Reforner since Tues.
dav in running down various reports
sIds interviewing ditferept people who
vera alleged to know something i'm
portant about the Friday morni1g q
tragedy 10 which Sidney Grey Bristol
was shot and killed by bis college
mata and host, Morton Starr Cressey
etenths Of the reports have been
found to rfst on absolutely rothing.
and the other tenth has aided but
little to the previous knowledge Of the
affair
The only other new information Of
any importance elected here, and that
not necessarily or even probably
verg significant, comes from an entire
ly reliable citizen, who for other rea =
sors does rot want his name used at
present ne says that at about a
quarter to l2--certainly not more than
20 minutes to y, because the electric
lights went ont befnra be reached his
home at West Brattlehoro, a little
over mile beyond-he passed the
Starr residence where the tragedy oc
Cured, a light was then burnir g
in the southu est corner room upstairs,
the one occupied ny the two your g
meD.. His attention was attracted by
a roise there or in that vicinity that
sounded like the shutting of Goor
or closing Of trunk and that was
what caused him to look up and o.
ticc the light. Cressey's statement t
was that they retired ''ahrut half past
eleven. - he Difference of only about
10 minutes is not difficult TO irclude
10 Cressey's about. The time of
the West Brattleboro man is pretty
definitely fixed
\ very gratifying Development to
Cressey's friends is the clearing up of
the missing money matter. There was
even more OF it than the Reformer
stated Tuesday: it was SO grave a
matter. apparent y, that we confined
it to what bad been placed in official
hands for action, tie claim CT Eris
tolls employers that there was miss
ing 5000 or more that he had collect ii
for then. Rristol's father while here
stated Sunday that be knew that a
week ago Saturday the young man he'd
OVER 500 Of + is own money which he
had earned and saved during vacation,
because the father had received h let
ter of that date from the son ard
statirg the exact amount, though Mr
Bristol could remember only that It
was more than 500. He said his son
was very careful in money matters
he"ping an account OF every 'eOny.
and it VAS mysterious 10 him that no
rscort should be founU. He s3id his
son alsl hsd gold watch -crly a sill
yer ons herg found after the shoot
ing-hcHrirg monogram and also
valuable rirg. which had also disap-
pe4re1 aUpare ntlv Without further
veriicatinn than Mr. Bristol's state
nent e thought hest not to meCtiOr
it Tuesday; hut it is now proved
to have been truc,aS regards the watch
and ring at least, by the finding OF
them in Young Erstoi's room st Cam
bridge. Msss.
There WAS good deal of scotfing on
the part of partiSans. who are always
more ready to talk than think. at
the claim of the EMPLOYERS that Rris,
tol could have had any carsiderahle
amount of money collected for the
Cottager Thew didn't stop TO think
that he would"'t be likely to he en-
ployed week 6fter week under salary
and travelling expenses unless he did
get some The Reform m2f went to work
to bring il to some dsinite basis.
and fund that he settled bis account
for collections july lst with 4 b Co.
nant of Boston. the treasurer of the
,mpany, and under TIE arrangement
was to settle again Aug lst, sud jDde-
icg from his previous work, from $500
to $3.50 was about what he would
have been expected to accumulate i'll
the two weeks and four days he had
been at work Since.
Mr. Couant. who 1as here Sunday,
made "a careful investigation at Green
field Monday, as stated in our last, to
see if the moues could be traced there,
and Tuesday did the same ut Nortn
ampton without Result, but Wednes
hay he found il at the last plsca be
expected. in Boston, deposited IN a
bank there, and ss large ED amount as
he exuectc1. Mr. CoDant stated this
fact to the Reformer by telephone yes
terday.
As the case stands now therefore
there remsins against Cressey only
the eXtrinrdinaIy dlfliculi poiots of his
own statement srd tie positive testi-
mnny of tue three aituesSes. Miss
Grsdy agd Mr. ard Mrs Harris, tnat
they sa Y light in the room iefore
the shooting wss ended, or instantly
at its ending, before he could uossihly
have liGnted ole after helping the
wounded man TO bed, accorii6g to his
statement.
On the question whether these wit
nesses are mistaken, in the rapidity
of events that according to the
Who'll. evidence occupied only few
seconds hinges 10 all the case. Either
they were mistaken. orthe shooting can
not have been an accident. They are un-
10y any une that appesrs
on the stand thus far. Their testi.
mooy. with such martial confirmation
as it has from Miss Maclay. is shso-
lutsly all there is thus far. except |
Cressey's, that has any evidential
value whatever. All else is inmate
rial, suppositious or inferential or cir
and none of it atfurding a
contradiction to them. To
jump to the conclusion, therefore. |
that they must he mistaken with Hb-
solutalv M prnof and rn reason but n i