Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-23

traesut, ID Ihe 1flsl suUOLltg OF SID
Iey Gray Brist IL by his college
classmate and host, Morton Starr
Crsssey,. WAS corcluded yesterday and
| IT is to be rightfully said that ip-
stead Of clarifying it has only deep
ened aud darkered the mystery, and il
will be not only wrong to society but
n grave Injustice to young Cressey to
leave the case as it is with circum-
stances and some evidence that inevit-
ably throw suspicion most cruel to
an Innocent man. 1t is most unfur-
tunate that this is so, but 1t is use
less TO blink ut the facts or deny the
situation as it is. The duty nf the
justice is merely to file With the
county clerk tina record OF the testi-
mony for use before the grand jury.
The states attorney, if be thiuks tue
evidence lustines il, can issue q
warrant for arrest ard preliminary
hearing, or if other evideoce develops
can continue the inquest. Alreauy
such esiseuce appears that mry be Of
seerious import and was not brought
Toto the inqu st ut ell. EB Consnt
of 240 fremont street building, Eos
'tpn, cane on the l0:10 train Sunday
night, and went TO Chief Halls house,
ctaiu ing that lie was the employer Of
strista2 .-auiaxsssz as cnllecting fur Him
and that Bristol must hsva had resr.
ly $3.50 of money belonging I, him,
and delegati & Hall to look after it.
There was found 10 Bristol's pauts
and pocket book St}6 5S which Conant
claimed was his but which vas not
given him. Coaant WIS IN grett bury
TO get buck to Boston. ard Sent yester.
day morning. bow much this evidence
may ''pan cut" on legal Sitting.
Wbat grounds Conant has for claiming
tolls haads. there is of course no
a phase of the case that should have
a thorough Investigation.
A Greenfield despatch TO the Boston
Globe toIay SAYS Consnt VAS there
yesterday hopeful of finding the mon
ey deposited at some bank aud visited
them all. tne express office, and Hris- !
tolls room, but without getting any |
trace. This despatch states Mr. Co. !
nant to be positive that $50 at least
has disappeared somehow.
new theory Of tie case was sug |
rested by the medical testimony iu |
the fact that the bladder was fornd |
practically empty, and that is that
instead of its being case Of Eight
mare, Bristol had got up for evscua-
ton and was trying half asleep to
limb over Cressey and got hack into
Oed when tue latter was aroused in
!, larm at the tea of burglars. TIE the
Iry has some qualifications in toe fact |
hat the coalition of the bladder de
1eDds someshst on circumstances. in
he amount of liquid taken, perspir.
alton. et,. But it has at least equal
with the nightmare
.neory. TIE elements of doubt and
mystery in toe Ease are PARTLY 10 its
nature ard emphasized by the testi.
nony at the inquest. They are:
a. Three witnesses, who have 20
interest in the case and who are uG-
'outradicted except by Cressey. tes-
ify positively that they saw a light
n the room during the progress of the
houtirg, az Geo Harris ami wife as
ert, or within setoud Of its conclu-
ion, as Miss Eliza Grady Gays.
Jiessey 5 statement is thBt tn re was
~ light until after tue shooting was
II uone, ard he had helped the
man hacS to bed. 1t is pos.
ible, of course ~ the quickness with
which the whole thing was done,
overing odly few seconds of time, /;
bat these Wit" esses are mistaken I
ut T. ey state the distaLces Bnd tire |
u G Wy thBt seems reasonable and +.
hey sre corroborsted in some degree I
y fourth witness. Miss MaclSay.
'hn saw the light uhen sue got up |
I'd react ed heeEindow some ha { lster.
he evide- cs If these witnesses if 6
lgbt is decisive: for If there was {
ght during the shooting ard strug-
lie, it could not possibly hare been |
o accident aud it is evidence that /
Cressey squsrely. At E
EAST, in the absence Of aoy other 1
ppr sing evidence whatever except j
ressey's, it is not fair TO jump to Z
ne conclusion that the three witness 5
) were mistaken.
A difficult point, however, in Mr. and c
Irs Harris evidence is the statement O
lat there was light down stairs in the =
her corner OF the house. This seems o
be contradiction of Mrs Starts tes- q
mony,eas she says she lighted none be-
ire she went up, and so far as yet sp- b
aars there is no way of accounting for b
light IN that part Of the house until u
" time after it all. c
TIE only other neighbors who heard a
e shots, so far as Yet learned. we're
r Loomis and MIR Willis at the 81
ONE for the Aged and Disabled. O
be latter was at point nearer than "
" of tbe other witnesses lie heard b
ices hut no WORDS that he coulj dis C