Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-28
.BRATTLEBORO LOCAL NEWS.

have been made for much larger person.
and larger part of his neck and chest
showed than would have been the case If
he had had on Undertaking. Still he
would not say that the boy did not wear
Undertaking. lie verified the reports us
to the utterly filthy condition of the
house. stating that in the kitchen there
was So much rubbish that there was
barely room to get around the stove. This
rubbish consisted of dirty rags sacks
barrels. farm tools. old dirty dishes. etc.
Dr. c. II. AldriCh was called as wit
ness. DIR. AldriCh went to Bells house
with Mrs. Powers ON the occasion of her
second visit. He testified that John Bell
and the other children were i'm an aenemic
condition, that is, there was a lack of suf-
ticient bluodin theirVeins and their bodies
were not wen nourishcd. As to the older
boy, he should say that his scalp had not
been washed for Years. He WAS called to
see the youngest child, q boy of two
years. whom he found to be suffering
from mal-nutrition and criminal neglect
-Four ribs on its right side had been broken
but had knitted together The mother
said she did not know that any accident
had happened To the child. She said the
sick child and next older child boy of
four years slept with the parents and
that she threw some things on the floor
for the other two children to sleep on.
stained with what he should call blood.
The plastcrng was off i'm many places.
ana in one place near the bed rags had
been stuffed i'm between the laths. evil
IDENTIFY to keep the cold out pr Aldrich
said the sick child had been taken to DR..
Frisbie of Green River once, but that DR..
Frisbie said he did not make . thorough
examination of it. Mrs. Bell told DR..
Aldrich that she got one. can Of Nfellin's
Food for the baby from three weeks to a
month before. Previous to that the baby
lived on ordinary farm diet.
Bells nearest neighbor. Andrew ].
Worden. was put on the stand Mr..
Norden said he did not go to the house
often and had not been inside for a long
time. He said that the oldest boy, John
Henry Bell, often was made to watch the
cows in the pasture. keeping them from
getting out and that on many occasions
he was kept out large part of the day
He had seen the boy out in the rain all
day without an umbrella and was not
clothed as a human being ordinarily
would clothe a boy for such weather.
There were days that he thought the boy
had nothing to eat and that he often
came to MIR. Worden's house for some
thing to eat. on cross examination Mr.
|, Worden said the boy came to his house
several times during the past summer to
ask for food and that he would slip down
said that the conditions at the house We're
very filthy and that he never knew them
to be any other way. He said that Bell
mad the reputation of having property
enough so that he might live differently
He said he was called to the house last
spring when Bell was having trouble
with his wife. The wife was defending
herself with an axe and she said that she
mad been pounded. Bell was trying to
drag her into the house. but Mr.. Worden
interfered. At another time, year ago
last spring, he was called to the house
when he knew Mrs. Bell had been pound
ed. One eye was badly BACKED. and she
said Bell had given her a horsewhipping
Edmund S. Alexander of Colrain testi-
fled that he was farmer and grain deal
err and that he had a bill against Bell
amounting to about 5000 On that day
Tuesday, Bell gave Alexander a mortgage
on his personal property. There were no
other claims upon il. He always SUD-
posed Bell paid his bills. Alexander was
placed on the stand n second time and
testified that he had sold Bell several
barrels of flour within a year or two.
Walter \. Gilbert testified that he went
to Halifax that day with Mrs Powers
who had some articles of clothing for the
three older children and some medicine
for the sick child and who wished to
make preparations for the killing of a
bull in Bells barn, which had a large
bunch on its side. caused by a breach
He gave the names and ages of the chill
dren, as told him by Mrs. Bell and sub
stantated the testimony of other Witness
es a to the filthy condition of the house
mentioning dead duck which Law in the
stairway between the kitchen and the
bedroom and characterizing the house as
the filthiest he was ever in
The next witness was Mrs Eliza !
Worden of Halifax who lives with her