Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
BRATTIEBoRo, VERMONT, FRIDAY OCTOBER
COMPLAINANT IS ARRESTED
CURIOUS OUTCOME OF A Gull.
FORD CASE.
Man Claimed to Have Had His Bicycle
Stolen Found Guilty of Grand Lar
eeny-Stole a Shot Gun Belonging
to John e. Tyler.

to John e. Tyler.
Deputy Sheriff +. L. Wellman OF
Guilford was driving towards the east
village Monday morning when he met
a young man who spoke to him asking
! for information of one c. E. Smith OF
Guilford Center, saying that about a
month ago as he was riding bicycle
somewhere in the locality the machine
gave out and just then a young fellow
overlook him who accosted him, saying
his name was G. Z. Smith, that he
lived at Guilford Center and was a re-
pairer of bicycles and that he would
take II home and fix il up for fifty
cents-whereupon he told him to take
the wheel and mend it and he would
come around soon and pay him and
take it away. He further said that he
could find no one by that name at the
Center and did not know how he was
to find his wheel Wellman took the
young man in his team and they rode
to Brattleboro. On the way he got a
description of the man and became
convinced that the So called repairer
had given a wrong name and that in
stead of Smith 1t was Edward r.
Hutchinson of Halifax. Next Wellman
took the man to Town Grand Juror j.
Z. Gale and had a warrant made out
for the arrest of Hutchinson on the
charge of obtaining property by false
pretenses. Early Tuesday morning
Wellman went to Halifax, found his
man and brought him TO the Broad
Brook house before Justice +. +. Ward
to answer to the charge. to which he
plead guilty and was fined SIS and costs
amountinG to s14. He was placed in
custody of the officer being given a
reasonable time in which to raise the
money. He gave his age as 20.
While on his drive around the place
with Wellman the latter noticed that
the complainant had with him a
double barreled, hammerless shotgun
and he became suspicious that 1t might
be the one stolen from John e. Tyler's
house on Oct. while Tyler was away,
After they reached Guilford and before
the Hutchinson hearing, Wellman and
Gale went into the house of Mr.. Hart,
nearby, where the gun had been left
by the ostensible owner for safe keep
ing until after the trial took the gun
and carried il over to the hotel where
Mr. Tyler who happened along just
then, identified 1t as his.
On the morning Of the 7th inst,
stranger had called at Tyler's house to
inquire where he could buy a fox
hound, and seeing the gun in the room
lsked the price Of it. Tyler did not
wish to sell and the man then went on
his way. That afternoon Tyler was
away from the house several hours and
when he returned the gun was gone.
Next morning early he made his loss
known to officials and they have been
trying ever since TO get trace of ii. II.
D. Andrews saw a nan that afternoon
with a bicycle and gun on the road
near his house and had some talk with
him, not knowing that Tyler's gun had
been stolen The man gave his name
TO Andrews as Tinker. saying he was
from Chesterfield, Mass. Strangely,
Mr.. Andrews was returning from Brat
tleboro just as the hearing at Algiers
was about to begin and positively
identified the man who had complained
of Hutchinson for appropriating his
wheel as the man he saw on the road
that day with the gun.
Papers were at once made out by
Mr. Gale, as town grand juror, for ar
rest of the man who then said he was
Henry Williams. son of Charles Will
liams of Northampton. He plead guilty
to the charge of grand larceny and was
bound over in the sum of 5000 till the
next term of county court. Not being
able to furnish bail he was taken to
Jail at Newfane by Deputy Wellman
that afternoon. He gives his age as is.