Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-10-29
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

SSsOSE1 rfND NOSi0GNto.
Alonzo Boomhower, aged II years.
was drowned while canoeing at Joe's
pond in West Danville last Thursday
and the body was found at noon. He
recently came from Barton.
Moses Parry, a slate quarryman
living in South Poultney, was drowned
in an abandoned quarry pit near Lake
st. Catherine last week. 1t is re-
ported that Parry was in an intoxi-
Gated condition at the time.
Joseph Adonia of Barre went to
Montreal Oct. 20 for medical treatment
and the 2lst he was found dead in his
bed at the st. Lawrence Hotel. As
phyxiation was the cause, the gas be-
ing turned fully ON. He had been
dead for some time when found.
Charles Carpenter. aged 60, a MARI
boro farmer. attempted suicide Oct.
20 by shooting himself in the head
with 22 calibre revolver. The bullet
entered below the right ear, but did
not reach the brain. Carpenter had
been afflicted with melancholia for
several weeks.
Henry o. Sorrell, twenty-one, of
North Ferrisburg, was badly injured
while attempting to board moving
freight train near Hooksett, vi. Oct.
81. He tell beneath the wheels which
passed over his left arm and shoulder,
necessitating an amputation close to
the body. 1t is believed that he will
recover.
The first accident to occur in the
deer hunting season took place in
Pownal Oct p. Eli Hicks OF North
Adams, who had spent the night with
Charles f. Barber, got up at an early
hour to start on days sport. In his
hurry to get out of the house he
opened cellar door in mistake for
one leading into hall and in an in
slant plunged head first down a flight
OF stairs some fifteen feet He broke
his right shoulder, injured his elbow
and bruised his face.
John f. Duke, aged 20, an elevator
boy at the home office of the National
Life Insurance company in Montpelier,
committed suicide about o'clock
Saturday afternoon. Oct. "a, by hang
ing himself in his fathers barn at his
home on Franklin street. The only
cause that can be assigned for the
rash deed is that the lad had been
suffering with curvature of the spine,
which made him respondent. He had
OF late, several times, threatened to
take his own lie but no one took his
threats seriously.
Fred Lemerise. son OF Mr. and Mrs.
John Lemerise, was drowned Oct 10
while at work at Shelburne Farms. He
was driving a double team and while
backing to the dock for coal accident
ally went too far and the wagon and
horses went into the lake, carrying
him with them. Two other teamsters
were on the dock, but they were power
less to aid Lemerise. and he, together
with the horses, was drowned. The
water is about Is feet deep at that
point and the body was soon recovered
and taken to his home in Shelburne.
Lemerise was a young man and I'M
married. His father is gardener for
DR.. w. Seward Webb.
An order dismissing from the United
States Supreme court the petition OF
Charles Doherty, convicted OF murder,
has at last been received by Nj. L.
Smile, clerk of the Vermont supreme
court. After the Vermont courts had
finally refused to grant Doherty new
trial, the case was taken up to the
United States supreme court on writ
OF error, but before the case was reach
ed the Vermont legislature of 1902
commuted the death penalty to i'm
prisonment for life. The United States
supreme court was then asked to dis
miss the case, but it has taken until
now 10 obtain the order. Doherty is
now believed to be insane and he will
probably pass the remainder of his lite
in the state hospital at Waterbury.
Mark Campbell, who is employed In
the livery stable OF Frank Evans at
Waterbury. narrowly escaped being
poisoned Oct. 20. He swallowed a
tablet which he supposed was for in
digestion, but noticed that the taste
was very peculiar and at once examin-
ed the box from which he had taken 1t,
and found he had swallowed poison
GUS drug intended for external use.
He at once called at the office OF doc
tor and in about eight or ten minutes
from the time he had taken the poison
the doctor had him vomiting. One of
the tablets has been analysed at the
state hospital and found to be about
two grains corrosive sublimate, one OF
the most intense poisons, and rapid in
its work. Mr.. Campbell, although |
having had the tablet in his stomach |
only about ten minutes, began to feel
sick and was getting numb. 1t is
claimed that the amount of this poison
taken by Mr.. Campbell is sufficient to