Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-11-12

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write but little and did not know wha
the order was. He gave it TO a frienC
and il then passed TO the hands o
another party. to Burns unknown
who attempted to get it cashed
Burns denies that he had any connec
ton with the burglary and says d,
knows no one who had.
John Leslie, Is years old, brother
of Mrs. Walter p. Wells of Plainfeld
attempted to run away from home
Nov. 4. He was in the company o.
William Wells. his brother-in-law, 3.
years old. Both had been in the EN-
| ploy of Walter p. Wells, but Of late
had acted in peculiar manner. The
Leslie boy went out of the house late
in the evening TO see if he could find
something that he thought be had lost
He was gone long time. 1t was sus-
pected that something was wrong.
Walter went out to see if he could find
the boy, but Frank was nowhere in
sight. Upon going to the barn he
missed his brothers horse. Quickly
hitching up his own in a wagon he
started in pursuit of the parties. After
a hard drive he overlook them ten
miles from his home. He asked the
boy to come home but the latter
stoutly refused. William was about
TO drive off with the boy again when
his brother threatened him with ar
rest. This altered the situation and
the boy went home. The last seen of
the man he was driving toward New
Hampshire, where he intended going
in the first place.
Almeda Hoyt, an unidentified life
long charge on the town of Westfeld,
whom Mrs. Rose Ducharme Ostrout
was hired to care for. died Sunday
night, Nov. /. Mrs. Ostrout at first re-
fused to allow the body to be seen, but
ex-Representative John Brown and his
wife insisted upon doing so. They
found the unfortunate creature was
clothed only in filthy rags, lying on a
straw tick and only a ragged quilt for
sheets, pillow and covering. The bed
was reeking in filth and saturated with
wet and when the body had been re-
moved and Mr.. Brown attempted to
lift the tick, it was so rotten the little
straw In it dropped out. The body
was so emaciated and bruised that Mr.
Brown, Elmer Edmunds and John
Watkins, all reliable and substantial
men, had an autopsy performed by the
resident physician, who requested the
assistance of prominent out Of town
physician. They found nothing but
blood in the stomach and bowels and
of starvation. The body
was bruised, there being bruises on
the head, none Of which could have
been self-inflicted. One on the fore
head produced elot OF blood on the
brain, and another on the base of the
brain producing clot, either OF which
were sufficient cause OF death.
Herbert Davis of Mortified, aged II,
was arrested Nov. charged with TAX
ing rifle and case, marked c. o. D.,
from the express office without paying
for it and without the knowledge Of the
express agent. No trace of the miss
ing property was secured until a short
time ago when the burglary of the Col
burn Clothing company's store occurr-
ed and the search made by officers
which resulted in the finding of the
clothing and other articles secreted in
the home of Mrs. Antoine Miller, the
mother of Eugene Davis. and the ar
rest of Davis and his alleged partner
In the crime. The rifle was found in
The Davis home. Herbert is younger
brother of Eugene and evidence has
been collected which points to his be-
ing the person who took the gun. He
was arraigned for larceny and bound |
over to county court in the sum of
5000. which was not furnished. Max
Woodbury., another Mortified boy. |
was also arrested on the charge of
in the theft, but claimed |
hat all he had to do about it was to
lelp unpack the rifle from a box after
Davis took 1t home. Burton f Bailey,
the states attorney, sig
litied his willingness, under the cir
to accept plea of guilty
# petty larceny. Woodbury., there
ore. pleaded guilty to this charge, and
vas fined $50 and costs of $500, which
red Blanchard, the boys lawyer paid.