Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-11-10
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

W IMAM fearl, q blacksmith, was
instantly killed by an extra locomotive
while crossing the Min Brook railroad
bridge in Windsor Nov. 3. The body
was terribly mangled. lie LEFT parents
and other relatives in McAlpin, Ont.
Earl, the four-year-0ld son OF Clay
ton Burt OF Enosburgh Falls, while al
T. Ii. Armstrong; mill Oct. 81 was
run over by Mr.. Davis truck team,
which contained a cord OF green slab
wood The team passed over the
child's head and abdomen No bones
were broken. but internal injuries
were suffered.
Nelson NJ. Jones OF West Pawlet
committed suicide by shooting. When
be committed the deed. the suicide is
said 10 have left for the barn. and as
he was gone longer than usual. his
vile, whom be married four weeks
ago, set out TO find him. She found
his dead body lying midway between
the house and barn, where be had fall
en- after shooting himself through the
head. Mr.. Jones had recently pur-
chased drug store at Pawlet, and
was in good financial condition.
BY driving in front of a fast moving
freight train at the crossing at Proctor
early NOV. /, Almon johnson and his
horse were instantly killed. and the
wagon was demolished. Mr.. John
sons body was caught on the cow
catcher, and carried BY the engine un-
til the train could be brought 10 a
standstill. Il was horribly mangled.
one arm and one leg being broken,
and the back OF the head was crushed
in. from contact with the iron cow
catcher. The body OF the horse was
thrown ~ feet, and the body of the
wagon was deposited l26 feet from the
road. The train Travelled nearly one
sixth Of a mile before il could BE-
stopped, and the body recovered.
Failing 10 pierce his heart with the
first bullet, Levi Granger, aged "a, of
Burlington, "A member OF the Eighth
United States cavalry, pressed a re-
volver to his left breast and fired a
second time at a. m. Nov. 2, in ST.
Louis, Mo, falling against fence,
surrounding the home OF his fiancee.
Miss Henrietta Wharton. When laid
on the operating table he refused to
take chloroiorm or other anesthetic.
II want TO see you fellows cut my
heart out, he SAID. Il wish that bull
let had gone through He watched
the extraction Of the bullet Interested
ly. The surgeons say he may recover.
The cause of his attempt TO commit
suicide was his fancee's refusal TO
marry him al the expiration OF his
term OF service three months hence.
The body found with the skull frac-
tured beside the railroad track about
one mile north of North Hartland Nov.
2, has been identified as that of Ber-
pard j. Cassidy, an employee of the
Ottauquechee Wooden mill OF that vii
lage. The mans skull was fractured,
one eye was badly cut, the face was
lacerated and there was a deep cut
across three fingers OF one hand. It
is owing to the location OF the injuries
that suspicious Of foul play have aris-
en-. Cassidy had been i'll in Windsor,
but having practically recovered he
started of the LIST on foot for North
Hartland, expecting to resume work
The family believe that on his way be
again became i'll and while in a dazed
condition was struck by passing
train.
Tomassi Poll, an Italian, had both
arms badly crushed and mangled in the
Central Vermont railway yards at
st. Adams Nov. l. lie was employed
in the ash pit, to clean out the fire
boxes of locomotives. The ash pit il
a space between the tracks, in the
nature Of a vault, perhaps five feet
deep, and several feet in length, which
the engines stand over while the ash
man climbs in between the wheels and
rakes the ashes and clinkers from the
engine. Poll was cleaning out an
engine, when another engineer, not
being aware of the presence of the
first engine, backed down and rammed
the other back for several feet. The
unfortunate man, caught like a rat
in trap, attempted to scramble out
between the wheels and received the
injuries noted above.
Elmer Laramour, the 14-year-old
son of Frederick Laramour of Rutland,
accidentally shot a bullet into his left
hand while loading revolver Oct 81,
aAlA &C AAAN ANchlA hN lhcL Alt AuuNA hu-
ger. The boy, with a companion, was
looking after his traps which he set
along the banks of Otter Greek inside |
OF the city limits. As they were walk |
ing along the stream, which is deep, |
they came upon a buck deer swim |
ming about in the stream, and young |
Laramour shot at it four times with |
his 22-calibre revolver. The deer |
swan down stream a little way and, |
gaining the bank, ran through the |
west part OF the city. One OF the car
tridges stuck as the boy was reloading
his revolver and he used a steel pin TO
push II into the chamber and in so do |
ing the cartridge exploded, the bullet |
entering his lett hand below the first .
joint of the index finger, SCATTERING |
the bone so badly that it was neces- I
saIy TO amputate the finger. The boy /
believes that he hit the deer in the |
hack