The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-12
Old Rsadsboro Hosiery /
Much MaIisned
TREASURE BURIED THERE
Which Is Another Story But 1t
Will Be Told To Banner
Readers Later.

ed in the North Adams Herald pur-
porting to be description of a trip
to this once famous old hostelry, in
Readsbor known as the Percy place in
which the writer tells what he justly
calls weird tale of brigands, ghosts
and ghouls that il true would be real
~ horrible, but which the people on
this side of the mountain resent as
slanderous to two typical New Eng
land landlords and sadly lacking of
truth generally. To me it reads like a
pipe dream.
This idea is accentuated by the fact
that the writer says the place is entire
| " cut of from the rest of the world so
far as roads are concerned, and can
only be reached on foot and then with
great difficulty. AS fact it is but a
few years ago that four horse team
hauled steam boiler from Heartwell-
Vile nearly to the Perry place and if
these men could not follow this road
without lunging into the mighty spru-
ces, one may easily suppose they were
in good condition to see visions and
| dream dreams.
The writer goes on to describe Perry
as little less than a human tiger, lying
in his lair awaiting his prey that he
might kill and rob, that he died desert
ed by friends, alone except for the at
tention of one doctor from neighbor
ing village. Dying, he requested to
be buried on a certain knoll that his
evil spirit might guard the illgotten
spoils buried there before.
The doctor gave away the secret, the
ghost deserted his past and the ghouls
dug hole fifteen feet across and eight
feet deep looking for treasure, and
this hole the party from North Adams
found there last summer as it had re-
manned seventy-hve years except for
the changes made by nature. He says
the tavern burned down and the char
red remains are still on the ground,
the place being deserted and given over
to the ghosts.
My attention was called to the arti-
Gle by S. f Rider of North Adams,
like myself a grandson of the jennings
Rider from whom the place took the
name of the order Stand" the origi-
nal Rider place being two and a half
miles this side, where the Dunville
road crosses the old turnpike.
would have passed the article on
simply saving, Utica Globe please
COPY" we're it not for the implied
Islander on my ancestors, and an al
most certain SANDER on Mr. Perry.
We do not know much of my grand
fathers religion, but presume he had
not enough to do him much harm, but
he was human, and being human it
would be impossiblefo him to live on
the place nearly or quite quarter of
a century, as he did, beside the young
err grave of his predecessor.
OF course there is no one living who
has any personal knowledge of Mr.
Perry, who died in 1920. There are,
however, many people in this vicinity
whose fathers knew him and all spoke
of him with respect. In fact he APP
pears to have been in every way big
man. Standing six foot two in his |
stockings and Enthusiastically like |
the late G.. Ed. Towne of the old Stark |
House, broad shouldered, big heart |
ed, whole souled man who could not |
do a small, mean trick If he tried, be- |
cause he never learned how.
Mr. Perry died attended by his wife
and surrounded by his neighbors, and
his wife ran the tavern after his death. |
She was fit mate forthe big husband, |
being a very large woman of prodigi-
Gus strength. 1t is related of her that |
being short of cider at one time, she
drove to the Woodford place for a
fresh supply. The barrel of cider was
rolled out and when man went for
plank to load it with, she picked up the
barrel, put it in her wagon and drove |