The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-07
May Be Trap Was Laid For
Chief of Police Brown
LATE SATURDAY NIGHT
Man Tariled Mrs. Brown and Daughter
Home and Then Concealed Him.
self In Bushes In Front
Of the House

a man whose skuIking actions had
attracted the attention Of Mrs. Patrick
Brown and daughter, Marguerite, and at
least one other person on Prospect
street, was driven from clump of
bushes III front Of Chief Of Police
Browns residepce on Allen street at a
late hour Saturday night BY Chief
Brown and Officer Faulkner who had
FASTENED there at a telephone summons
from tile chiefs wife. 1t Is the belief
Of the police that the man had concealed
himself with the design to wayay the
chief of police on his way home.
Mrs. Brown and daughter started
home shortly before 10 O'Clock, and
when on Main street caught sight Of
man who was evidently following them.
Not liking his appearance they stopped
at the door OF the police station for
Chief Brown. The latter was not in,
and Officer Faulkner responded that he
was busy in the court room up stairs,
raid Just having been made. While
Mrs. Brown was talking with the officer
the man who had been following passed
and walked ahead, having had oppor
tunity in passing to hear the converse
ton. The women decided to start on
lalone. After they had passed the bridge
at the foot Of Prospect street hill, the
man stepped out Of place Of conceal
ment and followed them.
Mrs. Brown saw the skalker and warn
ed her daughter not to look around, but
to walk along rs if they hadn't seen
I him. The man followed them up the
Hin, 4 distance Of quarter of mile.
just as they were about to turn into
their own yard, on the outskirts OF the
city, they saw tie same man following
hundred yards back Entering the
house they turned out all the lights ex-
cept one in the kitchen, SO as to see II
the man passed along Allen street. The
man stopped in the road in front Of the
house. Then Mrs. Brown decided to tele-
lYhone her husband. Of the suspicious ae.
I tions Of the man and to warn him to
I look out when going home.
/ Presently tile man entered the yard
land approached the house, walking
laround the house and taking a stand in
1.-THE barn door and looking into the kit
lchen, where the light was burning. Now
! Thoroughly alarmed the women tele-
phoned the police station that the man
was iii tile yard. Chief Brown and Officer
1 Faulkner started on the run for the for
mers home. Meanwhile the skull1er left
the barn door and going to the road
again, entered a clump Of bushes on the
iaown lawn. withing three feet of the
lpath which the Chief takes to 20 to tile
house.
\ The officers hurried up the hill, revol-
vers id hand and flashed the police light
las they went. Mrs. Brown saw the po-
lice light, and opening the door called
out.
4 Look out, boys, he's in that clump
lof bushes.n
With that the man jumped from his
Iplace of eonccalment aud ran mp Allen
street, IN the direction of the Allen
farm The officers started in pursuit,
firing as they ran. Faulkner fred three
shots and Brown two at the retreating
figure, none OK which took effect, So far
as known. The fellow disappeared in
the darkness, and the officers halted TO
listen for sound of his footsteps, hop.
ling to ft.d out if he was still in the
road. They heard nothing Presently 4
team came along with Special Officer &.
lin. Gauthier and Ben Gillev, who had
lieen dipatehed to the place BIZ autheri.
ties down town. No trace Of the man
Twas discovered
1 1t Is supposed that he yaulted the
stonewall and ran back toward this city
ibv a wide detour, crossing the Williums.
town railroad track and again getting
on to lower Prospect street by way Of
lFairview street. Mrs. Edward Thayer,
who resides Just below the junction of
Faiyiew and Prospect streets, saw a
man Walking hurriedlv down the hill
llIe was the same man whom she had
J seen a short tine before following Mrs.
Brown and daughter up the hill. On the
former occasion Mrs. Thayer's attention
had been called to the mans suspicious
actions, as he followed the women She
said ID her husband; *Those women
must be scared"
Then she saw the police hurrying by,
followed soon BY the team, SO she de-
. cided to watch for development. About
Ihalf an hour later she saw the same
suspicious man going back down the hill,
as If he was in a hurry.
. With the description she was able to
give and that Of Mrs. Brown and daugh-
ter the police have patched together The
/ following rs a man very much wanted:
Below medium height, probably five
feet, FIVE or six inches, dark complexion-
ed, wearing small mustaehe, bald spot
On tor Of head, clothed in dark suit, felt
: That. That the man was partly bald was
I ascertained by Mrs Brown when the
fellow took Off his hat while standing
: lin the barn door, The reflection from
the only lighted lamp fell directly On his
head
The place where the fellow concealed
himself in the bushes is plainly evident
today, as the twigs are bent.
A young man who lives on Prospect
1 street was going home at about that
tiiue, and when he had got part way up
the Hill he met two men who told him