The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-08-02
SYMPTOMS OF
POISONING
Shown BY Little Girl Before
Cath
HER FATHER IN CUSTODY
n stories arc True Essex County
Man May Have Caused Sin
Deaths

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ioas believe iiFfr have ho-s Ella issis
ohings b. iis iamiiy = ilsi,sFt Water
nan pho is nop ih rssioiy asaiiifs
. formal bearing oH Friday nftl Tee
arfrsi foiiosni 10 ssiirn death ~
he ihrer year Ola daughter Lila M
Wednesday iasi. Tho people ~ ihs
ioph oa hsAfiHs - this became - in.
iignzni that ihsy demanded a. iHtsss
iigai'nn ahi ChairHas Gray - a.
board ui ssiectmsn aciins Zoe no
.osnsrooplr. sought ihs services -
states Aiiofnry Amier uho caused ihs
arrest - i.obefi waierman. father ~
ihe child.
After ihr arrest Waterman uas civ.
ga . preliminary hearing 10 ibs iosn
hall sBd uas PLACED undsr he charge
~ bis employee. Joseph Wells. g.
avail a formal hearing uhioh has boeH
- ipr Friday neat as three o'clocl
Tho death 81 tie iiiiic girl occurred 10
he village 81 Caliops Mills settle.
mcni - Victory. Tho iiiiic ono uiih
her father and older brother scr. Nv
log vlih she mother aud faihcr-in.laW
~ Waterman uho SER caring for ibc
children. The iso uivcs and four ~
the childrcB have al died uiihln a icu
years and 10 l. alleged that all died
under suspicious and pcculiar clrcum.
STAGES, but not until tho death ~ 10.
tie Lila did The Indignation Of the
toEn.pcople reach The point where they
determined 10 have an investigation.
Tho story Of the death OF the last
child j. best told Ia the word, % the
grandmother Mrs Poolcr, Nho said:
Last Tuesday forenoon between ten
and eleven O'Clock Waterman came In
TO the house from he shed and taking |
bottle from his pocket asked SIR
Pooler and myself 10 have n drink
with him. lie poured a portion OF the
contents from the bottle into tumbler
and filling IL up with water asked the
TO have H. As he passed Il 10 me
noticed that IL was oily on top and /
would not drink IL, but he passed Il TO
Mr. Pooler and he drank IL. Hardly
had he swallowed II before he seemed
and he asked Robert IL the
drink was anything that would intoxi-
cate him.
THE reply was that It would not in
toxicate and my husband exclaimed:
well, you've given me a h Of
dose anyway, and my husband rushed
into another room where he always
keeps bottle of japanese oil and he
drank some OF IT, thinking TO relieve
his distress which took the form OF a
errible burning sensation in the stom-
ich. This did not seem TO help him
my and he became frightened and
vent to the pantry and drenk several
ups of milk and ate n lot OF salt AZ
er taking everything he could think :
If to relieve his condition, he finally
cit some better and came out Of the ;
ickness.
While he was sick little Lila came
n from the shed suffering terribly and
aid she was sick, too. ! asked her
,hat she had been doing and she said
er father had given her drink OF
omethiug. We did everything we
ould for the child but she grew worse q
very minute and at three O'Clock the Y
ext morning she died." q
AS soon as the news OF the death of C
ne child spread about the small set v
emert and the circumstances were 5
earned the demand for the investiga a
on came and States Attorney Aimee l
as called. So well convinced was ii
he attorney that all was not as it S
hould be he arranged for a post. NOR
IN examination and Drs Allen and G.
rench of st Johnsbury were called to e,
erform it. N
The examination revealed nothing CT
hich shed any light upon the cause g
death and it was decided to send the II
omach and brain of the dead child to
le state chemist at Burlington for ex- ir
nination. During the post norton NJ
Waterman was questioned
length by the doctors and his story
substance was as follows: He said NJ
e child had been troubled with diar- l,
loea and he took her to the shed and ~