Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-06-30

White RIVER JunctloIl' W.
Published statements that had
any knowledge of my brothers state
ment mentioning my portrait abso-
lutely untrue. Please do not under
stand from this that I approve OF
death penalty, when laws framed as
In Rhode Island assure life imprison-
ment. Charles II. clark.
Miss Bertha Sherman. a daughter of
jefferson Sherman. of the Forks near
Stowe. attempted suicide Friday June
23, by taking horse medicine. She ex-
pected to be married that day but
the Underground he faileG to appear.
Remedies were administered and Miss
Sherman Will recover
Including Governor Bell there are
living at the present time IL governors
and ex-governors of Vermont. or the
10 Ex-Governor Holbrook, one OF the
war governors" Is the Oldest In date
of service. The man from Washing
ton county whose connection with the
state house antedates that of other
living men is George Nichols of North
field, who was state librarian In 1851.
Lieut.. Pearl Calvin Titus. well
known In Vermont as bugler in Co.
X. LIST VI. Vols, during the Spanish
American war. was recently married
at Colorado Springs to Miss Grace
Anna Robinson, daughter of a prom
inent family. Titus joined the reg
ular army. was the first soldier TO
scale the wall at Pekin in the Boxer
uprising, and for good service was APP
pointed TO West Point by President
Mckinley. He was graduated in this
years class and will remain in the
service.
Mrs Mary Rogers condemned to be
hanged for the murder of her hus-
band. the execution now being stay
ed by reprieve until Dec. s. has been
assigned to work in the prison
kitchen at Windsor. After Judge
Wheelers decision last week. Super
intendent Lowell ordered that she
should be taken from the death cell
and given her old quarters in the pris-
on with her old room mate. She spent
the day Friday. June 20. set for her
execution. mingling freely with the
other women prisoners in the insti-
tuition. Sheriff Peck visited the pris-
on and read her the reprieve signed by
Gov. Bell.
Alvah Sanderson, a former guard at
the state prison at Windsor charged
with furnishing drugs to the prisoners.
and bound over to county court in the
sum of $500, was rearrested Friday.
June 30, by Deputy Sheriff j. III. Kin
Try the states attorney being of the
opinion that the bail was insufficient.
Sanderson appeared in Windsor coun-
| ty court Saturday June "a, pleaded not
guilty, and bail was fixed at sl,500,
which was furnished by Edward r.
Buck, the respondents counsel. The
respondent claims that the charges
grew out of recent prison scandals,
and that he is innocent The prosecu-
ton is said to have secured evidence
of the purchase of the drugs.
The Waterbury National bank has
won its claim against the Metro
politan Stock exchange of Boston to
recover. $4,000 embezzed by John c.
F'arrar, teller, now completing his sem
tence at the house of correction. Rut-
land, for defalcation The amount re-
covered was traced to the Boston con-
Germ through which Farrar speculated
and lost AT the time Farrars oper-
atoms were being carried on the stock
broker concern had branch Office In
Waterbury and the auditor to whom
the case was referred found that under
the laws of Vermont the transactions
We're illegal, the stock exchange Civ
ing no equivalent for the money in
vested. The case is regarded as IA
test.
Ray C. Johnson. a native of Bur-
| lington, was sent to the state prison
at Charlestown, Mass, Friday. June
%, for life by Judge Brown of the SUI
perior criminal court. Johnson shot
and killed Mrs. Sarah A. Peters OF
Nova Scotia in Boston, Jan. 4, 1904,
and was convicted of murder in the
second degree. A stay of proceedings
was granted to enable counsel to car
/ y the case to the supreme court on
exceptions which We're overruled.
johnson was a waiter and the woman
with whom he had been living. was
trying to get rid Of him when. in
fit of jealousy he fired the fatal
shots Johnson made no denial of the
fact that he shot her, but set up in
sanity as his defense, and the prin-
cipal exception was in regard to the
form of hypothetical questions pro
pounded by the district attorney to
the alienists who were summoned by
the government to testify in the case,
The subcommittee appointed June
Is to outline plans for the centennial
celebration of the establishing of the
state capital at Montpelier has re-
ported to the executive committee.
recommending that the date of the
celebration be fixed at Oct. 4, the
customary time for the assembling of
the legislatures. The plans for cele-
bration include the firing of a salute
at sunrise by the Mortified dcadets.
public singing on the steps of
the state house at o'clock, speaking
at the opera house later in the
day, when the history of the city will
be touched upon, a parade in the af-
ternoon participated in by the nation
al guard and civic organizations, and
fireworks in the evening. Several
ex- governors and other state officials
will be invited and there will be sew
eral legislative reunions and men,
orial service at the state house during
the day.
William and Merritt Herbert, 10 and
IL years old, of WATERFOWL, N. Y,
escaped from the Rutland Jail Thurs
day morning. June %, by breaking a
lock and the panel from an outside
door. They had been Jailed for at
tempting to enter a Brandon store. |
Friday, June %, they were arrested
charged with placing a boulder and
other distractions on the Rutland
railroad in an attempt to wreck a |
train. The distractions were seen by |
the engineer in time to prevent an |
accident. The elder boy was placed |
in the industrial school at Vergennes. |
in default of $500 bail on charge of
burglary, to be held for Rutland
County court, and the younger boy
was allowed to return to WATERFOWL.
N, Y, with his mother. The boys are
said to have recently escaped from
reform school in New York state.