Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-12-06
NEWS OF VERMONT
sorc Important Eveuts Grouped for
Free Press Rcndcrs--Judac ". r.
stafford TO speak in Bel
lows Rails.

The members of the College club cr
Bellows Falls have secured Judge Wendell
?. stafford, one OF the judges of the SUI
prcme court Of the District of Columbia.
who Will give his lecture on Thaddcus St.
vens II is expected that the lecture VIII
hc given December IS. Judge Stafford
once lived IN st. Johnsbury, and by many
is considered the most oratorical living
Nermonter.
80 CLUE TO MURDERER.
Tho inquest into tho murder OF Thomas
Dryer the tcamstcr whose dead body
was found near the pugway road in Pow
nal curly last month. was concluded
before Judge l.. H. Bates Of bennington
Nov IS. rive Italian workmcn and
tmckcopor were the witnesses. The
last two sessions of the inquest de-
vcloped practically nothing toward a So
luton Of the case. Beyond securing
witness who saw Dryer as late as six
O'Clock p. m. on the day that he disap-
nc1red nothing further regarding the IN
fortunate Transfers movements after he
left the state line house mp to the day his
body was found, has been learned. Tho
mystery surrounding the case will prob
ably never he cleared. Deputy Sheriffs
NaSh and Godfrey brought to Jail Monday
evening William Thayer of rownal who
was taken on suspicion of knowing some
thing about the death OF Thomas Dwy@r
alias Mcclure, who was found dead near
the dugway in Pownal about three weeks
ago He was kept in jail until Tuesday
night when he was released upon his own
iecognizancc. 1t is claimed that Thayer
had been making statements that he was
with Mcclure the night before he was
killed.
HEAVY BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
\ breach of promise suit in which the
plaintiff asks damages in the sum of
$4,000 is a euoject of absorbing interest
In Brattleboro. The suit was brought
by Miss katherine G. Dunlevy, stenog-
rapher, against Edward j. fcnton Il well
known merchant Both are young p"o-
Me, Miss Dunieavy being about 80 years
old. They have been together from six
tn eight years Miss Dunlevy has worn
q diamond ring several years, but her
young woman friends have understood
that IT was the gft OF a relative and
not an engagement ring. Neither Of the
parties. nor the attorneys will make any
statement Uf the case, but in hey dec
laration, Miss Dunlevy states that Sh"
and MIR Fcnton became engaged Decent
Der 81 1903, and that she has since been
and is now ready to carry out her part
Of the contract. hut that Mr. Tenton re-
fuses to marry her. The plaintiff is UNI
derstool to have Eomc letters (which
will he introduced as hearing on the
question of the engagement. Miss Dun
levy has engaged HsskIus and Schwenk
% G. To pf
Rutland as counsel, and Mr.. Fcnton has
engaged Robert G. Bacon OF Brattlc-
horo. Miss Dunlevy, who is an attrac-
two young woman formerly was pri-
waite secretary for Congressman Kit
trodge Hask;ns. More recently she was
stcnoErapher in the office of the Yer
mont Farm Machinery company at Bel
lows Fails, and she now has similar
position in II. 6. BARRIERS office. Her
home is in BrattlebOro. The suit is
returnable at the April term of the Wind
ham county court.
HAVE COMPLETED 100000 CONTRACT
Tho Woodbury. Granite company OF
Bethel have just sent rorty-two cars of
cut granite to Newark. n. j.. to he used
IN the construction of the Orange county
court house. This completes a sl00nOI
contract lIdl mas taken three years to
fill. The delay has not been caused by
s!owness on the part of the Woodbury.
Granite company, but because the build
ing commissioners were not ready for
the stone \ large amount of it has
been cut and stored at the sheds for over
a year
DEPUTY SPAFFORD'S SIDE OF THE
CASE
Deputy Sheriff Spafford of White River
Junction. who arrested the young men re-
Gently pardoned from the House of Cor
Tection by Governor Proctor. in an inter
view emphatically denies the truth of
the boys story regarding their arrest
and conviction. Two complains were made
10 him that the four who looked Ike
tramps. were begging food in IL neigh
borhood not far from his office. He
soon found them. They admitted that
theE lad no money, nor a regular home,
That they had beat their way along
the railroad from New York AS begging
along the highway constitutes a tramp
according to our Vermont laws, and as
two complaints had been lodged against
them he was Obliged to arrest them.
which he did. At hearing in the police
court they pleaded guilty to the charge of
being trasnps and were each sentenced
MS stated. He further says the whole
cost of each arrest was AJ1 instead OK
s5.35 as recently published and owing to
a delayed train at Bellows Falls on the
way to Rutland, he gave the prisoners a