Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-02


day evening charged with having per-
formed a criminal operation causing the
death of Miss Iva Martin, 10. of Proctors-
Vile. He was confined In the police sta
ton until Wednesday evening, when he
had hearing before Judge u. H. Allbee,
who held him In the sum of $4,000 bail
for appearance at the March term of the
WIndham county court
The facts in the case as they developed
at the hearing Wednesday evening were
that Miss Martin accompanied by a girl
of about the same age named Vena Hol-
land, came here on the 1 D. m. train
Tuesday and were met at the station by
DR.. Ryder with whom Miss Martin had
made an appointment. They went at
once to the rooms occupied by the doctor
in the Maynard block on Rockingham
street They were about the streets dur
ing the afternoon as late as four O'Clock,
when according to the evidence of Miss
Holland. they went to the doctors rooms
her understanding being that a simple
examination was to be made. Miss Hol-
land remained with Mrs. Ryder in the
sitting room and in only few minutes
the doctor called to them from his con-
sulting room and they found Miss Martin
dying. She died about $50. Undertaken
Keefe was not notified until about
o'clock and Miss Holland had returned
to her home at Proctorsville at that time.
The doctor furnished Mr.. Keefe a GER
tificate that death had occurred from
heart failure and the latter removed the
body to his undertaking rooms during
the evening.
The first knowledge of anything sus-
picous was gained locally by telephone
after o'clock that night from Proctors-
VILE, where Miss Holland had told her
story. The result was that States At
torney Ryder ordered the arrest of DR..
Ryder as stated Undertaken E. G. White
of Cavendish, accompanied by the girls
father, came here Wednesday morning
and the body was taken to Proctorsville
on the night train for burial.
States Attorney Ryder early communi-
Gated with Atty. Gen. Fits and an ar
rangement was made to have DR.. H. b.
Stone, director of the state laboratory of
hygiene, come here to take charge of the
autopsy, which was made Wednesday
afternoon. Dr. Stone was assisted by
Drs. Gillette of Springfield. e. S. Allbee
and Frank Whitman of Bellows Falls.
The result of this autopsy was such that
Judge Allbee decided the case was grave
enough to warrant holding DR.. Ryder as
stated.
1t is not understood that DR.. Ryder is
a graduate of any medical school and he
has never been acknowledged as a regu-
lar physician by other doctors of the
village. He came here from Woodstock
four or five years ago. In former years
both he and his mother were well known
in Windsor county.
1t is an unfortunate affair and is caus-
ing a large amount of talk. DR.. Ryder
has not secured bail, and If it is not fur
nished he will be taken to the county
jail.
Broken down in health and a mere
shadow OF his former self Karl E. Wal
dron, the photographer of Bellows Falls
who mysteriously disappeared June II,
returned to the home of his parents in
winchester, N. H., Friday.
Last June Waldron left his boarding
place in Bellows Falls. stating that he
was going on a fishing trip up the river.
When he did not return at dark his
friends became worried and started
search About three miles above the
town on the Charlestown side his clothes
were found on the bank of the river but
he was nowhere to be seen. 1t was
thought that he had taken Off his clothes
to go in swimming and had been overcome
in some way after going into the water
The river was dragged and dynamite was
used to try to raise the body.
Waldron's story to friends In Keene
Friday was that he did go in swimming
on the day he left Bellows Falls, and
that when he struck the water everything
became a blank to him until July T. when
he found himself walking on the railroad
track a short distance from Biddeford,
Me-, with nothing on but pair Of over
alls and a jumper.
AS he recovered from his dazed con-
dition the first he heard was a farmer be-
side the track ASKING him II he did not
want to work. Hardly knowing what he
was doing he says he went to the farmers
house and ate a good meal, after which
he hired out to him. From that time until
few days ago he stayed on the farm, and
H. - l.. H. IL
to try to reach home. The farmer gave
him $18 and with this amount he went to
Biddeford, bought a suit of clothes and
took the train, intending 10 ride as far
as his money would take him and walk
the remainder of the way.
Hearing that there was a tannery in
Peabody, Mass, he decided to go there
morning arrived there without a cent in
his pockets, tired and hungry. He went
TO a hotel and there met two young men
whom he knew in Winchester He at once
told them his story and they called up
his parents in winchester on the tele-
phone and told them that they had found
their son. Waldron's father sent back
word to bring him home as soon as pos
sible and Friday noon Waldron and a
friend ARRIVED in Keene taking the 2.35
train for Forest Lake, Waldron preferrine
to get off there rather than face those
who might gather at the Winchester
station anticipating his arrival.
Waldron says he cannot account for
his wanderings and does not see how he
lived during the time he was out of his
head, for he remembered nothing His
experience has told on him, for he has
grown thin and nervous. He is about 26
years old. 10 4N 'u.dgs q
After Waldron's disappearancei am adj
ministrator, living In Winchester, N. H..
WAS A'nnothtAd tO aettlAs Waldron's estate
and he has recently sold the studio. To-
Gated on the School street stairs. and all
the belongings connected Herewith, to
another photographer, p. N. Goddard
Mr.. Goddard, after cleaning the studio
and putting II in shape, has moved into
It from his old studio on Westminster
street.
semI-Annual Meeting Of Board of Trade