Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-09
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL NEWS
EYE DOCTOR ESCAPED
E. Haase, alias "Dr. Miller, ="
Arrested in Springfield
Gave state officer slip In Boston
Operated on Mrs. Hannah Winchester
and Others in erattleboro Recently.

e. Haase, alias DR.. Miller, alias L. Mar
tin. who is alleged to be a bogus eye
doctor who operated upon Mrs. Hannah
winchester and other Brattleboro people
for the removal of cataracts from their
eyes and for whose arrest officers in
various cities in New England hold war
rants was arrested in Springfield, Mass,
Friday, was placed under $500 bail in
Greenfield Monday and OF Monday after
noon he escaped from State officer Hodges
of Taunton at Boston. Haase was being
taken from Greenfield to Taunton. At the
South station in Boston the officer turned
away from Haase an instant and when
he looked around another man was in
the doctors place. officer Hodges says
he believes Haase had an accomplice, so
smoothly was the exchange made.
The story of Haase's operations in Brat
tleboro was told in The Phoenix Jan. 10.
He went under the name of "Dr. Miller"
and told his victims that he was sent to
them by relatives. On Jan. IL man
claiming to be L. Martin operated upon
Wright Arlin, Mrs. Jennie T. Davis and
others in Northfield, using the same
methods as were employed by DR.. Miller
and charging from So to SIS. The fact
that the man was a swindler soon became
known, and on Friday of last week Mrs.
f. w. Doane of Mortified recognized
man on the train at South Vernon as l..
Martin, who performed ar operation upon
one of her neighbors.
On her arrival in Greenfield Mrs. Doane
informed officer James E. Peabody, VINO
boarded the train with the intention to
arrest the man. A newsboy on the train
youched for his being another man. and
the officer did not feel confident enough
that the woman was right to detain him
so he was allowed to proceed. city
Marshal George NJ. Stebbins of Springfield
was notified, and when the train reached
Springfield Patrolman Mccormick took
Haase into custody At police head
quarters Haase was allowed to telephone
to New York First he called up his wife
and told her he had gotten into little
-'scrApe." Then he called his friend Jack
and asked him to go to Greenfield When
Haase was in Brattleboro he was accom-
panied by a woman whom he said was
his wife, but apparently she was not with
him on this trip.
Haase appeared in the district court in
Greenfield Saturday, pleaded not guilty
and was placed under bonds in the sum
of $4OO He furnished bail and was re-
leased but Immediately afterwards mes
sage was received from Taunton to hold
the man for trial in that city and he was
rearrested just as he was getting aboard
a train for New York officer Hodges
was sent to Greenfield to take Haase to
Taunton.
Chief Shaw, of the Massachusetts, state
police, said when asked about the escape
of Haase: II have only this letter from
Officer Hodges telling me that his man
escaped l can't pass judgment until
have more information. 1 regard officer
Hodges as a careful man. He has been In
this department for a good many years
Haase is wanted throughout this state and
an Rhode Island and Connecticut"
Haase is described as a man about so
years old five feet and seven inches tall,
iaI,t OH
black hair mixed with grey, stubby black
moustache tinged with grey. The state
police have been looking for him about a
year.