The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-05-10
AMUSED SHERIFF
WITH LATE SONGS
Young Woman Horse Thief Arrested
Near Somerset Line and Sentenced
TO Serve Six Years or More
in State Prison.

Eta Dumick aged IS years, who al
/ leges that she is the wife OF george
Champenay of Cambridge, y. y, was
sentenced at Bennington Tuesday after
noon to serve not more than seven MOI
! less than six years and six months IN
/ the state prison at Windsor for horse
stealing. The theft for which the girl
was convicted was not her first oiienst
of this kind.
| The young woman was arrested tues
day forenoon just as she was crossing
the Somerset line in the town of Wood
| ford and the horse she was driving
was undoubtedly the second she has
stolen within the past three weeks
When brought before the state attor'
ney this afternoon she confessed to
sharing in the proceeds of the sale OF
horse and buggy belonging TO WI
liam L. Hawks, ir,, Bennington Nv
eryman. She admitted that she was
given S2j by George Champenay OF
Cambridge \. Y, after the horse,
which she had rented of Hawks, had
been sold.
The liveryman. Hawks, was two
weeks in locating the rig which he rent
ed to the young woman, who said that
she wished to attend her mother 5 fu-
neral in Somerset. Investigation show
ed that she drove TO the Red Mill dis
trict in Woodford near the Somerset
line. took her mother, whose funeral she
said she was going to attend, and drove
10 Cambridge. Here the horse was sold
hv Champenay, to whom the young wo-
man claims To have been married about
two weeks. The fact that she had gone
TO Cambridge was learned last Friday
and Deputy Sheriff Nash went after
her with warrant. She found out IN
some way that She was wanted and by
doubling back and forth on two ran.
roads she made her escape, Somewhere
in New York state she procured another
rig and attempted to make her way
into the mountains of Somerset, where
she had worked the past winter as
cook in lumber camp. She was seen
to pass through Woodford hollow early
this morning, and a telephone message
sent Deputy Sheriff John Nash and
the livery man Hawks on her tran. she
had a good start and would have prob
ably given the officer a much longer
chase but for the fact that, not realiz
inc that she was followed, she humane
" led the horse over some of the
rougher portions of the mountain road.
She had crossed the mountain range
and had resumed her seat in the buggy
when the deputy caught up with her
and put her under arrest.
On the long drive back to the coun-
tv iail at Bennington she entertained
the deputy by singing some of the lat
est popular airs and appeared to be not
the least concerned over the prospects
confronting her. At the Office of State 5
Attorney Meagher she gave in detail
the transactions in the sale of the stol'
en- horse and told how she made Cham,
pcnay pony up" $25 of the proceeds,
During the trial she sat with her chin
resting in the palm of her left hand.
while she drummed with the fingers of
her free hand on her folded driving
gloves. which were on the table in front
of her When she left the court room
for the Jail she hounced out of the door
with her head in the air.
The girl s name is Durick, for her al
legged marriage to Champenay is ques-
toned, and about year ago she gave
a liveryman in Wilmington two
week s chase after one of his rigs. She
was arrested at that time, but the at
fair was settled without conviction