The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-07
WARM BROOK WAS
A CHILLY PLACE
Bennington County Fish Warden VINO
Took a Bath in 1t Wrongly Sus-
pected Brattleboro Anglers
Who Were Nearby.

A certain deputy game warden oil
Bennington county suffered severe IN
dignity not only to his Office but TO
his person early in the day of May
Is. while performing the duties of his
Once in the vicinity of Warm brook,
tributary of the Battenkill river 1t
seems that he approached a certain
fisherman, or fishermen, and humbly
requested to be allowed to peer into
the recesses of his, or their, baskets.
The rest of the story is not exactly
clear but the facts that can be gath
AIRED are that the game warden either
upon his own vOlition or someone S
else decided that it was time for his
annual bath and took a plunge IN the
waters of Warm brook forthwith. I'm
mediately after this the game warden
waxed exceeding wroth and deter
mined that the Outragers of his person
and office should be brought to book
and have Il just punishment melted out
to them in accordance with the nefar'
iousness of their act
| 1t happened that on the day IN
question Judge L. w. Gibson, State s
Attorney Robert c. Bacon, Deputy
Clerk William d. Smith, Deputy sher'
| if Chauncey |. Knapp and Justice A.
p. Carpenter were whipping the wa
tiers of the Battenkill and its tributa-
ries in hopes of Turing a few speekled
beauties to their death. The game
warden suspected that the party IN
question were cognizant of the reason
for his i'll treatment, and voiced his
suspicious to his superior warden. In
other words that base minion of the
law, in the innermost recesses OF his
clouded understanding, thought that
the aforementioned party, the uphold
ers of the dignity and sovereignty OF
the law in Brattleboro, were the men
who fractured the statutes by throw
ing him into the brook.
A few days ago Judge E. w. Gibson
received letter from the Bennington
county warden. 1t was sort OF an
apology for the suspicious and asked
in the words of the Dutch comedian,
that he "explanation it. " All the
men in the party have been inter
viewed by n representative of the he
former and they one and all state that
they know nothing about the matter
of throwing the game warden into the
water and that more than that they
are anxious and willing to prove an
abb. They express their willingness
to 90 to Bennington at their own eX
pense and confront the game warden
who was the man soaked, to allow HIM
to. satisfy himself that he is wrong
Nothing could be fairer than this and
| if the game warden still comes from
Missouri he can be "shown.'
One of the members of the party
states that a light shower fell on the
earth the day in question and that IN
his opinion the game warden Tell
asleep and being wet when he awoke
Immediately suspected that someone
had thrown him into the brook. This
is a plausible explanation and posi-
bly, the right one. Word has not yet
been received from Bennington stat
ing whether or not the matter will be
taken up further.
The crime is a serious one and the
perpetrators should be punished to
the full extent of the law. 1t is not
right at the early season of the year
to throw any man, let alone game
warden, vested with the full power
and authority of the law, into
brook no matter if its name is Warm
brook. 1t was cold and must have
made the warden uncomfortable in per
son not to mention the agony of mind
which he must have suffered to be thus
defed.