Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-03-08
RAN AWAY FROM HOME
Mrs. Helen Tenney in Sensa-
tionaI Roles in Lowell
Was Thought to Be Dying from Effects
Of Poison But Quickly Recovered
Evidently Of Cosmopolitan Tastes.

Of Poison But Quickly Recovered
Evidently Of Cosmopolitan Tastes.
Foolish Helen Tenney, instead of re-
turning to her home in Putney, VT, after
being taken to the depot by Superintend-
ent Courtney of the charity department
and her ticket purchased for her, doubled
on her tracks and remained in this city
with her Chinese paramour and now lies
at the point of death i'm st. Johns hos
pital suffering from a dose of fatal cor
rosive sublimate self administered in
doorway at the corner of Moody and
fremont streets.
At the hospital whittier she was taken
from the police station last night. the
unfortunate woman persists that she is
Miss Ethel Brown from New Hampshire,
coming here two weeks ago Then at
times she also mentioned the name Of
Kenney, and again Tenney. and those
who knew Of her previous experience in
Lowell aver that she is the same woman
who ran away from her home in Yer
mont with an Americanized Chinaman
called Charles Wong, a few weeks ago.
The woman was found in a doorway
at the corner of Moody and fremont
streets at l O'Clock this morning by the
officer on the beat She was in a pre-
carious condition and continually passed
into commissions. The ambulance was
called and she was taken to st. Johns
hospital.
At the hospital she gave the name Of
Brown but afterward mentioned the name
Of Tenney and said that she had had
trouble with her husband in Putney Vt.
and that her present address was ~
Bridge street, Springfield, Mass
This morning, however, she stuck to
the name of Ethel Brown from New
Hampshire and said that she was unmar-
ried. Her mind appeared to wander at
times and hence not much credence was
taken in any of her stories though It is
quite certain that she is Mrs Tenney.
She had in her possession some corrosive
suolimate tablets which she purchased
on prescription of one Or Dramas"
There is no such physician in this city
though a local Greek physician bears
strikingly similar name. She could not
tell where she had the prescription filed
nor could she give any account Of herself
further than that she took two Of the
tablets at 1870 o'clock. She also express
ed a desire to die.
Mrs. Tenney ran away from her home
in Putney. Vt. with n Chinaman named
Charlie Wong, who formerly ran a laun-
dry In Hinsdale. n II. While walking
on Middlesex street Feb 70 she was
seized with an epileptic fit and was re-
moved to the city hospital in the ambu-
lance. Here the story OF her elopement
came out and she appeared TO be very
penitent and DESTROYS OF returning to her
husband. She wrote n letter to her hus-
band asking him to forgive her and take
her back, while Superintendent Courtney
also wrote her husband who is foreman
Tor big logging gang at Putney On the
same day that Mrs. Tennev wrote 10 her
husband she also wrote to the Chinaman
asking him to come to the hospital and
see her as she was lonesome and couldn't
eat In the letter to the Chinaman she
I'm 10 OF. J., a.
had given him to keep for her. stating
that she needed it, She informed the
Chinaman that she was anxious to get
back home.
on the following Saturday she was so
DESTROYS OF returning home that Super
intepdent Courtney took her TO the
Northern depot for the purpose OF taking
the 1924 n. m. northern train for her
nome. When they arrived there they
| round that a more direct route was nv
way Of Aver and Greenfield and she de-
clded to wait until noon and take the
train for Aver at that time She pur-
chased her ticket and then said she would
go across the street TO the restaurant
and eat something.
she was so sincere about II that Super
intendent Courtney went away and left
here there That night she was seen prom
enading Merrimack street with her Chi
nese friend and she has been seen several
times since, always in the vicinity Of the
place where she was found last night and
so it is assumed that she was rooming in
that vicinity Superintendent Courtney
received a letter from her husband re-
Gently in which the latter asked the super
intendent to keep her here for n few
weeks and that he would pay her board
The husband stated that his wife was
all right except occasionally when she
got crazy ideas into her head"
She is % years Of age, quite pretty and
light compleXoned. She has lived in
Vermont since childhood She was neat
ly attired In blue hat with two big
white plume feathers, and a white check
ed coat
1t is believed that Mrs. Tenney wrote
her husband recently asking to he taken
back and received negative answer.
Howell, Mass, Sun, Feb. %.