Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
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While several girls were bathing
Saturday, Aug. 10, at Island Pond, q
tramp seized one of them and attempt
ed a criminal assault The screams of
her companions brought assistance
and the tramp fed, having failed to
accomplish his purpose. The free
use OF the telephone and telegraph
caused the arrest later, at North STRAIT
ford, ~ H, of a tramp who was
tasen TO Island Pond, and who gives
his name as Jesse Thomas of G. ales-
\ burg, Ill. The victim of the attempted
assault is nine years old. Should the
. evidence az the hearing corroborate
rumors other arrests may follow. The
N tramp under arrest at first denied his
4 presence there Saturday afternoon,
A but later admitted it although he
denies attempting to assault the girl.
She asserts that the tramp almost
choked her and that he struck her.
n Her throat bears marks substantiating
\ her story.
Damage Suits against the Circus.
Daring The afternoon performance
Of the FOrepaugh Brothers. cir
Gus in BurlingtonMonday several sec
tions Of the seats collapsed, splitting
about 500 people to the ground. The
fall is said by the circus management
to have been caused by two drunken
men who pulled out one of the main
props. The performers showed ex-
cellent discipline and never once
paused in their parts. Timely service
was rendered by the circus patrol, the
local police, and the circus physician.
AS the result of the accident II differ
ent suits were brought against the
company in the evening for a total of
s27, 900. The highest suit was brought
by Miss Edyth Prince, of Bristol, for
5000. The other suits ranged from
$500 to $4,000. The following persons
brought suit: Peter Pratt, Winooski;
Elizabeth Ward, city; Caroline Van
Cor, city; Seymour Savage, Sarah
M. Strester, Mable Watkins, Margaret
Lunderville, Frank A. Roberts, Ed
ward January, Lucy Gelinas, Priscilla
Sorel, Grand Isle; Anna Barrett, Mar
tina Rutger, Grand Isle: Fred Lefe-
bvre, Rosa Davinnan, Josephine Pas
ha, Edyth Prince, Bristol.
Aim Was True.
Sunday afternoon, Aug. IL, Fred
Emery, aged go years, was shot
through the heart and instantly killed
at Brandon by Cornelius McLane,
aged 81, man in feeble health and a
veteran of the Civil war. The affair
occurred at the hone of McLane at
four o'clock. Emery had gone to the
house earlier in the afternoon and
sought a quarrel but was told to go
away. This he did but returned in
more aggressive mood and being
again warned to leave the premises,
persisted and went up on the steps
where McLane shot him down, a
bullet from a 22-caliber revolver
going through his heart. A large
crowd witnessed the shooting and
McLane was at once arrested. 1t is
said that Emery was under the inhu-
ence of liquor, that he had put his
wife and child out of the house, that
he was in a fighting mood as was
often the case when he had bee1
a drinking and that he evidently picked
out the veteran for his abuse. An.
other version of the affair is tha
Emerys wife and child had taker
refuge in McLane's house, and tina
the quarrel followed in consequence
OF Emery's charging McLane with
harboring his family.
Fire at Richford
The business section of RichforC
as partially'destroyed by a fire which
broke out late Saturday night, Aug
10, entailing a loss of 100000. The
flames started in the furniture factory
OF the Sweet ComiDgs company, the
largest manufacturing concern il
northern Vermont, destroying thu
main building, the -four and feed mills
engine rooms and boiler houses of tn,
company. Several dwelling house
and stores and the town hose house
also we're burned. When the magni
tude OF the fire was realized message
for assistance were sent to st. Alban
and Sutton, Pc, both of which place
sent hose companies to help the Grip
pied local fire department Beside
the Sweet-Comings company's build
ings the following structures wer
destroyed: Joseph Wheeler's laun
dry, Richiord Fruit company's store
II. @. Holt & Co.'s hardware store
hose building of the fire department