The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-16
MRS. POWERS HELD
UP CATTLE TRAIN
Two Car Loads of Stock Examined az
Keene Saturday and Many SUI
fering Animals Killed-shlp-
ner Was a Vermont Man.

r H, Coombs of Richford, w., met
his match at Keene, N. H., Saturday
when two carloads of cattle shipped
nv him to the stock yards at Brighton
Mass were held up by Mrs jennie
B Powers, agent of the Keene hu'
name society, and those which Were
in too bad a condition to Proeeeu
snmmarily taken out and snot, A.,
Mrs. Powers was notified that tne
.-,,o oors were in the train when was
about to pull out for Boston one in.
modiatelv inspected the cars ana OF,
dnrad the railroad to sidetrack the
oors where she could look the stocA
over more thoroughly. The TWO care .ho
were. therefore, sidetracked al t .ho
stock loading yards just east u ,os sno
Woin street crossing, where lafse
orowd of men and boys gathered "
watch the matter o. hood of
old cattle and more than a W.: -
vonro calves. The cattle were al 20 20
so 49, Condition. with the exception u
one, which was neaily ool, and
frigbtfully emaciated and wear, any ~
looIed as if they had had nothlns e., W
not for months Of the caves apUuI
e sai4 W. we're lively as could be Wlsneu u
no. e".A hrt one had been stepped upon
~ t;, ~ was dead and five or SIX otheIs
ware nearly dead. All except st naiL
VIZ W. we're taken out into the stoch
uo~ ~d 20 he looked over, while tne Ca
was vas being bedded with sawduse' s,+bv
The moor of the car was III a,t tbe
oondition and was so slippery tna' t the
oottle could hardly stand, even hr
oaos which were tied to the slals ~
o .ho neok had difficulty IN Keeping
. tne feet while the car was being 'us
oed along by the engine ,, onened
s0U mhon the second car was oPonee
.. andition was far worse thah we. was
The first. The car was oivi ;ddie and
tmo sections in the exact miuu ns and
o om side was divided into uPpei; ,dis
Iauor sections. In these were ahoan
Ultimately placed calves anu ,mdo5
crln' III wore very much cro"ue ~
anu INST have been as many as ~
head in this half. an, 18th voune
H' The other half was iill zee ~ old cows
stock and a few head OF oo o1u bavine
s nne Of these cows was dead, h hefnre
one one nod Da its last some hours o "ho,,,
r rsac Keene. Another her.s was and aV wa.
adv to pass in its cnec n a wb,
re ?39ay in IN the car by Mrs. Powers, WIN tb,
kii l'aa her revolver and shot IL N s sa
P pune III The young stock in ht TINS is t th
neau' IN better shape than thas IL NOR,
was was IN ear, for it was older and tha me en
n nh5e TO H@ stand the journey IN 'nt th en-
a 4ire car, both sections c0un'eo' 'A
were Trs iu1 Powers was helped at nod ig
:. MRS MIR br City Marshal F. A; p Nim:
y var Henry eg ". and Louis A. a.si Nt'i i
arhn did what they could to aS'i 4 hi
VINO Eln matters in the cars, "A nr D.,
ren REM Of sawdust was brought lbo car,
load direction Gi and placed in the 5u Gir
tn'l Give the animals a fooo,ns Freigh
to tGo rem remainder of the Journey, IN ge+
the rem r I. Parkman assisting n ne g
49, az water for the STOCK ND he b,
ting c mr for as well as could ,t Of pp he d
w sore Mrs Mrs Powers let them mo- out to
] lore t;TSt ~ The work took from