Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-10-25
SLAUGHTER OF DEER
More Than so Animals Killed in
Windham County Towns
Weighing $50 Pounds-compIcate
Gases In Putney.

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| in Windham county. 1t is evident
at the present time that over 50 deer have
| been shot within the limits of the county
| and large number have been slain in the
| adjoining towns of Windsor and Ben
nington counties The returns are not
complete, but reports are given from a
| ma ajority of the towns by correspondents
| of The Phoenix.
Two deer were shot in Brattleboro Mon
day. one by Bert Akley of West Brat
! tleporo in the Ames hill district, buck
weighing 135 pounds, and the other a
| buck somewhat larger, a victim of the
craftsmanship of Hugh Dunklee, son of
f. c. Dunklee. This was shot near the
| Dunklee farm. DIR. +. r. Lynch brought
into town a deer which has been on ex-
hibtion at the Richardson market. The
| main results in Windham county towns
are given in the following paragraphs:
Dummerston is easily the banner deer
| hunting town. in Windham county, six
large bucks having been shot within its
borders, while two Of its residents Sc
| cured deer elsewhere in the state.
One of the largest deer ever slain in
this section was shot on Black mountain
in Dummerston early Monday morning
by Mr.. Whitney, a resident of West
minister. This animal weighed $50
pounds. Whitney fired seven times and
three of the bullets took effect. The deer
| "showery' prongs Frank Laughton, the
lawyer, and his brother, Charles Laugh
ton, made lucky strike near their home
on Tuesday. They had been hunting in
the west part Of the town near the New
fame line without success and were re-
turning home when they sighted two
deer which quickly took to cover They
secured assistants, who went into the
woods and drove out the animals Frank
and Charles each dropped a buck, the one
shot by the former weighing 220 pounds
and that by the latter 200 pounds.
A. L. Reed shot one Monday near John
Houghton's. weight about 200 pounds
Charles O'Neil got n fat specimen of a
spikehorn, weight about 200 pounds, near
the F. o. Downs place. Monday morning
G. f. Herrick, who lives on the Wheeler
place in Brattleboro on the Putney road,
and Raymond Simonds. employed by Frank
Sargent, brought down a buck yesterday
in B. S. Balestier's pasture. Its weight
was about 200 pounds. Fred w. Hall OF
Brattleboro and Walter Hall wounded
big buck west of the middle town of
Dummerston Monday. The animal fell
and although they shot II again it es-
capped. Frank Wilder. son of Fred Wild
er, and an employe OF Walter F. Walker
shot near Dan Wilders a buck Weighing
PCS pounds. The scene OF this shooting
is on the old Elliot Halladay place in
Marlboro, close to the line between Marl-
horo and Brattlehoro. E IT Miller re-
tdrned SDunimel ston Wednesday night
with large spikehorn deer which he
shot in Bondville.
A report comes from Bondville that two
more deer were killed in Winhall yester-
day, making five in all in that town.
Both. hunters successful yesterday were
residents of the town, Earl Lackey get
ting a buck weighing 243 pounds, Frank
Starke one weighing 200 pounds. One
deer has been shot near East Jamaica.
Lewis. Lynde, game warden in Dunn
merston, reports that the successful deer
hunters have promptly obeyed the new
provision of the law, requiring heads OF
animals to be exhibited to the nearest
warden.
Several hunters were out yesterday af-
ter two large bucks which have been
seen repeatedly the past three seasons
on the farms on the main roads north of
Brattleboro in Dummerston. These bucks
travel together and are seldom seen with
does. The larger one is of mammoth
proportions and is estimated by those
who have seen him to exceed 400 pounds
in weight. This buck is very light col
ored. The other, which is of more tnan
ordinary size, is darker than his COM
panion. These two bucks have greatly
damaged several gurdens by eating beans,
Cabbage and other vegetables.
The hills in Putney have been dotted
with deer hunters throughout the week
and five specimens shot have been exhib-
tied to the wardens Mr.. Still. station
agent at East Putney, shot one early
Tuesday morning weighing 25O pounds.
Handsome deer were brought down the
same day by Clayton Coane and James
Noonan of Brattleboro, who is now liv-
ing in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Some
excitement was created by the report that
Noonan was a nonresident who was
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showed his tax receipts and proved that
he is a legal resident of Brattleboro.
He was hunting with his cousin Henry
Houghton, on the ranges of Skinner hill
between Putney and East Putney when
the buck was sighted with three does
just before sunset. Noonan fred twice
at distance of Is rods, both shots TAX
ing effect Coane's deer was shot in the
same neighborhood about 20 minutes
earlier. Coane also was successful last
year and the year before. Fred Martin
secured a deer in Putney yesterday
morning, which tipped the scales at 227
pounds. controversy arose in Putney
which required the presence yesterday
of County Game Warden Roswell Frost
of Brattleboro. John Underwood and
Fred Hannum shot simultaneously at a
deer Tuesday afternoon. The animal was
wounded and was trailed some distance
A deer supposed to be the one shot by
thSsS lWo men was IOunu wednesday by
Arthur Lowell a short distance from
where the trail was abandoned Tuesday
Lowell was ordered to turn the game over
to Warden Robbins, who reported to
other authorities
Our Bellows Falls correspondent writes
The deer season is proving to be a good
one In this section this week. The fol-
lowing hunters have brought down their
quarry: George Morris of Rockingham
one on the Weeden farm; d. NJ. Maloney,
$50 pound buck also near Rockingham;
man named Clayton one on or near the
town farm at Bartonsville, and a farm
hand Of o. ]. Divoll OF Rockingham one
on Mr.. Divoll's farm, all four of which
are hanging at the market of A. NJ. Rich
ards here. Ernest Reynolds, son OF
Ralph Reynolds Of the Wheeler laundry,
shot a 250-pound- buck on the Slate farm
near the dwelling Tuesday. Wednesday
a number of Polanders living in the
Howard block brought in a small spike
horn deer. Yesterday II was reported
that two more had been killed in Rock
ingham during the day, but the details
not ascertained. Eight killed in this
town up to Thursday afternoon is a large
record.
The Jacksonville correspondent re-
ports that no deer were killed near
that village but that c. II. Faulkner OF
Readsboro shot one in the western part
OF the town. and that a son OF Oliver
LaPlant and a boy at Addison Whites
were each successful.
Up to Wednesday night It was reported