Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05
Sues Former Bellows Fails Man.

engagements would be made TO rebuild
at once.
Sues Former Bellows Fails Man.
Mrs. Hetty Green, who formerly had a
residence At Bellows Fails, reputed to be
the richest woman in tine worl6, with the
possible exception of Mrs. Russell Sage,
was in Boston recently defending suit
I in the United States circuit court for less
than ZIG, 900 brought against her for le-
gal services by whipple, Sears and Og-
den, the latter being fcrmer Bellows
Falls boy.
Mrs. Green did not deny in the circuit
court that she is indebted to the firm of
whipple, Sears and ogden, but refused
to pay the bill rendered ON the ground
that it was exorbirant. Her claim is that
Mr.. WhippIe agreed to work for her on a
per diem basis of $3.50. She Is willing TO
pay that for the actual time occupied but
no more.
The case has been going on for several
years, and involves a difference OF only
1 20, 900 or "a 900 at most. Mrs. Green il
spending several times that in defending
the suit.
Whipple, Sears and Ogden, the plain
tiffs, were employed by Mrs. Green to
look after her interests in connection with
the settlement of the estate of her aunt,
Sylvia Ann Rowland, who left her an equi-
table life interest in an estate valued a;
81 800, 600 and the estate of her father.
Edward Mott Robinson. They acted as
her counsel in these matters from April,
1901, till April or May, 1902, when they
declined to continue because Of a dispute
over the value of their services.
In her deposition when the case was
a he tat - /
mony, Mrs. Green said she engaged
Whipple, Sears and Ogden because Mr.
Ogden. whom she had known as a boy,
was the son of sn Episcopal minister.
''He lived three doors from US in Bel
lows Falls, I" she said, land j found mon
ey for him and others to enable them TO
go to school and get an education"
Or. Holton Gives Smallpox WARNING.
DIR. Henry ID. Holton, secretary of the
state board of health, has issued the fol-
lowing smallpox warning to health off,
GERS and physicians of Vermont
Conformation from reliable sources has
been received at this Office that smallpox
is prevailing to an alarming extent in
New Brunswick. While, at this season
of the year, travel from that province TO
the New England states is comparatively
light, careful investigation shows that
persons from infected towns in that prov
ince have entered Maine via vanceboro.
Three came through to Boston, one devel-
oping smallpox and was sent to the small
pox hospital.
'Health officers and physicians at all
points where trains enter the state along
the eastern border should be alert and es-
pecially careful in observing all cases of
eruptive disease, however mild, to the
end that the disease shall not surrepti-
tiously develop in our state. The same Is
true on our western border, as at the
present time several towns in New York
state have cases of this disease.
"We would call attention again, as we
have repeatedly in the past, to the impor-
lance of vaccination, which is the only
sure preventive from an attack OF this
disease"
Mildred Brewster Viii Seek Release.
An effort will be made at the coming
March term of Washington county court
to free Mildred Brewster from the state
insane asylum at Waterbury, and thus
will be revived one of the most harrow
ing tragedies ever known in central Yer
mont. Mildred Brewster and Anna
Wheeler, two Montpelier young women,
were in love with the same man, Jack
Wheeler, and Miss Wheeler was shot and
killed near Montpelier seminary.
Mildred Brewster was arrested q the
murderess and the court found her not