The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-10-30

Elroy Kent, alias William Allen, VIII
was taken into custody al fittsield, Mass
"Wednesday Of last week while tilins y
DISPOSE vi a stolen bicycle and whose popi
live identity was established SATURDAY al
ternoon by Deputy eherilis A. A, Leon
ard Of n alllngioni and A. w. j, Niiklni
oi HntIlebofO, was taken 10 Rutland bl
the Vermont oiiiccs Monday aud is nov
ia Jail 10 answer 10 the charge Of murder
ing Miss Della H. Congdon OF last Wal
lingiod July -. On July 10 Kent CO
oaIs,d from the state asylum Tor the an
sane at Waterbury, aud j. known 10 have
been IN East Mallingioni on the day OF the
Congdon murder An indictment has been
returned against him by the Rutland ooun'
IL grand jury and Kent wall he held at the
Rutland jail until action y taken ON the
case.
The first identification came about
through Investigation made by Maj. James
Mckay OF Northampton IN his search Tor
a man who was wanted Tor two oilenses OF
breaking, entering and larceny. One OF
these Oticn-cs was committed at Hocka'
mum Sept. -, this year, when storehouse
owned by Contractor OConnor, who built
the new Mount Holyoke road, was broken
into and various articles, including a suit
case. clothing and razors, were stolen. The
other burglary WIS committed at a sum
mer house OF Thomas \. Sullivan ON the
Connecticut river near Northampton, from
which various articles were taken the 9TH
OF this month. Maj. Mckay had de
scription OF u man who was supposed 10
have committed these burglafies, and when
he was in Pittslield last week Thursday
he read description in the Plttsheld pa
pers OF man who tried TO sell a bicycle
TO plain clothes officer in that city. Maj.
- tall IN
the way TO New lork state, where he in
tended TO make some further investigation
concerning the alleged fence" for stolen
horses which was recently unearthed.
On his return Friday he stopped of in
Pittstield and visited the jail. lie reeog-
nized the man who was held on suspicion
OF bicycle stealing at once as the man who
was wanted for the two burglaries. The
appearance OF the man also corresponded
to considerable extent with that OF FL
roy Kent, who was wanted in Vermont |
for murder.
Kent's escape from the asylum at Water |
bury caused great excitement throughout |
Vermont, and for a time it was feared |
that desperate deeds would mark his |
fight, for his capacity for mischief is well |
known. Man hunts were the order of the |
day, and armed with rifles large posses of
men secured the country in an Intellectual
search for the escaped criminal. Not only
was the search taken up in the imme-
date vicinity OF Waterbury and Walling-
ford, but all through the state men IA
miliar with his habits and haunts carried
on the work. On July "a, when the death
Of Miss Congdon was discovered, the
search was renewed but to no purpose.
When Kent was arrested in Pittsfeld he
gave his name as William Allen and said
he hailed from Schenectady, n. y, where
he had been employed for some time as a
aborer by man named Schermerhorn.
Kent has had an interesting career, and
% the police officials of the state has been
| bugbear for more than 20 years. Start
ng in his criminal career at the tender
lge of seven years, he has been in police