The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-08-28
STILL MORE UNCERTAINTY.
As 70 tho Truth Of the Chesterfield
Robbery STORY.

2 sleis leek inio the i'eEsis Tlasn,s..,,
F"nhrsN story al Nest Chesterfield. AZ,
lAeir nnppfiain ihey become as h
ehai frailf secured there that daN
snd hos much money. ii anY, MTs
heini'son really losl. saws the keens
.h'il.l, II will 30 remembered thai
Ais' THOMPSON, Who Is ID yraTs old
sna hNgs alone IN the village. claimed
ihat while AZ her daughter 8 home
Aug u her house was hrnk.n oI.~,,
and $4,000 10 bills and ieaelry OF az
from. '''''
No one, 80 far as could be asoeF,
laihnd, had ever seen the large sum In
nills IN packages II slO0, which Mu.
thompson described as lost, eKeept
herself She said she kept The money
seMed 1p ~ what looked Like a pillow,
hSM IN hand bag IN a trunk. Aaiur,
el ihynlties Were IN order as % how
aud where Mfs, Thompson got Ills
money. That she had had money h.,
came evident when IL Appeared that
she had no other source uI income, an
l'aIehtly, aud had not had Any IoT a
number OF years, Nevertheless she
Aas q the habit Of paying cash, often
IA b,lls OF old dates. for whatever she
purchased.
The hrsi matter looked into was an
alleged deposit Of money made by Mr..
thompson within q year or two al Mr..
richardson : bank IA RraitlcboTo. Her
daughter, MIS-, Davenport, also Of
Chesterfield, was positive thai her
mother deposited $500 In a Bfattlp- |
bofo bank at one time. The daughter !
said she counted the money herself aud /
saw her mother 70 into the bank with 4
AZ, aud deposit H. Later she said she
did not see her deposit the money, bat II
waited outside while her mother went /
into the bank, where she supposed she
lett the money. The daughter may not /
nave been positive which bank IL was
and she could not tell whether 1t was
last spring, year before that or two
Years before when she and her mother
went over there.
Search for evidences Of this deposit
revealed Vermont Savings bank
book among insurance policies aud 9th.
= papers OF Mrs. Thompson :. The
I'D lady had no idea where this book
vas and did not appear TO consider IL
thing 10 be carefully kept. The
'ank mentioned is not Mr. Richard.
on 8 bank (Which is national bank
nd Mr.. Richardson said he never
new or had dealings with Mrs.
thompson. The Vermont Savings bank
ook had these deposit entries: Oct.
pos, $500; May 1906. $500: Oct. 1906.
400; total, sl700. No interest had
YER been drawn. The pass book
grces with the books at the bank.
hen shown this book Mrs. Thompson
cclared IL was not hers and that she
ever went 10 that bank. Both moth
! and daughter remained positive that
1900 were placed IN Brattleboro
ank ut one time.
The next thing TO ascertain was
here the $1,000 deposited. and other
onies OF Mrs. Thompson s had come
ON. She said she received her mon.
: from the estate of her father,
oses Dudley of Chesterfield, who died
1874 leaving widow besides her.
II. The probate records show that
c administrator of Mr.. Dudley's es.
te. John B. Fiske, on petition, com
aimed TO the court that Mrs. Thomp.
n had embezzled a note for $500
longing to the estate; that she was
amined and testified the note had
en- assigned to her in 1871. and that
ly Sl7O0 was due on it; that she re.
sed TO produce the note; was ordered
be committed to jail and received no
ney in the settlement of her ia
II IS estate. Also that her husband,
manZo Thompson, was under guard
lship in 1880 and his estate then
ounted to but $500. He was living
Chelsea, Mass, with his wife, as
e as 1852, and when he died is not
own, but he probably had little If
, property. Mrs. Thompson S daugh-
who lived in R0xbury and else
ere near Boston, her mother says,
S a canyasser and rented apartments
as high cost as $50 a month TO
, in--which is unusual for a can
ser. She died there but her estate
never settled in probate court and
mother is believed to have taken
ltever she owned. The other daugh-
Mrs. Davenport, says she got moth
from and knows nothing about her
er s estate.
rom the above and numerous other =
les told by Mrs. Thompson, and or
,rwards absolutely contradieted by az
or found to be untrue, it appears t 70
me authoi niee end' nv .t sylv
teVer can pe placed On nel ss Mu New
export knows very little about her
her s financial affairs There is
,lutely no way now known of iudg- M
how much money Mrs. thompson earl,
" had in her house Aug. IL. And her
~ to advanced years and infirmi- char
She is evidently much broken, some
tally. delic
ill, it seems probable That she mad cOnd
ey left by her, at that time. and last
, or less jewelry, as she has claim with
Had she been out of money she in h
d have been likely to have paid Robt
attention to her bank deposits. Oct.
is she correct in her statement and
she had $4,000, and il anything lived
stolen from her house, what was MARI
This still appears to be an open Robb
ION. bong