The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-09-10
CAREER OF BROWN
FAMILY is CHECKED
Father, Mother and Eldest Son
Under Arrest.
CAPTURED IN WINDSOR, CONN.
Mr.. Brown Refuses to Return to Mas
|. sachusetts Where His Wife Was Sent
to House of Correction and Son to
Recommendations Local Victims.

| TO House OF COTTeCUlou anu QUIZ "
ACCOMMODATIONS Local Victims.
The Browns have reached the end OF
their rope Their destination was reached
at Windsor Conn, Friday, when George
w. Brown, once resident OF BrattleboTo
for 10 days, was taken into custody
charged with alleged crooked transactions
in Massachusetts On Thursday of last
week Brown hired horse and surrey OF
Farrell. the Chicopee liveIyman, to drive
to the station in that town. Instead of
making a trip to the station he drove to
Warehouse Point where the animal be-
came exhausted. Becoming suspicious the
liveryman put tracer on the track OF
his team and located it in Windsor.
Deputy Sheriff Edison A. Weleh of
Windsor took Brown into custody Friday
afternoon after chase. Brown arrived
in Windsor Thursday afternoon and hired
house as is his custom wherever he stops
for few days. Returning to Warehouse
Point to get the horse which he left at a
livery stable he could not show funds and
the owner of the team, Mr.. Farrell, had
notified the police of Windsor to be on the
lookout for Brown. Through trunk
shipped by express from Chicopee to Wind
sor Mr. Farrell got on the track OF Brown.
The Windsor authorities were notified
| and Deputy Sheriff WEIGH accompanied the
officers to the Adams Express office where
they found the trunk and waited for its
owner. Brown came for 1t Friday after
noon and when he saw Farrell and the off
GERS he started to run. but was captured.
He said his wife had sent postal to Far
rell telling him where the horse was and
when they would return it,
That same evening Chief of Police
Thomas Manning of Greenfield, Mass,
went to Windsor to return with James
Brown, the l9-vear-od son of George W.
Brown, who mad been placed under arrest
at the request of the Greenfield police
Saturday morning the younger Brown ac.
Sompanied Chief Manning to Greenfield
and Mrs. Brown was allowed to visit her
step-daughter in Bellows Falls that she
might see her two younger children, SIN
and nine years. She returned to Green
field Tuesday morning and appeared IN the
district court, pleading guilty to charge
of larceny of a horse valued at 500 and a
buggy worth S25, the property of Roger
Rourke, liveryman Of that place. Her
son James pleaded guilty to the same
charge. The woman was sentenced to one
wear in the house of correction and the
boy was sent to the Massachusetts, state
reformatoly at Concord for year.
Mrs Brown said she was a native o.
Canada and brought up in Haverhill, n.
married IA man 30 years older than myself,
and have since had an awful hard time.
Because my husband would not work, we
are now without a dollar and he is to
blame for all our trouble. I'm not bum
or a thief, but | know | have done what
ought not to have done, and II the court
will give me a chance | will do better"
The $50 obtained from the sale OF the
horse, she said was turned over to Chief
Manning.
Brown himself refused to be extradited
and was sent to Jail at Hartford, Conn, as
a fugitive from justice to await formal
demand by the governor of Massachusetts
for his eXtraditioIH 1t is expected that
the man will be surrendered by the Con
necticut authorities Tuesday and taken to
Chicopee, Mass.
The exploits of the Brown family since
leaving Bratteboro Aug. Is are many, and
differ slightly from those INDUCED IN
while they were here. A dispatch from
Windsor. Conn, Friday says that G. W.,
alias T. w. Brown is wanted not only, IN
Vermont and New Hampshire but that
he has been working his game IN 1ennSyl
vana and New York.
II is believed that the Browns were in
some way connected with band OF gypsy
horse traders that camped on the island
during the stay of the Browns in Brattle-
boro as Mr.. Brown was apparently well
acquainted with the gipsies. While the
family purchased a large amount OF gro.
ceries and provisions during their III days
stop here it is not believed that they used
them for their personal needs nor that they
carried them all away. There is reason
to believe that the Browns shared a large
amount of their stores with the gipsles.
The family purchased 100 pounds of Ice
each day and as either Mr.. Brown or his
wife made a carriage trip to the island
every day it is supposed that large part
of their ice went to the horse traders. Dur
Brown appeared one day with white
horse instead of the bay one that he drove
into town. Among the attempts OF the
Browns was one to induce the solicitor OF
the Metropolitan Life Insurance company,
Mr.. .Johndro. to write policies on the whole
family. As Mrs Brown didn't care what the
expense was the agent became suspicious
and deferred his visit. Though the Browns
possessed horse of their own they invarl-
ably hired one when they took their daily
drive. John G. Baker the liveryman, was
the philanthropist in this case. A Marlboro
butter and egg vendor sold the Browns
fruit from his dairy and hennery until they
established their habit of not paying and
then told his customers that he would
have to stop. Among the groceries pur-
chased by the Browns was a liberal supply !
of raisins Whether they fed their horse |
on raisins is only a surnise but they pur- |
chased enough so it is claimed, to last a
family six months
While no attempt was made to hold the |
woman in Connecticut it is claimed that |
hers was the master mind behind the eX- |
plots of the family, for whenever Mr. |
Brown was Intercepted in her presence |
regarding money matters or whenever in |
formation was sought concerning the past |
history of the family Mrs. Brown was the |
spokesman and she was the one that ne
gotiated the greater part of the crooked |
The man was evidently well acquainted |
with this section of Vermont and Massa- |
chusetts and it is believed that his story |
was true concerning his former employ |
ment by the Central Vermont railroad, for |
his knowledge of many old-time railroad |
men on this division of the Central Yer
mont could not have been acquired except /.
by working with them. The man posed in =
TIinsdale as a tracer of lost freight on the
Passumpsic division of the Boston x Maine !
railroad.
Ii is rather doubtful whether the Browns
will be brought back to Vermont to an
swer to the several charges against them, |
though there are several Brattleboro mer- |
chants willing to spend a few dollars to |
get Mr.. and Mrs. Brown within the lurls |
diction of Vermont officers. Three body |
wTits for Mr.. Brown are in possession OF |
Vermont officers. Deputy Sheriff ID. L.
Thompson of Bellows Falls is one OF the |
Vermont officers interested in the case.
WHEEL CLUBS GREAT DAY.