The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
The Man Without a Grave


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The auastios was, What had become
4 ths bodgf That Dick sturtevant
vas dead was not the question OF
lnestiea a. ell He had been visiting
Ihs electrical works OF Peter Robin
lon a Co. was Shown through BY the
ilectr1csi engineer. had grasped live
lod, rsoeiv1ng some 10000 volts OF elec.
Ficity. and passed from life 10 death
70 quickly that be hadn't the slightest
ionsciousneeg Of the transition. New.
IItheleas an effort was mad0 TO resus.
ntate him, but after half an hours
constant application Of all sorts Of
Dstmulants without the slightest sign Of
improvement the work ceased.
AL this happened about 10 O'Clock in
me morning. The undertaken did not
appear III 4 In the afternoon, when
No key b the room 81 witch the body
Ay was handed him, and he went up
stairs. He returned 10 the ONCE, say
Ing that there was nobody, dead or
Alive. IN the room and there must be
gome mistake. Several men declared
that they bad put Eturteynnts corpse
h that very rooTn aud there was no
mistake about II, but they bad never
been in that part Of the building be-
teFs and didn't know there were sew.
Hsi vacant rooms there. Anyway,
EhsFe seemed TO be some doubt AZ to
which OF the rooms had been used.
Tkis doubt grew Ill the matter was
lost In confusion. The only plausible
theory Of the disappearance was that
the body had been stolen by medical
students for dissection. Since there
was surgeons college in the neigh.
horhood, this finally came to be the
accepted explanation.
The heartrending part OF II all was
that sturteyant was engaged to be
married. Every one sympathlzed with
the girl be had left behind him, espe-
eiaiiy that she should be prevented
from paying due respect to bis re-
mains. Ne one else was especially In
Ierested since the deceased had been
IN only child and both bis father and
mother we're dead. The wedding was
o have come on In few days. and
he cards were out The bride to be
yut On mourning. shut herself up and
would see no one.
a year passed, and Miss Mlnton-
hat was the girls name threw OF her
nouFnina, and 1t was reported that
he was again engaged % wed. Then
everybody said that she had been
about her grief for eturte-
rant, had had another lover most OF
he time since bis death and had only
waited the conventional year allotted
% widows to marry another man.
These reports were repeated 70 the
ady, and they made her very angry.
1t was supposed to be on this nc
cunt that she did not give the name
Il her new l0ver--that Ii, If she had
,ne, which must be since she did not
Ieny the reports OF her engagement.
Besides, II was known that she was
iaving certain articles OF her trous-
eau Of year before altered TO meet
.hanges Ia fashion, doubtless 70 be
lsed as an outfit In her marriage with
he man who had taken the first low
rs place. This set everybody talk
ng. "Its shameful said Mrs. Cloudy,
che way that girl has treated poor
going to wear the same
Kings she was to have worn on her
honeymoon With him why. she hasn't
ven given him headstone,"
where would she put it2' inquired
dias Reasoner.
nOh, yes; 1 didn't think Of that, AZ
n events. It's shocking about the