Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-09-29
States Policy in Handling Case
against Mrs. Dodge Causes
Unfavorable Criticism
SHE IS A WEALTHY WOMAN
Her Townspeople Discussed a Pc
tition to Governor but Aban-
doned Idea because Sar-
gent Approves Action.

t"d so much excitement and feeling in
Vermont since the days of Mary Rogers
hs tho charge AGAINST Mrs. j. Marshall
Dodg" OF Iunenhurg Heights of having
murdered William Heath of Dalton, ~.
j., is doing writes Edwin j. PARK in the
boston sunday Globe.
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DhNhARt' YEA LIH FA\OI'S HER.
ing heard around the four corners where
, people congregate Is that Mrs Dodge
Is being favored because Of her wealth.
She has something like s25 0ol or 800 600,
Inherited from her husband who was high
sheriff, and who made considerable money
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Hath ,ros an ao.yooing ooo1 r.+vraa
follow who lived with Ms wife IN q ne,+
little cotta9o owned hv nor in Tho town
of Dalton n II four miles from bers
lie was n hard working man who did
some painting and paper hanging and
when there was nothing to do in either
of those lines he would work ont nv the
dav on the farms. or Mt any odd tob
which came along
He had worked for Mrs Dodge before
recently having done some exterior naint-
Ing for her and so far as is known there
never had been any serious trouble be-
tween them, although there is said to
lave been little dispute about the
amount he charged for the outside work.
va SCANDAL TN rtJt, cASr
'' "o" anu ''a''i 'ee" any
,',q.'s'T" ,I %S ~ 'no ,e,'''o,''
:, any '
az ''''' ~ ""s' ."e theory Vi
"'"'' o''e' i1uAt ''ii' Mrs' Douse
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A'Nse 10 .'eut''" ny soine OF her
h''H"oo's WIN peihs woman or violent.
At,1, INV, s,or,od IN ~, 49, ..",e :"
of his case on the theory tha, tho wom,,
had shot Heath in a fit of anger follow
ing hts refusal to work last Saturday
afternoon.
Hunt felt particularly sure of his
premises after the autopsy had heen
held and the physicians had announced
that the bullet which killed Heath struck
him in the back; that he could not have
shot himself there being no powder
marks about the wound and further
that the upward course taken by the hui
let showed II had struck him when he
was In a stooning ,osition onroropt,,.
while painting the mon boards of the
bedroom.
Then there was the admission ~ Mrs
Dodge that the revolver with which tho
shooting had been done was ber nron-
trty and had been kent in a drawer ~
the bureau IN her bedroom She also saia
that there was no one in tho bousa ar
the time of the tragedy but sbo or1
Heath Three shots had been DISCHARGED