The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-10-27
CAPEN'S DEATH is
STILL A MYSTERY
Llewellyn Kent Being Held as
a Witness.
WAS LAST TO SEE MAN ALIVE
States Attorney Awaiting Report of
State Pathoiogist Who is Making
Analysis of Stomach-Kent Not Gen.
orally Believed to be to Blame.

orally Believed TO be to Blame.
The sudden death OF Osceola 4. Capcn
of West Townshcnd last week Thursday
evening, as told in The Reformer Friday
was investigated hy States Attorney
Frank T. Barber the following day, As a
result Llewellyn Kent is being held al
Newfane jail rs a witness until the state
attorney receives word from the state lab.
oratory as to the result OF an analysis oi
the dead mans stomach. II is not generally
believed that Kent was responsible for
Capen's death although the latter had
been 10 Kent's home Thursday afternoon.
The last seen of Capen by anyone except
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent was Thursday fore
noon about 10 o'clock when he drove mp m
front of c. II. Grouts store. went ln ana
bought a bottle OF liniment for Kent who
was with him. The liniment was Tor Kent
injured foot Kent sat upon the load oi
articles in the wagon At that time tapen
was in his usual health and spirits and
both men were apparently in normal con,
dition The road from West Townshend
village TO the Kent farm, distance oi
about three miles, is extremely hlly ana
those acquainted with the route say that 1t
doubtless took Capen nearly two hours TO
make the trip with his load. That would
correspond to the time at which Kent says
they arrived at the farm. When 'apeh
did not arrive home in time for supper ms
wife became alarmed and about I o'clock
notified his brothers. Allen and Harvey.
knowing that he had started earlier IN
the day for Kcnts farm the Capen broth
ers left Immediately to find why their
brother had not returned. They were
within a half mile of the Kent farm
when their brothers team was found
standing in the road The horses were
browsing leaves. Osceola Capen was found
in the middle of the road at the rear of the
wagon and perhaps dozen feet away,
Near him was bushel bag of potatoes
which had apparently slipped or been
thrown from the load
Allen and Harvey Capen hurried back
short distance to the home of Dr. George
T. Gale and the physician returned to the
scene. Life was barely extinct and the
body was warm. 1t was placed upon the
wagon and taken to Capen's home in West
Townshend village few rods west OF
Grout's store where he was last seen alive
except by the Kents
When word was sent to Mrs Capen that
her husband had met with an accident she
acted as if she had had a premonltlon OF
danger. She was prostrated when told that
he was dead and for several hours seemed
unable to comprehend the sorrow that had
fallen upon her home. When she became
calmer She was interviewed by neighbors
and Deputy Sheriff w. w NanNess but
could give no clue to the affair although
she told how her husband had startee out
in company with Kent 1or the hehu latli,
| Though Mr.. Capen was not driilkIg
man he was known to take cioer az tlnlGs n :
and, knowing TINS, MIS-. SaPe,l Mas ash.' -
either of the men had drank anytnlng pe,
fore leaving tor the heni larhi oht s"Iu Ia
that to her knowiedge ti,es nau llos en- ~
view of the mysterious circumstances sur
rounding the affair 1t was thought pest 70
notify States Attorney Frank ~ barpeI AR
of Brattleboro and he arrived IN Nesl
Townshend FRIDAY forenoon; Altet
brief examination the state attorney te1e'
phoned to Burlington for the state pathos.o'
gist, DR.. B. II. Stone. Kent was sent 10,
and after telling his story, 1t was decided
to hold him until the result OF the autopsy,
was known. He was conducted INTO small
office at the rear of the Grout store Where
Deputy Sheriff Van Ness kept MN ui'set esli
surveillance. kent said that a log LEI,
upon his foot about three weeks ago ano
since that time he had been boarding al
the Capen home. ;..o,;ood
When Llewellyn Kent was interviewed
by Reformer reporter he was suffering
considerable pain from his INJURED ioot
He answered the various Questions put u !,
hlm relative TO the ac,lo.is ~. u, pr,rnssa,
himself as being as mystlhed as the ON
GERS were He professed only the trlendll
est of feelings for Capen and told no, nov
Capen offered to take HIM to the hen
farm. He described the three mule Jour
ney from Grouts store, to the farm an'
said that he thought that he and Capel
must have reached there about noon
After unloading miscellaneous lot OF az
ticles including a live, pig. which escaped
and caused considerable effort to capture
Llewellyn Kent said that Capen .,dickere,
with the woman for barrel OF apples:
He was asked if the woman was ms WIZ m
and acknowledged that she was once pu
a divorce had been granted lie explained
that his former wife lived on his farm a.! an'
that for a few weeks he had been boardi,hI
with Capen in the, village lie told OF I'M
work of chasing the, pig and oargsalnln1I
with Mrs; Kent for the apples, ana "a OF H. loaa ,ra
ing nine bushels of potatoes and the barre ire
OF apples px 1apen' "a NV W. Sa Townsban,
village about / o'clock in the afternoon
When Mrs. Kent was lnteryiewed sne me WA va,
equally sure that Capeen did not leave th' th'
farm until 3 o'clock. she coTroo9ratena ~ ~
story told by her former husband with th'