The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-22
YOUNG WoMAN's FATE
Ran Away With Married Man With
Usual Result

st. Adams, April 22.--With broken
heart and spirit Gertrude II. Ander-
son, the pretty Connecticut girl who
eloped March l with Albert II. Rowell
of Boston a married man, left Thurs
day night for her home in Moodus,
Conn, while Rowell, who led her
astray, blasted her hopes and wreck
ed her life, has been taken to the
state prison at Windsor, TO serve a
sentence of not less than three nor
more than four years at hard labor
imposed in Franklin county court by
Judge Stanton or the charge of big
amy, to which the respondent pleaded
guilty
Rowell has a wife living in Boston
working as a dress maker whom he
married IS years ago, also 10 year
old daughter living in Whitefeld, n.
II. Rowell is 40 and claims TO rep
resent the Chicago Crayton company,
travelling through New England sell
ing frames and pictures. He met the
girl who is 22, pretty and music
| teacher at boarding house in Mood
us the first of February and case of
love at first sight rapidly developed,
he representing himself as a divorced
man.
The girls foster parents, named
Bernetty, could not be won over so
an elopement was planned and carried
out, the pair going first to Danielson,
Conn, then Boston and on to Conway,
N. H., where the ceremony was per-
formed, then to Montreal and to Rich
ford, VT, where they were apprehen-
ded. He was arrested and both came
to this city, where he made clean
breast of the whole affair generating
the girl from all blame, but attribu-
ting unhappiness with his wife as the
cause of the trouble.
Rowell is also said TO be short be-
tween $500 and $500 with his COM
pany At any rate he had something
like this sum when they struck Mon
treal Here they went to the Wind
sor, the swell and expensive hotel of
the Canadian metropolis, and cut a
wide swath for a couple of weeks,
when they took less pretentious lodg
ings and finally came over the line to
Richford. Here the detectives who
had been on their trail located them,
living in a modest way with a family
on River street.
Their funds were now well nigh eX-
hausted, but they seemed to be happy
and contented, and he was preparing
to give a lecture and she to give a
musicale to raise the wind to go into
patent medicine business when the
officers put in an appearance and
their dream was over.
I ID Z. 4,
with a jealous eye over the girl ever
since the affair started, and had often
said that If they were ever caught
that he at any rate would not be ia
ken alive. He had a revolver and
was captured by the clever ruse of
sending a messenger to his boarding
place to call him to the long distance
phone when he arrived he was plac-
ed under arrest, and while he was
gone the girl was apprehended and
their effects looked into.
He claimed that he had tried faith
fully to live with his wife but could
not, and that she finally left him. He
did not try for a divorce on account
of his daughter.
He had nothing to say when SEN
tence was about to be pronounced. In
passing sentence Judge Stanton said
that it was a very pathetic case and
but few criminal cases were devoid of
pathos, that the effects of crime fall
heaviest on innocent ones, the least
able to bear it, but society must be
protected from such grave offenses
as this. The name of the young wom-
an in the case had been blasted for
life and punishment must follow. He
then sentenced Rowell, who took the
lecture and sentence cody and walk
ed out of court with a jaunty air in
custody of the officer