Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-04
Child Carried Away In Closed Auto
mobile,

An unfortunate affair occurred last
Friday afternoon in which a number of
people well known in Bellows Falls had
parts. A daughter of Frank F. Shep-
ard of Hotel Wentworth in Walople, for
merly of Hotel Windham here, was
married several years ago to Frederick
G. Winnewisser, son of August F. Win
newisser of this place They have a
bright, beautiful son of four years. An
estrangement came between the couple
and they separated last July, Mrs. Win
newisser, with the child, making her
nome with her father at Hotel Went
worth. Friday afternoon a tightly cur
tanned automobile was seen near Hotel
wentworth a half-hour or more and
when the little boy playing on the lawn
was seen to be without immediate COM
panions, a man leaped from the auto
mobile took the child without wraps for
travelling in the automobile, and drove
rapidly to Bellows Falls Mr.. Shepard
followed quickly, and the child in the
care of his father and others took the
afternoon train for Springfield, Mass.
Mr. Shepard boarded the same train, ex-
pecting papers to hold the child when
the train reached Brattleboro, but thew
were not forthcoming, and the child
was taken out of the state. 1t is under
stood to be in the custody of it's father
in the state of New Jersey, where the
Winnewisser family are to make their
future home. Much sympathey is express
ed for the unfortunate occurrence, and
particularly for the mother and her par
ents.
Mrs. John Peters returned to her
home in Boston Saturday after a stay
of several weeks at NJ. II. Rays.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, the pure food
expert, is scheduled to speak in Bel
lows Falls Monday evening NOV. 4, ana
much interest is expressed in hearing
him.
The new steel bridge over the Con-
necticut has been completed this week,
and the Boston Bridge company's men
left town Wednesday. The second track
across the new structure has not been
laid.
wallace V. Camp, who mas been here
| seven years, has resigned his position
| as bookkeeper for the Bellows Falls
| Trust company He will go to Spring.
| field, Mass, next week to take a DO
sition in a national bank.
There have been issued 235 hunters
| licenses thus far this year from the
! town clerks office, which is about 70
more than in the same length of time
| last year and a little over half the
| number that were issued in the whole
| season last year.
The moving picture theatre, which has
been run for several months in the
| opera house by A. F. Winnewisser &
| Sons company changed hands this week,
| the property and good will having been
| bought by the Kimball company, who
are erecting a new building for the
| purpose between Canal and Rockingham
| streets. Mr.. Wnnewisser and family
| left town Wednesday for their new home
| in New Jersey, intending there to en-
| gage in the same line of enterprise. Mr.
| Winnewisser has been a business man
years, and is well known in all this To-
| cality.
DR.. E. r. Campbell, DIR. G. H. Cor
ham, Mrs. Gorham and Miss Alvira Cor
ham are in Winchester. Mass, today
attending the funeral of Francis c. Hall,
| only son of Alfred S. Hall, an attorney
of that city, a native of Wetminster
and a man well known in all this local.
ty. Alfred s. Hall was principal of the
Bellows Falls high school in 1870 and
1871 The son was "a years old and I'M
married He graduated from Dartmouth
in 1902. He served in the 5th Massachu-
sets regiment in the Spanish war and
afterward was employed as civil engi-
neer with the Mississippi river commits
sion at st. Louis, and later with Stone
IL Webster in Boston. For six years he
owned and managed a large cattle
ranch at Alpine, Tex, which he sold
early in July, and thereupon returned
to his Massachusetts home His health
had suffered from overstrain, yet his
death was wholly unexpected For sew
eral months he had been at Marr's
Camp, Maine, and Dr. and Mrs. Cor
ham recently spent week there with