News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-08-27
GRACE TYLER SLAIN
Tragic Fate Of Former Morrisville Girl

Tragic Fate Of Former Morrisville Girl
Hundreds of miles from the little towr
Of her birth-Elmore, Vt,-among strangers
heartsck and yearning to return to the
hospitable home of her foster parents,
Grace Wiltshire Tyler died at the hand
of Greek lover in the city of Cincinnati
o., last Monday night and had not &C.
quaintances identified her body at the
morgue the following morning her fate
would have doubtless remained myster,
to her family and friends in this and sur,
rounding towns where she was well
known in her girlhood.
The receipt of letter yesterday by Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene o. Tyler of this village
tells of the killing of their adopted daugh.
ter, who was the daughter of Mr.. aud
Mrs. George Wiltshire of Elmore. The
tragic ending of the young woman is a
sequel to the propaganda of the sect
known as Goods Revivalists" which
swept over a portion of Lamoille count
some years ago and enmeshed the father
of Miss Tyler. The letter which was
dated at Cincinnati, August 10. came
from the Rescue Home of Gods Revival
lists in that city and was signed by Ella
4 Fout, matron, and Emma Meredith, as
sistant maLron. 1t is as follows:-
Dear Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler
thinking that you may never hear
about Grace Tyler again we want to write
you something of her sad end. She was
with us in the home from November 5,
1912, to January IA, 1913. She had been
living with Greek before she came and
after she left the home, up until five
weeks ago she continued to 60 with him.
He threatened her life many times and
last night deliberately killed her. We
identified her at the morgue this morn
ing Just before the undertaken came for
her,"
When the fate of the mere slip of
woman-24 years old-became known
here the handsome girl and her family
were recalled, for much of her life was
spent here after her adoption by the
Tylers.
Grace Wiltshire Tyler was born in the
town of Gilmore beneath the
shadow of Elmore mountain, one of a
faulty of nine cnl dren, seven boys and
no girls. Her father lives i'll Boston.
hypnotized by the teachings
81 the Revivalists when they came to La
mulile county, George Wiltshire, it is
Lnen the adopted daughter of the Tylers,
20 to Ohio and enter the community
work of the sect. Since she went there
ihe stony of her life is unknown to her
friends in Worthwhile and Gilmore though
she had frequently written her foster
She is remembered here as a partic-
Ilarly attractive girl but of high strung
impetuous and headstrong,
She lived here about IA years ago and
vent to Burlington, where she attended |
he Edmunds high school and Evans
Business college. For time she lived |
n the family of Principal E. G. Eva of |
he latter institution. She went from |
Burlington to Ohio. Though her foster
parents devoted themselves to the girl !
he was at times almost uncomfortable |
md yearned to go away.
About year ago Mrs. Tyler received |
! letter from the young woman stating |
hat she.was married. Since then Mrs.
Tyler has received several letters in
which the woman expressed longing to
Ome back to Vermont and to her friends.
'he wrote in homesick vein and ap-
'arently wanted to escape from some
ort of a thralldom.
Miss Tyler WIS sister of Clinton
OF Ellen, Orlo Wiltshire of
eden Corners AID Mrs. Arthur Stowell
f Wolcott.
No details of the killing of Miss Tyler
re known except in a brief telegram to
newspaper in which it is SAID that the
murderer used peculiar Oriental methods
nd intimated that she was white slave
Herald, Aug. %.