The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-10-20
DATE OF FOSTER
TRIAL PROBABLY
WILL BE THE 18th

~ oit thItltI vi Il room u Ililt anu u
shotgun and called the attention Of
Deputy Sheriff John Mcdonald to
them and had the deputy watch him
as he took them and placed them un
der a mattress on a bed with the re-
mark that it was better to have them
out of sight if any other than officers
should gain admittance to the house.
Judge Daley, who had the keys of
the house in his possession, when he
prepared to leave, asked Deputy Me
Donald to nail up the windows and
lock the doors and leave the keys for
him at the Brooks House pharmacy.
When Judge Daley left, Mrs Cumming
and Mcdonald were engaged in mailing
the windows. Mr. Daley had already
made arrangements for the care Of the
stock Judge Daley found the keys
had been left for him as requested.
This being the ease. and with the
additional fact that Judge Daley, ia
looking through Fosters trunk, had
removed some papers and books which
had to do with suit brought against
him by Miss Minerva Bliss, owner of
the farm before Foster took it and his
first housekeeper. and had called the
attention Of Deputy Mcdonald to the
fact that he had some papers and Of
fered to permit him to see what he
had taken. but We are unable to un-
| dcrstand why the state. which was not
represented at first by anyone in the
capacity of a state : attorney, found
/ il necessary to break into the house.
smash open the trunk and chop down
an upstairs partition. Officers Of the
/ state knew they could have had the
1 keys at any time for the asking and
| had been offered Il chance to investi-
| gate the contents of the trunk at the
time we had our first opportunity to
examine them.
1.-THE story that Mrs. Cumming is
alleged to have been told that Foster
rode away from the scene of a murder
in Virginia on the same horse he rode
Thursday evening 70 give himself up
to the officers Of the law. is 4 fullacy,
for Foster bought that horse in Troy,
y. y. juJt before he came to this
section and he has not been in Nir-
giuia or near that state since then.
Furthermore, we are satisfied that he
ueithcr committed a murder nor ever
told anyone that ne had
sheriff Clifford T. Mann. when ask
ed last night over the telephone wheth-
err the weapon from which the @s
caIibre bullet that killed Prouty was
fired had been found, declined to state.
lie admitted that Il rifle and shot
gun had been found and that the rifle
was not of IS calibre.
ATTORNEYS for the defense say that
they have no knowledge OF the finding
OF a 3s cahbrc weapon, but say that
there was ample time for it to have
been found before the arrival OF the
officers or attorneys at the scene, toI
there were p people in and about the
, Foster house when counsel reached
there ;et about the same time the hrst
officers did.
The fact that the body Of ProutN
was run over bv an automobile as n
: lav partially in the roadway was mad'
known today by the counsel for th'
: defense. basing this statement upol
: others made to them that night
: People, who were there when .'udg'
Daley and Judge Gibson arrived, sac
!, that 4 large touring ear bearing reli
: tives of Prouty had run over the bod'
i'm spite Of the fact that lanterns h1'
been waved as a signal to them q
) stop.
some time ago, Foster, who did no
send for his trunk for two years afte
! he began making his home on the BIS
i farm. in going through the trunk cam
across some circulars aud other material
!. he used when he was on the lectur
!, platform extensively. ana gave one 9
them to Mrs. Bliss.
= The circular, the front page OF wine
was adorned with an eXcellen
Z picture OF Foster, gave his address 2
! Poultney, Vermont, and styled hlmsel
: rs = The Famous Book Agent, ais
I s'Traveler. Writer and Lecturer.
The second page contained an opl
- - ion and description of himself, as 70
Z lows: l.. A. Foster is a publisher, 2
! 50 general agent for the weil-know
Nichols K Co, Of the West. lie trave
about ten Thousand miles n year, an
- with the agents under him sells, on II
: average, 4 book every fifteen minute
= Nearly all the larger publishing hous'
i have sought his services. lie has
!, splendid class of agents who have so
in cooperation with his own person
G. efforts over a hundred thousand doila
! worth Of books lie will not handle
m cheap book or bother with a che;
m agent. lie hates anything that IS chea
and with him the honest man is j
!, deed the noblest work of Gods but Il
-, dishonest man is indeed the meane
,roo work Of the devil.
IL He has had courses III law and til
Ve ology and when asked why he don
bo enter one of those professions. reple
he My pleasure and profit are in the bo
business, and here | hope TO rema
40 through many years and ma
cir countries. In the word book can
found the author and fnsher of civ
ore ization, and and everything that