The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-05
BULLET MYSTERY
MAY BE CLEARED
BY DR.. B.H. STONE

toned Nv Attorney General Rufus f.
Brown ~ sr4ard tn her talk with DR.
George H. Anderson on the night Of
the shooting, She said that whatever
she told the physician was true. She
admitted that during tile afternoon
she had been talking with Foster about
having trouble with Pr0uty and that
Foster did not like TO have her take
Pronty's part. She added that she most
always took the part OF others against
Foster.
She admitted that She told the doctor
that Foster had been continually
sasSing prouty, hut denied telling
him that Foster had been waiting for
ffouty and that Foster left the house
A-hen he heard Prouty $ wagon coming
long the road. She admitted that dur
INC the evening OF the tragedy She told
= Foster calling Prouty q vile wretch
and a criminal. She found box Of
cartridges III the house. She testified.
ahd gave them to Attorney T. ". Glib
son
Attorney Gibson tor the defense
asked her as to her mental condition
on the night of the shooting and She
replied that she was very much confus
81 and excited and that She might
have said something that was not
strictly true.
Judge Gibson was then placed upon
the stand and identified the box of
- eallbre cartridges aud testified that
he had found also three empty shells
ON bureau and had turned them over
| to the officers
beputy Sheriff John Mcdonald idcn-
tined the revolver and cartridges that
| hat been turned over to him by- Con
| stable Green Worden and also the
empty shells
| Hosea Fisher was the next witness
and he told OF being notified by Mrs.
| Cumming OF the shooting and of going
| to the Foster place with his son. Ora.
where they found the body of Proutv
| lying on its back by the side OF the
road. lie had heard Foster threaten
| Prouty on various occasions the past
| year and on one occasion heard him
say that he would knock his d
head OFF
On cross examination hv Judge Glib
son he said that Foster was good
neighbor, and remembered hearing his
son say that Foster had said Proutv
had Shot at hjm once when he was
down in the meadow with Walter
| Nichols and that Prouty had threaten
cd to burn Foster S buildings. He also
remembered Proutv saving once that
ii Foster did not keep away from his
place he would fill him full of hot
lead.
Merritt Fisher, son of the previous
witness, had once heard Foster say
that Prouty ought to bc filled full OF
hot lead, but he did not remember
when On. cross examination he was
not sure whether Foster had said
Prouty ought to he or that he woul,
not mind if proutv was filled with it
. Ora Fisher testified along similar
lines rs his brother regarding threat.
specifying one time when Foster ha,
said that it would do Proutv good t.
, get a licking. On cross examination
he did not remember that. Foster ha,
: said that he. himself. would do it.
Fred Carpenter OF Marlboro. one,
an cmplove Of Foster, had heard Fos
ter say that he would close Prouty
mouth and close it quick. On eros
: examination by Judge w. r. Daley h,
ladmitted that he had had trouble witt
j.. Foster and that he might have said 4
one time that he would live Ion.
; enough to get even with Foster.
f Sidney Coleman, a blacksmith, VIII
: was under cross examination when tn
{ court adjourned for the noon recess
a testified that he had heard Foster de
: clare that he woulud drive Proutv OF
: the hill either dead or alive and on al
other occasion, had head him declar
{ that he ''would do Proutv as quick a
l he would a skunk. He said that h
t had heard the respondent utter nnmel
OuS Of her throatS
l. On cross examination by Judge d;
n ley he said that he had no hard fee
ings against Foster and no desire
-f the ease except to see justice done. Il
: admitted that he had testified fC
: Prouty in the well known deer-killin
: cases and that Mrs. Cumming worke
: for him before she became housekeept
= for Foster.
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