The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-31
Frank Martell is Missing with
Eldest Daughter and
About $1,000
RAN GROCERY WITH
ENOCH AINSWORTH
Did Profitable Business at Fort DUN
mer Heights Believed to Be In Can
ada Store Under Attachment -
Wife Sold Out Furniture.

Apparently skipping town Monday
night and taking with him his oldest
daughter and about $1,000 of the cash
OF the firm OF Ainsworth 4 Martell at
Fort Dummer Heights. Frank Martcll.
a member OF the firm. j. now believed
to be in Canada. He left here his wife
and four Young children ANA put the
firm in such strai.hts that the Dewitt
Grocery company. wholesale iiIsi. Las
placed an attachment on the store. Mr.
/ AInswoItb. meantime. i cndcaN NJrIu. t.
Straightcn ont matters and hopes 10
make such arrangements with III, crSd-
itorS a TO be able to continue the bus
ness, which has been very satIsfactoi.
4 Horace :. Goodcnough. a former gro
4 Ger. is at present keeper Of the store.
/ 'Enoch Ainsworth, who holds a re-
4 sponsiblc place in the Fort Dummer
I Mill. opened the first little store in tie
1 Fort Dummcr district and that became
/ profitable venture. lie continued his
/ work in the mill and tended tn strre
evenings The business developed 50
that ne had Il building erected for him
and moved into larger quarters. The
business prospcred and another store
building was erected and fhe second
store was opened and Frana Martell
North Adams. Mass. to work in InC
mill. was taken INTO partnership.
Mr. Ainsworth : son was placed II
charge OF the first store. ana finall>
with lis mother took the store leaving
the firm OF Ainsworth < MarteIl 70 con
duct the last one established. Tie trad,
! was principally with the employees O.
the mill and very large business wa,
transacted.
Mr. Ainsworth had been obliged I,
be out OF town much lately. leaving tn
, management OF the business entirel'
to his partner. who was assisted III tn
store by his oldest daughter. Martel
{ had been busilv ina king collection,
I week or more and when asked 4 rev
3 days ago tv his partner about pay in.
4 outstanding bhi~ in town he replie,
. that he had the money iii his pocke
e and was going down town TO settle tn
T. accounts.
d Payday 1T the miU i Monday au
on Monday pveniH9 Mlrtcll n;de q
manN collections Il possible from In
patrons OF the store. When Il uepheN
OF Mr.. Ainsworth opened the store fo
business yesterday morning he foun
that something was wrong. ana uFo
: investigation il was discovered tha
Martell and his oldest daughter wer
missing. Further investigation deNc
u oped the belief that they took the lat
train north Monday night. 50 ii
1 as it has been possible 70 check up,
Il is figured that $1,000. III round nun
% bers. ct the firm ) money went Wit
y them.
n As an instance OF how carefully Ma
lie tell collected coin previous to his Il
Z parturc may he cited the case OF q
family who asked him TO telephone f,
: ton Of coal and paid him for it. WhC
the coal was delivered Yesterday the
was 10 money with which TO pay f,
it. although the family held Il receiI
from Martel showing that they h;
= paid him.
- Mrs. MartelI docs not speak I'm
: lsh. but Yesterday she sold off her fu
niture and household effects and a
lc nouuecd that she would leave town I'll
:. afternoon. She claims TO know not
'd ing Of her husband : whereabouts
y those of her oldest child.
r. The attachment was placed ycstcrd;
afternoon by sheriff G. +. Mann, "
ut installed Mr.. Goodcnou9h as keeper.