The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-24
TWOLOST HUNTERS
HAVE RETURNEOTO
THEIR HOMES
John InesOn and Frank Knapp
Have Trying Experience
TWO NIGHTS IN THE MOUNTAINS
Hall a Sandwich for Each All They
Had to Eat During Three
Days

John lneson and Frank Knapp, the
two lost deer hunters, who had been
in the mountains since Friday. were
brought into the village about IL o.
clock Monday night by a party of
searchers organized by States Attor-
ney w. j. Meagher late in the after
noon.
Although suffering from exhaustion
and lack of food. the two men show
ed no other i'll effects of their exper-
fence.
Both men appeared to be some
what dazed Monday night and could
not give very connected story of
what had happened du.ing their wan
behring's OF three days IL would
seem that they became lost Saturday
and did not obtain their bearings un-
Ill some time Monday. Then they
tramped over the mountains during
the early morning and late in the af
ternoon arrived at Antoine Fishers
camp on the right hand fork of the
Glastonbury stream. Here the rescu-
ing party fround them about y o.
clock in the evening.
Friday night the two hunters slept
at the camp where they had estab-
lshed headquarters with several 9TH
er men who had gone into the woods
TO hunt deer. Saturday noon they
were seen on the top of Glastonbury
mountain by Louis Hon. They they
dropped out OF sight. and. according
to their story did not see human be-
ing until they arrived back in camp
Monday forenoon.
The hunters realized that they were
lost Saturday. All the food they had
with them was sandwich which
they divided and ate late in the day.
Saturday night they camped in a hol.
low under a large birch log. They
had matches and were able TO keep
up brisk fire but could not build a
shelter of any size for the reason
that their knives were too small to
cut heavy brush.
All day Sunday they kept on the
move and passed the night under a
fallen tree, one keeping a fire while
the other obtained what rest he could
on bed and in a shelter of small
boughs which was cut with pen.
knives.
One reason for the failure of the
hunters to find their way out of the
woods was advanced by Knapp who
said that his compass would not
work. The contrary actions of the
magnetic needle he now believes to
have been due to the fact that he
held the compass in one hand and
rife in the other.
During their wanderings the two
men crossed into the town of Som
erset for they sighted some of the
trestles of the Deerfeld Valley Lum-
Der company's railroad. Sunday they
followed a stream for some distance
but finally gave up that plan of max
ing their way out and again took TO
the mountains
shelter, which had been built with a
large plank for background. about
four o'clock in the morning and trav-
eled in an easterly direction until
Knapp. who has tramped the noun
tains and had the better knowledge
OF the country. finally located a land.
mark which enabled him to take a
course toward the camp.
The hunters became lost Saturday
while following the trail of a deer.
Late in the day they gave up trying
to walk down the buck and en-
deavored to back-trail to camp. Sc
many hunters have been through the
mountains during the present season
that they became lost in the maze of
foot tracks.
The hunters went into camp
at Fishers Friday morning with