The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-11
WOMAN ISCHARGED
WITH DEATH OF
HER HUSBAND
Mrs. Alta Blowers Of Rupert
Now In County Jail
HUSBAND DIED SATURDAY
Woman Admits That She Hit Him on
the Head with a Stick
Week Ago

Mrs. Alta Blowers. who says she is
B. years old. but who looks 10 be con-
sidosably older. is in the county Jail
charged with being responsible for
the death OF her husband. Elbe-t
Blowers who died Saturday morning
at his home in the Southwestern
part of the town of Rupert.
Blowers death is presumed to
have been caused by a blow on the
head delivered with a stick Of stove
wood in the hands OF his wife but
this conclusion can not be dehniteI,
determined until after the autopsy
which was 10 have been made this
morning by Dr. b. II. Stone OF Bur
lington. pathologist at the state lab
oratory OF hygiene.
Blowers received the injury. which
Is alleged to have had fatal ending.
on the evening OF Saturday. May ?.
but he lived in a partially unconsci-
Gus condition during the following
six days and il was not until Satur-
day afternoon that any information
OF the occurrence was received by
the county authorities. Between .
and o'clock States Attorney W. J..
Meagher was informed of Blowers
death by Deputy Sheriff. Harvey Lin
coin OF Rupert. The deputy furnish
ed enough details to convince the
States attorney that the case was
one calling for immediate action. Ac-
companied by Sheriff Frederick God
frey and Deputy Sheriff Perry b.
Gardner he left at once in the depu-
tvs automobile for Rupert. They re
turned about 1890 at night with Mrs.
Blowers.
According to Mrs. Blowers state
ment, which is partially substantial
ed by persons living in the vicinity,
the woman and her husband borrow.
ed a rig from one OF their neighbors
Saturday. May >. and drove to Gran
vile, n. Y While in Granville Blow
hAolNtA Nnt SalWUAAo anu UEtAlilt
intoxicated. The pair quarreled on
the way home and the wrangling was
resumed after they entered the
house Blowers. she says, took
pair of large scissors and attempted
to stab her in the breast and that she
seized piece of stove wood which
was lying on the floor and struck
him. She says that she hit her hus-
band on the side of the head and
that the blow knocked him down.
Since the injury she says she had
cared for him night and day.
Blowers was visited by West Ru-
pert physician but the injured man
did not fully recover consciousness
at any time. He gradually lost
strength from day to day and died at
G o'clock Saturday morning.
Blowers was a man between As
and 80 years of age and had passed
tho larger portion of his life in Ru-
pert. The locality in which the al
legged tragedy occurred is in the
southwestern section of tho town OF
Rupert and not far from the hamlet
in Sandgate known rs Beartown.
The house where Blowers died is
about five miles from West Rupert
and is reached by the road running
through Kent Hollow. In the section
are a number of good hill farms and
Blowers had lately been employed by
different property owners as a farm
hand. Blowers. his wife and three
children have lived in Kent Hollow
less than year. moving there from
West Rutland.
The woman now in the county jail
is Blowers second wife. His first
wife who obtained divorce from
him 16 or II years ago later married
Eugene f. Thayer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thayer are now living on County
street in this village. BY her first
husband Mrs. Thayer had three chill
dren Last week they were notified
by Mrs. Blowers that their father
was critically i'll and together with
their mother they went to Rupert.
They were at the house where Blow
ers died when the States Attorney
and his officers arrived Saturday nf-
ternoon.
During the days that Blowers re-
manned unconscious and it was appa-
rent that the man was in a critical
condition, Mrs. Blowers repeatedly
threatened to kill her three small
children, the youngest seven months
old, and TO commit suicide. She was
hysterical when the officers arrived
and because of her threats and be-