The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
Robert White of Hinsdale is
in Construction Camp
in So. Carolina
WIFE'S NAME ON HIS
LIPS CONSTANTLY
Strange Story Comes over Telephone
This Morning Memory Affected by
Injury, He Mentions Only "sHins-
dale and Bessie
Especial to The Reformer.)
IIINSDALE, \.

HlNSDALE, y. IL, sept. IL.
Robert White has been found in a con
struction camp in South Carolina. He
disappeared from his home in Hinsdale
Aug. 81, after having been in Claremont,
IN. H., to make arrangements to move
there. The story is : strange one.
This morning f. w Cotton, assistant
postmaster, received telephone call from
Springfield, Mass, from man who said
his name was Nj. j. Ryan and that he
was connected with the McCabe Construc-
ton Co of New York. He wanted infor-
amtion regarding a man in a construction
camp of his company in South Carolina,
who is in a bruised and dazed condition
and is unable to tell anything of himself
except to mention the names of "Hns-
dale" and Bessie" Bessie" Is the name
/ of his wife, who was Miss Bessie Cove of
: keene, n II.
/ Mr. Ryan said that he picked the man
lup in his automobile in the town Of Yer
mon on the evening of Aug 81 He was
apparently then in a dazed condition and
+, had the appearance of having been struck
by an automobile or train.
i He took the man with him to Spring
field, Mass, and cared for him there two
days He was able to walk when picked
up, but showed plainly the effects of hav-
ling been shaken up in some accident
He improved considerably and said he
wanted work Mr. Ryan, who was send
ing a workman to South Carolina to the
! construction camp, sent Mr. White along
) with him under the belief that he would
) he all right mentally and physically in
short time and wanted work.
The camp there had good hospital facili
ities and he thought he was doing an un
fortunate man a good turn. lie said
!, however, that he had received news iron
! the camp hospital that the man, instea,
of improving, had apparently grown wors
: and constantly mentioned the name
; '.Hinsdale" and Bessie
= He had received news to that eifec
I only this morning and had wasted consid
o cradle time in telephoning to Hinsdale
e Mass, and when he telephoned to thi
{ town he was about to take a train 70
r New York and was relieved to know tina
he had located in all probability the hom
r land friends Of the man he had tried I
n befriend.
I Mr. Ryan described the man and the do
scription tallies with that Of White, bot
as to the man and to the clothing he wore
Mr. Ryan said that the man had so i
money and a new Boston x Maine mile
: age with 80 miles used, which tallies wit
: what he should have had as to mileag
fand about what he is known to have ha
Iwith him in money.
Information was telephoned to Keent
where Mrs White IS staying with he
children in the home of her father, Ere
II Cove Her brother, Joseph, left a
n once for New York to make further il
. fquiries at the Office of the constructio
II l'company
j Mrs White is murh relieved and
!, positive that her husband has been founo
il His friends in Hinsdale believe that
;, made the trip down from Claremont on
q through train and attempted to jun
from the train with the intention Of wall
i ing to his home in Hinsdale and was il
= Jured in jumping or was struck by
: freight