The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-25
Albert VernOtt i'm Critical
Condition i'm MelrOse
Hospital
KNIFE MAKES BAD
ABDOMINAL WOUND

AAAP4oJO u "A4tS p4VST CnalT 20.
Seized on Way to Work by Two Men
Who sprang from Beside Path-As-
sailants May Be in New Hampshire.
Albert G. Yernott, %, an employe of
the White River Chair Co, is in the
Melrose hospital in West Brattleboro
i'll very critical condition from a stab
wound in the abdomen. Vernott was
attacked this morning shortly before 7
O'Clock in the pathway leading from
Mornlngside cemetery down the bank to
the chair factory. His assailants were
Nicholas Singla and Frank Legordon.
They fled to New Hampshire.
Vernott, when taken to the hospital
told DR.. E. R. Lynch that he had some
words with one of his two assailants
Saturday and that the man exclaimed:
i'.I will get you yet.
This morning Eernott said, as he
stepped into the pathway from the
cemetery the men sprang out on him
from either side Of the pathway. He
thinks it was Spingla who said: ''You
Itell lies about me- Vernott said he
denied this and tried to back away 10
keep the men in front of him. but both
grabbed him and one of them sank a
long knife into his left side. They then
ran down the path.
Nernott was able to make his wav
nearly to the factory and was then
found by other workmen employed
| there who Were on their way to report
for the day s work. He was bleeding
: lprofusely and fast weakening from loss
i OF blood He was placed in an auto
mobile and hurried to the hospital.
/ DR.. Lynch found that the knife had
entered the left side between the two
lowest ribs, splitting the lowest one
slightly. The bowels had been pune
tured and the abdominal cavity was
filled with blood. DR.. Lynch sewed up
the punctured bowel. He says his pa
tient condition is very critical. He
says that from the length and depth of
the wound II is his opinion that the
blade of the knife must have been at
least four inches in length.
Vernott has been here about six
months and has a mother and stepfather
living in Maine.
News of the stabbing was telephoned
from the office of the chair company-to
Police Chief George Wilson and to
! State s Attorney o. B. Hughes, who
Immediately sought to get trace Of
Spingla and Legordon. Chief Wilson
had been on night duty and after two
or three hours investigation went home
and to bed.
j The state s attorney followed by an-
} tomobile and telephone such clues as
were available and got word of the
crime to all surrounding towns and sent
descriptions of the two men. He was
accompanied much of the time by a
man who is well acquainted with both
lassailants
This afternoon Commissioner s. A.
Richmond, Officer Ellis G. Worden and
men from the chair factory were en-
gagged in a search Sheriff c. E. Mann,
who is in attendance at county court,
came down this afternoon and planned
TO have two or three of his deputies at
work before night.
1OhtAuuNu lily CSl4SdilUA1 lttIo
ing tended to force the belief that the
two men had not gone far away from
. Brattleboro. 1t developed this noon
that Legordon is engaged to marry soon
a sister of Spingla. This young wo-
, man, when interviewed this noon, de-
clared that she did not know anything
about the fight except that Vernott had
started it. When pressed as to where
she obtained this information she said
she had only heard it from some one
For several hours this morning after
the affair the girl was seen about the
] factory of the chair company
Spingla is described as five feet and
three inches in height, weight 1876
: pounds, with light hair and blue eyes
and walks as if he had stiff back
Legorden is five feet and seven
inches in height, weighs $50 pounds and
has a sparse and thin face and black
: hair and eyes. Both were in working
clothes.
Both assailants have been employed
. by the White River Chair Co.
STEAMSHIP ROSS SUNK.